African history Books
Cornell University Press Gods and Men in Egypt
Book SynopsisIn their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of...Trade Review"The authors have written an excellent book which challenges readers to explore Egyptian religion with intellectual honesty towards the ancient evidence."—George Hart, Egyptian Archaeology 25, Autumn 2004
£81.00
Cornell University Press Surfacing Up
Book SynopsisFocusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became...Trade ReviewLynnette Jackson's Surfacing Up carries on the project of exposing what Franz Fanon called the 'pathology of colonialism.' This book is important in three major ways. First, it comes in the wake of Achille Mbembe's critique of this genre of defining and writing the 'African' experience as a 'cult of victimization,' and his call for a robust self-reflexive reappraisal of the authenticity and redemption of African nationalism. Second, Jackson approaches these broader debates on Africa—inspired by Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and others—from the standpoint of health and healing in Africa. She tells her story within the thematic of therapeutic options available to Africans during the colonial moment, dwelling on the limits of such latitude, especially for those judged insane. Third, and overall, Surfacing Up is a theoretical and methodological statement on the fate of western-designed artifacts, ideas, and people that travel beyond metropolitan societies to colonies. Hence the book speaks to scholars—particularly historians—of Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa, colonial and postcolonial studies, science and technology, psychiatry, gender, women's studies, and feminism. * H-SAfrica *
£97.20
Cornell University Press The Order of Genocide Race Power and War in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Order of Genocide will be an enduring contribution to our understanding of the Rwandan genocide as well as to theories of ethnic violence and genocides more generally. Although his methods and findings will certainly interest scholars of genocides, violent conflicts, and African area studies, Straus does not obscure his work in specialist language. * Nations and Nationalism *Scott Straus ranks among the finest of the scholars writing in genocide studies. The Order of Genocide is fair-minded, important, and rigorous. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews that he conducted with convicted Rwandan killers, and on many other sources, Straus builds a dynamic process model seeking to explain why and how ordinary people could be mobilized to murder their neighbors in the Rwandan genocide. * African Studies Review *Straus examines the 1994 Rwandan genocide through a social science lens... and his approach yields interesting new insights.... Particularly compelling is his comparison of killers in Rwanda with those of the Holocaust. * Foreign Affairs *Straus shows tenacity and courage in explaining the unthinkable—how otherwise ordinary people could imagine, conceive, and carry out genocide. * Genocide Studies and Prevention *Straus's study is comprehensive, thorough, and cogently and carefully argued. It is altogether an impressive work that is compulsory for specialists and invaluable for students. Straus is a former journalist and his writing is a model of clarity and economy. * Perspectives on Politics *Straus's writing is lucid, the structure of the book is well thought out, and jargon is avoided, making The Order of Genocide accessible to anyone interested in the subject. A must-read for those interested in politics and violence. * Journal of Peace Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Background to the Genocide 2. Genocide at the National and Regional Levels 3. Local Dynamics 4. The Génocidaires 5. Why Perpetrators Say They Committed Genocide 6. The Logic of Genocide 7. Historical Patterns of Violence 8. Rwanda's Leviathan ConclusionAppendix Index
£42.30
Cornell University Press What Rebels Want
Book SynopsisHazen challenges the commonly held view that rebel groups can get what they want, when they want it, and when they most need it, offering a better understanding of rebel group capacity and options for war and war termination.Trade Review"Jennifer M. Hazen argues in What Rebels Want that rebels engage in a continuous struggle to get the resources that they need to buy weapons, pay fighters, and keep rival groups from doing the same. Rebels are the main actors and they exercise agency. In Hazen's view, the intensity and character of resource flows have considerable bearing on rebel capacities to continue to fight, and thus on their political strategies." -- William Reno, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Never-Ending Wars: Explaining Conflict Duration2. Resources, Options, and Preferences in War3. Sierra Leone Rebels: The Revolutionary United Front4. Liberia's Rebels: LURD and MODEL5. Côte d'Ivoire: From the MPCI to the Forces NouvellesConclusionIndex
£40.50
Cornell University Press By Sword and Plow France and the Conquest of
Book SynopsisGenerously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern...Trade ReviewJennifer E. Sessions argues that the contested political culture of the post-revolutionary period was at the origins of French Algeria. The dualism that structures the book's title, By Sword and Plow, frames an alternative narrative of nineteenth-century French history. Sessions presents the conquest and settlement of Algeria as one of the nineteenth century’s major events, one in which issues of sovereignty, citizenship, and political power were played out. This book will be read with fascination by readers with widely different interests. * Journal of Modern History *Sessions offers up a fine and illuminating study of the early years of Algérie française and makes an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century political culture.... By Sword and Plow is an impressive, highly readable, and meticulously-researched piece of scholarship that deserves the attention of all historians of France overseas and France in the first half of the nineteenth century.... It shows French imperialism in a new and (sometimes radically) different light. -- John Strachan * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Cultural Origins of French AlgeriaPart I: By the Sword 1. A Tale of Two Despots: The Invasion of Algeria and the Revolution of 1830 2. Empire of Merit: The July Monarchy and the Algerian War 3. The Blood of Brothers: Bonapartism and the Popular Culture of ConquestPart II. By the Plow 4. The Empire of Virtue: Colonialism in the Age of Abolition 5. Selling Algeria: Speculation and the Colonial Landscape 6. Settling Algeria: Labor, Emigration, and CitizenshipConclusion: Politics and Empire in Nineteenth-Century FranceSelected Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
£32.30
Cornell University Press The Socioeconomic Dimensions of HIVAIDS in Africa
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s HIV/AIDS has occupied a singular position because of the rapidly emergent threat and devastation the disease has caused, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. New infections continue to create a formidable challenge to households, communities, and health systems: last year alone, 2.7 million new infections occurred globally. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the suffering, with around two-thirds of infected individuals worldwide found there, and a disproportionate number of deaths and new infections.For years there have been widespread and concerted efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, identify a cure, and understand and mitigate the deleterious social and economic ramifications of the disease. Despite these efforts, and some apparent successes, there is still a long way to go in terms of altering behaviors in order to realize the objective of dramatic reductions in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The authors in this volume examine the HIV/AIDSTable of ContentsIntroduction by David E. SahnChapter 1. HIV/AIDS, Economic Growth, Inequality By Markus HaackerChapter 2. Governing a World with HIV and AIDS: An Unfinished Success Story by Alex de WaalChapter 3. Microeconomic Perspectives on the Impacts of HIV/AIDS by Kathleen Beegle, Markus Goldstein, and Harsha ThirumurthyChapter 4. The AIDS Epidemic, Nutrition, Food Security, and Livelihoods: Review of Evidence in Africa by Suneetha Kadiyala and Antony ChapotoChapter 5. The Relationship between HIV Infection and Education: An Analysis of Six Sub-Saharan African Countries by Damien de Walque and Rachel KlineChapter 6. Back to Basics: Gender, Social Norms, and the AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa by Susan Cotts WatkinsChapter 7. The Fight against AIDS in the Larger Context: The End of "AIDS Exceptionalism" by Roger EnglandChapter 8. Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It by Mead OverChapter 9. HIV Prevention in Africa: What Has Been Learned? by Peter GlickChapter 10. Treating Ourselves to Trouble? The Impact of HIV Treatment in Africa: Lessons from the Industrial World by Elizabeth Pisani
£25.19
Cornell University Press Making and Unmaking Nations
Book SynopsisWinner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018Winner of the Joseph Lepgold PrizeWinner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA)Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA)In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes placeand, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide occurred and where it could have but did not. Why have there not been other Rwandas? Straus finds that deep-rooted ideologieshow leaders make their nationsshape strategies of violence and are central to what leads to or away from genocide. Other critical factors include the dynamics of war, the role of restraint, and the interaction between national and local actors in the staging of campaigns of large-scale violence. Grounded in Straus''s extensive Trade ReviewGenocide studies do not make for fun reading. Scott Straus's latest book might not violate this rule, but it bends it. This is an exciting, erudite, thought-provoking, and highly readable book. It engages with the highest levels of scholarship on genocide and African politics while remaining largely accessible to general readers, and it offers a new comparative theory of genocide that is both illuminating and intuitively appealing. -- Pierre Englebert, Pomona College * Political Science Quarterly *It is clear that Straus is interested in honestly exploring why genocides occur—and do not occur—rather than selecting favorable cases to promote a preconceived policy or theoretical agenda.... In the final analysis, this is a great book for anyone interested in studying genocide, state formation in Africa, the power-of-elite narrative, and policy responses to genocide. -- Dan G. Cox * Miltary Review *Scott Straus has written an extremely important book, arguing that genocide has crucial ideological foundations, but that these conditions only lead to genocide when situational incentives drive a process of escalation. This contribution highlights the central role of ideas as a cause of genocide, while also outlining forces of restraint that can hold mass categorical violence at bay. Anyone interested in political violence must engage with this book.... Making and Unmaking Nations is a major achievement. Not only does it help us better understand the ever-vexing question of genocide, but it also identifies key open questions for future research and offers a set of useful policy diagnostics and prescriptions. As the prospect of mass killing looms over ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, this is a particularly timely and important work. -- Paul Staniland * Perspectives on Politics *Straus' previous book was a penetrating analysis of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Here, he returns to the issue of large-scale ethnic violence in Africa, demonstrating an impressive command of the historical material to contrast the cases of Rwanda and Sudan, where genocides took place, with three cases in which ethnic conflict did not reach that point (Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal). In the end, he concludes, whether interethnic strife results in genocide depends almost entirely on national leadership. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *The originality of Straus's study lies in his focus on the intersection of local and national actors in their approach to ideas such as nationalism, violence and power....Making and Unmaking Nations is an original and interesting book. -- Caroline Varin * International Affairs *A challenging read for its topic and nuance, [Making and Unmaking Nations] is nonetheless an important one for those interested in understanding how genocides come about and how genocidal impulses can be restrained. -- Alex Alvarez, Northern Arizona University * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Puzzle of GenocidePart I: Concepts and Theory1. The Concept and Logic of Genocide2. Escalation and Restraint3. A Theory of GenocidePart II: Empirics4. Mass Categorical Violence and Genocide in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960–20085. Retreating from the Brink in Côte d'Ivoire6. The Politics of Dialogue in Mali7. Pluralism and Accommodation in Senegal8. Endangered Arab-Islamic Nationalism in Sudan9. Fighting for the Hutu Revolution in RwandaConclusion: Making Nations and Preventing Their UnmakingAppendix: Identifying the Risk of Genocide and Mass Categorical ViolenceReferencesIndex
£26.59
Cornell University Press Norms in International Relations
Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns. Norms can play a crucial role in the formation of global policy.After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela''s inauguration as South Africa''s first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and whyin a remarkable change of practicenations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime. By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics.Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equaTrade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *
£26.59
Cornell University Press Democracy in Translation Understanding Politics
Book SynopsisFrederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are...Trade ReviewIn this elegant and lucid study, Frederic C Schaffer asks what democracy means to people in Senegal.... Schaffer succeeds in saying, to people who make blanket assertions about the democratic character and salutary benefits of elections, that democracy, when translated, is not necessarily what they think it is. That is his aim and achievement and arguably a quite valuable one. -- Jeffrey W. Rubin * American Journal of Sociology *Schaffer's intensive interviews and linguistic analysis demonstrate that good fieldwork, coupled with careful analysis, still has much to contribute to the field of comparative politics.... If the author is correct and local interpretations of broad ideal and discourses of democracy are central to understanding and explaining the outcomes of political liberalization in Senegal, then this book is among the best written on this topic.... It should be required reading for anyone interested in the prospects for political change not just in Senegal but in Africa as a whole. -- William Reno * Comparative Political Studies *This book is intended, in short, to enrich both the study of Senegal and democratic practices and the practice of cross-cultural inquiry more generally. Schaffer concludes his study with an excellent bibliography. * Choice *Schaffer's small jewel of a book... contains a detailed description of his methodology for linguistic analysis of oral interviews, of political texts in documentary form and in the media, and of interviews with educated multilingual Senegalese. Intended for a relatively expert audience, the book is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. -- Margaret E. Scranton * Perspectives on Political Science *This well-crafted and deeply researched study is one of the two or three most important studies of democratization in Africa yet to appear in the 1990's. -- John Clark * International Journal of African Historical Studies *A probing and highly original study.... A significant contribution to the literature on transitions to democracy. * Foreign Affairs *
£20.79
Cornell University Press Sphinx
Book SynopsisSphinxes are legion in Egyptwhat is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old.from the IntroductionThe Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformTrade ReviewChristiane Zivie-Coche's Sphinx: History of a Monument reflects her particular concern with the later history of the Giza sphinx and with the Giza plateau as a whole. This... translation... brings to an anglophone readership a wealth of detail about the appropriation of the sphinx in the New Kingdom and the Late Period, as a monument no longer exclusively tied to the old royal funerary cult but developing a religious status in its own right. * Egyptian Archeology *
£20.39
Johns Hopkins University Press Port Cities and Intruders
Book SynopsisIn Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.Trade ReviewMichael Pearson... provides us with a fascinating collection of anecdotes, data, and quotations. We travel with him through a range of debates about world systems, littoral societies, [and] the meaning of world history. Times Literary Supplement A deeply researched, attractively presented, and question-raising book. Choice Pearson, a distinguished scholar of South Asia and Portuguese expansion, boldly takes on the complex history of coastal East Africa during an especially dramatic period that witnessed the coming together of two major pre-modern world systems. -- Edward A. Alpers Historian Michael Pearson has put together an imaginative and yet solidly grounded book about the east African coast extending for 1,500 miles from Mogadish to Delagoa Bay. -- Colin Simmons English Historical Review This book is valuable, well written, and clearly argued, with a refreshing sense of excitement at new interpretations... [It is] a pleasure to read for both its content and its style, and his elegantly argued and wide view of the trading system of the Afrasiatic Sea. -- John Middleton Journal of World History This intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking publication is recommended as essential reading for historians, anthropologists, and all those interested in the history of social, economic, and political formations in the Indian Ocean basin and the Swahili world. -- Mohamed Ahmed Saleh International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Locating Coastal East AfricaChapter 2. The Swahili Coast in the Afrasian SeaChapter 3. The Swahili Coast and the InteriorChapter 4. East Africa in the World-EconomyChapter 5. The Portuguese on the CoastChapter 6. ConclusionNotesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Gods Mountain
Book SynopsisThis new chronology provides the framework for a fresh consideration of the literary and archeological evidence, as well as new understandings of the religious and social dynamics that shaped the image of the Temple Mount as a sacred space for Jews and Christians.Trade ReviewEliav uses his impressive knowledge of Talmud, the Bible, archeology, languages, rabbinic texts, the classics and patristic literature to debunk the notion that the Temple Mount was a sacred space for ancient Jews and Christians. According to him, it did not achieve this status until long after the Second Temple was destroyed. In a dazzling display of erudition, he supports his thesis by providing new readings of familiar sources and by citing many little-known references. Publishers Weekly Readable and well illustrated and documented, this book is recommended for religion and seminary collections of all stripes. Library Journal 2005 Eliav writes in a clear style that makes it accessible to most readers. Highly recommended. -- Aaron Howard Jewish Herald-Voice 2005 This is a wide-ranging book on a fascinating topic. Its main thesis is that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem became an important concept invested with religious significance only after the Temple had been destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. -- Pieter W. van der Horst Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006 All readers will be rewarded by Eliav's judicious insights, his nuanced reinterpretations, and his wide-ranging scholarship. Choice 2006 This book means to awaken an important scholarly debate and it deserves to succeed. Shofar 2007Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceA Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction1. Transmuting Realities: From David to Herod, From Micah to Josephus2. Locus Memoriae: The Temple Mount and the Early Followers of Jesus and James3. Delusive Landscapes: From Jerusalem to Aelia4. A Lively Ruin: The Temple Mount in Byzantine Jerusalem5. The New Mountain in Christian Homiletics6. The Temple Mount, the Rabbis, and the Poetics of MemoryAfterword: A Mount without a TempleAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyPrimary SourcesScholarly WorksIndex of Ancient CitationsGeneral Index
£43.00
University of Nebraska Press The Moroccan Soul French Education Colonial
Book SynopsisExamines the history of the French education system in colonial Morocco, the development of French conceptions about the 'Moroccan Soul', and the effect of these ideas on pedagogy, policy making, and politics. This title reveals how French ideas and policies shaped the strategies and discourse of anticolonial resistance.Trade Review"This clearly written book captures the elaborate crosscurrents of its history."—David H. Slavin, American Historical Review"Segalla should be congratulated for an enlightening study that stimulates the reader's mind far beyond the topic suggested in the title."—Samia I. Spencer, French Review"The Moroccan Soul is a welcome contribution to the history of French imperialism in North Africa."—Sahar Bazzaz, The Historian"The Moroccan Soul will offer much to both undergraduate and graduate audiences. It should command the attention of all historians of empire and historians of education, and anyone interested in the modern construction and reconstruction of French and Moroccan identities."—John Strachan, H-FranceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Arabic SpellingsList of Abbreviations Used in the Text 1. Empire and Education2. An Uncertain Beginning3. The West African Connection4. A New Pedagogy for Morocco?5. A Psychological Ethnology6. "A Worker Proletariat with a Dangerous Mentality"7. Elite Demands8. Nests of Nationalism9. Legacies and Reversals NotesBibliographyIndex
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Screening Integration Recasting Maghrebi
Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed reference for those interested in comprehending the complex shifts in twenty-first century French cinemaTrade Review"[Screening Integration is] a welcome study of a recent body of Maghrebi-French films. . . . The book is a solid, timely read."—Florence Martin, H-France"Fascinating volume . . . in-depth and challenging discussions of individual films all while considering the impact of this for contemporary France more widely."—Hannah Kilduff, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"This is a nicely balanced and focused book that will undoubtedly find its way onto a good number of reading lists."—Martin O'Shaughnessy, Modern & Contemporary France"This edited volume is a must-read for anyone interested in cultural productions by and about the Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French populations in France and/or in broader questions relating to integration, immigration, and difference in France."—Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Reviews & Critical CommentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy1. From "Ghettoes" to Globalization: Situating Maghrebi-French Filmmakers Alec G. Hargreaves2. Hidden Islam: The Role of the Religious in Beur and Banlieue Cinema Michel Cadé3. "Et si on allait en Algérie?" Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African Émigré Directors Will Higbee4. Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued Hakim Abderrezak5. Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema Sylvie Durmelat6. Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? Mireille Rosello7. Class Acts: Education, Gender, and Integration in Recent French Cinema Carrie Tarr8. Don't Touch the White Woman: La journée de la jupe or Feminism at the Service of Islamophobia Geneviève Sellier9. A Space of Their Own? Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking Patricia Geesey10. Sexual/Social (Re)Orientations: Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and the Maghrebi/Beur Male in Liria Bégéja's Change-moi ma vie and Amal Bedjaoui's Un fils Darren Waldron11. (Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship Murray Pratt and Denis M. Provencher12. Repackaging the Banlieues: Malik Chibane's La trilogie urbaine Vinay SwamyFilmographyContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Silence Is Death The Life and Work of Tahar
Book SynopsisOn May 26, 1993, the Algerian novelist and poet Tahar Djaout was gunned down in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. This title considers the life and work of Djaout in light of his murder and his role in the conflict that raged between Islamist terrorist cells and Algeria's military regime in the 1990s.Trade Review“In Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout one gets a sense of the man, the artist, and Ms. Šukys herself. With a lyrical nomadism, she combines her study with detours into memoir and even fiction on themes of bones and memory.”—Nina C. Ayoub, The Chronicle of Higher Education
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Portrait of an Island
Book SynopsisA work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.Trade Review "A very convincing portrait."—Michelle Moore Apotsos, CCA Reviews"A well-researched, well-documented, and well-argued piece of scholarship. . . . Hinchman makes an important contribution to the literature on the history of art and architecture, the history of the built environment, and slavery and the slave trade in West Africa, in general, and in Senegal, in particular."—Kalala Ngalamulume, H-France"Portrait of an Island is a valuable asset for scholars as well as for students of African colonial architecture, the material cultures of imperialism, and early modern histories of identity formation and cultural exchange."—Dwight Carey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“A major contribution to the understanding of early modern building traditions and lifestyles in West Africa, a literature that is missing in the larger architectural body of work.”—Nnamdi Elleh, author of African Architecture: Evolution and TransformationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Interdisciplinary Stroll in Early Modern West Africa1. The Natural Landscape: The Island and Cartography2. The Built Landscape: Architecture and Urbanism3. The Elite: Patrons, Critics, and Fans4. The Middle: Occupational Groups5. The Bottom Rung: Servants and Slaves6. Things: Houses and Their ContentsConclusion: Building MemoriesAppendix of TablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.20
University of Nebraska Press Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and
Book SynopsisBorderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands. Gathering the voices of a diverse range of international scholars, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America presents case studies from ancient to modern times, highlighting topics ranging from religious conflicts to medical frontiers to petty trade. Spanning geographical regions of Europe, the Baltics, North Africa, the American West, and Mexico, these essays shed new light on the complex processes of boundary construction, maintenance, and crossing, as well as on the importance of economic, political, social, ethnic, and religious interactions in the borderlands. <Trade Review"John W. I. Lee and Michael North have given us an interesting and utilitarian new collection of essays with their recent volume, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America. . . . The book certainly can be profitably read by anyone interested in the genesis of frontiers in historical space, and how they still resonate with us today."—Eric Tagliacozzo, European History Quarterly“This work ambitiously and successfully globalizes the study of borderlands. The articles interact with each other, bridge disciplines, and provide new conceptual contributions to the field.”—Jason Lavery, professor of early modern European history at Oklahoma State University and author of The History of FinlandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction John W. I. Lee and Michael North 1. The Usefulness of Borderlands Concepts in Ancient History: The Case of Origen as Monster Elizabeth DePalma Digeser 2. Structures of Power in Late Antique Borderlands: Arabs, Romans, and Berbers Greg Fisher and Alexander Drost 3. The Transborder Economy of Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in the Southern Baltic Sea Region Manja Olschowski 4. Visionaries, Violence, and the Legacy of Trauma on the Maine Frontier during King Philip’s War, 1675–1677 Ann Marie Plane 5. Swedish Pomerania in the Eighteenth Century: The Development of Frihet in a Borderland of the Baltic Sea Region Stefan Herfurth 6. The Duchy of Courland from 1650 to 1737: Transformation of a Religious Borderland in the Baltic Sea Region Kord-Henning Uber 7. Native Borderlands: Colonialism and the Development of Native Power Clint Smith 8. Beyond Red-Light Districts: Regional and Transnational Migration in the Mexican-U.S. Borderlands, 1870–1912 Verónica Castillo-Muñoz 9. Medicalizing the Borders of an Expanding State: Physicians, Sanitary Reports, and the Frontiers of Mexican Progress, 1930–1950 Gabriela Soto Laveaga 10. Theorizing the Social Functioning of Political Borders through Studies of Cross-Border Petty Trade Olga Sasunkevich 11. Future Directions in Borderlands Studies Alexander Drost and Michael North Contributors Index
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press The Cult of the Modern
Book Synopsis The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic.Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. The Cult of the Modern argues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather than a creation of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. This analysis contests the predominant Parisian and metropolitan contexts that have traditionally framed French modernity studies, noting the important role that colonial Algeria and the administration of Muslim subjects played in shaping understandings of modern identity and governance among nineteenth-century politicians and intellectuals. In synthesizing the narratives of continental France and colonialTrade Review"This book will be read with interest by students and scholars of nineteenth-century French culture and politics, especially for the sharp portraits of the individual figures on whom it most focuses. It will be especially valuable for its discussion of the Second Empire's politics of education and religion, and as a contribution to ongoing debates about modernity as both an emerging condition and the idiom in which that condition was evoked, apprehended, and encoded."—James McDougall, H-France"This meticulously researched and intellectually stimulating study focuses primarily on continental France. . . . The author makes excellent use of historical source materials . . . and has interspersed his study with quotes from key political players, thinkers, philosophers, journalists and administrators, but also writers, and jurists, thus broadening the scope of his project to encompass cultural debates that shaped modernity beyond French domestic politics. This book would be of interest to historians, anthropologists, social scientists, and scholars of French and Francophone studies."—Christa C. Jones, French Review“A provocative—and convincing—account of how the conception of modernity became a vital means to political action and legitimacy in nineteenth-century France.”—Benjamin Franklin Martin, Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of France in 1938 “A serious and ambitious work that will inspire a great deal of debate, which I imagine will last some time. The author is a talented thinker.”—William Gallois, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history at the University of Exeter and author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian ColonyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cult of the Modern in the Nineteenth Century 1. Imagining the Modern Community 2. State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist Modernity 3. Civilizing and Nationalizing 4. The Crucible of Modern Society 5. Old Ends and New Means 6. Republican Government and Political Modernization 7. Toward the Trans-Mediterranean Republic Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Making Space
Book SynopsisMelissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.Trade Review“Making Space is a nuanced, deeply researched, and highly original account of how French modernization projects, migration policy, and local politics interacted in the era of decolonization. Melissa Byrnes carefully compares four distinct suburban municipalities to demonstrate the connections between urban renewal and the treatment of North African migrants, powerfully exposing the imperialist and racist blind spots of a supposedly colorblind French Republic, while at the same time demonstrating that local politics of social solidarity matter.”—Mary D. Lewis, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University“In this well-crafted book Melissa Byrnes marshals an array of archival materials to examine four suburban communities near Paris and Lyon during long decolonization—in the final decades of French colonial rule and the decades following the collapse of the empire. In so doing she reveals white local officials’ complex and evolving efforts to make and deny space for citizens of North African descent. Moreover, Byrnes shows us that there are alternative French identities and eviscerates mythologies that France has a unified, universal, singular, white national identity.”—Amelia H. Lyons, author of The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian Families and the French Welfare State during Decolonization“Byrnes’s meticulously researched and thoughtfully written text addresses pertinent questions of migration through a focus on the local. How was migrant ‘integration’ experienced at a local level, and how did white French actors manage it? Byrnes demonstrates how migration is not just a question of nation-state policies and practices but rather a deeply local and microlevel phenomenon. By focusing on North African migrants to France she deftly contributes to unpacking how racism and Republicanism structures what it actually can mean to be French.”—Jean Beaman, author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in FranceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations and French Terms Acknowledgements Introduction: A View from the Field Chapter 1. The Mission to Modernize Chapter 2. Politics Chapter 3. In Defense of Empire Chapter 4. Anti-Imperialism Chapter 5. Profit Chapter 6. Solidarity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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MK - Stanford University Press The Rulers of German Africa 18841914
Book SynopsisExamines Germany's military and administrative personnel in the colonies of German East Africa, South-West Africa, Cameroun, and Togo: their performance on the scene, their educational and class background, their ideology, their continuing ties with the homeland, and their subsequent careers.
