New African Histories
Series Editors
Jacob S. T. Dlamini
Princeton University
Allen F. Isaacman
University of Minnesota
Derek R. Peterson
University of Michigan
Carina Ray
University of Michigan
Founding Editors
Jean Allman
Allen F. Isaacman
Innovative. Imaginative. Provocative. Original. Methodologically rigorous.
Since its founding in 2004, New African Histories has redefined the field of African history. Books in this series bring the practice of history to unlikely places, ask unsettling questions, and adopt unorthodox methodologies. We welcome history written “from below,” but we also encourage work from other angles: histories of therapies; forms and aesthetics; political traditions; and technologies that are less frequently the subject of historical analysis.
In this series, environmental and urban histories live side by side with histories of slavery, migration, and labor. World, comparative, diaspora, and border histories sit next to media and art histories. Economic and modernization histories are published alongside histories of gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; nationality and citizenship; and generation and class. Capacious in their analytical and thematic scope, books in the New African Histories series reach across the very categories that define them.
In recent years the series has expanded its remit to include groundbreaking work on aesthetics, visual culture, and art history. Published in a larger format and generously illustrated, these books allow readers to see history in new ways. As we continue to reflect the dynamism of our field, we also aim to push it in new directions by publishing works that challenge the conventions that continue to shape the field. Imperative to this mission is our commitment to publishing the cutting-edge work of historians based at African institutions; manuscripts by first-time authors; and the work of established scholars who are breaking new ground. Ohio University Press is proud of its relationships with a number of African presses that copublish affordable editions of many of its African studies titles.
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Imagine Lagos
Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424896
Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425893
Pub Date: 11/12/2024
The Texture of Change
Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425473
Pub Date: 11/19/2024
Available Light
Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425626
Pub Date: 10/08/2024
The Morality of Revolution
Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425831
Pub Date: 12/10/2024
Acholi Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821411469
Pub Date: 02/13/2024
A Country of Defiance
Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821426012
Pub Date: 11/07/2023
Elusive Histories
Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425756
Pub Date: 01/14/2025
Apartheid’s Leviathan
Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780821425183
Pub Date: 04/25/2023
Africanizing Oncology
Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425091
Pub Date: 10/18/2022
Convening Black Intimacy
Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424995
Pub Date: 11/08/2022
A Language for the World
The Standardization of Swahili
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424957
Pub Date: 11/08/2022
Carceral Afterlives
Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424780
Pub Date: 07/05/2022
To Speak and Be Heard
Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424919
Pub Date: 08/12/2022
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424766
Pub Date: 05/17/2022
The Great Upheaval
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821423981
Pub Date: 01/04/2022
Embodied Engineering
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424681
Pub Date: 12/17/2021
Imagine Lagos
Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424896
Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425893
Pub Date: 11/12/2024
The Texture of Change
Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425473
Pub Date: 11/19/2024
Available Light
Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425626
Pub Date: 10/08/2024
The Morality of Revolution
Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425831
Pub Date: 12/10/2024
Acholi Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821411469
Pub Date: 02/13/2024
A Country of Defiance
Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821426012
Pub Date: 11/07/2023
Elusive Histories
Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821425756
Pub Date: 01/14/2025
Apartheid’s Leviathan
Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780821425183
Pub Date: 04/25/2023
Africanizing Oncology
Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821425091
Pub Date: 10/18/2022
Convening Black Intimacy
Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424995
Pub Date: 11/08/2022
A Language for the World
The Standardization of Swahili
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424957
Pub Date: 11/08/2022
Carceral Afterlives
Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424780
Pub Date: 07/05/2022
To Speak and Be Heard
Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780821424919
Pub Date: 08/12/2022
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424766
Pub Date: 05/17/2022
The Great Upheaval
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821423981
Pub Date: 01/04/2022
Embodied Engineering
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9780821424681
Pub Date: 12/17/2021
