Regional Studies

'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce Davies Th...

Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adve...

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the col...

Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Ide...

From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, an...

From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, an...

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly ...

Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish city Emerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of a...

Examines the coded language of the Republican Party In The Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into r...

The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang – two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good positi...

Social Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea r...

In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as signi...

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and...

Venus of Khala-Kanti is a tale of life-altering loss and mystical recovery. Set in an imaginary West African village that becomes a charming cul-de...

Because of their historical roles and politico-economic significance in contemporary international politics, Iran and China have perpetually been i...

In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study...

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed “Stretch” because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of Afri...

For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought...

Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to variou...

Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strat...

Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity an...

Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strat...