For more information on the published version, visit Routledge's Website., Commins, David D. “Al-Manār and Popular Religion in Syria, 1898-1920.” In Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation,...
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, as European nations consolidated their empires across much of the world, humanitarians began to debate what separated free labor from coercion. There was little agreement...
For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., Angola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in...
Published as: Commins, David. "Arab Salafism." In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, edited by Tamara Sonn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0139 For more information on the...
For more information on the published version, visit Stanford University Press's Website., Between 1974 and 1977, the Sociedade Agricola do Cassequel, Angola's most technologically advanced and profitable sugar plantation,...
For both artistic and personal reasons, D.W. Griffith was drawn to melodrama, and his most influential work, The Birth of a Nation , is, in almost every way, a fully realized melodramatic work. As is typical of this style, the...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., With the appearance of D. W. Griffith's 1915 racist epic, The Birth of a Nation , the six-year-old NAACP reluctantly organized a...
In 2008, students from Dickinson College conducted dozens of interviews in South Africa and Mississippi as part of a semester-long comparative oral history project studying the movements that challenged white supremacist...
Volume 2 of the *Cambridge History of Global Migrations* conceptualizes and organizes major themes and dynamics concerning migration across global and local scales through articles by an international array of experts. This...
*The Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume II: Migrations, 1800-Present*, presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day....