African History: A Very Short Introduction docx

... into African affairs is apparent in the anti-slave trade campaign. British ships had carried the largest proportion of Africans across the Atlantic in the 18th century, slave-grown Caribbean sugar ... is a massive plateau of ancient rocks, elevated towards the east but dominated by a series of vast alluvial flatlands. Like Africa’s 11 The idea of Africa rocks, its soils are ancient – and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 06:21

... Petit-Palais, France. Photo © Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library 3 Michael Bakunin 7 4 Peter Kropotkin 9 5 Zapatista billboard, Chiapas, Mexico 17 © Daniel Aguilar/Reuters 6 Emiliano Zapata and Pancho ... government. The anarchist press re-emerged in Germany after Hitler, in Italy after Mussolini, in Spain after Franco, in Portugal after Salazar, in Argentina after the generals, and in Russia aft...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 03:21

... Period Cenozoic Mesozoic Palaeozoic Precambrian Proterozoic Archaean Hadean Tertiary Quaternary Neogene Palaeogene Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Pennsylvanian Mississippian 3. ... causing earthquakes and volcanoes, and raising a chain of mountains from the Appalachians, across Ireland and Germany, to Poland. Much of Europe and North...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:14

... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast, Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in nutritional ... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21

... Von Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away. Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that 90 Information all ... in launching an angry attack on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to notice that he isn’t...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23