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This book examines the relationship between the British Cotton Growing Association and the British Imperial and Colonial Governments of Northern Nigeria during the first two decades of the twentieth century. All parties involved wanted to see an increase in cotton production but could not always agree on the methods of achieving this goal. The book discusses the formation of the British Cotton Growing Association. Its prominent members and supporters are revealed. British Cotton Growing Association activities are examined and discussed with particular reference to Northern Nigeria. ...

In remote northern California in 1930 a Native American is arrested. He is quickly tried, convicted and incarcerated in San Quentin prison. The circumstances of this event are closely examined in this well-researched book. In reviewing the historical data the author reveals how the American judicial system failed this man. This is a fascinating case study that provides insight into the dominant perspectives and values of California in the 1930s.

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household. We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and...