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Marshall Eakin presents what may be the most detailed study ever written about the operations of a foreign business in Latin America and the first scholarly, bo

A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.

The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial