Historical Dictionary of Botswana - Hardcover

Morton Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810831430 ISBN 13: 9780810831438

Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996

Synopsis

Written by three scholars with close ties to the country, the dictionary offers concise descriptive entries for Botswana's significant personalities, places, events, and institutions as well as its economy, society, ethnic groups, government, and culture. Reviews of the Previous Edition: ...indispensable for almost all libraries. --ARBA The term reference work does not do justice to a book so engaging as this...a teaching tool as well as a reference tool...indispensable. --AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY ...immediately enters the canon of the dozen or so essential works of reference on Botswana. --JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Morton, Ph.D., is Professor of History at Loras College, Iowa. He has written extensively on both East Africa and southern African slavery. Jeff Ramsay, Ph.D., is Head of the Social Sciences Department and teaches history at Legae Academy, Gaborone. Barry Morton is a doctoral candidate in African history at Indiana University who is writing his dissertation on colonial Ngamiland. He is the author of "Pre-Colonial Botswana: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to the Sources" (1994).

Review:

This book should be in every library, secondary school library, in every educational institute, every tourist lodge and of course in all government departments. We have before us a most remarkable publication, an astonishing treasure house of information whose compilation represents a most amazing achievement by its three editors. (Sandy Grant Mmegi Online, June 2009)

Extensive bibliography. (American Reference Books Annual, March 2009)

About this edition

• Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810831430
• ISBN 13: 9780810831438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 320