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African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World’s Game
By Peter Alegi
From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.…
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
In 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 implementation of this admissions policy was uneven.…
The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.…
Healing the Herds
Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances.…
Ohio’s Kingmaker
Mark Hanna, Man and Myth
For a decade straddling the turn of the twentieth century, Mark Hanna was one of the most famous men in America. Portrayed as the puppet master controlling the weak-willed William McKinley, Hanna was loved by most Republicans and reviled by Democrats, in large part because of the way he was portrayed by the media of the day.…
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
By 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 inside the country and the Holy See itself—proved far more difficult than expected.…
Unsettled Accounts
Poems
By Will Wells
To take the mess of life and make meaning from it is what all poets seek to do. For Will Wells, recipient of the thirteenth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, this includes reaching across centuries and continents, into the minds and hearts of disparate individuals—Albert Einstein, Andrea Yates, the traveler from Porlock, Dante, or Holocaust survivors, including his own grandmother—to extract the personal value embedded there for him.…
- Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
- Absent Man
The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt - Access with Attitude
An Advocate’s Guide to Freedom and Information in Ohio - Africa Writes Back
The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature - The African AIDS Epidemic
A History - An African American in South Africa
The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 - African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet - African Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone - The African Experience with Higher Education
- The African Genius
New Paperback Edition - African Gifts of the Spirit
Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement - African Islam and Islam in Africa
Encounters between Sufis and Islamists - African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
- African Sacred Groves
Ecological Dynamics and Social Change - African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World’s Game - African Underclass
Urbanisation, Crime, & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam - African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950
- After the Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi - After the TRC
Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation - The AIA Guide to Columbus
- Alberta Alone
- Alberta and Freedom
- Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley
- Alexander the Great
A Novel Tr. from the Greek by Theodora Vasils - Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97 - All Flesh is Grass
The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming - All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification - Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990 - An American Colony
Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture - American Coverlets and Their Weavers
Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl - American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981 - American Moralist
On Law, Ethics, and Government - American Pantheon
Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol - American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics - An American Vein
Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature - America’s Collectible Cookbooks
The History, the Politics, the Recipes - America’s Sketchbook
The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre - An Amulet of Greek Earth
Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture - Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters - Amy Levy
Critical Essays - Ancient Sisterhood
The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah - And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems - Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel - Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology - Annotated Bibliography of Jane Austen Studies, 1984-94
- Anthropology and Historiography of Science
- Antonin Artaud
Man of Vision - Apartheid’s Genesis
- The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree
Stories - Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism - An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley
- Architecture in Cincinnati
An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City - Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
- The Armillary Sphere
Poems - Arrows of Longing
The Correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976 - Art and Empire
The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1860 - Art and Science of Book Publishing
- Art and the Reformation in Germany
- Art As Image
Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio - Art in Context
Understanding Aesthetic Value - At the Palaces of Knossos
- Athens, Ohio
The Village Years - Aurora Leigh
- Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
- Awakening
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast
Pitting the Imaginary Worlds against the Actual - Azores
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