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Generations Past
Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies. While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-relat...
Nineteenth-Century Explorers
Although the once-fuzzy outlines of the global map had largely been defined by the 19th century, much had yet to be learned. As some explorers continued to search either for resources or for unknown regions, others increasingly embraced a new kind of discoverythat of scientific knowledge. Readers will journey alongside a host of notable explorers, accompanying Lewis and Clark on their famous expeditionduring which they both charted much of the United States and identified 178 new plantsand marvelling at Charles Darwins revolutionary findings in the Galapagos Islands. Their explorations and many others are chronicled within these pages.
