Literary studies: general Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Essential Guide to English Studies
Book SynopsisFocusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams.Trade Review"The Essential Guide to English Studies has an ambitious and challenging target - to introduce concisely what it is really like to study contemporary University English. I think it hits that target in ways which will be really helpful for any student thinking about doing an English degree. If you want to get a good grasp of the practical, material and intellectual conditions of reading degree-level English, I recommend reading it before going to University and then returning to it while there." - Chris Hopkins, Professor of English Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK "[a] well-thought out idea, identifying a need for a kind of book which does not currently exist, one which concentrates on introducing the practices of degree-level English. I thought the proposal showed a very good, down-to-earth sense of what a student might need to know. It would provide valuable support for English students... first year HE students would certainly find it useful", Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam (author of u/g textbook - Thinking about Texts) * Blurb from reviewer *"should offer students a clear and orderly account of what skills will be required when undertaking a degree in English, and introduce some key concepts and tools which will be helpful for study. The author has the teaching experience and publishing record to speak authoritatively on these matters." Professor Robert White, University of Western Australia * Blurb from reviewer *Table of ContentsPart I: What, How, Where and Why?: A student's introduction; 1. What is English in Higher Education?; 2. How is HE English different from your studies so far?; 3. Where is English in the Curriculum?: English and other Subjects; 4. Why English Studies?; Part II: Developing Advanced Study Skills; 5. Reading; 6. Research; 7. Writing; 8. Note-taking, lectures, and revision; Part III: Making the grade: Handling Assessment; 9. Seminars/Presentations; 10. Close Textual Analysis; 11. Assignments; 12. Conclusion: Using the Examples of English Language and Creative Writing; Further Reading and Resources; Glossary; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) William Blakes Poetry A Readers Guide
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake is a popular romantic poet, partly because of the relevance of his insights into psychological, political and social issues. This title introduces the readers to Blake's major themes and then moves on to reading his key works. It also includes sections on its context and critical adaptation, and an annotated guide to further reading.Trade Review"Robert's book is an almost ideal introductory guide for undergraduate students first coming to Blake: clearly and concisely written, short and accessible, inexpensive in its paperback issue, and effective in orienting newcomers to Blake's work to pertinent background knowledge as well as different critical approaches to Blake...Any undergraduate reader of this work will walk away from it well-oriented to Blake and Blake studies." -College Literature -- James Rovira"...to be commended for its readability, the lucidity and conclusion of its argument and, above all, for the light that it sheds upon one of the most enigmatic and challenging of our Western poets...Robert's packs his histories with luminaries of the age..." "Robert's study presents one of the most accessible, helpful and enjoyable introductions to Blake available hitherto, inviting and heartening initiates and scholars alike to come to grips with the full complexity of this difficult, but inspiring, poet... A most edifying read." The Glass, Spring 09Table of Contents1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Blake; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Criticism and Truth
Book SynopsisRoland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. This work in the Barthes canon offers a discussion of the language of literary criticism.Trade Review"'A remarkable account' Fredric Jameson 'Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings; analysis, based on linguistics, of the structures of possible meanings; the idea of a science of literature; and the dynamics of reading... a lively and accessible statement of an important modern critical position that is worth reading.' Library Journal"Table of ContentsForeword; Preface to English-language edition; Criticism and Truth; Part I; Part II; Part III; Notes; Background notes Index.
£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Victorian Literature Handbook Literature
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.Trade Review"A practical and comprehensive guide that will surely prove useful for students and teachers alike. Its coverage is superb and its list of contributors impressive." - Donald E. Hall, Distinguished Professor of English, West Virginia University, USA"A highly readable and intelligent guide which will give students confidence in mapping their way through the increasingly complex world of nineteenth-century literature ... it equips readers with the ideal toolkit to enter the debate about the past, present and future of Victorian Studies." - Professor Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK"It is strikingly different from its competitors in ways which will be useful to our students; in particular in its closing section it stands back from single author or single topic discussions and gives the kind of overview of Victorian criticism, recent and particularly present, which students have little time to acquire during their courses, but would find really useful..." - Ian Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK"Teachers will find the appendix especially interesting for its survey of Victorian literature curricula in 50 British and American universities revealing current pedagogical trends and ending with a helpful list of Websites. The handbook is an indispensable modern guide for both students and teachers of Victorian literature." - Charlotte Lindgren, American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 40, 2009The Victorian Literature Handbook provides a helpful collection of resources for undergraduates new to the study of the literature and culture of the Victorian period. The Handbook's greatest strength lies in its novel and straightforwardly helpful approach to presenting ideas and information. -- Routledge ABESTable of Contents1. Introduction and Timeline: Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster) and Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan); 2. The Historical Context of Victorian Literature: Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster); 3. Literary and Cultural Contexts: edited by Kirsty Bunting and Rhian Williams (University of Warwick); 4. Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts: Kirstie Blair (University of Glasgow), Michael Helfand (University of Pittsburgh), Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound), Grace Moore (University of Melbourne) and Tamara Wagner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); 5. Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Miriam Burstein (SUNY Brockport), Carol Margaret Davison (University of Windsor, Canada), Martin Danahay (Brock University) and Solveig C. Robinson (Pacific Lutheran University); 6. Key Critical Concepts: edited by Alexandra Warwick (University of Westminster); 7. Changes in the Literary Canon: Jane E. Thomas (University of Hull); 8. Changes in the Critical Canon: Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan); 9. Interdisciplinarity in Victorian Studies: Laurie Garrison (Royal Holloway, University of London); 10. Mapping the future of Victorian Studies: Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University); Appendix: A survey of Victorian Literature Curricula: Mark Bennett; Further Reading; Index.
