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  • Seeds of Trouble
    Colin Baker
    Land rights and land reform were central elements of colonial history. This book looks at their significance for British colonial policy in Nyasaland (modern Malawi), and how the British government tried to prevent discontent among Africans living or working on European-owned private estates. The first section outlines the political and geographical context, the original acquis...
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    55,11 €

  • State of Emergency
    Colin Baker
    Covering a vital period in the history of Central Africa, this work examines the growth of nationalist violence in Nyasaland, the declaration of the State of Emergency and the repercussions of the Devlin Commission at home and abroad. Based on correspondence and interviews with surviving officials, the author details the events of 1959 that hastened moves to independence across...
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    54,67 €

  • Retreat from Empire
    Colin Baker
    Based on extensive archival research and access to private papers, government records and interviews and correspondence with politicians and a large number of officers who served with him in Africa and Cyprus, this volume explores the career of Sir Robert Armitage.Armitage served in four British colonies during his career, beginning in Kenya, where he created the Isiolo refugee...
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    54,10 €

  • Revolt of the Ministers
    Colin Baker
    'I certainly had very extreme views, very violent views... and I certainly did advocate... extreme methods.' So a leading Nyasaland nationalist characterised the struggle for independent Malawi, but Dr Hastings Banda, a highly respected medical doctor based for many years in London was invited back to Nyasaland to lead the movement to independent Malawi and the Malawi National ...
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    54,31 €

  • Sir Glyn Jones
    Colin Baker
    Sir Glyn Jones, as last governor of Nyasaland, oversaw the transition of the country to Malawi. Involving widespread unrest, the removal of a governor, a state of emergency and commision of enquiry from London, these were some of the most stormy episodes in the story of the end of empire.This biography, based on original sources, including the Glyn Jones papers to which the aut...
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    54,38 €

  • Development Governor
    Colin Baker
    This is a study of a 'development governor' in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the period leading up to decolonization and the end of empire. Geoffrey Colby came to Nyasaland at a particularly difficult time - when the important white settler community was pressing for the Central African Federation and therefore closer ties with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia, a move resisted by ...
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    54,16 €

  • Sixth Sense
    Colin Baker
    'Is it just because I am a grumpy old(ish) man that the number of things that drive me bonkers is increasing day by day?'Have you ever wanted to shout at the automated phone system, rail against the state of the roads or wonder why oh why bureaucracy has to get in the way of everything? Colin Baker has been writing a weekly column for his local paper, the Bucks Free Pre...
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    19,45 €

  • Chipembere. the Missing Years
    Colin Baker
    This extensive biography of one of Malawi’s most important historical figures aims to provide coverage of the missing events in the subject’s own autobiography: the 1959 state of emergency, his years in detention and prison, his periods of ministerial office, including as a cabinet minister, the 1964 revolt against Banda, his attempted coup d’état in 1965, and his subsequent fl...
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    92,90 €

  • Revolt of the Ministers
    Colin Baker
    'I certainly had very extreme views, very violent views... and I certainly did advocate... extreme methods.' So a leading Nyasaland nationalist characterised the struggle for independent Malawi, but Dr Hastings Banda, a highly respected medical doctor based for many years in London was invited back to Nyasaland to lead the movement to independent Malawi and the Malawi National ...
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    225,46 €

  • The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals
    Colin Baker
    This text is a comprehensive introduction for all professionals working with bilingual children. For speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counsellors, teachers, special needs personnel, the book addresses important issues at a practical level. ...
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    23,15 €

  • Attitudes and Languages
    Baker / Colin Baker / Patricia Baker
    The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research...
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    45,35 €

  • Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales
    Baker / Colin Baker / Patricia Baker
    Wales is a small nation with a long and varied tradition of bilingualism. The minority language and culture is under threat. The book seeks to take the temperature of the Welsh language. Building on a computer analysis of the 1981 Welsh language Census data, the book provides evidence of a language moving slowly towards extinction. The aim of each chapter is to examine an issue...
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    45,19 €

  • Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales
    Baker / Colin Baker / Patricia Baker
    Wales is a small nation with a long and varied tradition of bilingualism. The minority language and culture is under threat. The book seeks to take the temperature of the Welsh language. Building on a computer analysis of the 1981 Welsh language Census data, the book provides evidence of a language moving slowly towards extinction. The aim of each chapter is to examine an issue...
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    159,11 €