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Catherine L. Besteman, “Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine” (Duke UP, 2016)
Catherine L. Besteman
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Duke University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 21, 2020 Susan Thomson

Catherine L. Besteman‘s book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Duke University Press, 2016) is an important contribution to our understanding of the process of remaking one’s way of life after war in a new place, and in a new culture. Besteman writes about her ethnographic encounter in... Read More
Jessica Lynne Pearson, “The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jessica Lynne Pearson
The Colonial Politics of Global Health
France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in World Affairs January 15, 2020 Dexter Fergie

International organizations throw up several obstacles—their immense scale, their dry bureaucratic language—to the historian trying to piece together their past. In her book, The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa (Harvard University Press, 2018), Jessica Lynne Pearson steers clear of these obstacles and... Read More
Judi Rever, “In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front” (Random House, 2018)
Judi Rever
In Praise of Blood
The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Random House, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society January 14, 2020 Jeff Bachman

Judi Rever’s In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (Random House, 2018) is investigative journalism at its finest. Through great personal risk to so many of those involved, Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with... Read More
Gillian Glaes, “African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare” (Routledge, 2018)
Gillian Glaes
African Political Activism in Postcolonial France
State Surveillance and Social Welfare
Routledge, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 31, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

Gillian Glaes’s African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare (Routledge, 2018) examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s. Focused on the Africans who migrated to work and live in France during the post-decolonization period, the book tracks continuities... Read More
Stephanie Malia Hom, “Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Stephanie Malia Hom
Empire's Mobius Strip
Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 31, 2019 Beth Windisch

Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Stephanie Malia Hom‘s new book Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell University Press, 2019) investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian... Read More
Alex Lichtenstein, “Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid” (Indiana UP, 2016)
Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid

Indiana University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhotographyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American South December 27, 2019 Beth A. English

Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (Indiana University Press, 2016) photojournalism, and writing transnational histories of labor and social justice movements. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled... Read More
Benjamin Breen, “The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade” (U Penn Press, 2019)
Benjamin Breen
The Age of Intoxication
Origins of the Global Drug Trade
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs December 26, 2019 Lucas Richert

In Benjamin Breen‘s The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), we are transported back to a time when there was no such thing as “recreational” and “medicinal” drugs. People ate Egyptian mummies. Tobacco apparently cured cancer. And the book has many more... Read More
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