£28.49
Vanderbilt University Press Subjunctive Aesthetics
Book SynopsisArgues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. This book engages with established and up-and-coming Latin American ecocritical scholars who argue that Latin America offers an important corrective to Anglocentric approaches to the Anthropocene by foregrounding colonialism and empire.Trade ReviewCarolyn Fornoff’s insightful and clearly written Subjunctive Aesthetics draws inspiration from a grammatical mood expressing uncertainty and emotion to offer a new interpretation of twenty-first-century Mexican cultural production addressing ecological catastrophe. An innovative contribution to Latin American Environmental Humanities research, Subjunctive Aesthetics stakes an eloquent claim for the capacity of literature, visual arts, and film to imagine the possibilities of a post-extractivist world." —Charlotte Rogers, author of Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics"Brilliant and wide-ranging, Subjunctive Aesthetics shows how, instead of merely translated into cultural responses based on a straightforward rendering of factual evidence, the inescapable reality of the current ecological crisis has been reimagined by writers, visual artists, and filmmakers in alternative, hypothetical, and speculative ways. This book is fundamental for anyone interested in contemporary Mexican culture and new directions in the Environmental Humanities."—Victoria Saramago, author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America “Subjunctive Aesthetics is an original, innovative, and sweeping study of the narrative strategies deployed in Mexican cultural production of the 21st century in response to the climate crisis. It proposes that the subjunctive mood operates as an artistic expression to contest the definitiveness of foreclosure. In a moment of great despair towards a grim future, Subjunctive Aesthetics opens the possibilities to disrupt such closeness by mobilizing desire, emotion, and the imagination. Through innovative theories that illuminate and deepen our understanding of the climate crisis, Fornoff’s marvelous work allows us to reconsider our place in Earth while it reassures that the seed for transformations nests in potentiality.”—Gisela Heffes, author of Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment"This is a fantastic and timely project. The impressive depth of Fornoff’s contextual research is well matched by the nuance in her analyses."—Brian Gollnick, author of Reinventing the LacandÓn: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of ChiapasTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Environmental Rewriting 2. Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning 3. Extinction Poetics 4. The Rural Resilience Film 5. Greening Mexican Cinema Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Vanderbilt University Press Las Raras
Book SynopsisLas Raras proposes that the Modernistas' advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers contributed to the idea of a feminine aesthetic and tracks the intellectual networks of Modernismo through periodicals and personal papers, such as albums and correspondence. Buenos Aires, Paris, and Montevideo figure prominently in this transatlantic study, which reexamines some of the most important period writers in Spanish, including Rubén Darío, Amado Nervo, and Enrique Gómez Carrillo. This book also considers the critiques launched by women writers, such as Aurora Cáceres, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and MarÍa Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, who experienced Modernista exclusion firsthand, deconstructed the Modernista discourse of a modern, feminine style, and built literary success in alternative terms. These writers reoriented the discuss
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Vanderbilt University Press Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
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Vanderbilt University Press The Latin American Literary Boom and US Nationalism During the Cold War
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Vanderbilt University Press Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Kick Their Asses Stieg Larssons Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
£32.25
Vanderbilt University Press Writing Revolution in Latin America
Book SynopsisIn the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. This volume is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm.Trade ReviewDe Castro introduces original topics such as LGBTQ and Revolution, and women writers such as Guelfenbein. This is a scholarly accomplishment, a groundbreaking work that is well written and researched, a model for arduous and significant contributions to the Latin American studies field, an original way to study the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with an original approach to the concept of insurgency. Indeed, the book is a benign revolt that will contribute greatly to this arena of inquiry."—Martín Camps, University of the Pacific "De Castro combines a superb command of the broad sweep of Latin American cultural and political history with a detailed knowledge of specific texts and the critical debates surrounding them. This book is an impressive achievement."—Maarten van Delden, UCLA
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Vanderbilt University Press Living Quixote
Book SynopsisThe 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance. Living Quixote examines contemporary appropriations of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece in political and social justice movements in the Americas, particularly in Brazil. In this book, Cervantes scholar Rogelio Miñana examines long-term, Quixote-inspired activist efforts at the ground level. Through what the author terms performative activism, Quixote-inspired theater companies and nongovernmental organizations deploy a model for rewriting and enacting new social roles for underprivileged youth. Unique in its transatlantic, cross-historical, and community-based approach, Living Quixote offers both a new reading of Don Quixote and an applied model for cultural activism-a model based, in ways reminiscent of Paulo Freire, on the transformative potential of performance, literature, and art.
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Jewish Publication Society The Literature of Destruction
Book SynopsisPresents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to catastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions - from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland.
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InterVarsity Press A Subversive Gospel
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ABC-CLIO The Road to Hel
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ABC-CLIO Herman Melville Cycle and Epicycle
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ABC-CLIO Boris Godunov
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Associated University Presses Sensibility in Transformation Creative Resistance
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Associated University Presses The Tyger the Lamb and the Terrible Desart Songs
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Associated University Presses DAnnunzio and Great War
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Associated University Presses The Power of Tautology The Roots of Literary
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Associated University Presses Helisenne De Crenne
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Associated University Presses Rivalry and the Disruption of Order in Molieres
Book SynopsisThrough readings of ten of Moliere's plays, this title argues that a rivalry that endangers order by collapsing differences structures the works and provides a key to their understanding. Moliere's comic characters all want something that they cannot have. The objects of their desire may vary, but the presence of desire itself remains a constant.
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Associated University Presses Breaking Traditions The Fiction of Btcemente
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Associated University Presses Seduction and Sacrilege Rhetorical Power in Fray
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Associated University Presses Mediating Fictions Literature Women Healers and
Book SynopsisConnects the woman healer and the go between in early Iberian literature to the concurrent professionalisation of medicine
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Associated University Presses Pilgrimage to Patronage Lope De Vega and the
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Associated University Presses The Portuguese Nun Formation of a National Myth
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Rizzoli International Publications I Can Give You Anything but Love
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. ConnoisseTrade Review"In sharing his memoirs, Gary Indiana exposes the inner turmoil, his naked truths of sexuality as a gay man and the clear and still present intuitive qualities of his distinctive and intelligent voice as a writer. . . 'I Can Give You Anything But Love' is not a breezy read and that is part of the fascination to be found in his writing style and livelihood."-EDGEMEDIANETWORK.COM"It's impossible to agree or disagree with all of Indiana's (often fearless) critical pronouncements, but it's likewise impossible to discount his tremendous style, wit, and education. Careworn copies of this long overdue memoir will change hands for the rest of the year and beyond." -FLAVORWIRE.COM "This memoir is classic Gary Indiana, waspish and gorgeous and a little wary of sharing its heart when sharing its other parts might work just as well."-openlettersmonthly.com"A graphic and funny memoir, [I Can Give You Anything But Love] finds Indiana reinventing yet another genre - this time using his own personal narrative. He becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of subcultures: the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of the Reagan 80s, when the AIDS crisis was wiping out a generation of young gay men like him." -THE LOS ANGELES TIMES"I Can Give You Anything But Love is discursive, impressionistic, punctuated by incisive reflections on history and culture, witty evocations of period and place, mystifying forays into character assassination, and frank descriptions of sex." -THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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The Merlin Press Ltd Studies in European Realism
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisOriginal and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.`A wholly feminine voice within Catholicism-they express the inexpressible better than any amount of rational thinking about God.' THE TIMESThe three women who are the subject of this fascinating study lefta rich legacyof medieval spirituality. Frances Beer explores their writings and draws on available historical evidence to bring the experience of all three women closer to a 20th-century audience. She sees Hildegard's perception of her Creator as informed by the heroic ideal, while Mechthild's erotic experience seems to show the influence of the minnesingers. Julian's experience of tender intimacy with her Lord demonstrates an egalitarian confidence in the ability of the individual soul to progress towards onenesswith the divine. Their individual natures are also further revealed through the author's examination of their resolution of a number of theological problems. In contrast, the works of two medieval men writing for women are also explored.FRANCESBEER is Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto.Trade ReviewA fascinating and detailed account of medieval spirituality from a feminine perspective... The clarity and liveliness of her writing make her scholarly analysis accessible and highly worthwhile [to undergraduates as well as to graduate students] CHOICEFrances Beer's elegantly written study affirms the sanity, autonomy and religious genius of her medieval heroines... [She] provides an ideological context for the choice of the religious life [: unthinking misogyny parroted from classical texts; Germanic and Anglo-Saxon admiration for the `valorous woman' at the head of the warrior band and for the virgin who despises torture; the disconcerting shift of erotic idealisation of a remote lady and the relationship of love poetry to the praise of Christ the Bridegroom]. * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *Table of ContentsHildegard of Bingen; from warrior to lover; Mechtild of Magdeburg; Richard Rolle and the Yorksire nuns; Julian of Norwich.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Poets Edwin Arlington Robinson
Book Synopsis`Traditional yet original, realistic but not in the reductive sense, he is too good to be forgotten.' ROBERTSON DAVIES Robinson's Arthurian poems, published between 1917 and 1927, won him a Pulitzer prize and yet are almost unknown today. With his introspective New England style and quiet tone, he brilliantly catches the tension between reason and passion that drives the characters of the Arthurian stories: these are modern lovers, with the philosophical and psychological concerns of the early 20th century. The sense of vision, and the feeling that the world of Arthur mirrors the fate of all mankind, binds the diverse characters together, and makes Robinson's poems essential reading for everyone interested in the Arthurian legend in the twentieth century.Trade Review`E. A. Robinson is too good a poet to be widely popular: his vision is too personal, too relentless to appeal to a crowd. Traditional yet original, realistic but not in the reductive sense, he is too good to be forgotten.' -- Robertson DaviesTable of Contents"Tristram"; "Merlin"; "Lancelot";"Modred".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Catalan Rule of the Templars A Critical
Book SynopsisThe first complete critical edition and English translation of Barcelona Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Cartes Reales, MS 3344.The Knights Templar, part monastic order, part military force, lived by a firm code, or rule, which exists in differing versions. This Spanish version is a follow-up to J.M. Upton-Ward's highly successful edition of the French Rule. The introduction to this Catalan Rule, Barcelona Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Cartes Reales, MS 3344, discusses the content, language and dating of the manuscript. It also provides background information derived from the French Rule (which the reader may require for a fuller appreciation of the text - see author note below) on the circumstances of the Knights Templar. There is a brief description of the provincial organisation of the Order with particular reference to the houses in Aragon, where it is most likely that the manuscript was used; a summary of clauses; and a concordance with de Curzon's 1886 edition of the French Rule. Compared to de Curzon's edition, the Barcelona text is incomplete, but it contains important clauses not found in other manuscripts. A partial transcription claiming to represent all the clauses without equivalents in de Curzon's edition was published in 1889, but it omittedseveral clauses now published here for the first time. Footnotes to the English translation elucidate the text; give biographical information on the named officers of the Order where possible; and indicate significant differencescompared with the French Rule. J.M. UPTON-WARD edited and translated The Rule of the Templars (Boydell & Brewer 1998), now available in paperback.Trade ReviewAn extremely valuable addition to the corpus of edited and translated Templar sources. * CRUSADES *Table of ContentsThe Catalan Rule - critical edition and English translation.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Banditry Rebellion and Social Protest in Africa
Book SynopsisMarks a new stage in African resistance studies.Previous work has tended to place the subject of resistance studies exclusively within an anticolonial context. This collection broadens the concept to include crime and violence.Trade Review... the anthology as a whole, as a pioneering and explicitly programmatic venture in what is still, in African historiography, an underdeveloped field, is warmly to be commended. - -- Robin Law * HISTORY *
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James Currey Oral Tradition as History
Book SynopsisSince the publication of Vansina's earlier book, oral traditions have now become widely accepted as a legitimate source of history.Although written by a leading historian of Africa, Vansina's work on oral traditions ranges far beyond Africa, so has a wider relevance. Vansina explains not only how oral traditions have been used in the past but also how they should be used by historians in their research. North America: University of Wisconsin Press; Kenya: EAEPTrade ReviewThis is a completely different book from the original Oral Tradition (1961 and 1966) and hence it is right that it should have a different title. It is also a very much better book than the original, though it does not have the pioneering importance which made the original an academic best-seller ... . It addresses itself directly and without apology to an account of the process by which oral history is produced ... . The result is an enormously more subtle and convincing book than the original ... . Its appeal should not be limited to historians of Africa nor indeed to historians as such since it has very interesting things to say about the structuring of human memory and very effective criticisms to make of structuralism. In short it is a remarkable book. - -- Terence RangerIt will take its place as the most important treatment of the subject and it will appeal to all historians and social scientists who make use of oral evidence or who feel they ought to do so. - -- A.G. Hopkins, Professor of Economic History in the University of BirminghamTable of ContentsOral tradition as process - Performance, tradition and text - Getting the message - The message is a social product - The message expresses culture - Tradition as information remembered - Oral tradition assessed
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James Currey Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa
Book SynopsisA considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa.Trade Review... a wide-ranging and masterly discussion of the colonial years in central Kenya. Both authors display an admirable erudition, Berman in concentrating on white-settler and colonial concerns and administration, Lonsdale on African responses. Lonsdale's great chapter in the second volume entitled 'The Moral Economy of Mau Mau' is an approach to understanding them that achieves a grand originality. - -- Basil Davidson * THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS *... African history-writing retains enormous intellectual dynamism. Nothing demonstrates this more strikingly than Unhappy Valley, Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale's collection of essays on colonialism, class and ethnicity; centred mostly on Kenya, which includes some more general or theoretical pieces. The book underlines, too, something of wider significance. However moribund Marxism may seem today as a basis for political belief and action, it still has unmatched resources as a tool-kit for historical understanding. The kind of flexible, even eclectic Marxist method Berman and Lonsdale employ can generate historical writing of great subtlety and power; perhaps especially about the third world societies Marx and his orthodox followers barely considered. ...The real gold is in Lonsdale's long essay on Kikuyu moral economy, a hundred pages of dense, detailed, but beautifully crafted investigation of the intellectual roots of the Mau Mau revolt. It is quite simply one of the most