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Polish-american History ....... 15
intrigues of the new world order
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african literature ........... 10 –11
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and suspense. it’s a fine work
new african Histories......12–13
index ............................ 25
and its author is a writer of great promise.”
W ho We Ar e ohio University Press was incorporated in 1947 and formally organized in 1964 by President John C. Baker. as the largest university press in ohio, we are dedicated to publishing quality scholarship, books of regional interest and value, and trade titles with wide appeal. the press attracts the work of scholars of national reputation and benefits from partnerships with institutions throughout ohio and the world. along with its swallow Press imprint, ohio University Press publishes more than forty books a year and maintains over one thousand titles in print, a growing number of which are also available as electronic editions. each book carries with it the banner of ohio University, reaffirming the university’s commitment to the fruits of research and creative endeavor. Cover painting by Lesley Charnock, Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town. Member of the Association of American University Presses
—robert stone, author of Dog Soldiers and Damascus Gate
Of related interest ________________________ We Are All Zimbabweans Now by James Kilgore
• subject subject spy area thriller • area area • subject fictiOn
ministers of Fire A Novel
Mark Harril
Mark Harril Saunders
Ministers of
Ministers of Fire opens in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1979, where, the author writes, “the world we know was born.” CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation’s intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador. Burling’s reaction to the murder, and his desire to understand its larger meaning, propel him on a journey of intrigue and betrayal that will shake his faith in himself and in his country. Fast forward to Shanghai in the spring of 2002: his marriage and career blown off course, Burling lives quietly as the American consul, but the attacks of September 11 threaten to bring his misadventures in Afghanistan back to the surface. A Chinese dissident physicist may be planning to sell his country’s nuclear secrets, and Burling recognizes the fingerprints of a covert operation, one without the obvious sanction of the Agency. The dissident Yong’s escape route winds through an underground railroad of unauthorized churches and activists’ homes, drawing the violent attention of General Zu Dongren of the Chinese internal security service and his devoted lieutenant Li Xin. Drawn inexorably into their path, Burling must face both the ghosts of the past and a present world of global trafficking, fragile alliances, and the human need for connection above all. Reminiscent of the best work of Graham Greene and John le Carré, Ministers of Fire extends the spy thriller into new historical, political, and emotional territory. Mark Harril Saunders was born and raised in the Washington, D.C., area and holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and China. His writing has appeared in the VQR, Boston Review, and the Virginian-Pilot, and in 2001 he was awarded the Andrew S. Lytle Prize for fiction from Sewanee Review. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and three children.
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novel has psychological depth, action, and suspense.” —Robert Stone
a novel
“Ministers of Fire belongs on the bookshelf with John le Carre and eric ambler. . . . i enjoyed it enormously.” —John Casey, national Book award-winning author of Spartina and Compass Rose
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Dog eat Dog Dog Eat Dog
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Of related interest _____________________ After Tears by niq mhlongo
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“niq mhlongo is one of the most high-spirited and irreverent new voices of south africa’s postapartheid literary scene.”
ModeRn AfRicAn WRiTing SeRieS
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Dog Eat Dog is a remarkable record of being young in a nation undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse into South Africa’s pivotal kwaito (South African hip-hop) generation and life in Soweto. Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog captures the hopes—and crushing disappointments— that characterize such moments in a nation’s history. Raucous and darkly humorous, Dog Eat Dog is narrated by Dingamanzi Makhedama Njomane, a college student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But Dingz, as he is known to his friends, is living in charged times, and his discouraging college life plays out against the backdrop of South Africa’s first democratic elections, the spread of AIDS, and financial difficulties that threaten to force him out of school.
“a very significant contribution, not just to south african literature but world literature in general.” —Eclectica Magazine
“Full of interesting perceptions and vivid descriptions, and well-drawn and believable characters.” —New Times (rwanda)
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niq Mhlongo was born in 1973 in Soweto. After Tears, his second novel, also in the Modern African Writing series, was published by Ohio University Press in 2011. Mhlongo lives in Soweto, South Africa.
