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An edition of Catastrophe (2011)

Catastrophe

what went wrong in Zimbabwe?

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"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, 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 thirty 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." --Publisher's website.

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Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
302

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Subjects

Politics and government, Economic policy, Economic conditions, ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe), Zimbabwe, politics and government, Politik

People

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924-)

Places

Zimbabwe

Times

20th century, 1980-

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Table of Contents

Glossary of acronyms, personalities, organisations
Timeline
Preface and acknowledgements
Prologue: two birthdays
Conquest
White supremacy and the settler state
From UDI to Lancaster House
ZANU in power - the 1980s
The 1990s - when the wheels began to fall off
Disaster years, and the third chimurenga
From Operation Murambatsvina to an inclusive government
How did it go wrong?
Select bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-290) and index.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
968.91051
Library of Congress
DT2996 .B68 2011, DT2925

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 302 p. ;
Number of pages
302

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OL25164624M
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1848135203, 1848135211
ISBN 13
9781848135208, 9781848135215
LCCN
2011456134
OCLC/WorldCat
704384712

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