Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie at the...
The human rights movement in South Africas transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was...
This Pioneering Book, First Published To Wide Acclaim In 1986, Traces The Way The Ethiopian Center And The Peripheral Regions Of The Country Affected Each...
This pioneering book, first published to wide acclaim in 1986, traces the way the Ethiopian center and the peripheral regions of the country affected each...
From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to...
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines womens efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia....
A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth and twentiethcentury black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety...
Subjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenthcentury English novels: the retiring, selfeffacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness....
This book examines the process through which the mantle of leadership passed from one leader to another in Botswana. It concerns the succession to high...
Sugar Girls and Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell...
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and...
Slavery fascinated Thackeray. For him, the essence of slavery consisted of treating people like things. Thomas examines relationships in Thackerays fiction in which people have...
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Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters...
ReviewHowells reputation will continue to rest on his fiction and criticism, but of all his published writings, his poetry gives the most immediate sense of...
For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal...
In Philenas Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio, Lynda Salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853....
In Philenas Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio, Lynda Salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853....
The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians...
In This Exciting New Study, Bahru Zewde, One Of The Foremost Historians Of Modern Ethiopia, Has Constructed A Collective Biography Of A Remarkable Group Of...
In this exciting new study, Bahru Zewde, one of the foremost historians of modern Ethiopia, has constructed a collective biography of a remarkable group of...
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics...
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics...
In this first general history of alcohol and drinking in East Africa, Justin Williss central theme is powerfrom customary beliefs in alcohol as a symbol...
Product Description At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy...
Explores How Anticolonial Movements In South Africa Enabled Enduring Inequality Through The Rise Of Privileged Minorities And Exclusive Economic Advantagesin Privileged Minorities, Mesrob Vartavarian Examines...
This book looks at the microfoundations of poverty in the developing world and in particular those present in property rights. The local institutions that govern...