Catastrophe : what went wrong in Zimbabwe? /

Catastrophe : what went wrong in Zimbabwe? /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bourne, Richard, 1940-
Imprint:	London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Description:	xvii, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, -- 1924- Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, -- 1924- ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe) ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe) Economic history. Economic policy. Politics and government Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980- Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Zimbabwe -- Economic policy. Zimbabwe -- Economic conditions. Zimbabwe.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8459884

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	What went wrong in Zimbabwe?
ISBN:	9781848135208 1848135203 9781848135215 (pbk.) 1848135211 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-290) and index.
Summary:	"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 that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later, plagued by hyperinflation and collapsing life expectancy and abandoned by a third of its citizens. Beginning with the British conquest 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 in Zimbabwe. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards it."--P. [4] of cover.
Standard no.:	99944661200

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Two birthdays
Conquest
White supremacy and the settler state
From UDI to Lancaster House
ZANU in power âÇô the 1980s
The 1990s âÇô 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?
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