exciting historical works I have ever read. Mau Mau has been interpreted by the colonial authorities as more reversion to barbarism, by romantic Kenyan radicals as a betrayed national liberation struggle, and by more recent historians as a rural class conflict driven by purely economic forces. Lonsdale uncovers something quite different, far more complex and unfamiliar. He finds a search for a renewed social order encompassing individual moral worth, conducted in the language of Kikuyu tradition and Biblical interpretation, and struggling to find psychic home in the alien and desperate world created by colonialism. - -- Stephen Howe * THE NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley. - John Lonsdale Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley PART ONE: CONQUEST - Bruce Berman The Conquest State of Kenya 1895-1905 - John Lonsdale The Politics of Conquest in Western Kenya 1894-1908 PART TWO: CONTRADICTIONS & THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL STATE - John Lonsdale Coping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - Bruce Berman Coping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - John Lonsdale Crises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 - Bruce Berman Crises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 PART THREE: CAPITALISM & THE COLONIAL STATE IN THEORETICAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - John Lonsdale The Concept of 'Articulation' and the Political Economy of Colonialism - Bruce Berman Structure and Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa PART FOUR: PASTS & FUTURES - Bruce Berman Up from Structuralism - Bruce Berman African Pasts in Africa's Future - John Lonsdale
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James Currey Warfare and Diplomacy in Precolonial West Africa
Book SynopsisInnovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period.Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community. North America: University of Wisconsin PressTrade ReviewThis book...makes the link between war and diplomacy which is the stuff of much European history. There are lots of works of scholarship on such subjects as slavery but this subject had been missed in African history except by Professor Smith. -- Michael Crowder
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James Currey Letters and Documents 184172
Book SynopsisAs the research to this book proceeded there were major finds of papers previously unknown even to the David Livingstone Research Project in Edinburgh.This collection of David Livingstone's personal papers, edited by Timothy Holmes, is from the Livingstone Museum in Zambia and features many previously unpublished letters. The first part deals with his period in Botswana, the second part focuses on the Zambezi expedition (1858-64), the third section covers to time of his visit to Britain in 1864-5, and the fourth part covers his last journey (1866-73). North America: Indiana U Press; Zambia: UNZA PressTrade ReviewThe production of this manuscript came as a great surprise to me. I had thought that practically all of the letters of Livingstone had either been published in the various collections or cited by one or more of the many Livingstone biographers.... it has much of value to the students of his life. - -- Donald Simpson * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *This volume, which has been very well edited, and annotated by Timothy Holmes, and beautifully produced by James Currey, prints about 140 of the two thousand or so letters which survive world-wide. - -- Hugh Macmillan * THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHEN AFRICAN STUDIES *L'ensemble constitue un ouvrage de grande qualite dont la richesse et la consultation aisee seduiront tant l'amateur que le specialiste. - -- Patrick Videcoq * REVUE FRANCAISE D'HISTOIRE D'OUTRE-MER *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa
Book SynopsisA collection of studies by key academics on ethnic identity in Africa.The great virtue of this book is that it is the first major study to focus exclusively on the historical evolution of ethnic identity over a broad region from Zaire ... to South Africa.' - John McCracken, University of Stirling US & Canada & the Philippines: University of California PressTrade ReviewThis book carries forward an analysis of tribe and culture which has been gathering steam since the late 1960s and which has upset a great deal of previously accepted wisdom, both political and academic. The central thesis - that the same forces of modernity which nurtured Africa's state-based nationalisms also bolstered ethnic self-consciousness - undermines the ideological foundations of the one-party state. As long as it was supposed that ethnicity would inevitably wither in the shade of the spreading tree of nationalism, the one-party state could be justified as a temporary bulwark against the secessionist threats of tribalism. In this book many contemporary African heads of state bear more resemblance to Mussolini than to Abraham Lincoln. 'Ethnicity', writes Vail, 'quite legitimately became the home of the opposition in states where bureaucratic elites stifled the initial popular thrusts of nationalism. -- Norman Etherington * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *It took some courage to put this volume together. To begin with ethnicity, tribalism or what you will, has been a somewhat protected species in Africanist scholarship, although it has been constantly and vigorously dealt with again and again in the best African journalism and literature. Invoking tribalism runs the risk of imputing atavism whilst most of our agendas are concerned with showing the complexity and sophistication of Africa. Secondly, discussion of this issue in the context of Southern Africa is haunted by the divisive project of Pretoria's racist regime to which no responsible scholar would wish, even inadvertently, to offer hostages. With skill, and forthright integrity neither the editor nor his distinguished contributors fall into either pitfall. ...Leroy Vail and his essayists are to be congratulated on initiating an important debate about an important issue that will assuredly run and run. - -- Richard Rathbone * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa decisively vindicates and consolidates this shift of perspective. - -- Colin Murray * THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS *The book's wealth of detail greatly enhances our understanding of the volatility and complexity of ethnic consciousness and ethnic behavior. - -- Leonard Thompson * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *
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James Currey General History of Africa volume 6 pbk abridged
