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Roth, Mitchel P.
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(2019)
| 9780821423837 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 320pp | Availability last checked: 15/11/2020
AUD 51.95 (inc. GST), AUD 47.23 (ex. GST),
On April 21, 1930—Easter Monday—some rags caught fire under the OhioPenitentiary’s dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returnedto their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came fromall corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as Russia hadsuccumbed...
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Elliott, Dorice Williams.
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(2019)
| 9780821423622 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 304pp | Availability last checked: 16/11/2020
AUD 137.95 (inc. GST), AUD 125.41 (ex. GST),
Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the mostlikely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new coloniesthere. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines howwriters—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who...
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Gish, Steven D. Gish, Steven.
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(2018)
| 9780821423219 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 392pp | Availability last checked: 16/11/2020
AUD 51.95 (inc. GST), AUD 47.23 (ex. GST),
In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a raciallymotivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promotedemocracy and women’s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of herdeath generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of SouthAfrica’s...
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Gebser, Jean.
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(1986)
| 9780821407691 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 646pp | Availability last checked: 16/3/2021
AUD 80.95 (inc. GST), AUD 73.59 (ex. GST),
Born in Posen in 1905, Jean Gebser came from an old Franconian family domiciled in Thuringia since 1236. A nephew of German chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, he was a descendant on his mother's side of Luther's friend Melanchthon. He was educated in Breslau, Konigsberg, Rossleben, and at the University...
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Christensen, Joseph. Machado, Pedro. Mullins, Steve.
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(2020)
| 9780821424025 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 428pp | Availability last checked: 16/11/2020
AUD 154.95 (inc. GST), AUD 140.86 (ex. GST),
Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution,production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global IndianOcean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized theimportance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices...
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Byfield, Judith A.
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(2021)
| 9780821423974 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 276pp | Availability last checked: 1/2/2021
AUD 137.95 (inc. GST), AUD 125.41 (ex. GST),
In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged asuccessful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’sUnion and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, theNigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero...
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Byfield, Judith A.
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(2021)
| 9780821423981 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 276pp | Availability last checked: 1/2/2021
AUD 56.95 (inc. GST), AUD 51.77 (ex. GST),
In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged asuccessful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’sUnion and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, theNigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero...
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Cleveland, Todd.
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(2021)
| 9780821424339 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 220pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
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This book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as forpotential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through thedynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to thepresent to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about thecontinent...
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Holliday, George H. , Longacre, Glenn V.
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(2021)
| 9780821424285 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 264pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
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This annotated edition of George H. Holliday’s military memoir features newresearch that captures the untold story of Appalachian Ohio’s soldiers andtheir experiences during the Civil War era at home and in the American West.
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Cooke, Simon.
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(2021)
| 9780821424261 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 264pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 142.95 (inc. GST), AUD 129.95 (ex. GST),
Cooke’s analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals thefluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennyson’s poems and theirillustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in itsmanufacture, its readers’ contemporary reception, and its subsequent influenceas a variously...
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Antich, Peter.
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(2021)
| 9780821424322 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 284pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 162.95 (inc. GST), AUD 148.14 (ex. GST),
Bridging phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Peter Antichasserts that the latter has long been hampered by an inadequate phenomenology ofknowledge. However, a careful description of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenon ofmotivation can offer compelling new ways to think about knowledge andlongstanding...
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Mickey, Thomas J.
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(2021)
| 9780804012294 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 204pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
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Avid flower man James Vick ingrained a nationwide conviction that no home wascomplete without flowers and transformed the ordinary, nineteenth-centuryAmerican mail-order seed business with an unprecedented marketing strategy.
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