J Rich
Biographic Data
| ID | 14834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Rich |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rich |
| SIGNATURE | RICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5117-1657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville (review)
Reviewed by: Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville Jeremy Rich Monaville, Pedro. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Scholarship on the Congo crises of the 1960s has long focused on international power politics and a handful of key leaders, most notably figures like the martyred hero of decolonization Patrice Lumumba and longti…
Unsteady Is the Cross: Catholic Missionaries, Marriage, and Fang Communities in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914–1945
Between 1914 and 1945, French Catholic missionaries and Gabonese priests tried to impose their faith and ideals of family life on Fang communities in the rural Estuary region of the French colony of Gabon. Catholic evangelists offered benefits such as education as well as threats of spiritual punishment to convert Fang people. However, Fang men and women often rejected these demands. While Fang men tried to maintain polygamy as a sign of successf…
Humanitarian Aid and Counterinsurgency: The Case of the Simba Revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1964–1967
This article demonstrates how the U.S. and Congolese governments successfully used humanitarian aid in their counterinsurgency campaign against the rebel Conseil National de la Libération (CNL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1964 to 1967. Washington orchestrated an effective military counteroffensive through the use of mercenaries and extensive logistical support. Though relief organizations claimed to be apolitical, they allowed Congol…
From Jean-Perce Makanzu to Makanzu Mavumilusa: An Evangelical Protestant Leader in Mobutu's Congo, 1960–1980
While scholars have written at length about Pentecostal churches and African Independent Churches in the postcolonial era in the Democratic Republic of Congo, little attention has been given to evangelical Protestants in the opening decades of Congolese independence. Jean-Perce Mavumilusa Makanzu became a key theologian and evangelist in the 1960s and 1970s, and became popular with U.S. missionaries in the late 1960s in promoting evangelical teac…
OSL chronology of middle to late Holocene aeolian activity in the St. Anthony dune field, southeastern Idaho, USA
Ida Vera Simonton's Imperial Masquerades: Intersections of Gender, Race and African Expertise in Progressive‐Era America
Ida Vera Simonton, a New York socialite, visited the French colony of Gabon in 1906 and 1907. Her subsequent narratives about her stay demonstrate a very ambiguous view of the horrors of European colonialism that she claimed to despise and the amoral nature of Africans. Simonton ultimately employed her stay in Gabon to claim a right to form female self‐defence squads in New York and to act as an independent defender of white women. By carefully s…
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (review)
Reviewed by: Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo Jeremy Rich Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo. By Jules Marchal. (New York: Verso, 2008). The fact a major publishing house put out an English edition of this book, originally published in Belgium in 2001, is a testimony to the enduring fascination of Leopold II’s Independent State of the Congo. Even though this book treats palm concessions in the K…
Independence Comes to the Chief's Daughters: A Gabonese Family Story of Marriage and Decolonization
This essay explores Gabonese understandings of decolonization and marriage through oral narratives about Felicien Endame Ndong (ca. 1890–1971), a Fang-speaking Gabonese chief. Many historical studies of marriage in Africa have focused on the colonial period, but Ndong’s failed efforts to arrange marriages for his daughters indicate how drastically gender relations could change in the 1960s, after the achievement of national independence. These ch…
An American Sorcerer in Colonial Gabon: Politics and the Occult in Richard Lynch Garner's Gabonese Narratives, 1905–1908
The eccentric American zoologist Richard Lynch Garner (1848–1920) spent almost two decades living with Nkomi people in southern Gabon between 1893 and 1918. His essays often discussed the connections between occult beliefs and political change during the chaotic era of concessionary companies in the colony. This period is often seen by historians as a violent period that destroyed pre-colonial political institutions in equatorial Africa. However,…
After the Last Slave Ship, the Sea Remains: Mobility and Atlantic networks in Gabon, c .1860–1920This research would not have been possible without the support of the library staff at Middle Tennessee…
Too often the black Atlantic has been conflated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, without consideration for the ways different parts of West and Central Africa became more closely tied together by Atlantic networks after 1860. This essay explores the formation of a multinational group of migrant workers in Gabon. Men from Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast found skilled work in Gabon. Gabonese men and women also moved to other colonies. While men…
Hunger and Consumer Protest in Colonial Africa during the First World War: T he C ase of the G abon E stuary , 1914–1920
Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, experienced food shortages as a result of the First World War, much like those that plagued Africans in other colonies. The disruption of international trade brought by the war, French military efforts to attack the neighboring German colony of Cameroon, climatic fluctuations, and government plans to extract taxes and manpower from rural Gabonese communities all interfered with local …
A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, croissants are as readily available as plantains. Yet this same culinary diversity is accompanied by high prices and a scarcity of locally made food that is bew…
Civilized Attire: Refashioning Tastes and Social Status in the Gabon Estuary,c.1870–1914
Dress in Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, reveals the complexities of cross-cultural interaction and cultural influences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Mpongwe coastal ethnic community in the town, long linked to Atlantic commerce, adapted elements of European dress as part of a lifestyle of assimilation to French culture. Free people with access to missionary education and economic employm…
The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Nottingham, July 4-…
Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affair in the regions that belonged to it, and did econom…
Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place
Controlled experiments, using matched pairs of bogus transactors, to test for discrimination in the marketplace have been conducted for over 30 years, and have extended across 10 countries. Significant, persistent and pervasive levels of discrimination have been found against non-whites and women in labour, housing and product markets. Rates of employment discrimination against non-whites, in excess of 25% have been measured in Australia, Europe …
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: Linking them to health services and community follow-up
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: linking them to health services and community follow-up. T P Flanigan, J Y Kim, S Zierler, J Rich, K Vigilante, and D Bury-MaynardCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.6.886 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place
Controlled experiments, using matched pairs of bogus transactors, to test for discrimination in the marketplace have been conducted for over 30 years, and have extended across 10 countries. Significant, persistent and pervasive levels of discrimination have been found against non-whites and women in labour, housing and product markets. Rates of employment discrimination against non-whites, in excess of 25% have been measured in Australia, Europe …
Civilized Attire: Refashioning Tastes and Social Status in the Gabon Estuary,c.1870–1914
Dress in Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, reveals the complexities of cross-cultural interaction and cultural influences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Mpongwe coastal ethnic community in the town, long linked to Atlantic commerce, adapted elements of European dress as part of a lifestyle of assimilation to French culture. Free people with access to missionary education and economic employm…
After the Last Slave Ship, the Sea Remains: Mobility and Atlantic networks in Gabon, c .1860–1920This research would not have been possible without the support of the library staff at Middle Tennessee…
Too often the black Atlantic has been conflated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, without consideration for the ways different parts of West and Central Africa became more closely tied together by Atlantic networks after 1860. This essay explores the formation of a multinational group of migrant workers in Gabon. Men from Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast found skilled work in Gabon. Gabonese men and women also moved to other colonies. While men…
Hunger and Consumer Protest in Colonial Africa during the First World War: T he C ase of the G abon E stuary , 1914–1920
Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, experienced food shortages as a result of the First World War, much like those that plagued Africans in other colonies. The disruption of international trade brought by the war, French military efforts to attack the neighboring German colony of Cameroon, climatic fluctuations, and government plans to extract taxes and manpower from rural Gabonese communities all interfered with local …
Independence Comes to the Chief's Daughters: A Gabonese Family Story of Marriage and Decolonization
This essay explores Gabonese understandings of decolonization and marriage through oral narratives about Felicien Endame Ndong (ca. 1890–1971), a Fang-speaking Gabonese chief. Many historical studies of marriage in Africa have focused on the colonial period, but Ndong’s failed efforts to arrange marriages for his daughters indicate how drastically gender relations could change in the 1960s, after the achievement of national independence. These ch…
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: Linking them to health services and community follow-up
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: linking them to health services and community follow-up. T P Flanigan, J Y Kim, S Zierler, J Rich, K Vigilante, and D Bury-MaynardCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.6.886 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: Linking them to health services and community follow-up
A prison release program for HIV-positive women: linking them to health services and community follow-up. T P Flanigan, J Y Kim, S Zierler, J Rich, K Vigilante, and D Bury-MaynardCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.6.886 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Nottingham, July 4-…
Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affair in the regions that belonged to it, and did econom…
Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place
Controlled experiments, using matched pairs of bogus transactors, to test for discrimination in the marketplace have been conducted for over 30 years, and have extended across 10 countries. Significant, persistent and pervasive levels of discrimination have been found against non-whites and women in labour, housing and product markets. Rates of employment discrimination against non-whites, in excess of 25% have been measured in Australia, Europe …
Civilized Attire: Refashioning Tastes and Social Status in the Gabon Estuary,c.1870–1914
Dress in Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, reveals the complexities of cross-cultural interaction and cultural influences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Mpongwe coastal ethnic community in the town, long linked to Atlantic commerce, adapted elements of European dress as part of a lifestyle of assimilation to French culture. Free people with access to missionary education and economic employm…
