New books added to the collection in June included:
Robinson , Shirleene and Julie Ustinoff (ed).The 1960s in Australia : people, power and politics. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
Konishi, Shino. The Aboriginal male in the Enlightenment world. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
Booysen, Susan. The African National Congress and the regeneration of political power. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Tawahi , Veronica M.H. and Katarina Gray-Sharp (eds). 'Always speaking' : the Treaty of Waitangi and public policy. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers, 2011.
Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. Approaches to history : essays in Indian historiography. New Delhi : Indian Council of Historical Research in association with Primus Books, 2011.
Ray, Shoven (ed). Backwaters of development : six deprived states of India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Donner, Henrike. Being middle-class in India : a way of life. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Bhattacharya, Jayati. Beyond the myth : Indian business communities in Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Hayes, Geoffrey, Mike Bechthold, and Matt Symes (eds). Canada and the Second World War : essays in honour of Terry Copp. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Nanni, Giordano. The colonisation of time : ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, c2012.
Mikaere, Annabel. Colonising myths--Māori realities : he rukuruku whakaaro. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers and Te Wānanga o Raukawa, 2011.
Bussell, Jennifer. Corruption and reform in India : public services in the digital age. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Mæland, Bård (ed). Culture, religion, and the reintegration of female child soldiers in northern Uganda. New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Benhabib, Seyla. Dignity in adversity : human rights in troubled times. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2011.
Mohd. Faisal S. Domination and contestation : Muslim bumiputera politics in Sarawak. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
Haughton, Suzette A. Drugged out : globalisation and Jamaica's resilience to drug trafficking. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2011.
Mosoetsa, Sarah. Eating from one pot : the dynamics of survival in poor South African households. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Nelson , Charmaine A. (ed) Ebony roots, northern soil : perspectives on blackness in Canada. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Kiwuwa, David. Ethnic politics and democratic transition in Rwanda. London : Routledge, 2012.
Hughes, Heather. First president : a life of John Dube, founding president of the ANC. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2011.
Murray, David A. B. Flaming souls : homosexuality, homophobia, and social change in Barbados. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Safarian, A. E. Foreign ownership of Canadian industry. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
Darch, Colin and Peter G. Underwood. Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness. Oxford : Chandos, 2010.
Deshpande, Ashwini. The grammar of caste : economic discrimination in contemporary India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Cavanagh, Edward. The Griqua past and the limits of South African history, 1902-1994. New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Scott, David (ed). Handbook of India's international relations. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Goodman, Ryan and Thomas Pegram (eds). Human rights, state compliance, and social change : assessing national human rights institutions. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Belich, James. I shall not die : Titokowaru's war, 1868-1869. Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, c2010.
Brewster, David. India as an Asia Pacific power. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Kumar, Satish. India's national security : annual review 2011. New Delhi ; London : Routledge, 2012.
Crosbie, Barry. Irish imperial networks : migration, social communication and exchange in nineteenth-century India. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia and Malcolm Mulholland (eds). Mana tangata : politics of empowerment. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2011
Selby, Rachael, Pataka J.G. Moore and Malcolm Mulholland (eds). Māori and the environment : kaitiaki. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2010.
Chalk, Frank et al. Mobilizing the will to intervene : leadership to prevent mass atrocities. Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Amoah, Michael. Nationalism, globalization, and Africa. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Breisinger , Celmens et al. A new era of transformation in Ghana : lessons from the past and scenarios for the future. Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011.
Daniel, John et al. New South African review 2 : new paths, old compromises. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2011.
Nayan. Rajiv. The nuclear non-proliferation treaty and India. London : Routledge, 2012.
Richards, Raymond. Palmer : the parliamentary years. Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 2010.
Seabrook, Jeremy Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. People without history : India's Muslim ghettos. New York ; London : Pluto Press, 2011.
Malik, Anas. Political survival in Pakistan : beyond ideology. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Kohli, Atul. Poverty amid plenty in the new India, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Raphael, Dennis. Poverty in Canada : implications for health and quality of life. Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., c2011.
Johnson, Ryan and Amna Khalid. Public health in the British empire : intermediaries, subordinates, and the practice of public health, 1850-1960, London : Routledge, c2012.
Standfield, Rachel. Race and identity in the Tasman world, 1769-1840. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
Johnson, Jo and Rajiv Kumar (eds). Reconnecting Britain and India : ideas for an enhanced partnership. New Delhi : Academic Foundation in association with FICCI, 2011.
Buckner, Philip and John G. Reid (eds). Remembering 1759 : the conquest of Canada in historical memory. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Buckner, Philip and John G. Reid (eds). Revisiting 1759 : the conquest of Canada in historical perspective. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Connell, John and Phil McManus. Rural revival? : place marketing, tree change and regional migration in Australia. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
O'Leary, Patrick. Servants of the empire : the Irish in Punjab 1881-1921. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Neatby, Nicole and Peter Hodgins (eds). Settling and unsettling memories : essays in Canadian public history. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Nnaemeka,Obioma and Chima J. Korieh (eds) Shaping our struggles : Nigerian women in history, culture and development. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2011.
Tarling, Nicholas. Southeast Asian regionalism : New Zealand perspectives. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Mutu, Margaret. The state of Māori rights. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2011.
Iyengar, Uma and Lalitha Zackariah (eds). Together they fought : Gandhi-Nehru correspondence, 1921-1948. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Franks, Peter and Melanie Nolan (eds). Unions in common cause : the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1937-88. Wellington, N.Z. : Steele Roberts, 2011.
Hoffman, Danny. The war machines : young men and violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Monday, 30 July 2012
International Refugee Law Seminar Series
The Refugee Law Initiative of the SAS Human Rights Consortiuum is pleased to inaugurate the 3rd year of the seminar series on
International Refugee Law
These seminars provide a forum for the discussion and debate of cutting-edge research and contemporary legal issues in the field of refugee protection
12 Oct 2012, 5.30 pm: Professor Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute (Geneva)
The Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law: A Systemic Perspective
Macmillan Hall, Senate House
22 Nov 2012, 5.30pm: Sir Nicholas Blake QC, President, Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Country Guidance in the United Kingdom’s Upper Tribunal
Macmillan Hall, Senate House
22 Jan 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s University Belfast
Humanity and Legality: Rights of Refugees and Legal Mobilisation
Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal StudyALS
21 February 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz, Aberystwyth University
The Limits of Refugee Law: Human Trafficking and Challenges to the International Protection Regime
Woburn suite, Senate House
March 2013, 5.30 pm: Professor Deborah Anker, Harvard University
Legal Change from the Bottom Up: The Development of Gender Asylum Jurisprudence in the United States
Room tbc, Senate House
May 2013, 5.30pm Dr Maria Teresa Gil-Bazo, Newcastle University
The Right to Asylum in the Practice of Latin American and African States
Room tbc, Senate House
ADMISSION FREE – ALL WELCOME
Convenor: Dr David James Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative
International Refugee Law
These seminars provide a forum for the discussion and debate of cutting-edge research and contemporary legal issues in the field of refugee protection
12 Oct 2012, 5.30 pm: Professor Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute (Geneva)
The Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law: A Systemic Perspective
Macmillan Hall, Senate House
22 Nov 2012, 5.30pm: Sir Nicholas Blake QC, President, Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Country Guidance in the United Kingdom’s Upper Tribunal
Macmillan Hall, Senate House
22 Jan 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s University Belfast
Humanity and Legality: Rights of Refugees and Legal Mobilisation
Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal StudyALS
21 February 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz, Aberystwyth University
The Limits of Refugee Law: Human Trafficking and Challenges to the International Protection Regime
Woburn suite, Senate House
March 2013, 5.30 pm: Professor Deborah Anker, Harvard University
Legal Change from the Bottom Up: The Development of Gender Asylum Jurisprudence in the United States
Room tbc, Senate House
May 2013, 5.30pm Dr Maria Teresa Gil-Bazo, Newcastle University
The Right to Asylum in the Practice of Latin American and African States
Room tbc, Senate House
ADMISSION FREE – ALL WELCOME
Convenor: Dr David James Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative
Friday, 27 July 2012
Second tranche of "migrated archives" released
The National Archives and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) continue to transfer and release the colonial administration records, referred to as the 'migrated archives'. While it has been questioned how much new information is contained in these records, the records provide some insight into and have braodened knowledge about British policy and actions at "the end of Empire".
The second tranche of colonial administration records is now available to view in the reading rooms at The National Archives. This release contains records from Basutoland, the Cameroons, Ceylon, Cyprus, Fiji, the Gambia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and Gold Coast.
A guide to the newly-released files has been published on The National Archives' website and provides more information on how to search the records.
Guide to the second tranche of records (PDF, 0.35Mb)
The collection is part of record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives, and the records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration, reflecting events in the territories generally pre-independence, and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
The second tranche of colonial administration records is now available to view in the reading rooms at The National Archives. This release contains records from Basutoland, the Cameroons, Ceylon, Cyprus, Fiji, the Gambia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and Gold Coast.
A guide to the newly-released files has been published on The National Archives' website and provides more information on how to search the records.
