In Decadent Style, John Reed defines “decadent art” broadly enough to encompass literature, music, and the visual arts and precisely enough to examine individual works in detail. Reed... Læs mere
Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer... Læs mere
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 attempted to rectify loopholes in the 1957 Civil Rights Act that had... Læs mere
Spanning 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... Læs mere
If religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.
This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe,... Læs mere
Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili—a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin... Læs mere
From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.
This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini) shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident.
A Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or... Læs mere
Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africa’s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise... Læs mere
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and... Læs mere