Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike," the language of labor history has...
John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years...
As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =– and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century – a...
Dioramas are devices on the frontier of different disciplines: art, anthropology, and the natural sciences, to name a few. Their use developed during...
A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a...
Knowledge production is a highly political and politicized practice. This book questions the way in which knowledge of and about Africa is produced...
This book is about the production and consumption of history, themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's attempts to disavow its own...
This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of ‘Greater India’...