Guide to the second tranche of records (PDF, 0.35Mb)
The collection is part of record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives, and the records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration, reflecting events in the territories generally pre-independence, and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
Olympic opening hours and closure of floors for cleaning next week
Library opening hours during the Summer Olympics 2012
From today until the 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Closure of floors for cleaning
Our carpets are in need of deep cleaning, in part due to the high levels of rain and associated dirt brought in to the library as a result. In order to maintain the bright and pleasant feel of the library since refurbishment, we are taking the opportunity of reduced opening hours to carry out a deep clean of the library.
During this time floors being cleaned will be closed to users and a fetch service in operation for material. There are plenty of free seats available especially in the main reading rooms on the 5th floor. Monday the 30th of July the 7th floor will be afffected. On Tuesday and Wednesday (31st of July and 1st of August) the 6th floor will be cleaned (this being floor on which Commonwealth Studies material is kept). Staff will be able to retrieve any books on these floors while the cleaning takes place. Our apologies for any inconvenience, and our hopes you appreciate the newly cleaned floors after next week.
From today until the 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Closure of floors for cleaning
Our carpets are in need of deep cleaning, in part due to the high levels of rain and associated dirt brought in to the library as a result. In order to maintain the bright and pleasant feel of the library since refurbishment, we are taking the opportunity of reduced opening hours to carry out a deep clean of the library.
During this time floors being cleaned will be closed to users and a fetch service in operation for material. There are plenty of free seats available especially in the main reading rooms on the 5th floor. Monday the 30th of July the 7th floor will be afffected. On Tuesday and Wednesday (31st of July and 1st of August) the 6th floor will be cleaned (this being floor on which Commonwealth Studies material is kept). Staff will be able to retrieve any books on these floors while the cleaning takes place. Our apologies for any inconvenience, and our hopes you appreciate the newly cleaned floors after next week.
Thursday, 26 July 2012
New books - May 2012
A selection of books added to the collection in May:
Namyalo, Doreen and Jacqueline Macalesher. The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in East Africa : Kenya and Uganda , London : Penal Reform International, c2012.
Ndlovu, Mary. Against the odds : a history of Zimbabwe project , Harare, Zimbabwe : Zimbabwe Project Trust : Weaver Pr., 2011.
Bertram, Geoffrey. Assessing the structure of small welfare states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Malan, Jannie. Being similar, different and coexistent, Durban, South Africa : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2011.
Kanyenze , Godfrey et al (eds). Beyond the enclave : towards a pro-poor and inclusive development strategy for Zimbabwe, Harare : Weaver Press in association with Alternatives to Neo-liberalism in Southern Africa, Labour & Economic Development Research Institute, Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, 2011.
Hopkins-Weise, Jeff. Blood brothers : the ANZAC genesis, Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2009.
Bano, Masooda. Breakdown in Pakistan : how aid is eroding institutions for collective action, Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, Stanford University Press, [2012].
Gwee, June (ed). Case studies in public governance : building institutions in Singapore, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Okombo , Okoth et al (eds). Challenging the rulers : a leadership model for good governance, Nairobi, Kenya : East African Educational Publishers Ltd. in partnership with Community Aid International, 2011.
DasGupta, Sumona . Citizen initiatives and democratic engagement : experiences from India, London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
McCowan, Tristan and Sonia Gomez. Citizenship education in Commonwealth countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2012.
Harris, David. Civil war and democracy in West Africa : conflict resolution, elections and justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia, London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Frayne, Bruce, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel (eds). Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012.
Falola, Toyin. Colonialism and violence in Nigeria, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2009.
Nathan, Laurie. Community of insecurity : SADC's struggle for peace and security in Southern Africa, Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
Lamba, Isaac Chikwekwere. Contradictions in post-war education policy formulation and application in colonial Malawi 1945-1961: a historical study of the dynamics of colonial survival, Zomba, Malawi : Kachere Series, 2010.
Constandinos, Andreas. The Cyprus crisis : examining the role of the British and American governments during 1974, Plymouth : University of Plymouth Press, 2012.
Mullen, Rani D. Decentralization, local governance, and social wellbeing in India : do local governments matter? New York : Routledge, 2012.
Theodore, Karl, Mahendra Reddy and Happy Siphambe. Development challenges of HIV/AIDS in small states : experiences from the Pacific, Southern Africa and the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Gardner, Katy. Discordant development : global capitalism and the struggle for connection in Bangladesh, London : Pluto Press ; New York, NY : distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Fonsah, Esendugue Gregory. Economics of banana production and marketing in the tropics : (a case study of Cameroon). Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, c2012.
Khan, Iffat Humayun. Electoral malpractices during the 2008 elections in Pakistan, Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Sutton, John and Bennet Kpentey. An enterprise map of Ghana, [London?] : International Growth Centre, 2012.
Smith, Jennifer and D. Michael Jackson (eds). The evolving Canadian crown, Kingston, Ont. : Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Gibson, Nigel C. Fanonian practices in South Africa : from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scotsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.
Tucker, Richard P. A forest history of India, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2011.
Handy , Femida et al. From Seva to cyberspace : the many faces of volunteering in India, New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011.
Appleby, Gabrielle, Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John (eds). The future of Australian federalism : comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Sinha Roy, Mallarika. Gender and radical politics in India : magic moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975), London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Abshire, Jean E. The history of Singapore, Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2011.
Morrissey, Oliver and Evious Zgovu. The impact of China and India on sub-Saharan African countries : opportunities, challenges and policies, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Wildeman, Russell Andrew and Wellington Jogo. Implementing the public finance management act in South Africa : how far are we? Pretoria : Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2012.
Majumdar, Boria and Nalin Mehta. India and the Olympics, New York : Routledge, 2009.
Winegard, Timothy C. Indigenous peoples of the British dominions and the first world war, New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Graham, Andrew (ed). Innovations in public expenditure management : country cases from the Commonwealth, London : Commonweath Secretariat, c2011.
Kapila, Shruti. An intellectual history for India, New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Vivekanandan, Jayashree. Interrogating international relations : India's strategic practice and the return of history, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Birchwood, Anthony and Marielle Goto. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Jayaraman, T. K. and Paresh Narayan. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Pacific, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Fonjong, Lotsmart N. (ed). Issues in women's land rights in Cameroon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub., c2012.
Levine, Allan. King : William Lyon Mackenzie King : a life guided by the hand of destiny, Vancouver, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, c2011.
Radwan, Ismail and Giulia Pellegrini. Knowledge, productivity, and innovation in Nigeria : creating a new economy, Washington, DC : World Bank, c2010.
Powles, L. D. The land of the pink pearl; or, Recollections of life in the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas : Media Pub., 1996. (First published in 1888, an unaltered and unabridged republication of the work originally published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington)
Keable , Ken (ed). London recruits : the secret war against Apartheid, Pontypool : Merlin Press, 2012.
Adonis, Gérard. Macroeconomic policy frameworks of small states : a case study of Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Brown, Karen. Mad dogs and meerkats : a history of resurgent rabies in southern Africa, Cape Town : UCT Press, c2011.
Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi : nonviolent power in action, New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
Navaro-Yashin, Yael. The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity, Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012. (On Cyprus)
Narayan, Badri. The making of the dalit public in North India : Uttar Pradesh, 1950-present, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Macrory, Patrick and Sherry Stephenson. Making trade in services supportive of development in Commonwealth small and low-income countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Wain, Barry. Malaysian maverick : Mahathir Mohamad in turbulent times, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Forrest, Kally. Metal that will not bend : National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa 1980-1995, Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011
Chaudron, Gerald. New Zealand in the League of Nations : the beginnings of an independent foreign policy, 1919-1939, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2012.
Ghate , Chetan (ed). The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy, New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Butt, Usama and Julian Schofield (eds). Pakistan: The US, geopolitics and grand strategies, London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2012
Cordesman, Anthony H. and Varun Vira. Pakistan, violence versus stability : a national net assessment : a report of the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy, Washington, DC : CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011.
Springer, Cletus I. and John L. Roberts. Partnerships for sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Leeson, Howard A. The Patriation minutes, Edmonton : Centre for Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, c2011.
McCandless, Erin. Polarization and transformation in Zimbabwe : social movements, strategy dilemmas and change, Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2012.
Marland, Alex, Thierry Giasson, and Jennifer Lees-Marshment (eds). Political marketing in Canada, Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.
Marshall, Ruth. Political spiritualities : the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria, Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Turner, Simon. Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life, New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Commonwealth Secretariat. Potential supply chains in the textiles and clothing sector in South Asia : an exploratory study. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Crais, Clifton C. Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Adeniyi, Olusegun. Power, politics and death : a front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar'Adua, Lagos : Kachifo, 2011.
Gervais, Stéphan, Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy (eds). Quebec questions : Quebec studies for the twenty-first century, Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Liundi, Christopher C. Quotable quotes of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere : collected from speeches and writings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2012.
Report of the inaugural Commonwealth conference : citizenship and the Commonwealth : the active Commonwealth citizen. London : University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2010.
Menon, Meena. Riots and after in Mumbai : chronicles of truth and reconciliation, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
Bornkamm, Paul Christoph. Rwanda's Gacaca courts : between retribution and reparation, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Epstein, James. Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Bennett, Brett M. and Joseph M. Hodge (eds). Science and empire : knowledge and networks of science across the British Empire, 1800-1970, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Nyagah, Leslie (ed). Seeds for growth : financing smallholder farming in southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa : IDASA, 2011
Mafela, Lily and Herman Musahara. Setting of new social science research agendas for Africa in the 21st century, Addis Ababa : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), c2011.
O’Neal, Michael E. Slavery, smallholding and tourism : social transformations in the British Virgin Islands, New Orleans : Quid Pro, 2012.
Aggarwal, Aradhna. Social and economic impact of SEZs in India, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Azzopardi, Rose Marie. Social policies in Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat/UNRISD, c2011.
Campling, Liam, Hansel Confiance and Marie-Therese Purvis. Social Policies in Seychelles, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Vubo, Emmanuel Yenshu, State of a Union : the half century of Cameroon's bicultural experience, Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, cop. 2012.
Weiss, Meredith L. Student activism in Malaysia : crucible, mirror, sideshow, Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University ; Singapore : NUS Press, c2011.
Ongwamuhana, Kibuta. Tax compliance in Tanzania : analysis of law and policy affecting voluntary taxpayer compliance, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyoka Publishers, c2011.
Hoerder, Dirk. To know our many selves : from the study of Canada to Canadian studies, Edmonton : AU Press, 2010.
Vigilance, Constance and John L. Roberts (eds). Tools for mainstreaming sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Chandrashekhar, Lalita. Undermining local democracy : parallel governance in contemporary South India, New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.
Cross, Michael. An unfulfilled promise : transforming schools in Mozambique, Addis Adaba, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2011.
Desai, Renu and Romola Sanyal (eds). Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities, Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
Parsons, Elizabeth. What price for privatization? : cultural encounter with development policy on the Zambian copperbelt, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
Luongo, Katherine, Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Kihiu, Faith. Women as agents of democratisation : the role of women's organisations in Kenya (1990-2007), Berlin : Lit, 2010.
Murithi, Tim and Aquilina Mawadza. Zimbabwe in transition : a view from within, Auckland Park, South Africa : Fanele, 2011.
Namyalo, Doreen and Jacqueline Macalesher. The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in East Africa : Kenya and Uganda , London : Penal Reform International, c2012.
Ndlovu, Mary. Against the odds : a history of Zimbabwe project , Harare, Zimbabwe : Zimbabwe Project Trust : Weaver Pr., 2011.
Bertram, Geoffrey. Assessing the structure of small welfare states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Malan, Jannie. Being similar, different and coexistent, Durban, South Africa : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2011.
Kanyenze , Godfrey et al (eds). Beyond the enclave : towards a pro-poor and inclusive development strategy for Zimbabwe, Harare : Weaver Press in association with Alternatives to Neo-liberalism in Southern Africa, Labour & Economic Development Research Institute, Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, 2011.
Hopkins-Weise, Jeff. Blood brothers : the ANZAC genesis, Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2009.
Bano, Masooda. Breakdown in Pakistan : how aid is eroding institutions for collective action, Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, Stanford University Press, [2012].
Gwee, June (ed). Case studies in public governance : building institutions in Singapore, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Okombo , Okoth et al (eds). Challenging the rulers : a leadership model for good governance, Nairobi, Kenya : East African Educational Publishers Ltd. in partnership with Community Aid International, 2011.
DasGupta, Sumona . Citizen initiatives and democratic engagement : experiences from India, London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
McCowan, Tristan and Sonia Gomez. Citizenship education in Commonwealth countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2012.
Harris, David. Civil war and democracy in West Africa : conflict resolution, elections and justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia, London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Frayne, Bruce, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel (eds). Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012.
Falola, Toyin. Colonialism and violence in Nigeria, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2009.
Nathan, Laurie. Community of insecurity : SADC's struggle for peace and security in Southern Africa, Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
Lamba, Isaac Chikwekwere. Contradictions in post-war education policy formulation and application in colonial Malawi 1945-1961: a historical study of the dynamics of colonial survival, Zomba, Malawi : Kachere Series, 2010.
Constandinos, Andreas. The Cyprus crisis : examining the role of the British and American governments during 1974, Plymouth : University of Plymouth Press, 2012.
Mullen, Rani D. Decentralization, local governance, and social wellbeing in India : do local governments matter? New York : Routledge, 2012.
Theodore, Karl, Mahendra Reddy and Happy Siphambe. Development challenges of HIV/AIDS in small states : experiences from the Pacific, Southern Africa and the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Gardner, Katy. Discordant development : global capitalism and the struggle for connection in Bangladesh, London : Pluto Press ; New York, NY : distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Fonsah, Esendugue Gregory. Economics of banana production and marketing in the tropics : (a case study of Cameroon). Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, c2012.
Khan, Iffat Humayun. Electoral malpractices during the 2008 elections in Pakistan, Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Sutton, John and Bennet Kpentey. An enterprise map of Ghana, [London?] : International Growth Centre, 2012.
Smith, Jennifer and D. Michael Jackson (eds). The evolving Canadian crown, Kingston, Ont. : Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Gibson, Nigel C. Fanonian practices in South Africa : from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scotsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.
Tucker, Richard P. A forest history of India, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2011.
Handy , Femida et al. From Seva to cyberspace : the many faces of volunteering in India, New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011.
Appleby, Gabrielle, Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John (eds). The future of Australian federalism : comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Sinha Roy, Mallarika. Gender and radical politics in India : magic moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975), London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Abshire, Jean E. The history of Singapore, Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2011.
Morrissey, Oliver and Evious Zgovu. The impact of China and India on sub-Saharan African countries : opportunities, challenges and policies, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Wildeman, Russell Andrew and Wellington Jogo. Implementing the public finance management act in South Africa : how far are we? Pretoria : Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2012.
Majumdar, Boria and Nalin Mehta. India and the Olympics, New York : Routledge, 2009.
Winegard, Timothy C. Indigenous peoples of the British dominions and the first world war, New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Graham, Andrew (ed). Innovations in public expenditure management : country cases from the Commonwealth, London : Commonweath Secretariat, c2011.
Kapila, Shruti. An intellectual history for India, New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Vivekanandan, Jayashree. Interrogating international relations : India's strategic practice and the return of history, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Birchwood, Anthony and Marielle Goto. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Jayaraman, T. K. and Paresh Narayan. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Pacific, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Fonjong, Lotsmart N. (ed). Issues in women's land rights in Cameroon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub., c2012.
Levine, Allan. King : William Lyon Mackenzie King : a life guided by the hand of destiny, Vancouver, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, c2011.
Radwan, Ismail and Giulia Pellegrini. Knowledge, productivity, and innovation in Nigeria : creating a new economy, Washington, DC : World Bank, c2010.
Powles, L. D. The land of the pink pearl; or, Recollections of life in the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas : Media Pub., 1996. (First published in 1888, an unaltered and unabridged republication of the work originally published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington)
Keable , Ken (ed). London recruits : the secret war against Apartheid, Pontypool : Merlin Press, 2012.
Adonis, Gérard. Macroeconomic policy frameworks of small states : a case study of Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Brown, Karen. Mad dogs and meerkats : a history of resurgent rabies in southern Africa, Cape Town : UCT Press, c2011.
Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi : nonviolent power in action, New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
Navaro-Yashin, Yael. The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity, Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012. (On Cyprus)
Narayan, Badri. The making of the dalit public in North India : Uttar Pradesh, 1950-present, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Macrory, Patrick and Sherry Stephenson. Making trade in services supportive of development in Commonwealth small and low-income countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Wain, Barry. Malaysian maverick : Mahathir Mohamad in turbulent times, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Forrest, Kally. Metal that will not bend : National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa 1980-1995, Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011
Chaudron, Gerald. New Zealand in the League of Nations : the beginnings of an independent foreign policy, 1919-1939, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2012.
Ghate , Chetan (ed). The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy, New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Butt, Usama and Julian Schofield (eds). Pakistan: The US, geopolitics and grand strategies, London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2012
Cordesman, Anthony H. and Varun Vira. Pakistan, violence versus stability : a national net assessment : a report of the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy, Washington, DC : CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011.
Springer, Cletus I. and John L. Roberts. Partnerships for sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Leeson, Howard A. The Patriation minutes, Edmonton : Centre for Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, c2011.
McCandless, Erin. Polarization and transformation in Zimbabwe : social movements, strategy dilemmas and change, Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2012.
Marland, Alex, Thierry Giasson, and Jennifer Lees-Marshment (eds). Political marketing in Canada, Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.
Marshall, Ruth. Political spiritualities : the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria, Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Turner, Simon. Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life, New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Commonwealth Secretariat. Potential supply chains in the textiles and clothing sector in South Asia : an exploratory study. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Crais, Clifton C. Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Adeniyi, Olusegun. Power, politics and death : a front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar'Adua, Lagos : Kachifo, 2011.
Gervais, Stéphan, Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy (eds). Quebec questions : Quebec studies for the twenty-first century, Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Liundi, Christopher C. Quotable quotes of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere : collected from speeches and writings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2012.
Report of the inaugural Commonwealth conference : citizenship and the Commonwealth : the active Commonwealth citizen. London : University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2010.
Menon, Meena. Riots and after in Mumbai : chronicles of truth and reconciliation, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
Bornkamm, Paul Christoph. Rwanda's Gacaca courts : between retribution and reparation, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Epstein, James. Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Bennett, Brett M. and Joseph M. Hodge (eds). Science and empire : knowledge and networks of science across the British Empire, 1800-1970, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Nyagah, Leslie (ed). Seeds for growth : financing smallholder farming in southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa : IDASA, 2011
Mafela, Lily and Herman Musahara. Setting of new social science research agendas for Africa in the 21st century, Addis Ababa : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), c2011.
O’Neal, Michael E. Slavery, smallholding and tourism : social transformations in the British Virgin Islands, New Orleans : Quid Pro, 2012.
Aggarwal, Aradhna. Social and economic impact of SEZs in India, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Azzopardi, Rose Marie. Social policies in Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat/UNRISD, c2011.
Campling, Liam, Hansel Confiance and Marie-Therese Purvis. Social Policies in Seychelles, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Vubo, Emmanuel Yenshu, State of a Union : the half century of Cameroon's bicultural experience, Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, cop. 2012.
Weiss, Meredith L. Student activism in Malaysia : crucible, mirror, sideshow, Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University ; Singapore : NUS Press, c2011.
Ongwamuhana, Kibuta. Tax compliance in Tanzania : analysis of law and policy affecting voluntary taxpayer compliance, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyoka Publishers, c2011.
Hoerder, Dirk. To know our many selves : from the study of Canada to Canadian studies, Edmonton : AU Press, 2010.
Vigilance, Constance and John L. Roberts (eds). Tools for mainstreaming sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.
Chandrashekhar, Lalita. Undermining local democracy : parallel governance in contemporary South India, New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.
Cross, Michael. An unfulfilled promise : transforming schools in Mozambique, Addis Adaba, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2011.
Desai, Renu and Romola Sanyal (eds). Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities, Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
Parsons, Elizabeth. What price for privatization? : cultural encounter with development policy on the Zambian copperbelt, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
Luongo, Katherine, Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Kihiu, Faith. Women as agents of democratisation : the role of women's organisations in Kenya (1990-2007), Berlin : Lit, 2010.
Murithi, Tim and Aquilina Mawadza. Zimbabwe in transition : a view from within, Auckland Park, South Africa : Fanele, 2011.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Book of the Month: Mapping India
The beautifully illustrated and presented Mapping India by Manosi Lahiri, published this year by Niyogi Books in New Dehli, is a new addition to a number of works we hold which look at the act of mapping and India. These include Ian J. Barrow's Making history, drawing territory : British mapping in India, c. 1756-1905, Matthew H. Edney's Mapping an empire : the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843, and Susan Gole's Indian maps and plans : from earliest times to the advent of European surveys.
Mapping India examines the mapping of India over the last 500 years, looking at the influence of war and commerce as the driving force for the mapping of India, and changes in cartography and access to maps through to the beginning of the 21st century. The book presents some of the famous maps which have depicted India and also influence cartography in India for several centuries.They reflect the influence and role fo the East India Company, of colonialism and of independence, and include maps of Partition, migration and famines.
Covering a broad period this work is notable for the beautiful reproductions of maps held in repositories including many Indian archives, especially previously classified (and therefore not made available to the public) maps in the National Archives of India; the British Library; the Royal Geographical Society; the Asiatic Society, Kolkata; the Asiatic Society of Mumbai; the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum at the City Palace, Jaipurl and the Susan Gole Collection at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Dehli.
Mapping India examines the mapping of India over the last 500 years, looking at the influence of war and commerce as the driving force for the mapping of India, and changes in cartography and access to maps through to the beginning of the 21st century. The book presents some of the famous maps which have depicted India and also influence cartography in India for several centuries.They reflect the influence and role fo the East India Company, of colonialism and of independence, and include maps of Partition, migration and famines.
Covering a broad period this work is notable for the beautiful reproductions of maps held in repositories including many Indian archives, especially previously classified (and therefore not made available to the public) maps in the National Archives of India; the British Library; the Royal Geographical Society; the Asiatic Society, Kolkata; the Asiatic Society of Mumbai; the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum at the City Palace, Jaipurl and the Susan Gole Collection at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Dehli.
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Ruth First articles and book reviews
Today forwarding a post from the Ruth First Papers team
"The Ruth First Papers team would like to introduce a collection, prepared by Routledge, of articles and book reviews that complement Ruth First. Explore the collection today by clicking on the link below.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/ruth-first.pdf
The Review of African Political Economy has published many articles on Ruth First and they may publish more! Sign up to receive table of contents alerts for this SSCI listed journal today"
"The Ruth First Papers team would like to introduce a collection, prepared by Routledge, of articles and book reviews that complement Ruth First. Explore the collection today by clicking on the link below.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/ruth-first.pdf
The Review of African Political Economy has published many articles on Ruth First and they may publish more! Sign up to receive table of contents alerts for this SSCI listed journal today"
Monday, 23 July 2012
Olympic Opening Hours and Access
Library opening hours during the Summer Olympics 2012
From 27th July - 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Olympic Access Arrangements 15th July-16th August
Access restrictions due to the location of the Olympics Media Hub around the Senate House building restrictions have now commenced and are detailed below:
The key points for library users are that:
1.Russell Square car park is closed
2.Parking for visitors must be pre-booked through reception and can not be guranteed
5.Staff car parking cannot be guaranteed
There are vehicle retrictions, check points and revisions to the normal two-way traffic routes around the Russell Square area. Bus stops in Russell Square have been be relocated and some route changes have taken place. Please plan your journey and check for updates on the day. Anyone driving into the area must expect considerable delays is are advised to use public transport during this period, if possible.
