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Ohio University Press & Swallow Press Fall/Winter 2007 Evidence of My Existence
Memoir/Journalism .....................1
by Jim Lo Scalzo
Poetry .........................................2
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Short fiction................................3
Art in Context
Literary criticism ..........................4
Understanding Aesthetic Value
Art criticism ................................5
by David E. W. Fenner
Law ............................................6
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Legal history .............................. 7 Fiction ........................................8 Polish film ...................................9
Our First Family’s Home The Ohio Governor’s Residence and Heritage Garden edited by Mary Alice Mairose
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Victorian studies .......................10 Cultural studies.........................11 Ohioana ...................................12 Bestselling paperbacks .... 13-16 Art ............................................ 17 Art and anthropology ............... 18 World history ............................ 19
Edna Boies Hopkins
Literary studies.......................... 20
Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression
Southeast Asia .......................... 21
by Dominique H. Vasseur
African folktales........................ 22
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African history .................... 23–24 Development studies ................ 25 International studies ................. 25
Claim to the Country The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd by Pippa Skotnes
page 18 Cover photo: Jim Lo Scalzo, Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2002
History ...................................... 26 Environmental studies ............... 26 Index ....................................... 27 Sales Information................... 28 Order Form .......Inside back cover
Evidence of My Existence Jim Lo Scalzo
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ROM A LEPER COLONY IN INDIA TO AN
AMERICAN RESEARCH STATION on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next. It is also a story of photojournalism and the consequences of obsessive wanderlust. When the book opens, Jim Lo Scalzo is a blur to his wife, her remarkable tolerance wearing thin. She is heading to the hospital with her second miscarriage, and Jim is heading to Baghdad to cover the American invasion of Iraq. He hates himself for this—for not giving her a child, for deserting her when she so obviously needs him, for being consumed by his job—but how to stop moving? Sure, there have been some tough trips. He’s been spit on by Mennonites in Missouri, by heroin addicts in Pakistan, and by the KKK in South Carolina. He’s contracted hepatitis on the Navajo Nation, endured two bouts of amoebic dysentery in India and Burma and four cases of giardia in Nepal, Peru, Afghanistan, and Cuba. He’s been shot with rubber bullets in Seattle, knocked to the ground by a water cannon in Quebec, and sprayed with more teargas than he cares to recall. But photojournalism is his career, and travel is his compulsive craving. We follow Lo Scalzo through the maze of airports and crowds and countries as he chases the career he has always wanted, struggles with his family problems, and reveals the pleasures of a life singularly focused. For him, as for so many photojournalists, it is always about the going.
“Set against a backdrop of the most stunning settings the world has to offer—from India to Antarctica—Evidence of My Existence is an intimate and intricate exploration of ambition and the difficult decisions artists are forced to make in search of a balance between work, the love of work, and love itself. Jim Lo Scalzo serves as a brilliant guide—by turns hilarious and heart-torn— and has created a masterful memoir, an exquisite debut!” —Julianna Baggott, author of Which Brings Me to You and Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees
“In a world where courage and integrity spend ever more time on the Endangered Species List, Jim Lo Scalzo’s Evidence of My Existence is a bracing tonic. An utterly compelling tale that should inspire us all to greater heights!” —Brian Duffy, managing editor of U.S. News & World Report
See photographs by award-winning photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo at: www.usnews.com/loscalzo-book/
MEMOIR/JOURNALISM Jim Lo Scalzo, a Washington DC native, has been a staff photographer with U.S. News & World Report since 1994. He has had assignments in more than sixty countries and won numerous awards in the Pictures of the Year International and White House News Photographers’ Association photo competitions.
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Dear Regime Letters to the Islamic Republic Roger Sedarat
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N HIS PROVOCATIVE, BRAVE, AND SOMETIMES BRUTAL
first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.” Iranian on his father’s side, Sedarat explores the effects of the Islamic Revolution of 1979—including censorship, execution, and pending war—on the country as well as on his understanding of his own origins.
“This is poetry that requires not only conscience but courage.” —David Lehman
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Written in a style that is as sure-footed as it is experimental, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic confronts the past and current injustices of the Iranian government while retaining a sense of respect and admiration for the country itself. Woven into this collection are the author’s vivid descriptions of the landscape as well as the people of Iran. Throughout, Sedarat exhibits a keen appreciation for the literary tradition of Iran, and in making it new, attempts to preserve the culture of a country he still claims as his own. Thigh With honesty of homemade butter, paddle-churned cream (eshta in Arabic, ecstasy foaming to the brim), a woman river-bathes, sheet of oil-black hair breaking in rapids, cut lemon scintillating olive skin free of tree-stumped chador, skirts within skirts, peal of her bell-body rung muffled in Iran heat—a splash of white. The rhythm of pumice scraping her feet, sandbar against warm current, frothy cape a bee-bubbled hive, honeyed trace curling to her bare knees, thick transparent lather. At a Tehran bazaar endless gold-stores could never return me anywhere pure.
Roger Sedarat is an assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York. He is the recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as well as a St. Botolph Society poetry grant. His verse has appeared in such journals as New England Review, Atlanta Review, and Poet Lore.
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New Stories from the Southwest Edited by D. Seth Horton Foreword by Ray Gonzalez
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SOUTHWESTERN LANDSCAPE naturally lends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, a land of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those living along the HE BEAUTY AND BARRENNESS OF THE
coasts.
New Stories from the Southwest presents nineteen short stories that appeared in North American periodicals between January and December 2006. Though many of these stories vary by aesthetics, tone, voice, and almost any other craft category one might wish to use, they are nevertheless bound together by at least one factor, which is that the landscape of the region plays a key role in their narratives. They each evoke and explore what it means to exist in this unique corner of the country. Selected by editor D. Seth Horton, the former fiction editor for the Sonora Review, from a wide cross-section of journals and magazines, and with a foreword by noted writer Ray Gonzalez, New Stories from the Southwest presents a generous sampling of the best of contemporary fiction situated in this often overlooked area of the country. Swallow Press is particularly pleased to publish this wide-ranging collection of stories from both new and established writers.
D. Seth Horton was born in San Diego and graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in creative writing. A former fiction editor for the Sonora Review, he currently lives in Tucson with his wife.
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“Place as a literary concept in the stories collected here functions as a world where anything can happen, usually does, and the fascinating characters experience their human conflicts on a universal stage.” —Ray Gonzalez
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Praising It New The Best of the New Criticism Edited by Garrick Davis Foreword by William Logan
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detached from biographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was the dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to the approach advocated by the New Critics. Nonetheless, the theory remains one of the most important sources for groundbreaking criticism and continues to be a controversial approach to reading literature.
This anthology now makes much of the best American poetry criticism available again, and includes short biographies and selected bibliographies of its chief figures. Praising It New is the perfect introduction for students to the best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century. Garrick Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world (cprw.com). His poetry and criticism have appeared in the New Criterion, Verse, the Weekly Standard, McSweeney’s, and the New York Sun. He also edited Child of the Ocmulgee: the Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville. He is the literature specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC.
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Essays by: Monroe Beardsley R. P. Blackmur Cleanth Brooks J. V. Cunningham T. S. Eliot Randall Jarrell Hugh Kenner Ezra Pound John Crowe Ransom Delmore Schwartz Allen Tate Robert Penn Warren W. K. Wimsatt Yvor Winters
Praising It New is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty years. It includes important essays by such influential poets and critics as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, W. K. Wimsatt, and Robert Penn Warren. Together, these authors ushered in the modernist age of poetry and criticism and transformed the teaching of literature in the schools. As the American poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted: “I do not believe there has been another age in which so much extraordinarily good criticism of poetry has been written.”
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LITERARY CRITICISM
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Art in Context Understanding Aesthetic Value David E. W. Fenner
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HE VARIOUS LENSES—ETHICAL, POLITICAL, SEXUAL, RELIGIOUS,
and so forth—through which we may view art are often instrumental in giving us an appreciation of the work. In Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value, philosopher David Fenner presents a straightforward, accessible overview of the arguments about the importance of considering the relevant context in determining the true merit of a work of art. Art in Context is a systematic, historically situated, and historically evidenced attempt to demonstrate the importance of considering contexts that will, in the vast majority of cases, increase the aesthetic experience. While focusing on distance, detachment, aestheticism, art for art’s sake, and formalism can at times be instructive and interesting, such approaches risk missing the larger and often central issue of the piece. Based on the findings of philosophers and critics, and on artwork throughout history, Art in Context provides a solid foundation for understanding and valuing a work of art in perspective as well as within the particular world in which it exists.
David E. W. Fenner is dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the author of The Aesthetic Attitude and Introducing Aesthetics and the editor of Ethics and the Arts and Ethics in Education.
Among the topics discussed: American naturalism, art for art’s sake, Bach, John Cage, Casablanca, Leonardo da Vinci, Christo, Dadaism, de Kooning, Dickens, Duchamp, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Eakins, Frank Stella, Martha Graham, Winslow Homer, Jasper Johns, John Locke, David Lynch, Karl Marx, Mona Lisa, Claude Monet, Robert Motherwell, MOMA, Ortega y Gassett, Pop Art, Diego Rivera, Romanticism, Rothko, Salinger, Santayana, Scorsese, Shakespeare, Socialist Realism, Triumph of the Will, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Lawyer Myth A Defense of the American Legal Profession Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read
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have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer’s skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This highly personal and impassioned book is their defense of lawyers and the rule of law in the United States. AWYERS AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION
From The Lawyer Myth
“When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism. . . . You are undoubtedly asking yourself if three or four years of a rigorous and costly legal education is really worth the candle. For you . . . we add these final comments. We hope that they will reassure you, as well as your friends and family, that it is possible, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. proclaimed, ‘to live greatly in the law.’ ”
The Lawyer Myth confronts the hypocrisy of critics from both the right and the left who attempt to exploit popular misperceptions about lawyers and judges to further their own social and political agendas. By revealing the facts and reasoning behind the decisions in such cases as the infamous McDonald’s coffee spill, the authors provide a clear explanation of the operation of the law while addressing misconceptions about the number of lawsuits, runaway jury verdicts, and legal “technicalities” that turn criminals out on the street. Acknowledging that no system is perfect, the authors propose a slate of reforms for the bar, the judiciary, and law schools that will enable today’s lawyers—and tomorrow’s—to live up to the noble potential of their profession. Whether one thinks of lawyers as keepers of the springs of democracy, foot soldiers of the Constitution, architects and carpenters of commerce, umpires and field levelers, healers of the body politic, or simply bridge builders, The Lawyer Myth reminds us that lawyers are essential to American democracy. Rennard Strickland is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law and dean emeritus at the University of Oregon School of Law and founding director of the University of Oklahoma Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy. Frank T. Read is a former president and dean of South Texas College of Law where he is currently a professor of law.
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The History of Nebraska Law Edited by Alan G. Gless
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CIVIL WAR, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state relations. In the years that followed, Nebraskans coped with regional and national economic collapses. Nebraska women struggled for full recognition in the legal profession. Meyer v. Nebraska, a case involving a teacher in a one-room rural Nebraska schoolhouse, changed the course of American constitutional doctrine and remains one of the cornerstones of civil liberties law. And Roscoe Pound, a boy from Lincoln, went on to become one of the nation’s great legal philosophers. N THE AFTERMATH OF THE
Much of Nebraska law reflects mainstream American law, yet Nebraskans have been open to experiment and innovation. The state revamped the legislative process by establishing the nation’s only unicameral legislature and pioneered public employment collective bargaining and dispute resolution through its commission of industrial relations and relaxation of strict separation of powers. Nebraska holds a prominent position in the field of Native American legal history, and the state’s original inhabitants have been at the center of many significant developments in federal Indian policy. Nebraska Indian legal history is replete with stories of failure and success, triumph and heartache, hope and misery, suffering and hardship.
The History of Nebraska Law is the fourth volume of state legal histories in the Ohio University Press Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. These state legal histories give us a deeper understanding of the history of American law as a whole and a greater appreciation of the contributions of the Midwest to national legal discourse.
Alan G. Gless, district court judge, Fifth Judicial District of Nebraska, has published in Nebraska Law Review, Behavioral Science and Law, and the American Journal of Legal History.
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The Last of the Husbandmen A Novel of Farming Life Gene Logsdon
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THE LAST OF THE HUSBANDMEN, GENE LOGSDON looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies, clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farming families and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilled the fields with plow horses, to the corporate farms and government subsidy programs of the present, this novel presents the complex transformation of a livelihood and of a way of life.
“Nan turned to see Ben’s face turn as hard and white as a sauerkraut crock. When he did not respond, Nan figured that he was just going to back off as he usually did, the shy and retiring husbandman. She did not know her history. She did not know that shy and retiring husbandmen have been known to revolt against oppression with pitchforks drawn.”
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Two friends, one rich by local standards, and the other of more modest means, grow to manhood in a lifelong contest of will and character. In response to many of the same circumstances—war, love, moonshining, the Klan, weather, the economy—their different approaches and solutions to dealing with their situations put them at odds with each other, but we are left with a deeper understanding of the world that they have inherited and have chosen. Part morality play and part personal recollection, The Last of the Husbandmen is both a lighthearted look at the past and a profound statement about the present state of farming life. It is also a novel that captures the spirit of those who have chosen to work the land they love.
Gene Logsdon lives and raises sheep in north-central Ohio with his wife, Carol. He has written twenty-five books, most recently a novel, The Lords of Folly; a cultural study, The Mother of All Art: Agrarianism and the Artistic Impulse; three memoirs: You Can Go Home Again, The Contrary Farmer, and The Pond Lover; and a book on experimental ideas in farming, All Flesh Is Grass.
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The Law of the Looking Glass Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939 Sheila Skaff
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some of Europe’s finest directors, such as Krzysztof Kie´slowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, and Krzysztof Zanussi, but little is known about its origins at the turn of the twentieth century. In spite of poor technical quality, cinema was popular with the many ethnic groups in partition-era Poland. Filmmakers, producers, and intellectuals recognized the artistic potential of cinema, most notably the philosopher and avant-garde novelist Karol Irzykowski, who in 1922 wrote The Tenth Muse, a theoretical work of criticism of the new medium. OLISH CINEMA HAS PRODUCED
In the early years of Polish cinema, films were shown in the cities and in smaller towns by traveling exhibitors. Sheila Skaff finds that an enduring appreciation for visual imagery is evident in every period of the history of cinema in Poland. She analyzes local film production, practices of spectatorship, clashes over language choice in intertitles, and the controversies surrounding the first synchronized sound experiments before World War I. Skaff discusses the creation of a national film industry in the newly independent country of the interwar years; silent cinema; the transition from silent to sound film, including the passionate debates in the press over the transition; and the first Polish and Yiddish “talkies.” Yiddish films are among the most famous films in the interwar period, such as Michał Waszy´nski’s Der dibuk in 1937, which depicted Jewish life and culture in Poland before the Holocaust. The Law of the Looking Glass places particular importance on conflicts in majority-minority relations in the region and the types of collaboration that led to important films such as Der dibuk.
Sheila Skaff is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Texas at El Paso.
“The originality of the book lies in its treatment of Polish cinema prior to World War II, about which very little has been written. Moreover, the author draws on considerable research in Polish-language sources, including various film publications, which few scholars have examined.” —Charles O’Brien, author of Cinema’s Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U. S.
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Cleansing the City Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London Michelle Allen
“Professor Allen is to be congratulated on rescuing those who had a pessimistic view of reform, or who opposed it in principle, from obscurity or the facile dismissal of scholars. She investigates what is clearly a powerful and recurring undercurrent in Victorian thought and elevates it into the mainstream.” —Anthony Wohl, author of Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian and Edwardian England
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CITY: SANITARY GEOGRAPHIES IN VICTORIAN LONDON explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts. Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitary improvement, plunged into London’s dark and dirty spaces and returned with the material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificent projects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not always met with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slum clearances, the development of sewerage, and the embankment of the Thames, may have made London a cleaner place to live, these projects also destroyed and reshaped the built environment, and in doing so, altered the meanings and experiences of the city. LEANSING THE
From the novels of Charles Dickens and George Gissing to anonymous magazine articles and pamphlets, resistance to reform found expression in the nostalgic appreciation of a threatened urban landscape and anxiety about domestic autonomy in an era of networked sanitary services. Cleansing the City emphasizes the disruptions and disorientation occasioned by purification—a process we are generally inclined to see as positive. By recovering these sometimes oppositional, sometimes ambivalent responses, Michelle Allen elevates a significant undercurrent of Victorian thought into the mainstream and thus provides insight into the contested nature of sanitary modernization.
Michelle Allen is an assistant professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy. She has published an edition of Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore.
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The World beyond the Windshield Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe Edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller
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OR BETTER OR WORSE, THE VIEW THROUGH A CAR’S WINDSHIELD
has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian autostrada, the view of a fast, efficient transportation machine celebrating either Fascism or its absence was the goal. These varied environments are neither necessary nor accidental but the outcomes of historical negotiations, and whether we abhor them or take delight in them, they have become part of the fabric of human existence. The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe is the first systematic, comparative look at these landscapes. By looking at examples from the United States and Europe, the chapters in this volume explore the relationship between the road and the landscape that it traverses, cuts through, defines, despoils, and enhances. The authors analyze the Washington Beltway and the Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as iconic roads in Italy, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and Great Britain. This is a story of the transatlantic exchange of ideas about environment and technology and of the national and nationalistic appropriations of such landscaping.
Christof Mauch holds the chair in history at the Amerika-Institut of the University of Munich and was previously the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington. He is the editor and author of more than twenty books, including Nature in German History; Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities; Geschichte der USA; and Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe. Thomas Zeller is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, where he teaches the history of technology, environmental history, and science and technology studies. He is the author of Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930 – 1970 and coeditor of How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich and Rivers in History: Designing and Conceiving Waterways in Europe and North America.
Contributors Timothy Davis Alex Dossmann Suzanne Julin Jeremy L. Korr Rudy Koshar Christof Mauch Peter Merriman Massimo Moraglio David E. Nye Anne Mitchell Whisnant Thomas Zeller Carl A. Zimring
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Our First Family’s Home The Ohio Governor’s Residence and Heritage Garden Edited by Mary Alice Mairose Photographs by Ian Adams Botanical Art by Dianne McElwain Foreword by Hope Taft and Frances Strickland
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of the home that has served as Ohio’s executive residence since 1957, and of the nine governors and their families who have lived in the house. Our First Family’s Home offers the first complete history of the residence and garden that represent Ohio to visiting dignitaries and the citizens of the state alike. Once in a state of decline, the house has been lovingly restored and improved by its residents. Development of the Ohio Heritage Garden has increased the educational potential of the house and has sparked an interest in the preservation of native plant species. Looking toward the future, the Residence is also taking the lead in promoting environmental issues such as solar power and green energy. HIS RICHLY ILLUSTRATED VOLUME TELLS THE STORY
Photographs by award-winning environmental photographer Ian Adams and artwork by Dianne McElwain showcase the beauty of the home’s architecture and the myriad of native plants that grace the three acres on which the Residence stands. Essays highlight the Jacobethan Revival architecture and the history of the home. The remaining pieces cover the garden and include an intimate tour of the Heritage Garden, which was inspired by Ohio’s diverse landscape. Finally, First Lady Frances Strickland discusses the increasing focus on green energy at the Governor’s Residence and First Lady Emerita Hope Taft explains how native plants can help sustain the environment.
Published in association with the Friends of the Ohio Governor’s Residence and Heritage Garden
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Mary Alice Mairose is the residence curator at the Ohio Governor’s Residence. Ian Adams is a nationally renowned photographer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, specializing in natural, rural, historical and garden photography. His publications include The Art and Craft of Garden Photography and The Holden Arboretum, with text by Steve Love. Dianne McElwain is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists in New York. Her botanical paintings have won numerous awards and are found in prestigious collections throughout the United States.
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Broken English “Gaus weaves his extensive knowledge of Amish ways into this fascinating, suspenseful tale.” —Ohioana Quarterly 214 pages, pb 0-8214-1326-0 $12.95t
Blood of the Prodigal “The charm of Gaus’s first novel lies in its gently penetrating portrait of conflicts within the deceptively quiet contemporary Amish community.” —Kirkus Reviews 235 pages, pb 0-8214-1277-9 $12.95t
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism
By P. L. Gaus
Edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes “These essays exhibit a . . . sophisticated understanding of the world . . . usually thought beyond the capabilities of even the highest-functioning people with autism.” —Clara Claiborne Park 152 pages, pb 0-8040-1054-4 $14.95t
32,000 copies in print! The Public and Its Problems John Dewey 242 pages, pb 0-8040-0254-1 $13.95s
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Nin The History of Islam in Africa
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Prose Poetry
72 pages, pb 0-8040-0148-0 $7.95t
Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann Volume 1 in Nin’s continuous novel.
