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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest) מאת Charles Lumpkins On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post–World War II civil rights movem...

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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar מאת Paul Laurence Dunbar The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetr...

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Democracy in Session: A History of the Ohio General Assembly (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest) מאת David M. Gold For more than 200 years no institution has been more important to the development of the American democratic polity than the state legislature, yet no political institution has been so neglected by historians. Although more lawmaking takes place in the state capitals than in Washington D.C...

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A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England מאת Julie E. Fromer Tea 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 luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine; it symbolized the exotic and the domestic; a...

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Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794-1828 (Perspective On Art & Architect) מאת Gordon S. Brown While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late 1700s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as...

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The Land beyond the Mists: Essays in Identity & Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda מאת David Newbury The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate the significant advances to have t...

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The AIA Guide to Columbus מאת Jeffrey T. Darbee Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in Ohio, has, since its founding in 1812, been home to many impressive architectural landmarks. The AIA Guide to Columbus, produced by the Columbus Architecture Foundation, highlights the significant buildings and neighborhoods in the Columbus metropolitan area. Skil...

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Wartime in Burma: A Diary, January to June 1942 (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) מאת Muang Wa Theippan This diary, begun after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving night-by-night account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and prolific Burmese author, Theippan Maung Wa (a pseudonym of U Sein Tin) and his family. At the time ...

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Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) מאת Jasmin Hristov In Blood and Capital:  The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the ph...

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Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology (Series In Continental Thought) מאת Beata Stawarska Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation between them. Beata Stawarska remedies...

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In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States מאת Omar H. Ali With the presidential election looming, the “black vote” has been deemed a crucial portion of the electorate. Historically, most black voters have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties—the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal; and, since the New D...

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Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery מאת P. L. Gaus Separate from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence. Once more, P. L. Gaus takes us...

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Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination מאת Shanyn Fiske The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians’ relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination challenges that theory and ...

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Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar: The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad מאת G. Thomas Burgess Zanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources have emerged that explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a contest primarily over the question of whether to accept and sustain the Zan...

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Philena's Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio (Ohio Quilt Series) מאת Lynda Salter Chenoweth In Philena’s Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio, Lynda Salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853. Chenoweth practices what she calls “fabric archaeology” to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and detail...

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Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic מאת Thomas H. Cox Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce.   Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigat...

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Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest) מאת Yiorgos Anagnostou In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the...

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Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) מאת Derek Heng China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors. Sino–Malay Trade and Diplom...

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Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture, and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) מאת Hiroyoshi Kano The Indonesian economy, like the Indonesian nation state, took shape as part of the colonial transformation of the archipelago by the Dutch in the mid-nineteenth century.  The agricultural sector of the economy provided food and labor to the export sector, which was firmly incorporated into th...

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Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Ambreen Hai

Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature מאת Ambreen Hai Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure “haram“ flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child–agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evok...

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Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection מאת Amy Miller Dehan One of the premier private collections of contemporary craft, the Nancy and David Wolf Collection features outstanding creations by the foremost artists working in craft media today, including Howard Ben Tré, Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Virginia Dotson, ...

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Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding's Scandalous Legacy מאת Phillip G. Payne If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G. Harding, is our sinner. Prior to the Nixon administration, the Harding scandals were the most infamous of the twentieth century. Harding is consistently judged a fai...

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Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies & National Identity In Namibia מאת Daniel Joseph Walther WHEN World War I brought an end to German colonial rule in Namibia, much of the German population stayed on. The German community, which had managed to deal with colonial administration, faced new challenges when the region became a South African mandate under the League of Nations in 1919. One of t...

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Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 (Polish and Polish American Studies) מאת Neal Pease When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives insi...

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The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life מאת Gene Logsdon In The Last of the Husbandmen, Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies, clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farming families and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilled the fie...

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Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies מאת Katherine Homewood This study presents a comprehensive survey and analysis of the literature and debates surrounding African pastoralist societies by a leading anthropologist of African pastoralism. Katherine Homewood traces the origins and spread of pastoralism on the African continent before examining contempor...

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Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection מאת Anita J. Ellis The 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

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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature (African Writers (Unnumbered)) מאת James Currey June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser. Africa Writes Back: The African W...

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Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection מאת Amy Miller Dehan One of the premier private collections of contemporary craft, the Nancy and David Wolf Collection features outstanding creations by the foremost artists working in craft media today, including Howard Ben Tré, Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Virginia Dotson, ...

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The Radiology Handbook: A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging (White Coat Pocket Guide) מאת J. S. Benseler Designed 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 parts: • Part I presents a table, organized from head to toe, with recommended imaging te...