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Charles Ambler
Researcher at University of Texas at El Paso
Publications - 28
Citations - 824
Charles Ambler is an academic researcher from University of Texas at El Paso. The author has contributed to research in topics: Colonialism & Racism. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 27 publications receiving 771 citations.
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Kenyan communities in the age of imperialism : the central region in the late nineteenth century
TL;DR: Ambler concludes with the reflection that "For those convinced of the inherency and intractability of ethnic animosity, the peoples of nineteenth-century central Kenya have a story to tell." (p. 157).
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Leisure in African history: an introduction.
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Popular Films and Colonial Audiences: The Movies in Northern Rhodesia
TL;DR: The phenomenon of "Copperbelt Cowboys" and its manifestation in urban areas across much of British-ruled Africa vividly demonstrates the rapid and pervasive penetration of mythic Hollywood screen imagery into even remote corners of the empire.
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Liquor and labor in Southern Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the complex relationship between alcohol use and the emergence of the modern urban industrial system and reveal vibrant subcultures nurtured in beerhalls and underground shebeens and expose the bitter conflicts over alcohol that run along the fault lines of age, gender, class, and ethnicity.