Boydell Brewer: 336 books
The Politics of Place
Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover the right political order for all times and all places, and scholars often view Montesquieu as working within this project. In this reassessment of Montesquieu's political thought, Joshua Bandoch finds that Montesquieu broke from this ideal and, by taking...
The Development State
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention...
Bulawayo Burning
The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding...
Nyerere
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999), the first President of Tanzania, was a man whose political life was uniquely and inextricably bound into the history of the nation he created. Yet, though 'Baba wa Taifa', Father of the Nation, there is still no adequate biography. This book presents the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing...
Writing the Revolution
The Construction of "1968" in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radical re-imagination of the political and economic order and social...
Post-Wall German Cinema and National History
Utopianism and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political...
Creed & Grievance
Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Though Susan B. Anthony is best remembered for leading the campaign for women's suffrage, she worked in multiple movements for equality beyond women's right to vote, including antislavery, Native American rights, temperance, and labor reform. In doing so she forged alliances with other activists to...
Becoming John Updike
Critical Reception, 1958-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed?...
by Steven Boldy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the...
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World
The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercial relations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote...