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Senior cohousing is an entirely new way for seniors to house themselves with dignity, independence, safety, mutual concern, and fun.
Developed with the residents themselves, senior cohousing combines the autonomy of private dwellings with the advantages of shared facilities and community living.
Combining the autonomy of private dwellings with the advantages of shared facilities and community living, senior cohousing residents live among people with whom they share a common bond of age, experience, and community a community they themselves built to specifically meet their own needs.
Providing a proven, phase-by-phase methodology for creating senior cohousing and an inside look at existing senior cohousing communities the people, the places this comprehensive book is for seniors, housing professionals, designers, and anyone seeking appropriate housing alternatives for todays dynamic seniors.
Visit the communities and meet the people who have made the conscious choice to take control of their lives to live by living independently through community.
This book covers not just Elder Cohousing but also the continuing evolution of the "intentional neighborhoods" and Ecovillages in the United States and Denmark over the past decade, with many new photos and "best-practice" guides... think of it as a sequel to the original Cohousing book.
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Excellent cohousing resource.......2007-01-11
If you are considering alternatives to aging in isolation or retiring to a gated golf course community, read this book. Senior cohousing is becoming the fastest growing segment of the intentional community movement. This book offers both how-to advice and the social rationale for aging in community.
Senior Cohousing Offers Exciting Possibilities for a Growing Demographic.......2006-02-07
Charles Durrett's Senior Cohousing book will help lead us into the next 17 years as an estimated 75 million Baby Boomers head into retirement. It only makes sense that the generation that brought social and environmental awareness to the fore would be searching for a sustainable, suportive, self-managed community housing solution for their later years, and Durrett has outlined in detail how - and why - to go about it.
The stories and wisdom are from Denmark, where multigenerational cohousing began over 30 years ago. Since that time, cohousing has translated very successfully to over a dozen countries around the world, including over 90 completed neighborhoods in North America alone. With 20 out of the last 25 cohousing starts in Denmark being senior projects, we can only assume that Senior Cohousing on the rest of the planet will be as big - if not bigger - a hit.
Durrett has given us clear and useful intruction in Senior Cohousing for how to go about creating a Senior Cohousing neighborhood, from gathering other interested parties to finding land, hiring the design and development professionals and building a cohesive community. The step-by-step chapters are interlaced with impotant and interesting sidebars, illustrations and photographs.
The spirit of the book is both informative and fun. The candid photos, quotes and anecdotes drive home the glee with which these Elders are taking charge of their lives. Neighbors work and play together, share frequent meals, dance, bicycle, walk, and create poetry and art. After reading Senior Cohousing, for probably the first time in my life, I thought getting older might actually be a hoot.
Elders Getting Together to Take Charge of Their Future.......2005-10-05
At last, here is a guidebook to a new way of aging for older Americans - a housing solution that at once addresses the need for privacy and for community; provides a net of security and mutual care without the institutional restrictions of assisted living; is environmentally friendly - and most importantly, is planned, designed, and built by the residents themselves.
Cohousing got its start in Europe and has been successfully translated to America. In a cohousing community, each household has its own, stand-alone private dwelling, which is smaller than the traditional single-family home. These private homes are clustered around a common house which provides the amenities that are often wastefully duplicated in traditional American housing. The layout of the homes and the entire community provides plenty of privacy while affording opportunities for as much social interaction as the residents desire.
The key to cohousing is that it is planned and built by the people who intend to live there, so the sense of community begins to develop during the planning process as interested participants winnow themselves down to a core group that is committed to building together, on a site they have chosen together, with a development program that they have evolved together through a consensus process.
Senior cohousing is the logical extension of the cohousing idea. Many senior cohousing communities already exist in Denmark, where the author, Charles Durrett, traveled extensively and interviewed community residents. In the United States Durrett and his wife, Katie McCamant, are the principals of The Cohousing Company, an architectural firm that specializes in facilitating the development of cohousing. Their previous book, Cohousing: A Contemporary Way of Housing Ourselves, pioneered the cohousing movement in America.
Senior CoHousing is an inspiring and practical guidebook to help older Americans get started organizing and planning a cohousing community. It draws upon the author's extensive experience in developing cohousing in the United States, and the shared experience of elders in Denmark who have been living in senior cohousing communities for years. Filled with inspiring photographs and helpful graphics, the book presents the nuts-and-bolts considerations that go into planning a senior cohousing community. For many Americans over 50, this book may be the first step toward creating a way of living out the final stages of life in a rewarding, stimulating, supportive environment, where one's choices find expression in a neighborhood of like-minded people.
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A Look at the Life of Andy Warhol.......2004-03-28
It would be difficult to compose a thorough biography of Andy Warhol. There are so many dimensions to the man's career that it alone could emcompass several hundred pages. Victor Bockris has done an excellent job of writing a concise version of Warhol's life story.
Bockris begins the book in the humble begins of the Warhola family. Andy is an almost insignificant little child who is often sick and mocked bt his peers. As a result, he becomes very attached to his mother. This bond lasts well into his life.
Andy Warhol was actually kicked out of art school for his poor performance before enrolling again after summer school. His art took time to catch on. His paintings, as diverse as they are in style and subject, gained him his fame. On the other hand, the films he produced were largely unsuccessful. While the stories behind his work seem concise, Bockris does an excellent job of recounting Warhol's career.
Bockris does an admirable job of capturing the social changes and scandals that affect Andy Warhol's life. Warhol's faint homosexuality is documented. While not being an overly sexual person, Warhol's affects on pop culture went so far to make homosexuality trendy around 1972. The day Andy Warhol was shot is discussed with photographs. The events of this day are told in a straight forward nature. Warhol's tragic death is also told through the sources at the hospital and the people closest to Andy.
The book is a bargain as the price it sells. For those wanting to learn more about this legendary artist, this book is ideal.
A Very Revealing Character Study!.......1999-03-26
I picked up this book, not expecting much and learned a lot of the life of Andy Warhol.
Being a person who met both Warhol and Solonis (who shot Andy Warhol), the book was probably more interesting to me than most people. The book goes into detail about how, the public was being mislead by Warhol's veneer of simplicity in revealing how sensitive he actually was.
It explains about how Andy manipulated people and was as generous as he was mean. I found this to be true in my own personal experience, knowing Warhol. He was very defensive, and could be quite mean, when offended.
The book also gives valuable insight in how Andy Warhol manipulated people. It was interesting knowing how he could beg and whine when he didn't get his way, and he didn't give up after many misfortunes.
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Master all the core concepts needed to use After Effects 5.5 on a daily basis, including transformations, keyframing animation, editing layers, masking, track mattes, stencils, nesting, precomposing, transfer modes, effects, adjustment layers, and rendering, plus the major new features Parenting, 3D Layers, Cameras, and Lights. In addition to the new topics, owners of the first edition of CMG will benefit from the updated coverage of such key features as transfer modes, masking, and collapsing transformations. Beginners and students will enjoy the new first chapter, which takes them on a tour through After Effects in the form of creating a mythical television show opening title sequence. The CD includes free plug-ins and keyframe assistants from Boris FX, Walker Effects, Digital Film Tools, The Foundry, Digital Anarchy, and DigiEffects plus inspirational footage from Artbeats, Digital Vision, and EyeWire to experiment with.
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Great Book.......2007-07-19
This book was very helpful in teaching me how to use and understand After Effects. I'd recommend this book to any beginner wanting to learn AE. It is easy to follow and comes with a great CD (very beneficial).
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials.......2007-05-06
If you are new to After Effects and Motion Graphics, or want to learn from Chris and Trish about the new features in Adobe's CS3 release, I recommend the Brand New:
After Effects Apprentice (DV Expert Series) (DV Expert Series) (Paperback)
by Chris & Trish Meyer
which is the only one of their books to cover After Effects 7, I'm pretty sure. Their next books will cover the new CS3 release.
Normally they write the new version's manual (yes, you can consider their books to be the missing user manual for Adobe After Effects) when the 'X.5' version comes out. There was no 7,5 version of after effects, so except for After Effects Apprentice, there is no manual for AAE 7.
Plus the book covers the new release of After Effects, the CS3 release.
AND this is a GREAT introduction to motion graphics in general, and to working with files in After Effects:
[...]
and when you finish that, you will certainly want:
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: Advanced Techniques (4th edition, not yet published) by Trish and Chris Meyer
and
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 2: The Essentials (4th edition, not yet published) by Trish and Chris Meyer
which should both be available very soon. I don't actually recommend getting the 6.5 version unless you are not going to upgrade to AAE 7 or AAE CS3. With the ton of new features (like Photoshop can handle video now!) in Adobe CS3, I DO recommend getting the CS3 version of every Adobe product that you use, and if you use more than just a few, you should get the whole suite, it will be cheaper.
Amazon dropped the ball.......2007-03-08
I had to cancel my order of this book three weeks into waiting, because for some unknown reason after the estimated 3-5 week shipping time, there was yet another delay. So I had to buy this book at twice the cost at my corrupt/evil University store.
The book itself is pretty good. I have only examined it a few times. However, some of the explanations can be confusing, it seems you have to read the entire thing to be sure to understand it, you cant pick and choose which things you want to learn from it.
Amazing book!!!.......2007-02-11
From my side i just wanna say "Thank you" to Trish Meyer and Chris Meyer for taking there time and writing this book - i think it's really amazing.
That brings you simply to the world of After Effects and helps you without any trouble to start working with his amazing program.
You'll find answer to many questions you answered yourself about this program and also answers to question that you yet didn't asked but soon will.
That book is simply amazing and brilliant. Recommended for people who already know After Effects or just started to work with this Adobe program. And price is very fair - you'll spend your money for really great book that you'll wanna to save in your collection!!!!!
Buy this first........2007-01-29
This was the first book I ever bought on After Effects, and I made the right choice. I would highly reccomend this as a first purchase for anyone starting out in After Effects. For those more experienced users, you might not learn many new tricks, but I would still consider it a must-have reference book to have in your library. I now use this book as a basis for training others in AE. The companion books written by the Meyers are also essential, and will advance your skills once you have worked your way through this book.
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This is one of the seven numbered collections of Walt Disney comic albums published by Gladstone. Each volume represents from two to four albums that were part of Gladstone Publishing's regular and giant monthlies that came out during the years 1988-1990. This volume contains the 4 albums; Uncle Scrooge:Hawaiian Hideaway, Donald and Daisy, Mickey Mouse: The World of Tomorrow,and Donald Duck Adventures: Ancient Persia.
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Teaching in Tough Times: Encouragement for Today's Teacher
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In 25 Stupid Mistakes Parents Make, author Peter Jaska identifies 25 parenting pitfalls, providing a forum to address essential areas ranging from discipline and sibling rivalry to privacy and critical thinking.
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Complete waste of time to read.......2007-06-09
The title of this book is deceptive in that it gives the impression that it is going to list a number of common, somewhat seemingly trivial, mistakes that parents make on an everyday basis. This is not the case. These are serious errors in parental judgment that parents should seriously avoid, like abuse.
It will tell you things like make sure you don't speak to or discipline your child at a level outside of its cognitive ability, but gives no direction as to how to determine what that is.
The last problem is that it tells you in a condescending manner that only doctorate holders can achieve advice that I don't agree with and have seen research to contradict, such as:
Don't argue in front of your child.
Don't make allowances chore dependent.
Listing that having a computer at 12 is overdone generosity.
Giving the impression that ADHD has to be treated with drugs.
I don't think that there is an audience for this book as the explanation is not in enough detail to help anyone that has these issues and the parents that would do most of these things would never read a book of this type. I recommend that everyone avoid this book.
Finally, the book I have been waiting for!.......2000-01-06
As a parent, I have read many different parenting books. Finally, I found a book that is filled with easy to understand and practical information. Being a parent has never been more difficult than it is today. We all strive to be the best parents we can. Thank you, Dr. Jaksa, for reminding me what children really want and need in today's hectic world.
Fantastic! Easy to read and practical!.......1999-11-25
This book does an amazing job of bringing to life the challenges parents face in today's fast paced world with real-life examples and stories. After reading this book, I feel so much better about myself as a parent. I know I was not alone in my parenting struggles and that I was not a bad parent. This book gives practical advice on parenting throughout the life span (childhood to adulthood). I highly recommend this. It's very positive and easy to read.
This should be required reading for all parents........1999-10-13
Exceptional. I gave a copy to my pediatrician to put in his lobby and he insisted on reading it first. He now recommends it to all of the parents of his patients.
