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Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Joanna Davidson
Sacred Rice
An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network November 8, 2018 Jeffrey Bristol

Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. The Jola, a people living in Guinea-Bissau, have long cultivated rice and formed their social identity around its growth, but recent changes in climate, economic, political and social... Read More

Edward J. Watts
Mortal Republic
How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Basic Books, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 5, 2018 Mark Klobas

Despite enduring for nearly five centuries, the Roman Republic ended in a series of crises and wars that discredited the idea of republics in the West for centuries. In Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny (Basic Books, 2018), Edward J. Watts examines why Romans traded the liberty of political... Read More

Miranda Kaufmann
Black Tudors
The Untold Story
Oneworld, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 2, 2018 Tyler Yank

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptized in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From the archival records emerge the remarkable stories of ten Africans who... Read More

Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa” (U Chicago Press, 2018)

Ching Kwan Lee
The Specter of Global China
Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Economics New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network October 25, 2018 Andrea Bernardi and Carlo D'Ippoliti

Today we talked with Ching Kwan Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has just published The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2018), an amazing new book based on her field study in Africa where... Read More

Jill Kelly, “To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996” (Michigan State UP, 2018)

Jill Kelly
To Swim with Crocodiles
Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996
Michigan State University Press, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 16, 2018 Jacob Ivey

Today we talked with Jill Kelly about her new book To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 published by Michigan State University Press in 2018. Her book is a history of ukukhonza, a practice of affiliation that bound together chiefs and subjects to enable security, in the... Read More