Resultaten gefilterd op "Ohio University Press"

Islam and the State in Indonesia

Bahtiar Effendy

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Southeast Asia | nr. 109
• Since the unraveling of Western colonialism in the mid-twentieth century, Muslim nations have struggled to reconcile Islamic ideas and political movem... Lees meer

The Hairdresser of Harare

Tendai Huchu

• Paperback | Engels | Modern African Writing
• Selected for the Junior Library's pilot program for adult/teen crossover books In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named... Lees meer

Research as More Than Extraction

• Hardcover | Engels | Stud in Conflict, Justice, & Soc Change
• This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching gender-based violence and... Lees meer

The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, Volume II

William Howard Taft

• Hardcover | Engels | Collected Works W H Taft | nr. 2
• The second volume of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft is dedicated to the speeches and writings that displayed his thinking in the autumn of... Lees meer

The UDF

Jeremy Seekings

• Paperback | Engels
• The new South Africa cannot be understood without a knowledge of the history of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy. This is the first... Lees meer

Kola Is God's Gift

Edmund Abaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• Kola is a "food-drug"--like coffee, tea, coca, and tobacco--a substance considered neither food nor medicine, but used to induce "flights of fancy." I... Lees meer

Empire State-Building

Joanna Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change. It asks... Lees meer

The Return of the Galon King

Maitrii Aung-Thwin

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Southeast Asia | nr. 124
• In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and ina... Lees meer

War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939-1953

Alfred Tembo

• Paperback | Engels | War and Militarism in African History
• Written from a Zambian perspective, this leading study shows how the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) organized and deployed human, ... Lees meer

A Young General and the Fall of Richmond

G William Quatman

• Hardcover | Engels
• A History Book Club Reading Selection Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey ... Lees meer

Driven toward Madness

Nikki M Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Midwestern History
• Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather tha... Lees meer

The Life and Death of Gus Reed

Thomas Bahde

• Paperback | Engels | Law Society & Politics in the Midwest
• Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a c... Lees meer

Between the Brown and the Red

Mikolaj Stanislaw Kunicki

• Paperback | Engels | Polish and Polish American Studies
• Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual... Lees meer

Reel Pleasures

Laura Fair

• Paperback | Engels | New African Histories
• Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global me... Lees meer

Mountains of Injustice

• Hardcover | Engels
• Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighborhoods in our nation's cities are often the preferred sites for landfill... Lees meer

Postcards from Stanland

David H Mould

• Hardcover | Engels
• Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century st... Lees meer

The Heritage

Ellen Bromfield Geld

• Paperback | Engels
• Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, established one of the most significant homesteads in Ohio on his Malabar Farm. Today it receives ... Lees meer

Settling Ohio

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Midwestern History
• Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this reg... Lees meer

The Culture of Christina Rossetti

Mary Arseneau

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Culture of Christina Rossetti explores a "new" Christina Rossetti as she emerges from the scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural conte... Lees meer

Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom

Martin Heidegger

• Paperback | Engels | Continental Thought
• Heidegger's lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1936 on Schelling's Treatise On Human Freedom came at a crucial turning point in Heide... Lees meer

Divine Expectations

Barbara Kreiger

• Paperback | Engels
• Barbara Kreiger's intriguing narrative presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Comin... Lees meer

Your Madness, Not Mine

Makuchi

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 70
• Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision ... Lees meer

San Rock Art

J David Lewis-Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Short Histories of Africa
• San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. Ther... Lees meer

The Politics of Morality

Joanna Mishtal

• Paperback | Engels | Polish and Polish American Studies
• After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of... Lees meer