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A Novel chika Unigwe On Black Sisters Street tells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their African homeland for the riches of Europe—and who are thrown together by bad luck and big dreams into a sisterhood that will change their lives. Each night, Sisi, Ama, Efe, and Joyce stand in the windows of Antwerp’s red-light district, promising to make men’s desires come true—if only for half an hour. They offer their bodies to strangers but their hearts to no one, each focused on earning enough to get herself free, to send money home, or to save up for her own future. Drawn together by Sisi’s murder, the women must choose between their secrets and their safety. This first paperback edition of On Black Sisters Street celebrates the U.S. publication debut of Chika Unigwe, a brilliant new writer and a standout voice among contemporary African authors.
“Boiling with a sly, generous humor . . . On Black Sisters Street marks the arrival of a latter-day thackeray, an afro-Belgian writer who probes with passion, grace and comic verve the underbelly of our globalized new world economy.” —New York Times Book Review chika Unigwe was born in Nigeria and now lives in Belgium with her husband and four children. She was a 2008 UNESCO-Aschberg fellow and a 2009 Rockefeller Foundation fellow. She holds a PhD from the University of Leiden. She is the recipient of several awards for her writing, including first prize in the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition. In 2004 she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her first novel, De Feniks, was published in Dutch in 2005. Photo: Rocio forero
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“Powerful . . . the author’s raw voice, unflinching eye for detail, facility for creating a complex narrative, and affection for her characters make this a must read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
ModeRn AfRicAn WRiTing SeRieS Of related interest _____________________ Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane mpe world rights except British Commonwealth including Canada, ireland and south africa
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The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933-1934 Charles m. Wiltse
Prosperity Far Distant The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934 charles M. Wiltse Edited by Michael J. Birkner; with a foreword by Gene Logsdon
Edited by Michael J. Birkner
With a forEWord By GEnE LoGsdon
“It is because of this universality, this undercurrent which is the daily life of thirty million Americans, that I offer here [my] journal, in the hope that it brings to those who have not known the soil some measure of insight into its problems, and perhaps a deeper sympathy for its victories and its defeats.”
Of related interest _______________________ The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life by gene logsdon august
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Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University, but unable to find work, Charles Wiltse returned to his family’s 600-acre farm in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, wood, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact. In wry and often affecting prose, Charles Wiltse recorded a year in the life of this quintessentially American place during the Great Depression. He describes the family’s daily routine, occasional light moments, and their ongoing frustrations, small and large—from a neighbor’s hog that continually broke into the cornfields to the ongoing struggle with their finances. Despite repeated requests, the family could not secure loans from local banks to help them through the hard economic times, and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal had little to offer small farmers. Wiltse spoke the bitter truth when he told his diary, “We are not a lucky family.” In this he represented millions of others caught in the maw of a national disaster. The diary is introduced and edited by Michael J. Birkner, Wiltse’s former student and colleague at the Papers of Daniel Webster Project at Dartmouth College, and coeditor, with Wiltse, of the final volume of Webster’s correspondence. charles M. Wiltse was a professor of history at Dartmouth College and an editor of the sixteen-volume Papers of Daniel Webster. He was also the author or editor of many other books, including a three-volume collection of the papers of John C. Calhoun and The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy. Michael J. Birkner is a professor of history and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts at Gettysburg College, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including the forthcoming James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War.
