Boydell Brewer: 336 books
by Jock McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread...
by Jason Bruner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: "the saved ones") proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of colonial East Africa. Frustrated by what they believed to be the tepid spiritual state of missionary Christianity, they preached...
Africa Rising?
BRICS - Diversifying Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS...
Voices of Ghana
Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955-57 (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring Ghanaian writers to the forefront of cultural programming as part of the Africanisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature...
by Chielozona Eze
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu left an enduring legacy of forgiveness, openness, and solidarity in South Africa. This book looks at how the country's historic transition to democracy has not only changed the negative narrative about South Africa but also provided a model for a new form of ethical...
Ngugi
Reflections on his Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution...
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres
Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Spanning the period 1512-78, the High Cross churchwardens' accounts of Stratton, in Cornwall, are unusually complete and informative. Written mostly in English, they are among only eighteen surviving sets of Pre-Reformation churchwardens' accounts which cover the whole period 1535-70, when most Reformation...
Remaking Mutirikwi
Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. But African landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active...
A Life of Resistance
Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968)
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
By the time Turin was liberated in April 1945, writer, translator, teacher, and women's rights activist Ada Gobetti had been fighting fascism for almost twenty-five years. This biography frames her wartime activism in the Resistenza as a chapter in a lifetime of resistance. Gobetti participated in...
Educating Liberty
Democracy and Aristocracy in J.S. Mill's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Alexis de Tocqueville famously identified the problem of democracy as the "tyranny of the majority," where the rule of the majority oppresses or marginalizes minorities and individuals. John Stuart Mill, perhaps more than any other liberal thinker, attempted to find a solution to this problem....
African Migration Narratives
Politics, Race, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are...
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Beyond the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities...