Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Saharan Frontiers
Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel’s description...
by Carola Lentz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move...
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
The cross-cultural understandings this book provides can do much to help us determine the distinctive shape and form American religious philanthropy might take in the future." —Christian Century
The provocative information challenges the assumptions that philanthropy is a primarily Western...
From All Points
America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America’s immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians,...
The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, Selim promoted a politicized Sunni Ottoman* identity against the Shiite Safavids...
Loyal Unto Death
Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and...
Hadija's Story
Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases...
Everyday Life in Russia
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review).
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized...
Prelude to Blitzkrieg
The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
An authoritative study of World War I’s often-overlooked Romanian front.
In contrast to the trench-war deadlock on the Western Front, combat in Romania and Transylvania in 1916 foreshadowed the lightning warfare of World War II. When Romania joined the Allies and invaded Transylvania without...
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Blood and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix...
Burden or Benefit?
Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
In the name of benevolence, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid, individuals, groups, and nations have sought to assist others and to redress forms of suffering and deprivation. Yet the inherent imbalances of power between the giver and the recipient of this benevolence have called into question the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of...
African Dinosaurs Unearthed
The Tendaguru Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachiosaurus, was the largest...