Books published by Ohio University Press

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union.

This first-ever collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith, one of the nation's leading African American playwrights, is a journey down the complex road of race and history.

Explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics. This book illustrates the range of cases and issues that have come before the court.

Describes the family's daily routine, occasional light moments, and their ongoing frustrations, small and large - from a neighbor's hog that continually broke into the cornfields to the ongoing struggle with their finances.

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.

Explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct narrative models of social conciliation.

Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.

Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy.

Includes poems that range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence of God.

Key to the successful teaching and learning of history is its personalization. In presenting documents that help Ohio's rich history come alive in the minds of its readers, this book has purposely sought to provide eyewitness, first-person narratives that will make the reader want to turn the page and keep on reading.

Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda of Hamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

This volume explores the twin issues of how slavery made life possible in America's capital city, with black slaves serving the legislators, bureaucrats and military leaders, and how lawmakers in the District regulated slavery in the nation.

Examines the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries and focuses on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic real

Offers a unique comparison of the two main African cinema modes: art cinema of contemporary Europe supported by the French film industry; and "Nollywood", mass-marketed films originating in southern Nigeria which now dominate African cinema.

Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under.

Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under.

An intellectual history of the resistance movement in South Africa between 1968 and 1977, this book follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. The author argues that only by understanding how ideas a

Ralph J Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key US diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. This book examines the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence.

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S.

In 1846, two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St Louis, Missouri. It is the first true civil rights case decided by the US Supreme Court. This title offers a collection of essays that revisits the history of the case and its aftermath in American life and law.