New Books in African Studies
Chet Van Duzer, “Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence” (Springer, 2019)
Chet Van Duzer
Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
Springer, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 1, 2019 Peter Ekman

Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe. The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object,” its legends and descriptions illegible to the unaugmented eye. Now, aided... Read More
Susan Thomson, “Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace” (Yale UP, 2018)
Susan Thomson
Rwanda
From Genocide to Precarious Peace
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network February 25, 2019 Kelly McFall

How do you put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Susan Thomson‘s new book Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press, 2018) examines the postwar history of Rwanda to consider the ways the Rwandan genocide shaped governance, policy and memory in that country.  She begins by recounting what we now know... Read More
Rosalind Fredericks, “Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal” (Duke UP, 2018)
Rosalind Fredericks
Garbage Citizenship
Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 29, 2019 Dannah Dennis

The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts. In her book Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Duke University Press, 2018), Dr. Rosalind Fredericks illuminates the history of state-citizen relations... Read More
Calvin Schermerhorn, “Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Calvin Schermerhorn
Unrequited Toil
A History of United States Slavery
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 25, 2019 Adam McNeil

At this point, it is hard to fathom the sheer volume of studies of American slavery that scholars have produced. And new works on American slavery are being published at a remarkable clip. As a result, writing a new synthesis of this scholarship is a monumental feat.  Dr. Calvin Schermerhorn,... Read More
Jesse A. Zink, “Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism” (Baylor UP, 2018)
Jesse A. Zink
Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan
Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism
Baylor University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 7, 2019 Crawford Gribben

The most recent addition to Baylor University Press’s Studies in World Christianity is Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism (Baylor UP, 2018), by Jesse A. Zink, who is among many other things principal of Montreal Diocesan Theological College. Zink’s book is... Read More