After the Last Slave Ship, the Sea Remains: Mobility and Atlantic networks in Gabon, c .1860–1920This research would not have been possible without the support of the library staff at Middle Tennessee…
Too often the black Atlantic has been conflated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, without consideration for the ways different parts of West and Central Africa became more closely tied together by Atlantic networks after 1860. This essay explores the formation of a multinational group of migrant workers in Gabon. Men from Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast found skilled work in Gabon. Gabonese men and women also moved to other colonies. While men…
Hunger and Consumer Protest in Colonial Africa during the First World War: T he C ase of the G abon E stuary , 1914–1920
Libreville, the capital of the French African colony of Gabon, experienced food shortages as a result of the First World War, much like those that plagued Africans in other colonies. The disruption of international trade brought by the war, French military efforts to attack the neighboring German colony of Cameroon, climatic fluctuations, and government plans to extract taxes and manpower from rural Gabonese communities all interfered with local …
A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, croissants are as readily available as plantains. Yet this same culinary diversity is accompanied by high prices and a scarcity of locally made food that is bew…
An American Sorcerer in Colonial Gabon: Politics and the Occult in Richard Lynch Garner's Gabonese Narratives, 1905–1908
The eccentric American zoologist Richard Lynch Garner (1848–1920) spent almost two decades living with Nkomi people in southern Gabon between 1893 and 1918. His essays often discussed the connections between occult beliefs and political change during the chaotic era of concessionary companies in the colony. This period is often seen by historians as a violent period that destroyed pre-colonial political institutions in equatorial Africa. However,…
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (review)
Reviewed by: Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo Jeremy Rich Lord Leverhulme’s Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo. By Jules Marchal. (New York: Verso, 2008). The fact a major publishing house put out an English edition of this book, originally published in Belgium in 2001, is a testimony to the enduring fascination of Leopold II’s Independent State of the Congo. Even though this book treats palm concessions in the K…
Independence Comes to the Chief's Daughters: A Gabonese Family Story of Marriage and Decolonization
This essay explores Gabonese understandings of decolonization and marriage through oral narratives about Felicien Endame Ndong (ca. 1890–1971), a Fang-speaking Gabonese chief. Many historical studies of marriage in Africa have focused on the colonial period, but Ndong’s failed efforts to arrange marriages for his daughters indicate how drastically gender relations could change in the 1960s, after the achievement of national independence. These ch…
Ida Vera Simonton's Imperial Masquerades: Intersections of Gender, Race and African Expertise in Progressive‐Era America
Ida Vera Simonton, a New York socialite, visited the French colony of Gabon in 1906 and 1907. Her subsequent narratives about her stay demonstrate a very ambiguous view of the horrors of European colonialism that she claimed to despise and the amoral nature of Africans. Simonton ultimately employed her stay in Gabon to claim a right to form female self‐defence squads in New York and to act as an independent defender of white women. By carefully s…
OSL chronology of middle to late Holocene aeolian activity in the St. Anthony dune field, southeastern Idaho, USA
From Jean-Perce Makanzu to Makanzu Mavumilusa: An Evangelical Protestant Leader in Mobutu's Congo, 1960–1980
While scholars have written at length about Pentecostal churches and African Independent Churches in the postcolonial era in the Democratic Republic of Congo, little attention has been given to evangelical Protestants in the opening decades of Congolese independence. Jean-Perce Mavumilusa Makanzu became a key theologian and evangelist in the 1960s and 1970s, and became popular with U.S. missionaries in the late 1960s in promoting evangelical teac…
Humanitarian Aid and Counterinsurgency: The Case of the Simba Revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1964–1967
This article demonstrates how the U.S. and Congolese governments successfully used humanitarian aid in their counterinsurgency campaign against the rebel Conseil National de la Libération (CNL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1964 to 1967. Washington orchestrated an effective military counteroffensive through the use of mercenaries and extensive logistical support. Though relief organizations claimed to be apolitical, they allowed Congol…
Unsteady Is the Cross: Catholic Missionaries, Marriage, and Fang Communities in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914–1945
Between 1914 and 1945, French Catholic missionaries and Gabonese priests tried to impose their faith and ideals of family life on Fang communities in the rural Estuary region of the French colony of Gabon. Catholic evangelists offered benefits such as education as well as threats of spiritual punishment to convert Fang people. However, Fang men and women often rejected these demands. While Fang men tried to maintain polygamy as a sign of successf…
Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville (review)
Reviewed by: Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville Jeremy Rich Monaville, Pedro. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Scholarship on the Congo crises of the 1960s has long focused on international power politics and a handful of key leaders, most notably figures like the martyred hero of decolonization Patrice Lumumba and longti…
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