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In September, Routledge had the great privilege of publishing the late John A.S. Grenville's book, The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945. Read our tribute to him and find out more about his book here...
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Whether you're looking for an introduction to the crucial field of Slave Studies or you simply want to read new essays on the transnational history of slavery, look no further than The Routledge History of Slavery.
Desire by Anna Clark, reviewed by Emily Brand.
If you were granted four wishes, what would you choose? One medieval comic tale tells of a frustrated peasant woman who immediately elects that her husband be endowed with extra genitals, all over his body. He retaliates by.....
Look out for Routledge author Jonathan Farley's article on Nelson Mandela in next Monday's issue of The Voice:
"He realized that this new state could only be viably established if reconciliation between the races became the political norm and part of Mandela’s greatness lies in his insistence on this. That Africans had suffered all manner of ills under apartheid was not to be denied, but it was only Mandela, with his 27 years in prison as a result of his opposition to the system, who was in a real moral position to make this appeal to the masses and have it heeded by them. This lack of resentment and desire for revenge, given all that he himself had suffered, makes him a remarkable and indeed a great man. That he has lived to see his country host the World Cup must have given him much pleasure: such an event could never have occurred in the South Africa of yesteryear...."
Jonathan is the author of Southern Africa, a survey of the contemporary history of the whole region.