“A volume that will be both accessible and useful to general readers and scholars. . . . The editors and contributors deserve high praise.”—Choice
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601 pages , pb 0-8214-1297-3 $26.95s
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Sarah the Priestess The First Matriarch of Genesis
Savina Teubal Foreword by Raphael Patai
19,000 copies in print! Under a Glass Bell
“One of the most original and stimulating studies of patriarchal religion and traditions that has been presented to the scholarly and general public in our time.” —University Press Books for Public Libraries
Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann 101 pages, pb 0-8040-0302-5 $8.95t
15,000 copies in print! Collages 122 pages, pb 0-8040-0045-X $8.95t
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5 volumes in 1: Ladders to Fire Children of the Albatross The Four-Chambered Heart A Spy in the House of Love Seduction of the Minotaur
H. D. Harrington 214 pages, illustrations pb 0-8040-0149-9 $11.95s
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BESTSELLING PAPERBACKS FROM OHIO/SWALLOW 26,000 copies in print The Man Who Killed the Deer The Sheep Book
“It will live as one of the important pieces of literature on the American Indian.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Ron Parker
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A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd Revised and Updated Foreword by Garrison Keillor “Perhaps if sheep were part of my life, they would impose an order on it and bring out in me the calm patience and good humor so evident in this book.”—Garrison Keillor 340 pages, illustrations, pb 0-8040-1032-3 $24.95t
All Flesh Is Grass The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming
Gene Logsdon 272 pages, pb 0-8040-1069-2 $18.95t
17,000 copies in print The Woman at Otowi Crossing Introduction by Thomas J. Lyon Foreword by Barbara Waters “Speaks more deeply to our condition than any other American novel I have read for many years.”—Michele Murray, National Catholic Reporter 314 pages, pb 0-8040-0893-0 $14.95t
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Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism
American History through the Voices of the Indians
“A fascinating and important book.” —New York Times
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10,000 copies in print Klondike Women
Frank Waters
True Tales of the 1897–1898 Gold Rush
Melanie J. Mayer
“Mayer skillfully dips in and out of these women’s stories as she takes the reader along the five most popular routes to the goldfields.” —Western Historical Quarterly 275 pages, photos, pb 0-8040-0927-9 $18.95t
17,000 copies in print The Mound Builders By science fiction writer Robert Silverberg Fact and folklore about the curious earthworks of Ohio and the eastern United States. “Charmingly written.” —Atlantic Monthly 276 pages, illustrations, pb 0-8214-0839-9 $9.95t
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Conrad Richter Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-first Century
The Awakening Land
Edited by Ronald E. Salomone and James E. Davis
“A moving story of the American trek to the west at the close of the 18th century. So vivid is Richter’s description of the land, so real his characters and their problems, that one forgets he is painting a picture of an early American epic.” —New York Times
“All English programs should require this sequel to Davis and Salomone’s Teaching Shakespeare Today.”—Choice 307 pages, pb 0-8214-1203-5 $24.95s
31,000 copies in print The Wife of Martin Guerre Janet Lewis “One of the most significant short novels in English.”—Atlantic Monthly
A Trilogy
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Tocqueville’s America
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The Great Quotations
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Alexis de Tocqueville Edited with an introduction and annotations by Frederick Kershner, Jr. 119 pages, pb 0-8214-0753-8 $9.95t
“The look of the land, the figures who peopled it, the sense of impending change, are vivid in Mr. Richter’s pages. He writes in a vibrant . . . and colorful prose that is a pleasure to read.” —New York Times 150 pages, pb 0-8214-1026-1 $11.95t
48,000 copies in print The Creative Journal The Art of Finding Yourself
Lucia Capacchione 180 pages, pb 0-8040-0798-5 $12.95t
All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Books by the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
10,000 copies in print Alexander the Great
A Novel Translated from the Greek by Theodora Vasils 232 pages, illustrations pb 0-8214-0663-9 $12.95t
Timothy Steele “Steele incorporates into his graceful study a wealth of linguistic insight. . . . [A] sharp and witty book.” —Kirkus Reviews 317 pages, pb 0-8214-1260-4 $16.95t
At the Palaces of Knossos
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Edna Boies Hopkins Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression Dominique H. Vasseur
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BOIES HOPKINS (1872–1937) is best known for her floral woodblock prints that range from delicate Japaneseinspired stylizations to boldly colored and progressively modernist works. In her brief twenty-year career, Hopkins produced seventy-four known woodblock prints, including figurative work and landscapes as well as floral compositions. This catalogue raisonné is the first in-depth study of this once well-known American artist. It illustrates all of Hopkins’s known prints, related drawings, and studies. DNA
Born in Hudson, Michigan, Hopkins attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1895 to 1898. In 1899 she took classes with the influential artist Arthur Wesley Dow, an advocate of Japanese art. Following her marriage in 1904, Hopkins and her husband settled in Paris, where they remained until the outbreak of World War I. After returning to America, Hopkins became part of a small group of artists in Provincetown, whose innovations in woodblock printmaking have come to be known as the Provincetown print or the white line woodcut. In 1917, a visit to the Cumberland Falls region of Kentucky provided the inspiration for some of Hopkins’s most important prints which predate the work of American regionalist painters and printmakers by a decade or more. In addition to the catalogue raisonné, Edna Boies Hopkins includes much new biographical research along with a census of her prints and a comprehensive list of her exhibitions.
Dominique H. Vasseur, associate curator of European art at the Columbus Museum of Art, is the author of The Soul Unbound: The Photographs of Jane Reece and The Lithographs of Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret.
