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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities /

Table of Contents: “…Intersections between the global and the local in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola /…”
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Enhancing global governance towards a new diplomacy? /

Table of Contents: “…UN sanctions and conflict diamonds in Angola / Kim Richard Nossal -- Security in the new millennium / Ramesh Thakur.…”
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Enhancing global governance towards a new diplomacy? /

Table of Contents: “…UN sanctions and conflict diamonds in Angola / Kim Richard Nossal -- Security in the new millennium / Ramesh Thakur.…”
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Love of freedom : black women in colonial and revolutionary New England / by Adams, Catherine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hagar Blackmore's journey from Angola to New England -- The uniqueness of New England -- Property and patriarchy -- Spiritual thirsting -- Marriage and the family -- Seeking possession of her liberty -- Spirit of freedom -- Citizenship -- Epilogue.…”
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Love of freedom : black women in colonial and revolutionary New England / by Adams, Catherine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hagar Blackmore's journey from Angola to New England -- The uniqueness of New England -- Property and patriarchy -- Spiritual thirsting -- Marriage and the family -- Seeking possession of her liberty -- Spirit of freedom -- Citizenship -- Epilogue.…”
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The hidden history of capoeira a collision of cultures in the Brazilian battle dance / by Talmon-Chvaicer, Maya, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A Rio de Janeiro slave game -- The battle and the game (1840s-1870s) -- Patrons and oppressors (1870s-1930s) -- New center, new style : capoeira regional and capoeira angola in twentieth-century Bahia -- The game of life : battle of cultures.…”
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The hidden history of capoeira a collision of cultures in the Brazilian battle dance / by Talmon-Chvaicer, Maya, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A Rio de Janeiro slave game -- The battle and the game (1840s-1870s) -- Patrons and oppressors (1870s-1930s) -- New center, new style : capoeira regional and capoeira angola in twentieth-century Bahia -- The game of life : battle of cultures.…”
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Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries : Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries / by Langa, Patrício Vitorino

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Executive summary and structure -- Introduction and background -- Angola -- Cape Verde -- Guinea-Bissau -- Mozambique -- São Tome and Príncipe -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. …”
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Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries : Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries / by Langa, Patrício Vitorino

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Executive summary and structure -- Introduction and background -- Angola -- Cape Verde -- Guinea-Bissau -- Mozambique -- São Tome and Príncipe -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. …”
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : a documentary history /

Table of Contents: “…The Portuguese in Morocco -- The early voyages to West Africa -- The Atlantic islands -- The upper Guinea coast and Sierra Leone -- Elmina and Benin -- Discovery of the kingdom of Kongo -- Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda -- The slave trade -- Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s -- Christianity in the Kongo -- The Angolan wars -- People and places.…”
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : a documentary history /

Table of Contents: “…The Portuguese in Morocco -- The early voyages to West Africa -- The Atlantic islands -- The upper Guinea coast and Sierra Leone -- Elmina and Benin -- Discovery of the kingdom of Kongo -- Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda -- The slave trade -- Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s -- Christianity in the Kongo -- The Angolan wars -- People and places.…”
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Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / by Betts, Alexander, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Survival migration -- The national politics of international institutions -- South Africa : the ad hoc response to the Zimbabwean influx -- Botswana : the division of Zimbabweans into refugees and migrants -- Angola : the expulsion of the Congolese back to the southern provinces -- Tanzania : the paradoxical response to congolese from South Kivu -- Kenya : humanitarian containment and the Somalis -- Yemen : contrasting responses to Somalis and Ethiopians -- Improving the refugee protection regime.…”
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Nuclear Reactions : How Nuclear-Armed States Behave / by Bell, Mark (Researcher)

Table of Contents: “…-- Nuclear Opportunism : How States Use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics -- Independence and Status : The British Nuclear Experience -- Apartheid and Aggression : South Africa, Angola, and the Bomb -- The Foundations of a New World Order : The United States and the Start of the Nuclear Era -- Past and Future Proliferators -- Conclusion : Nuclear Revolution or Nuclear Revolutions?…”
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Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / by Betts, Alexander, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Survival migration -- The national politics of international institutions -- South Africa : the ad hoc response to the Zimbabwean influx -- Botswana : the division of Zimbabweans into refugees and migrants -- Angola : the expulsion of the Congolese back to the southern provinces -- Tanzania : the paradoxical response to congolese from South Kivu -- Kenya : humanitarian containment and the Somalis -- Yemen : contrasting responses to Somalis and Ethiopians -- Improving the refugee protection regime.…”
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Nuclear Reactions : How Nuclear-Armed States Behave / by Bell, Mark (Researcher)

Table of Contents: “…-- Nuclear Opportunism : How States Use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics -- Independence and Status : The British Nuclear Experience -- Apartheid and Aggression : South Africa, Angola, and the Bomb -- The Foundations of a New World Order : The United States and the Start of the Nuclear Era -- Past and Future Proliferators -- Conclusion : Nuclear Revolution or Nuclear Revolutions?…”
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Blood on the stone greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / by Smillie, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF -- President Mobutu's ghost -- Enter Al Qaeda -- Boiling frogs : companies in hot water -- Ice storm : the NGO campaign -- Kimberley : a hope in hell -- Endgames.…”
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Blood on the stone greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / by Smillie, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF -- President Mobutu's ghost -- Enter Al Qaeda -- Boiling frogs : companies in hot water -- Ice storm : the NGO campaign -- Kimberley : a hope in hell -- Endgames.…”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / by Dowden, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Somalia -- Forward to the past: Zimbabwe -- Breaking apart: Sudan -- A tick bigger than the dog: Angola -- Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- God, trust and trade: Senegal -- Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone -- The positive women: AIDS in Africa -- Copying King Leopold: Congo -- Not just another country: South Africa -- Meat and money: eating in Kenya -- Look out world: Nigeria -- New colonists or old friends? …”