Ohio University Press: 522 books
by Anthony Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa’s most famous liberation movement. It has recently celebrated its centenary, a milestone that has prompted partisans to detail a century of unparalleled achievement in the struggle against colonialism and racial discrimination. Critics paint a less flattering...
Living with Nkrumahism
Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key...
The Madness of Vision
On Baroque Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality...
Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake
Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the “end of slavery” in Africa from the late nineteenth...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide...
by Paul E. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in...
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination...
Environment at the Margins
Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together...
Violence
Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention provides a multidisciplinary approach...
Drawing on the Victorians
The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to...
The Message of the City
Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. “From...
A Room of His Own
A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen’s clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as “clubland” in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose...
Peoples of the Inland Sea
Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European...
by Richard Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three...