Ohio University Press: 522 books
The Wake of Wellington
Englishness in 1852
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England's response to the...
Natures of Colonial Change
Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious “homelands” under apartheid. In the late...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master...
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside...
The Riddle of Malnutrition
The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital...
by Benjamin Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly...
In Essentials, Unity
An Economic History of the Grange Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging...
Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
“Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,” David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese...
Custodians of the Land
Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history.
In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo,...
Testaments
Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2005
Polish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin’s fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between...
Bad Boys, Bad Times
The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937–1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
In 1937, the Great Depression was still lingering, but at baseball parks across the country there was a sense of optimism. Major League attendance was on a sharp rise. Tickets to an Indians game at League Park on Lexington and East 66th were $1.60 for box seats, $1.35 for reserve seats, and $.55 for...
Stirring the Pot
A History of African Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Africa’s art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected...
The Experiment Must Continue
Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and...