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University of Georgia Press This Impermanent Earth Environmental Writing
Book SynopsisCharts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms.Trade ReviewMultitudinous writers have been rattling the shakers and clanging the cymbals for a long time to bring attention to the natural world, especially its plights. With this collection the Georgia Review establishes its history as a venue for these prophetic and prescient voices, especially in opening dialogues to those who have been too long excluded. This is fine reading - so many ideas, so much truth, so much power packed in here. This is a book I'll reach for again and again." - Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Drifting into Darien
£46.18
University of Georgia Press Battleground
Book SynopsisAn illustrated history of contemporary African American art. The volume offers an in-depth examination of twenty-five Black artists, discussing their artworks, practices, and philosophies, as expressed in their own words.
£49.14
University of Georgia Press Flannery OConnor
Book SynopsisIn her biography of writer Flannery O’Connor, Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors. With an accessible style of writing, the book gives younger readers an overview of O’Connor’s life and examines the influences that helped her become one of the most respected fiction writers of the twentieth century.
£16.59
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Untold War at Sea Americas Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThe first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.
£142.14
University of Georgia Press Commanders of the Dining Room Biographic
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff, giving insight into the traditions and personalities that shaped these culinary institutions.Trade ReviewThe story of these men provides a powerful addition to a growing attention on black political, social, and economic activism on the eve of codified Jim Crow segregation, a legalized apartheid that fell over the land at the very moment when these waiters gathered in Chicago to form their organization. . . . One can easily imagine curious hands leaving through the pages of this work and finding upon them a truth that transforms not only their conception of history but also supplies an inspired imagining of what is possible in their own life.""- Justin A. Nystrom, author of Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
£33.09
University of Georgia Press City of Refuge Slavery and Petit Marronage in
Book SynopsisTells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. This examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.Trade ReviewIn addition to a careful social history of this untamable land, Nevius has written a thoughtful reflection on the various 'landscapes of slavery' that spread over early America. He directly engages with the perennial problem of archival silence, reading all kinds of documents-tax records, work contracts, company orders-against the grain. In this way he enables at least some of the people who endured "swamp slavery" to tell us how they survived." —J. M. Opal, Journal of Southern History
£35.89
University of Georgia Press Patrolling the Border Theft and Violence on the
Book SynopsisFocuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples.
£35.89
University of Georgia Press An Abundance of Curiosities The Natural History
Book SynopsisBeginning with an overview of early naturalists who marveled at the region’s natural treasures, Eric Bolen and James Parnell’s natural history of the Coastal Plain offers a nature-focused walk through the distinctive geological features and plant and animal communities of the area that extends from the Fall Line to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
£46.00
University of Georgia Press Contextualizing Security A Reader
Book SynopsisA collection of original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political science, sociology, journalism, and philosophy. The book offers both graduate and undergraduate students a grasp on both foundational issues and more contemporary debates in security studies.
£46.18
LUP - University of Georgia Press The War after the War A New History of
Book SynopsisOffers a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments.Trade ReviewJohn Patrick Daly's argument is compelling and persuasive, and this is an important book that promises to be a landmark in historiography. The scholarship is sound and the concept original, and it deals with a topic that seems increasingly more relevant and significant in our own time."-A. James Fuller, author of Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction
£30.28
University of Georgia Press Gwinnett County Georgia and the Transformation of
Book SynopsisThrough a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild’s collection explores Gwinnett County’s history in a systematic way - avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories.
£39.17
University of Georgia Press Fishing for Chickens A Smokies Food Memoir
Book SynopsisA well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook, Fishing for Chickens offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia - the Smokies.
£32.26
University of Georgia Press Wanted A Nation Black Americans and Haiti
Book SynopsisPresents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific book that brings new material and interpretations to a burgeoning field of study surrounding the links between the United States and Haiti and the place of Haiti in African American practice and thought. It places anglophone and francophone writing and scholarship into dialogue in an important and innovative way." - Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
£37.76
University of Georgia Press Dynamic Design
Book SynopsisDetails Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge’s cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history.
£49.14
University of Georgia Press NonPerforming Loans NonPerforming People Life
Book SynopsisTells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice.
£35.89
University of Georgia Press Islamophobia in France
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed argue that Islamophobia in France is not the result of individual prejudice or supposed Muslim cultural or racial deficiencies but rather arose out of structures of power and control already in place in France.
£39.63
LUP - University of Georgia Press Urban Climate Justice
Book SynopsisArguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures.
£39.63
University of Georgia Press Green City Rising
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UNIV OF GEORGIA PR January 6 and the Politics of History
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University of Georgia Press Presence A Novel
Book SynopsisThroughout Presence, encounter and contact are the major elements of consequence, action, implication, and resounding significance. Encounter and contact between timeframes, cultures, ecologies, persons, intuitions, ways of living, and worlding. At these junctures are the moments of possibility - of violence and/or of budding community.Trade ReviewHere is a completely unique, genre-defying, anti-apocalypse story. It is sprawling in scope, pushing the limits of language and narrative to imagine futures beyond our wildest dreams. Iijima is both a poet and a theorist of our frightening yet fascinating contemporary condition—and she does justice to our capacity to change and discover new ways of being in the world." - Elvia Wilk, author of Death by Landscape: Essays
£27.92
University of Georgia Press Central Citys Joy and Pain Solidarity Survival
Book SynopsisExplores complex social issues through personal narrative. Jerome Morris does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As Morris’s experiential narrative voice unfolds, the reader is brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty.Trade ReviewCentral City’s Joy and Pain is not just a story about events that took place several decades ago but is also well connected to the systems that remain in place for the perpetuation of Black oppression. Jerome E. Morris has done a great job of sharing his experiences with the broader community, and readers—not only in Birmingham and the South, but well beyond—will be enriched by the experiences and insights conveyed here." - Charles Connerly, professor emeritus of urban and regional planning, University of Iowa
£32.26
University of Georgia Press Grave History Death Race and Gender in Southern
Book SynopsisThe first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyse southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow.Trade ReviewThis volume takes cemetery and gravestone studies in an entirely new direction. The chapters are well written and the volume is thoughtfully organized. Although the South is truly distinctive, I wish every culture region had a volume like this. . . . This is more than a simple scholarly work. It is a book that changes the conversation." - Richard Veit, coauthor of The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
£37.76
University of Georgia Press James Oglethorpe Father of Georgia A Founders
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University of Georgia Press The Sentimental State How WomenLed Reform Built
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£29.35
University of Georgia Press Mae Mallory the Monroe Defense Committee and
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University of Georgia Press Stories Can Save Us Americas Best Narrative
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Southern Underground Railroad Black Georgians
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£31.38
LUP - University of Georgia Press Black Revolutionaries A History of the Black
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£33.98
LUP - University of Georgia Press Nuggets of Gold Further Processed Chicken and
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John Wiley & Sons Public Archaeology for the TwentyFirst Century
£33.98
John Wiley & Sons Living Indigenous Feminism Stories of
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Liverpool University Press Anthony Benezet Quaker Abolitionist AntiRacist
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Liverpool University Press A Desert between Two Seas A Novel in Stories
£28.79
Liverpool University Press unMothered unTongued Lyric Essays
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Liverpool University Press Driven A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN
£41.82
Liverpool University Press Jazz June A SelfPortrait in Essays
£25.32
Liverpool University Press My Corpse Inside
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John Wiley & Sons Aid and Reform in Africa Lessons from Ten Case Studies
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Global Development Finance 2011
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MJ - Ohio University Press Nostos
Book SynopsisIn choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life—and she sees it for what it is.
£13.99
MJ - Ohio University Press Children in Slavery through the Ages
Book SynopsisSignificant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas.Trade Review“This anthology epitomized the strengths of the new history of slavery: a world-wide perspective that cuts across time and space … and an emphasis on the actual experience of enslavement and on enslaved peoples as active agents with their own distinct voices.”“The new history of slavery has begun to excavate women’s experiences and unpack the gendered nature of enslavement, but Campbell et al. offer the first focus on children, a focus that clearly resonates with international concern about child labor and child sexual abuse in the world today…. This is a path-breaking collection….” * Enterprise & Society *“The aims of (Children in Slavery Through the Ages’s) editors—to uncover the reasons for the purchase of slave children; and to illustrate their experiences—are amply fulfilled…. What is particularly illuminating about these essays is their potential to inform the study of children in contemporary forms of slavery, where here too, poverty is a central feature, deceit is widespread, and children are perceived as more submissive and easier to control.” * Reviews in History *“This excellent collection of studies on children in slavery leaves one looking forward to the second volume, which one hopes will provide a broader discussion of what the study of enslaved children can tell us about slavery (and childhood) more generally.” * Africa: Journal of the IAI *
£23.39
Ohio University Press Recasting the Past History Writing and Political
Book SynopsisThe study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view.Trade Review“As a group, the contributors and editors of Recasting the Past constitute one of the most impressive cohorts of scholars brought together in a collective volume project in the past three decades. This work will be required reading for any individual venturing into serious study of Africa’s past.”“Collectively the authors of Recasting the Past are to be saluted, as are their editors. As an assertion of the vibrancy of Christian Africa’s history of ideas in the twentieth century, this collection could hardly be richer.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This collection accomplishes what no monograph could because these nuanced inquiries each require deep expertise. The variety of questions posed here suggests many ways that professional historians could appreciate more fully the production of historical knowledge in Africa. Students of African intellectual history will come away better able to appreciate the deep and multiple roots that generate the production of culture in Africa.” * American Historical Review *“Despite the study of Africa’s intellectual history being curiously underdeveloped, the work in (Recasting the Past) confronts the idea that the study of African history is solely the preserve of professional historians.” * Political Studies Review *“This lively volume focuses on what the editors call Africa’s homespun historians: non-professionals who, throughout the twentieth century, devoted passionate and painstaking intellectual labor to recreating the past, often in vernacular languages.…(Recasting the Past) makes a welcome intervention in African intellectual history. In many ways, it is a model of the genre.” * Journal of African History *“These are magnificent essays. What this collection shows with great power and verve is that starting early in the last century Africans constructed their own historical accounts using various methods, frameworks, and analytical tools. It adds a dimension to our understanding of the African past—and the African understanding of the African past—that is long overdue.”
