Ohio University Press: 522 books
From Disarmament to Rearmament
The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet threat led to disagreements both within the...
Making the Mark
Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status? In Making the Mark, Miroslava Prazak follows the practice...
Transported to Botany Bay
Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others...
The Locavore’s Kitchen
A Cook’s Guide to Seasonal Eating and Preserving
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
More and more Americans are becoming dedicated locavores, people who prefer to eat locally grown or produced foods and who enjoy the distinctive flavors only a local harvest can deliver. The Locavore’s Kitchen invites readers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand down...
The Midwestern Native Garden
Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native...
Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone
Ethics, Pedagogy, and Effecting Change in Field-Based Courses
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses—which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education—have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict? In Conflict...
The Plot Thickens
Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Originally published in 1995, Barns of the Midwest is a masterful example of material cultural history. It arrived at a critical moment for the agricultural landscape. The 1980s were marked by farm foreclosures, rural bank failures, the continued rise of industrialized agriculture, and severe floods...
Sharp and Dangerous Virtues
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
It’s 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area—the “Heartland Grid”—just north of the city. In the meantime, in the wake of declining American power a multinational force has...
Capitol Punishment
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The job seems simple enough: Reporter Lee Hershey needs protection for a couple of weeks as he pursues the biggest story of his career with all eyes on swing state Ohio in the midst of a presidential election. Columbus private eye Andy Hayes, broke as usual, doesn’t have much choice but to sign...
by Suzi Parron
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. The first of these projects began in 2001, when Groves and community members created a series of twenty painted...
The Third Brother
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he’s finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali American mother and her young children as anti-immigrant bullies torment...
Hatred at Home
al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
One day in 2002, three friends — a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan–born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African American — met in a Columbus, Ohio coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Their conversation triggered an investigation that would become one of the most...
by Michael Henson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson’s linked collection tells of a woman’s search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also...