History

Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue.
Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested. Pervasive images rooted in colonialism were thus challenged and in some cases fundamentally transformed by journalists, students, (inter)national scholars, (inter)national events and the promise of an egalitarian socialist state.

Government statistics: how they are made, why they are (might be) believable, and what they are used for.

La primera historia integral de la teología de la liberación en Ecuador y su impacto sobre la formación del movimiento indígena.

This study sketches the contours and contradictions of governmental knowledge production on migration in Germany between policy relevance and scientific objectivity.

This book investigates how women gained authority and a voice of their own in medieval and seventeenth century visionary writings.

A new, interdisciplinary approach to competition in world politics, offering a range of fresh insights into its historical origins and social contexts.

A vivid praxeological microhistory of the establishment phase of an 18th-century wholesale merchant and his letters.

This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.

From the perspective of historical game studies this book illuminates historical authenticity, a buzzword used by game developers and consumers alike.

Global civility instead of colonial domination: this study provides a striking new perspective on both travel and travel-writing in the long eighteenth century.