Beyond the Resource Curse–Now Available
04/03/2012
Beyond the Resource Curse Edited by Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov 512 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4400-7 | $69.95 | £45.50 "Beyond the Resource Curse… READ MORE
Category: African Studies
Remembering Lucretia Mott on International Women’s Day
03/08/2012
Lucretia Coffin Mott’s record of leadership in the women’s movement and in transatlantic abolitionism make her an ideal figure to remember on International Women’s day, even though Mott has long… READ MORE
Talking Douglass-like about Law–A Guest Blog Post by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
02/22/2012
Overcoming an initial reluctance to “talk ‘lawyer-like’ about law” in his early career as abolitionist orator, author, and editor, the celebrated autodidact drew on “well known rules of legal interpretation” to offer influential commentary on the U.S. Constitution and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This legal literacy, combined with a longstanding commitment to gender and racial equality, might have led Douglass to question the wisdom of current efforts to make personhood coterminous with humanness.
Activism After Douglass–a Guest Post by Shawn Leigh Alexander
02/21/2012
This second guest blog post in our series on Frederick Douglass considers his legacy shortly after his death. Shawn Leigh Alexander, author of An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights… READ MORE
Douglass and the Daguerreotype–a Guest Post by Marcy J. Dinius
02/20/2012
In time, Douglass became so interested in the connection between the visual arts, imagination, humanity, and progress toward liberty and justice that he wrote and delivered a set of lectures on the subject between 1861 and 1865. He began both the earlier and the later versions of his “Lecture on Pictures” with an extended consideration of the daguerreotype. After being daguerreotyped multiple times in the 1840s and 1850s, the former slave had become a man in his daguerreian portrait. His lectures suggest that if his audiences were to look at his or any other African American’s image and reflect on its likeness to their own, the daguerreotype would show them the reality of blacks’ humanity and awaken them to their own.
Rainforest Warriors–Now in Paperback
02/09/2012
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial Richard Price 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 41 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4300-0 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Anthropologists Explore Sustainable Lifeways
11/01/2011
For the November podcast, we dip into the archives for a second listen to Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology… READ MORE
Women’s Health and the World’s Cities–Now Available
07/25/2011
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
Forgotten Genocides–Now Available
06/10/2011
Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory Edited by René Lemarchand 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4335-2 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume… READ MORE
The Anti-Slavery Project–Now Available
06/09/2011
The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking Joel Quirk 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4333-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in… READ MORE
