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Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda by Patrick J. Cook
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $79.84Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic... -
The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics by Shireen Hassim
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women's League has grown into a leading organization in the women's movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation's... -
States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali by Emily S. Burrill
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as... -
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front by Paul Finkelman
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the... -
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History by Roland M. Baumann
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $104.10In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students "irrespective of color." Yet the visionary college's... -
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it... -
The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity by M. C. Dillon
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.02M. 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... -
Marriage by Force?: Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa by Annie Bunting
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.01With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the... -
Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana by Jeffrey S. Ahlman
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a... -
Not Out of Hate: A Novel of Burma by Ma Ma Lay
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94Not Out of Hate-published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939-42-was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices... -
The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852 by Peter W. Sinnema
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $38.20Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime... -
Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar: The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad by G. Thomas Burgess
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $45.49Zanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a... -
The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny by Dylan Trigg
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.65From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as... -
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa by Benjamin N. Lawrance
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Women 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... -
Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast by Colleen Kriger
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural... -
G.W.F. Hegel: Philosophical System by Howard P. Kainz
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, perhaps the most influential of all German philosophers, made one of the last great attempts to develop philosophy as an all-embracing scientific system. This system... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between... -
A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England by Julie E. Fromer
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century's perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a... -
Myth of Iron: Shaka in History by Dan Wylie
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.71Over the decades we have heard a great deal about Shaka, the most famous-or infamous-of Zulu leaders. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that we do not know when he was born, nor what he looked... -
The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977 by Daniel R. Magaziner
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03"No nation can win a battle without faith," Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a... -
Albert Luthuli by Robert Trent Vinson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize... -
Little Otter Learns to Swim by Artie Knapp
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80In this endearing and beautifully illustrated picture book, a baby river otter learns to swim, dive, and play in her natural habitat. Encouraged by her mother, the little otter soon sets out to... -
The Radiology Handbook: A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging by J.S. Benseler
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Designed for busy medical students, The Radiology Handbook is a quick and easy reference for any practitioner who needs information on ordering or interpreting images. The book is divided into three... -
Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution by Mahir Saul
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state... -
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature by Laura T. Murphy
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.95Metaphor 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... -
Degrees of Allegiance: Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri's German-American Community during World War I by Petra DeWitt
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $78.92Historians 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... -
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia by Bill Best
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Ora's Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter-these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables you'll encounter in Bill Best's remarkable... -
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 5: 1892-1895 by George Gissing
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.65Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income... -
J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual by Jane Poyner
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and... -
Boko Haram by Brandon Kendhammer
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world's most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram's bloody,... -
African Intellectuals and Decolonization by Nicholas M. Creary
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos,... -
Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean by Burkhard Schnepel
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.77Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social,... -
Terra Incognita: Poems by Sara Henning
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48TBook InformationISBN 9780821424759Author Sara HenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing Imaginaries and Contested Practices by Jessica Johnson
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.95Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on visions of justice across the African continent, featuring essays that engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of... -
On the Plains in ’65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West by George H. Holliday
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $70.67A new scholarly edition of an Ohio boy soldier's revealing post-Civil War memoir.This annotated edition of Holliday's recollections--known primarily among historians of the American... -
Mammals of Ohio by John D. Harder
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.95A comprehensive and informative review of mammalian biology and conservation in Ohio with illustrative accounts of fifty-five species, including updated research and high-quality photographs, maps,... -
Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Marc Epprecht 9780821417997
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in... -
Children in Slavery through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell 9780821418772
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly... -
Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family's Colonial History in Indonesia by Inez Hollander 9780896802698
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Like a number of Netherlanders in the post-World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family's connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole great-grandmother... -
The Cuban Counterrevolution by Jesus Arboleya 9780896802148
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88For forty years the Cuban Revolution has been at the forefront of American public opinion, yet few are knowledgeable about the history of its enemies and the responsibility of the U.S. government in...