History and politics of eastern and southern Africa; environmental history of East Africa since 1800; histories of colonial and post-colonial violence, conflict, and insurrection
Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.
Political thought, institutions, and conflict in 19th and 20th century US; immigration, race, and nationhood in America from founding to present
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