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Two new British Academy publications with international themes
Tanzania has moved from widespread conversion to Islam in the early twentieth century to recent bitter disputes over Islamic radicalism. In Becoming Muslim in Tanzania, 1890-2000, Dr Felicitas Becker uses a combination of government, mission and oral records to examine the intellectual and social forces behind these transitions.
Giuseppe Mazzini - Italian patriot, humanist and republican - was one of the most celebrated and revered political activists and thinkers of the 19th century. Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920, edited by C A Bayly & Eugenio F Biagini, shows for the first time how his thought and image were received and transformed across Europe, the Americas and India.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
30 September 2008
- Becoming Muslim in Tanzania, 1890-2000, by Felicitas Becker, is published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press in September 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-726427-0. 376 pages. £50.00 (see OUP catalogue for information on how to order).
- Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920, edited by C A Bayly & Eugenio F Biagini, is published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press in September 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-726431-7. 432 pages. £45.00 (see OUP catalogue for information on how to order).