Ohio University Press: 522 books
The Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family...
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Generations Past
Youth in East African History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
This collection focuses on the introduction of phenomenology to the United States by the community of scholars who taught and studied at the New School for Social Research from 1954 through 1973. During those years, Dorion Cairns, Alfred Schutz, and Aron Gurwitsch—all former students of Edmund Husserl—came...
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mary...
We Are Fighting the World
A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South...
Marikana
Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this...
Making Modern Girls
A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria. It draws from gender studies, generational studies, labor history,...
Empire in Africa
Angola and Its Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy.
Empire in...
Ouidah
The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727–1892
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was...
Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War
Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
In Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War—interdisciplinary in approach and intended for nonspecialists—Elizabeth Schmidt provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. She focuses on the quarter...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the state’s legal...
We Do Not Have Borders
Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country. Despite their long residency, foreign and state officials and Kenyan citizens often perceive the Somali population to be a dangerous...
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier
Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during Its North American Service, 1767–1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776. The Royal Irish was one of the most wide-ranging regiments in America,...