Ohio State University Press: 123 books
The Ohio State University
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Raimund E. Goerler, acclaimed archivist and historian, has written the definitive guidebook to the history of The Ohio State University, one of the world's largest universities and a prominent land-grant institution. Using a topical strategy—ranging widely through critical events in OSU's history,...
The Ohio State University in the Sixties
The Unraveling of the Old Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed highway patrol officers, Ohio National Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus city police, university...
Neoliberal Bonds
Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism,...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting...
by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This New York Times best seller by Helen Hooven Santmyer recounts the lives of a group of women who start a study club in a small town in southwestern Ohio in 1868. Over the years, the club evolves into an influential community service organization in the town. Numerous characters are introduced in...
Varro the Agronomist
Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Some six years after his narrow escape from proscription in 43 bce, Marcus Terentius Varro, the “most learned” of the Romans, wrote a technical treatise on farming in the form of a satirico-philosophical dialogue. Grant A. Nelsestuen argues that far from simply being just another encyclopedic...
Columbus, Ohio
Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change examines how a major midwestern city developed economically, spatially, and socially, and what the environmental consequences have been, from its founding in 1812 to near the present day. The book analyzes Columbus’s evolution from...
Conjuring Freedom
Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army”
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
*Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” *analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious, political,...
Tarpeia
Workings of a Roman Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
According to legends of Rome’s foundation, Tarpeia was a maiden who betrayed Romulus’ city to the invading Sabines. She was then crushed to death by the Sabines’ shields and her body hurled from the Tarpeian Rock, which became the place from which subsequent traitors of the city were thrown....
Hip Sublime
Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Across disciplines, scholars have employed theories of precarity to help explain the pervasiveness of problems related to labor, migration, biopolitics, global and state governance, economies of war and violence, poverty, environmental degradation, and a host of other pressing issues. Precarous Rhetorics is...
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics
Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain by Katarzyna Olga Beilin takes readers on a journey through the history of alternative thought that challenges mainstream understandings of the relations between the human and nonhuman...
Financial Basics
A Money-Management Guide for Students, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Students are confronted with major financial decisions as they enter college, and yet they have little experience with personal finance. Their decisions, if not well made, could adversely affect them throughout their lives. This book is meant to empower students at the beginning of their financial...