(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes text missing in the original.) Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence. By Marcel Fafchamps. Comparative Institutional Analysis Series. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 521. $50.00. In ...

"European medicine, and its handmaiden, public health, served as 'tools of Empire,' of both symbolic and practical consequence, and as images representative of European commitments, variously to conquer, occupy or settle.... medicine served as an instrument of empire, a...

The British social and cultural historian, Arthur Marwick, concluded his magisterial book on the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the West with a very brief final sentence on the transformation: "there has been nothing quite like it; nothing will be quite the same ag...

the ways that Atlantic imports were used as objects of cultural and political capital, altering the physical and cognitive realities of the people, and the impact of the sheer volume and new varieties of commodities on cultural transformations are questions rarely asked...

<p> This article explores the social impact of the motorcar on the relationship between the colonial State, the mission, and the Herero in Namibia in the period before 1940. It looks at how perceptions of space and reality changed, how information regarding these factor...

L'A. se propose de reformuler les terrains de la contestation de la modernite au Senegal en portant son regard au-dela de la religion et de la litterature. Il soutient que les musiciens senegalais et leurs publics ont egalement contribue de facon significative a la mode...

L'A. compare la difference entre l'administration coloniale britannique et l'administration coloniale belge dans la diffusion du pouvoir colonial a travers les chefs coloniaux des deux cotes de la riviere Luapula, frontiere entre la Rhodesie britannique et le Congo belg...