£25.19
Ohio University Press Frantz Fanon Toward a Revolutionary Humanism
Book SynopsisA timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee’s account argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.Trade Review“Lee’s marvelous and careful biographical study is now the go-to book for those seeking to understand Frantz Fanon in his historical and intellectual context. It is, simply put, synthesis and analysis at their best.”“This book provides the reader with an invaluable guide to Fanon’s life and an accessible gateway to those interested in further exploring the intellectual worlds in which he developed his thinking..” * Africa at LSE *“Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee’s study admirably situates Fanon in the broadest historical context, while subtly explaining Fanon’s powerful legacy today. This book taught me many things, revealing in intriguing ways the works of a black thinker from Martinique who so passionately embraced the Algerian Revolution, and so ardently desired to be embraced by it.”“In Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, Christopher J. Lee takes on the task of introducing a complex thinker in a short tract…. [He] provides a whirlwind tour of Fanon’s life, ideas and context…. Lee’s reading of Fanon provides a much needed nuance that is often missing when dealing with Fanon.” * Marx and Philosophy *“This smart and much-needed study persuasively resituates the life and thought of Fanon for a twenty-first-century audience.”
£12.99
Ohio University Press Athens and Jerusalem
Book SynopsisFor more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem).
£31.50
Ohio University Press Robert Mugabe
Book SynopsisFor some, Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe is a liberation hero who confronted white rule and oversaw the radical redistribution of land. For others, he is a murderous dictator who drove his country to poverty. This concise biography, in a highly successful series, reveals the complexity of the man who led Zimbabwe for its first decades of independence.Trade Review“In this sober biography of one of Africa’s longest-serving presidents, Onslow and Plaut provide a brief but comprehensive overview of a controversial leader who’s largely reviled in the West but often revered in Africa.…Written in lucid prose, the informative book is commendable for its balanced assessment of 37 years’ worth of very tumultuous events.” * Publishers Weekly *“An excellent, accessible book on the opaque life and legacy of Robert Mugabe.”“Using paradoxes and ironies, [Onslow and Plaut] skillfully portray the dilemma Mugabe weaved Zimbabwe into: ‘support for democracy, good governance, human rights, and rule of law,’ the authors write, yet brutal repression of political opponents; the dispossession of land from former colonial white farmers, and land redistribution creating a new class of a few top official landowners.…Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE Reviews *Praise for the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series: “I am a huge fan of Ohio University Press’s Ohio Short Histories of Africa series. I use them to teach my introductory-level African politics students about oppression, resistance, liberation, and corruption, and I recommend the books to anyone who asks as an affordable and accessible introduction to a wide range of topics in African studies.” * The Washington Post *
£12.99
Ohio University Press Coffee Is Not Forever A Global History of the
Book SynopsisCoffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat—coffee rust—to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity histories’ usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.Trade Review“Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, McCook offers a timely contribution with this forward-looking book, which asks us to consider what social and ecological resilience look like as we advance into an uncertain future. Though formally a work of agricultural history, it will be of use as a detailed reference for researchers outside the discipline, as well as to the particularly curious coffee afcionado.” * Agriculture and Human Values *“McCook makes crucial contributions to a number of related fields that usually don’t intersect: history of science, global history, and commodity studies. His decision to focus on the science of plant disease and the politics and institutions related results in a welcome challenge to the anthropocentrism that too often dominates the study of history. With stunning breadth of research and inquiry, this is a rich and original work.”“Coffee Is Not Forever is top-notch scholarship that provides a rare pan-tropical analysis of the interactions of people, plants, and pathogens in the coffee regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This book will be of immense value to readers interested not only in coffee, but also environmental and commodity histories more broadly. Like all great transnational histories, it is both connected and comparative. And for the latte generation, this book may forever change the way they think about robusta coffee.”“There is an urgent need for books like [this]. Even as people are more attuned than ever before to the grim realities of a pandemic amidst the constant, rapid ricochet of human bodies around the planet, many remain unaware of the epidemics that rage among our most essential companion species—that is, among domesticated crops and livestock. It is possible that zoonotic diseases will garner greater attention thanks to desperate curiosity about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Meanwhile, plant diseases will go on multiplying, with their sustained discussion unlikely outside agroindustry and agronomy. McCook’s timely study makes clear the consequences of collective blindness to these ever-present epidemics in his globe-spanning, 150-year history of Hemileia vastatrix. That is the fungus responsible for coffee leaf rust, a disease for which there is no cure. The measures that have been, and still are being, taken to keep your morning coffee affordable and palatable in light of the rust might provide as much of a jolt as the java itself.” * Environmental History *
£26.09
Ohio University Press Sports in Africa Past and Present
Book SynopsisThrough the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.Trade Review“An extraordinary volume…. Not only is the writing empirically driven, but, more importantly, the theoretic content is grounded in prose that is fresh, vibrant, and something not always associated with what is a university textbook, fascinating. Cleveland, Kaur, and Akindes are to be congratulated for putting together a team that explores complex identities and the dynamic nature of African sport…. Hats off to the Ohio University Press for not only supporting the venture but publishing a book that looks like, and reads like, a classic.” * Journal of Sport History *“A long-overdue project by scholars committed to building African sports studies as a humanities subject. It presents close studies of sports like cycling, surfing, track and field, ultra-marathoning, and weightlifting, which are often neglected in favor of bigger and more popular sports such as soccer, rugby, and cricket. Scholars of social history, nationalism, popular culture, social anthropology, media, and cultural studies will appreciate this book.”“The Sport in Africa collective, active since 2004, has helped kick-start a movement. Here it adds seventeen more topics to the growing corpus of works on African sports history—from surfers in Transkei and women in Nigeria to Kenyan athletes and the football migrations to Europe (happening alongside desperate refugee journeys in the Mediterranean)—showing what a rich field of study sport is becoming.”“Sports in Africa heralds the arrival in sports studies of an empirically rich, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and incisive African-focused genre. The volume demonstrates the centrality and complexity of sport in the daily rhythms and social fabric of life on the continent, across time, and in the formal and informal economies. It challenges longstanding racial, ethnic and cultural stereotypes pertaining to Africans, and dispenses with any notion of fixed and prescribed social and cultural identities.”“This collection of essays opens up the debate on the influences of social history, subaltern studies, and postmodernism in stimulating new research and pedagogical approaches to sport studies in Africa. It offers exemplary studies of mainstream sports (athletics, cricket, football, and rugby) and those on the margins (cycling, surfing, and wrestling) and reflects on the contributions and trajectories of those sporting pasts and their present impacts and meanings across the African continent. A go-to volume for those seeking a solid introduction to the politics, poetics and practices of the fascinating life-worlds of sports in Africa.”
£45.00
Ohio University Press A History of Tourism in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples.Trade Review“Ready for adventure under control? Cleveland’s book invites us to explore the experiences and meanings of tourism in Africa and its profound impact on how the continent is imagined. It also provides a different reading of Western modernity as a producer of otherness through one of its most profitable products: tourism, where verbs such as to travel become to explore and to discover, preserving the allure of colonial sagas and developmental missions. Experience of difference, heritage, traditions, nature, wildlife, and community culture, have been and are (re)shaped, tailored, commodified, and contested in complex and conflicting local-global power relations from the nineteenth century under the dynamics of tourism in the continent. Their impact on African lives is a capital ingredient of this journey confronting artificial Africas with the realities that the tourism industry produces.” -- Mónica Inés Cejas, author of Feminismo, cultura y política: El contexto como acertijo (Feminism, Culture and Politics: Context as a Riddle)“Todd Cleveland brings together significant facets of tourist history on the African continent into one engaging read. Whereas many tourist studies focus on the tourist, vitally, A History of Tourism in Africa illuminates the myriad competing desires at play in all tourist sites—those of tourists, governments, laborers, and local communities. By presenting these competing perspectives on tourism within the thematic frames of his chapters, Cleveland reveals the complicated nature of African tourist industries, as well as how, from the start, they have been interwoven with the history of socio-politico-economic developments across the continent.” -- Carol L. Magee, author of Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg"A seminal and meticulously presented study … [and] an inherently fascinating and impressively informative history. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, A History of Tourism in Africa is an original and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections in African history and cultural anthropology in general, and African hospitality, travel, and tourism supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities 1. Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa 2. Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos 3. Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa 4. Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism 5. The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari 6. Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through “Roots” Tourism 7. Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa Study Guide and Selected Readings Notes Index
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