As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936 and Secretary of War from 1936 to 1940, Harry H. Woodring headed the War Department during one of the most critical periods in the nation's history. When he split openly with FDR over key decisions and actions preceding World War II, he earned the dubious distinction of being the only many that Roosevelt ever from his cabinet. Unfortunately, Woodring has become a forgotten...

"Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial...

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes,...