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  • - Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920
    av Mari K. Webel
    390 - 867,-

    Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention-the sleeping sickness camp-in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.

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    - Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
    av Judith A. Byfield
    386,-

    In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women's political activism in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, thus offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.

  • - Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980
    av Kara Moskowitz
    444 - 867,-

    In focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid, Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence, and the meaning and form of development.

  • - Photography and Visibility in African History
     
    973,-

    Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.

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    - Photography and Visibility in African History
     
    386,-

    Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.

  • - Contemporary Appalachian Tables
     
    709,-

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  • - Contemporary Appalachian Tables
     
    268,-

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  • - Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age
    av Ndubueze L. Mbah
    373 - 867,-

    Atlanticization-or interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade and Christianization-from 1750 to 1920 transformed gender into a primary mode of social differentiation in the Bight of Biafra. Mbah examines this process to fill a major gap in our understanding of gender's role in precolonial Africa.

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    - A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust
    av Stuart McCook
    386 - 867,-

    Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat-coffee rust-to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity histories' usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.

  • - Bob Hunter on Sports
    av Bob Hunter
    268 - 512,-

    Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts collects more than 130 sports columns and stories, written over three decades, to offer a smorgasbord of nostalgia and discovery-including the origin stories of some of today's biggest names in sports-for fans in Ohio and beyond.

  • - Crime and Governance in American-Controlled Germany, 1944-1949
    av Thomas J. Kehoe
    867,-

    This important contribution to American and German social, military, and police histories, as well as historical criminology offers the first comprehensive exploration of criminality, policing, and both German and American fears around the realities of conquest and potential resistance amid the looming threat from communism in an emergent Cold War.

  • - Poems
    av Misty Skaggs
    189,-

    Planted by the Signs brings us the contemporary Appalachian poetry of Misty Skaggs. With a knack for pointed personal and social observation, she tells the stories of generations of women who have learned to navigate a harsh world with a little help from the Farmers' Almanac and the stars: women who know how to plant by the signs.

  • - A Novel
    av Bonnie Proudfoot
    239 - 465,-

    Set from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, this elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic novel captures one working-class family in rural West Virginia as they balance on the dividing line between Appalachia old and new, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart.

  • - A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy
    av Julia McKenzie Munemo
    294,-

    Decades after Julia McKenzie Munemo's father died, she learned that he wrote interracial pornography. She hid the stack of his old paperbacks from her Zimbabwean husband, their mixed-race children, and herself before realizing her obligation to understand her racial legacy.

  • - The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941
    av Scott H. Longert
    268 - 657,-

    How to live with difference is a defining worry in contemporary America. In this enormously rich resource for the classroom and for anyone interested in reflecting on what it means to be American today, poets, fiction writers, and essayists, with open minds and nuance, ask what it means to be neighbors.

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    - Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920
    av Lenny A. Urena Valerio
    376 - 788,-

    Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.

  • - A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary
    av Peter Karibe Mendy
    224,-

    Amilcar Cabral's charismatic and visionary leadership, his pan-Africanist solidarity and internationalist commitment to "every just cause in the world," remain relevant to contemporary struggles for emancipation and self-determination. This concise biography is an ideal introduction to his life and legacy.

  • - Indian Ocean Journeys
    av David H. Mould
    294,-

    In Monsoon Postcards, David H. Mould traverses the Indian Ocean from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. He offers witty and insightful glimpses into countries linked by history, trade, migration, religion, and a colonial legacy, exploring how they confront an array of contemporary challenges.

  • - Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931-2002
    av Marissa J. Moorman
    373 - 867,-

    Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.

  • - Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
    av David Morton
    973,-

    Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future.

  • - A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives
     
    1 039,-

    Never-before-published documents from Henry Stanley's historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley's sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.

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    - Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals
    av Melisa Klimaszewski
    867,-

    In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of Dickens's Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success.

  • - A Cleveland Perspective
    av David C. Sweet
    281,-

    The New American City Faces Its Regional Future captures the dynamic thinking concerned with Cleveland and its surrounding region. How does the city want to grow in the future? How can it become a more livable community?

  • - Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion
    av Sol T. Plaatje
    386,-

    First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation.

  • - Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio
     
    203,-

    "A good place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement.

  • av James Kilgore
    305,-

    A political thriller set in Zimbabwe in the hopeful, early days of Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the late 1980s.

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    - The Civil War in Documents
     
    250,-

    In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era.

  • av Iain P. D. Morrisson
    867,-

    Kant scholars since the early nineteenth century have disaxadgreed about how to interpret his theory of moral motivation. Kant tells us that the feeling of respect is the incentive to moral action, but he is notoriously ambiguous on the question of what exactly this means.

  • - The Modern Atlantic
     
    359,-

    The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.

  • - Sanctification Of Life In
    av Evan M. Zuesse
    268,-

    In the West we are accustomed to think of religion as centered in the personal quest for salvation or the longing for unchanging Being. This title analyzes the logic and inner meaning of such ritual structures as sacrifice and taboo, harvest festivals and rites of divine kingship, millenary movements, witchcraft, and much else.

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