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This book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts.

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Established scholars in Africa, Europe, and the United States provide a novel conceptual and policy frame—glocalization—to understand the domestic and external drivers of conflicts in Africa through studies that cover relevant and pressing cases of international and regional security, such as Libya, Mali, Kenya, Nigeria, and Congo.

This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines COVID-19’s impact on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic’s environmental impact.

The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with 150 photographs and illustrations, documents a historic transformation in midwestern transportation from slow canalboats to fast passenger trains. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it.

Established scholars in Africa, Europe, and the United States provide a novel conceptual and policy frame—glocalization—to understand the domestic and external drivers of conflicts in Africa through studies that cover relevant and pressing cases of international and regional security, such as Libya, Mali, Kenya, Nigeria, and Congo.

One of the most controversial women of the twentieth century, Jane Addams advocated for children, women, immigrants, fair working conditions, and world peace at a time when women were told to keep quiet and stay at home. Her efforts led to the founding of the first school of social work and of Hull-House, the best-known community house in the United States.

In this conceptual history, Nicole Eggers argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.

How did Lagos, Nigeria, grow from a tiny island kingdom to a megalopolis famous for its frenetic and congested form of coastal urbanism? This first-of-its-kind history provides a comprehensive narrative for understanding one of Africa's largest cities-its buoyant vibrancy and its two-headed problem of housing shortages and rising seas-today.

With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation¿s political and state building impacts in postcolonial Africa and challenges our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or environmental endeavor.

Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider the whole range of Victorian love poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Thomas Hardy, and William Butler Yeats. It includes contributions by many of the leading scholars of Victorian poetry.

With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation¿s political and state building impacts in postcolonial Africa and challenges our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or environmental endeavor.

Combining archival research with a digital humanities-focused examination of cartography, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi reveals the gendered, spatial, and environmental responses to historical, political, and social change in mid-nineteenth-century Lagos, Nigeria.

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Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region.