Charles Ambler (University of Texas, El Paso)

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Charles Ambler
Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of History
University of Texas
El Paso, Texas  79968  USA

phone:   915-747-5725
fax:     915-747-7522
e-mail:  cambler@utep.edu


 
Research interests:

History of alcohol use and control in British Africa; history of leisure
in modern Africa; film, mass media and African audiences; regions,
ethnicity and identify in eastern Africa.


Selected publications:

"Popular Films and Colonial Audiences," American Historical Review 106 (2001):
81-105.

"East Africa:  Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative," Oxford History 
of the British Empire, vol. V:  Historiography, ed. by Robin Winks, 1999, 
pp. 500-512.

Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa, edited with J. Crush, Ohio Univ. Press,
1992.