£56.70
Stanford University Press A Mission to Civilize
Book SynopsisThis text addresses a central question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: how did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a civilizing ideology with distinct racist overtones?Trade Review"Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa, and the Africans themselves. This is scholarship that will eventually provoke a significant change in the way modern French history is conceived, researched, and written." -Julia Clancy-Smith,University of ArizonaTable of ContentsA note on orthography and translation; Introduction; 1. The setting: the idea of the civilizing mission in 1895 and the creation of the government general; 2. Public works and public health: civilization, technology, and science (1902-1914); 3. Forging the republican Sujet: schools, courts, and the attack on slavery (1902-1908); 4. 'En faire des hommes': William Ponty and the pursuit of moral progress (1908-1914); 5. Revolt and reaction: World War I and its consequences (1914-1930); 6. 'Democracy' reinvented: civilization through association (1914-1930); 7. Civilization through coercion: human Mise en Valeur in the 1920s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£26.99
Stanford University Press A Distant Front in the Cold War
Book SynopsisA Distant Front in the Cold War reveals West Africa as a significant site of Cold War conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although the region avoided the extreme tensions of the standoff in Eastern Europe or in the Cuban missile crisis, it nevertheless offers a vivid example of political, economic, and propagandistic rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR.For Africa, this was a critical period characterized by decolonization and the formation of African countries'' first foreign policies. The United States and the Soviet Union both hoped to win the sympathies of the newly established states, and Sergey Mazov''s book is the first account of that competition, which the Soviet Union lost, largely through ignorance of the region. Mazov presents evidence from previously inaccessible or unknown documents in Russian and U.S. archives, as well as an international sampling of recent scholarly works. The rich historical account pays particular attention to the repeTrade Review"This book addresses a subject on which almost nothing is available on the Russian side, and so it covers a very important 'blank spot of history'." -- Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya * George Washington University *"For the first time, this book uncovers flaws in Soviet policy toward Africa, inherent weaknesses relating to the lack of resources and imagination, bureaucratic impediments and ignorance, which led eventually to failure to compete with the United States for the 'hearts and minds' of Africans." -- Ilya Gaiduk, Institute of World History * Russian Academy of Sciences *
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Stanford University Press A City Consumed
Book SynopsisThis book offers a reinterpretation of an important popular uprising in Cairo in 1952 by looking at the patterns of commerce and urban development over the previous four decades.Trade Review"This pathbreaking study, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, explores the ways in which twentieth-century Egyptians' consumption practices helped shape their identities and their politics. Its treatment of consumption as a spatial practice opens new intellectual vistas, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Egypt or in the politics of consumption and urban space." -- Zachary Lockman * New York University *"A City Consumed is an illuminating study of urban commerce and consumer politics in Cairo during the first half of the 20th century . . . A City Consumed skillfully combines economic and business history with questions about national subject formation and anti-colonial discourse . . . Through the innovative use of diverse sources—memoirs, magazines, films, advertisements and cartoons, and archival records—she vividly reconstructs the history of urban commerce and consumer politics. A City Consumed is a valuable addition to the historical literature on 20th-century Egypt that no student or scholar of anti-colonial nationalism, urban history, or consumption can afford to ignore." -- Ahmad Shokr * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Sixty years before Egypt's Tahrir Square exploded in protest against Hosni Mubarak, Cairo burst into revolution with the great fire of 1952. This book gives a vivid new explanation for how ordinary Egyptians turned shopping and commerce into politics. More broadly, its story opens a fresh perspective on the economic and cultural changes that so profoundly reshaped the Middle East in the mid-20th century." -- Elizabeth F. Thompson * University of Virginia *"Nancy Reynolds wrote an ultimate account on how new consumer culture in Egypt was intertwined with emerging Egyptian nationalsm and narrated itself against the background of gradual decolonization from Britain.This meticulously researched book builds up a story of commerce and consumption in Egypt from the late nineteenth century and into the middle of the twentieth century. . .A City Consumed is an important contribution to business historians and graduate student readership." -- Relli Schecter * Entreprise and Society *"A City Consumed is a valuable addition to the scholarship on twentieth-century Egypt, and consumption, urban, and colonialism studies more broadly . . . Analytically sophisticated and a true pleasure to read, A City Consumed offers a masterful account of Egyptian society's everyday struggle with colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century." -- Sarah El-Kazaz * Arab Studies Journal *
£48.60
Stanford University Press Tell This in My Memory
Book SynopsisTaking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern.Trade Review"Looking at slavery in modern Egypt from the perspective of both elite slave-owning families and slaves themselves, Tell This in My Memory offers a richly textured picture of how slavery was lived in one corner of the world. A marvelous book." * Martin Klein University of Toronto *"Troutt Powell's skills in story telling combine with her careful analyses to create persuasive portrayals of the nature of slavery in particular times and places . . . [S]he has done more than present a new perspective on the history of slavery. Troutt Powell adds a new dimension to understanding transcultural relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." -- John O. Voll * Georgetown University *"In her evocative and well-crafted monograph, Eve M. Troutt Powell recreates the geographic, spiritual, and personal journeys of enslaved peoples . . . Her book makes a significant contribution to the study of slavery in the Middle East and the Sudan as it does to the global study of forced migrations and enslavement . . . Perhaps the strongest aspect of the book is its accessibility. It is highly readable and assignable to undergraduate students in a wide range of history classes. The author presents her arguments without much jargon and reads her memoirs with great sensitivity to historical context, literary genre, and audience." -- Dina Rizk Khoury * American Historical Review *"Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire is a study of slavery, liberation, and remembrance between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Eve M. Troutt Powell examines the mechanisms of enslavement and the experiences of emancipation through the lives and narratives of captives and their descendants, slave owners, and European missionaries . . . [B]y integrating the histories of the Atlantic and Europe with African, Egyptian, Circassian, and Ottoman history, Troutt Powell opens the door to a global approach to the history of slavery in the region. Her work encompasses sub-Saharan, Middle Eastern and North African, European, and Atlantic studies because the story of slavery cannot be properly told within the geographical limits imposed by academic fields of specialization." -- Soha El Achi * Arab Studies Journal *"This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales, Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece." -- Beth Baron * CUNY Graduate Center, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics *"A beautifully written account of the experience of Sudanese enslavement in the Central Islamic Lands in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing upon multiple languages and variegated sources, Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing multiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant. This is an extraordinary contribution to the intertwined studies of slavery, the Muslim world, and Africa's complex diaspora." -- Michael Gomez * New York University *"[S]cholars dealing with the legacy of slavery in the Islamic world will find this book a much-needed and welcome addition to this genre . . . Overall, the book masterfully unpacks unarticulated yet historical memories of previous generations of southern Sudanese and Darfuris who had been enslaved in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean." -- Ismael M. Montana * The Historian *"She looks at not only the lives of slaves but also the lives of others whom were influenced by slaves . . . By taking into consideration of all these accounts, it seems Powell has examined the 'slavery' issue not only as a historical fact but also as a living memory of the later generations of people whom owned slaves or were owned as slaves." -- Hatice Uğur * Osmanli Araştirmalari: The Journal of Ottoman Studies *"Powell performs an excellent service with this book by carefully examining the narratives she has chosen and showing us the choices her subjects made, the lives they were forced to lead, and the ways in which they came to accept their fate." -- Terence Walz * Middle East Journal *"Restoring the voices of long-silenced people, Troutt Powell's book leads the way in identifying and exploring some of the most important narratives of enslaved people-black and white, male and female-as they navigated the harsh conditions of slavery and claimed their freedom and dignity. Troutt Powell weaves a compelling set of stories into a unified interpretation and a grand narrative. This is an impressive work." -- Chouki El Hamel * Arizona State University *
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Stanford University Press Juridical Humanity
Book SynopsisThis book explores Egypt's legal history under British rule, revealing the centrality of the "human" to Egyptian legal and colonial history.Trade Review"Samera Esmeir's Juridical Humanity is a significant addition to the expanding literature on law, violence and colonialism . . . Her provocative and insightful book opens important questions of humanity/inhumanity."—Renisa Mawani, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"[Juridical Humanity] is an outstanding book."—Nimer Sultany, Transnational Legal Theory"Through meticulous archival research on British colonial law as promulgated and practiced, Esmeir excavates how the colonial administration rendered the human the telos of modern positive law. Methodologically, therefore, the work accomplishes an impressive synthesis between historical investigation and ingenious interpretations of political and social theory."—Sinja Graf, Theory & Event"Juridical Humanity will be of great interest not only to students of Egyptian history, who will recognize its relevance immediately, but to scholars of law, anthropology, political theory, and anyone interested in excavating the complex modern history of humanity as a governing category. As Esmeir notes, it creates an opening for new inquiries into how the Egyptian subjects of juridical humanity lived in relation to this legal order, into alternative configurations of humanity, and into the link between the human, the law, and violence."—Ilana Feldman, Arab Studies Journal"Samera Esmeir delivers an extremely compelling and smart interweaving of time, legality, and postcolonialism. Juridical Humanity is an innovative tool for those working in legal and postcolonial theory and represents a major leap forward in postcolonial thinking."—Keally McBride, University of San Francisco"This brilliant new study provides a broad and persuasive genealogy of juridical humanity in colonial Egypt. In a work of immensely creative theorization and superb historical scholarship, Esmeir radically rethinks the relationship between modern law, the human, and violence, challenging the ascendancy of narratives in which the human is always chained to the law. This book will be essential reading for historians, and scholars in Colonial/Postcolonial Studies and Political and Legal theory alike."—Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis"Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History is an impressive work of scholarship—original, soundly argued, and thought provoking. Although existing histories of law distinguish between colonial and pre-colonial periods, Esmeir argues persuasively against the distinction, insisting that essential aspects of the latter can only be understood by examining how the former construed and dealt with it. This book helps the reader to formulate questions about the history of law and society in the Middle East that have not been raised in this way before. It deserves to be widely read by everyone interested in the Middle East."—Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
£999.99
Stanford University Press Memories of Absence
Book SynopsisMemories of Absence explores the contemporary perceptions of Moroccan Jews in the minds of Moroccan Muslims.Trade Review"Memories of Absence makes a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on Middle Eastern and North African Jewries. Moreover, Boum writes his setting so vividly that the reader can picture herself sitting at the cafe in Akka fending off flies and listening to the Hajj Muhammad's tales along with him. Further, he skillfully employs his arguments while never letting it subsume them." -- Elizabeth Berk * Social Anthropology *"Groundbreaking . . . The book navigates truthfully and openly between the deception of nostalgia and the duty to confront reality, with complicated issues of identity, anti-Semitism, and a memory at play . . . At times, I felt like I was reading a novel; it seemed the only way to tell this story, counter to historical/archival accounts, which never serve biological memory, but rather disturb it." -- Sami Shalom Chetrit * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Aomar Boum's Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco contributes admirably to the growing scholarship on the enduring significance of Jewish historical presence in North Africa . . . The circumscribed ethnographic scope of the book provides a window onto a broadly conceived notion of memory and wide-angled attention to its carriers . . . Scholars interested in the current state of affairs in the ethnography and historiography of Jewish North Africa will find many of the major themes addressed in this book." -- Oren Kosansky * Review of Middle East Studies *"By focusing on memories and views of regular Moroccan Muslim men, whether they knew Jews or not, this book is an important contribution to the study of Jewish-Muslim relations from a Muslim point of view." -- Rachel Simon * Princeton University *"Based on fieldwork conducted in southern Morocco buttressed by extensive archival research that includes previously unknown documents, this work makes important contributions to several fields, including Moroccan history, legal anthropology, and Jewish studies. Scholars in the interdisciplinary collective memory field will find this an essential text, and those interrogating the development of racism and anti-Semitism will find Boum's conclusions sobering . . . In sum, this is a beautifully written book that contributes to multiple scholarly fields. It presents a society whose collective memory is fractured by generational divides. The absence of Jews in contemporary Morocco has led to a disconnect between the generations, the oldest of whom remember friends and neighbors and create museums in their memory, the youngest of whom have reduced Jews to caricatures stripped of any long-standing tie to Morocco. For these young Moroccans, the idea that Jews could be indigenous Moroccans is now an alien concept. Boum underscores the role of everyday interaction in preventing the propagation of long-standing animosity." -- Andrea Smith * H-SAE *"Nothing short of extraordinary, Memories of Absence is theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and infinitely sensitive to its subjects. A necessary and wonderful work for all invested in Muslim-Jewish relations, the cultures of North Africa, and the shaping of trans-generational memory in the contemporary world." -- Sarah Abrevaya Stein, University of California * Los Angeles *"Aomar Boum says something truly new about the Moroccan Jewish past. He does not shy away from asking—and answering—hard questions about what local, regional, and national identities actually consist of, who they encompass and why, their internal contradictions, and their changing meanings. This is a highly original and important contribution." -- Emily Gottreich, University of California * Berkeley *"In Memories of Absence, Aomar Boum empathetically traces the intimate—if often fraught—relations between Muslims and Jews across the southern oases of Morocco from the eighteenth century to the mass departure for Israel in the early 1960s. Boum assembles a unique archive of documents from threatened personal collections of letters and manuscripts to portray a lost social world of legal syncretism and community cohabitation. Masterfully weaving together fields of sociolinguistics, semiotics, ethnohistory, and anthropology into an eminently readable narrative, Boum reveals the various afterlives of Moroccan Jewish culture in ongoing museum projects, national festivals, and state-level politics. Memories of Absence thus makes a substantial contribution to study of the social life of memory." -- Paul Silverstein * Reed College *"Aomar Boum's impressive work not only fills a gap in the historical understanding of Jews in Morocco, but also challenges the traditional dominant perception of Jews; it restores their crucial historical role in building the Moroccan nation. This book helps transform the current ideas on Moroccan Jews and reorganizes existing knowledge in the study of the Jewish diaspora." -- Chouki El Hamel * American Historical Review *
£77.35
Stanford University Press The Orphan Scandal
Book SynopsisFollowing the story of the Port Said orphan scandal, this book uncovers hidden links between Protestant evangelicals and the growth of Islamist groups in Egypt.Trade Review"A brilliant book essential for today's audiences. Beth Baron has identified a powerful incident that galvanized the Muslim Brotherhood and fundamentally altered the place of Western missionaries and officials in Egypt." -- Robert L. Tignor * Princeton University *"Transnational history at its best, The Orphan Scandal exemplifies the powerful stories that emerge as missionary sources are skillfully woven together with host culture sources. A compelling history of the relationship between missionaries and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in twentieth-century Egypt." -- Kathryn Kish Sklar * SUNY Binghamton *"Beth Baron tells a dramatic story about Western missionary fantasies to convert the Middle East and about a variety of Muslim Egyptian responses to these missionary fantasies. She charts the major unintended consequence of this missionary project, namely the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the rise of the Muslim welfare state in Egypt. Beautifully narrated, and drawing on both Arabic and English-language sources, Baron humanizes all sides of the missionary encounter in Egypt. This is an important book." -- Ussama Makdisi * Rice University *"Beth Baron has written a remarkable book . . . Engaging with a broad array of multilingual sources, Baron crafts a truly transnational narrative about the missionary encounter in semi-colonial Egypt." -- Barbara Reeves-Ellington * Social Sciences and Missions *"[T]he discussion is scholarly and tries to give voice to all parties, specific examples and narrative help humanize the issues, thus making them approachable both intellectually and emotionally. Impressively researched and very readable." -- Muhammed Hassanali * Booklist *"Baron deftly examines the convoluted legal and political maneuvers during this incident, as well as the varied methods by which Turkiyya, her missionary opponents, and other Egyptians raised and constructed ideas of gender . . . [T]his is a great read . . . Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -- J. M. Rich * CHOICE *
