Ohio University Press: 522 books
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing up Chinese in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Ufrieda Ho’s compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain...
Stones of Contention
A History of Africa’s Diamonds
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Africa supplies the majority of the world’s diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.
Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice
Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Land is a significant and controversial topic in South Africa. Addressing the land claims of those dispossessed in the past has proved to be a demanding, multidimensional process. In many respects the land restitution program that was launched as part of the county’s transition to democracy in 1994...
Chocolate Islands
Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa....
Illinois’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union. Its history is, in many respects, the history of the Union writ large: its political leaders figured centrally in the war’s origins, progress, and legacies; and its diverse residents made sacrifices...
The Midwestern Pastoral
Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who...
by Tendai Huchu
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named one of its ten best contemporary African books, Caine Prize finalist Tendai Huchu (The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician) portrays the heart of contemporary Zimbabwean society with humor and grace.
Vimbai is...
The Law and the Prophets
Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
“No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force.
The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This...
A Stitch in Time
The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework — primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States — made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural...
A Saturnalia of Bunk
Selections from The Free Lance, 1911–1915
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
H. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun....
Between You and I
Dialogical Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation between them. Beata Stawarska remedies this neglect...
by Martin Hipsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Today’s mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by...
Crossing the Color Line
Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed...