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New Books in African Studies
François-Xavier Fauvelle, “The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages” (Princeton UP, 2018)
François-Xavier Fauvelle
The Golden Rhinoceros
Histories of the African Middle Ages
Princeton University Press, 2018

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books NetworkPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast September 25, 2020 Elisa Prosperetti

What are the African Middle Ages? A place, certainly, and a time period, evidently. But also a “documentary regime,” argues François-Xavier Fauvelle. How do we reconstruct these centuries of the African past in the face of a daunting lack of sources? In thirty-four thoughtful vignettes, Fauvelle takes us along for... Read More
Chhaya Goswami, “Globalization Before Its Time: The Gujarati Merchants from Kachchh” (PRH India, 2016)
Chhaya Goswami
Globalization Before Its Time
The Gujarati Merchants from Kachchh
PRH India, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World September 24, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Chhaya Goswami’s Globalization Before Its Time: The Gujarati Merchants from Kachchh (Penguin Random House India) asks: How did the Kachchhi traders build on the Gujarat Advantage? In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the dying days of the Mughal empire, merchants from Kachchh established a flourishing overseas trade. Building... Read More
Stephanie Newell, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke UP, 2019)
Stephanie Newell
Histories of Dirt
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology September 24, 2020 Susan Liebell

Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, came to this project, which explores the concept of “dirt” and how this idea is used and applied to people and spaces, in a rather indirect way, having read the memoirs and journals of merchant traders – particularly the white British traders... Read More
Anais Angelo, “Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Anais Angelo
Power and the Presidency in Kenya
The Jomo Kenyatta Years
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & Society September 23, 2020 Susan Thomson

Anais Angelo, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Vienna has written an exceptional book entitled Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years (Cambridge University Press) in CUP’s prestigious African Studies Series. Angelo’s book analyses the little-studied institution of the Office of... Read More
Omar H. Ali, “Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Omar H. Ali
Malik Ambar
Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World September 17, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Omar H. Ali’s Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press, 2016), provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. It offers a rare look at an individual who began in obscurity in the Horn of Africa and reached the highest levels of South... Read More
Pernille Røge, “Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Pernille Røge
Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 11, 2020 Grant Kleiser

In her new book, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802 (Cambridge UP, 2020), Dr. Pernille Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the... Read More
Sana Aiyar, “Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sana Aiyar
Indians in Kenya
The Politics of Diaspora
Harvard University Press, 2015

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World Affairs September 10, 2020 Micheal Rumore and Ahmed AlMaazmi

In Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2015), Sana Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles. Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen,... Read More
Jacob Mundy, “Libya” (Polity Press, 2018)
Jacob Mundy
Libya

Polity Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 7, 2020 Susan Thomson

Jacob Mundy is associate professor of PCON at Colgate University  He’s written a great book titled Libya, published in 2018 in Polity Presses’ “Hot Spots in Global Politics” series. Jacob’s book is part-history, part-political science to guide readers through the intricate maze of foreign and Libyan actors and institutions that define... Read More
Jeff Schauer, “Wildlife between Empire and Nation in 20th-Century Africa” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Jeff Schauer
Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network September 2, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

The protection of African wildlife enjoys the support of large numbers of individuals and institutions throughout the world. In Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Jeff Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present. By tracing... Read More
Jeremy Black, “A Brief History of the Mediterranean” (Little Brown, 2020)
Jeremy Black
A Brief History of the Mediterranean

Little Brown, 2020

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society August 31, 2020 Crawford Gribben

Jeremy Black, the prolific professor of history at Exeter University, has published A Brief History of the Mediterranean (Little Brown, 2020), to offer readers an overview of this sphere from pre-history to the present day. Taking in the importance of geography, civilizational change and cultural representations, Black moves between disciplines... Read More

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