Making visible the hundreds of thousands of Mozambican men and women who made their lives in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Elusive Histories offers rich insights into the social history of labor migration and the experience of racism, and it rebukes the idea that arbitrary borders determine where and how a person belongs.

Describes the existing system of local government and also to analyze it, identify weaknesses and problems with the present arrangement, and to propose realistic lines of reform. This book offers a collection of essays that provides constructive contribution to the discussion of issues central to the system of local government in Indonesia.

In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women's political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries.Professor

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale.

A guide to the art of plant identification. It gives step-by-step instructions and definitions to help readers recognize and classify plants.

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.

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.

Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili-a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet-argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.