Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
by Thomas H. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce.Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines...
Contours of White Ethnicity
Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates...
Triumph of the Expert
Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.
Triumph of the Expert...
Kansas’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Kansas was in a unique position. Although it had been a state for mere weeks, its residents were already intimately acquainted with civil strife. Since its organization as a territory in 1854, Kansas had been the focus of a national debate over the place...
Civil War Chicago
Eyewitness to History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland. Not only did Chicagoans play an important role in the politics of the conflict, encouraging emancipation and promoting a “hard war” policy against Southern civilians, but they supported...
Nation on Board
Becoming Nigerian at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos. On colonial ships, Nigerian sailors performed menial tasks for low wages and endured discrimination as cheap labor, while countering hardships by nurturing social connections across the black diaspora....
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining—that is, the removal and disposal in nearby valleys of soil and rock in...
Shakespeare the Illusionist
Magic, Dreams, and the Supernatural on Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Méliès and what to the Lumière brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural...
by Rick Burton, Jake Hirshman, Norm O’Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The vast majority of student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom won’t make it to the pros. Yet, the discipline and skills they’ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere.
In 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes...
Preaching Prevention
Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa. This ethnography of the born-again Christians who led the new anti-AIDS push in Uganda provides insight...
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa than often has been assumed, and Africans from the interior played a more complex role than was previously...
Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Abstracting Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture — particularly literary output — through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona...
Tales of the Metric System
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite...