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About meI'm an associate professor in the Department of History at Swarthmore College. My main fields of scholarly specialization are African and comparative colonial history, but I also teach general cultural history and cultural studies on a variety of topics. I've also written about children's television and more recently, computer games and virtual worlds.

I blog at Easily Distracted and also at the group blogs Cliopatria and Terra Nova.

posted by TimothyBurke at 11:19 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2006 | re

About my libraryMy books listed here are from both my office and my home libraries. My scholarly collection has a large number of works on African, colonial, imperial and world history; also anthropology, cultural studies, game studies, historiography, political theory and other work. My home collection includes many works of science fiction, children's literature, novels, and miscellaneous non-fiction. My wife also has a large collection of works on dance and urban planning in our home library which I will eventually catalog here.

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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi

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Long walk to freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

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Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989 (Social History of Africa Series) by Barbara M. Cooper

Hello,

I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.

Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.

Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.

Best wishes,

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 10:03 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Nice to see you're on LT too!

posted by HouseholdOpera at 10:10 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2007

Somehow I completely missed that you're on LT. Cool!

posted by WilliamDorr at 4:53 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2007

Hi, I think we've met in a previous virtual life (s). At any rate, it is nice to see how many books we have in common especially a few that are not widely held in the LT Universe. I hope things are well.

Kenya A. Hudson

posted by kahudson at 12:20 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

Hey Tim,

Fancy meeting you here.

posted by mbowen at 1:38 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2007

It's interesting to look at who one shares books with..._Life Turns Man Up and Down_ is a favorite of mine in part because I've worked with examples of and thought about the history and status of the Onitsha Market genre in libraries. I see you have Della McMillan's book and she was my first teacher in African Studies. My parents are both Swarthmore alums so that connection also struck me although I've never been there myself. I just read your blog entry on serendipity or discovery in libraries and the value of keeping some distance from the user as king/Google model which is a valuable insight given that we don't always know what we want or need to find. Well met. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and best regards.

posted by danrebo at 12:18 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2007

I had a question as to how to catalogue a book we both share. Perhaps you can help me. I am wondering what would be the "original language" of Merton's "The Travels and Adventrures of Serendipity." (The history of the book's publication is a great example of serendipity, in my opinion). You might say that the original language is English, though the original publication is Italian (the Italian version being a translation of the original English manuscript). Secundarily, however, when the book was finally published in English, it relied not only on the original English manuscript, but also on a re-translation and re-editing back to English from the Italian, especially in parts where the English manuscript itself was unreliable because of age and wear. What do you think? Should the "original language" be English, even though the book was first published in Italian? But doesn't the fact that the English version relied on the Italian version mean that the "original language" should be Italian? What's your vote? Send me a comment.

posted by ltcomdata at 3:38 am (EST) on Sep 21, 2006

Hi, and thanks for the welcome. Was it the trackback that gave me away? I prefer to think that you check, last thing every night, who is listed as owning your book in order to harangue any who rank it poorly.

I take your point about the usefulness of using common tags in line with common usage. I suppose that much of what I tagged as history should be something like "source texts" or the like: still only useful personally, but at least not actively misleading.

posted by endie at 5:26 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

Nope, not South African, just have spent a goodly amount of time there. Very nice compliment to think that you find my thoughts on target! Thanks.

posted by TimothyBurke at 7:20 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2006

Hello there

I see you have the madam and eve cartoon - my favourites. Are you South African? I am and have lived in the US since 1993. I read some of your commentary on why apartheid ended and found it spot on. Even if you are not South African , I am glad that you have found an interest in the continent that I call home :)

posted by keren7 at 11:46 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2006

Oh, wow. We do indeed share a number of books in common-- including in my two poles of books. I'll have to spend some time perusing the books of yours that I *don't* share with you.
And, actually, once upon a time I used to read your blog. Somehow it fell off my feed reader over the years-- for no particular reason that I can recall. I'll have to remedy that...

posted by mollymolo at 5:20 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2006

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