The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Harper Press, 2007, 910.409 COL
Harper Press, 2007, 910.409 COL
Bashabi Fraser
Anthem Press, 2006, 891.443 FRA
Philip Gourevitch
We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Picador, 2000, 967.57 GOU
The RSA will once again have a strong presence at this Year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, running a series of three high profile RSA lectures.
12 August sees American writer Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families, a powerful account of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, in conversation with Ramona Koval, a writer and broadcaster on Australian National Radio. Gourevitch is currently working on a ground breaking study of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.Read a profile of Philip Gourevitch and an account from an Abu Ghraib prisoner, both from The Guardian.
Continuing the current RSA focus on Asia, and following RSA events such as Will China and India rule the world? and The Challenge of India Summit, on 19 August writer and academic Bashabi Fraser will discuss the founding of the modern Indian state and the equally significant Bengali partition which preceded it, creating East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Bashabi Fraser is the author of Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University.
Finally, on 26 August, Linda Colley will be the guest of RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor. Colley is an expert on nations and identity and has recently published the book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History which traces an 18th-century woman’s life progress from the Caribbean, to Britain, to the Mediterranean and North Africa, and on to India, as a way of exploring growing connections and collisions between continents and cultures.
Read a review of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh from The Times and a review of Captives: Britain and the World 1600-1850 from The Guardian.
All of the book mentioned above are available to borrow from the RSA Library.
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