Further details are available at http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/
Pedestrian Access
Pedestrian access will be unaffected, although pedestrian crossing time will be reduced across Woburn Place and Southampton Row to increase the flow of traffic along the Olympic Route.
Taxis
Taxis will not be allowed into the restricted area. The best advice is to try to get a taxi on Gower Street or Tottenham Court Road
Cyclists
Cyclists will not be stopped at the vehicle check points. However, LOCOG stress cyclists should be extra vigilant to ensure they cycle safely with the increased number of pedestrians and vehicles.
From 27th July - 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Olympic Access Arrangements 15th July-16th August
Access restrictions due to the location of the Olympics Media Hub around the Senate House building restrictions have now commenced and are detailed below:
The key points for library users are that:
1.Russell Square car park is closed
2.Parking for visitors must be pre-booked through reception and can not be guranteed
5.Staff car parking cannot be guaranteed
There are vehicle retrictions, check points and revisions to the normal two-way traffic routes around the Russell Square area. Bus stops in Russell Square have been be relocated and some route changes have taken place. Please plan your journey and check for updates on the day. Anyone driving into the area must expect considerable delays is are advised to use public transport during this period, if possible.
Further details are available at http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/
Pedestrian Access
Pedestrian access will be unaffected, although pedestrian crossing time will be reduced across Woburn Place and Southampton Row to increase the flow of traffic along the Olympic Route.
Taxis
Taxis will not be allowed into the restricted area. The best advice is to try to get a taxi on Gower Street or Tottenham Court Road
Cyclists
Cyclists will not be stopped at the vehicle check points. However, LOCOG stress cyclists should be extra vigilant to ensure they cycle safely with the increased number of pedestrians and vehicles.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES
University of London
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States.
The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
A public call for nominations for books in the relevant field published in the calendar year 2010, 2011 or 2012 is now open. Publishers or authors willing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Alegria Perez, Academic Support Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, at the address below. Please note that multi-authored works are eligible but edited books are not. The deadline for submissions is 07 January 2013, 5.00pm.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
2nd Floor, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
alegria.perez@sas.ac.uk
University of London
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States.
The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
A public call for nominations for books in the relevant field published in the calendar year 2010, 2011 or 2012 is now open. Publishers or authors willing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Alegria Perez, Academic Support Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, at the address below. Please note that multi-authored works are eligible but edited books are not. The deadline for submissions is 07 January 2013, 5.00pm.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
2nd Floor, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
alegria.perez@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
Friday, 13 July 2012
Digital New Zealand
Digital NZ - A-Tihi te Aotearoa Digital NZ is an initiative with more than 120 partners, led by the National Library of New Zealand .
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop is currently inviting abstract submissions for the 2012-13 academic year
"Established in 2008, the workshop is designed to provide a forum for postgraduates and new researchers to gather and present their work in an informal and friendly environment. Seminars run on a bi-weekly basis at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), intercalated with the Imperial and World History series (www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/124). Papers are generally 25-30 minutes long, followed by discussion.
We welcome papers on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history, and encourage new and interdisciplinary approaches (eg. anthropology, art, history, geography, literature). Potential paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Borders, Encounters, Conflict Zones
- Family, Kinship, Childhood, and Memory
- Bodies, Health, Welfare
- Sexualities, Genders, and Intimacies
- Indigenous Histories and Encounters
- Representation and Performance
- Environment, Social and Spatial Landscapes
- Diasporas, Migration and Identities
- Labour, Commodities, and Consumption
- Transnational Comparisons/Comparative Empires
- Technological and Scientific Advances (eg. medicine, communications, information exchange)
- Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro/Francophone Worlds
- Methodology, Current Issues in Colonial/Postcolonial Studies
Anyone interested in presenting their work, whether finished pieces or works in progress, is encouraged to submit an abstract of between 250-350 words to cpnewresearchers@gmail.com.
For the first time, this year the IHR is offering to podcast seminars through their website (http://www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts). If you are interested in having your paper recorded, please indicate with your abstract submission."
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