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Hesiod's archaic poem, the Catalogue of Women, now survives only in fragments that represent perhaps one third of the original composition. In this...

Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspective...

Reducere. "An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber exper...

The volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa.Publisher: Ohio University PressNumber of pages: 260Collection: Cambridge Centre of ...

Ma Ma Lay's 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engagi...

Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and li...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fi...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and over...

Reducere. Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence o...

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

Reducere. Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassinatio...

Reducere. How does evidence happen? And when evidence happens badly, how can we find a fitting response to those making extraordinary claims? These are the q...

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of th...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Daniel PundayIllustration(s): 18 IllustrationsNumber of pages: 180Collection: Theory Interpretatio...

Reducere. In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, Roger A. Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with sc...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Gary JohnsonNumber of pages: 252Collection: Theory Interpretation NarrativPublication date: 2020Di...

From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation ...

Reducere. A fascinating look at Ohio's forgotten history Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swal...

Bridging phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Peter Antich asserts that the latter has long been hampered by an inadequate phenomen...

Reducere. Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S. Burroughs wrote about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power. I...

Reducere. This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often...

Reducere. "An outstanding showcase of contemporary Latinx authors exploring identity through the conventions of sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism. Themes ...

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists,...

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders o...

Reducere. Dolly Parton isn't just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hos...

DescriptionAge of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the sub rbios of Maputo (Louren o Marques), Mozambique, from the late ...

Reducere. In this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the story of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world...

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize hi...

Reducere. Albertus Magnus has long been recognized as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages; his contemporaries conferred upon him the title Doctor Un...

Reducere. DescriptionChristina N. Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations ...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

Reducere. Exemplified by President Donald J. Trump's slogan "Make American Great Again, " white masculinity has become increasingly organized around melancho...

Reducere. Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her ...

Reducere. Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Deborah MartinsonNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 11Cover type: P...

Reducere. Winner of the 2012 Helen Hull Award, presented by the National Garden Clubs. Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attract...

DescriptionAm lcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprisi...

The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the inters...

Reducere. Fake news, alternative facts, post truth-terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud's new...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Keridiana W ChezNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 236 x 158 x 20Cover type: Ha...

Atlanticization-or interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade and Christianization-from 1750 to 1920 transf...

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively...

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya's late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

Reducere. Recent pieces by NPR, the BBC, and Forbes have called attention to the power of voice--positing that "your voice is the secret to getting hired" an...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association Recent pieces by NPR, the BBC, an...

Reducere. The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had tak...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay Timothy Dolmage In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth ce...

Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, ...

Reducere. Exemplified by President Donald J. Trump's slogan "Make American Great Again, " white masculinity has become increasingly organized around melancho...

By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of...

Reducere. The Ohio FrontierCrucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830R. Douglas HurtFinally, after nearly twenty-five years, a high-quality general history of ...

This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain fundamental insights whi...

Reducere. The newest book in Mercer University Press' new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A F...

Reducere. In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Hope Howell HodgkinsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 26Cover type...

DescriptionMarian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw a...

DescriptionReflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum col...

A revised and expanded edition of Ali's important history of how African Americans have created independent and third-party movements to expand dem...

The Civil Rights Act of 1960 attempted to rectify loopholes in the 1957 Civil Rights Act that had enabled southern states to continue disenfranchis...

Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature ...