… Newell’s most recent book, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke … on literature and apartheid, print and literary cultures, urban cultures, and other topics. Newell earned her Ph.D. …
… Drawing on research with notarial records, judicial cases, urban and rural property registers, sacramental records, and … of color-based distinctions through practices of rural and urban property ownership and kinship. The project reflects …
… Drawing on research with notarial records, judicial cases, urban and rural property registers, sacramental records, and … of color-based distinctions through practices of rural and urban property ownership and kinship. The project reflects …
… space for the practice of collective responsibility, urban civility, and public reading. I embed libraries within … She reveals how the library reading room became a space of urban sociability, literary cosmopolitanism, and …
… Newell’s most recent book, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke … on literature and apartheid, print and literary cultures, urban cultures, and other topics. Newell earned her Ph.D. …
… on subjects related to the emergence and change of early urban societies in Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the … is the domestic life of the inhabitants of the first urban developments of archaic states, such as Teotihuacan, …