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- An Exchange of Opinion - MacArthur, Quezon, and Executive Order Number One--Another ViewRogers, P. P.; Petillo, C. (University of California Press, 1983)
- Values for Varmints: Predator Control and Environmental Ideas, 1920-1939Dunlap, T. R. (University of California Press, 1984)
- American Wildlife Policy and Environmental Ideology: Poisoning Coyotes, 1939-1972Dunlap, T. R. (University of California Press, 1986-08)
- Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940Dunlap, T. R. (University of California Press, 1990-05)
- Momentum shifts in the American electric utility system: Catastrophic change - Or no change at all?Hirsh, R. F.; Serchuk, A. H. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1996-04)
- Historically Speaking, Summer 1997(Virginia Tech, 1997-08)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 1997(Virginia Tech, 1997-09)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Spring 1998(Virginia Tech, 1998-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Summer 1998(Virginia Tech, 1998-07)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 1998(Virginia Tech, 1998-09)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Spring 1999(Virginia Tech, 1999-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Summer 1999(Virginia Tech, 1999-08)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 1999(Virginia Tech, 1999-10)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- ’Changing traditions to meet current altering conditions’: Customary Law, African Courts, and the Rejection of Codification in Kenya, 1930-60Shadle, Brett L. (Cambridge University Press, 1999-11)If the aim of British colonizers, Frederick Lugard wrote, was to civilize Africans ‘and to devote thought to those matters which…most intimately affect their daily life and happiness, there are few of greater importance than the constitution of native courts’. Moreover, he argued that only from native courts employing customary law was it ‘possible to create rudiments of law and order, to inculcate a sense of responsibility, and evolve among a primitive community some sense of discipline and respect for authority’. Britain had not the manpower, the money nor the mettle to rule by force of arms alone. Essentially, in order to make colonial rule work with only a ‘thin white line’ of European administrators, African ideas of custom and of law had to be incorporated into the new state systems. In a very real way, customary law and African courts provided the ideological and financial underpinnings for European colonial rule. In Kenya from at least the 1920s, but especially in the 1940s and 1950s, administrators struggled with the question of how customary law could best be used in African courts. Prominent among their concerns was the codification of customary law, against which most administrators vigorously fought. British officials believed that reducing African custom to written law and placing it in a code would ‘crystalize’ it, altering its fundamentally fluid or evolutionary nature. Colonizers naturally harbored intentions of using the law to shape society (as Cooper has demonstrated for the Kenya coast) but a fluid, unwritten law provided much greater latitude to pursue these goals. It was necessary, as one administrator put it, to allow ‘changing traditions to meet current altering conditions’. This case study of Kenya offers a different understanding of the history of customary law.
- Historically Speaking, Spring 2000(Virginia Tech, 2000-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 2000(Virginia Tech, 2000-09)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Spring 2001(Virginia Tech, 2001-03)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 2001(Virginia Tech, 2001-10)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Historically Speaking, Fall 2002(Virginia Tech, 2002)This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.
- Patronage, Millennialism and the Serpent God Mumbo in South-West Kenya, 1912–34Shadle, Brett L. (Cambridge University Press, 2002-02)This article traces the history of Mumboism, a millennial cult of south-west Kenya, 1912–34. Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, promised to eject whites and chiefs from the region and usher in a period of prosperity. Mumboism gained followers, it is argued, because it mixed older ideas of patron–client relations with newer ideas of omnipotent, unseen beings, introduced by Europeans as Government and God. Mumbo challenged chiefs and missionaries, struggling to create patronage networks, by attracting clients, and threatened to unmask Government and God as impotent. Chiefs and, to a lesser extent, missionaries directed state power to the repression of Mumbo, eliminating it before it could undermine the very basis of European power.