Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Animal Purpose
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved...
Traitors and True Poles
Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
During Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as...
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured...
Hanging by a Thread
Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the...
Cultivating the Colonies
Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally...
by Bereket Habte Selassie
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie’s government, tells both the story of the emperor’s life and...
by Tabitha Kanogo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1987
This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands...
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea...
Being Maasai
Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.
But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have “become”...
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975....
Frantz Fanon
Toward a Revolutionary Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). This biography...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity’s greed and nature’s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator’s vision of Italy. The...
Degrees of Allegiance
Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri's German-American Community during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way...
The Borders of Integration
Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into European and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. McCook’s examination questions static assumptions...