£81.90
Stanford University Press The Orphan Scandal
Book SynopsisFollowing the story of the Port Said orphan scandal, this book uncovers hidden links between Protestant evangelicals and the growth of Islamist groups in Egypt.Trade Review"A brilliant book essential for today's audiences. Beth Baron has identified a powerful incident that galvanized the Muslim Brotherhood and fundamentally altered the place of Western missionaries and officials in Egypt." -- Robert L. Tignor * Princeton University *"Transnational history at its best, The Orphan Scandal exemplifies the powerful stories that emerge as missionary sources are skillfully woven together with host culture sources. A compelling history of the relationship between missionaries and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in twentieth-century Egypt." -- Kathryn Kish Sklar * SUNY Binghamton *"Beth Baron tells a dramatic story about Western missionary fantasies to convert the Middle East and about a variety of Muslim Egyptian responses to these missionary fantasies. She charts the major unintended consequence of this missionary project, namely the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the rise of the Muslim welfare state in Egypt. Beautifully narrated, and drawing on both Arabic and English-language sources, Baron humanizes all sides of the missionary encounter in Egypt. This is an important book." -- Ussama Makdisi * Rice University *"Beth Baron has written a remarkable book . . . Engaging with a broad array of multilingual sources, Baron crafts a truly transnational narrative about the missionary encounter in semi-colonial Egypt." -- Barbara Reeves-Ellington * Social Sciences and Missions *"[T]he discussion is scholarly and tries to give voice to all parties, specific examples and narrative help humanize the issues, thus making them approachable both intellectually and emotionally. Impressively researched and very readable." -- Muhammed Hassanali * Booklist *"Baron deftly examines the convoluted legal and political maneuvers during this incident, as well as the varied methods by which Turkiyya, her missionary opponents, and other Egyptians raised and constructed ideas of gender . . . [T]his is a great read . . . Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -- J. M. Rich * CHOICE *
£19.79
Stanford University Press Memories of Absence How Muslims Remember Jews in
Book SynopsisMemories of Absence explores the contemporary perceptions of Moroccan Jews in the minds of Moroccan Muslims.Trade Review"Memories of Absence makes a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on Middle Eastern and North African Jewries. Moreover, Boum writes his setting so vividly that the reader can picture herself sitting at the cafe in Akka fending off flies and listening to the Hajj Muhammad's tales along with him. Further, he skillfully employs his arguments while never letting it subsume them." -- Elizabeth Berk * Social Anthropology *"Groundbreaking . . . The book navigates truthfully and openly between the deception of nostalgia and the duty to confront reality, with complicated issues of identity, anti-Semitism, and a memory at play . . . At times, I felt like I was reading a novel; it seemed the only way to tell this story, counter to historical/archival accounts, which never serve biological memory, but rather disturb it." -- Sami Shalom Chetrit * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Aomar Boum's Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco contributes admirably to the growing scholarship on the enduring significance of Jewish historical presence in North Africa . . . The circumscribed ethnographic scope of the book provides a window onto a broadly conceived notion of memory and wide-angled attention to its carriers . . . Scholars interested in the current state of affairs in the ethnography and historiography of Jewish North Africa will find many of the major themes addressed in this book." -- Oren Kosansky * Review of Middle East Studies *"By focusing on memories and views of regular Moroccan Muslim men, whether they knew Jews or not, this book is an important contribution to the study of Jewish-Muslim relations from a Muslim point of view." -- Rachel Simon * Princeton University *"Based on fieldwork conducted in southern Morocco buttressed by extensive archival research that includes previously unknown documents, this work makes important contributions to several fields, including Moroccan history, legal anthropology, and Jewish studies. Scholars in the interdisciplinary collective memory field will find this an essential text, and those interrogating the development of racism and anti-Semitism will find Boum's conclusions sobering . . . In sum, this is a beautifully written book that contributes to multiple scholarly fields. It presents a society whose collective memory is fractured by generational divides. The absence of Jews in contemporary Morocco has led to a disconnect between the generations, the oldest of whom remember friends and neighbors and create museums in their memory, the youngest of whom have reduced Jews to caricatures stripped of any long-standing tie to Morocco. For these young Moroccans, the idea that Jews could be indigenous Moroccans is now an alien concept. Boum underscores the role of everyday interaction in preventing the propagation of long-standing animosity." -- Andrea Smith * H-SAE *"Nothing short of extraordinary, Memories of Absence is theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and infinitely sensitive to its subjects. A necessary and wonderful work for all invested in Muslim-Jewish relations, the cultures of North Africa, and the shaping of trans-generational memory in the contemporary world." -- Sarah Abrevaya Stein, University of California * Los Angeles *"Aomar Boum says something truly new about the Moroccan Jewish past. He does not shy away from asking—and answering—hard questions about what local, regional, and national identities actually consist of, who they encompass and why, their internal contradictions, and their changing meanings. This is a highly original and important contribution." -- Emily Gottreich, University of California * Berkeley *"In Memories of Absence, Aomar Boum empathetically traces the intimate—if often fraught—relations between Muslims and Jews across the southern oases of Morocco from the eighteenth century to the mass departure for Israel in the early 1960s. Boum assembles a unique archive of documents from threatened personal collections of letters and manuscripts to portray a lost social world of legal syncretism and community cohabitation. Masterfully weaving together fields of sociolinguistics, semiotics, ethnohistory, and anthropology into an eminently readable narrative, Boum reveals the various afterlives of Moroccan Jewish culture in ongoing museum projects, national festivals, and state-level politics. Memories of Absence thus makes a substantial contribution to study of the social life of memory." -- Paul Silverstein * Reed College *"Aomar Boum's impressive work not only fills a gap in the historical understanding of Jews in Morocco, but also challenges the traditional dominant perception of Jews; it restores their crucial historical role in building the Moroccan nation. This book helps transform the current ideas on Moroccan Jews and reorganizes existing knowledge in the study of the Jewish diaspora." -- Chouki El Hamel * American Historical Review *
£20.89
Stanford University Press Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Book SynopsisThe massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community''s failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new theories of civil conflict and terrorism after the Cold War. Such lessons of Algeria now contribute to a diverse array of international efforts to manage conflictfrom development and counterterrorism to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and transitional justice. With this book, Jacob Mundy raises a critical lens to these lessons and practices and sheds light on an increasingly antipolitical scientific vision of armed conflict. Traditional questions of power and history that once guided conflict management have been displaced by neoliberal assumptions and methodological formalism. In questioning the presumed lessons of 1990s Algeria, Mundy shows that the problem is not simply that these understandingsthese imaginative geographiTrade Review"Jacob Mundy's Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence is a scathing critique of the internal pathologies of neoliberal conflict management. With great finesse, Mundy dissects the often-contradictory scaffolding scholars and policymakers built to frame, explain, and define the Algerian Civil War. A must-read for scholars of conflict studies, this book fills a major void in scholarship on post-independence Algeria, and will surely be a valuable resource to political scientists and historians working on the Middle East and North Africa, post Arab Spring."—Robert P. Parks, Founding Director, Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie"Jacob Mundy's uncompromising, pugnacious book takes all the complexities of the Algerian conflict in the 1990s and makes from them an excoriating critique of prevailing assumptions in studies of 'new wars,' civil wars and counterinsurgency. As meticulously detailed as it is sweeping in judgment, this should be essential reading as an antidote to the anti-political, ahistorical tendencies of 'conflict science.'"—James McDougall, University of Oxford"Jacob Mundy has written a disturbing book in every sense of the word. His work unsettles the conflict paradigms of the post-Cold War world and will influence our study of civil war, terrorism, and mass atrocities for a long time to come."—David Campbell, University of Queensland, author of National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia"Mundy's Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence is surely one of the smartest books written on the Algerian Dark Decade (1992–1999), even though it is,strictly speaking, not a book about Algeria. The author's goal is indeed to useAlgeria as case study to critique mainstream 'conflict sciences' and management as these were refashioned after the Cold War. He implacably unveils the weaknesses of their antipolitical frameworks."—Thomas Serres, European University Institute, from the Journal of North African Studies "It is impossible in such a short review to do full justice to the many topics Mundy examines in this provocative and often damning account. From the discussion of counterterrorism, to the Responsibility to protect (R2p) that grew out of the United Nations intervention in Serbia, to the question of 'humanitarianization,' and truth and reconciliation commissions, Mundy uses the Algerian case to problematize the nature or construction of the violence itself, as well as the Western response (or lack thereof) to it."—Laurie A. Brand, Middle East Journal" ... Imaginative Geographies of Violence provides a wealth of historical information about the Algerian conflict and its various imaginaries."—Paul A. Silverstein, International Journal of Middle East Studies"Imaginative Geographies offers topical and methodological guidance to those currently engaged in the academic introspection invited and made necessary by the onset and development of the Arab Spring [This] book says much of interest and importance to conflict and security, and area studies, and deserves to be widely read."—J.N.C. Hill, Middle Eastern Studies"Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence is a well-argued study about the weaknesses of contemporary efforts to manage violence, explaining that it reveals the "antipolitics" in the framing of understanding and managing conflict in Algeria during the 1990s...The book nicely problematizes foreign intervention and conflict management by looking at Algerian violence in the 1990s."––Ryan Shaffer, Terrorism & Political ViolenceTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics chapter abstractAt the end of the Cold War, a new kind of war emerged. It was to be found not on the battlefields of the new world order; rather, it emerged in the imaginations of those who sought to understand, and so manage, warfare in the new world order. At the same time, an armed conflict also emerged in Algeria. Slowly at first, this war soon became one of the bloodiest and most opaque of the 1990s. Yet the complexity and indeterminacies of Algeria's violence did not inhibit the new sciences and managerial strategies of conflict from appropriating lessons from Algeria. An examination of these appropriations of Algeria's violence reveals a tendency towards antipolitical accounts of conflict after the Cold War, as well as antipolitical managerial strategies aimed to prevent, interrupt, and otherwise control mass armed violence. 1Civil War: A Name for a War Without a Name chapter abstractThe Syrian civil war has proven difficult to understand and resolve. This is not new. With the end of the Cold War, the international community became aware that wars inside of states were the primary security challenge of the 1990s. What followed was an explosion in social science research on the causes and consequences of civil wars. At the heart of this research was the concept of civil war itself, and the way in which it deinternationalized a problem that had been treated throughout the Cold War as the opposite, as inherently geopolitical phenomena. This deinternationalization was thus a depoliticization. Understandings of Algeria's violence in the 1990s as a civil war ran into conceptual difficulties. These owed as much to the contested nature of the killing in Algeria as to the conceptual schema through which mass violence was scientifically tamed into an intelligible and manageable object: a civil war. 2Greed and Grievance: Political and Economic Agendas in Civil War—Theirs and Ours chapter abstractAs the conflict sciences increasingly began to treat civil wars as entirely endogenous phenomena, so too have conflict prevention strategies begun to treat civil wars in ways that are indifferent to the actual politics and history of conflicts. This most clearly manifests in efforts to treat civil wars as problems of development rather than problems of global politics. Rebels, rather than states, were seen as the sole cause of civil wars. Their motives were treated as criminal rather than political. This antipolitical vision of civil wars manifests in efforts to understand their generic causal pathways as much as the effort to re-describe the grassroots politics of killing as "logics of violence." Attempts to conform the various and contested etiologies of Algeria's violence to these understandings had as much difficultly accounting for the killing as political and economic initiatives had in stopping the violence. 3Identity, Religion, and Terrorism: The Islamization of Violence chapter abstractTerrorism eclipsed all other international security concerns in the wake of 9/11. Yet concerns about the relationship between core and immalleable identities had been a central debate in the conflict sciences at the end of the Cold War. It was suggested that the new terrains of conflict would be based on much more intractable notions of identity than negotiated politics. In the 1990s, Algeria was often viewed as a frontline state in the clash between secular and religious identities, between Islamic fundamentalism and modernity. Such accounts of Algeria's violence are woefully deficient. Algeria's violence became Islamic for reasons that have little to do with the identities and motives of the participants in the killing. The Islamization of Algeria should be understood in terms of the powers of violence to dictate the terms of its representation in the context of a post-Orientalist geopolitical order. 4Counterterrorism: Out of Sedan Comes Austerlitz chapter abstractCounterterrorism has radically revised understandings of armed conflict and the means to manage it through prevention, interruption, and postconflict peacebuilding. Terrorism itself has been, and continues to be, treated as an apolitical phenomenon. Contributing to this antipolitical understanding of Islamic terrorism, Algeria's violence in the 1990s, particularly the large-scale massacres of 1997 and 1998, have contributed to the understandings of Islamist violence and terrorism as irrational, and thus irredeemable. Though Islamic insurgents were blamed for these massacres, their true agents—and the motives behind them—were intensely debated at the time. That debate remains fundamentally unresolved today, as the Algerian government's national reconciliation policies since 1999 have been premised on refusing to open any investigations into the past. What ended the international debate about the nature of the Algerian massacres were the events of 9/11, which occasioned a radically depoliticized revision of what had happened in 1990s Algeria. 5Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: United by Our Absence of Knowledge of What to Do chapter abstractThe use of military force by NATO to protect civilians in Libya's 2011 civil war was considered a success at the time. That success was also attributed to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) project. The R2P project developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s to establish a framework that would allow for the legitimate use of armed forces for humanitarian purposes. The R2P project also established a framework of understanding of what kinds of conflicts warranted intervention—a framework built upon a history of mass atrocities and international interventions. Entirely absent from this history are Algeria's massacres of 1997 and 1998, as well as the intense international debate about how to stop the killing there. This absence allows the R2P project to claim to address the most difficult cases in international conflict management when, in fact, R2P evades much more difficult challenges. 6Truth, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice: History Will Judge chapter abstractWith the global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War, postconflict management has become a central task for international peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Central to such peacebuilding efforts are programs aimed at national reconciliation and transitional justice. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has become the standard by which countries are now judged. Indeed, Algeria has been criticized for refusing to create an official state history of the conflict or for allowing other Algerians to create it themselves. This denial of history, however, has to be considered in relation to the excess of history that was overdetermining Algeria's violence in the 1990s. These contradictory understandings of history as both causal and curative suggest that the problem is not simply Algeria's relation to its history but the failure of history to learn from Algeria. Conclusion: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Crisis chapter abstractDespite the failures of understanding and management documented in this study, the world is reportedly experiencing the most peaceful period in human existence. What might be understood as a challenge to this study's central thesis (i.e., conflict science and management are working) is in fact a paradox whose consequences, if not seriously engaged, could lead to a global crisis of unimagined proportions. Indeed, there is a history here. It is not just that social sciences utterly failed to predict the very crises they should have seen. It is that those sciences also failed to grasp their imbrication in the forces that led to the crisis. In the face of a global climate challenge, whose effects will undoubtedly manifest in terms of mass armed violence, there is ever more need for the conflict sciences to extirpate themselves from the geopolitical they serve but cannot see.
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John Wiley & Sons Volunteers on the Veld Britains CitizenSoldiers
Book SynopsisFocuses on the connection between Britain's auxiliary forces - volunteers, militia, and yeomanry - and its imperial mission during the late Victorian era, looking especially at why the British war effort came to depend on their performance.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Volunteers on the Veld Britains CitizenSoldiers
Book SynopsisWhen the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain was confident that victory would come quickly. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. To achieve final victory, the British government was forced to depend on a large volunteer force. This book focuses on Britain's “citizen army”.