Bravo, Dr. Jaksa!
Down to earth, practical, sympathetic to parents' struggles.......1999-09-21
Peter Jaksa is a very tuned-in, sensitive, practical therapist who provides a well-organized, highly readable book for parents who are struggling to make sense of parenting issues and family issues in this complex, difficult social environment of the late twentieth century. Dr. Jaksa charts a course for parents that gives hope and direction.
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’Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.’ Thus the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded the battle of Adrianople, which spelled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. Such a crushing Roman defeat by Gothic cavalry proved to the Empire, as well as to the Goths themselves, that the migratory barbarians were a force to be reckoned with. This book tells the story of the misguided Roman plans and the surprise attack of Gothic cavalry, and puts forward the most recent theories as to the true location of the battlefield.
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A Good Summary of Modern Analysis of this Battle.......2001-11-25
MacDowell has follwed up his Osprey volumes on the Late Roman Infantry and Cavalry with a useful summary of current thinking on this important battle. His background material on the Late Roman Army serves as a useful introduction to the events of Adrianople and he then puts the battle in the context of the entry of the Goths into the Eastern Empire, their rebellion and the campaign in Thrace which led up to their confrontation with Valens. His attempts to pinpoint the site of the battle and the photos of the probable site add greatly to a detailed understanding of how the two forces were positioned and the role played by the terrain.
This battle has been the subject of several myths in military history and it is good to see MacDowell reject the outdated idea that the Goths won through the use of huge numbers of heavy cavalry - following Burns' persuasive analysis which shows this was substantially an infantry vs infantry affair. His analysis of the numbers of troops involved is also well supported by recent historical analysis. Careful examination of the *Notitia* , the events leading up to the battle and the units involved makes it clear that Valens is unlikely to have had more than 20,000 or so troops in the field that day. As for the old fashioned Germanicist myth that Fritigern commanded a vast force of 100-200,000 warriors - that nonsense was consigned to the rubbish bin over a century ago. Close reading of the accounts of the Thracian campaign, analysis of the forage and food supply available and Ammianus' account of Fritigern's repeated attempts to negotiate a way out all make it clear that he had little or no numerical superiority and that the two forces were quite closely matched in numbers.
What won Fritgern the victory was a combination of luck and good generalship in the face of Valens' overconfidence and incompetence.
While images of vast numbers of howling wolfskin-clad savages over-running the outdated legions of a declining Empire may be stirring and romantic, this battle was more like a clash between an elite, professional army against a force of similarly armed, less disciplined but quite desperate rebel refugees. The reason Ammianus declares it to have been the greatest defeat since Cannae lies in the fact that by the end of the day the Emperor was dead, a huge number of his elite officers had also been killed and three quarters of the Eastern Praesental Army - the best troops in the Empire - had been wiped out. It was not simply the numbers of dead which made this a crushing defeat, though they were substantial, but the nature of the troops defeated, the fact that the Goths were not even contained for several more years (they were never fully defeated and remained within the Empire) and the psychological impact of the defeat, particularly in the light of the later effects these Goths were to have under Alaric.
Like all books in this brief format, this one has its limitations, but it is a useful addition to Osprey's range and goes some way towards making up-to-date analysis of this battle easily available to the popular reader.
Not bad for an Osprey Book.......2001-10-29
If you want to know everything about the battle and want all the details to be 100% accurate, this is not the book to buy...
If you want an overview, with a decent terrain analysis, and some decent guesswork about the campaign, this, like most Osprey Campaign books will give you a basic start. There are different theories out there about why the Roman Army got their butts kicked so hard in this battle and the author gives one of the more reasonable ones, in line with the general downsizing of ancient numbers that is so common to modern historians.
The photos are nice, but the drawings aren't up to the "Osprey Men at Arms" standard in my opinion. However the whole Campaign series seems to suffer from this problem. This is a battle that needed to be added to the Osprey Campaign Series, and is a good read for the casual historian.
A Good Summary, but Limited by Sources.......2001-05-17
It is not easy to write about Ancient military history because the quantity and quality of primary sources is often lacking. In the case of Adrianople 378, the author relies heavily upon the second-hand account of Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman officer who lived at the time of the battle. Unfortunately, Ammianus' account is sometimes vague and there are few other sources to shed further light on this climactic battle that broke the power of Rome's legions. Key facts, such as the exact location of the battle and the numbers involved on both sides, remain matters for contention.
