Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Thomas Sankara
An African Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his...
by Adekeye Adebajo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a...
by Paul Bjerk
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of independent Africa’s most influential leaders....
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough
Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.
Not...
by Tan Malaka
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of a central though enigmatic figure of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed, during the several decades of his political activity, to run afoul of nearly every political group and...
Threatening Others
Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”
Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National...
by Thomas J. Mickey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Named one of “the year's best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014)
The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The...
The Exile Mission
The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups—those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland—faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile...
South Sudan
A New History for a New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation’s diversity is both its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied...
The Game of Conservation
International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted...
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
The Conscript
A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature.
The...