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Book SynopsisClarence Mitchell Jr. was the driving force in the movement for passage of civil rights laws in America.

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Book SynopsisOnce the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and degraded landscape. The nation’s spectacular erosion and gullying have concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century.Trade Review“Undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. It stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power.”

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Book SynopsisIn September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.”Trade Review“A compelling narrative of the history of nation building in Guinea.... Schmidt deftly portrays the events from an African perspective, using colonial archives, interviews with activists, the era’s popular political songs, and photographs.... What simultaneously emerges in this nuanced treatment is a richer understanding of the pragmatic rather than purely visionary leadership of the famous Sékou Touré.” * CHOICE *“Schmidt’s study is a masterpiece of African, Guinean, and colonial historiography that should be read by all students of empire.” * Journal of Asian and African Studies *“(A) vivid portrait of the political environment and pressures facing the Guinean RDA in the years following the Second World War.…Schmidt’s contributions to the study of the RDA and decolonization in Guinea will likely remain unparalleled for the foreseeable future.” * Jeffrey Ahlman, West Africa Review *“The publication of Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea is a welcome event. Its archival and oral documentation create original possibilities for Anglophone readers in particular to explore diverse dynamics and tensions within late-colonial Guinean society and politics. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *“Although other political histories of Guinea use independence as a starting point, in this work Elizabeth Schmidt takes a critical step back to analyze how Guinea arrived at its historic ‘No’ vote.” * The Historian *“By setting African divisions against an international background of cold war and French repression, (Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea) provides a welcome and informative account, in English, of the distinctive Guinean struggles for independence.” * International History Review *“Unlike a considerable number of works on decolonization in Africa, especially those published in the immediate aftermath of these epochal events, Schmidt moves away from the staple historiography privileging the role of the educated elite and restores the voices of the masses—including those of women—to the history of decolonization.” * African Studies Review *“By shifting the focus from elite to grassroot politics, Schmidt paints a picture of French decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa that is a welcome corrective to those earlier studies that appeared to view decolonization as the outcome of an essentially linear and orderly process, rather than the product of political struggle.” * Journal of African History *“Supported by clear and strong historical evidence, (Elizabeth Schmidt)shows that political decision making in Guinea was far more influenced by the bottom rather than the top.... (Cold War and Decolonization in Africa) is rich with data and empirical examples that illustrate some of the major themes in the history of decolonization, African nationalism, and the rise of one-party states in Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“For students and scholars of diplomacy, Schmidt demonstrates how activists on the local level, in this case Guinean activists, shaped and determined their own destiny in the face of high-level Cold War politics, rather, as is often supposed, than being manipulated by the Great Power actors.” * H-Diplo *“Schmidt highlights a surprisingly overlooked aspect of the decolonization process by integrating Cold War tensions on the macro level into the transformation of local politics on the micro level.” * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisIn September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.”Trade Review“A compelling narrative of the history of nation building in Guinea.... Schmidt deftly portrays the events from an African perspective, using colonial archives, interviews with activists, the era’s popular political songs, and photographs.... What simultaneously emerges in this nuanced treatment is a richer understanding of the pragmatic rather than purely visionary leadership of the famous Sékou Touré.” * CHOICE *“Schmidt’s study is a masterpiece of African, Guinean, and colonial historiography that should be read by all students of empire.” * Journal of Asian and African Studies *“(A) vivid portrait of the political environment and pressures facing the Guinean RDA in the years following the Second World War.…Schmidt’s contributions to the study of the RDA and decolonization in Guinea will likely remain unparalleled for the foreseeable future.” * Jeffrey Ahlman, West Africa Review *“The publication of Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea is a welcome event. Its archival and oral documentation create original possibilities for Anglophone readers in particular to explore diverse dynamics and tensions within late-colonial Guinean society and politics. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *“Although other political histories of Guinea use independence as a starting point, in this work Elizabeth Schmidt takes a critical step back to analyze how Guinea arrived at its historic ‘No’ vote.” * The Historian *“By setting African divisions against an international background of cold war and French repression, (Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea) provides a welcome and informative account, in English, of the distinctive Guinean struggles for independence.” * International History Review *“Unlike a considerable number of works on decolonization in Africa, especially those published in the immediate aftermath of these epochal events, Schmidt moves away from the staple historiography privileging the role of the educated elite and restores the voices of the masses—including those of women—to the history of decolonization.” * African Studies Review *“By shifting the focus from elite to grassroot politics, Schmidt paints a picture of French decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa that is a welcome corrective to those earlier studies that appeared to view decolonization as the outcome of an essentially linear and orderly process, rather than the product of political struggle.” * Journal of African History *“Supported by clear and strong historical evidence, (Elizabeth Schmidt)shows that political decision making in Guinea was far more influenced by the bottom rather than the top.... (Cold War and Decolonization in Africa) is rich with data and empirical examples that illustrate some of the major themes in the history of decolonization, African nationalism, and the rise of one-party states in Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“For students and scholars of diplomacy, Schmidt demonstrates how activists on the local level, in this case Guinean activists, shaped and determined their own destiny in the face of high-level Cold War politics, rather, as is often supposed, than being manipulated by the Great Power actors.” * H-Diplo *“Schmidt highlights a surprisingly overlooked aspect of the decolonization process by integrating Cold War tensions on the macro level into the transformation of local politics on the micro level.” * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisZanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources explain the reasons why.Trade Review“This extraordinary book is not yet available in Tanzania, nor in Swahili, but requests are beginning to trickle in for copies to be shipped, photocopied, begged and borrowed by those who have heard of its explosive contents…. Prefaced by an excellent introduction that demonstrates mastery of Zanzibar’s tangled history, this book will be a key text in Tanzanian history for many years to come.” * Tanzanian Affairs *“(Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar should…be commended for representing two different interpretations of, and positions within, the grander historical narrative, reminding the reader that historical and political events are always influenced and interpreted by individuals.” * African Affairs *“The two narratives provide distinctive and complementary perspectives on the Karume years during which they were politically active: the years between Hamad’s political awakening and Issa’s imprisonment. The introductory material by Burgess himself concisely but competently provides a framework that contextualizes the biographies for those unfamiliar with Zanzibar, while at the same time filling in the relevant details for those who are familiar with the island but less so with the finer details of recent political history.” * The Journal of Modern African Studies *“Issa’s voice is engaging in its contradictions: mischievous, preening, and as generous toward others as toward himself. His amanuensis is to be commended for capturing it on the page…. The memoir by Seif Sharif Hamad is more sober and substantive, if only because it recounts a more impressive resume…. (A)lthough Burgess admits to having fallen for Issa’s personal charms, he clearly is more sympathetic to Hamad’s political vision. And indeed, the final pages of his introduction set out the context of that vision in an admirably concise overview of Zanzibar history.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisHistorians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity.Trade Review“Colonial Meltdown is a must read for scholars and students interested in Northern Nigeria, the Depression, taxation, and the colonial state.…In very accessible prose, supported by meticulous research, (Ochonu) argues convincingly that the collapsing produce prices and dwindling profits of the Great Depression created a distinctive moment in the history of colonial exploitation in Northern Nigeria….” * Journal of African History *“(Colonial Meltdown) presents a persuasive argument that the paralysis of the colonial authorities in the face of unprecedented devastation in Northern Nigerian villages and communities resulted in the undermining of colonial paternalism.” * The American Historical Review *”Colonial Meltdown presents an informative, well-argued and largely persuasive historical narrative that invites further, comparative investigation of the impact of the great depression on colonial economies, as well as offering a detailed case study which Nigeria scholars will find particularly valuable for its focus on a relatively understudied area.” * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *“This book is well researched, elegantly written, and bound to reshape the debate on British imperialism in Africa.” * author of Work and Control in a Peasant Economy *“Ochonu argues eloquently that the Depression was a period of manifest colonial failure which saw the withdrawal of many rural Nigerians from the global economy.” * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *“Altogether, (Colonial Meltdown) is a solid historical analysis with deep insight into the contradictions of the colonial enterprise in nonemirate colonial Northern Nigeria. More important, it provides important signposts for understanding some of the structural antecedents to Nigeria’s problematic postcolonial developmental state.” * African Studies Review *“While previous African historians such as Fred Cooper have revealed the integral efforts of African workers’ resistance during the interwar period, as part and parcel of the decline of the colonial era, Ochonu shifts the timeline to argue that scholars may need to look earlier to the Depression years to seek the catalysts of later anti-colonial struggles.” * Alpata: A Journal of History *“Ochonu has written a widely ranging and richly detailed history of how colonial officials and Northern Nigerians responded to the economic and political challenges posed by the Great Depression.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisRalph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department.Trade Review“The essays collectively situate Bunche as a pioneering scholar of Africa, a tireless advocate of self-determination, and an engaged and determined peace-seeker…. Ralph Bunche was a man of real insight and personal courage, whose analysis of how international oversight can assist disadvantaged peoples achieve real self-determination is still applicable today in countries struggling with political power vacuums and economic hopelessness.” * H-Human Rights *“…a timely and noteworthy tribute in recognition of an outstanding Afro-American with an exceptional career, who notably contributed as much to the state of the art of African Studies in the U.S. as he did to the transition to independence on the African continent….” * Africa Spectrum *

