Spring 2013 Catalog - Duke University Press

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Water
History, Power, Crisis
david kinkela, enrique c. ochoa
& teresa meade, special issue editors
a special issue of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW
Throughout the summer
of 2012, drought conditions
in North America,
Asia, and Africa raised
worldwide concern
over grain shortages
and rising food prices.
Meanwhile, catastrophic
floods displaced thou-
Nancy Borowick, The Gift of Life, Mowire, Ghana, 2012.
sands of people in the
Philippines, Fiji, and Australia. For millions of people, finding safe drinking
water is the most contested and politically fraught daily errand.
The contributors to this issue examine the historical processes that
shape contemporary water issues. They focus on how state-sponsored
water programs, from sewage treatment to irrigation to damming, radically
transform local communities. Topics include caste legacies and
waste management in India, dam building in nineteenth-century Egypt,
North African emigration and municipal water policy in Paris, and
contested water management programs in the Ecuadorean highlands.
Collectively, in essays and photos, the authors investigate how water
or its absence has affected human societies and seek to historicize
the politics of the struggle to control one of our most crucial natural
resources.
HISTORY
history
Contributors
Maria Teresa Armijos, Nancy Borowick, Claire Cookson-Hills, Nicole Fabricant,
Robert A. Gilmer, Kathryn Hicks, David Kinkela, Nicolas Lampert, Erik Loomis,
Hugh McDonnell, Teresa Meade, Ruth Morgan, Enrique C. Ochoa, James Smith,
Stephanie Tam
David Kinkela is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Fredonia. He is
the author of DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental
Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. Enrique C. Ochoa
is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at California State
University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Feeding Mexico: The Political
Uses of Food since 1910. Teresa Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor
of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is
the author of A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present.
May 195 pages, 30 illustrations No. 116
paper, 978–0–8223–6785–7, $14.00/£9.99
Acadian French in Time and Space
A Study in Morphosyntax
and Comparative Sociolinguistics
ruth king
PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY (PADS)
LINGUISTICS
linguistics
Available 164 pages, 8 illustrations No. 97
paper, 978–0–8223–6784–0, $20.00/£12.99
Acadian French in Time and
Space is a study of a set
of closely related minority
language varieties spoken
by a subset of French
Canadians. Most research
on this topic has appeared
only in French; this volume
makes recent scholarship
on the evolution and
Map of Acadia in 1749.
history of this unique set
of dialects accessible to anglophone audiences for the first time. Of
particular interest to sociolinguists who focus on grammatical variation
and change and to dialectologists engaged in comparing geographically
dispersed but closely related language varieties, it will also interest
specialists in other North American varieties, such as Quebec French,
and specialists in sociosyntax and language contact. Ruth King explores
the preservation of rich verbal morphology, mechanisms involved in the
spread of particular grammatical changes, and the relationship between
discourse phenomena and grammar. This publication furthers the study
of language varieties that preserve and illuminate rare features of
the French of the early Canadian settlers while advancing the field
of sociolinguistics.
Ruth King is Professor of Linguistics and Women’s Studies at York
University in Toronto. She is the author of The Lexical Basis of Grammatical
Borrowing.