Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg DeutschThe volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness...
2) Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa,...