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During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the nation, but debate over their status - and importantly the status of slavery within them - paralyzed the nation. This book examines these issues.

In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices.

The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region.

Tells the history of Cincinnati that runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. This book takes the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have shaped life in the Queen City.

World-renowned analytic philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom, dubbed "Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelians," recently engaged in an intriguing debate about perception.

This is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of previously unpublished essays exposes the global victimization of child slaves from the period of abolition of legal slavery in the nineteenth century to the human rights era of the twentieth century.

In the antebellum Midwest, Americans looked to the law, and specifically to the jury, to navigate the terrain of a rapidly changing society. Through an analysis of the composition of juries and an examination of their courtroom experiences, the author demonstrates how central the law was for people who lived in Abraham Lincoln's America.

As an Iranian American poet, the author fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classical Persian form of the ghazal. He uses the ancient ghazal form in the tradition of the classical masters like Hafez and Rumi to politically challenge the Islamic Republic of Iran's continual crackdown on protesters.

A practical guide on how to take full advantage of Ohio's so-called Sunshine Laws, this book is for those who find themselves in a battle for public records. This comprehensive and contentious guide offers field-tested tips on how to avoid ""no,"" and advises readers on legal strategies if their requests for information go unmet.

The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. This book offers the study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination.

Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.

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A collection of more than one hundred letters that provides various accounts of several battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, such as the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville campaigns that were pivotal events in the Western Theater.

For Will Wells, recipient of the thirteenth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, this includes reaching across centuries and continents, into the minds and hearts of disparate individuals - Albert Einstein, the traveler from Porlock, Dante, or Holocaust survivors, including his own grandmother - to extract the personal value embedded there for him.

Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation between them. This title remedies this neglect.

Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.

Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.

Presents the collection of poems. This book meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women.

In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts.

From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption.

In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monuments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for her fluid and suggestive modeling, graceful lines, and sculptural form.

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.

Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." This book offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes fresh readings of this story.

Founded in 1874, Pipestone was named for the pipestone quarries, a traditional excavation site for regional tribes. White residents used the symbol of the "peace pipe" and its source in sacred ground to create local identity and to garner national attention. This book shows how average, small-town citizens contributed to the image of "the Indian".

Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas.

When his captain was killed during the Battle of Perryville, John Calvin Hartzell was made commander of Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He led his men during the Battle of Chickamauga, the siege of Chattanooga, and the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day. They went to high school, married, and had children. For the most part, they stayed home to raise their children. And they were happy doing that.

Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations.

The poetry of Dan Lechay, collected in "The Quarry", constructs a myth of the Midwest that is at once embodied in the permanence of the landscape, the fleeting nature of the seasons, and the eternal flow of the river. He reminds us that nothing is more mysterious that the way things are.

In "Ohio University, 1804 - 2004", a collaborative history published in celebration of the university's bicentennial, Betty Hollow's lively narrative depicts the historical, academic and cultural events that shaped the school's growth.