Boydell Brewer: 336 books
by P. J. Brendese
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democracy and memory, P. J. Brendese examines Orwell's insight, revealing how political power affects what is available to...
Ira Aldridge
The Last Years, 1855-1867
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been...
Machiavelli's Gospel
The Critique of Christianity in "The Prince"
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The leading interpretations of The Prince focus on Machiavelli's historical context, but they give little attention to the source on which the moral and political thought of Machiavelli's sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason/;...
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...
Ira Aldridge
The Early Years, 1807-1833
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 chronicles the rise of one of the modern world's first black classical actors, as he ascended from an impoverished childhood in New York City to a career as a celebrated thespian on the British stage. After a successful debut in London in 1825, Aldridge began...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights...
by John Zumbrunnen
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democratic impulses: a rebelliousness...
Disrupting Territories
Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of...
The African Garrison State
Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison state". This comprehensive and detailed analysis examines how the prospects for democracy in the...
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67
Thirsting for Sunlight
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Christopher Okigbo, once described as 'Africa's most lyrical poet of the twentieth century' was killed in September 1967, fighting for the independence of Biafra. The Sunday Times described his death as 'the single most important tragedy of the Nigerian civil war'. The manner in which Okigbo died...
The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa
Non-State Actors' Role in the Liberian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
'Throws light on the role of several key agents in bringing to an end one of the darkest episodes in post-independence African history.' Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas Until the 1990s, conflict resolution and peacemaking fell to states, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations. In...
Enchanted Calvinism
Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Enchanted Calvinism's central proposition is that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities, both past and present, have become more enchanted -- more attuned to spiritual explanations of and remedies for suffering -- as they have become integrated into capitalist modes of production. The author draws on...
Empire, Development and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on...