Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Healing the Herds
Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances....
Alternative Models of Sports Development in America
Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and...
When Sugar Ruled
Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Two tropical commodities—coffee and sugar—dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many...
Trustee for the Human Community
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key...
Postcards from Stanland
Journeys in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and...
Diamonds in the Rough
Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony’s independence from Portugal in 1975. The mines were owned and operated by the Diamond Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed exclusive mining...
The Extinction of Menai
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai people....
Heterosexual Africa?
The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa...
Midland
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in...
by Allison Eir Jenks
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2002
The Palace of Bones by Allison Eir Jenks is an often stark and startling vision of the way we live, the places we inhabit, and the relics we make to comfort ourselves.
Haunted by a quiet, unquenchable longing, Jenks expertly and calmly guides the reader through a vivid dreamscape in this first...
Taking Root
Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002
In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched for...
Once I Too Had Wings
The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden’s Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between...
The Quarry
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Marvelous, disquieting, extraordinarily beautiful book that meditates on fundamental questions of time and change in and through a clear-eyed yet loving evocation of everyday existence.
Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest...
Ingrid Jonker
Poet under Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary...