Hornyheads, Madtoms, and Darters
Narratives on Central Appalachian Fishes
stuart a. welsh
“Exceptionally well-written with a flowing, engaging style of writing appropriate for both specialists and non-specialists.”
—david eisenhour, coauthor of animal diversity
A nature lover’s paradise, central Appalachia supports a diversity of life in an extensive network of waterways and is home to a dazzling array of fish species. This book focuses not only on the fishes of central Appalachia but also on the fascinating things these fishes do in their natural habitats.
Stuart A. Welsh’s essays link central Appalachian fishes with the complexities of competition and predation, species conservation, parasitic infections, climate change, public attitudes, reproductive and foraging ecology, unique morphology, habitat use, and nonnative species. The book addresses a selection of the families of central Appalachian fishes, including lampreys, gars, freshwater eels, pikes, minnows, suckers, catfishes, trouts, trout-perches, sculpins, sunfishes, and perches.
stuart a. welsh is a fisheries research scientist with the US Geological Survey’s Cooperative Research Unit Program and an adjunct professor of ichthyology at West Virginia University. Ohio University Press books are distributed in the US and Canada by the Chicago Distribution Center and are available overseas through Combined Academic Publishers.
The Four-Chambered Heart
anaïs nin
New introduction by Anita Jarczok
The Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a houseboat on the Seine and, under the pervading influence of the boat’s watchman and Moré’s wife Helba, developed a romantic relationship.
anaÏs nin is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century.
august • 196 pp. • 5½ × 8½ in. • 6 illus. paper 978-0-8040-1245-4 • $16.95 t
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
jeff mann
New afterword by Jeff Mann
Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of greater freedom. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities.
jeff mann is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of a poetry book, Bones Washed with Wine, and a memoir, Edge.
august • 248 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 20 illus. paper 978-0-8214-2603-6 • $24.95 t
new frank waters e-books
The Man Who Killed the Deer A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life september • 266 pp.
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Mexico Mystique The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness september • 338 pp.
• 978-0-8040-4126-3
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People of the Valley A Novel
september • 206 pp.
• 978-0-8040-4125-6
• $16.99 t
Pumpkin Seed Point Being Within the Hopi september • 190 pp.
• 978-0-8040-4127-0
The Woman at Otowi Crossing A Novel september
• 334 pp.
• 978-0-8040-4124-9
• $16.99 t
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Imagine Lagos
Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City
ademide adelusi-adeluyi
Combining archival research with a digital humanities–focused examination of cartography, Ademide AdelusiAdeluyi reveals the gendered, spatial, and environmental responses to historical, political, and social change in midnineteenth-century Lagos, Nigeria.
ademide adelusi-adeluyi is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Her Lagos maps are at https://newmapsoldlagos.com.
new african histories
november • 216 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 39 illus.
paper 978-0-8214-2489-6 • $34.95 s
cloth 978-0-8214-2488-9 • $80.00 s
A Country of Defiance
Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
mark w. deets
This analysis of culture and nationalism in the Casamance— home of the longest-running conflict on the African continent—considers colonialism, cartography, agriculture, religion, forests, education, and sports history to explain and analyze the complex identities that have driven the separatist movement as well as the Senegalese nation.
mark w. deets is an assistant professor of African and world history at the American University in Cairo.
new african histories
october • 248 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 20 illus.
paper 978-0-8214-2601-2 • $34.95 s
cloth 978-0-8214-2600-5 • $80.00 s
Unruly Ideas
A History of Kitawala in Congo
nicole eggers
This conceptual history argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Nicole Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.
nicole eggers is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a coeditor of The United Nations and Decolonization.
new african histories
october • 308 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 12 illus.
paper 978-0-8214-2608-1 • $34.95 s
cloth 978-0-8214-2607-4
• $80.00 s
Waterhouses
Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos
mark duerksen
How did Lagos, Nigeria, grow from a tiny island kingdom to a megalopolis famous for its frenetic and congested form of coastal urbanism? This first-of-its-kind history provides a comprehensive narrative for understanding one of Africa’s largest cities—its buoyant vibrancy and its two-headed problem of housing shortages and rising seas—today.
mark duerksen is a research associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC.
research in international studies, africa series
january • 304 pp. • 5½ × 8½ in. • 30 illus.
paper 978-0-89680-332-9 • $34.95 s
cloth 978-0-89680-331-2 • $80.00 s
Making Martial Races
Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa
myles osborne, ed.
Featuring contributions by new and established Africanist scholars, this volume is the first book-length treatment of “martial race” in Africa.
myles osborne is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present.
war and militarism in african history
january • 288 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 12 illus.
paper 978-0-8214-2618-0 • $34.95 s
cloth 978-0-8214-2617-3 • $80.00 s
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
daren e. ray
Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group.
daren e. ray is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, where he teaches African, Islamic, and world history.
indian ocean studies series
december • 312 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 9 illus.
paper 978-0-8214-2613-5 • $36.95 s
cloth 978-0-8214-2612-8 • $80.00 s
Cargoes in Motion
Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean burkhard schnepel and julia verne, eds.
indian ocean studies series
december • 358 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 14 illus. paper 978-0-8214-2615-9 • $34.95 s
Connecting Continents
Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World krish seetah, ed.
indian ocean studies series
december • 428 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 23 illus. paper 978-0-8214-2616-6 • $36.95 s
Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century Abstracting Economics
daniel bivona and marlene tromp, eds.
series in victorian studies
september • 240 pp. • 6 × 9 in. • 2 illus. paper 978-0-8214-2606-7 • $32.95 s
Melodramatic Imperial Writing
From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
neil hultgren
series in victorian studies
september • 256 pp. • 6 × 9 in. paper 978-0-8214-2605-0 • $32.95 s