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Why should we care about dying languages? Cherokee | Sara Snyder Hopkins | TEDxLakeJunaluska

TEDx Talks Published on Apr 22, 2021 Sara Snyder Hopkins shares her personal transformation from thinking Native American people should assimilate to advocating for preserving Native languages and teaching the endangered Cherokee language. She shares reasons for saving dying languages … Continue reading

Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local by Editor-A.G. Hopkins

Synopsis: This fresh collection of case studies is essential reading for anyone studying globalization, world history, transnational history or world politics. A.G. Hopkins’ invaluable introduction places the new global history in the context of world, international and transnational history, and … Continue reading

African Perspectives on Colonialism (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History, 15): A. Adu Boahen

This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of Europe. Eurocentric points of view have dominated the study of this era, but in this … Continue reading

Jay Naidoo on Today’s Challenges: Ecology Must be at the Center – Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

BALTIMORE – September 30, 2020. Earlier this year, when the coronavirus pandemic began and countries began to shelter in place, Jay Naidoo found himself in lockdown in an ashram in India. Every morning he woke at 3 a.m. and spent … Continue reading

An Economic History of West Africa: A. G. Hopkins

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges from prehistoric times to independence and covers the former French territories, … Continue reading

Hopkins Students Fight Against ‘School to War Pipeline’

My Town in Transition: Rob Hopkins at TEDxExeter

TEDx Talks Published on May 1, 2012 In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers … Continue reading

21 Stories of Transition – with Rob Hopkins

transitionus Published on Jan 6, 2016 These 21 Stories are a joyous and inspiring celebration of what the Transition movement has become and were compiled in the hope that this powerful and heady taste of what is bubbling up from … Continue reading

The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World: Rob Hopkins

Packed with real-life examples and the voices of people who have created innovative local businesses and invested in all manner of new enterprises, this call for local action argues that the seed of a new economy—and the answer to the … Continue reading

21 Stories of Transition – with Rob Hopkins

transitionus Published on Jan 6, 2016 These 21 Stories are a joyous and inspiring celebration of what the Transition movement has become and were compiled in the hope that this powerful and heady taste of what is bubbling up from … Continue reading