Authentically African. Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture, Paperback - Sarah Van Beurden

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

Reducere. With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Pl...

Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implicat...

Mrs Fig is moving to a retirement home. Koya and her friends want to be included in the preparations for a going away party for their friend! They ...

Fans of Morgan Matson and Sarah Dessen will fall in love with this contemporary coming of age story set at a picturesque Virginia boarding school.T...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 40 B/W illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 244 x 22Cover...

DescriptionEarly in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos fo...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved, " and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising, " African ...

Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection en...

Reducere. In the world of hip-hop, "keeping it real" has always been a primary goal--and realness takes on special meaning as rappers mold their images for s...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

Between Power and Irrelevance explores why the gap between transnational NGOs' rhetoric and reality exists and what TNGOs can do to close it. The b...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic hist...

Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the C...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding cr...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Stuart Z. CharmeNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitim...

Reducere. Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggle...

Reducere. Utilizing written sources as well as nationally representative survey data, Daniel H. Krymkowski analyzes the extent and causes of African American...

Reducere. This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic an...

Reducere. Political acts are encoded in medial forms -- feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, images on live stream, tweets -- that have force, s...

This book focuses on space in African and Black religion and spirituality through the lenses of area studies, African and black diaspora studies, h...

Publisher: Daraja PressAuthor(s): Ernest Wamba-Dia-WambaNumber of pages: 62Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 8Cover type: Paperback / s...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continen...

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Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, th...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Sebastian GarbeNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 33Cover type: Paperback / s...

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By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of...

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This is the third in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the first two volumes which have sold well, Black Sta...

What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between...

This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the...

"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John ...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

This book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and political expedienc...

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Dorris Van GaalNumber of pages: 224Collection: Nijmegen Studies in Development and CultPublication date: 2022Dimens...

In an exploration of Hong Kong's cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, this text considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between...

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, BostonAuthor(s): Sarah E ThompsonNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 263 x 288 x 30Cover type: Ha...

In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya so...