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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Beyond the antislavery haven
Slavery in early Canadian print culture, 1789–1889
by Ellie Bird
This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada's complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of themselves as belonging to an antislavery community even while recognising their own complicity in slavery. The book explores narratives that depict the lives of Black settlers in Canada and how slave narratives circulated in Canada. Canada's relationship with slavery is far more complicated than seeing it as either an antislavery haven or a slaveholding space. Canada was connected to Britain, France, the Caribbean and the United States and this was central to how Canadians and Canadian readers fashioned their self-image in relation to slavery.
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January 1989Die Geheimnisse der guten Erde
Hoffnungsvolle Auswege aus der ökologischen Krise
by Tompkins, Peter; Bird, Christopher / Übersetzt von Würmli, Marcus
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2007Contesting home defence
by Penny Summerfield, Bertrand Taithe, Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2007Contesting home defence
by Penny Summerfield, Bertrand Taithe, Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Rebecca Mortimer
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July 2025Deckname: Bird
Thriller | »Eine fesselnde Lektüre, die mich lange vom Schlafen abgehalten hat!« Val McDermid
by Louise Doughty, Thomas Wörtche, Astrid Arz
Was ist schlimmer? Gejagt zu werden oder niemals gefunden zu werden? Heather Berriman, genannt Bird, ist eine Frau auf der Flucht. Gerade noch war sie in einer Besprechung in ihrem Büro in Birmingham – und in der nächsten Minute muss sie ihren Job, ihr Zuhause, ihr Leben hinter sich lassen. Es ist der Tag gekommen, mit dem sie gerechnet und auf den sie sich vorbereitet hatte. Aber nichts konnte sie auf das vorbereiten, was als Nächstes passieren würde.Während Bird versucht herauszufinden, wer hinter ihr her ist, muss sie sich entscheiden, wem sie noch vertrauen kann.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023
Border images, border narratives
The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
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December 2025To Cage a Wild Bird
Verlier dein Leben. Oder dein Herz
by Fast, Brooke
Aus dem Englischen von Bettina Ain
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2026Border enclaves
Melilla and the making of Europe’s southern periphery
by Laia Soto Bermant
Border enclaves examines the Spanish enclave of Melilla as a prism for understanding Europe's contemporary dislocations. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, it explores how borders are enforced, contested and inhabited in a city suspended between Africa and Europe, colonial legacies and modern regimes. Through a polyphonic narrative following smugglers, migrants, teachers and politicians, it reveals how everyday practices and symbolic performances shape life in the enclave. Selective visibility-who is seen or erased-structures authority and exclusion. Situating Melilla within broader processes like Spain's colonial history and Europe's border restructuring, the book argues that its fragmented sovereignties and external dependencies make it a paradigmatic site for grasping Europe's precarious margins. It calls for an ethnographic lens attuned to dislocation as both lived experience and analytic tool.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025Conquest and resistance in West Africa
The Jeandet Affair and the illusion of colonial justice
by Ruth Ginio
This book is an enthralling account of a legal scandal, which erupted in colonial Senegal in 1890 and reached the French metropolitan press and the parliament. The murder of a colonial administrator, Abel Jeandet, by one of his soldiers led to the brutal and illegal executions without trial of the killer and two local dignitaries. The volume follows the fascinating story of Ndiereby Ba, the widow of one of the dignitaries, who with the help of powerful métis men in the capital Saint Louis sued the French administrators who had supervised the executions for the murder of her husband. Through this captivating tale the book articulates the French expansion into West Africa, the resistance to colonial rule both violent and non-violent, and the lack of interest on the part of French politicians in the brutal conquest of a territory they know nothing about.