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the Untried life The Story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War James T. fritsch Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J. R. Giddings. The men who enlisted in the TwentyNinth OVI were, according to its lore, handpicked to ensure each was as pure in his antislavery beliefs as its founder. Whether these soldiers would fight harder than other soldiers, and whether the people of their hometowns would remain devoted to the ideals of the regiment, were questions that could only be tested by the experiment of war. The Untried Life is the story of these men from their very first regimental formation in a county fairground to the devastation of Gettysburg and the march to Atlanta and back again, enduring disease and Confederate prisons. It brings to vivid life the comradeship and loneliness that pervaded their days on the march. Dozens of unforgettable characters emerge, animated by their own letters and diaries: Corporal Nathan Parmenter, whose modest upbringing belies the eloquence of his writings; Colonel Lewis Buckley, one of the Twenty-Ninth’s most charismatic officers; and Chaplain Lyman Ames, whose care of the sick and wounded challenged his spiritual beliefs. The Untried Life shows how the common soldier lived—his entertainments, methods of cooking, medical treatment, and struggle to maintain family connections—and separates the facts from the mythology created in the decades after the war. James T. fritsch has been a teacher, carpenter, horse trainer, small- town newspaper reporter, actor, pilot, and professional investigator. This book is the culmination of fifteen years of research into the life and times of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Fritsch lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“They had beaten Lee at Gettysburg, but it was now apparent he had not been beaten badly enough, because he sat on the opposite bank of the river as defiantly as ever.” Of related interest ___________________________________ Do They Miss Me at Home? The Civil War Letters of William McKnight, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry edited by Donald C. maness and H. Jason Combs
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Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Chocolate islands Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa catherine Higgs
Catherine Higgs
“Catherine Higgs writes about the chocolate islands with clarity and conviction, commanding the evidence while presenting an argument about the ‘dignity of labor’ with an elegance of style. in terms of presentation, research and structure, the book is a tour de force.” —David Birmingham, author of Portugal and Africa and Trade and Empire in the Atlantic, 1400 to 1600 Of related interest _______________________ Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business by lowell J. satre MaY
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In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.
catherine Higgs is an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959, and coeditor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, both published by Ohio University Press.
cOnservatiOn • activisM • appalachian studies • wOMen’s studies
standing our ground Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal Joyce M. Barry
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry’s engaging and original work reveals how women’s tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.
Joyce M. Barry is a visiting assistant professor of women’s studies at Hamilton College. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has appeared in such national publications as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Environmental Justice, Environmental Ethics, and the National Women’s Studies Association Journal. Barry grew up in West Virginia’s southern coalfields, and now resides in Clinton, New York.
Standing Our GrOund Women, environmental Justice, and the Fight to end mountaintop removal
Joyce M. barry
“what a magnificent book! the author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. the book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.” —Joni seager, author of Gender, Poverty, and the Environment SeRieS in RAce, eTHniciTy, And gendeR in APPAlAcHiA august ___________________
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HolliS SUMMeRS PoeTRy PRize previous winner of the hollis summers poetry prize _______________________ Cracks in the Invisible: Poems by stephen Kampa
Gravel and Hawk dwells on the physical and cultural landscapes of the Texarkana border region, an area of stark natural beauty and even starker manifestations of its human habitation: oil derricks and pump jacks, logging trucks, chicken houses, come-to-Jesus billboards, and greasy catfish joints, a patchwork of dying farm towns and ragtag municipalities laced together by county roads, state highways, and that treacherous, rust-hued slurry known as the Red River. Gravel and Hawk charts the emotional landscape of a single extended family, its history of loss and gain, and, especially, its encounters with violent death. It is an eminently readable collection, rooted in a distinctly American place and united by a poetic voice that is honest, sophisticated, and persuasive.
