S. M. Ghazanfar (Editor)
Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar, Prof./Chair-Emeritus (Economics/History), 1968-2008; Founding Director, International Studies Program, University of Idaho. Author of four books, over 160 refereed/professional publications. Numerous recognitions include Hall of Fame (UK-based), Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Hall of Honors, 2007, Washington State University; Idaho Treasure Award, 2009; Legendary Locals of Idaho, 2013; numerous faculty-excellence/outstanding-faculty awards, and other teaching/research and community honors/awards.
Robert Eddy (Co-Editor)
Dr. Robert Eddy is originally from the University of Durham, England, where he studied the rhetoric of politics, science, and religion, now a Professor of English Literature, Washington State University, Pullman. Directed academic writing programs at universities in China and Egypt; Director of Composition at this University from 2002 through 2010. He won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001. Has published several peer-reviewed books and professional papers.
Foreword.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506): A Saint or Marauding Crusader?
Author: Habeeb Salloum, M.S.M., is a full-time author/free-lance writer, chiefly specializing in Middle-East/African history. His refereed articles have appeared in academic journals, such as Canadian Ethnic Studies, Saskatchewan History, and The Muslim World (Hartford Seminary). He has written several books—e.g., Journey Back to Arab Spain (The Middle East Studies Center, 1994), Arabic Contributions to the English Vocabulary (Librairie du Liban, 1996), and others. Has published articles on Christopher Columbus in the Aramco World and elsewhere. Recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Governor General of Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal for his work in Canadian studies.
Chapter 2. Vasco da Gama’s 1498 Voyage to India:
Messianism, Mercantilism, and Sacred Exploits.
Author: Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar, Prof./Chair-Emeritus (Economics/History), 1968-2008; Founding Director, International Studies Program, University of Idaho. Author of four books, over 160 refereed/professional publications. Numerous recognitions include Hall of Fame (UK-based), Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Hall of Honors, 2007, Wash. State University; Idaho Treasure Award, 2009; Legendary Locals of Idaho, 2013; numerous faculty-excellence/outstanding-faculty awards, and other teaching/research and community honors/awards.
Chapter 3. Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515): The Iron-Handed Governor of Estado de India.
Author: Dr. S. M. Ghazanfar.
Chapter 4. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845): The Audacious Practices of an Unprincipled Man.
Author: Dr. Dianne Baumann, a registered descendent of the Blackfeet Nation, is an assistant professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington (2019). Her dissertation, “Blackfeet Men, ‘Toxic’ Masculinity, and Gender Entanglement,” examines how some Blackfeet men negotiate the entanglements of settler colonialism, gender, and masculinity to provide better lives for themselves and their communities. Her research interests include.
Chapter 5. Legacy of King Leopold II (1835-1909): Colonialism and Conflict in the Congo.
Author: Dr. Akanmu G. Adebayo, professor of history, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. Formerly Director of the Center for Conflict Management; Executive Director of the Institute for Global Initiatives. Author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, and several articles published in scholarly journals. Latest is a co-edited book entitled "Atone: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation" (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Serves as Series Editor, “Conflict and Security in the Developing World,” for Lexington Books. His current research projects relate to Africa and the African Diaspora.
Chapter 6. Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902): Victorian Hero, Post-Colonial Villain.
Author: Dr. Paul Maylam, Emeritus Professor of History, Rhodes University, South Africa. Author of six books, and co-editor of a seventh: Rhodes, the Tswana and the British (1981); A History of the African people of South Africa (1986); South Africa’s Racial Past (2001); The Cult of Rhodes (2005); Enlightened Rule (2011); Rhodes University, 1904-2016 (2017).
Chapter 7. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and His Rhetoric of the Less Than Human.
Author: Dr. Robert Eddy is originally from the University of Durham, England, where he studied the rhetoric of politics, science, and religion, now a Professor of English Literature, Washington State University, Pullman. Directed academic writing programs at universities in China and Egypt; Director of Composition at this University from 2002 through 2010. He won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001. Has published several peer-reviewed books and professional papers.
Chapter 8. The Historical Pirates of the Caribbean: Heroes or Villains?
Author: Dr. Akanmu G. Adebayo, professor of history, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. See above.