Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

This bestselling textbook, now fully updated, introduces students, researchers and
practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by one of the …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies is the authoritative reference for anyone
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In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the
German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a …

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of
slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth …

Routledge Interpreting Guides cover the key settings or domains of interpreting and equip
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The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant
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Empirical studies of public services and 'the state at work'(von Stein, see Bierschenk and
Olivier de Sardan, introduction) have, of course, been carried out for a long time. They …

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that
using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse …

Exploration is a knowledge-producing enterprise. It can be under-taken for a range of
reasons—to seek resources, to conquer territory, to promote trade, to convert heathens, to …