New Books in African Studies

785 Episodes

1. Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c. 1770 -1830" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

   Published: 5/29/2019
2. Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

   Published: 5/17/2019
3. Andrew Wallis, "Stepp’d in Blood:  Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis" (Zero Books, 2019)

   Published: 5/16/2019
4. Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun" (Indiana UP, 2018)

   Published: 5/9/2019
5. Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 5/7/2019
6. Jeremy Black, "Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World" (Encounter Books, 2019)

   Published: 5/1/2019
7. James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

   Published: 4/24/2019
8. Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror" (Ohio UP, 2018)

   Published: 4/15/2019
9. Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

   Published: 4/2/2019
10. Kathleen Keller, "Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

    Published: 4/1/2019
11. Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/22/2019
12. Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

    Published: 3/19/2019
13. Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence" (Springer, 2019)

    Published: 3/1/2019
14. Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace" (Yale UP, 2018)

    Published: 2/25/2019
15. Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam" (U California Press, 2018)

    Published: 1/30/2019
16. Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/29/2019
17. Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/25/2019
18. Jesse A. Zink, "Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism" (Baylor UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/7/2019
19. Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World" (U California Press, 2018)

    Published: 1/2/2019
20. McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

    Published: 12/6/2018