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New Books in African Studies
Toby Green, “A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Toby Green
A Fistful of Shells
West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 17, 2019 Mark Klobas

All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Toby Green draws upon a range of underutilized... Read More
Andrew Wallis, “Stepp’d in Blood:  Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis” (Zero Books, 2019)
Andrew Wallis
Stepp’d in Blood
Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis
Zero Books, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 16, 2019 Kelly McFall

Last month Rwanda commemorated the 25th anniversary of the genocide. Unlike the recent outpouring of books marking hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, there was only a short flurry of newspaper and radio remembrances of the events of April and May of 1994. The number of... Read More
Kristin D. Phillips, “An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun” (Indiana UP, 2018)
Kristin D. Phillips
An Ethnography of Hunger
Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 9, 2019 Paul Bjerk

Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy food. Kristin D. Phillips‘ new book An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun (Indiana... Read More
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, “Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Caitlín Eilís Barrett
Domesticating Empire
Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 7, 2019 Ryan Tripp

Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019) is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University, draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a... Read More
Jeremy Black, “Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World” (Encounter Books, 2019)
Jeremy Black
Imperial Legacies
The British Empire Around the World
Encounter Books, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 1, 2019 Charles Coutinho

Are you tired of the constant refrain from our campus radicals and their bien-pensant allies in the intelligentsia that the United States and the United Kingdom, AKA the American and the British empires are the source of all the problems in the world, past and present?  Do you not regard... Read More
James L. A. Webb, “The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
James L. A. Webb
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

Cambridge University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network April 24, 2019 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million people every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa. In The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa (Reprint edition; Cambridge University Press, 2016), James L. A. Webb explains the disproportionate impact that... Read More