African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization, Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez

Автор: Earle Jonathan
Название: Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
ISBN: 1108417051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108417051
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archival material to recast the end of empire in East Africa. It will be ideal for researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in the cultural, intellectual, religious and political history of modern East Africa.

Автор: Dermot Gilvary
Название: Dangerous edges of graham greene : journeys with saints and sinners
ISBN: 1441164162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441164162
Издательство: Continuum
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Описание: Focuses on the life and literary art of Graham Greene, one of the last century`s most celebrated authors. This title brings together writers, journalists and scholars to investigate as well as to assess Greene`s prolific oeuvre and intense personal interests.

Автор: Davis Walt, Davis Isabel
Название: Exploring the Edges of Texas
ISBN: 162349687X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623496876
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In 1955, Frank X. Tolbert, a well-known columnist for the Dallas Morning News, circumnavigated Texas with his nine-year-old-son in a Willis Jeep. The column he phoned in to the newspaper about his adventures, ""Tolbert's Texas,"" was a staple of Walt Davis's childhood. Fifty years later, Walt and his wife, Isabel, have re-explored portions of Tolbert’s trek along the boundaries of Texas.The border of Texas is longer than the Amazon River, running through ten distinct ecological zones as it outlines one of the most familiar shapes in geography. According to the Davises, ""Driving its every twist and turn would be like driving from Miami to Los Angeles by way of New York.""Each of this book’s sixteen chapters opens with an original drawing by Walt, representing a segment of the Texas border where the authors selected a special place—a national park, a stretch of river, a mountain range, or an archeological site. Using a firsthand account of that place written by a previous visitor (artist, explorer, naturalist, or archeologist), they then identified a contemporary voice (whether biologist, rancher, river-runner, or paleontologist) to serve as a modern-day guide for their journey of rediscovery. This dual perspective allows the authors to attach personal stories to the places they visited, to connect the past with the present, and to compare Texas then with Texas now.Whether retracing botanist Charles Wright's 600-mile walk to El Paso in 1849 or paddling Houston's Buffalo Bayou, where John James Audubon saw ivory-billed woodpeckers in 1837, the Davises seek to remind readers that passionate and determined people wrote the state's natural history. Anyone interested in Texas or its rich natural heritage will find deep enjoyment in Exploring the Edges of Texas.Publication of this book is generously supported by a memorial gift in honor of Mary Frances ""Chan"" Driscoll, a founding member of the Advisory Council of Texas A&M University Press, by her sons Henry B. Paup '70 and T. Edgar Paup '74.

Автор: John Cullen Gruesser
Название: The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of the Overseas Expansion
ISBN: 0820334340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820334349
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history.