“Gravel and Hawk is an elegiac book—explicitly so in the poems honoring relatives and friends who have died, and implicitly so in many other poems that recreate the daily textures of a farmcentered life. as a whole this book delivers a rich sense of a past deeply examined.” —mark Halliday, judge
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nick norwood is the author of the poetry collections The Soft Blare and A Palace for the Heart and the fine press book Wrestle, which he produced in collaboration with the artist and master printer Erika Adams. His poems have appeared widely in such journals as Western Humanities Review, Southwest Review, Paris Review, Wallace Stevens Journal, and others.
african aMerican literature • theater • anthOlOgY
the gospel according to James and other Plays
The Gospel According to
James and Other Plays
charles Smith This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad. Four of the plays are based on historical people and events from W.E.B. Du Bois and Countee Cullen to the Harlem Renaissance. Accurate in the way they capture the political and cultural milieu of their historical settings, and courageous in the way they grapple with difficult questions such as race, education, religion, and social class, these plays jump off the page just as powerfully as they come to life on stage. This first-ever collection from one of the nation’s leading African American playwrights is a journey down the complex road of race and history.
charles smith
“a plot twist of his own that darkens even twain’s dark humor.” —Bruce weber, New York Times, on Pudd’nhead Wilson
“in one blistering scene after another—with dialogue that is alternately highly poetic, down-and-dirty, eerily disturbing and fiercely authoritarian—smith exposes the lies and the blazing truths that animate his characters.”
nOw in paperback ___________________________ In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar edited by Herbert woodward martin and ronald Primeau
—Hedy weiss, Chicago Sun-Times, on Knock Me a Kiss
charles Smith is an award-winning playwright and member of the Playwrights Ensemble of the Tony Award–winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. He is also Distinguished Professor of Theatre at Ohio University, where he heads the Professional Playwriting Program. His plays explore contemporary issues of race, identity, and politics in America.
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Dance of life The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa gail fincham
“Dance of Life offers a wealth of critical insights into mda’s novels in chapters that are compellingly argued, very perceptive in their readings of individual works, utterly persuasive in the overall argument that is developed, and presented in a lively style that makes for a very satisfying reading experience. . . . the book may serve both as a work for the literary specialist and as an introduction to mda for the newcomer. it will make an important and necessary contribution to mda studies.” —Johan U. Jacobs, coeditor with David Bell of Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda rights: all americas and Pacific rim
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In recent years, the work of Zakes Mda—novelist, painter, composer, theater director and filmmaker—has attracted worldwide critical attention. Gail Fincham’s book examines the five novels Mda has written since South Africa’s transition to democracy: Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), The Madonna of Excelsior (2002), The Whale Caller (2005), and Cion (2007). Dance of Life explores how refigured identity is rooted in Mda’s strongly painterly imagination that creates changed spaces in memory and culture. Through a combination of magic realism, African orature, and intertextuality with the Western canon, Mda rejects dualistic thinking of the past and the present, the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead, the rural and the urban. He imbues his fictional characters with the power to orchestrate a reconfigured subjectivity that is simultaneously political, social, and aesthetic.
gail fincham is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town.
literarY criticisM • african literature
metaphor and the slave trade in west african literature
e or r adre aph andthe Met vefrictan literatu a l s west a in
laura T. Murphy
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation. Laura T. Murphy’s insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise marginalized memories can be transmitted through images, tropes, rumors, and fears. By analyzing the unique codes through which West Africans have represented the slave trade, this work foregrounds African literary contributions to Black Atlantic discourse and draws attention to the archive that metaphor unlocks for scholars of all disciplines and fields of study.
“original and challenging . . . (murphy) argues that while it has been acknowledged that the oral tradition registers the traumatic effect of the slave trade, scholars have been slow to recognize its deep imprint on the collective imaginary and the way in which it has been reflected in the modern literature in english.” —F. abiola irele, author of The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora laura T. Murphy is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Research in African Literatures and in Studies in the Novel.
