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The shocking, untold story of how African independence was
strangled at birth by America’s systematic interference. Accra,
1958. Africa’s liberation leaders have gathered for a conference,
full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana’s
Kwame Nkrumah and Congo’s Patrice Lumumba strike up a close
partnership. Everything seems possible. But, within a few years,
both men will have been targeted by the CIA, and their dream of
true African autonomy undermined. The United States, watching the
Europeans withdraw from Africa, was determined to take control.
Pan-Africanism was inspiring African Americans fighting for civil
rights; the threat of Soviet influence over new African governments
loomed; and the idea of an atomic reactor in black hands was
unacceptable. The conclusion was simple: the US had to
‘recapture’ Africa, in the shadows, by any means necessary.
Renowned historian Susan Williams dives into the archives,
revealing new, shocking details of America’s covert programme in
Africa. The CIA crawled over the continent, poisoning the hopes of
1958 with secret agents and informants; surreptitious UN lobbying;
cultural infiltration and bribery; assassinations and coups. As the
colonisers moved out, the Americans swept in—with bitter
consequences that reverberate in Africa to this day.
One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one
with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and
his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just
minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest in
the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), abruptly ending
his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Across the world, many
suspected sabotage, accusing the multi-nationals and the
governments of Britain, Belgium, the USA and South Africa of
involvement in the disaster. These suspicions have never gone away.
British High Commissioner Lord Alport was waiting at the airport
when the aircraft crashed nearby. He bizarrely insisted to the
airport management that Hammarskjold had flown elsewhere - even
though his aircraft was reported overhead. This postponed a search
for so long that the wreckage of the plane was not found for
fifteen hours. White mercenaries were at the airport that night
too, including the South African pilot Jerry Puren, whose bombing
of Congolese villages led, in his own words, to 'flaming huts . . .
destruction and death'. These soldiers of fortune were backed by
Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesian Federation, who
was ready to stop at nothing to maintain white rule and thought the
United Nations was synonymous with the Nazis. The Rhodesian
government conducted an official inquiry, which blamed pilot error.
But as this book will show, it was a massive cover-up that
suppressed and dismissed a mass of crucial evidence, especially
that of African eyewitnesses. A subsequent UN inquiry was unable to
rule out foul play - but had no access to the evidence to show how
and why. Now, for the first time, this story can be told. Who
Killed Hammarskjoeld? follows the author on her intriguing and
often frightening journey of research to Zambia, South Africa, the
USA, Sweden, Norway, Britain, France and Belgium, where she
unearthed a mass of new and hitherto secret documentary and
photographic evidence.
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was
strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra,
1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference,
full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's
Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba strike up a close
partnership. Everything seems possible. But, within a few years,
both men will have been targeted by the CIA, and their dream of
true African autonomy undermined. The United States, watching the
Europeans withdraw from Africa, was determined to take control.
Pan-Africanism was inspiring African Americans fighting for civil
rights; the threat of Soviet influence over new African governments
loomed; and the idea of an atomic reactor in black hands was
unacceptable. The conclusion was simple: the US had to 'recapture'
Africa, in the shadows, by any means necessary. Renowned historian
Susan Williams dives into the archives, revealing new, shocking
details of America's covert programme in Africa. The CIA crawled
over the continent, poisoning the hopes of 1958 with secret agents
and informants; surreptitious UN lobbying; cultural infiltration
and bribery; assassinations and coups. As the colonisers moved out,
the Americans swept in-with bitter consequences that reverberate in
Africa to this day.
Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State
looks at how the privatization and marketization of education,
health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a
concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged
when the welfare state was initially created. Issues of class,
gender and ethnicity are explored in chapters that are wide ranging
but closely linked. The contributors are renowned academics and
policy-makers, including feminist and welfare historians, highly
regarded figures in social policy, influential critics of recent
educational reforms and key analysts of current reform in the
health sector.
Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State
looks at how the privatization and marketization of education,
health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a
concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged
when the welfare state was initially created. Issues of class,
gender and ethnicity are explored in chapters that are wide ranging
but closely linked. The contributors are renowned academics and
policy-makers, including feminist and welfare historians, highly
regarded figures in social policy, influential critics of recent
educational reforms and key analysts of current reform in the
health sector.
This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These
rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and
in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively
reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political
management, associated rhetoric and iconography of these seminal
celebrations. The focus is therefore very much on political culture
in a broad sense, and changing perceptions and presentations over
time. Highlights of the book include an overview by David Cannadine
relating the topic to ornamentalism, invented tradition and
transitions in British culture. Although the book is mainly
concerned with the British Empire, Martin Shipway - a leading
historian and cultural analyst of French decolonization -
contributes an acute summary of how the same 'moment' was handled
differently in the other great European empires. There are detailed
and lively studies by noted specialists of the immediate coming of
Independence to India/Pakistan, Malaya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and
Guyana. The book includes a thematic focus on the important role of
representatives of the British monarchy in legitimating transfers
of sovereignty at their point of climax. This book was published as
a special issue of The Round Table.
One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one
with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and
his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just
minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest in
the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), abruptly ending
his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Across the world, many
suspected sabotage, accusing the multi-nationals and the
governments of Britain, Belgium, the USA and South Africa of
involvement in the disaster. These suspicions have never gone
away.British High Commissioner Lord Alport was waiting at the
airport when the aircraft crashed nearby. He bizarrely insisted to
the airport management that Hammarskjold had flown elsewhere - even
though his aircraft was reported overhead. This postponed a search
for so long that the wreckage of the plane was not found for
fifteen hours. White mercenaries were at the airport that night
too, including the South African pilot Jerry Puren, whose bombing
of Congolese villages led, in his own words, to 'flaming huts
...destruction and death'. These soldiers of fortune were backed by
Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesian Federation, who
was ready to stop at nothing to maintain white rule and thought the
United Nations was synonymous with the Nazis. The Rhodesian
government conducted an official inquiry, which blamed pilot error.
But as this book will show, it was a massive cover-up that
suppressed and dismissed a mass of crucial evidence, especially
that of African eye-witnesses. A subsequent UN inquiry was unable
to rule out foul play - but had no access to the evidence to show
how and why. Now, for the first time, this story can be told. Who
Killed Hammarskjold follows the author on her intriguing and often
frightening journey of research to Zambia, South Africa, the USA,
Sweden, Norway, Britain, France and Belgium, where she unearthed a
mass of new and hitherto secret documentary and photographic
evidence.
Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. will forever be linked to the historical
2008 presidential campaign of the Senator Barack Obama. Although
unwillingly thrust into the spotlight, the media attention could
never overshadow Wright's prophetic teachings, nor does it define
his life and ministry. The Book of Jeremiah examines Wright as a
man, an African American, a patriot who served his country, a
scholar, a prophet, and as a pastor. The relevance of his ministry
reaches far beyond his pastorate at Trinity United Church of
Christ. It has transcended to a global stage with a message of
liberation and justice. In the most comprehensive picture of Rev.
Wright, Smith, a close confidante, sheds light on his upbringing,
teaching and preaching influences, preaching, and the far reaching
effects of his ministry on Barack Obama and the world.
This book helps clinicians harness the benefits of
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents
with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Leading
treatment developers describe promising approaches for treating
common challenges faced by young people with ASD--anxiety and
behavior problems, social competence issues, and adolescent
concerns around sexuality and intimacy. Chapters present
session-by-session overviews of each intervention program, review
its evidence base, and address practical considerations in
treatment. The book also discusses general issues in adapting CBT
for this population and provides a helpful framework for assessment
and case conceptualization informed by DSM-5.
Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most
tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's
desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic
bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most
important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth,
vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany
was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for
the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the
enemy - a task entrusted to Washington's elite secret intelligence
agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to
hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by
the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and
British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is
the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men -- and
one woman -- in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.
This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the
various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge
the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from
across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of
genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary
horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and
contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book
includes reappraisals of key popular directors such as Luis Garcia
Berlanga and Antonio Mercero as well as critical analyses of
celebrated stars like Marisol. It provides innovative consideration
of the promotion and reception of horror in the 1960s,
recollections of cinema-going in Madrid, and reflections on
successful recent works such as 'Abre los Ojos' and 'Solas'. The
contributors offer a range of critical and methodological
perspectives, opening up new ways of analysing Spanish popular
film. -- .
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Writing for Radio (Paperback)
Vincent McInerney; Index compiled by Susan Williams
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R474
R431
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Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practical aspects
of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio
genres - short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries,
talks and features, adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and
advertisements. It contains historical overviews of the genesis and
development of each of these categories and attempts an analysis of
the nature of radio itself. For the first time there is an attempt
to isolate a 'radio language', a syntax and vocabulary guaranteed
to produce pictures in the mind of the listener. This means radio
can be taught as an academic subject as all writing - prose, drama
and verse, can be tested as radio and examples for analysis are
used from both broadcast and non-broadcast work. -- .
This book is the first to explore three visual media in
contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also
examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three
vital themes: emotion, location and nostalgia. The first two
chapters focus on emotion. They analyze the 'emotional imperative'
in a recent Almodovar feature film and in Spanish television's
top-rated period drama, and investigate the politics of affect in
TV drama in the last decade. The next pair of chapters deal with
location. They use cultural geography to re-read contradictory
accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine
an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the
urban landscape of Madrid. The fifth and sixth chapters introduce
the theme of location into nostalgia. They treat the unique cases
of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish
thriller remade in Hollywood. The peunultimate chapter investigates
electronic artists and the virtual universe, and the book ends with
a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and
the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms. --
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This book is the first to explore three visual media in
contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also
examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three
vital themes: emotion, location and nostalgia. The first two
chapters focus on emotion. They analyze the 'emotional imperative'
in a recent Almodovar feature film and in Spanish television's
top-rated period drama, and investigate the politics of affect in
TV drama in the last decade. The next pair of chapters deal with
location. They use cultural geography to re-read contradictory
accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine
an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the
urban landscape of Madrid. The fifth and sixth chapters introduce
the theme of location into nostalgia. They treat the unique cases
of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish
thriller remade in Hollywood. The peunultimate chapter investigates
electronic artists and the virtual universe, and the book ends with
a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and
the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms. --
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This book is a representative history of East German film culture
from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA's celebrated classics
and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East
German directors. 'Hollywood behind the wall' demonstrates that
East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German
national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema
on the other. It includes a wide-ranging exploration of
post-unification cinema from East Germany, including cult films
such as 'Sun Alley' and 'Goodbye, Lenin!' and provides
contextualised, close readings of twenty significant films,
referencing one hundred and ninety East German films in total,
along with numerous West German and East European classics. The
book's scope and its critical consideration of archival materials
and scholarly literature make it an authoritative compendium for
students and scholars of film studies, German studies and modern
European history. -- .
Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions
about interpretations and value are once again being widely debated
in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection
for many years to focus on these matters. The essays - which
include contributions by established film scholars (such as George
M. Wilson, V. F. Perkins and Laura Mulvey) and by younger writers
in the field - centre on methods of close analysis and ground their
discussion in the detail of individual films. With a common focus
on the choices made by filmmakers, the writers explores different
aspects of the relationship between textual detail and broader
conceptual frameworks. Some chapters examine individual aspects of
filmmaking - the long take, cinematography, space and point of
view, unreliable narration. Others take up different kinds of
questions which are equally crucial to textual analysis and
interpretation, including: meaning and value; emotional response;
the concept of 'the fictional world'; new technologies and film
analysis. The selection of films has been made to reflect not only
those areas of film history which traditionally been explored
through mise-en-scene criticism, but also areas such as the
avant-garde and television drama which have not tended to receives
such detailed investigation. In these ways the book conducts a
series of dialogues with issues in film study which are
specifically provoked by close analysis. Style and meaning is an
important new initiative in the varied literature of film studies.
its highly readable collection of analyses and variety of
approaches will prove popular on undergraduate courses while
providing an invaluable resource for graduate students and teachers
of film and media. -- .
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Terry Nation (Paperback)
Jonathan Bignell, Andrew O'Day; Index compiled by Susan Williams
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R930
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This is the first in-depth study of the science fiction television
devised and written by Terry Nation. Terry Nation was the inventor
of the Daleks and wrote other serials for 'Doctor Who'; he also
wrote the BBC's 1970s post-apocalyptic drama 'Survivors' and
created the space adventure series 'Blake's 7'. Previously
television science fiction in Britain has received little critical
attention. This book fills that gap and places Nation's work in the
context of its production. Using Terry Nation's science fiction
work as a case study, the boundaries around the authorship and
authority of the television writer are explored in detail. The
authors make use of BBC's archival research and specially conducted
interviews with television producers and other production staff, to
discuss how the programmes that Terry Nation created and wrote were
commissioned, produced and brought to the screen. The book makes an
important contribution to the study of British television history
and will be of interest to enthusiasts of Terry Nation's landmark
drama series as well as students of Television Studies. -- .
Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection
offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this
important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book
takes as its focus film stars from the past and present, from
Hollywood, its margins and beyond and analyses them through a close
consideration of their films and the variety of contexts in which
they worked. The book spreads the net wide, looking at past stars
from Rosalind Russell and Charlton Heston to present day stars
including Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, as well as
those figures who have earnt themselves a certain film star cachet
such as Prince, and the martial artist Cynthia Rothrock. The
collection will be essential reading for students and lecturers of
film studies, as well as to those with a general interest in the
cinema. -- .
Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film
stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British
cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up
to the present day. Looks both at stars who attained worldwide fame
through the Hollywood cinema, and those whose contribution is
primarily to the national cinema.. First collection of essays on
the subject with a wide historical coverage including major
figures, such as Connery, Mason, Trevor Howard, Deborah Kerr, Mary
Millington, Albert Finney and James Mason. Major figures in UK film
studies have contributed, including Marcia Landy, Andrew Higson,
Peter Evans, Charles Barr, Pam Cook and Andy Medhurst. -- .
The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the
nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world,
an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a
vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great
Exhibition with meanings. This collection of essays exposes how
meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains
a series of critical readings of the official and popular
historical record of the Exhibition. Critics and historians of art,
culture, design and literature have been brought together to
examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of
1851. Their essays explore the determined use of industrial
knowledge, the contested definitions of nation and colony, and the
actual control of the space of the Crystal Palace after the Great
Exhibition closed. The Great Exhibition of 1851 presents new
interpretations of one of the most significant exhibitions in the
nineteenth century and will be essential reading for anyone
studying cultural history, design history, art history and
literature. -- .
The first in a new annual series, Women, Theatre and Performance
that will consist of themed volumes on diverse aspects of women's
engagement with theatre and performance. Ranging across three
hundred years the essays in this volume address key questions in
women's theatre history and retrieve a number of hitherto 'hidden'
histories of women performers. Resituates women's, largely
neglected, creative contribution within theatre and cultural
history and seeks to challenge orthodox readings of both history
and text. Topics include: Susanna Centlivre and the notion of
intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning
of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina
Schroeder-Devrient, the Comedie Francais' 'Mademoiselle Mars', Mme
Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre. --
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