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Book SynopsisIn Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?Trade Review“Original and stimulating, Our New Husbands Are Here challenges traditional historical accounts of gender and tests new concepts and frameworks that promise insightful openings in African studies.”“This refreshingly bold and provocative study of Kankan…draws upon a broad range of sources…. By tracking the constantly shifting means through which households and wealth have been constructed over time, the author sets the reader up extremely well to appreciate the radical shift in the understanding of marriage, households, and gender that was introduced under French colonial rule.” * American Historical Review *“By focusing on the household as a social, political, and economic unit, rather than merely the domain of women, Osborn illuminates the intimate connections between slavery, marriage, and family in West Africa and de-centers the male-dominated state…. Our New Husbands Are Here represents a rethinking of scholarly assumptions about the relationships between gender, power, and the state that provides an important intervention in Africanist scholarship as well as a helpful tool in the classroom.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Emily Osborn has written a highly accessible and well composed social and political history of Kankan covering the period up to the First World War. She explores and impressive variety of sources: oral history, local manuscripts, and archival texts. This work is an important contribution to debates in the social history of West Africa and to gender studies.” * Journal of African History *“Emily Osborn gives us a deep and fascinating insight into the important inland center of Kankan which has been sadly and strangely neglected in the historiography and anthropology of West Africa. She makes an enduring contribution to African history with ripples into the political science and anthropology of household and gender.”“Pathbreaking in its findings and approach, this elegantly written study explores the intimate relationship between household-building and state-building in West Africa over a span of three centuries. Through a sophisticated interrogation of oral and archival sources, Osborn has produced a new understanding of statecraft that bridges the artificial divide between the precolonial and colonial and anchors women firmly at the core.”

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Book SynopsisThis brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the controversies over Julius Malema and his influence in contemporary youth politics.Trade Review“Glaser shows that while the impact of the Youth League has ebbed and flowed, black South Africa youth have shaped the nation's politics in fundamental ways. Authoritative, streamlined, and highly readable, this book deserves a wide readership.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Glaser’s book provides a well-written analysis of the competition between ideologies and strategies within the ANC. … Throughout, Glaser highlights the tensions between those leaders who stood for ideological purity as Africanists and those who gravitated to a more pragmatic approach that stressed ideological pluralism. …[He] …perceptively [analyzes] the ways in which South African youth have ignited and fueled the nationalist cause in South Africa over the last seventy-five years.” * African Studies Review *“As Clive Glaser notes in his nuanced and lively account, the [ANC] Youth League have, at certain times, played a pivotal role in shaping policy in its parent organisation. For Glaser, the rise of the YL needs to be seen in the context of the broader political and economic landscape of industrialisation and urbanisation, when ‘the townships of Johannesburg became an extraordinary melting pot of young, educated Africans’…This book is sure to become required reading for students and scholars of youth politics in South Africa and the continent more widely.” * Journal of African History *

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Book SynopsisBlack Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.Trade Review“Black Skin, White Coats contributes to a rich strand of work in the history of psychiatry that highlights—and in fact insists upon—not just the transnational nature of colonial and postcolonial psychiatric discourses, but the fact that these transnational flows traveled in many directions and crossed borders in surprising ways, often bypassing ‘the Metropole’ altogether…[Heaton’s book] will rightfully be regarded as an important contribution to the history of psychiatry in Africa.” * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *“The book’s greatest achievement may be its demonstration that the rise and fall of social medicine in the second half of the twentieth century is not merely a story about Europeans and Americans attempting to impose their visions on the rest of the world, but also the story of a collaboration — albeit a tense, tenuous, and limited collaboration — in which Africans actively participated.” * Canadian Journal of History *“An important contribution…Heaton’s Black Skin, White Coats … squarely [addresses] the impact of nationalism and decolonisation on health care in Africa. … [it] uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of ‘Western psychiatry…’” * Contemporary European History *“Based on solid research, Black Skin, White Coats is well written and makes for a good read, and should attract a readership in colonial studies, African history, the history of science and medicine, global studies, and development studies.”“Black Skin, White Coats is clearly written and accessible to readers who are not professional historians. While of interest to scholars of African ethno psychiatry, Heaton’s social and historical account of the period from the late 1940s to early 1980s provides an engaging narrative of the complexities of integrating Western psychiatry into an African society within a very compressed time frame. As such, the book should be of interest to a broad range of social scientists as well as the interested lay reader.” * Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry *“Matthew Heaton’s innovative Black Skin, White Coats is the first full-length history of a national mental health system focusing on the transition between the colonial and postcolonial periods.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Black Skin, White Coats uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of “Western” psychiatry and towards a theorization of a “global” psychiatry that recognizes a greater diversity of actors.’ As a result, [Heaton’s] methodological approach … is ripe for comparison to different diseases and public health concerns in other contexts.” * Contemporary European History *

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Book SynopsisThe Clash of Moral Nations is a study of the political culture of interwar Poland, as reflected in and by the May 1926 coup and the following period of “sanacja.”Trade Review“Plach does an excellent job of convincing the reader that her select examples are valuable and insightful. This makes the book—an enlightening look at interwar Poland’s cultural politics—well worth reading by a broad audience.” * Slavic Review *“(T)his is an outstanding analysis of the trauma experienced by Poles in the wake of the realization that independence, on its own account, would not be a guarantee of political stability and national unity.” * The Slavonic and East European Review *“This is an important book, presenting a pioneering, fresh approach to the subject….” * American Historical Review *“Offers insight into the ways in which the boundaries between public and private spheres began to be effaced even before the arrival of totalitarianism…. solidly researched.” * Journal of Modern History *“The Clash of Moral Nations is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in 20th-century East European history.”“This original and readable reassessment of the implications of the connection of politics with a powerful yearning for a far reaching purification of the national condition deserves a prominent place in the scholarly literature on the history of interwar Poland.” * The Polish Review *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv Guide to Pronunciation xvi Introduction Three Days That Shook the Republic, May 12-15, 1926 1 1. Poland's Postwar Moral Panic 17 2. Poland Writes to Piesudski 48 3. Building the Army of Moral Action 76 4. Women's Activism during the Sanacja Period 102 5. The Play-Boy in the Sanacja Nation 133 6. Assessing the Spring of Miracles 158 Notes 165 Bibliography 225 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIn Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state.Trade Review“In eight engaging chapters … Alicia Decker traces the complex relationship between Amin’s regime and Uganda’s women, from the early years when women hailed Amin as a liberator to the darkest period when they hoped and prayed for a Tanzanian army invasion. … The question of how Idi Amin’s regime reorganized gender norms is a crucial one for the book. Decker explores the innovations in gender performance that followed Idi Amin’s rise to power. …This is of course just one of the many rich discussion points that the book gifts the reader with. The book makes a substantial addition to the field of African History. It would work well for courses or discussions on military history, military rule in Africa, women and gender courses, feminist history, postcolonial studies, and Cold War studies.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Alicia Decker uses an array of evidence from oral, visual, and written sources. The result is an impressive compilation of case studies that illustrate the different aspects of women’s experiences and the intricate world they navigated.”“Focusing on the lives of women who survived his rule, Alicia Decker's meticulously researched and crisply written study explains not only why but how Amin’s brutality reached the level it did. This is a particularly important contribution, because Ugandan women have been considered marginal to this sociopolitical history. … Throughout the book she demonstrates the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting historical research on a period that still engenders fearful memories, and the book’s appendix and the section titled ‘Methods and Sources’ provide valuable guidelines for future research.” * African Studies Review *“Decker’s study is a fine contribution to histories of militarism in Africa, African gender studies, the study of the state in Africa, and scholarship on Uganda in the 1970s in particular. …[she] provides an excellent example of the possibilities of feminist history writing by placing gender and militarism side-by-side in her study; she also offers a lucid and highly sought-after account of everyday lived experience during an era that continues to be characterized by an architecture of silence in Uganda today.” * Journal of African History *“Unlike most previous publications on Amin that mainly focus on political aspects, this work is a sociopolitical history highlighting the experiences of ordinary Ugandans in general and women in particular. … [It] is an excellent, pioneering masterpiece and Decker [should be] commended for producing such an insightful, readable book.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[In Idi Amin's Shadow] should appeal to historians of postcolonial Africa as well as those who study military dictatorships and those interested in gender studies. It is clearly written and although Decker does not shy away from describing the violence inflicted on Ugandans and others, she does not either indulge in gratuitous detail. The combination of a narrative history of Amin’s regime alongside the focus on gender and violence and the many illustrations should make it useful for undergraduate teaching.” * Journal of African Military History *“A subtle, important, theoretically innovative, and elegantly written study that centralizes feminist thinking and shows why it matters.” * Feminist Africa *“In Idi Amin’s Shadow is the first book to extensively explore women’s lives in the ‘shadows’ of military rule in 1970s Uganda. Decker’s book presents an engaging, accessible and welcome examination of women’s ‘complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state,’ showing how the state’s use of violence offered opportunities as well as threats for women.” * Africa at LSE *"A riveting historical masterpiece." * Nation *

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Book SynopsisFrom 1952 to 1981, South Africa's apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed in a remote former mission station. It is the story of a community that made its way through the travails of white supremacist South Africa and demonstrates how the art students and teachers made together became the art of their lives.Daniel Magaziner radically reframes apartheid-era South African history. Against the dominant narrative of apartheid oppression and black resistance, as well as recent scholarship that explores violence, criminality, and the hopeless entanglements of the apartheid state, this book focuses instead on a small group's efforts to fashion more fulfilling lives for its members and their community through the ironic medium of the apartheid-era school.There Trade Review“Daniel Magaziner tells a profoundly human story of the institutional and social constraints under which African artists operated and the different ways in which they sought to find a way to produce beauty in the midst of oppression.”“Ultimately, Magaziner reflects that approaching the history of complex and compromised communities like Ndaleni through the overarching nationalist frame of the South African liberation struggle does not allow enough space for difficult, nuanced, and fragile realities to surface.…Magaziner's carefully wrought study provides insights into the impetuses and negotiations, features and weaknesses, of a highly constrained, imbalanced, and charged setting.…The extended nature of the study does require a little stamina, but its achievement in being theoretically rich and sensitively argued more than sustains the reader. Its liberal incorporation of photographs (over a hundred), mostly of former students' artwork, not only vivifies the study, but is a valuable act of archival recuperation.” * Canadian Journal of History *“The Art of Life in South Africa is a richly suggestive and moving contribution to South African intellectual history. Weaving in a highly imaginative way the two concepts of life and art, Magaziner opens unique pathways for research in the historical sociology of the object-worlds South Africans invented, created and inhabited during the long twentieth-century. Written with extraordinary clarity and precision, this book will appeal to anyone curious about new trends in the historiography of culture.”“The Art of Life is an impressive work that is sure to become a basic text in the field of African cultural history. Ndaleni will no longer be forgotten.” * African Studies Review *“The Art of Life in South Africa contributes to a global conversation about ‘art’ and ‘craft’at the same time as it challenges neat distinctions between center and periphery, metropole and margins. Art education provides rich terrain through which the entangled relations of modernity, subjectivity, and materiality can be explored. This book is as important for students of global modernism as it is for scholars of South African art, history and politics.”“The Art of Life in South Africa is beautifully rendered, well researched, and tells an important, scarcely told story. Combining in exciting ways intellectual, cultural, and social historical approaches, Magaziner offers a meditation on what happens if we examine a past that is shaped by broader historical forces (in this case apartheid) but that cannot be reduced to them.”“In this beautifully written book, Dan Magaziner opens a small story to reveal expansive, deep questions. The Art of Life in South Africa offers an unexpected and transcendent intellectual history of African self-making and art practice.”“The Art of Life in South Africa is an astonishing book, powerfully constructed, intricately researched, and gorgeously written. From the focused study of individual lives and practices that flourished in and around the Ndaleni art school, Magaziner extends the possibilities of a more democratic form of art history.”

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Book SynopsisIn twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity.Trade Review“Provocative and meticulously researched, Ocobock’s book demonstrates the importance of age and masculinity in Kenyan history. Readers will appreciate the elegant prose and arresting detail of this rigorous narrative history. Ocobock is unquestionably a historian and writer of first rank.”“In Ocobock’s work, intriguing tales about male initiation and other coming-of-age practices show how African youth and elders struggled with colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, and nationalist leaders over the meanings of manhood. His nuanced analysis enriches and expands the history of masculinities.”“In demonstrating the centrality of concerns over age and gender, Ocobock offers a brilliant means of reconceiving Kenyan history beyond the more usual focus on ethnicity. Linking the processes of growing up and state making, he deftly shows how gendered notions of maturity have shaped Kenya’s politics. This superb book will find a wide and appreciative audience.”“With a sure command of the literature, Ocobock argues for the increased importance of gender and generation for historical research.…The core of the book, based on archival material and in-depth interviews, contrasts the colonial era ‘elder state’ to the contemporary postcolonial situation. Although these chapters are informative and detailed, the introductory chapter alone is worth the price of admission’…Summing up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Compellingly elucidates that Kenya as a colony was no seamless well-oiled machine, but rather a ‘crowded, cacophonous place’ of religious leaders, judges, wardens, and other authorities who all had frequently competing visions about how to shape age and manhood.” * African Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisIn this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate former South African president Thabo Mbeki’s contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.Trade Review“The author’s readable style summarizes the contours of Mbeki’s life from his childhood with activist parents to student defiance of apartheid, then exile to Britain and across Africa, where Oliver Tambo groomed him for leadership…. The book succeeds as a balanced, easy-to-read, yet insightful biography. Like other titles in the “Ohio Short Histories of Africa” series, students will benefit from the book’s succinctness … Summing Up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“The book meticulously captures the thoughts, personality and idiosyncrasies of a man whose legacy in South Africa and abroad is mixed.…Departing from other biographies of Mbeki, the book offers a careful analytical balance between Mbeki’s domestic policy and foreign policy.…At a time [when] the African continent is toying with the idea of new Pan-Africanism – imbued with Mbeki’s idea of African renaissance, the book can offer an important historical context to the same.” * Africa@LSE *

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Book SynopsisIn 1995, South Africa’s new government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a lynchpin of the country’s journey forward from apartheid.

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Book SynopsisFrom his anti-colonial military leadership to the presidency of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Although killed in a 1987 plane crash, for many Mozambicans his memory lives on as a beacon of hope for the future.Trade Review“Allen the idealist and Barbara the sceptic joined forces to provide us with a portrait of a great African leader that is rich, loving, and incisive.”“An all-encompassing book that covers the major events in Mozambique’s modern history … recommended to all scholars of Mozambique.” * American Historical Review *“Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the impact of Samora Machel on Mozambique and the African continent.”“Acutely attuned to the politics of memory, the authors scrutinize a diverse—often conflicting—array of public and private archival sources, memoirs, scholarly literature, and oral sources to assess the life of this remarkable, complex African leader.”“Lively, accessible, and ideal for undergraduate teaching and the wider reading public."“A comprehensive, up-to-date, expanded perspective on Samora Machel’s political thought, his contributions to international socialism, and his leadership. The authors knew Machel, and their exceptional access enriches the text with accounts of his personal life and controversial death.”“The authors have achieved a compelling narrative of how Samora shaped post-colonial events in Mozambique and how the leader’s personality and life trajectory were transformed by these same events. Students and all those readers interested in learning more about Mozambique’s recent history will find this book a great introductory read.” * Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Albie Sachs Acknowledgments Prologue: The Challenge of Representation 1. Living Colonialism The Making of an Insurgent 2. The Early Political Education of Samora Machel The Making of a Freedom Fighter, ca. 1950–63 3. The Struggle within the Struggle, 1962–70 4. Samora and the Armed Struggle, 1964–75 5. Politics, Performance, and People’s Power, 1975–ca. 1977 115 6. Samora Machel’s Marxism and the Defense of the Revolution, 1977–82 7. The Unraveling of Mozambique’s Socialist Revolution, 1983–86 8. Who Killed Samora? 9. The Political Afterlife of Samora and the Politics of Memory Conclusion: Samora Revisited Notes Recommended Reading Index

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Book SynopsisGeorge M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime.Trade Review“Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Sheila D. Collins, one of the most prolific—and progressive—authors of her generation, has just gifted us with her latest work, a biography of the anti-apartheid activist George Houser. Deftly written and passionately argued, this is the definitive account of one of the most important US activists of the latter part of the twentieth century.”“This book will inspire you to follow your social justice conscience and act. George Houser spent his life acting for and with people whose voices had been muted by oppression. He challenged unjust wars, racial segregation in the United States, and colonialism across the globe and, especially, in Africa. For me he will be best be remembered for fighting apartheid. I was lucky to join him in the latter years of the struggle and to stand together on the steps of the Union Buildings in Pretoria at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration. George Houser is nothing short of a hero. His story has been brilliantly told by Sheila Collins and is a must read for anyone seeking inspiration that anything and everything is possible.”

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Book SynopsisThrough detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda’s strategies for good government—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—and explains why East African party politics often fail.Trade ReviewIn this thought-provoking new book Holly Hanson has cut clean through the conventional but hated three-part periodization of African historiography—pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial—with its equally unhelpful oppositions of tradition and modernity. With persuasive evidence she shows that Ugandans have for centuries sought consultative, accountable governance, often with institutional checks on the caprice of kings, governors, or presidents. They have long spoken up in public in the conviction that loyalty from below deserves attention from above, and now hope that premodern strategies to secure good governance will help to conjure up a better modernity. -- John Lonsdale, coauthor of Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and AfricaThis book ‘speaks loudly’ in the hope that it will ‘be heard.’ Holly Hanson successfully demonstrates how in pursuit of a just and moral polity, physical and conceptual spaces created out of people’s presence and actions provided an opportunity through which people can speak to the powerful and expect to be heard. To Speak and be Heard is a prototype of how a blended study of overt ‘spaces’ and ‘speaking’ can reveal larger political engagement and accountability trends in a complex and rapidly changing world. It superbly demonstrates how those trends could be encapsulated and discerningly written about in the twenty-first century. -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, University of Toronto, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in UgandaHolly Hanson weaves into her account of good government a history of inequality, revealing the kind of thing that can make the formula for direct democracy fail to produce the desired results and atrophy. The next challenge is to speak up, be heard, and figure out the obligations that will diminish inequality. Crossing all major periods in Ugandan history, but focused on the last century and a half, this is a landmark book in African history. -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930Holly Hanson’s survey has unearthed massive evidence to show that autocracy, one person rule and tyranny did not define African precolonial systems, much as western visitors focused on it or as current media depicts African systems of governance. [Hanson] proves that there were defined mechanisms for the expression … of alternative views of managing society. These views were implemented because there were ample spaces for people to speak and be heard. -- A.B.K. Kasozi, author of The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964–1985Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient East Africa Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of Amin Conclusion: The Shape of the Present Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales.Trade Review“Village Work provides new, critical perspectives on debates about development in both scholarship and practice. By placing the village at the center of development politics, Wiemers challenges conventional understandings of statecraft and humanizes the development process at all levels, detailing the improvisations and inconsistencies that lay behind the promise of ‘progress.’”“Village Work offers a sophisticated analysis of small-scale development projects in rural Ghana while bringing visibility to the ‘hinterland statecraft’ of local communities as they navigated the rising developmentalist states in the twentieth century. Deftly written and superbly argued, Wiemers illuminates the ‘useable fictions’ of rural sameness that government and NGO employees operationalized to justify their homogenizing of villages and rural space across Africa.”“Village Work is a timely and fascinating multilayered history of development in Ghana. Using the village of Kpasenkpe in northern Ghana as the focus, Alice Wiemers has written a penetrating study of the ‘performance’ of development in Africa from the family unit to the village, national, and international levels.”“This is a phenomenal piece of scholarship, which will be of interest to scholars of development, statecraft, and labor in Africa and beyond.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisGeorge M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime.Trade Review“Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Sheila D. Collins, one of the most prolific—and progressive—authors of her generation, has just gifted us with her latest work, a biography of the anti-apartheid activist George Houser. Deftly written and passionately argued, this is the definitive account of one of the most important US activists of the latter part of the twentieth century.”“This book will inspire you to follow your social justice conscience and act. George Houser spent his life acting for and with people whose voices had been muted by oppression. He challenged unjust wars, racial segregation in the United States, and colonialism across the globe and, especially, in Africa. For me he will be best be remembered for fighting apartheid. I was lucky to join him in the latter years of the struggle and to stand together on the steps of the Union Buildings in Pretoria at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration. George Houser is nothing short of a hero. His story has been brilliantly told by Sheila Collins and is a must read for anyone seeking inspiration that anything and everything is possible.”

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Book SynopsisChris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the transition to democracy but also prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela, which accelerated the process.Trade Review“Hugh Macmillan’s astute scholarship, literary skill, and close proximity to the legendary Chris Hani combine to make this book an engrossing portrayal of South Africa’s iconic guerrilla commander and communist leader. I read it at one unputdownable session and, as much as I intimately knew Chris Hani, [I] learnt much from, and enjoyed, the author’s unique insight.”“A much-needed biography of a significant political figure, Hugh Macmillan’s Chris Hani is the standard account of a man increasingly enveloped in myth.”“Macmillan’s short biography of SACP general secretary and ANC/MK leader Chris Hani is both accessible and academically rigorous, providing the best available introduction to Hani’s life, leadership style, political vision, and human qualities which make him one of South Africa’s liberation struggle most beloved figures.”Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Roots in the Eastern Cape 2. Armed struggle 3. The Wankie Campaign 4. After Wankie and Sipolilo: The Hani Memorandum 5. The Morogoro Conference and after 6. Interlude in Lesotho, 1975–82 7. Political commissar: Zambia, Angola, Mozambique 8. From people’s war to negotiations 9. Visions of a new South Africa Postscript Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.Trade Review“For those content to see Mandela as nothing more than everyone’s favorite grandpa, this book will make for uncomfortable reading; for those who want to appreciate Mandela in the fullness of his life and of the choices he made with that complex and remarkable life, this humdinger of a book will help them see Mandela in a new and more illuminating light.” -- Jacob S. T. Dlamini, author of Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle“Landau is rightly incensed with the elite nationalism of the ANC and hints at how its fault lines can be traced back to the sectarian pressure groups within the 1960s struggle movement. The ANC hardly has ‘a good story to tell,’ but something truly fresh, even sympathetic, emerges when the story of the struggle for liberation is not homogenized around their triumphalist mono-narrative tropes. Landau’s book leads the pack here.” -- Rithuli Orleyn * Mail and Guardian *“This retelling of the story of Nelson Mandela’s armed rebellion between 1960 and 1964 is a fresh and exciting reinterpretation of a narrative that too often is told with the distorting effects of hindsight. Paul Landau has drawn upon conversations with a literal army of informed participants, 250 people from the movement that Mandela helped to make, its commanders, its foot-soldiers, and its camp-followers. He has also reread and reinterpreted the compendious archival record. Emerging from this research is a very different Mandela from the kindly patriarch who wrote his memoirs thirty years after these events: radical, tough-minded, and calculating. This is the story of what Nelson Mandela at the time of the rebellion was seeking to achieve, what he was thinking, and what he actually did, day by day. Most importantly, Landau offers new and persuasive explanations for the considerations that shaped Mandela’s decision-making. Spear is an astonishing breakthrough achievement.” -- Tom Lodge, University of Limerick, author of Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences“Paul Landau offers us an outstanding book on Umkhonto we Sizwe, with the figure of Nelson Mandela at the centre of the story. He pays close attention to affective relationships among protagonists, all too rare among male scholars. The book connects biography to strategic political thinking in interesting new ways. Written in Landau’s trademark lucid and engaging style, the study is critical even while appreciative of the heroic ambitions of his subject. This gripping read is a meticulous and pathbreaking contribution to scholarship on revolutionary movements as well as to South African historiography.” -- Shireen Hassim, author of Fatima Meer and The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics“Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries is one of the most important books on South Africa to appear in more than a generation. A masterpiece of analysis and careful historical reconstruction, Landau revisits a crucial moment in the country’s modern history, when a group of activists turned revolutionaries led by Nelson Mandela pursued the overthrow of the racist apartheid state. Concentrating on the early 1960s at the very moment South Africa was becoming an authoritarian order, Landau brilliantly reconstructs the world within which Mandela and others around him committed themselves to revolutionary violence—what they read, the debates that unfolded and, crucially, how they understood South Africa in the wider world. Based on unparalleled research, including an extraordinary array of interviews, Spear takes on a range of controversial subjects: the decision to use violence, the fractious struggles within the ANC’s leadership, and Nelson Mandela himself. Empathic and iconoclastic, Landau’s discoveries may unsettle some readers, but no one will be able to look at the early 1960s the way they used to, as well as the ANC’s three decade-old grip on South Africa. This timely and learned book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in South Africa, political violence, and the end of colonialism." -- Clifton Crais, author of Poverty, War, and Violence in South AfricaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Crisis (March 1960) Chapter 2 The Making of the Crisis (The Postwar Era) Chapter 3 Emergency Mobilization (April 1960 to Early 1961) Chapter 4 Persuasion (June 1961 to August 1961) Chapter 5 Mandela’s Bookcase (1961) Chapter 6 Spear (Late 1961) Chapter 7 Dingane’s Day (December 1961 to Early July 1962) Chapter 8 Interruption (Mid-1962) Chapter 9 Big Country (Later 1962) Chapter 10 Operation Mayibuye (November 1962 to June 1963) Chapter 11 In Pieces (Mid-1963 to Mid-1964) Chapter 12 Revolution Displaced (1963/4 Onward) Appendix A Missing Documents Mentioned in This Book Appendix B Mandela, Communist (Nationalist) Notes Sources Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions by new and established Africanist scholars, this volume is the first book-length treatment of “martial race” in Africa.Trade ReviewThis superb collection represents one of the most exciting interventions in the field of African military history for many years. The volume makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of the function and form of colonial armies in Africa, as well as of their socioeconomic, cultural, and political impacts. -- Richard Reid, University of OxfordAn important collection of essays illustrating the need for continued research on the complexities and changes around military identities in African history. -- Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary

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Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions by new and established Africanist scholars, this volume is the first book-length treatment of “martial race” in Africa.Trade ReviewThis superb collection represents one of the most exciting interventions in the field of African military history for many years. The volume makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of the function and form of colonial armies in Africa, as well as of their socioeconomic, cultural, and political impacts. -- Richard Reid, University of OxfordAn important collection of essays illustrating the need for continued research on the complexities and changes around military identities in African history. -- Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“As a former White House physician, I believe this probing investigation of presidential health (and the possibility for White House cover-ups of illness and incapacity), as well as the blatant disregard from the 25th Amendment’s provisions for orderly transfer of power, will furnish Washington with powerful medical dramas.“Hidden Illness in the White House clearly sets forth the danger of an incapacitated president, with the resulting chances for nuclear disaster, and will help make the health of the president as much a public issues as competence and performance in office.”—Rear Admiral William M. Lukash, M.D., former White House physician, Medical Corps, USN (Ret.)“The next President of the United States and the President’s physician should be the first ones to read Hidden Illness in the White House. The authors tell a fascinating story, alerting us to the danger to our country if we do not hereafter insist on obtaining accurate information about the health of candidates for the presidency before we vote.”—Herbert Brownell, former Attorney General of the United StatesTable of ContentsForeword / Birch Bayh vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Illness and History: An Overview 1 2. Woodrow Wilson: Strokes, Versailles, and the Pathology of Politics 13 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Diagnosis of an "Unexpected" Death 75 4. Diplomacy and Failing Health: Roosevelt and the Final Decline 121 5. John F. Kennedy: "I'm the Healthiest Candidate" 160 6. The Twenty-fifth Amendment and the Decisions of History 203 Notes 243 Index 263