Simon Macdowall, a retired British army officer, uses his recent military experience in the Balkans as a tool to help strip away some of the ambiguity from the Battle of Adrianople. Based upon good terrain analysis, he makes a convincing case for locating the battlefield eight miles north of Adrianople. However the author is not satisfied with the standard estimates of 40-60,000 Romans fighting 100,000 or more Goths. Using the Notitia Dignitatum, a 4th Century Roman text on the Roman military, Macdowall extrapolates a possible Roman and Goth order of battle that is far smaller than standard accounts. In the author's opinion, the Romans had only about 15,000 troops and the Goths had perhaps 20,000 men. This is not very plausible. As even Ammianus' noted, the Roman defeat at Adrianople was the worst defeat since Cannae in 216 BC. It is hard to see how the loss of only 10,000 troops as argued by Macdowall could be a catastrophe that threatened the stability of the empire. The standard accounts, which estimate Roman losses of 20-40,000 dead, are far more in line with the magnitude of this disaster.
In the aftermath, the author asks, "how was it that the best organized, equipped and disciplined army in the world could have been so thoroughly defeated by what amounted to an ad hoc force of refugees and deserters?" Macdowall's response to his own question is twofold. First, the overstretched empire could not muster sufficient quality troops to deal with multiple threats in a timely manner. Second, Roman arrogance (common in situations where professional soldiers confront irregulars) caused them to underestimate their enemies and they offered battle without adequate reconnaissance. Emperor Valens, the Roman commander, accepted battle in a very sloppy, ill-planned manner and the result was disaster. In short order, the Roman cavalry was routed off the battlefield and the unsupported infantry was massacred.
Organizationally, this volume begins with a 6-page introduction, followed by an excellent 17-page section on the opposing armies and 6 more pages on opposing leaders and plans. Osprey seems to have rectified some of the shortcomings in these vital introductory sections from previous volumes. Unfortunately, the actual battle narrative is only 3 pages in length, which seems overly short. Granted the amount of detailed information is sparse, but the author could have done more than just quote chunks of Ammianus' description of the battle. For example, since the Roman infantry was caught while deploying from column to line formation, a diagram and discussion of this key moment might have been useful. Although there is a 7-page section on the aftermath and consequences, it says little about the 1/3rd of the Roman army that survived the battle. The artwork in this volume is of mixed quality; two of the four battle scenes are rather shabby and do not relate to the battle. A plate depicting the initial cavalry clash would have been more appropriate than a "non-combat" scene of migrating Goths. The 2-D maps are very good in supporting the text, but there are only two of the 3-D "Bird's Eye View" maps instead of the normal three. As for the illustrations, most are rather repetitive (e.g. too many illustrations of Roman shield designs) or not germane to the Battle of Adrianople. In future, Osprey should use more relevant illustrations from its "Men-At-Arms" and "Warrior" scenes to round-out volumes (as it used to do earlier in the Campaign series), instead of over-using photos of random antiquarian bric-a-brac.
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"Scarcely one third of the entire army escaped. Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals." Thus the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded the battle of Adrianople, 9 August AD 378, which spelled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. Such a crushing Roman defeat by Gothic cavalry proved to the Empire, as well as to the Goths themselves, that the migratory barbarians were a force to be reckoned with. Valens, the Emperor of the East, was killed along with up to 40,000 Roman soldiers. Simon MacDowall tells the story of the misguided Roman plans to attack, the lack of adequate scouting that resulted in the surprise attack of Gothic cavalry, and puts forward the most recent theories as to the true location of the battlefield.
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A military history of the European conquest in Africa and an assessment of the impact and legacy of the imperial wars on African and European military practice. The text is intended for undergraduate courses on imperial, African and military history.
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European Conquest of Africa........2006-05-25
This is a nice scholarly review of the conquest of Africa. This book is more for the college student studying this event than the lay reader. Professor Vandervort breaks down the European conquest of Africa into three phases: 1.) Shifting Balance 1830-80 2.) Flood Tide 1880-98 and 3.) Ominous Portents 1898-1914. In this book, Vandervort makes the case that Africans did resist and European conquest was not a cake walk. In fact, the Italians were turned back at Adowa. Other Europeans were defeated in battles. There was resistance to the European Scramble for Africa.
