Ohio University Press: 522 books
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless...
States of Marriage
Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideological...
by Carlos de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or...
Captured Peace
Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for many of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in...
by Richard L. Clutterbuck
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1980
Terrorism and guerrilla warfare, whether justified as resistance to oppression or condemned as disrupting the rule of law, are as old as civilization itself. The power of the terrorist, however, has been magnified by modern weapons, including television, which he has learned to exploit.To protect...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy...
by Timothy Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common...
Conjugal Rights
Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African...
Connecting Continents
Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are significant contributions by...
by John A. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined...
The Forger’s Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace...
by Kenneth J. Mijeski, Scott H. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. In this critical work, Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck examine the rise and decline of Ecuador’s leading indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into...
Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development
Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills...
Market Encounters
Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana...