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Out of the Woods A Bird Watcher’s Year
Ohio University Press Swallow Press
by Ora E. Anderson
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Rational Animals The Teleological Roots of Intentionality by Mark Okrent
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Teller Tales Histories by Jo Carson
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Rookwood and the American Indian Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection by Anita J. Ellis and Susan Labry Meyn
page 13 Resurrecting the Granary of Rome Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa by Diana K. Davis
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Spring/Summer 2007 New Books Nature ............................................1 Fiction .............................................2 American Literature ........................3 Literary Studies ...............................4 Poetics ............................................5 Poetry .............................................6 Philosophy ......................................7 Juvenile Nonfiction..........................8 American History ...................... 9-10 Biography .....................................11 Art History .............................. 12-13 Victorian Studies ...........................14 Victorian Literature .......................15 Environmental History ............. 16-17 Southeast Asian History ................18 Sociology ......................................19 African Literature ..........................20 Gender Studies .............................21 Film Studies ..................................22 Southern African History ...............23 Development Studies ....................24 Religious Studies ...........................25 Recent Releases ......................... 26-27 Recent Best Sellers ..........................28 Best Sellers ................................. 29-30 Index .................................................31 Sales Information ............................32 Order Form ................ Inside back cover
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Out of the Woods A Bird Watcher’s Year Ora E. Anderson Edited by Deborah Griffith
Illustrations by Julie Zickefoose
Foreword by Jean Andrews
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WOODS: A BIRD WATCHER’S YEAR is a journey through the seasons and a joyous celebration of growing old. In fifty-nine essays and poems, Ora E. Anderson, birder, bird carver, naturalist, and nature writer, reveals the insights and recollections of a keeneyed observer of nature, both human and avian. The essays follow the rivers and creeks, the highways and little-known byways of Appalachia, and along the way we become nearly as familiar with its numerous bird, plant, and animal species as with the author himself. UT OF THE
These are not the memories of a single year, however, but of a long lifetime spent immersed in the natural world. Out of the Woods, presented with humor and passion, is an account of a well-lived, productive, and satisfying life. The essays offer an intimate portrait of a half century of life on Anderson’s beloved old farm (more nearly a nature preserve), where he lived in harmony with birds and nature and followed the rhythm of the seasons. We are invited to share the joys—and the disappointments and sorrows—inherent in such a life. Generously illustrated with Julie Zickefoose’s detailed drawings and evocative sketches, this book will delight bird watchers, artists, naturalists, backyard gardeners, and anyone who is sometimes tempted to take a rutted, overgrown, and unused path just to see where it leads.
Ora E. Anderson was a journalist, conservationist, naturalist, and artist. He was named honorary lifetime director of the Ohio chapter of The Nature Conservancy and was the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Governor’s Award for Arts in 1999. He passed away in August 2006 at the age of ninety-four. Deborah Griffith is the managing editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest and the other publications from BWD Press. Julie Zickefoose, nature artist, writer, and NPR commentator, is the author of Letters from Eden: A Year at Home in the Woods, and the coauthor of Restoring North America’s Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology. Jean Andrews is the producer of the video documentary A Forest Returns: The Success Story of Ohio’s Only National Forest as Told by Ora E. Anderson.
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“To read these pages is to walk once again in the woods of southeastern Ohio with the one person who knew these hills and hollows better than anyone, drinking in their beauty, cherishing their diversity, rejoicing in the simple miracles of nature.” —William H. Thompson, III Editor, Bird Watcher’s Digest
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Teach the Free Man Stories Peter Nathaniel Malae
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Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison’s barbed wire and iron bars. Avoiding sensationalism, Malae exposes the heart and soul in those dark, seemingly inaccessible corridors of the human experience. HE TWELVE STORIES IN
“Most of the characters in Peter Malae’s Teach the Free Man have managed to mismanage their lives, but what counts here is that Malae handles their voices so that their language—the slang, the jargon, the argot—rings true and draws us wholly into their hard luck, often violent, worlds. These are stories from borders of society and we need to thank Mr. Malae for delivering them to us.” —Darrell Spencer, author of Bring Your Legs with You
The stories, often raw and startlingly honest, are distinguished by the colloquial voices of California’s prison inmates, who, despite their physical and cultural isolation, confront dilemmas with which we can all identify: the choice to show courage against peer pressure; the search for individual rights within a bureaucracy; and the desperate desire for honor in the face of great sacrifice. These stories present polished and poetic examples of finding something redemptive in the least among us. The book’s epigraph by W. H. Auden, from which the book takes its title, exemplifies the spirit of these dynamic stories: In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start. In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
Peter Nathaniel Malae’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and a host of other magazines and journals across the nation. His work has been selected for distinguished recognition in the Best American Essays and Best American Mysteries series. He is currently at work on his first novel.
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Updike in Cincinnati A Literary Performance James Schiff Photographs by Jon Hughes
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and an airline strike, John Updike came to the University of Cincinnati in April 2001 as an honored guest. Over two spring days, he engaged and charmed his audiences, reading from his fiction, fielding questions, sitting for an interview, participating in a panel discussion, and touring Cincinnati. N THE WAKE OF RACE RIOTS
Successful writers typically spend a portion of their non-writing lives traveling the country to give readings and lectures. While a significant experience for author and audience alike, this public spectacle, once covered in detailed newspaper accounts, now is barely noticed by the media. Updike in Cincinnati—composed of a wealth of materials, including session transcripts, short fiction read and discussed by the author, photographs, and anecdotal observations about Updike’s behavior in the Queen City—is unique in comprehensively documenting a literary visit by a major American author.
“I had a great time in Cincinnati; but why is there no shrine to Doris Day?”
Updike’s verbal eloquence, intelligence, improvisational skills, and gift for comedy are displayed in full vigor. With natural grace, the author discusses a range of topics, including his own work, his mother and his oldest son as writers, Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, the Nobel Prize, his appearance on The Simpsons, the divine right of kings and Ottoman sultans, and Hamlet. Updike in Cincinnati portrays one of America’s literary giants as an adept and talented public performer.
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James Schiff is an associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of several books on contemporary fiction, including John Updike Revisited and Understanding Reynolds Price. His work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Missouri Review, Tin House, and elsewhere.
—John Updike
AMERICAN LITERATURE 176 pages, photos, 6 x 8 1/2 978-0-8214-1748-5 hc $21.95t 0-8214-1748-7 MAY
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The Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing Personal Narrative Thomas Larson
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literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. HE MEMOIR IS THE MOST POPULAR AND EXPRESSIVE
“This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much-needed illumination to a vexed subject.” —Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay
In The Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing this new form. Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal essay to the memoir—a genre focused on a particularly emotional relationship in the author’s past, an intimate story concerned more with who is remembering, and why, than with what is remembered. The Memoir and the Memoirist touches on the nuances of memory, of finding and telling the truth, and of disclosing one’s deepest self. It explores the craft and purpose of personal narrative by looking in detail at more than a dozen examples by writers such as Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Mark Doty, Nuala O’Faolain, Rick Bragg, and Joseph Lelyveld to show what they reveal about themselves. Larson also opens up his own writing and that of his students to demonstrate the hidden mechanics of the writing process. For both the interested reader of memoir and the writer wrestling with the craft, The Memoir and the Memoirist provides guidance and insight into the many facets of this provocative and popular art form.
Thomas Larson is a contributing writer for the weekly San Diego Reader and facilitator of private memoir-writing groups. His work has appeared in the Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1997 as well as the Chicago Reader, Boulevard, Southwest Review, Antioch Review, Gettysburg Review, Free Inquiry, and many other publications. He lives in San Diego.
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LITERARY STUDIES 200 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 hc $32.95s 978-0-8040-1100-6 0-8040-1100-1 pb $16.95t 978-0-8040-1101-3 0-8040-1101-X JUNE
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Blank Verse A Guide to Its History and Use Robert B. Shaw
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LANK VERSE—UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER—is
familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself to lyric, dramatic, narrative, and meditative modes; to epigram as well as to epic. Blank Verse is the first book since 1895 to offer a detailed study of the meter’s technical features and its history, as well as its many uses. Robert B. Shaw gives ample space and emphasis to the achievements of modern and postmodern poets working in the form, an area neglected until now by scholarship. With its compact but inclusive survey of more than four centuries of poetry, Blank Verse is filled with practical advice for poets of our own day who may wish to attempt the form or enhance their mastery of it. Enriched with numerous examples, Shaw’s discussions of verse technique are lively and accessible, inviting not only to apprentice poets but to all readers of poetry. Shaw’s approach should reassure those who find prosody intimidating, while encouraging specialists to think more broadly about how traditional poetic forms can be taught, learned, practiced, and appreciated in the twenty-first century. Besides filling a conspicuous gap in literary history, Blank Verse points the way ahead for poets interested in exploring blank verse and its multitude of uses.
“I am enthusiastic about Blank Verse. It’s based on a wide, sensitive reading of the tradition, and it deftly negotiates the demands of technical precision and clear exposition.” —Thomas Cable, coauthor of A History of the English Language (5th Edition)
Robert B. Shaw is a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He writes frequently on modern and contemporary poetry. His own books of poems include Below the Surface and Solving for X (winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize).
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Of Related Interest All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Devils & Islands Poems Turner Cassity
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S HE APPROACHES EIGHTY,
TURNER CASSITY may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the blade come Martha Graham, Johann Sebastian Bach, musicologists, tree huggers, Frank Gehry, folk music, folk art of all times and all places, folk. . . . There are, however, his unpredictable sympathies: Edith Wilson, skyscrapers, Pontius Pilate, Pilate’s legionnaires. He obviously has a soft spot for Pop Culture, although he cannot avoid seeing it de haut en bas.
One looks forward to Mr. Cassity’s posthumous poems, when he is beyond the reach of libel. For now, at least, we have Devils & Islands. Turner Cassity was born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He retired in 1991 as a catalog librarian at the R. W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
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“He is surely one of the most jaundiced satirists around, but there is in his poems often something— some hint of human sympathy perhaps—that leaves the reader some hope of being forgiven or at least overlooked.”
As usual, he is all over the place geographically. One feels he would slash his wrists before he would write a poem about any city on the traditional Grand Tour. Manaus, Campeche, Trieste, Budapest (as destroyed by Godzilla)—these are his places. He has a disturbing willingness to write on both sides of an issue, resembling in this Bernard Shaw. You have to read very carefully to see whether he tips his hand.
—Donald Justice “The world he so minutely examines may be decadent, but the work it provokes is an intellectual delight.” —Booklist A SWALLOW PRESS BOOK
POETRY 72 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 hc $24.95s 978-0-8040-1102-0 0-8040-1102-8 pb $12.95t 978-0-8040-1103-7 0-8040-1103-6 JULY
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Of Related Interest No Second Eden Poems by Turner Cassity
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Rational Animals The Teleological Roots of Intentionality Mark Okrent
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ATIONAL ANIMALS: THE TELEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF INTENTIONALITY
offers an original account of the intentionality of human mental states, such as beliefs and desires.
The account of intentionality in Rational Animals is broadly biological in its basis, emphasizing the continuity between human intentionality and the levels of intentionality that should be attributed to animal actions and states. Establishing the goal-directed character of animal behavior, Mark Okrent argues that instrumentally rational action is a species of goal-directed behavior that is idiosyncratic to individual agents and is distinguished by its novelty and flexibility. He also argues that some nonlinguistic animals are capable of instrumental rationality and that in the first instance, the contents of beliefs and desires are individuated by the explanatory role of those states in rationally accounting for such instrumentally rational behavior. The account of instrumental rationality offered in Rational Animals allows for understanding the practical rationality of linguistically competent human beings as a distinctive capacity of social animals capable of undertaking roles governed by socially sanctioned norms. Rational Animals will be of interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, philosophers of biology, philosophers of action, ethologists, and those interested in the debates concerning animal intelligence.
Mark Okrent is a professor of philosophy at Bates College in Maine. He is the author of Heidegger’s Pragmatism as well as numerous articles on intentionality, teleology, Heidegger, and related topics.
SERIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT NO. 34 Series editor: Steven Crowell
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Also in the series Topologies of the Flesh A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld by Steven M. Rosen w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Under Ohio The Story of Ohio’s Rocks and Fossils Charles Ferguson Barker
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about Ohio than first meets the eye. Under Ohio: The Story of Ohio’s Rocks and Fossils, by geologist Charles Ferguson Barker, takes young readers underground to reveal the fascinating story of Ohio’s geology. Barker presents this story through colorful illustrations, sending his readers down the “Ohio Timepike” and back a billion years to when the earth under Ohio split, creating faults that cause the earthquakes felt today. He tells of colliding continents that pushed up mountains taller than the Rockies and of the tremendous impact of the Ice Age, which profoundly altered the landscape. He shows fossil coral and shells, evidence of the tropical seas that once covered the state. HERE IS MUCH MORE FOR CHILDREN TO DISCOVER
Under Ohio offers a rich, interactive source of information for kids, parents, teachers, or anyone who would like to uncover facts about the state’s geological features. Armed with a list of Ohio’s best sites for rock and fossil hunting, junior geologists will want to set out on an adventure that can begin in their own backyards. Charles Ferguson Barker teaches geology at Wayne State University and is a geologist with an environmental consulting firm in Detroit. He has been drawing and painting since childhood and is the author and illustrator of Under Michigan and The Day the Great Lakes Drained Away.
JUVENILE NONFICTION 56 pages, four-color illus., 8 1/2 x 11 hc $17.95t 978-0-8214-1755-3 0-8214-1755-X JUNE
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Teller Tales Histories Jo Carson
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Jo Carson says. “I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other character’s voices . . . they are first to be spoken aloud.” Following an oral tradition that has strong roots in her native Tennessee, the author of Teller Tales invites the reader to participate in events in a way that no conventional history book can. Both stories in this book are set in East Tennessee in the mid-eighteenth century and share certain characters. The first narrative, “What Sweet Lips Can Do,” recounts the story of the Overmountain Men and the battle of King’s Mountain, a tide-turning battle in the American Revolution. “Men of Their Time” is an exploration of white-Cherokee relationships from early contact through the time of the Revolution. Although not well known to the outside world, the stories recounted in Teller Tales are cornerstones in the heritage of the Appalachian region and of American history. In ways that will appeal to young and old alike, Jo Carson’s irreverent telling will broaden the audience and the understanding for the stories of native Americans, settlers, explorers, and revolutionaries of early America.
Jo Carson is a writer and performer from Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of The Last of the “Waltz Across Texas” and Other Stories, Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet, and Spider Speculations.
“This work is not a standard history text. Instead, it is an engaging, almost poetic, pair of narratives that relate historic events told as though the reader is a guest at a kitchen table. Perfect as an easy supplemental read for high school or college history classes, or for any history buff. ” —Jill Oxendine, managing editor of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia
“Jo Carson is one of the nation’s premier playwrights and storytellers. Her roots as a writer reach back to the American traditional narrative styles, and her dramatic works drawn from American frontier history are brilliant in their originality.” —Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories
AMERICAN HISTORY 144 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 978-0-8214-1753-9 hc $29.95s 0-8214-1753-3 978-0-8214-1754-6 pb $14.95t 0-8214-1754-1 MARCH
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The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary An Urban Life in the Emerging Midwest Joseph J. Mersman Edited by Linda A. Fisher
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J. MERSMAN WAS A LIQUOR MERCHANT, a German American immigrant who aspired—with success—to become a self-made man. The diary he kept from 1847 to 1864 provides an intriguing account of life in Cincinnati and St. Louis—America’s emerging frontier. OSEPH
“Business during the Week was very dull. The great Plague of the Year Cholera is driving every Country [person] and Merchants from Surrounding Cities away. The City looks like a desert Compared to its usual animated appearance. Last week ending the 6th there were 78 deaths from it, altogether 173. This week ending yesterday 278 deaths 189 from Cholera. People parting for a day or so, bid farewell to each other. My Partners family are fortunately in the Country. I and Clemens sleep in the Same bed, in Case of a Sudden attack to be within groaning distance. . .” —Diary entry for Sunday, May 13th, 1849
Outside of Gold Rush diaries and emigration journals, few narrative records of the antebellum period have been published. As a record of both the man and the time in which he lived, The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary is a valuable resource for social historians, providing significant details about bachelorhood, whiskey making, ballroom dancing, circus history, card games, steamboat transportation, gender roles, theater history, and Victorian etiquette. The diary is also the story of a man who confronted serious disease, and his descriptions of cholera and syphilis are exceptional. Complemented by photographs, maps, and period advertisements, the diary reveals how a German American businessman worked to establish himself in his newly adopted country during an era that was rife with opportunity. Linda A. Fisher’s professional training as a physician makes the public health aspect of this project particularly valuable, and her annotations throughout serve to emphasize the significance of Mersman’s firsthand observations.
The late Linda A. Fisher was a public health physician, a trained documentary editor, and the author of a biography of Joseph Mersman’s sister, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend.
AMERICAN HISTORY 432 pages, illus., 6 x 9 1/4 hc $49.95s 978-0-8214-1745-4 0-8214-1745-2 pb $24.95s 978-0-8214-1746-1 0-8214-1746-0 MAY
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Searching for Fannie Quigley A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley Jane G. Haigh
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27, FANNIE SEDLACEK left her Bohemian homestead in Nebraska to join the gold rush to the Klondike. From the Klondike to the Tanana, Fannie continued north, finally settling in Katishna near Mount McKinley. This woman, later known as Fannie Quigley, became a prospector who staked her own claims and a cook who ran a roadhouse. She hunted and trapped and thrived for nearly forty years in an environment that others found unbearable. T THE AGE OF
Her wilderness lifestyle inspired many of those who met her to record their impressions of this self-sufficient woman, who died in 1944. To many of the 700,000 annual visitors to Denali National Park she is a symbol of the enduring spirit of the original pioneers. Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley goes beyond the mere biographical facts of this unique woman’s journey. It also tells historian Jane G. Haigh’s own story of tracking and tracing the many paths that Fannie Quigley’s intriguing life took. Uncovering remote clues, digging through archives, and listening to oral accounts from a wide array of sources, Haigh has fashioned this rich lode into a compelling narrative. In Searching for Fannie Quigley, Haigh separates fact from fiction to reveal the true story of this highly mythologized pioneer woman.
“Without doubt, this is the definitive biography of Fannie Quigley, a quintessential Alaskan pioneer. Searching for Fannie Quigley is an important contribution to Alaskan history.” —Sally Zanjani, author of Goldfield: The Last Gold Rush on the Western Frontier
Jane G. Haigh began her career as a local historian in Fairbanks, Alaska, which she continues to call home. She is the author of a number of books of popular Alaskan history, including Gold Rush Women, Gold Rush Dogs, and King Con: The Story of Soapy Smith. A SWALLOW PRESS BOOK
BIOGRAPHY 224 pages, illus., 7 x 10 978-0-8040-1096-2 hc $39.95t 0-8040-1096-X 978-0-8040-1097-9 pb $19.95t 0-8040-1097-8 JUNE
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Paris on the Potomac The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. Edited by Cynthia R. Field, Isabelle Gournay, and Thomas P. Somma
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1910 JOHN MERVEN CARRÈRE, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, “Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.” The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L’Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city’s plan. N
Isabelle Gournay’s introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French influence: the classical and Enlightenment principles that prevailed from the 1790s through the 1820s, the Second Empire style of the 1850s through the 1870s, and the Beaux-Arts movement of the early twentieth century. William C. Allen and Thomas P. Somma present two case studies: Allen on the influence of French architecture, especially the Halle aux Blés, on Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the U.S. Capitol; and Somma on David d’Angers’s busts of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Liana Paredes offers a richly detailed examination of French-inspired interior decoration in the homes of Washington’s elite in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cynthia R. Field concludes the volume with a consideration of the influence of Paris on city planning in Washington, D.C., including the efforts of the McMillan Commission and the later development of the Federal Triangle complex.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ART HISTORY 208 pages, illus., 7 x 10 hc $49.95s 978-0-8214-1759-1 0-8214-1759-2 pb $24.95t 978-0-8214-1760-7 0-8214-1760-6 AUGUST
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The essays in this collection, the latest addition to the series Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol, originated in a conference held by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society in 2002 at the French Embassy’s Maison Française.
Cynthia R. Field is an architectural historian and the chair of the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, associate director of the Office of Physical Plant at the Smithsonian Institution, and coauthor of The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building. Isabelle Gournay is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Le Nouveau Trocadéro and the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta. Thomas P. Somma is the director of the Mary Washington University Galleries at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and author of The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908–1916: The Pediment for the House Wing of the United States Capitol. To O r d e r : 1 - 8 0 0 - 6 2 1 - 2 7 3 6
Rookwood and the American Indian Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection Anita J. Ellis and Susan Labry Meyn Foreword by George P. Horse Capture, Sr.
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HE NATION’S PREMIER PRIVATE COLLECTION
of Rookwood art pottery featuring American Indian portraiture is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum from October 2007 to January 2008. Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection is a remarkable exhibition catalogue that will be of interest well beyond the exhibition because of its unique subject matter. Fifty-two pieces produced by the Rookwood Pottery Company are showcased, many accompanied by black-and-white photographs of the American Indians portrayed by the ceramic artist. In addition, the catalogue includes a brief biography of each artist as well as curators’ comments about the Rookwood pottery and the Indian apparel seen in the portraits. The catalogue also presents two essays. The first, “Enduring Encounters: Cincinnatians and American Indians to 1900,” by ethnologist and co-curator Susan Labry Meyn, describes American Indian activities in Cincinnati from the time of the first settlers to 1900 and relates these events to national policy, such as the 1830 Indian Removal Act. “Rookwood and the American Indian,” by art historian Anita J. Ellis, concentrates on Rookwood’s fascination with the American Indian and the economic implications of producing that line. Rookwood and the American Indian blends anthropology with art history to reveal the relationships between the white settlers and the Native Americans in general, between Cincinnati and the American Indian in particular, and ultimately between Rookwood artists and their Indian friends.
Anita J. Ellis is the Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Decorative Arts at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She is the author of Rookwood Pottery: The Glorious Gamble, and Rookwood Pottery: The Glaze Lines. Susan Labry Meyn is a consulting ethnologist and an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University and the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and the author of numerous articles and a book, More Than Curiosities: A Grassroots History of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1920-1942. George P. Horse Capture, Sr. is Senior Counselor to the Director Emeritus, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
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ART HISTORY 280 pages, illus., 8 1/2 x 11 978-0-8214-1739-3 hc $50.00s 0-8214-1739-8 978-0-8214-1740-9 pb $30.00t 0-8214-1740-1 JULY
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The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror Simon Joyce
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MARGARET THATCHER CALLED IN 1979 for a return to Victorian values such HEN
“Simon Joyce’s The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror is a good example of academic training put to use in a manner that both contributes to fresh scholarly understanding and at the same time engages in lively and socially useful polemic. The book is so animated because while it has a lot to say about the Victorian period, it’s really about how the period has served and continues to serve as the object of competing urgencies, political and cultural.” —Bruce Robbins, author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress
VICTORIAN STUDIES 240 pages, illus., 6 x 9 hc $49.95s 978-0-8214-1761-4 0-8214-1761-4 pb $22.95s 978-0-8214-1762-1 0-8214-1762-2 AUGUST
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as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that “Victorian values” also included “cruelty, misery, drudgery, squalor, and ignorance.” The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror is an in-depth look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. It considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian; and how conservatives (and some liberals) have sought to revive elements of nineteenth-century life. Nostalgic and critical impulses combine to fix an understanding of the Victorians in the popular imagination. Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the “neo-Dickensian” novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and inter dependence that has come under threat in today’s politics and culture. Although more than one hundred years have passed since the death of Queen Victoria, the impact of her time is still fresh. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror speaks to diverse audiences in literary and cultural studies, in addition to those interested in visual culture and contemporary politics, and situates detailed close readings of literary and cinematic texts in the context of a larger argument about the legacies of an era not as distant as we might like to think.
Simon Joyce is an associate professor of English and the director of the Literary and Cultural Studies program at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London.
Of Related Interest Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time Edited by Christine L. Krueger
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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body Oliver S. Buckton
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first book-length study about the influence of travel on Robert Louis Stevenson’s writings, both fiction and nonfiction. Within the contexts of late-Victorian imperialism and ethnographic discourse, the book offers original close readings of individual works by Stevenson while bringing new theoretical insights to bear on the relationship between travel, authorship, and gender identity. RUISING WITH
Oliver S. Buckton develops “cruising” as a critical term, linking Stevenson’s leisurely mode of travel with the striking narrative motifs of disruption and fragmentation that characterize his writings. Buckton follows Stevenson’s career from his early travel books to show how Stevenson’s major works of fiction, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Ebb-Tide, derive from the innovative techniques and materials Stevenson acquired on his global travels. Exploring Stevenson’s pivotal role in the revival of “romance” in the late nineteenth century, Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson highlights Stevenson’s treatment of the human body as part of his resistance to realism, arguing that the energies and desires released by travel are often routed through resistant or comic corporeal figures. Buckton also focuses on Stevenson’s writing about the South Seas, arguing that his groundbreaking critiques of European colonialism are formed in awareness of the fragility and desirability of Polynesian bodies and landscapes. Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson will be indispensable to all admirers of Stevenson as well as of great interest to readers of travel writing, Victorian ethnography, gender studies, and literary criticism.
Oliver S. Buckton is an associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he teaches Victorian literature, critical theory, and film. He is the author of Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography and has published essays on Dickens, Stevenson, Wilde, and Schreiner.
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Resurrecting the Granary of Rome Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa Diana K. Davis
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in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today. International organizations such as the United Nations frequently invoke these inaccurate stories to justify environmental conservation and development projects in the arid and semiarid lands in North Africa and around the Mediterranean basin. Recent research in arid lands ecology and new paleoecological evidence, however, do not support many claims of deforestation, overgrazing, and desertification in this region. ALES OF DEFORESTATION AND DESERTIFICATION
Diana K. Davis’s pioneering analysis reveals the critical influence of French scientists and administrators who established much of the purported scientific basis of these stories during the colonial period in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, illustrating the key role of environmental narratives in imperial expansion. The processes set in place by the use of this narrative not only systematically disadvantaged the majority of North Africans but also led to profound changes in the landscape, some of which produced the land degradation that continues to plague the Maghreb today.
Of Related Interest Triumph of the Expert Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism by Joseph Morgan Hodge
SERIES IN ECOLOGY AND HISTORY Series editor: James L. A. Webb, Jr.
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 312 pages, illus., 6 x 9
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome exposes many of the political, economic, and ideological goals of the French colonial project in these arid lands and the resulting definition of desertification that continues to inform global environmental and development projects. The first book on the environmental history of the Maghreb, this volume reframes much conventional thinking about the North African environment. Davis’s book is essential reading for those interested in global environmental history.
Diana K. Davis is an assistant professor of geography and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published in Environmental History, Geoforum, Cultural Geographies, the Journal of Arid Environments, and Secheresse.
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Imagining Serengeti A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present Jan Bender Shetler
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of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western Serengeti peoples imagine the environment not as a pristine wilderness, but as a differentiated social landscape that embodies their history and identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displaced peoples and relegated them to the margins of modern society. Their oral traditions, however, provide the means for seeing the landscape from a new perspective. ONG BEFORE THE CREATION
Imagining Serengeti allows us to see the Serengeti landscape as a book of memory that preserves the ways in which western Serengeti peoples have actively transformed their environment and their societies. Moreover, it strengthens the case for involving local communities in conservation efforts that will preserve African environments for the future. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Jan Shetler identifies core spatial images, which are then recontextualized into historical time periods through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti reconstructs a socioenvironmental history of landscape memory of the western Serengeti spanning the last eighteen hundred years.
“The Serengeti ecosystem is a symbol of global conservation efforts, but in conservationist literature the agricultural and agro-pastoral peoples who lived on the western reaches of the ecosystem became little more than “poachers” who had no legitimate claim to the land or resources of the park. In this fascinating book on a topic of importance to specialists in several different fields, Jan Bender Shetler attempts to provide a corrective to this perception.” —Gregory H. Maddox, coeditor of Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania
Jan Bender Shetler is an associate professor of African and world history at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. She is the author of Telling Our Own Stories: Local Histories from South Mara, Tanzania.
NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES Series editors: Jean Allman and Allen Isaacman
Also in the Series The Forger’s Tale The Search for Odeziaku by Stephanie Newell Natures of Colonial Change Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei by Jacob A. Tropp
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Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini Her Sisters’ Letters from Colonial Java Edited and translated by Joost J. Coté
R “Joost Coté presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them.” —William H. Frederick, author of Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution
DREAM OF R. A. KARTINI: Her Sisters’ Letters from Colonial Java presents a unique collection of documents reflecting the lives, attitudes, and politics of four Javanese women in the early twentieth century. Joost J. Coté translates the correspondence between Raden Ajeng Kartini, Indonesia’s first feminist, and her sisters, revealing for the first time her sisters’ contributions in defining and carrying out her ideals. With this collection, Coté aims to situate Kartini’s sisters within the more famous Kartini narrative—and indirectly to situate Kartini herself within a broader narrative. EALIZING THE
The letters reveal the emotional lives of these modern women and their concerns for the welfare of their husbands and the success of their children in rapidly changing times. While by no means radical nationalists, and not yet extending their horizons to the possibility of an Indonesian nation, these members of a new middle class nevertheless confidently express their belief in their own national identity. Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini is essential reading for scholars of Indonesian history, providing documentary evidence of the culture of modern, urban Java in the late colonial era and an insight into the ferment of the Indonesian nationalist movement in which these women and their husbands played representative roles.
Joost J. Coté is a senior lecturer in history at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini’s Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar and coeditor of Recalling the Indies: Colonial Memories and Postcolonial Identities.
RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SOUTHEAST ASIA SERIES, NO. 114 SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY 304 pages, illus., 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 pb $28.00s 978-0-89680-253-7 0-89680-253-1 AUGUST
Of Related Interest Southeast Asian Lives Personal Narratives and Historical Experience edited by Roxana Waterson
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Under the Heel of the Dragon Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China Blaine Kaltman
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TURKIC MUSLIMS from Central Asia known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China due to their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the Chinese government’s oppression of religious minorities that have heightened the degree of polarization between the Uighur and the dominant Chinese ethnic group, the Han. HE
Author Blaine Kaltman’s study is based on in-depth interviews that he conducted in Chinese without either the aid of an interpreter or the knowledge of the Chinese government. These riveting conversations expose the thoughts of a wide socioeconomic spectrum of Han and Uighur, revealing their mutual prejudices. The Uighurs believe that the Han discriminate against them in almost every aspect of their lives, and this perception of racism motivates the Uighurs’ own prejudice against the Han. Kaltman reports that Uighur criminal activity (unlike that of other minorities, which predominantly occurs within their own communities) is directed against their perceived oppressors, the Han Chinese. Under the Heel of the Dragon offers a unique insight into a misunderstood world and a detailed explanation of the cultural perceptions that drive these misconceptions.
Blaine Kaltman, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and spent five years in China, holds an MS in criminal justice from the University of Tennessee and a PhD in sociology from the University of Queensland. He traveled extensively throughout China and wrote for That’s Shanghai.
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Swahili beyond the Boundaries Literature, Language, and Identity Alamin Mazrui
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FRICA IS A MARRIAGE OF CULTURES:
African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa’s lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a “third space,” blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post–Cold War globalization.
RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AFRICA SERIES, NO. 85
Alamin Mazrui is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the Ohio State University and visiting professor in the department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. He is the coauthor of Swahili, State and Society: The Political Economy of an African Language, The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience, and The Swahili: Idiom and Identity.
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Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003 Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
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leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from precolonial times to the present and into the future. Setting women’s economic activities into a broader political, social, and cultural context, it provides the first general account of their experiences amid the changes that shaped the country. HIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK BY TWO
Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003 describes the origins of the current situation, highlighting the challenges working women now face and recommending strategies that will improve their circumstances in the future.
Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo is an associate professor and the head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. She is the author of many articles on women’s reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Marjorie Keniston McIntosh is a distinguished professor of history emerita, University of Colorado. She is the author of Working Women in English Society, 1300 –1620. Copublished with James Currey, Oxford, and Fountain Publishers, Kampala
EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES Also in the series Ethnic Federalism The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective by David Turton Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884–1914 by Jan-Georg Deutsch w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
GENDER STUDIES 308 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 978-0-8214-1733-1 hc $55.00s 0-8214-1733-9 978-0-8214-1734-8 pb $26.95s 0-8214-1734-7 AVAILABLE Rights: All Americas, Pacific Rim, Australia & New Zealand
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Black and White in Colour African History on Screen Edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn
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WHITE IN COLOUR: AFRICAN HISTORY ON SCREEN
considers how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. Written by a team of eminent international scholars, the volume provides extensive coverage of both place and time and deals with major issues in the written history of Africa. Themes include the slave trade, imperialism and colonialism, racism, and anticolonial resistance. Many of the films will be familiar to readers: they include Out of Africa, Hotel Rwanda, Breaker Morant, Cry Freedom, The Battle of Algiers, and Chocolat.
Of Related Interest Flickering Shadows Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe by J. M. Burns
This collection of essays is a highly original and useful contribution to African histography, as well as a significant addition to the growing body of work within the emerging subdiscipline of “film and history.” It will appeal to those interested in African history and the ways in which films use the past to raise questions about the present.
Vivian Bickford-Smith is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town. Richard Mendelsohn is the head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on South African Jewish history, and together with Vivian Bickford-Smith, has pioneered teaching and research in film and history.