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Louisiana State University Press New Orleans Louisiana and SaintLouis Senegal
Book SynopsisExplores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were founded during the early French imperial expansion of the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of their own continents, the Atlantic world as a whole, and the African diaspora.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Beyond Slavery Explorations of Race Labor and
Book SynopsisThis study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Unraveling Somalia
Book Synopsis"Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs."-ChoiceTrade Review"Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PT. I. INTRODUCTION 1. Somalia from the Margins: An Alternative Approach 2. Fieldwork, Surprises, and Historical Anthropology PT. II. THE HISTORICAL CREATION OF THE GOSHA 3. Slavery and the Jubba Valley Frontier 4. The Settlement of the Upper Gosha, 1895-1988 PT. III. THE GOSHA SPACE IN SOMALI SOCIETY 5. Hard Hair: Somali Constructions of Gosha Inferiority 6. Between Domination and Collusion: The Ambiguity of Gosha Life 7. Negotiating Hegemony and Producing Culture PT. IV. VIOLENCE AND THE STATE 8. The Political Economy of Subordination 9. Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Battle for Algeria
Book SynopsisIn The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)—would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people''s health and welfare. Johnson focuses on French and Algerian efforts to engage one another off the physical battlefield and highlights the social dimensions of the FLN''s winning strategy, which targeted the local and international arenas. Relying on Algerian sources, which make clear the centrality of health and humanitarianism to the nationalists'' war effort, Johnson shows how the FLN leadership constructed national health care institutions that provided critical care for the population and functioned as a protostate. MoreoverTrade Review"[A] strong, insightful book packed with original and fascinating detail and fresh in its positioning both within the literature on Algeria and the literature on the history of human rights, health care, and humanitarianism. The book succeeds particularly well in bringing to the fore how care for the bodies of Algerians became a site of competition and a means of statebuilding during the war. Scholars from a variety of humanities and social science fields will find its lessons illuminating." * Journal of North African Studies *"With her careful scholarship Johnson focuses on how the Front de libe'ration nationale (FLN) sought international support for its campaign through the rhetoric-though limited practice-of healthcare for Algerians, as well as diplomatic missions to the newly independent nations of the Arab world, Asia, and, specifically, the United Nations . . . Johnson's narrative is absorbing. Her book draws on interviews and archives to enrich the complexity of the existing narrative and is a further contribution to understanding the war from the perspective of winning over world opinion." * French Studies *"Jennifer Johnson's The Battle for Algeria provides a painstakingly researched and richly descriptive analysis of the strategic importance of medicine, human rights, and humantarianism for Algerian nationalists' evolving and expanding political agencies, and the internationalization of their struggle during the war for independence." * Journal of Global South Studies *"Jennifer Johnson's excellent new book augments the internationalization of our understanding of the Algerian war by showing how important health and humanitarianism were to it. With archivally rooted contributions on how Algerian nationalists built a health program and how international humanitarian concern-including the Red Crescent-played an important role in arguments for sovereignty, The Battle for Algeria breaks new ground. Appeals to the need for health care and complaints over the violation of the human body were frequent, Johnson powerfully demonstrates, in the war for public opinion that ultimately shifted the conflict." * Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, author of Christian Human Rights *"The Battle for Algeria is a powerful critique of existing Algerian historiography that successfully integrates Middle East and North African studies into global or international history." * Benjamin Brower, University of Texas at Austin *"The Battle for Algeria demonstrates the ways in which sovereignty had been reconfigured in the postwar era-and how the techniques for achieving it were refashioned. In so doing, Jennifer Johnson reveals a very good deal about the international system as well as Algeria's particular struggle." * Roland Burke, La Trobe University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Note on Sources, Names, and Spellings Introduction Chapter 1. The Long Road to War Chapter 2. Medical Pacification and the Sections Administratives Spécialisées Chapter 3. "See Our Arms, See Our Physicians": The Algerian Health-Services Division Chapter 4. Internationalizing Humanitarianism: The Algerian Red Crescent Chapter 5. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Algeria Chapter 6. Global Diplomacy and the Fight for Self-Determination Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press African Kings and Black Slaves
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with AfricaAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa''s political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler.In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa''s kings required IbTrade Review"At the core of Bennett's book is the argument that the fierce competition between Portugal and Spain over the African Atlantic, which was significantly mediated by the Church, was crucial to the creation of the modern nation-state and of what became modern European nationalism. Early national identities in Europe were forged, to a substantial extent, on the basis of competition over trade and influence in Africa. And this, Bennett says, gets completely lost in Western histories that fast-forward from the conquest of the Canary Islands to Columbus's arrival in the Americas." * New York Review of Books *"Bennett engages a wide historiography and offers new perspectives on early Atlantic legal culture, political and religious authority, pageantry, and slavery. Bennett complicates the narrative that Europeans rendered Africans into property and capital through Roman law and Christian theology . . . .African Kings and Black Slaves is one of the boldest and most successful attempts yet to engage the fields of African studies, history, and critical theory equally." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"African Kings and Black Slaves is an impressive work that fundamentally challenges current understandings of slavery, empire and modernity, and will likely be the cornerstone of a new body of scholarship it invites." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The book is short but packed with Bennett's analyses of the work of previous and current theorists and scholars. His judgments are acute, and . . . [h]e examines a prodigious amount of theory, using those parts of the corpus and the arguments that are pertinent and demolishing those he deems mistaken or misleading . . . The book is a major accomplishment and a testament to Bennett's wide reading. All those working on Atlantic slavery will need to take it into account." * Renaissance Quarterly *"Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves is a prelude to an essential contribution to Anglo-American studies of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. It is a tour de force historiographical essay. The ideological aims underpinning Bennett’s work are rather astute. Bennett offers an incendiary understanding of the 1441 Afro-European contacts against the existing historiography about the Atlantic slave trade." * Black Perspectives *"African Kings and Black Slavesconstitutes an impressive reframing of the origins of African and European sovereignty, absolutism, trade, and the legal and economic underpinnings of slaving and the African diaspora...Bennett’s book is immensely valuable due to his insistence on historicizing fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuryAfrican-Europeanencounters without the totalizing frame of an always already powerful Europe." * H-Altlantic *"An immensely thought-provoking book. In his sophisticated reconsideration of late-medieval European characterizations of sub-Saharan Africans, Herman L. Bennett troubles the traditional account of the rise of the West." * David Wheat, Michigan State University *"Herman L. Bennett's indispensable study alerts us to the political and intellectual consequences of flattening the history of Europe's relations with Africa by overlooking the Iberian experience. He ably shows how recuperating the notion of African sovereignty, abundantly recognized in early exchanges, can fundamentally change our understanding of African polities and African subjects." * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles *"African Kings and Black Slaves centers the histories of peoples of African descent in the grand tale of imperial conquest and power and thereby challenges the dominant narrative that colonial slavery has timelessly been about freedom. Herman Bennett is especially sensitive to the multisited nature of the contests set in motion by colonial encounters." * Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1. Liberalism Chapter 2. Mythologies Chapter 3. Law Chapter 4. Authority Chapter 5. Histories Chapter 6. Trade Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Inventing the Berbers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] masterly reading that is undoubtedly necessary for understanding the history of the medieval and contemporary Maghrib, as well as for its anthropologists and philologists. It involves a lesson in methodology for approaching and reflecting on written sources, but also in maturity, critical thinking, and exposition of ideas. It is an update that provides a profound analysis of the historical term. Inventing the Berbers has become perhaps the most up-todate work that has not invented the Berbers." * Comitatus *"Inventing the Berbers is an essential contribution to the history of the Maghrib, not only in the Middle Ages, but in our own time as well. It will, no doubt, be controversial, for it touches on issues of colonial historiography and ethnic definition that remain politically sensitive, especially in Algeria and Morocco. But Ramzi Rouighi's arguments are firmly grounded in the sources-and are overwhelmingly convincing." * Dominique Valérian, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. MEDIEVAL ORIGINS Chapter 1. Berberization and Its Origins Chapter 2. Making Berbers PART II. GENEOLOGY AND HOMELAND Chapter 3. The Berber People Chapter 4. The Maghrib and the Land of the Berbers PART III. MODERN MEDIEVAL BERBERS Chapter 5. Modern Origins Chapter 6. Beacons, Guides, and Marked Paths Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press The Shaping of Somali Society Reconstructing the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An innovative historical study of a pastoral people that extends our understanding of processes of change among nomadic peoples." * Ivan Karp, Indiana University *
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University Press of Florida Istwa across the Water Haitian History Memory
Book SynopsisGathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its ‘motherlands’ in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep spiritual and cultural traditions.
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University Press of Florida Living Ceramics Storied Ground A History of
Book SynopsisExploring the archaeological study of enslavement and emancipation in the United States, this book discusses significant findings, the attitudes and approaches of past researchers, and the development of the field.
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University of Virginia Press Historian
Book SynopsisIn this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author's native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country - a nation that continues to absorb and inspire him, both despite and because of its tortuous history.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia An Age of Hubris Colonialism Christianity and
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony.Trade Review“Colonialism, Christianity and the Xhosa is an accessibly written and compelling synthesis that makes important contributions to several bodies of scholarship that have preoccupied generations of scholars interested in South African history as well as the intersections of empire and Christian evangelism.” - Fiona Vernal, University of Connecticut, author of The Farmerfield Mission: A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008“Timothy Keegan’s book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamic interactions between the Xhosa chiefdoms and the European colonial and missionary enterprise during the first half of the nineteenth century. It explores more fully the Xhosa side of this complex history--how they encountered, rejected, or inculturated Christianity in the rapidly changing world created by European colonial and capitalist expansion. Minutely researched and written in highly accessible prose, the book is a welcome addition to the historiography of South Africa’s coastal belt and should be read eagerly by specialists and non-specialists alike.” - Jochen S. Arndt, Virginia Military Institute, author of Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa IdentitiesTable of Contents Introduction 1. The Meanings of Conversion 2. The Xhosa and their History 3. Colonial Contacts, Colonial Influences 4. The Missionaries and the Chiefs 5. Translations and Conversations 6. The Pull of the Mission 7. Moralizing Africa 8. Aftermaths and Conclusions
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John Wiley & Sons Rise of Egyptian Communism 19391970
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John Wiley & Sons Making Big Money in 1600
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John Wiley & Sons Jewish Libya
Book SynopsisIn June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Emirate Egyptian Ethiopian Colonial Experiences
Book SynopsisIn October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar into the global system of commerce.
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Syracuse University Press Jewish Libya Memory and Identity in Text and
Book SynopsisIn June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory.
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