What does it mean to decolonize knowledge ... in the university, the school, the library, the museum? In the context of this question, Siphamandla Zondi explores the contributions of African thinkers and actors to what Paul Tiyambe Zeleza calls recentering Africa in discussions about major African phenomena. His book is sure to stimulate further conversations about the many other African voices    More >

In Operation Cobra, six US divisions during six dramatic days in Normandy ended the stalemate on the western front, breaking through German defenses after seven weeks of grueling attrition warfare. After D-Day examines the experiences of U.S. soldiers in the July 25-30, 1944, Normandy campaign: their mistakes, hardships, and fears, as well as their leadership, courage, and determination. Drawing    More >

In After Homicide, Sarah Goodrum examines the experiences of the families of murder victims as they encounter detectives, prosecutors, counselors, and others in the criminal justice system. Goodrum traces each step of a murder investigation and trial, drawing on personal accounts and other primary sources. Based on extensive field research, her book is a uniquely comprehensive look at how the    More >

"How could you live in Vienna after the war?" foreign audiences frequently, accusingly ask Leon Zelman when he delivers lectures abroad, and in After Survival, Zelman painfully comes to grips with that question. Leon Zelman is proud of his dual identities—Viennese and Jewish—the latter by birth, the first by a tragic twist of fate and then by choice. His early attempts to    More >

In her moving reflection on growing up as the daughter of refugees from Hitler's Europe, Carol Ascher explores the conflicts of an émigré childhood and chronicles her return to Vienna to uncover her father's roots.    More >

Against Mediocrity starts from, and argues vigorously for, the belief that the education of every American child must be founded on the humanistic disciplines. In sixteen essays, leading scholars, educators, and school policymakers eloquently assess the current condition of the humanities in the secondary schools, analyze how this state of affairs developed and what the humanities ought to be    More >

As nongovernmental organizations play a growing role in the international response to armed conflict—tasked with mitigating the effects of war and helping to end the violence—there is an acute need for information on the impact they are actually having. Addressing this need, Aiding Peace? explores just how NGOs interact with conflict and peace dynamics, and with what results. Jonathan    More >

Winner of the African Studies Association’s Herskovits Award! Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of genocide in a country considered at the time by Western aid agencies to be a model of development. Peter Uvin reveals how aid enterprises reacted—or failed to react—to the 1990s dynamics of militarization and polarization in Rwanda that resulted in mass    More >

Looking beyond the novels and short stories of acclaimed South African writer Alex La Guma (1924–1985), Christopher Lee focuses on the nonfiction that La Guma produced during his years living in exile. Lee has gathered and annotated a plethora of La Guma's political commentary and other nonfiction pieces, along with transcripts of interviews, to show how the writer’s life and    More >

To many, governments around the world seem incapable of making the new world order anything but the new world ordeal. But in All Her Paths Are Peace, Michael Henderson portrays maverick women whose daring acts have made a difference. From Japan to Brazil, from Northern Ireland to the United States, he relates their gripping stories and depicts the practical yet often risky steps each woman took to    More >