Research Catalog

Title

Transnational histories of southern Africa's liberation movements / edited by Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Blessing-Miles Tendi.

Publication

• London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, Jocelyn
• McGregor, JoAnn
• Tendi, Blessing-Miles, 1979-

Description

ix, 248 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa's wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research. Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the rich literatures on the Global Cold War and on solidarity movements. The contributors trace the ways that ideas and practices were made, adopted, and circulated through time and space through a focus on African soldiers, politicians and diplomats. The book also asks what motivated the men and women who crossed borders to join liberation movements, how Cold War influences were acted upon, interpreted and used, and why certain moments, venues and relations took on exaggerated importance. The connections among liberation movements, between them and their hosts, and across an extraordinarily diverse set of external actors reveal surprising exchanges and lasting legacies that have too often been obscured by the assertion of monolithic national histories. Tracing an extraordinarily diverse set of interactions and exchanges, Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements will be of great interest to scholars of Southern Africa, Transnational History, the Cold War and African Politics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies." --Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Southern African studies

Subject

• National liberation movements > Africa, Southern
• National liberation movements > History
• National liberation movements
• Southern Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc F 22-311

ISBN

• 0367427648
• 9780367427641

OCLC

1111785712

Title

Transnational histories of southern Africa's liberation movements / edited by Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Blessing-Miles Tendi.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Southern African studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIV. OF OXFORD. PREV. PUB. AS: JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES; V. 43, ISS 1. NEW SERIES.

Added Author

Alexander, Jocelyn, editor.

McGregor, JoAnn, editor.

Tendi, Blessing-Miles, 1979- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 22-311