As I already mentioned, this is a scholarly work. However, for those interested in Africa, this is interesting history. One will understand why Africa was colonized by the Europeans. This is an interesting history book.
Colonial Warfare in Africa.......2002-04-06
Bruce Vandervort's aim in writing this book is to examine the origins and conduct of colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century. The author investigates the history of the colonial conquests from the perspectives of the European invaders and the African resisters. Over the course of the book, he demonstrates the impact, both immediate and long-term, of these wars upon the societies, political structures and military theory and practice of both the victors and vanquished.
Vandervort describes how relations between black Africans and Europeans were carried on largely at arm's length until the 1850's. He informs us that the interior of Africa was still mainly in the hands of the African peoples, whose hostility, combined with rigors of tropical diseases, kept European penetration to a minimum. He explains that Europeans came to Africa largely for economic reasons, thus, their presence on the continent was limited to a small number of trading enclaves along the west and east African coasts.
According to Vandervort, in 1876 more than 90% of the African continent was ruled by Africans. However, by 1914, all but Liberia and Ethiopia were controlled by European powers. The author explains that the ability of the Europeans to recruit large armies of African troops and the technology advantage that European countries had over African countries were the major reasons for European success in the African colonial wars. The motives for participation in the imperial venture were multiple and complex and they varied considerably among European nations.
Vandervort describes the pre-colonial years of the nineteenth century as a time of movement toward a greater centralization of power. In larger polities such as the Zulu empire in Southern Africa, the jihad states of al-Hajj Umar, Ahmadu Seku and Samori in West Africa, the Mahdist theocratic state in the Sudan, the rejuvenated Solomonic empire of Ethiopia, the Sokoto empire of northern Nigeria, and the Ashanti empire of present-day Ghana, an internally-generated change might have opened up a distinctly African path to modernity. Given the opportunity, African nations might have eventually liberalized their political, legal and fiscal institutions to make room for their more productive classes. These classes could then have commercially collaborated with the European mercantilists. If this had occurred, African nations might have retained their political and economic independence through an open door policy of trading with the world.
This process was brought to a halt as a result of two factors: first, through conquest and subsequent imperial rule, the Europeans were able to impose their own economic and political priorities onto African institutions and society conquest. Secondly, African societies were almost entirely unable to bury long-standing ethnic and political animosities long enough to forge alliances against the Europeans. Vandervort reveals in great detail the African nations' unwillingness to rethink military strategies and tactics that had proven ineffective against European methods of warfare. He shows how their refusal to abandon hierarchical and inequitable social structures inhibited the African peoples from presenting a united front against the European invasion. Europeans were able to turn ethnic groups and religious factions against each other. Ethnic divisions, tribal rivalries, religious differences and conflicts between regions all played into the hands of the Europeans.
In conclusion, the author has written a thorough and well-documented book and is able to discuss both the European and African perspectives without bias. Additionally, the military aspects of the wars are clearly explained. The social, economic and political background is illustrated to provide the reader with a greater understanding of European imperialism in Africa and the effects it still has on the Continent. Therefore, this book is a must for those readers who want to better understand the confluence of factors that led to the success of the European conquest of Africa.
Not a cornerstone.......2001-07-21
A good addition to any period readers collection, but not something you'd tell your friends; "You've gotta read this!". The authors goal was to examine origins and conduct of colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century. In so much as possible from the perspectives both of the European invaders and the African resisters. As well as both immediate and long-term affects of these wars upon the societies, political sturctures and military theory and practice of both victors and vanquished.
The author clearly stuggles with the sheer grandiose nature of the task. Often glossing over key events and toiling over insignificants. The language of the text is laborious, making the reading all the more dulling.
Despite the seemingly harsh words, I still did read the book from beginning to end, not missing a word. The clever angles the author uses on occasion and the "I'm not sure if I really like this, but it seems interesting", new school of Military History interpretation. A good brick in the wall, but not a cornerstone.
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Encyclopedia of antique scientific instruments
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