Christopher J Lund

The Portuguese Manuscripts Collection of the Library of Congress: A Guide

Initiation into Portuguese Literature

This classical handbook on Portuguese Literature was published for the first time in Portugal in 1949 and had been updated since then until the late1980s. Saraiva, one of the most important scholars on field, offers a concise overview of the Portuguese Literature, surveying the most important author...

Negotiating Property in Africa:

How do people vindicate, assert, and secure claims to land? What at the outset might seem a straightforward question soon gets quite complicated when we realize that land tenure is a field where social and political relations are multifarious, overlapping, and competing. This collection of essays b...

Adventures of Charter School Creators: Leading from the Ground Up

Adventures of Charter School Creators takes the reader inside the world of individual educational entrepreneurs who have created charter schools from scratch and lived to tell about it. Drawn from examples across the country, individuals (and a few teams) tell their stories of the victories they enj...