Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Lyrical Liberators
The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets, who put pen to paper during an era when speaking out against slavery could mean risking your life. Indeed, William Lloyd Garrison was dragged through the streets by a Boston mob before a planned lecture, and publisher Elijah P....
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament,...
by Niq Mhlongo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Bafana Kuzwayo is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he returns home to Soweto, where he must decide how to break the news to his family. But before he can confess, he is greeted as a hero by family and friends. His uncle calls...
The Law of the Looking Glass
Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II. Author Sheila Skaff describes how the major issues facing the region before World War I, from the relatively slow pace...
The Power to Name
A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press...
Passionate Revolutions
The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In the last three decades, the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has commanded the close scrutiny of scholars. These studies have focused on the political repression, human rights abuses, debt-driven growth model, and crony capitalism that defined Marcos’ so-called Democratic Revolution in the Philippines....
The Clash of Moral Nations
Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The May 1926 coup d’état in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or “cleansing.” The event has been explored in terms of the impact that it had on state structures and political styles. But for both supporters and opponents of the post-May regime, the sanacja was...
Bleak Houses
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital...
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country’s first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in...
The Fair Trade Scandal
Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across...
The Wright Company
From Invention to Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons,...
491 Days
Prisoner Number 1323/69
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.
Rounded...
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing up Chinese in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Ufrieda Ho’s compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain...
Stones of Contention
A History of Africa’s Diamonds
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Africa supplies the majority of the world’s diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.
Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history...