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About mePolitical culture and the history of political thought are my primary interests. Consequently, I try to read well in politics, philosophy and history of ideas. Additionally, I often read African history (especially Southern Africa), European history, military history, anthropology and literature.
About my libraryThis collection's strengths are in political thought, politics, philosophy and African studies. Generally, it mirrors my interests noted above. Other themes with multiple volumes include constructions and manifestations of identity, the social and political ramifications of epidemics, religious experience emphasizing Christianity,
constructions of identity and non-western approaches to modernity/modernization.
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GroupsAll Books Africa, Ancient History, Catholic Tradition, Graduate Students, History: On learning from and writing history, Military History, Non-Fiction Readers, Reading Globally, Running Readers, Social science
Favorite authorsHannah Arendt, Aristoteles, Berkeley Breathed, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Umberto Eco, Lee Friedlander, Kwame Gyekye, Donald Kagan, John Keegan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alasdair MacIntyre, Simon Schama, Charles Taylor, Alexis de Tocqueville, Richard P. Werbner, Kwasi Wiredu (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresJackson State University Bookstore
Favorite librariesH.T. Sampson Library, Jackson State University
Favorite publishersIndiana University Press, Liberty Fund, Inc, McGill-Queen's University Press, RAND Corporation, University of California Press, W.W. Norton, Yale University Press
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Real nameKenya A. Hudson
LocationJackson, MS
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Member sinceNov 19, 2005
Currently readingAll the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.) by David W. Blight Ph. D.
Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back by Mike Allen
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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 9:47 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008
Particularly good point: However, it also suffers from the excesses of that style of writing including a tendency to emphasize the lurid details rather than examine why such patterns of behavior persisted.
Can I also recommend Paul Collier's Bottom Billion. Quite economics oriented in origin, but examines this from the opposite approach (no lurid writing, with much statistical research on why poor countries fail).
posted by muppetspanker at 2:20 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2008