Book SynopsisSPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.Covers the major forces at work in African society at the beginning of the 19th century until the onset of the European scramble for colonial territory in the 1880s. This study also looks at Africa's changing role in the world economy, and the effects of the abolition of the slave trade. The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCOPress.Trade ReviewReviews of the Series: * . *... a real contribution to scholarship. - -- Roland Oliver * the TLS *The General History of Africa was launched in 1970, when an International Scientific Committee of 39 scholars was formed to oversee the writing and publication of a complete survey of the African past, from pre-history to the present. The laudable aim of the project was to break free from the straightjacket of Eurocentrism, and to provide a history that reflected a range of African views without imposing any set historical interpretation. - -- David M. Anderson * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsAfrica at the beginning of the 19th century, J.F. Ajayi; Africa and the world economy, I. Wallerstein; new trends and processes in Africa, A.A. Boahen; the abolition of the slave trade, S. Daget; the Mfecane and the rise of the new African states, I.D. Ngcongco; the impact of the Mfecane on the Cape Colony, E.K. Mashingaidze; the British, Boers and Africans in South Africa, 1850-1880, N. Bhebe; the countries of the Zambesi basin, A.F. Isaacman; the East African coast and hinterland, 1845-1880, I.N. Kimambo; peoples and states of the Great Lakes region, D.W. Cohen; the Congo Basin and Angola, J.L. Vellut; the renaissance of Egypt, 1805-81, A. Abdel-Malek; the Sudan in the 19th century, H.A. Ibrahim and B.A. Ogot; Ethiopia and Somalia, R. Pankhurst and L.V. Cassanelli; Madagascar, 1800-80, P.M. Mutibwa and F.V. Esoavelo-Mandrosa; new trends in the Maghrib - Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, M.H. Cherif; Morocco, A. Laroui; new patterns of European intervention in the Maghrib, N. Ivanov; the Sahara, S. Baier; the 19th-century Islamic revolutions in West Africa, A. Batran; the Sokoto caliphate and Borno, M. Last; Massina and the Torodbe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878, M. Ly-Tall; states and peoples of Senegambia and Upper Guinea, Y. Person; states and peoples of the Niger Bend and the Volta, K. Arhin and J. Ki-Zerbo; Dahomey, Yorubaland, Borgu and Benin in the 19th century, A.I. Asiwaju; the Niger delta and the Cameroon region, E.J. Alagao, L.Z. Elango and M. Metegue N'Nah; the African diaspora, F.W. Knight, Y. Talib and P.D. Curtin; conclusion - Africa on the eve of European conquest.
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James Currey General History of Africa volume 8 pbk unabridged
Book SynopsisSPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.Africa has moved from international conflict under foreign domination to struggles for political sovereignty and economic independence. Looking at the changes in Africa's fortunes since 1935, this volume examines the challenges ofnation-building and socio-cultural changes affecting the continent. The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.Trade Review... a thousand pages of high-quality scholarly effort, Volume VIII has got to be the bargain work on contemporary African history. - -- Kevin Shillington * CORRUPTION & DEMOCRATISATION *Ali Mazrui's skilful introduction is essential if one is to identify the key themes that give shape to the text ... distinctive and diverse views on Africa's recent past. - -- David M. Anderson * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPart 1 Africa in a decade of world conflicts, 1935-45: the Horn and North Africa, T. Chenntouf; tropical and equatorial Africa under French, Portuguese and Spanish domination, A. Diop, D. Birmingham, I. Hrbek, A. Margarido and D.T. Niane; Africa under British and Belgian domination, M. Crowder. Part 2 The struggle for political sovereignty - from 1945 to independence: seek ye first the political kingdom, Ali A. Mazrui; North Africa and the Horn, I. Hrbek; West Africa, 1945-60, J. Suret-Canale and A. Adu Boahen; equatorial West Africa, E.M' Boloko; the struggle for political sovereignty in Eastern Africa, M. Twaddle, L. Rabearimanana and I.N. Kimambo; Southern Africa, D. Chanaiwa. Part 3 Underdevelopment and the struggle for economic independence: economic changes in Africa, C. Coquery-Vidrovitch; agriculture and rural development, M. Owusu; industrial development and urban growth, P. Kipre; comparative strategies of economic decolonization, A.A. Adedeji. Part 4 Socio-political change since independence: nation-building and changing political values, J. Isawa Elaigwu and Ali A. Mazrui; nation-building and changing political values, J. Ki-Zerbo, Ali A. Mazrui, C. Wondji and A. Adu Boahen. Part 5 Socio-cultural change since independence: religion and social evolution, T. Tshibangu, J.F. Ade Ajayi and L. Sanneh; language and social change, A.I. Sow and M.H. Abdulaziz; the development of modern literature, Ali A. Mazrui, M. de Andrade, M. Alaoui Abdalaoui, D.P. Kunene and J. Vansina; arts and society, J. Vansina; trends in philosophy and science, Ali A. Mazrui, J.F. Ade Ajayi, A. Adu Boahen and T. Tshibangu; education and social change, A. Habte, T. Wagaw and J.F. Ade Ajayi. Part 6 Pan-Africanism - liberation and intregation since 1935: Africa and its diaspora, J.E. Harris and S. Zeghidour; pan-Africanim and regional integration, S.K.B. Asante and D. Chanaiwa; pan-Africanism and liberation, E. Kodjo and D. Chaniawa. Part 7 Independent Africa in world affairs: Africa and the capitalist countries, Chinweizu; Africa and the socialist countries, I.D. Thiam, J. Mulira and C. Wondji; Africa and the developing regions, L. Edmondson; Africa and the United Nations since 1945, E.K. Kouassi; towards the year 2000, Ali A. Mazrui.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Manufacturing Africa
Book SynopsisThe team of authors see this book as a contribution to lifting the standard of debate and towards restarting in-depth comparative research.Concentrates on the seven countries which between them (excluding South Africa) account for 60 per cent of total manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors look at the role of manufacturing and industry in the development of these countries, arguing that future prosperity could be enhanced by a three-pronged approach to industrialisation. Published in association with the ODITrade ReviewThis study is undoubtedly the most significant work on the manufacturing industry in sub-Saharan Africa to be published in the last decade - or indeed any decade ... -- James Cobbe * AFRICA TODAY *This is an excellent book for those with an interest in African studies and manufacturing development. Its publication is timely, coming at the close of the 1980s which witnessed a decline in Africa's manufacturing growth rates, viewed from both historical and cross-sectional planes. - -- Ron Matthews * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *
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James Currey The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria
Book SynopsisExamines the impact of structural adjustment policies on Nigeria.The economic crisis in the Nigerian economy in 1982 was triggered, though not necessarily caused by, the collapse of the world oil market. The Nigerian state adopted a structural adjustment programme which was approved by the World Bank and the IMF - that decision raised questions about the nature of the crisis and the appropriateness of free market policies in tackling it. Nigeria: HEBNTable of ContentsFrom crisis to adjustment in Nigeria, A.O. Olukoshi; state versus market - the privatization policy of the Nigerian state, S. Yahaya; devaluation - implications for employment, inflation, growth and development, A. Fadahunsi; structural adjustment and Nigerian industry, A.O. Olukoshi; African workers and structural adjustment - a Nigerian case study, Y. Bangura, B. Beckman; professional associations and structural adjustment, A. Jeg; structural adjustment and agarian change in Nigeria, A.R. Mustapha; the transition to civil rule - sapping democracy, J. Ibrahim.
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James Currey Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Book SynopsisThis text focuses on whether African development has historically been weighted in favour of the urban areas.While the authors come out clearly against urban bias, one of their main worries is that the benefits, and the necessity, of urban development are being lost in adjustment approaches. What is necessary, they suggest, is to harnessthe financial and human resources of the human city as part of a strategy to ensure greater and more widespread economic development. This book provides many important - and controversial - conclusions and recommendations. North America: HeinemannTrade Review... excellent book ... detailed analysis of urbanization, migration, and labor markets in African countries. Valuable to those interested in African development or development economies. - -- J.E. Waver * CHOICE *This is a text for policy makers and rewards reading both by those interested and frightened by equations. - -- Fassil Demissie * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Table of ContentsIssues in African urban development; African rural-urban migration - causes consequences and policies; African city systems; city structure, spatial allocation and public policy; employment growth and the wage structure in urban Africa; development policies from an urban perspective; annex - UN estimates of African cities' populations over time.
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James Currey Economic Reforms in Ghana
Book SynopsisThis work discusses the economic reforms that have taken place in Ghana since independence in 1957. It includes sections on: structure and growth; fiscal, savings and investment policies; the external sector; factor markets; sectoral performance; socio-economic development; and the future.Since independence in 1957, Ghana has tried a number of approaches to achieving acceptable rates of growth and development. A period of rapid industrialization in the 1960s, then control measures and further state interventions inthe 1970s, was followedby a comprehensive programme from the mid-1980s based on a policy of economic liberalization. However, initial growth and macroeconomic stability has not been sustained beyond the short term. This work discusses the economic reforms that have taken placein Ghana since independence in 1957. It includes sections on: structure and growth; fiscal, savings and investment policies; the external sector; factor markets; sectoral performance; socio-economic development; and the future. North America: Africa World Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing ServicesTable of ContentsPart 1 Macroeconomics, structure and growth: a review of macroeconomic and sectoral policies and growth; the political economy of reform; fragile still? the structure of Ghana's economy, 1960-1994; a social accounting matrix of the economy of Ghana. Part 2 Fiscal, savings and investment policies: fiscal trends in Ghana; public expenditures and their performance;an assessment of savings and investment. Part 3 The external sector: exchange rate policy and the balance of payments; the external trade sector; external finance, foreign aid and debt. Part 4 Factor markets: intervention and liberalization - changing policies and performance in the financial sector; labour under structural adjustment. Part 5 Sectoral performance: industrial sector policies and performance; agricultural sector policies and performance. Part 6 Socio-economic development: the evolution of social policy; poverty in the changing environment; gender participation under economic reforms. Part 7 The way forward: structural adjustments and after - which way forward?
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James Currey African Development in a Comparative Perspective
Book SynopsisThis text offers an analysis of Africa's economic future.Has a turning point been reached in African economic recovery? Why have so few countries reached the UN growth target? Published in association with UNCTAD North America: Africa World PressTrade Review... pulls no punches in giving a frank and impartial account....[this] slender volume makes fascinating reading. - -- Scott MacWilliam * ARAS *... here comes a refreshing note, not a glorifying one either, but nonetheless an even-handed analysis of the continent's economic future ... The book provides valuable insights for policy makers and development experts seeking to reverse the continent's unenviable record of performance. - -- Okori Uneke * MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *A sound, balanced and hopeful analysis of Africa's economic future... Essential reading for Africa's policy-makers. -- Professor Gerry Helleiner, Department of Economics, University of TorontoTable of ContentsOverview by Rubens Ricupero; introduction; growth and development in Africa - trends and prospects; the role, structure and performance of agriculture; agricultural policies, prices and production; trade, accumulation and industry; policy challenges and institutional reform.
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James Currey Working Miracles
Book SynopsisIntended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examinationof women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves. Caribbean: ISER, University of the West IndiesTrade Review...invaluable sourcebook not only for women's studies courses but for anyone who seeks to understand the background to Caribbean literature, politics and society. - Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick * . *
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James Currey When Refugees Go Home
Book SynopsisExamines refugees' own strategies for return that do not always relate to formal repatriation schemes.It is well known that there are millions of refugees in Africa. It is less well known that there are milions of refugees who have returned home. This book puts these 'returnees' on the map, documenting some of what happens to people when they go back to their countries of origin and start to pick up the pieces of their lives. Published in association with UNRISD; North America: Africa World PressTrade Review... a welcome addition to this growing body of research. Indeed, it underscores the reality that refugee populations are diverse in nature, that strategies for return are often informal, though not always unrelated to formal repatriation schemes, and that issues of economic viability, as often as security - though these are also related - influence refugee decisions about repatriation. - -- Robert F. Gorman * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *La grande force des auteurs est que ce sont des praticiens de terrain, nourrissant leurs textes d'une infinite d'informations ou de renseignements introuvables dans d'autres ouvrages. - -- Rene Pelissier * REVUE FRANCAISE D'HISTOIRE D'OUTRE-MER *Table of ContentsIntroduction by T. Allen & H. Morsink - Repatriation: Not So Simple! by J.R. Rogge - Ad hoc Assistance to Return Movements & Long-Term Development Programmes by B.N. Stein - The Return of Algerian Refugees following Independ ence in 1962 by A. Bouhouche - Crisis of Expectations by J .O. Akol - Homecoming in the Luwero Triangle by J.B. Kaber a & C. Muyanja - The Desire to Return to S. T. Makanya - Repatriation & Reconstruction in Zimbabwe during th e 1980s by J. Jackson - Repatriation to Mozambique by K.B. Wilson - Influences of Economy & State on the Reinteg ration of Repatriated Namibians by C. Tapscott - Returning Exiles in Namibia by R. Preston - The Reaccommodation of Ghanaian Returnees from Nigeria in 1983 and 1985 by K. Arh in - Forced Mass Repatriation of Migrant Workers in Longer Term Perspective by N. van Hear - Studying Repatriation a s Part of African Social History by T. Ranger - Bibliograp hy
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James Currey In Search of Cool Ground
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on population displacement in Northeast Africa.For many people, flight across an international border occurs repeatedly and is not a uniquely traumatic event. For many more, displacement has occurred within their own countries. The contributors suggest that in situations of such long-term upheaval, notions of flight into refuge and repatriation to a homeland cease to have much meaning. These populations have received minimal assistance from international organizations and have lacked protection from oppressive governments and marauding guerillas. Their plight has largely been ignored. North America: Africa World PressTrade ReviewWhat it does is provide the sort of information and analysis that governments, and agencies, ought to have; and raise the sort of questions that must be answered if the displaced peoples of the region are to be helped specifically and accurately ... It should be required reading in most of the relief, rehabilitation and development offices of northeast Africa - -- Patrick Gilkes * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsDisaster-related and development-caused displacement, Michael Cernea; looking beyond the towns - the Ogaden and Somaliland, Julius Holt; increasing the trauma of return - an assessment in Ethiopia, 1991, Douglas Johnson; Africa - socio-economic, legal and administrative constraints on repatriation in the Horn, Enoch Opondo; clinical observations on mental health in Ethiopia, Yonas Endale; post-traumatic stress in war-affected regions of Uganda, Amelia Brett; reconstructing households and reconstructing home areas, Jonathan Bascom; linking emergency return and development in Sudan, Mohammed Salih; reintegrating refugees in post-liberation Eritrea, Elias Habre Selassie; prospects for repatriation of Eritrean refugees from Sudan and the responses of the international donor community, Gaim Kibreab; changing mandates in the Ogaden - the impact of Somali refugees/returnees on the UNHCR, Richard Hogg; Uduk resettlement, Wendy James; migrants and refugees - the Mursi, David Turton; recreating war-damaged communities, T. Brett; resettling displaced pastoralists of Borana region of Southern Ethiopia - Garri returnees and the UNHCR operation, Getachew Kassa; social devastation and mental health in Northeast Africa - an absent literature, Melissa Parker; assisting refugees in the context of warfare - Tigray, Barbara Hendrie; the return of refugees from Sudan to northern Uganda, Tim Allen; a personal view of repatriation to Uganda, Ronald Iya; towards a constructive disaster strategy for lowland pastoral groups assisted by the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, Ahmed Usuf Farah; conclusions - questioning definitions and the move to a cross mandate approach to relief work, Terence Ranger.
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