This book is inscribed and signed by the author to the renowned linguist and scholar of Ethiopia, UCLA- Prof. Wolf Leslau* (1907-2007): "To Wolf Leslau. With friendship and admiration. Dick Sklar." 8vo. lxxxvi. 755pp. Pictorial wrappers with black, white and yellow lettering to wrappers. Great work on politics in Africa, with emphasis on social and class issues as well as the political system and nationalism. Written by the acclaimed Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, Richard l. Sklar. There he was founding co-chair of the interdepartmental undergraduate degree program in International Development Studies. He continues to lecture and write on the theories of postimperialism and developmental democracy, as well as the politics of development with particular empirical reference to Africa. Professor Sklar is a Past-President of the African Studies Association (U.S.A.). He has taught at several universities in Africa, including the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, the University of Zambia and, as a Fulbright Professor, the University of Zimbabwe . Scuffing, rubbing, creasing to wrappers. Minor staining to page edges, not affecting text. In English. In overall good+ condition. *Wolf Leslau, surely the greatest Semiticist linguist of the post-war generation, whose work established Ethiopian linguistics as an essential part of Semitic studies.

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African Politics in Postimperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar (Classic Authors and Texts on Africa) [INSCRIBED; SIGNED]

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Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ & Asmara, Eritrea

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2002

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Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0865439869

ISBN 13

9780865439863

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