laura t. murphy
“a well-researched and beautifully written textual study . . . authoritative and carefully argued.” —stephanie newell
Of related interest _________________________ Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature by James Currey
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Trafficking in slavery’s wake Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa
trafficking in slavery’s wake Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa edited by Benjamin n. lawrance and Richard l. Roberts With an afterword by Kevin Bales and Jody Sarich
Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Richard L. Roberts With an afterWord by Kevin bales and Jody sarich
neW AfRicAn HiSToRieS SeRieS Of related interest ___________________________ Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa edited by emily s. Burrill, richard l. roberts, and elizabeth thornberry Child Slaves in the Modern World edited by gwyn Campbell, suzanne miers, and Joseph C. miller
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Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the “end of slavery” in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. The formal abolition of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for servile women and children. Contemporary forms of human trafficking are deeply interwoven with their historical precursors and scholars and activists need to be informed about the long history of trafficking in order to better assess and confront its contemporary forms. This book brings together the perspectives of leading scholars, activists, and other experts, creating a conversation that is essential for understanding the complexity of human trafficking in Africa. Human trafficking is rapidly emerging as a core human rights issue for the twenty-first century. Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake is excellent reading for the researching, combating, and prosecuting of trafficking in women and children. Benjamin n. lawrance is the Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Local Foods Meet Global Foodways: Tasting History, Locality, Mobility, and ‘Nation’; Interpreters, Intermediaries and Clerks; and The Ewe of Togo and Benin. Richard l. Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History and the Director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. His most recent books include Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa and Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Challenges.
urban histOrY • pOstcOlOnial studies • race relatiOns
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Taifa Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
James R. Brennan Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race—both translatable as taifa in Swahili—were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city. Using deeply researched archival and oral evidence, Taifa transforms our understanding of urban history and shows how concerns about access to credit and housing became intertwined with changing conceptions of nation and nationhood. Taifa gives equal attention to both Indians and Africans; in doing so, it demonstrates the significance of political and economic connections between coastal East Africa and India during the era of British colonialism, and illustrates how the project of racial nationalism largely severed these connections by the 1970s.
“this is an important book. there’s nothing else that puts indians and africans in the same frame. Brennan is grounded in two separate sets of secondary literature and that gives his work a breadth that is rare.” —luise white, author of The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
James R. Brennan
neW AfRicAn HiSToRieS SeRieS Of related interest ___________________________ The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa by robert trent vinson Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule by emily lynn osborn
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James R. Brennan is an assistant professor in history at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.
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indigenous Knowledge and the environment in africa and north america edited by david M. gordon and Shepard Krech iii Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as “indigenous” resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters.
SeRieS in ecology And HiSToRy contributors
David Bernstein Derick Fay andrew H. Fisher Karen Flint David m. gordon Paul Kelton shepard Krech iii Joshua reid Parker shipton lance van sittert Jacob tropp James l. a. webb, Jr. marsha weisiger March
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At times indigenous knowledges represented a “middle ground” of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated with European colonialism. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making. david M. gordon is an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College. He is author of Nachituti’s Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa and numerous articles on African social, cultural, and environmental history. Shepard Krech iii is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Brown University and a research associate in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. A trustee of the National Humanities Center, he is the author or editor of many essays and books, including The Ecological Indian and The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, edited with John McNeill and Carolyn Merchant.
pOlish histOrY • histOrY Of religiOn • pOlitical science
Between the Brown and the red Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki
In this study of the relationship of nationalism, communism, authoritarianism, and religion in twentieth-century Poland, Mikołaj Kunicki shows how the country’s communist rulers tried to adapt communism to local traditions, particularly ethnocentric nationalism and Catholicism. Focusing on the political career of Bolesław Piasecki, a Polish nationalist politician who started his journey as a fascist before the war and ended it as a procommunist activist, Kunicki demonstrates that Polish Communists reinforced the ethnocentric self-definition of Polishness and—as Piasecki’s case proves—prolonged the existence of the nationalist Right. Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in Communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue rather than stagnating in a state of constant struggle. Contrary to assumptions, under Communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. Between the Brown and the Red also introduces to the reader one of the most fascinating figures in the history of twentieth-century Poland and the Communist world.
PoliSH And PoliSHAMeRicAn STUdieS SeRieS
Of related interest ___________________________ Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914 –1939 by neal Pease
Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki is an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. julY ___________________
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“Charity and Condescension gives literary critics that which we always hope for in a new book: an entirely new way of seeing texts that we all know and teach.” —suzanne Daly, University of massachusetts amherst Of related interest ___________________________ Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing by Krista lysack april
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Charity and Condescension Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy daniel Siegel
Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension—once a sign of the power and value of charity—became an emblem of charity’s limitations. Charity and Condescension argues that, despite its reputation for idealistic self-assurance, Victorian charity frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state’s responsibility to its poor.
daniel Siegel is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of several articles about Victorian literature and culture.
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Doctoring the novel Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle Sylvia A. Pamboukian
If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in books such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.
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“this very perceptive and imaginative study makes a significant contribution to victorian studies.” —matthew ramsey, vanderbilt University
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Trained in Victorian studies and pharmacy, Sylvia A. Pamboukian is an associate professor in the department of English at Robert Morris University. She has published on topics as diverse as Victorian x-rays, Rudyard Kipling’s supernatural stories, and taboo in the Harry Potter series.
A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England by Julie e. Fromer
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Degrees of allegiance Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri’s German-American Community during World War I Petra deWitt
SeRieS on lAW, SocieTy, And PoliTicS in THe MidWeST Of related interest ____________________________________ American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics by Charles l. lumpkins
Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way that they were affected by national war effort guidelines. Spared from widespread hate crimes, GermanAmericans in Missouri did not have the same bleak experiences as other German-Americans in the Midwest or across America. But they were still subject to regular charges of disloyalty, sometimes because of conflicts within the German-American community itself. Degrees of Allegiance updates traditional thinking about the GermanAmerican experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war’s impact on German-American culture.
Petra deWitt teaches at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri. She is the author of a number of articles about the German-American community in Missouri.
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Justice and legal Change on the shores of lake erie A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio edited by Paul finkelman and Roberta Sue Alexander Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics. The essays in this book, written by eminent law professors, historians, political scientists, and practicing attorneys, illustrate the range of cases and issues that have come before the court. Since the court’s inception in 1855, judges have influenced economic developments and social issues, beginning with the court’s most famous early case, involving the rescue of the fugitive slave John Price by residents of Northern Ohio. Chapters focusing on labor strikes, free speech, women’s rights, the environment, the death penalty, and immigration illustrate the impact this court and its judges have had in the development of society and the nation’s law. Some of the cases here deal with local issues with huge national implications —like political corruption, school desegregation, or pollution on the Cuyahoga River. But others are about major national issues that grew out of incidents, such as the prosecution of Eugene V. Debs for opposing World War I, the litigation resulting from the Kent State shootings and opposition to the Vietnam War, and the immigration status of the alleged Nazi war criminal John Demyanjuk. This timely history confirms the significant role played by district courts in the history of the United States. Paul finkelman is President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of many articles and books. Roberta Sue Alexander is Distinguished Service Professor of History and Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton. She is the author of North Carolina Faces the Freedmen: Race Relations during Presidential Reconstruction, 1865–67.
SeRieS on lAW, SocieTy, And PoliTicS in THe MidWeST contributors roberta sue alexander, martin H. Belsky, melvyn Dubofsky, Paul Finkelman, alison K. guernsey, thomas r. Hensley, Keith H. Hirokawa, nancy e. marion, Dan aaron Polster, renee C. redman, elizabeth reilly, richard B. saphire, tracy a. thomas, melvin i. Urofsky Of related interest _______________________ A Place of Recourse: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1803–2003 by roberta sue alexander julY ___________________
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“Dillon was a force in Continental philosophy in the Us for more than four decades. . . . this volume will keep his voice and thought alive for years to come.”