Exhibition dates The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, December 14, 2007–March 2, 2008
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Claim to the Country The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd Pippa Skotnes
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1870S, FACING CULTURAL EXTINCTION and the death of their language, several San men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San (or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the first people, and the origin of the moon and stars. These narratives were faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creating an archive of more than 13,000 pages including drawings, notebooks, maps, and photographs. Now residing in three main institutions—the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum, and the National Library of South Africa—this archive has recently been entered into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. N THE
Lavishly illustrated, Claim to the Country: The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek, created, compiled, and introduced by Pippa Skotnes, presents in book form and on an accompanying DVD all the notebook pages and drawings that comprise this remarkable archive. Contextualizing essays by well-known scholars, such as Nigel Penn, Eustacia Riley, and Anthony Traill, and a searchable index for all the narratives and contributors are included. Through this remarkable collection, we can better understand what it means that the people who lived in southern Africa long before any new arrivals settled the country no longer survive through their language or culture of intellectual traditions, but only as text on a page. The Bleek-Lloyd archive is the San’s surviving claim to the country. Copublished with Jacana Publishers, Cape Town
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Pippa Skotnes is a professor of fine art and director of the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre (LLAREC). She has published essays on the rock art of the San and is the author and editor of several books, including Sound from the Thinking Strings, Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen, and Heaven’s Things.
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Women and Slavery In two volumes Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller
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around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery no single collection has focused on females who—as these two volumes reveal— probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for greater proportions of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. HE LITERATURE ON WOMEN ENSLAVED
Gwyn Campbell holds the Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History at McGill University. He is the author and editor of many works, including Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar. Suzanne Miers is emerita professor of history at Ohio University and the author of Slavery in the Twentieth Century and coeditor of The End of Slavery and other books. Joseph C. Miller is the T. Cary Johnson Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Kings and Kinsmen, Way of Death, and works on the world history of slavery.
VOLUME 1 Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic Contributors Sharifa Ahjum Richard B. Allen Katrin Bromber Gwyn Campbell Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch Jan-Georg Deutsch Timothy Fernyhough Philip J. Havik Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan Martin A. Klein George Michael La Rue Paul E. Lovejoy Fred Morton Richard Roberts Kirsten A. Seaver
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The Modern Atlantic Contributors Henrice Altink Laurence Brown Myriam Cottias Laura F. Edwards Richard Follett Tara Inniss Barbara Krauthamer Joseph C. Miller Bernard Moitt Kenneth Morgan Claire Robertson Marsha Robinson Felipe Smith Mariza de Carvalho Soares
WORLD HISTORY Volume 1 392 pages, illlustrations, maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 0-8214-1723-1 978-0-8214-1723-2 hc $55.00s 0-8214-1724-X 978-0-8214-1724-9 pb $30.00s OCTOBER Volume 2 312 pages, illlustrations, maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 0-8214-1725-8 978-0-8214-1725-6 hc $55.00s 0-8214-1726-6 978-0-8214-1726-3 pb $30.00s DECEMBER
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The Carnivalesque Defunto Death and the Dead in Modern Brazilian Literature Robert H. Moser
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HE CARNIVALESQUE DEFUNTO explores the phenomenon of death and the dead in Brazil’s collective and literary imagination. The recurring stereotype of Brazil as the land of samba, soccer, and sandy beaches overlooks a more complex cultural heritage in which, since colonial times, a relationship of proximity and reciprocity has been cultivated between the living and the dead.
The Masks and Death by James Ensor
Robert H. Moser details the emergence of a prominent motif in modern Brazilian literature, namely the carnivalesque defunto (the dead) that, in the form of a protagonist or narrator, returns to beseech, instruct, chastise, or even seduce the living. Drawing upon the works of esteemed Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Érico Veríssimo, and Jorge Amado, Moser demonstrates how the defunto, through its mocking laughter and Dionysian resurrection, simultaneously subverts and inverts the status quo, thereby exposing underlying points of tension within Brazilian social and political history. Incorporating elements of both a celestial advocate and an untrustworthy specter, the defunto also serves as a metaphor for one of modern Brazil’s greatest dilemmas: reconciling the past with the present. The Carnivalesque Defunto offers a comparative framework by juxtaposing the Brazilian literary ghost with other Latin American, Caribbean, and North American examples. It also presents a cross-disciplinary approach toward understanding the complex relationship forged between Brazil’s spiritual traditions and literary expressions.
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Robert H. Moser is an assistant professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at the University of Georgia. His publications include articles, book chapters, and reviews in the areas of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literature and culture. He is the coeditor of the forthcoming Anthology of Luso-American Literature.
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Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power Ingrid Jordt
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MASS LAY MEDITATION MOVEMENT: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country. Drawing on more than ten years of extensive fieldwork in Burma, Ingrid Jordt explains how vipassanā meditation has brought about a change of worldview for millions of individuals, enabling them to think and act independently of the totalitarian regime. She addresses human rights as well as the relationship between politics and religion in a country in which neither the government nor the people clearly separates the two. Jordt explains how the movement has been successful in its challenge to the Burmese military dictatorship where democratically inspired resistance movements have failed. Jordt’s unsurpassed access to the centers of political and religious power in Burma becomes the reader’s opportunity to witness the political workings of one of the world’s most secretive and tyrannically ruled countries. Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement is a valuable contribution to Buddhist studies as well as anthropology, religious studies, and political science.
Ingrid Jordt is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has conducted research in Burma since 1988.
