A ‘Chinese Scramble’? The Politics of Contemporary China–Africa Relations
in African Affairs
January 2007; published online January 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: African studies. 940 words.
A ‘Kimberley protest’: Diamond mining, export sanctions, and poverty in Akwatia, Ghana
in African Affairs
July 2010; published online April 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: African studies. 8253 words.
The temporary suspension of diamond exports in Ghana in 2006 and 2007 is arguably the most significant move to address mounting criticisms of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), an...
A ‘new politics’ of austerity, workfare and gender? The UK coalition government's welfare reform proposals
in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
November 2011; published online September 2011.
Journal Article. Subjects: regional and area studies. 7714 words.
This paper considers the UK coalition government's austerity drive, which attempts to garner public support for the reduction or withdrawal of welfare entitlements through appeals to frugality,...
‘A Cup of Tea with Homer’
in John Stuart Blackie
May 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: regional and area studies. 15999 words.
This chapter discusses John Stuart Blackie's methods in teaching. Blackie wrote the essay The Pronunciation of Greek and travelled to Athens to prove that the Greek Language is not dead. He...
‘A Docile Workforce’? Women, Work and Political Identity
in Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919-1939
May 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: regional and area studies. 9975 words.
The expediency of the discourse used by employers, trade unionists and male workers that identified women workers as docile and politically apathetic has been bolstered by a historiography which...
‘A Scotch Parnellite Party’: Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act
in Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912
March 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: regional and area studies. 9675 words.
Throughout Britain and Ireland, the Third Reform Act — finally enacted in 1884 after several delays, with a redistribution of constituencies following in 1885 — extended the vote to all male...
‘A Sort of Fenian Conclave in the Country’: The Development of a Highland Land Question
in Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912
March 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: regional and area studies. 9284 words.
The ‘Crofters' War’ ultimately had its genesis in the post-Culloden reorganisation of Highland estates, the creation of crafting, and the large-scale clearance of people for sheep, most notoriously...
Abacha, Sani (1943–1998)
in Encyclopedia of Africa
January 2010; published online January 2010.
Reference Entry. Subjects: African studies. 353 words.
Sani Abacha attended primary and secondary school in his home state of Kano and then joined the army in 1962
Abbe Alexis Kagame
Overview page. Subjects: African studies.
Kagame, philosopher, linguist, and historian, was born in 1912 in Kiyanza, Rwanda. A member of the traditional Tutsi royalty, Kagame was educated in the local minor and major seminaries there ...
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlawī, an Accidental Revivalist: Knowledge and Power in the Passage from Delhi to Makka
in Journal of Islamic Studies
May 2008; published online March 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: Islam; history; regional and area studies. 23155 words.
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī (d. 1642) was a renowned Islamic reformer in Mughal Delhi. His life is well documented in hagiographic and biographic records. This study argues that ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's...