Continent Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book illustrates the dynamic ideas that shape black politicians, intellectuals, and social movement activists’ behavior as they participate in U.S foreign issues towards Africa. The author is an African descendant interested with knowledge on racism. This is because of the rich and reassuring conversations he had on race relations from his immediate family and the shadow of civil rights associations. At the same time, his parents had exposed him to the realities of Africa through art, museums, and books hence able to counter psychological assault by the whites.
Black Americans are deeply ambivalent on their status as ...

The author of the book ‘Can Asians think?’ who is also an Asian sets up a forum in the book to discuss several factors that make the whole Asian continent lag behind in technology and development mostly in its economy. The book also discuss a lot of ideas that form an answer to this question and seeks to explain all the possible approaches that can be used to discuss the issue (Kishore, xiv).
In the initial chapters of the book, the author of the book poses the question of the ability of Asians to think. By first acknowledging that the ...

Introduction

Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian innate with a Doctorate from Oxford University as well as a degree from the Harvard University. Moyo Dambisa has demonstrated her diligence working at the Goldman Sachs and the World Bank. Dambisa Moyo wrote her first book, the Dead Aid which is a controversial exploration of aid projects in the African Continent. The book by Moyo has received lots of praises from Kofi Annan. Kofi Quotes that the book is the best description of a fascinating case for a new strategy in Africa. She emphasizes that the time for Africa is here. Moyo further ...

"Risse, Thomas (2010): A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres
The book ‘ A community of Europeans? Transitional identities and public spheres is piece that explains the relationship among the countries in Europe. In providing a review on this book the paper will focus on the argument of the author on the relationship in this zone. The paper will also provide an analysis on how effective the argument of the author is in creating this particular book. In the review the author’s claims will be put in to the real situation perspective where the truth behind ...

Abstract

This paper is a review of the book “Things Fall Apart”, which are two overlapping stories surrounding Onkonkwo a strong man of Ibo village in Nigeria. In the first story the novel features Onkonkwo as a man who has fallen from the grace of his tribal world where he was brought up. This gives the reader an overview of the extent of conflict between an individual and the society. In the second fable, explores destruction of Onkonkwo’s culture through encroachment by the European colonies. The story illuminates the true nature of African society and how different remote villages responded to this.

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The Greed of Colonialism
Hochschild shows King Leopold’s greed when he sent the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley to collect signatures from the tribal leaders handing over their land to him, by taking advantage of their ignorance. They did not consider that the people living in Africa had their way of life and already had their own forms of government. The European colonizers did not consider the misery and pain they would be putting Africans through with their plans to take over their land. They considered Africa empty and the inhabitants primitive and uncivilized. This was not ...

The European history has been associated with the industrial revolutions that saw the development of trade and culture of the people. There is a lot that is said about the great leaders that are considered key in the transformation of the continent to what it is. Eric Wolf takes us through a different aspect of European history, which he considered key to the developments that have been experienced. This is all about the unspoken people whose contributions facilitated trade connections and gave Europe a name that it currently holds in the world. These are the poor peasants who were mostly migrants to ...

Article Review: African Theology - Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology – Roman Catholic in Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church

The two articles being reviewed and compared here are African Theology – Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology - Roman Catholic, both taken from the Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Karkkainen.
Both articles begin with an overview of their interaction with diversity and it is at the very onset that the reader realizes that the two theologies vary greatly in their follower base. Despite its ...

It was the best time for both the authors to express their views concerning the challenges that was experienced by the African American who lived in the United States. In the introductory part of the book “The Dreams of My Father.” The author uses composite character, pseudonyms and events that resulted from chronological order, most of which is about his family (Obama, Barack, 13).
He tries to explain the black American feelings and emotions that were experienced because of racial segregation, religion, and politics. On the other hand, Jack explains about the challenges of rare, religion and the ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Columbus and the Color Line
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is an account of the American history in a common man perspective. It was first published in the year 1980, and it contains many stories particularly of the natives, which were mostly ignored earlier. It describes in vivid detail the spirited fight put on by various individuals such as Frederick Douglass, César Chávez and others, against slavery and oppression. The aim of this essay is to single out three events or issues that was discussed in the opening two chapters of the ...

Robert W. Merry's "A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent."
Robert Merry’s book is a firm but fair appraisal of James Polk’s much maligned Presidency where the Mexican American war occurred and where the United States managed to expand its territory quite vastly. The overarching theme of the book is the misinterpretation of James Polk as a President who perhaps was heavy handed in his tactics but managed to secure considerable expansion for the United States.
In the book, Merry describes Polk as a one term President ...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a book by Jack Weatherford that focus on the developments that took place in Europe many centuries age. A trade revolution saw that mongoloids make remarkable changes that transformed the continent. Genghis Khan is the focus of the story considering his decision to retract from the European society and adopted into the mongolism. The attitude thaw s held against the mongolism during this point of time considered him an outcast who did not have the interests of the people at heart. Mongol were hunters and gathers who moved from one ...