Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and ‘70s,...
The Grasinski Girls
The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day. They went to high school, married, and had children. For the most part, they stayed home to raise their children. And they were happy doing that. They took...
by Clive Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the controversies over Julius Malema and his influence in contemporary youth politics. Glaser analyzes the ideology and tactics of its founders, some of whom...
An Uncertain Age
The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity. Kenyan men and boys came of age...
by Elizabeth Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.” Orchestrating the “No” vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement...
African Video Movies and Global Desires
A Ghanaian History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood’s colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West’s representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation...
Peasants in Arms
War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979–1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and...
Paths toward the Nation
Islam, Community, and Early Nationalist Mobilization in Eritrea, 1941–1961
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region. During the...
Religious Imaginaries
The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Religious Imaginaries explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. In doing so, this new study rethinks several assumptions in the field:...
Meter Matters
Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered—in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period’s poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in...
by Basil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that might emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn apart by the upheaval...
The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission
A History, 1943–2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In the summer of 1943, as World War II raged overseas, the United States also faced internal strife. Earlier that year, Detroit had erupted in a series of race riots that killed dozens and destroyed entire neighborhoods. Across the country, mayors and city councils sought to defuse racial tensions...
Melodramatic Imperial Writing
From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian...