Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) - Image 1

£80.34

MACMILLAN Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

Name: Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
Brand: MACMILLAN
Price: 80.34 GBP
Availability: InStock

Social & Cultural

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 11 months ago.

£80 today · all-time low £77 (Jun 2025) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 616 days • 616 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 616 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £77 (219 days, 35.6%)

Price range: £77 - £83

Price levels: 5 different prices over 616 days

Description

'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence. Review "This was a book that needed to be written....It exists as an important addition to the historiography of development in sub-Saharan Africa." - Margaret Mielke, Modern African Studies "Light and Power tells in great and effective detail the story of a dam and a colonial moment. Tischler argues that the dam itself has been underreported in historical literature. Her book addresses that lacuna." - James C. McCann, American History Review "The great strength of this study is the author's success in writing an 'entangled history' of Kariba, which emphasizes the ways that the ideas, practices, strategies, and understandings of the competing protagonists are constructed as part of a set cross-cultural interactions located within an asymmetrical field of power. Her notion of 'entangled history,' derived from a broad reading of post-colonial and subaltern studies, allows Tischler to moved beyond the familiar binaries of 'colonized and colonizer,' 'black and white,' 'resistors and collaborators,' and 'colonial and post-colonial.' She presents a more nuanced and complicated analysis of the ambiguous, and at times, contradictory, roles which many of the principal protagonists played in the unfolding drama of national building and modernization at both the local, national and global levels." - Allen Isaacman, African Studies Quarterly "Tischler demonstrates very clearly how, as the impulses that first stimulated Federation began to wane, the Kariba Dam project supremely embodied the contradictory nature of development in late colonial Africa." - Kate Law, African Affairs About the Author Julia Tischler is a Researcher in African History at the International Research Center 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History' at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany. Her PhD dissertation, on which her monograph is based, received the Hedwig-Hintze-Prize for the best doctoral thesis in History, awarded every two years by the German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands).

Product Specifications

Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1349443611
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 January 2013
Listed Since: 27 May 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

MACMILLAN Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 11 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings - Macmillan

Stuck in Middle GEAR: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Relations

The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000: Specters of the Shore (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict)

Countries of the Mind: The Fiction of J. M. Coetzee: 32 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

South Africa: Past, Present, and Future

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African Histories and Modernities)

Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature

Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance (Rethinking International Development series)

The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South

German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Visual Cultures and German Contexts)

Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite (African Articulations)

Africa in International Politics: External Involvement on the Continent (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania: Gender, Learning and Unlearning

Translating Home in the Global South: Migration, Belonging, and Language Justice (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Routledge

Rurality, Social Justice and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume II: Theory and Practice in Higher Education: 2

African Political Thought of the Twentieth Century: A Re-engagement

Selected Writings of John A. Hobson 1932-1938: The Struggle for the International Mind: 21 (Routledge Studies in Globalisation)

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe (Critical Heritages of Europe)

“Pan” Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-Capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business (Contemporary African Political Economy)

Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States (Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms)

The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

“Pan” Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-Capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business (Contemporary African Political Economy)

Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Curse or Cure? (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development)