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Princeton University Press
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between …
Princeton University Press
In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without …
View book details for Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Princeton University Press
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation …
View book details for Demanding Democracy
American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
Princeton University Press
This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they …
University Press of Mississippi
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its …
View book details for Decolonization in St. Lucia
Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 19452010
University Press of Mississippi
Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided …
View book details for The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
University Press of Mississippi
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the …
University Press of Mississippi
Between 1972 and 2001, Barry Hannah (19422010) published eight novels and four collections of short stories. A master of short fiction, Hannah is considered by many to be one of the most important writers of modern American literature. His writing …
View book details for Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition
University Press of Mississippi
Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from being an ephemeral and short-lived genre, horror actually relates …
View book details for The Architecture of William Nichols
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi
The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campusesthe University …
View book details for Anthologia lyrica
sive Lyricorum Graecorum veterum praeter Pindarum reliquiae potiores
De Gruyter
ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Digital records and broad access to the Internet have made it easier for genealogists to gather relevant information from distant sources and to share the information they have gathered. The law, however, remains tied to particular geographic locations. This book …
View book details for Screening Morocco
Contemporary Film in a Changing Society
Ohio University Press
Since 1999 and the death of King Hassan II, Morocco has experienced adramatic social transformation. Encouraged by the more openly democraticclimate fostered by young King Mohammed VI, filmmakers have begunto explore the sociocultural and political debates of their country whilealso …
View book details for The Red Earth
A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
Ohio University Press
Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth …
View book details for African Video Movies and Global Desires
A Ghanaian History
Ohio University Press
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghanas commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. …
View book details for Conjugal Rights
Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
Ohio University Press
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the midnineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number …
Severn House Publishers
Fifth intriguing mystery in the atmospheric Joe Plantagenet police procedural seriesTaking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the centre of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a …
Ohio University Press
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 …
View book details for The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
Ohio University Press
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africas most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology …
Ohio University Press
Ian Adams is perhaps the best-known landscape photographer in Ohio, and in the first volume of A Photographers Guide to Ohio, he shared his knowledge of what to photograph in the Buckeye State and how to photograph it. Now, in …
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Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Ohio University Press
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 Sao Tome and Principethe chocolate islandsthrough Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt …
View book details for The Untried Life
The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
Ohio University Press
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 Twenty-Ninth …
View book details for Stones of Contention
A History of Africas Diamonds
Ohio University Press
Africa supplies the majority of the worlds diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history …
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Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador
Ohio University Press
El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for many of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and …
View book details for Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Ohio University Press
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 …
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