“Ingrid Jordt presents an insightful account of Burmese Buddhism, lay meditation and the construction of political legitimacy. Her analysis shows the complex ways in which Burmese culture mediates popular beliefs concerning power and millennial expectations. This book will be required reading for students of Buddhism, anthropology, religion, political science, and those with geographic interests in Southeast Asia, and particularly Burma.” —Juliane Schober, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Research in International Studies S OUTHEAST A SIA S ERIES No. 115 Of Related Interest Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini: Her Sisters’ Letters from Colonial Java By Joost J. Coté pb $28.00s
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The Sacred Door and Other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba Makuchi Foreword by Isidore Okpewho
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SACRED DOOR AND OTHER STORIES: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. HE
The collection of thirty-three folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?” Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.
Makuchi is a professor of English at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, and Gender in African Women’s Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.
Research in International Studies
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A F R I C A N F O L K TA L E S 176 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 0-89680-256-6 pb $16.95s 978-89680-256-8
Of Related Interest Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon By Makuchi pb $16.95s
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Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 Elizabeth Schmidt
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SEPTEMBER 1958, GUINEA CLAIMED ITS INDEPENDENCE, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.” Orchestrating the “No” vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Although Guinea’s stance vis-à-vis the 1958 constitution has been recognized as unique, until now the historical roots of this phenomenon have not been adequately explained. N
Clearly written and free of jargon, Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea argues that Guinea’s vote for independence was the culmination of a decade-long struggle between local militants and political leaders for control of the political agenda. Since 1950, when RDA representatives in the French parliament severed their ties to the French Communist Party, conservative elements had dominated the RDA. In Guinea, local cadres had opposed the break. Victimized by the administration and sidelined by their own leaders, they quietly rebuilt the party from the base. Leftist militants, their voices muted throughout most of the decade, gained preeminence in 1958, when trade unionists, students, the party’s women’s and youth wings, and other grassroots actors pushed the Guinean RDA to endorse a “No” vote. Thus, Guinea’s rejection of the proposed constitution in favor of immediate independence was not an isolated aberration. Rather, it was the outcome of years of political mobilization by activists who, despite Cold War repression, ultimately pushed the Guinean RDA to the left. The significance of this highly original book, based on previously unexamined archival records and oral interviews with grassroots activists, extends far beyond its primary subject. In illuminating the Guinean case, Elizabeth Schmidt helps us understand the dynamics of decolonization and its legacy for postindependence nation-building in many parts of the developing world. Examining Guinean history from the bottom up, Schmidt considers local politics within the larger context of the Cold War, making her book suitable for courses in African history and politics, diplomatic history, and Cold War history. Elizabeth Schmidt is a professor of history at Loyola College in Maryland. Her previous books include Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939–1958; Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870–1939; and Decoding Corporate Camouflage: U.S. Business Support for Apartheid.
W ESTERN A FRICAN S TUDIES AFRICAN HISTORY 320 pages, illustrations, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 0-8214-1763-0 978-0-8214-1763-8 hc $55.00s 0-8214-1764-9 978-0-8214-1764-5 pb $26.95s SEPTEMBER
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Fighting the Greater Jihad Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913 Cheikh Anta Babou
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SENEGAL, THE MURIDIYYA, A LARGE ISLAMIC SUFI ORDER, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation’s president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke. N
Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of Amadu Bamba as well as the continuing reconstruction of this identity by more recent followers. He makes a compelling case for reexamining the history of Muslim institutions in Africa and elsewhere in order to appreciate believers’ motivation and initiatives, especially religious culture and education, beyond the narrow confines of political collaboration and resistance. Fighting the Greater Jihad also reveals how religious power is built at the intersection of genealogy, knowledge, and spiritual force, and how this power in turn affected colonial policy. Fighting the Greater Jihad will dramatically alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study Muslim mystical orders. Cheikh Anta Babou is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in African Affairs, Journal of Religion in Africa, and the Journal of African History.
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AFRICAN HISTORY 320 pages, illustrations, 6 x 9 0-8214-1765-7 hc $55.00s 978-0-8214-1765-2
Of Related Interest The History of Islam in Africa Edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwels hc $75.00s, pb $26.95s
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Cultivating Success in Uganda Kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies Grace Carswell
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UGANDA, is exceptional in many ways. In contrast to many other parts of the colonial world, this district did not adopt cash crops. Soil conservation practices were successfully adopted, and the region maintained a remarkably developed and individualized land market from the early colonial period. Grace Carswell presents a comprehensive study of livelihoods in Kigezi. Following the lead of groundbreaking studies by Tiffen, Fairhead, and Leach, her case study confirms recent research suggesting that the usual assumptions about population pressure, environment, and long-term land-use change need to be questioned. Her findings are particularly exciting for all those involved in the ongoing key debates in natural resource management, development studies, and environmental history. Grace Carswell is a lecturer in geography at Sussex University.
Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981–1988
Copublished with James Currey, Oxford and Fountain Publishers, Kampala
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in a foreign policy practitioner’s armory. The idea of constructive engagement is forwarded by governments as a method whereby pressure can be brought to bear on countries to improve their record on human rights, while diplomatic and economic contracts can be maintained. But does this approach succeed? To answer this question this book offers a critical evaluation of one of the best-known examples of constructive engagement—the Reagan administration’s policy toward South Africa. HE NOTION OF ENGAGEMENT REPRESENTS AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL
Chester Crocker was appointed as Reagan’s assistant secretary of state for African affairs in 1981. Crocker maintained that unvarying hostile rhetoric leveled at the apartheid regime in South Africa only served to increase Pretoria’s mistrust and dislike of Washington and hardened Pretoria’s intransigence. Crocker asserted that an open dialogue, together with a reduction of punitive measures, such as export restrictions, would gain the confidence of Pretoria, enabling Washington to influence South Africa toward a gradual change away from apartheid. This book aims to determine how successful Crocker’s constructive engagement policy was in South Africa and the neighboring states of Namibia and Angola. In this timely and brilliant study, Davies examines the implications for current applications of constructive engagement as a tool of foreign policy. J. E. Davies taught international relations at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is now a freelance writer living in Wales. w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Butterflies & Barbarians Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa Patrick Harries
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WISS MISSIONARIES PLAYED A PRIMARY AND LITTLE-KNOWN ROLE
in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasizes how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent. Copublished with James Currey, Oxford and Weaver Press, Harare
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Central to this group was Junod, who became a pioneering collector in the fields of entomology and botany. He would later examine African society with the methodology, theories, and confidence of the natural sciences. On the way he came to depend on the skills of African observers and collectors. Out of this work emerged, in three stages between 1898 and 1927, an influential classic in the field of South African anthropology, Life of a South African Tribe. Patrick Harries is a professor of history at the University of Basel and author of Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860 –1910.
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African Sacred Groves Ecological Dynamics and Social Change Edited by Michael J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru
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WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP, Africa’s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this “relic theory” is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. African Sacred Groves challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term “sacred.” The term “ethnoforests” incorporates the environmental, social-political, and symbolic aspects of these forests without giving undue primacy to their religious values. This interdisciplinary book by an international group of scholars and conservation practitioners provides a methodological framework for understanding these forests by examining their ecological characteristics, delineating how they relate to social dynamics and historical contexts, exploring their ideological aspects, and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses as sites for community-based resource management and the conservation of cultural and biological diversity.
0-8214-1789-4 pb $26.95s 978-0-8214-1789-8 NOVEMBER
Michael Sheridan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. Celia Nyamweru teaches in the Department of Anthropology and the African Studies Program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 240 pages, illustrations, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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INDEX
African Sacred Groves, 26 Alexander the Great, 16 All Flesh Is Grass, 15 All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing, 16 Allen, Michelle, 10 Aquamarine Blue 5, 13 Armstrong, Virginia I., ed., 15 Art in Context, 5 At the Palaces of Knossos, 16
Edna Boies Hopkins, 17 Evidence of My Existence, 1
Lewis, Janet, 16 Lo Scalzo, Jim, 1 Logsdon, Gene, 8, 15
Fenner, David E. W., 5 The Fields, 16 Fighting the Greater Jihad, 24 For the Prevention of Cruelty, 13
Mairose, Mary Alice, ed., 12 Makuchi, 22 The Man Who Killed the Deer, 15 Masked Gods, 15 Mauch, Christof, ed., 11 Mayer, Melanie J., 15 Miers, Suzanne, ed., 19 Miller, Joseph C., ed., 19 Moser, Robert H., 20 The Mound Builders, 15
Gaus, P. L., 13 Gless, Alan G., ed., 7 Babou, Cheikh Anta, 24 Beers, Diane L., 13 Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement, 21 Butterflies & Barbarians, 26
Campbell, Gwyn, ed., 19 Capacchione, Lucia, 16 The Carnivalesque Defunto, 20 Carswell, Grace, 25 Cast a Blue Shadow, 13 Cities of the Interior, 14 Claim to the Country, 18 Cleansing the City, 10 Clouds without Rain, 13 Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958, 23 Collages, 14 Constructive Engagement, 25 The Creative Journal, 16 Cultivating Success in Uganda, 25
Davies, J. E., 25 Davis, Garrick, ed., 4 Davis, James E., ed., 16 Dear Regime, 2 Dewey, John, 13
Harries, Patrick, 26 Harrington, H. D., 14 Horton, D. Seth, ed., 3
The History of Islam in Africa, 14 The History of Nebraska Law, 7 House of Incest, 14 How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants, 14 How to Identify Plants, 14
I Have Spoken, 15 Jordt, Ingrid, 21
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 16 Klondike Women, 15
New Stories from the Southwest, 3 Nin, Anaïs, 14 Nyamweru, Celia, ed., 26
Our First Family’s Home, 12
Parker, Ron, 15 Pouwels, Randall L., ed., 14 Praising It New, 4 A Prayer for the Night, 13 Prince-Hughes, Dawn, ed., 13 The Public and Its Problems, 13
Sedarat, Roger, 2 Seduction of the Minotaur, 14 The Sheep Book, 15 Sheridan, Michael J., ed., 26 Silverberg, Robert, 15 Skaff, Sheila, 9 Skotnes, Pippa, 18 Spence, Linda, 13 A Spy in the House of Love, 14 Steele, Timothy, 18 Strickland, Rennard, 6
Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-first Century, 16 Teubal, Savina, 14 The Town, 16 The Trees, 16 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 16 Tocqueville’s America, 16
Under a Glass Bell, 14
Vasseur, Dominique H., 17
Waters, Frank, 15 The Wife of Martin Guerre, 16 The Woman at Otowi Crossing, 15 Women and Slavery, 19 The World beyond the Windshield, 11
Read, Frank T., 6 Richter, Conrad, 16 Zeller, Thomas, ed., 11
Ladders to Fire, 14 The Last of the Husbandmen, 8 The Law of the Looking Glass, 9 The Lawyer Myth, 6 Legacy, 13 Levtzion, Nehemia, ed., 14
The Sacred Door and Other Stories, 22 Salomone, Ronald E., ed., 16 Sarah the Priestess, 14 Schmidt, Elizabeth, 23 Sea of Grass, 16
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