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Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?

By Richard Bourne

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2011
ISBN
1848135203, 9781848135208
LCC
DT2996 .B68 2011
Open Library ID
OL25164624M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1872941 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
322\322
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Азии и Африк

Description

No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, acclaimed writer Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980, became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than 30 years later. Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date  and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's "evil," but about history, Africa today, and the world's attitudes towards them.

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