This series aims to provide stimulating, thoughtful, and provocative academic studies that focus on the experience of people outside Europe and North America or that include Western and non-Western countries and regions in comparative studies of the global experience. The series looks for high-quality manuscripts in the social sciences and the humanities.
All books in the series are published in association with the Center for International Studies at Ohio University.
Please direct inquiries and proposals to acquisitions editor Rick Huard at huard@ohio.edu.
Making a World after Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Edited by Christopher J. Lee
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Preface by Christopher J. Lee
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Foreword by Vijay Prashad
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world.
History | Modern | 20th Century · Colonialism and Decolonization · World and Comparative History · Global Issues
Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War
Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror
By Elizabeth Schmidt
Many challenges facing the African continent today are rooted in colonial practices, Cold War alliances, and outsiders’ attempts to influence its political and economic systems. Interdisciplinary and intended for nonspecialists, this book provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa.
African History · National and International Security · Terrorism · Violence in Society · Africa · African Studies · Colonialism and Decolonization
Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
By Msia Kibona Clark
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Foreword by Quentin Williams
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Afterword by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa’s biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African realities. A tribute to a genre and its artists, Hip-Hop in Africa details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa and pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions.
Hip Hop · African History · Women’s Studies · African Studies · Africa
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Edited by Julie MacArthur
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Introduction by Julie MacArthur
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Foreword by Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Long thought lost, hidden, or destroyed, the transcript of Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary Dedan Kimathi’s 1956 trial during British colonial rule unsettles an already controversial event in Kenya’s history and prompts fresh examinations of its reverberations in the postcolonial present.
African History · Colonialism and Decolonization · History | Modern | 20th Century · African Studies · Mau Mau · Kenya
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
By Todd Cleveland
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies.Clev
African History · Emigration and Immigration · Soccer · Colonialism and Decolonization · African Studies · Portugal
Obama and Kenya
Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
By Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo
Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused worldwide attention on Kenya. Carotenuto and Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular, but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it.
World and Comparative History · International Studies · African Studies · American Studies · Kenya
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
By Wendy Wilson-Fall
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Foreword by Michael Gomez
Bridges history and ethnography to explore stories of Malagasy ancestry and African American identity.
Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Slavery and Slave Trade · Madagascar · African Studies
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
By Vibert C. Cambridge
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.
American History · History · 21st century · Americas · North America · United States · Race and Ethnicity · Television - History and Criticism · International Studies · Sociology · Media Studies · Journalism · Global Issues · African American Studies
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
By Blaine Kaltman
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status.
Violence in Society · Race and Ethnicity · Social Science | Sociology of Religion · Religion | Religion, Politics & State · Islam · China · Central Asia · Xinjiang · Criminology · Asian Studies
Cast Out
Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Edited by A. L. Beier and Paul Ocobock
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied.In
World and Comparative History · Global Issues · Poverty and Homelessness
Cultivating the Colonies
Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies
Edited by Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen, and Karen Oslund
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire.The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India.
History | Historical Geography · World and Comparative History · Colonialism and Decolonization · Environmental Policy · Global Issues · African Studies
Violence
Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention
By Sean Byrne and Jessica Senehi
In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention provides a multidisciplinary approachto the analysis and resolution of violent conflicts.
Cultivating the Colonies
Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies
Edited by Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen, and Karen Oslund
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire.The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India.
History | Historical Geography · World and Comparative History · Colonialism and Decolonization · Environmental Policy · Global Issues · African Studies
Making a World after Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Edited by Christopher J. Lee
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world.
World and Comparative History · Colonialism and Decolonization · History | Modern | 20th Century · Global Issues
Cast Out
Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Edited by A. L. Beier and Paul Ocobock
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied.In
World and Comparative History · Global Issues · Poverty and Homelessness