Contributors
Copublished with James Currey, Oxford, and Double Storey Books, Cape Town
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Mahir Şaul: History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore’s precolonial-era films Ralph A. Austen: Beyond “history”: two films of the deep Mande past Robert Baum: Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene’s films Emitai and Ceddo Robert Harms: The transatlantic slave trade in cinema Nigel Worden: “What are we?”: Proteus and the problematising of history Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane: The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu and Zulu Dawn Richard Mendelsohn: Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian lens Shamil Jeppie: From Khartoum to Kufrah: filmic narratives of conquest and resistance Bill Nasson: Cheap if not always cheerful: French West Africa in the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Le Camp de Thiaroye Nigel Penn: Whites in Africa: Kenya’s colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief Ruth Watson: Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis’s Chocolat Patrick Harries: The Battle of Algiers: between fiction, memory and history David Moore: Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: history or hagiography? Teresa Barnes: Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe Vivian Bickford-Smith: Picturing apartheid: with particular focus on “Hollywood” histories Mohamed Adhikari: Hotel Rwanda: too much heroism, too little history—or horror David Philips: Looking the beast in the (fictional eye): The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film
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The Unsettled Land State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003 Jocelyn Alexander
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UNSETTLED LAND ENGAGES with the current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much-needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case. HE
In early 2000, a process of land occupation began in Zimbabwe. It involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of black farmers onto mostly whiteowned farms, often under the leadership of veterans of Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war. The Zanu (PF) government cast this moment as the end of colonialism. Others saw it as mere electioneering, the desperate machinations of an illegitimate government. This poorly understood crisis had deep roots. In the settler period the government of Rhodesia divided the land along racial lines, leaving the black population in poor and overcrowded reserves. Independent Zimbabwe inherited not only this profoundly unequal division of land but also a potent institutional and ideological legacy of contested claims to authority over the land. This combustible mix shaped political desires and discourses as well as state and African institutions, setting the stage for the dramatic upheavals of 2000 and beyond.
Jocelyn Alexander is a lecturer in commonwealth studies at the University of Oxford and the author of Violence & Memory: One Hundred Years in the ‘Dark Forest’ of Matabeleland.
“Will undoubtedly make a valuable contribution to the literature on Zimbabwean politics. Its strengths are the author’s ability to take the longue durée in understanding the land question, revealing the issue in all its complexities and the trajectory from one policy perspective to another, all contributing to a changing configuration of the status of the powerful and the dispossessed in that troubled country.” —Chris Alden, London School of Economics & Political Science
Copublished with James Currey, Oxford, and Weaver Press, Harare
Of Related Interest The Moral Economy of the State Conservation, Community Development, and State-Making in Zimbabwe by William A. Munro A Most Promising Weed A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1945 by Steven C. Rubert w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Democratic Reform in Africa Its Impact on Governance and Poverty Alleviation Edited by Muna Ndulo
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AFRICA HAS BEEN SLOW, difficult, and at times painful. Nevertheless, sufficient time has passed for those interested in political and economic development to assess what progress, if any, Africa has made in addressing the need for the consolidation of democratic reform and the resolution of considerable developmental challenges. Economic aid and other forms of financial assistance are progressively conditioned on good governance. Accordingly, African states in the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) have devised standards for economic and political governance. While the link between governance and development and poverty has been widely accepted, some key interrelationships between elements of the two sectors remain open to debate. EMOCRATIC REFORM IN
Democratic Reform in Africa highlights the issues that cut across both the political and economic reform spectra and identifies obstacles to democratic reform. The book examines various institutions and their role in governance and poverty alleviation, and recognizes those who are involved in the process of both democratic reform and economic development. Muna Ndulo, professor of law at Cornell Law School and the director of the Institute for African Development, is the author of Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation: When the Wars End.
Contributors
Copublished with James Currey, Oxford
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Muna Ndulo: Good governance: the rule of law & poverty alleviation Johann Kriegler: Democratic reform in Africa Joel Barkan: Democracy in Africa: what future? Ann Seidman & Robert Seidman: Legal drafting for democratic social change & development Penelope Andrews: The South African constitution as a mechanism for redressing poverty Peter Takirambudde & Kate Fletcher: Civil society in governance & poverty alleviation: a human rights perspective Muna Ndulo: Decentralization: challenges of inclusion & equity in governance Tsatsu Tsikata: Challenges of economic reform & democratization: some lessons from Ghana John Hatchard: Legal techniques & agencies of accountability: human rights commissions in commonwealth Africa Brian Levy: Are Africa’s economic reforms sustainable? Bringing governance back Colleen Lowe-Morna: From rhetoric to reality: governance & gender equality Daniel Manning: Realizing rights through advocacy: the role of legal service organizations in promoting human rights & attacking poverty Thomas Lansner: The media & information for democracy Reginald Austin: Constitution making, peace building & national reconciliation: Zimbabwe Douglas Anglin: African peer review of political governance: precedents, problematics & prospects
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African Gifts of the Spirit Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement David Maxwell
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of born-again Christianity in Africa through a study of one of the most dynamic Pentecostal movements. David Maxwell traces the transformation of the prophet Ezekiel Guti and his prayer band from small beginnings in the townships of the 1950s into the present-day transnational business enterprise, which is now the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God. Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa claims one and a half million members in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa and has branches in other African countries, Europe, and the United States. African Gifts of the Spirit illuminates Africa’s relations with American Christianities, black and white. HIS BOOK CONSIDERS THE RISE
David Maxwell, past editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa, is senior lecturer at the University of Keele.
“This is a pathbreaking major work tracing the tangled roots of a significant religious movement in Zimbabwe and beyond. . . . Richly documented, it explores the relation between social rupture of conversion, and links changes to the movement to historical events from the Great Depression to the rise of independence, and the impact of neo-liberalism. It is a required read.” —David Martin, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics “The combination of history with fascinating participatory material makes the book the best and most illuminating account ever written of an African initiated church . . . a very important book and a remarkable work of scholarship.” —Terence Ranger, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
“Few books on African Christianity match its scope and intellectual rigor. It will define the field of Pentecostal Studies for years to come.” —Harri Englund, University of Cambridge
Copublished with James Currey, Oxford, and Double Storey Books, Cape Town
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INDEX African Gifts of the Spirit, 25 Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku, ed., 29 Alexander, Jocelyn, 23 Alexander, Roberta Sue, 29 All Flesh is Grass, 29 All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing, 30 Anderson, Ora E., 1 Andrzejewski, Jerzy, 26 Aquamarine Blue 5, 29 Architecture in Cincinnati, 26 The Armillary Sphere, 26 Attwell, David, 27
Barker, Charles Ferguson, 8 Beers, Diane L., 28 Benseler, J. S., 27 Bickford-Smith, Vivian, 22 Binh, Tran Tu, 30 Birmingham, David, 30 Black and White In Colour, 22 Blank Verse, 5 Blood of the Prodigal, 30 Brose, John A., 29 Buckton, Oliver S., 15 A Burning Hunger, 28
Campbell, Gwyn, 27 Carson, Jo, 9 Cassity, Turner, 6 Chocolate on Trial, 28 Clark, Ricky, 28 Closing Arguments, 29 Coberly, Lenore McComas, 26 Colonial Rosary, 29 The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 28 A Comprehensive IndonesianEnglish Dictionary, 30 Coté, Joost J., 18 Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 The Cut of His Coat, 27
Darrow,Clarence, 25 Davis, Diana K., 16 Davis, Dick, 28 The Decolonization of Africa, 30 Democratic Reform in Africa, 24 Deutsch, Jan-Georg, 27 Devils & Islands, 6 Dewey, John, 30
Ellis, Anita J., 13 Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c. 1884-1914, 27 Ethnic Federalism, 27
Field, Cynthia R., ed., 12 Finkelman, Paul, ed., 28 Fisher, Linda A., ed., 10 For the Prevention of Cruelty, 28 The Forger’s Tale, 27 From Blackjacks to Briefcases, 28 The Future City on the Inland Sea, 26
Gaus, P. L., 28, 30 Good Roots, 26 Gournay, Isabelle, ed., 12 Gross, Norman, ed., 26 The Guide to EKG Interpretation, 29
Haigh, Jane G., 11 Harrington, H. D., 29 The History of Islam in Africa, 30 Hodge, Joseph Morgan, 26 Holladay, Cary, 26 Holy Week, 26 Hometown for an Hour, 30 House of Incest, 30 How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants, 29 How to Identify Plants, 29 Hudson, Ann, 26
Malae, Peter Nathaniel, 2 The Man Who Killed the Deer, 29 Maxwell, David, 25 Mazrui, Alamin, 20 McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston, 21 The Memoir and the Memoirist, 4 Mendelsohn, Richard, 22 Meyn, Susan Labry, 13 Mersman, Joseph J., 10 Miers, Suzanne, 27 Miller, Joseph C., 27 Missouri’s War, 27 Morgan, Thomas Lewis, ed., 28
Natures of Colonial Change, 26 Ndulo, Muna B., ed., 24 Nemanic, Mary Lou, 26 Newell, Stephanie, 27 Nin, Anaïs, 30 Noble Purposes, 26
Okrent, Mark, 7 Olmanson, Eric D., 26 One Day for Democracy, 26 Out of the Woods, 1
Painter, Sue Ann, 26 Paris on the Potomac, 12 A Place of Recourse, 29 A Poet’s Prose, 29 Pouwels, Randall L., ed., 30 A Prayer for the Night, 28 Prince-Hughes, Dawn, ed., 29 The Prisoner Pear, 28 Pritchard, Gayle, 26 The Public and Its Problems, 30
Imagining Serengeti, 17
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, ed., 28 Joshi, S.T., ed., 28 Joyce, Simon, 14
Kaarsholm, Preben, ed., 27 Kaltman, Blaine, 19 Kinzie, Mary, ed., 29 Kwame Nkrumah, 30 Kyomuhendo, Grace, 21
Lake Alison, 29 Larson, Thomas, 4 Legacy, 30 Levtzion, Nehemia, ed., 30 Lewis, Janet, 29 Logsdon, Gene, 29
The Quick-Change Artist, 26 Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve, 28
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Sarah’s Girls, 26 Satre, Lowell J., 28 Schiff, James, 3 Schmidgall-Tellings, A. Ed., 30 Schuster, Lynda, 28 Searching for Fannie Quigley, 11 Shannon, Brent, 27 Shaw, Robert B., 5 Shetler, Jan Bender, 17 Siddali, Silvana R., 27 Smith, Robert Michael, 28 Somma, Thomas P., ed., 12 Sorcery and Sovereignty, 27 Spence, Linda, 30 Steele, Timothy, 28, 30 Stevens, Alan M., 30 Swahili beyond the Boundaries, 20
Teach the Free Man, 2 Teller Tales, 9 Terrible Swift Sword, 28 Themes in West Africa’s History, 29 Toward the Winter Solstice, 28 A Trick of Sunlight, 28 Triumph of the Expert, 26 Tropp, Jacob A., 26 Turton, David, 27
Uncommon Threads, 26 Under the Heel of the Dragon, 19 Under Ohio, 8 Updike in Cincinnati, 3 The Unsettled Land, 23
The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror, 14 Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa, 27
Waters, Frank, 29 Watts, Lisa, ed., 26 The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary, 10 The Wife of Martin Guerre, 29 Women & Slavery, 27 Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003, 21
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