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Book SynopsisReligious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings, and in playing this role have frequently been a source of frustration to the Communist Party elites. This book deals with this topic.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xi Part I. Comparative Analysis 1. The Interplay of Religious Policy and Nationalities Policy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / Pedro Ramet 3 2. The Historical Role of Religious Institutions in Eastern Europe and Their Place in the Communist Party-State / Peter F. Sugar 42 3. Jewish Nationality and Religion in the USSR and Eastern Europe / Zvi Gitelman 59 Part II. The Soviet Union 4. The "Russian Orientation" and the Orthodox Church: From the Early Slavophiles to the "Neo-Slavophiles" in the USSR / Dimitry Pospielovsky 81 5. Catholicism and Nationalism in Lithuania / Kęstutis K. Girnius 109 6. Religion and Nationalism in Ukraine / Vasyl Markus 138 7. Religion and Nationalism in Soviet Georgia and Armenia / S. F. Jones 171 8. Islam and Nationalism in Soviet Central Asia / James Critchlow 196 Part III. Eastern Europe 9. The Luther Revival: Aspects of National Abgrenzung and Confessional Gemeinschaft in the Germanic Democratic Republic / Dan Beck 223 10. Church and Nationality in Postwar Poland / Vincent C. Chrypinski 241 11. Christianity and National Heritage among the Czechs and Slovaks / Pedro Ramet 264 12. Religion and Nationalism in Hungary / Leslie László 286 13. Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslavia / Pedro Ramet 299 14. Religion and Nationalism in Romania / Trond Gilberg 328 15. Nationalism and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church / Spas T. Raikin 352 16. The Fate of Islam in the Balkans: A Comparison of Four State Policies / Zachary T. Irwin 378 Part IV. Conclusion 17. Conclusion / Pedro Ramet 411 Notes 425 About the Contributors 499 Index 503

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Explorations in Political Psychology provides a much-needed framework for organizing the multi-disciplinary, multi-method research that characterizes the field of political psychology. The authors have also assembled some of the best examples of that research. The volume is equally useful to the beginning student and the advanced researcher."—Gregory Markus, University of Michigan"This book will be indispensable to any serious student of political psychology. The editors, themselves among the most prominent schoalrs in the field, have brought together a first-rate lineup of authors. Not only are the chapters comprehensive, but they offer [many] ideas for future research. More than anything else, this reader says that political psychology has a bright future."—James H. Kuklinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgments xi I. Interdisciplinary Cross-Fertilization 1. An Overview of the Field of Political Psychology / Shanto Iyengar 3 2. The Poly-Psy Relationship: Three Phases of a Long Affair / William J.McGuire 9 3. Psychohistory and Political Psychology: A Comparative Analysis / William McKinley Runyan 36 II. Attitudes and Behavior 4. Political Perception / Donald Granberg 70 5. Symbolic Politics: A Socio-Psychological Theory / David O. Sears 113 6. Nonverbal Behavior and Leadership: Emotion and Cognition in Political Information Processing / Roger D. Masters and Denis G. Sullivan 150 7. The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective / James Sidanius 183 III. Information Processing and Cognition 8. Inside the Mental Voting Booth: An Impression-Driven Process Model of Candidate Evaluation / Milton Lodge and Patrick Stroh 225 9. Political Information Processing / Robert S. Wyer, Jr., and Victor C. Ottati 264 10. Affect and Political Judgment / Victor C. Ottati and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. 296 IV. Decision Making and Choice 11. Information and Electoral Attitudes: A Case of Judgment Under Uncertainty / Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar 321 12. The Drunkard's Search / Robert Jervis 338 13. Decision Making in Presidential Primaries / Samuel L. Popkin 361 14. Cognitive Structural Analysis of Political Rhetoric: Methodological and Theoretical Issues / Philip E. Tetlock 380 References 407 Index 467 Contributors 483

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinary book. Martha Kaplan’s cultural analysis of Fijian politics is complex and subtle."—Henry J. Rutz, Hamilton College"Inherently multidisciplinary, Neither Cargo nor Cult is terrific. Linked with both general theoretical issues and the rich anthropological literature on Fijian societies, it consistently breaks new ground, charting new directions on the relationship between history and culture, and raising effectively perspectives not usually considered on the Fijian ethnographic record. There is nothing quite like it for Fiji or for the Pacific—and little from any other parts of the world."—Donald Brenneis, Pitzer College

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Burnham’s smart, loud, and hedonistic tour of Fredric Jameson’s writings is full of surprises and new perspectives—not just on Jameson’s work but on theory, politics, and culture more generally. Self-described ‘brutalist,’ Burnham’s almost breathless way of approaching his topics is entertainingly original. He ends with a challenging ‘synoptic’ version of Jameson’s work that will affect not only readers of Jameson’s work, but anyone interested in the politics of cultural forms in the era of ‘late capitalism.’"—Paul Smith, Carnegie Mellon University"Clint Burnham gives Jameson’s career a fantastic and impious and appealing new life. The Jamesonian Unconscious is a young, lively, street-wise, culturally cool reappropriation of a tradition of thought often associated with graying white male modernists. It has something of that elusive style I’ve heard personified, wistfully, as ‘Camille Paglia of the left.’ People will remember it when nine-tenths of the scholarly books published are just titles in a library catalog."—Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Juhasz’s perspective as an academic, activist, and videomaker produces an analysis that combines broad social analysis and a culturally informed feminist politics with the work of producing AIDS video. AIDS TV challenges the standard disciplinary compartmentalizing of AIDS scholarship and service work and brings a welcome critical focus on a body of work often treated as purely educational, but not as art."—Paula Treichler, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For those confused by the giddy climate of recent Cold War revisionism, Nadel is a sure-footed guide to the cultural politics of the period. In pursuit of its solid claims, Containment Culture makes satisfying connections between far flung domains of American expression.”—Andrew Ross"In Containment Culture Alan Nadel conducts a cultural critique of postwar literature, film, and popular culture in order to show how the national culture during the cold war worked to contain subversive energies. With its power lying not in abstract formulation, but in the incisive readings of a wide array of works, this book will significantly advance our evolving understanding of cold war and post-cold war U. S. culture."—Pat O’Donnell, Purdue University"We are just beginning to grasp the extent to which U. S. culture of the past fifty years has been dominated and guided by Cold War paradigms. Containment Culture will add significantly to that growing body of scholarship."— Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

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Book SynopsisHow is history produced? How do individuals write or rewrite their parts while engaged in the production of history? This book takes the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions.

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Book SynopsisHow is history produced? How do individuals write or rewrite their parts while engaged in the production of history? This book takes the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions.

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Book SynopsisFeatures ten interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of Gy'rgy Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era. This book provides a biographical synopsis of Lukacs and discusses his important theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students and scholars of Marxism and critical theory.Trade Review“These interviews have a spontaneity and range of inquiry that show a creative, synthetic, and first-rate intellect at work. Lukács After Communism contributes significantly to the current critical reassessment of the Marxist tradition.”—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University“This is an important project. Lukács remains a vital thinker, whom we must not dismiss but seek to understand more deeply in light of recent history. Corredor is a very skillful interviewer, with an obvious command of both the Lukácsean corpus and of the various theoretical and critical tendencies represented by her interviewees.”—Neil Larsen, Northeastern University

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Book SynopsisExamines the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its decline after 1991. This book argues that anti-nuclear activism was a surrogate for nationalism, and a means of demanding greater local self-determination under the Soviet system.Trade Review“Eco-nationalism is an outstanding work and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of the relationship between environmental activism and national awakening during the Gorbachev era. It is an absolute must for those who want to understand the source, causes, and dynamics of nationalism in late- and post-communist society.”—John Löwenhardt, Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, Leiden University“This is a superb study that combines theoretical insight with extensive, on-site research in three republics of the former Soviet Union. Unique in its systematic comparisons of social movements in the three republics, and in its exploration of the interaction among issues of environmentalism, nationalism and political participation. A “must read” for students of communist and post-communist systems.”—George W. Breslauer, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisExamines the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. This work argues that anti-nuclear activism was a means of demanding local self-determination under the Soviet system.Trade Review“Eco-nationalism is an outstanding work and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of the relationship between environmental activism and national awakening during the Gorbachev era. It is an absolute must for those who want to understand the source, causes, and dynamics of nationalism in late- and post-communist society.”—John Löwenhardt, Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, Leiden University“This is a superb study that combines theoretical insight with extensive, on-site research in three republics of the former Soviet Union. Unique in its systematic comparisons of social movements in the three republics, and in its exploration of the interaction among issues of environmentalism, nationalism and political participation. A “must read” for students of communist and post-communist systems.”—George W. Breslauer, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisOnce a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organisation in Europe. This book analyses the Front's history, from its creation in 1972 and outcast status in the early 1980s to its achievement of broad-based support and show of political strength in the 1997 elections.Trade Review“[T]he most up-to-date and comprehensive study [of the French National Front] in English.” - Robert Tombs, Times Literary Supplement“[A] fine book on an important and controversial topic.” - Paul Seaton, Perspectives on Political Science“DeClair offers a detailed survey of the Front’s electoral successes and the narrative account in the two chapters dealing with this process is comprehensive and informative. The interviews with party representatives, and their responses to DeClair’s questionnaires, flesh out the picture of the Front’s development and give an authentic feel to the descriptions of how the growth of the party took shape.” - Jim Wolfreys, Contemporary Politics“[A]n informative and intriguing treatment of elite opinion within the party, drawing heavily upon original interviews. The broad endorsement of neoliberalism through most of the Front’s formative period is particularly well rendered, as is the switch to more nationalistic economics in this decade. . . . [A] highly useful book. . . .” - Bruce Morrison, Governance“A thorough and engaging study of the development of France’s Front National . . . . Based upon his commendable body of evidence, DeClair produces an eminently readable survey of the Front National’s history, leaders and future prospects.” - William M. Downs, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics“Politics on the Fringe is simply the best book on the French National Front available in the English language. Intelligent, original, thoughtful, careful, and well-written, it is a marvelous mixture of primary and secondary research. Its insights into the minds and motives of the National Front and its supporters will undoubtedly serve as the foundation for our understanding of this important far right group for years to come.”—Anthony Messina, Tufts University“The specter of right-wing populism presents a major challenge to the party systems of western Europe. By taking an empirically-based, ideologically-neutral approach to a very emotional subject, Politics on the Fringe offers a deeper understanding of the National Front and a greater insight into its internal organizational behavior.”—Vincent E. McHale, Case Western Reserve University“[A] fine book on an important and controversial topic.” -- Paul Seaton * Perspectives on Political Science *“[A]n informative and intriguing treatment of elite opinion within the party, drawing heavily upon original interviews. The broad endorsement of neoliberalism through most of the Front’s formative period is particularly well rendered, as is the switch to more nationalistic economics in this decade. . . . [A] highly useful book. . . .” -- Bruce Morrison * Governance *“[T]he most up-to-date and comprehensive study [of the French National Front] in English.” -- Robert Tombs * TLS *“A thorough and engaging study of the development of France’s Front National . . . . Based upon his commendable body of evidence, DeClair produces an eminently readable survey of the Front National’s history, leaders and future prospects.” -- William M. Downs * Nationalism and Ethnic Politics *“DeClair offers a detailed survey of the Front’s electoral successes and the narrative account in the two chapters dealing with this process is comprehensive and informative. The interviews with party representatives, and their responses to DeClair’s questionnaires, flesh out the picture of the Front’s development and give an authentic feel to the descriptions of how the growth of the party took shape.” -- Jim Wolfreys * Contemporary Politics *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The French Far Right: The Legacy of History 2. The Far Right Reappears: The Creation of the National Front 3. Initial Success: Election Victories in 1984 and 1986 4. Legislative Losses and Beyond 5. The Political Agenda of the National Front 6. The Leadership and Organization of the National Front 7. Voting for the National Front 8. The Far Right in Comparative Perspective Conclusion Afterword Appendix 1. Elected and Party Positions Held by Respondents in 1988 Appendix 2. Evolution of the National Front's Political Bureau Notes Bibiliography Index

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Book SynopsisShows how the Indian peasants played a crucial role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, this book highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru.Trade Review“An innovative, eloquent, and thoroughly researched study on the political culture of an important Andean region during the transition from colonial to republican order.”—Nils Jacobsen, University of Illinois“This pioneering study of the changing links between the state and its Indian subjects during the transition to the Republic is not only a truly brilliant reconstruction of a complex and enigmatic process but a vital contribution to the current effort to make sense of the painful birth of modern Spanish America.”—Tulio Halperín Donghi, University of California, Berkeley“This is a very good book, and may even come to be a classic in this cutting-edge sub-field of Latin American history. The research is impressively deep, the writing clear, engaging, and rising at points to lyricism.”—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego

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Book SynopsisCentring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism.Trade Review“Placing working people—their values, interests, and struggles—at the center of history, Findlay elucidates the intersections of the public and the private, of moralizing discourses, class relations, and political visions and provides new perspectives on the political meanings of divorce, prostitution, and respectability in Puerto Rico. An imaginative, pathbreaking book.”—Catherine Le Grand, McGill University“The dynamics of racism, class prejudice, and sexism work differently and only reveal how they gear in with each other at specific historical moments. Findlay has addressed these issues with confidence and éclat; the result is both careful and passionate.”—Sidney W. Mintz, author of Caribbean Transformations and Sweetness and Power“[A] welcome addition to the emerging field of gender studies in Latin American societies and to the recent studies challenging the presentation of these societies as racial democracies. . . . Findlay has produced a challenging work on the moral values and struggles of working women and men.” -- Aline Helg * American Historical Review *“[P]athbreaking . . . . Its publication is the cause of celebration not only for historians of Puerto Rico in search of empirical knowledge. . . but for those who might be seeking useful comparative perspectives and innovative theoretical tools to apply to their own work. . . . Here is a book that will change the way Puerto Ricans think about themselves and the way that historians perceive their objects of study.” -- Teresita Martínez Vergne * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Findlay proceeds by undertaking a penetrating look at Puerto Rican campaigns to reform marriage, anti-prostitution crusades, and working-class attempts to forge an alternative to the Liberal consensus of the time. . . . What may be most interesting about Imposing Decency is Suárez Findlay’s willingness to go beyond the dual proposition of resistance and accommodation. . . . The time frame of Imposing Decency is also significant. By straddling the last years of Spanish colonial rule and the first two decades of U.S. hegemony, Findlay opens a window into a social and cultural clash whose ramifications extended throughout twentieth-century Puerto Rico and reshaped the Puerto Rican domestic sphere in new and dramatic ways.” -- José O. Díaz * Latin American Research Review *"[A] vivid example of the best historical scholarship on gender and culture in early twentieth-century U.S. overseas imperialism. . . . [R]aise[s] important theoretical questions about the relationship between culture and power that historians must continue to examine. . . . Findlay tells a fascinating story whose insights into agency and resistance, and into the inseparability of gender, class, and race, offer vital lessons for all historians. Her careful readings of the politics of everyday life effectively convey the power that women had to control their own lives under colonial regimes and make Imposing Decency the culmination of a line of scholarly inquiry in women’s history." -- Christopher Capozzola * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"Findlay cogently argues that the legacy of racializing practices and sexual norms in the formation of the colonial state persisted in complex, sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle ways, despite emergent ideological and political shifts in early twentieth-century Puerto Rico." -- Arlene Torres * New West Indian Guide *

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Book Synopsis"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina.Trade Review“At the level of most political science literature on urban poverty and clientelism, this work is genuinely pathbreaking. Combining the best of ‘thick description’ ethnography with a sense of more global processes at work in a society, Auyero uses the most up-to-date analytical frameworks to interrogate an object of study that has rarely—if ever—been so addressed. This is a book to be reckoned with over the next few years and beyond.”—Daniel James, author of Doña María’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity “Other people write about patronage politics as a form of organization, as a scourge to eradicate, or as a necessary evil on the way to full democracy. Javier Auyero writes about it as a raucous, improvised, crucial way of surviving poverty and inequality. Reporting perceptive first-hand observations in playful, energetic prose, Auyero illuminates poor people’s politics in Argentina and elsewhere.”—Charles Tilly, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Who Is Who in the Peronist Network xiii Introduction: The Day of the Rally Complaining about T-shirts on Peron's Birthday 1 1. "They Were Mostly Poor People" Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires 29 2. "Most of Them Were Coming from Villa Paraiso" History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers 45 3. "They Knew Matilde" The Problem-Solving Network 80 4. "We Will Fight Forever, We Are Peronists" Eva Peron as a Public Performance 119 5. The "Clientelist" Viewpoint How Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism 152 6. "They Were All Peronists" The Remnants of the Populist Heresy 182 Conclusions Problem Solving through Political Mediation as a Structure of Feeling 205 Epilogue Last Rally 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 237 Index 255

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Book SynopsisAn archive-based study of the failure of President Cardenas's agrarian reform in Mexico's Yucatan region.Trade Review“A deeply researched and convincingly argued regional study that illuminates the contradictions and ambiguities of Mexico’s most radical post-revolutionary regime.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1934–1940“Fallaw presents a great deal of new information on the history of the key state of Yucatán during the decisive years of the 1930s, when Mexico underwent profound political and social reform. Those working on Mexican revolutionary history will find this book invaluable. Broad-minded political scientists will find the analysis illuminating, as well.”—Alan Knight, author of The Mexican RevolutionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Agrarian Cardenismo, THe Rise of the CGT, and the Fall of Governor Alayola, 1934-1935 15 2 Left-Cardenismo and the Lopez Cardenas Administrations, 1935- 1936 38 3 Cardenismo in Crisiss: Gualbertismo, the Falal of Lopez Cardenas, and the Rise of the Official Camarilla 59 4 The Crusade of the Mayab: Cardenismo from Above 80 5 Alliance Failed: Cardenas, Urban Labor, and the Open Door Election of 1937 97 6 The Retreat of Cardenas: The Great Ejido Plan and the New Political Equilibrium in Yucatan 125 7 Cardenas Compromised: Cardenismo's Legacy in Yucatan 158 Notes 169 List of Abbreviations 201 Bibliography 205

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Book SynopsisOffers a mixture of reflexive theoretical essays and interpretative case studies that embrace the challenge of writing a social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and broader arenas of power.Trade Review“Cutting edge in its approaches, vibrant in its debates, and relevant in its concerns to both current historiography and current politics, this book should be required reading for all serious students and scholars of Latin America.”—Peter Winn, author of Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean“The magnificence of this volume lies in Viotti da Costa’s plea for political engagement and intellectual integrity, as well as in the superb scholarship that rises to her challenge. This book will inspire a new generation of scholars and teachers of Latin American history to reengage their work and lives in the new politics and political issues bubbling up around the edges of the neoliberal order of global capitalism.”—Brooke Larson, author of Cochabamba, 1550–1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in BoliviaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I. The Politics of Writing Latin American History Reclaiming “the Political” at the Turn of the Millennium / Gilbert M. Joseph New Publics, New Politics, New Histories: From Economic Reductionism to Cultural Reductionism--in Search of Dialectics / Emilia Viotti da Costa Between Tragedy and Promise: The Politics of Writing Latin American History in the Late Twentieth Century / Steve J. Stern II. The Contestation of Historical Narratives and Memory The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil / Barbara Weinstein A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia’s Cacao Area / Mary Ann Mahony Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador / Jeffrey L. Gould III. Articulating the Political: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Generation The Flight from the Fields Reconsidered: Gender Ideologies and Women’s Labor After Slavery in Jamaica / Diana Paton A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala / Greg Grandin Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry / Thomas Miller Klubock Good Wives, Bad Girls, and Unfaithful Men: Sexual Negotiation and Labor Struggle in Chile’s Agrarian Reform, 1964–73 / Heidi Tinsman IV. Historians and the Making of History Bearing Witness in Hard Times: Ethnography and Testimonio in a Postrevolutionary Age / Florencia E. Mallon Afterword: A Final Reflection on the Political / Daniel James Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisConnects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated "like cattle and horses" (a line from an anonymous worker's poem on poor working conditions) derived from a fresh but powerfully felt sense of dignity.Trade Review“Like Cattle and Horses stands out as an important and original contribution to debates within Chinese studies about labor and nationalism and a significant addition to the comparative literature on class identities and their political implications.”—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University“Specialists and general readers alike will delight in the stories that Smith tells. This perceptive and original book abounds in good ideas and gems of scholarship and draws on a formidable range of theories. Few historians of China could match this range of expertise.”—Gregor Benton, University of Wales, CardiffTable of ContentsContents: Traditional social networks and identities Nationalist and labor protest at the end of the Qing dynasty The 1911 revolution in Shanghai Nationalist and labor protest, 1913-19 The May Fourth Movement of 1919 The discourse of class The Communists attempt to organize labor. 1920-23 Workers and the nation: Left versus Right, 1923-25 The May Thirtieth Movement, 1925 National and class identities, 1925-27 The surge in labor organization, 1927 Climax of the National Revolution, March-April 1927

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