'It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic' Chris Evans 'A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring' Sunday Times Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history. So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact. Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.

Wits University celebrates 100 years of academic and research excellence, innovation, and social justice in 2022. The origins of Wits lie in the South African School of Mines, which was established in Kimberley in 1896 and transferred to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904, becoming the Transvaal University College in 1906 and renamed the South African School of Mines and Technology four years later. Full university status was granted in 1922, incorporating the College as the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Jan H. Hofmeyr was its first Principal.

The University of the Witwatersrand occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of South Africans. Its history is inextricably linked with the development of Johannesburg, with mining and economic development, and with political and social activism across the country.

Wits University at 100: From Excavation to Innovation captures important moments of Wits’ story in celebration of the university’s centenary in 2022. It explores Wits’ origins, the space and place that it occupies in society, and its transformation as it prepares the ground for the next century. From its humble beginnings as a mining college in Johannesburg to its current position as a flourishing and inclusive university, Wits University at 100 is a story of innovation driven from the global South.

In text and image, Wits is presented as a dynamic institution that thrives because of its people, many of whom, in one way or another, have shifted the world. The experiences, achievements and insights of past and present ‘Witsies’ come alive in this glossy, full-colour book that maps the university’s vision for the future.

The official journal of the Organization of Educational Historians VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1, 2012 Editor's Introduction, Paul J. Ramsey. ARTICLES. NCLB-The Educational Accountability Paradigm in Historical Perspective, Mark Groen. Using Microbiography to Understand the Occupational Careers of American Teachers, 1900-1950, Robert J. Gough. Flannery O'Conner and Progressive Education: Experiences and Impressions of an American Author, John A. Beineke. The Idea of Infancy and Nineteenth-Century American Education, Joseph Watras. The Great Depression and Elementary School Teachers as Reported in Grade Teacher Magazine, Sherry L. Field and Elizabeth Bellows. Called to Teach: Percy and Anna Pennybacker's Contributions to Education in Texas, 1880-1899, Kelley M. King. A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy and the Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day and Lindsey N. DeVries. History's Purpose in Antebellum Textbooks, Edward Cromwell McInnis. Texas's Decision to Have Twelve Grades, Kathy Watlington. The Rise and Demise of the SAT: The University of California Generates Change for College Admissions, Susan J. Berger. Imagining Harvard: Changing Visions of Harvard in Fiction, 1890-1940, Christian K. Anderson and Daniel A. Clark. God and Man at Yale and Beyond: The Thoughts of William F. Buckley, Jr. on Higher Education, 1949-1955, James Green. Paul Ricoeur, Memory, and the Historical Gaze: Implications for Education Histories,Sherri Rae Colby. Indefinite Foundings and Awkward Transitions: The Grange's Troubled Formation into an Educational Institution, Glenn P. Lauzon. BOOK REVIEWS. Loss, C. P., Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 344 pp., and Urban, W. J., More Than Science and Sputnik: The National Defense Education Act of 1958. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2010, 264 pp. Reviewed by T. Gregory Barrett. Hendry, P., Engendering Curriculum History. New York: Routledge. 2011, 258 pp. Reviewed by Daniel M. Ryan. D. E. Mitchell, , R. L. Crowson, and D. Shipps, eds., Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process. New York: Routledge. 2011, 312 pp. Reviewed by Sherri Rae Colby. Gasman, M., The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past. New York: Routledge, 2010, 240 pp. Reviewed by John A. Beineke. VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2, 2012 Editor's Introduction, Paul J. Ramsey. ARTICLES. ""Whosoever Will, Let Him Come"": Evangelical Millennialism and the Development of American Public Education, John Wakefield. ""Good Fences Make Strange Neighbors"": Released Time Programs and the McCollum v. Board of Education Decision of 1948, David P. Setran. Evolution and South Carolina Schools, 1859-2009, Benjamin J. Bindewald and Mindy Spearman. Reverend John Witherspoon's Pedagogy of Leadership, Christie L. Maloyed and J. Kelton Williams.Transatlantic Dialogue: Pestalozzian Influences on Women's Education in the Early Nineteenth Century America,Maria A. Laubach and Joan K. Smith. Is Liberal Arts Education for Women Liberating?: From Cold War Debate to Modern Gender Gaps, Andrea Walton. Coercion, If Coercion Be Necessary: The Educational Function of the New York House of Refuge, 1824-1874, Josie Madison. Shaping Freedom's Course: Charles Hamilton Houston, Howard University, and Legal Instruction on U.S. Civil Rights, Robert K. Poch. Theodore Sizer and the Development of the Mathematics and Science for Minority Students Program at Phillips Academy Andover,Jerrell K. Beckham. Disproportionate Burden: Consolidation and Educational Equity in the City Schools of Warren, Ohio, 1978-2011, Leah J. Daugherty Schmidt and Thomas G. Welsh. The Power of Boarding Schools: A Historiographical Review, Abigail Gundlach Graham. Challenge and Conflict to Educate: The Brazos Agency Indian School, Brandon Moore, Karon N. LeCompte, and Larry J. Kelly. ""Incommensurable Standards"": Academics' Responses to Classical Arrangements of Native American Songs, Jacob Hardesty. A Century of Using Secondary Education to Extend an American Hegemony over Hawaii, Kalani Beyer. BOOK REVIEWS:Titus, J. O., Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregation, & the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, 279 pp. Reviewed by Dionne Danns. Horsford, S. D., Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis) integration. New York: Teachers College Press. 2011, 129 pp. Reviewed by Melanie Adams. James, R., Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation. New York: Bloomsbury Press. 2010, 276 pp.Reviewed by Robert K. Poch. Burkholder, Z., Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 264 pp. Reviewed by Amy A. Hunter and Matthew D. Davis. Rury, J. L. and S. A. Hill., The African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940-1980: Closing the Graduation Gap. New York: Teachers College Press, 2012, 261 pp. Reviewed by Claude Weathersby.Frankenberg E., and E. DeBay, eds., Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 368 pp. Reviewed by Joseph Watras.

This book defines the concept of knowledge transformation, describes the historical process of knowledge transformation, and analyses its deep influence on education theory and practice by virtue of multiple discipline resources. The general scope of this book encompasses the philosophy of education, curriculum studies, and education reform research. It enables readers to understand how 'hidden' epistemological factors have changed or reshaped the education system throughout history and at present. 

This book explores citizenship education and democracy in the Netherlands. From the Second World War to the present day, debates about civic education and democracy have raged in the country: this book demonstrates how citizens, social movements and political elites have articulated their own notions of democracy. Civic education illustrates democracy as an essentially contested concept - the transmission of political ideals highlights conflicting democratic values and a problem of paternalism. Ultimately, who dictates what democracy is, and to whom? As expectations of citizens rise, they are viewed more and more as objects of a pedagogical project, itself a controversial notion. Focusing on what democracy means practically in society, this book will be of interest to scholars of citizenship education and post-war Dutch political history.

Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, this book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays ask how, why and when Mussolini's dictatorship mattered after the event and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.

A collection of iconic, unbelievable, and intimate stories from baseball history that celebrate the enduring impact of the national pastime. Baseball--rooted as it is in tradition and nostalgia--lends itself to the retelling of its timeless tales. So it is with the stories in Classic Baseball, a collection of articles written by award-winning journalist John Rosengren and originally published by Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, Sports on Earth, VICE Sports, and other magazines. These are stories about the game's legends--Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Josh Gibson, Bob Feller, Frank Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Kirby Puckett--and its lesser-knowns with extraordinary stories of their own. They cover some of the game's most famous moments, like Hank Aaron hitting No. 715, and some you've never heard of, like the time the Ku Klux Klan played a game against an all-Black team. Whether it be the story of John Roseboro forgiving Juan Marichal for clubbing him in the head with a bat, Elston Howard breaking down the Yankees' systemic racism to integrate America's team, or the national pastime played on snowshoes during July in a remote Wisconsin town, these are stories meant to be read and read again for their poignancy, their humor, and their celebration of baseball.

The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accounts. Punk rock has been on the frontlines of activism since exploding on the scene in the 1970's. Punk Revolution! is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through firsthand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists. John Malkin brings together a wide cast of characters that include major punk & post-punk musicians (members of The Ramones, Bad Religion, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith's band, Gang of Four, Sex Pistols, Iggy & the Stooges, Bikini Kill, Talking Heads, The Slits, and more), important figures influenced by the punk movement (Noam Chomsky, Kalle Lasn, Keith McHenry, Marjane Satrapi, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Jarecke), and underground punk voices. These insightful, radical, and often funny conversations travel through rebellions against Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin and to punk activism that has taken on nuclear war, neoliberalism, modern warfare, patriarchy, white supremacy, the police, settler colonialism, and more. The result is a fresh and unique history of punk throughout the ages.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or sub-rural districts. It also wants to profile the multiple identities of a city that is simultaneously an ecological asset, a heritage locale in addition to a logistics hub. The volume is probably the first of its kind to analyze the western sector of the largest city in the world.

Tackling the intellectual histories of the first twenty women to earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States, this book traces their career development and influence on American intellectual life. The case studies include Eliza Ritchie, Marietta Kies, Julia Gulliver, Anna Alice Cutler, Eliza Sunderland, and many more. Editor Dorothy Rogers looks at the factors that led these women to pursue careers in academic philosophy, examines the ideas they developed, and evaluates the impact they had on the academic and social worlds they inhabited. Many of these women were active in professional academic circles, published in academic journals, and contributed to important philosophical discussions of the day: the question of free will, the nature of God in relation to self, and how to establish a just society. The most successful women earned their degrees at women-friendly institutions, yet a handful of them achieved professional distinction at institutions that refused to recognize their achievements at the time; John Hopkins and Harvard are notable examples. The women who did not develop careers in academic philosophy often moved to careers in social welfare or education. Thus, whilst looking at the academic success of some, this book also examines the policies and practices that made it difficult or impossible for others to succeed.

First Published in 1968. This is Volume I of a series of studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.

First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. "Architectures", "Encounters" and "Rhythms" make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of "urban fantastic" within and across the European traditions studied here.

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time. Classed as a developing country, Thailand has implemented wide-reaching legislative and regulatory responses relating to the purpose, character of and access to higher education. The authors investigate these changes by interrogating the mechanisms and reciprocities that have operated at the international level to trigger this decision making, and acknowledge that these changes have often run up against long-standing cultural norms and ideologies. Thailand has a highly stratified society, and maintains a strong commitment to the preservation of Thai identity and traditional values: tensions and pressures are likely to arise when history, culture and ideology are not aligned with political decree. Importantly, the push and pull between equity and excellence within the education system are likely to lie at the heart of those tensions.

On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual athletes, teams, and events, it is clear that the "Vanishing Americans" are not vanishing-but they are sadly overlooked. The Native American Identity in Sports: Creating and Preserving a Culture not only includes, but goes beyond the great achievements of Billy Mills to note numerous other instances of Native American accomplishment and impact on sports. This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the broader public view of Native Americans. Additional essays explore the contemporary use of the traditional sport Toka to combat obesity in some Native American communities, the Seminoles' commercialization of alligator wrestling-a "Native" sport that was, in fact, only developed as a sport due to interest from tourists-and much more. The contributions to this volume not only tell the story of Native Americans' participation in the world of sports, but also how Native Americans have changed and enriched the sports world in the process. For anyone interested in the deep effect sport has on culture, The Native American Identity in Sports is an indispensable read.

Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's role in international relations worldwide. Specifically, this book offers "insider" views from expert contributors writing about music as a part of cultural diplomacy initiatives in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Japan, China, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Nigeria. Unique features include the book's emphasis on diverse legal frameworks, decolonial perspectives, and cultural policies that serve as a basis for how nations outside "the west" use music in their relationships with Europe and North America.

Originally published in 1966, this is Volume II which is a straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume contains parts 4 on Coal and Capitalism to Part five on Coal and Public Policy.