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1. Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives (Nonfiction work) -- de Waal, Alex, Books -- Book reviews, History
Abstract

Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives. Cambridge: Polity (hb 50 [pounds sterling]--978 1 5095 4779 1; pb 15.99 [pounds [...]

Published
2022
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2. Understanding recent African wars

Author

Peters, Krijn and Richards, Paul

Subjects
Violence and Belonging: The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa (Book) -- Broch-Due, Vigdis, An African Peace Process: Mandela, South Africa and Burundi (Book) -- Bentley, Kristina A. -- Southall, Roger, Rethinking the Economics of War: the Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Book) -- Arnson, Cynthia J. -- Zartman, William, Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (Book) -- Keen, David, Oil: Politics, Poverty and the Planet (Book) -- Shelley, Toby, Civil War, Civil Peace (Book) -- Yanacopulos, Helen -- Hanlon, Joseph, Books -- Book reviews, History
Abstract

CYNTHIA J. ARNSON AND WILLIAM ZARTMAN (eds), Rethinking the Economics of War: the intersection of need, creed, and greed. Washington DC and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins [...]

Published
2007

3. Modern Land Law.

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Modern Land Law (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
Published
2007

4. Textbook on Land Law.

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Textbook on Land Law (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
Published
2007

7. Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Economics, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

This book calls for the decolonisation of knowledge. Editorially, it issues from the heart of the American academy. The standpoint advocated by Apffel-Marglin is that of multi-culturalism, a North American [...]

Published
1997

9. The State and the Provision of Social Services in Sierra Leone Since Independence: 1961-91

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
The State and the Provision of Social Services in Sierra Leone Since Independence: 1961-91 (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, News, opinion and commentary, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

A timely book. The weakness of the post-colonial state in Sierra Leone has been probed since 1989 by the activities of the Revolutionary United Front. This small group of post-Marxist [...]

Published
1996

11. 'WITCHES', 'CANNIBALS' AND WAR IN LIBERIA

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War (Book), Books -- Book reviews
Published
2001

12. Jeremy Keenan, The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror and Africa (Nonfiction work) -- Keenan, Jeremy -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History
Abstract

JEREMY KEENAN, The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror & Africa. London and New York NY: Pluto Press (pb 16 [pounds sterling]--978 0 745 324524). 2009, 296 pp. Jeremy Keenan [...]

Published
2012
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13. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (Book) -- Moran, Mary H., Books -- Book reviews, Anthropology/archeology/folklore
Abstract

MORAN, MARY H. Liberia: the violence of democracy. 190 pp., map, iilus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2006. £32.50 (cloth) This book belongs to a select genre in which ethnographers [...]

Published
2007

15. A Different Kind of War Story

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
A Different Kind of War Story (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Anthropology/archeology/folklore
Published
1999

16. Theoretical Global Seismology

Author

Richards, Paul G.

Subjects
Theoretical Global Seismology (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Published
1999

17. Tributors, Supports and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Tributors, Supports and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Political science
Abstract

Tributors, Supports and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone by Alfred Zack-Williams (Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, pp.239, 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Diamond mining is central to the economy and politics [...]

Published
1997

23. Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900 - 1986

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900 - 1986 (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Economics, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

This book tells an interesting story, and for the most part tells it well. The people of Buguias in the southern Cordillera of Northern Luzon, for a long period prior [...]

Published
1993

24. Food in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author

Richards, Paul

Subjects
Food in Sub-Saharan Africa (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Anthropology/archeology/folklore
Published
1987

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