Kibong'oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000
Kibong'oto Hospital, opened in 1926, is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to understanding tuberculosis in Tanzania and, more broadly, in Africa. With the hospital as a point of departure, Christoph Gradmann presents a history of this disease that engages with local and ......
Kibong'oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000
Kibong'oto Hospital, opened in 1926, is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to understanding tuberculosis in Tanzania and, more broadly, in Africa. With the hospital as a point of departure, Christoph Gradmann presents a history of this disease that engages with local and ......
For You, I'd Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. It explores a wide range of themes, such as corruption, racial bias, family troubles, and lovers' spats, to name a few. In his stories about queer relationships, Niq Mhlongo surfaces the complexities of a ......
This book explores the unique history of West Virginia, the only state born out of the Civil War. Western Virginians faced a dual crisis of allegiance and identity, torn between their historical ties to the secessionist state of Virginia and their loyalty to the Union. The population included a significant number of enslaved people, for whom the ......
Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City
A case study on how urban capitalism created a new working-class food system in the port city of Mombasa during the twentieth century Preparing the Modern Meal is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when ......
Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City
A case study on how urban capitalism created a new working-class food system in the port city of Mombasa during the twentieth century Preparing the Modern Meal is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when ......
In Land Hunger, Mansel G. Blackford explores the central role of land use in the experiences of Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans as the new nation expanded westward from Ohio to the Oregon Country. Blackford emphasizes how people adapted to new and changed environments and focuses on key themes related to environmental and ......
In Land Hunger, Mansel G. Blackford explores the central role of land use in the experiences of Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans as the new nation expanded westward from Ohio to the Oregon Country. Blackford emphasizes how people adapted to new and changed environments and focuses on key themes related to environmental and ......
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians were part of the larger Portuguese project of building and maintaining a Catholic empire in the Indian Ocean. Both the Church and the Crown influenced the owner-slave relationship across households, the most basic organizational unit of power over the populace. Responsible ......