M. C. Dillon (1938–2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. His book Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (1988) is recognized as a classic text that revolutionized the philosophical conversation about the great French phenomenologist. Dillon followed that book with two others: Semiological Reductionism, a critique of early-1990s linguistic reductionism, and Beyond Romance, a richly developed theory of love. At the time of his death, Dillon had nearly completed two further books to which he was passionately committed. The first one offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche’s ontology of becoming. The second offers a detailed ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty’s account of carnal intersubjectivity.
—galen Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, University of rhode island and general secretary, international merleau-Ponty Circle
The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity collects these two manuscripts written by a distinguished philosopher at the peak of his powers—manuscripts that, taken together, offer a distinctive and powerful view of human life and ethical relations.
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M. c. dillon (1938–2005) was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. He was the author of MerleauPonty’s Ontology, Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Philosophy, and Beyond Romance. He served as the General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle from 1985 to 2005. lawrence Hass is a professor of humanities at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he teaches philosophy and theater arts. He is the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and Transformations: Creating Magic Out of Tricks. He is coeditor of Rereading MerleauPonty: Essays Across the Continental-Analytic Divide and From the 18th Century to the Present: Performance Magic on the Western Stage.
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The Civil War era proved to be a time of transformation for Michigan’s state economy. Rapidly climbing prices, mechanization, and an incessant demand for agricultural products and livestock encouraged Michigan farmers to turn from traditional subsistence crops to commercial farming. The mining, manufacturing, and lumber industries boomed, and immigrants flooded into the state. The harbinger and apotheosis of Michigan’s new market economy was, of course, the railroad, and its arrival in the backcountry brought the new economic order to the doorsteps of rural producers. Martin Hershock traces the ways in which all classes in the state of Michigan found themselves simultaneously attracted to the enticements of the new world of the market and repulsed by its excess and instability. The Paradox of Progress is a fascinating study of Michigan history and politics as well as an insightful analysis of the factors underlying the history of the GOP and its evolution from the party that supported the antislavery movement, free soil, free labor, and Lincoln the RailSplitter into the party of Mark Hanna, J. P. Morgan, and William McKinley.
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is assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan– Dearborn and recipient of a Distinguished Teacher Award. He has published several articles on nineteenth-century Michigan political culture.
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index Hass, lawrence 20 Hershock, martin J. 21 Higgs, Catherine 6 Hipsky, martin 22
adelman, Charlotte 21 alexander, roberta sue 19 Asylum on the Hill 22 Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement 22 Barry, Joyce m. 7 Between the Brown and the Red 15 Birkner, michael J. 4 Brennan, James r. 13 Brown, Dale Patrick 22 Charity and Condescension 16 Chocolate Islands 6 The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar 21 Combs, H. Jason 21 Dance of Life 10 Degrees of Allegiance 18 Dewitt, Petra 18 Dillon, m. C. 20 Do They Miss Me at Home? 21 Doctoring the Novel 17 Dog Eat Dog 2
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America 14 In the Shade of the Shady Tree 22 Irish People, Irish Linen 22
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On Black Sisters Street 3 The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity 20 Pamboukian, sylvia a. 17 The Paradox of Progress 21 Parron, suzi 22 Primeau, ronald 21 Prosperity Far Distant 4
Jarrett, gene andrew 21 Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie 19
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Kilgore, James 22 Kinsella, John 22 Krech iii, shepard 14 Kunicki, mikołaj stanisław
saunders, mark Harril 1 schwartz, Bernard l. 21 siegel, Daniel 16 smith, Charles 9 Standing Our Ground 7 suszko, marilou K. 22
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Fincham, gail 10 Finkelman, Paul 19 Fritsch, James t. 5 gordon, David m. 14 The Gospel According to James and Other Plays Gravel and Hawk 8 groves, Donna sue 22
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maness, Donald C. 21 martin, Herbert woodward 21 Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature 11 mhlongo, niq 2 The Midwestern Native Garden 21 Ministers of Fire 1 Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 22 murphy, laura t. 11
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