OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS FALL/WINTER 2021
REGIONAL NATURE
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Mammals of Ohio Incorporated in 1947 and formally organized in 1964 by Ohio University president Vernon Alden, Ohio University Press is the oldest scholarly publisher in Ohio. Since its founding, the press (including its trade imprint, Swallow Press) has developed into a leading publisher of books about Africa, Appalachia, Southeast Asia, and the Midwest. From academic monographs to regional guides to internationally acclaimed literary works, its books have established the press as an essential member of its many communities: scholarly, literary, and geographic.
SWALLOW PRESS What began as a publishing partnership with the distinguished literary publisher Swallow Press has continued with Ohio University Press’s acquisition of Swallow in 2008. Under the Swallow imprint, the press continues to publish its esteemed literary list, as well as guidebooks, regional interest titles, and general nonfiction.
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By John D. Harder and Guy N. Cameron
A comprehensive and informative review of mammalian biology and conservation in Ohio, with illustrative accounts of fifty-five species, including updated research, high-quality photographs, maps, and original drawings.
“Drs. Harder and Cameron are well suited to provide concise, informative accounts of the morphology and dental characteristics, current distribution, aspects of ecology, physiology and life history, and conservation issues of the fiftyfive extant mammalian species currently known to occur in Ohio. Like other superb books for various states, this indispensable, authoritative volume belongs on the bookshelves or in the backpacks of wildlife professionals, mammalogists, students, academics, and amateur naturalists alike.” —George A. Feldhamer, author of Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology
“Mammals of Ohio provides an updated and very readable overview of this fauna. Harder and Cameron provide keys to identify otherwise difficult species and summarize the distribution and natural history of all species, with information on distribution, habitat preferences, diet, reproduction, behavior, causes of mortality, and conservation status, with ample citation to relevant literature. This impressive effort will be obligatory reading for mammalogists and wildlife biologists, but is accessible to laypersons and natural historians as well.” —Douglas A. Kelt, coauthor of A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor’s “Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals” JOHN D. HARDER is associate professor emeritus in evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at Ohio State University, where he taught upper-division courses in mammalogy and conservation biology. His research on the reproductive biology and ecology of mammals has focused on marsupials and involved field studies in Ohio, Venezuela, and Amazonian Peru.
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GUY N. CAMERON is professor emeritus and former head of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati, where he taught courses in ecology, population biology, and ecological techniques. He is the former president of the American Society of Mammalogists and the Texas Mammal Society. His research focuses on rodents in the US and Mexico, but he also studies invasive plants, the impact of tornados on forests, and nutritional ecology. DECEMBER 524 PAGES 7 × 10 IN. 157 COLOR/B&W ILLUS.
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FICTION
FICTION
Fine Boys
Secure the Shadow
A Novel
A Novel
By Eghosa Imasuen
By Michael Henson
A coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria’s Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent prodemocracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence.
“The first African novel I know that takes us into the world of the children of IMF: those post–Berlin Wall Africans, like myself, who came of age in the days of the Conditionalities, those imposed tools and policies that made our countries feral; the days that turned good people into beasts, the days that witnessed the great implosion and scattering of the middle classes of a whole continent. Fine Boys takes us deep into the lives of the notorious gangs that took over universities all over Nigeria in the 1990s and early this century. We saw our universities collapse, and we struggled to educate ourselves through very harsh times. It is a beautifully written novel, heartfelt, deeply knowledgeable, funny, a love story, a tragedy; an important book, a book of our times; a book for all Africans everywhere.” —Binyavanga Wainaina, author of One Day I Will Write about This Place
An interconnected web of lives in one midwestern city captures the surprising humanity of people searching for their authentic selves amid the 1990s drug crisis. Amy Taylor finds the inner-city streets around her high school vibrant and animated compared to the bland middle-class neighborhood where she lives with her career-driven mother. In these streets, she meets the people of the city, among them a wayward boy named Jonathan, a struggling drug dealer, and Paul Lewis, a documentary photographer who becomes Amy’s mentor. Under his inspiration, she attempts to capture their world through the lens of her camera. From the multiple perspectives of Amy and the expansive group of people she meets, award-winning novelist Michael Henson presents a heartbreaking portrait of the effects the Reagan-initiated drug war had on the young.
“With the soul and pen of a poet, Michael Henson writes from the fringes, asking us to stand in the shoes of society’s outsiders. I hope he never stops writing these books that matter so much, and I will never stop reading them.” —Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot and Long Man
“Thought-provoking, perfectly paced, uniformly delightful, compassionate, full of humor, but also heartbreaking. Eghosa Imasuen has remarkable gifts.” —Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters Street
MICHAEL HENSON is the author of four books of fiction and four collections of poetry. His prize-winning collection of linked stories, Maggie Boylan (also from Swallow Press), has been called “an important work of art, beautifully rendered.” His stories, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Still: The Journal, Appalachian Heritage, and Threepenny Review.
“Eghosa Imasuen has written the biography of our generation. . . . A generation which cursed corrupt leaders and elders but cheated in exams. A generation which, incredibly, deludes itself still that it is better, nobler, than the rest. Fine Boys is not just our story—it’s our ode, diatribe, lamentation, and our what-the-hell-happened-to-us.” —Chimeka Garricks, author of Tomorrow Died Yesterday
“Fine Boys is a gritty, sad, funny, this-house-has-fallen, stay-with-you-long-past-the-final-page novel.” —Tolu Ogunlesi, journalist and author of Listen to the Geckos Singing from a Balcony
Maggie Boylan is available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic editions.
EGHOSA IMASUEN is the cofounder of Narrative Landscape Press, a publishing company based in Lagos. He studied medicine at the University of Benin and lives in Lagos with his wife and twin sons. MODERN AFRICAN WRITING SEPTEMBER 278 PAGES 5½ × 8½ IN. OHIOSWALLOW.COM
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POETRY
Bread of the Moment Poems
A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s
By David Sanders
By John Thorndike
Bread of the Moment, the follow-up to David Sanders’s Compass and Clock (Swallow Press, 2016), devotes keen attention to the porous nature of the past and how the unbidden evidence of ordinary life pervades the world, provoking a spectrum of moments from which to draw meaning and find solace. These poems, characterized by a mix of free and formal verse, depict quiet days at home or in nature, as well as close calls and brushes with death: chronic illness, a house fire, a car crushed by a boulder. In this way, these poems amplify the fragility of the commonplace, a mystery from which we are, amid the noise of our everyday lives, sometimes estranged. Through this exploration, Sanders constructs a precarious balance between alienation and acceptance, striking a note at once recognizable and new.
“David Sanders’s second collection of poems, Bread of the Moment, contains an astonishing breadth of emotional and physical landscapes in poems beautifully realized and forcefully felt. It is a book haunted by memory—understood as ‘a selective, mythic thing, a lie’—and alive with strikingly memorable images, like the French king’s hunting trophies, ‘sprouting enormous racks, / like dozens of arms, hands, / reaching out to me from the stone blocks, / frozen, locked in place.’ Bread of the Moment is an evocative book, a dynamic expression, and expansion, of Sanders’s art.” —Ernest Hilbert, author of Last One Out DAVID SANDERS is the author of two poetry collections from Swallow Press: Compass and Clock and Bread of the Moment. For twenty years he was the general editor of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and he was the founding editor of Poetry News in Review. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is a native of Portage County, Ohio.
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The second, expanded edition of this acclaimed memoir by an Alzheimer’s caregiver includes a new introduction that illustrates the immense toll of the disease, lessons from the author’s experience, and a readers’ guide. Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He was the founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines, the author of three books, and the editor of a dozen more. But at age ninety-two, in the space of six months he stopped reading or writing or carrying on detailed conversations. He could no longer tell time or make a phone call. He was convinced that the governor of Massachusetts had come to visit and was in the refrigerator. Over six million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, and like many of them, Joe Thorndike’s one great desire was to remain in his own house. To honor his wish, his son John left his own home and moved into his father’s upstairs bedroom on Cape Cod. For a year, in a house filled with file cabinets, photos, and letters, John explored his father’s mind, his parents’ divorce, and his mother’s secrets. The Last of His Mind is the bittersweet account of a son’s final year with his father and a candid portrait of an implacable disease.
“The first few pages of The Last of His Mind are dynamite, in their quiet way. They open up a world that, if you’ve known it and lived in it, conks you on the head, bashes your memory, brings it all back in a rush. . . . This memoir is far too elegantly written to ever state it directly, but the reader is made aware of the high honor involved: the author honors his father in the most profound way and is blessed, in turn, by participating in the most taxing event in his father’s life.”
—Washington Post
Compass and Clock is available in paperback and electronic editions.
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The Last of His Mind
A collection of poems about time, solitude, and wisdom that leads readers to hover between acceptance of and alienation from our fragility.
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“Thorndike’s prose is serenely beautiful and his patience in caring for an Alzheimer’s patient is extremely admirable. An affecting work of emotional honesty and forgiveness.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A beautiful book, this memoir reveals the painful chaos of Alzheimer’s, as well as the strength, faith and unexpected joys that come with caring for a loved one in his last days.” —Publishers Weekly
JOHN THORNDIKE is the author of three novels: Anna Delaney’s Child, The Potato Baron, and A Hundred Fires in Cuba, as well as a previous memoir, Another Way Home. He lives in Athens, Ohio.
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POETRY
EXPANDED EDITION
English Lit
Allegiance
By Bernard Clay
By Gurney Norman
Poems
Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky’s rising Affrilachian literary stars.
A collection of stories twenty years in the making from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman.
Bernard Clay’s autobiographical poetry debut juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the most authentic voices of his generation, Clay artfully renders coming-of-age in the predominately Black West End of Louisville, Kentucky. Balancing the spirited grit of a farmer and the careful lyricism of a poet, English Lit is a triumph of new Affrilachian—African American and Appalachian—literature.
This is an expanded, jacketed hardcover edition of Allegiance, a collection of linked stories by celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman. The new edition features an introduction by the author, a foreword by writer Ed McClanahan, and a cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade. Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories, a personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. Spanning forty years of work, the stories are told in the voice of Norman’s fictional narrator, Wilgus Collier, or in stream-of-consciousness writing. A selection of nonfiction pieces comprises the book’s epilogue. Allegiance follows Norman’s/Collier’s struggle to understand his working-class childhood and navigate midlife alcoholism and depression. From the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Norman’s journey has been a life of many movements. In Allegiance, the trip spirals on with stories that are told “with sly good humor and vast generosity of spirit” (McClanahan).
—Frank X Walker, author of Affrilachia and founding member of the Affrilachian Poets
“There is no other poet living or dead that I can say this about, but I’ve been waiting on a book from Bernard Clay for more than twenty years. Every time I’ve ever read a single poem by him or heard him read a poem aloud I’ve wanted a volume of his work in my hands. He’s always had the ability to slice truth down to the bone and hold it up to the light.”
—Crystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence and founding member of the Affrilachian Poets
“One of the great blessings of Bernard Clay’s poetry is the clear, unflinching Black voice. Clay writes from that Blackcentered way of seeing in this ode to Black Louisville. Clay is the urban Affrilachian who is rooted in the silt and river of ‘the lilac and the dogwood and the pear and the redbud.’ The greens of his grandmother’s garden, the plastic on the good couch, the rides on TARC, Clay is bound to this Kentucky life both city and country. English Lit is a rich debut collection which is certain to become a classic of Kentucky literature.” —Kelly Norman Ellis, author of Tougaloo Blues and founding member of the Affrilachian Poets BERNARD CLAY is a Louisville, Kentucky, native who grew up in the shadow of the now demolished Southwick housing projects on the West End of town. Clay received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky Creative Writing Program and is a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective. He currently resides on a farm in eastern Kentucky with his wife, Lauren. English Lit is his first book.
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“One of the most rooted and nappiest voices of his generation, Clay delivers a beautiful tribute to his people, his community, and his generation’s dance with words, adding his name to the litany of Kentucky poets who love both the land and its people.”
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GURNEY NORMAN is a novelist and short story writer whose works include Divine Right’s Trip, Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories, and Allegiance. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. A native of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, he is a widely known Appalachian literary and cultural advocate. He is coeditor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes and An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature.
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CAREERS • SPORTS
20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes By Rick Burton, Jake Hirshman, Norm O’Reilly, Andy Dolich, and Heather Lawrence
The premier career guide for NCAA student-athletes, now in a second, updated edition designed for today’s competitive market and with a new chapter on name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. Few student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom ever make it to the pros. Yet the discipline and skills they’ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere. The book’s authors draw on personal experience, interviews, expert opinion, and industry data to provide a game plan for student-athletes through key transitions at each stage of their careers, from high school through their four-year university experience, evolving rules about NIL rights, and into life after college. Modeled after Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this expanded and updated guide provides a much-needed strategy for student-athletes as they prepare for postcollege careers, while serving as a valuable resource for their parents, coaches, and sports administrators across the country.
“At a time of fast-paced change on college campuses and in college athletics, young people can benefit from any information that helps them navigate their academic, athletics, and life experiences while a student-athlete. 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes is exactly the kind of guidance that can be read and used over and over to help student-athletes maximize their entire college experience and prepare for life beyond the athletic arena. The authors’ breadth of experience and knowledge combine with relevant data to create a modern resource that provides the kind of learning opportunity needed by today’s student-athletes.” —Greg Sankey, commissioner, Southeastern Conference
“The authors provide terrific insight and practical advice on how to develop a road map for that ‘next’ phase in your life and better prepare you for long-term success. I recommend this for anyone invested in the lives of studentathletes, but especially for aspiring or current student-athletes . . . it’s never too late to start thinking about what’s next.”
—Amy Huchthausen, commissioner, America East Conference
“This book reinforces what those of us who work in the collegiate athletics industry understand and should be required reading for everyone pursuing NCAA scholarships and all NCAA student-athletes.” —Stan Wilcox, NCAA executive vice president of regulatory affairs
“All student-athletes and their mentors should read this book. It brings into focus the challenges and the opportunities inherent in being a collegiate athlete. Most importantly, it outlines a framework for how to successfully navigate the landscape and develop an outstanding life plan.” —Deborah A. Yow, former director of athletics, North Carolina State University OHIOSWALLOW.COM
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SECOND EDITION
SECOND EDITION UPDATED TO INCLUDE NAME, IMAGE, AND LICENSING (NIL) RIGHTS “The broad perspectives shared throughout the book demonstrate a perfect understanding of how important it is for student-athletes to give their talents to their sport and their focus to academics.”
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RICK BURTON is the David B. Falk Distinguished Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University’s Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and Syracuse University’s faculty athletics representative to the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference. Previously, he was chief marketing officer for the US Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and commissioner of the Sydney-based Australian National Basketball League. He and coauthor Norm O’Reilly write a monthly column for Sports Business Journal and have coauthored three other books together. He also operates the Burton Marketing Group, which has worked with the NFL, NHL, NBL, and other leagues. JAKE HIRSHMAN currently works at the PGA Tour in tournament business and sponsor relations for the Korn Ferry Tour. Previously he worked for Learfield-IMG College, MLB, the Rose Bowl, the Ontario Reign, and the Inland Empire 66ers. In addition to hosting the Life in the Front Office podcast, he is coauthor of the forthcoming book LOL, Loss of Logo. Hirshman is a cofounder and partner of Competitive Advantage Consulting and Sports Business Case Reviews. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida and Seattle University. NORM O’REILLY is a leading scholar in the business of sports and the author or coauthor of fourteen books and numerous articles. Formerly the Richard P. and Joan S. Fox Professor of Business and chair of the Department of Sports Administration at Ohio University’s College of Business, O’Reilly now leads the International Institute for Sport Business and Leadership at the University of Guelph’s Lang School of Business. O’Reilly received the Career Achievement Award by the American Marketing Association’s Sport Marketing Special Interest Group and was assistant chef de mission for the Canadian team at the 2016 Paralympic Games. He is a lifetime research fellow of the North American Society for Sport Management. ANDY DOLICH has spent more than five decades in the professional sports industry, including executive positions in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. He is a columnist for the Ultimate Sports Guide, cohost of the Life in the Front Office podcast, and coauthor of the forthcoming book LOL, Loss of Logo. He currently is a sports business instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies, chief operating officer of FCF (Fan Controlled Football), and president of Dolich Consulting. HEATHER LAWRENCE is the author of Event Management Blueprint: Creating and Managing Successful Sports Events and has twenty years of sport business experience. After fifteen years in academia at Ohio University, in 2021 she became the director of sport operations at CrossFit. Prior to her academic career, Lawrence was an intercollegiate athletics administrator at Southeastern Louisiana University and the University of Florida. OHIO UNIVERSITY SPORT MANAGEMENT SERIES JULY 256 PAGES 7 × 10 IN.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE • CIVIL RIGHTS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Cargoes in Motion
The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V The Struggle to Pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act, 1955–1957
Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean
By Clarence Mitchell Jr. Edited by Denton L. Watson
Edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne
The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first successful lobbying campaign by an organization dedicated to that purpose since Reconstruction. Building on the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the law marked a turning point for the legislative branch in the struggle to accord Black citizens full equality under the Constitution. THE PAPERS OF CLARENCE MITCHELL JR. JANUARY 564 PAGES 6⅛ × 9¼ IN. 9 B&W ILLUS.
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The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume VI The Struggle to Pass the 1960 Civil Rights Act, 1959–1960 By Clarence Mitchell Jr. Edited by Denton L. Watson The Civil Rights Act of 1960 attempted to rectify loopholes in the 1957 Civil Rights Act that had enabled southern states to continue disenfranchising Black voters and, in Texas, Mexican Americans. The legislation called for federal inspection of voter registration polls and introduced penalties for obstructing a person from registering to vote. THE PAPERS OF CLARENCE MITCHELL JR. JANUARY 458 PAGES 6⅛ × 9¼ IN. 9 B&W ILLUS.
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An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world. While scholars have long appreciated that trade and commerce are central to understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin complex human experience in the Indian Ocean region, studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that numerous and diverse cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean. By following selected cargoes through both space and time from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. It deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves.
Contributors Ned Alpers
Mareike Pampus
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Hannah Pilgrim
Eva-Maria Knoll
Hanne Schönig
Karl-Heinz Kohl
Tansen Sen
Lisa Jenny Krieg
Steven Serels
Pedro Machado
Kunbing Xiao
Rupert Neuhöfer
CLARENCE MITCHELL JR. (1911–84) was a civil rights activist and, for nearly thirty years, a chief lobbyist for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Nicknamed the “101st Senator,” he was instrumental to the successful passage of the most consequential US civil rights legislative acts of the 1950s and 1960s. DENTON L. WATSON, formerly director of public relations for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is an associate professor at SUNY College at Old Westbury. He is author of Lion in the Lobby, Clarence Mitchell, Jr.’s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws and editor of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. OHIOSWALLOW.COM
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INDIAN OCEAN STUDIES SERIES JANUARY 344 PAGES 6 × 9 IN. 14 B&W ILLUS.
BURKHARD SCHNEPEL is a professor of social anthropology at the Martin Luther University of HalleWittenberg. From 2013 to 2020, he was head of the Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indian Ocean fellows group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the author of The King’s Three Bodies: Essays on Kingship and Ritual and the editor of Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World. JULIA VERNE is a professor of cultural geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where she leads a research group on mobility, materiality, and maritimity, with a focus on the western Indian Ocean. Her publications include Living Translocality: Space, Culture, and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade and several articles discussing the Indian Ocean as a relational space.
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PUBLIC HEALTH • AFRICAN STUDIES
PUBLIC HEALTH • AFRICAN STUDIES
The Histories of HIVs
Africanizing Oncology
The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics
Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda
Edited by William H. Schneider
By Marissa Mika
This new collection of essays on HIV viruses spans disciplines to topple popular narratives about the origins of the AIDS pandemic and the impact of the disease on public health policy.
“The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.” —Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of Leeds
“In combining epidemiology, virology, history, and anthropology, the contributors demonstrate powerfully how the origin and spread of epidemics can be uncovered: causes must not be isolated to viral fragments moving between simians and humans but should instead encompass the social and cultural history of the people whose lives and illnesses generated this history. Required reading for anyone interested in epidemic disease.”
Contributors Ernest M. Drucker
Preston A. Marx
Tamara Giles-Vernick
Stephanie Rupp
Ch. Didier Gondola
François Simon
Guillaume Lachenal
Jorge Varanda
Amandine Lauro
—Catherine E. Bolten, author of Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection
“This impressive volume, which combines historical epidemiology and anthropology with the main achievements of virology and immunology, contributes to our understanding of the ways some HIV viruses provoked epidemics or became pandemic. A brilliant achievement that is a pleasure to read.” —Kalala Ngalamulume, editor of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER is professor emeritus of history and medical humanities at Indiana University– Purdue University Indianapolis. He has authored numerous publications on the history of science and medicine, health philanthropy, and global health history. PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH AUGUST 280 PAGES 6 × 9 IN. 26 B&W ILLUS. OHIOSWALLOW.COM
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An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda.
“Mika’s lively history shows how Ugandan physician-scientists used cancer research to build oncology care and infrastructure over five decades of labile national politics, pervasive scarcity, and often ephemeral international partnerships. This engaging account illuminates struggles that shaped both global oncology knowledge and the fates of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans facing cancer diagnoses.” —Claire Wendland, author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
“In this historically and ethnographically rich book, Marissa Mika shows how African doctors and nurses practice oncology by creating, adapting, and transforming medical infrastructures. Tracing the life of the Uganda Cancer Institute through historical periods of independence, dictatorship, war, structural adjustment, and the HIV pandemic, this powerful book reveals the challenges and opportunities of Africanizing oncology. This is a landmark study on the history—and future—of global oncology.” —Carlo Caduff, author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger
“In recounting half a century of research and care at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Marissa Mika tells an unforgettable story of the power of connections and the consequences of their loss. Ugandan physician/researchers and their staff proved the value of therapies because they had made friendships that motivated families to return to Kampala for follow-up, but that knowledge became useless when funders’ priorities changed and international partnerships ended. Mika’s story of UCI shows horrifying wounds—and the possibility of healing—in postindependence Uganda, in global health, and in the way we think about the world.” —Holly Hanson, author of To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015 MARISSA MIKA is a writer, historian-ethnographer, and academic. Her scholarship examines the past and future of science, medicine, and technology in Africa. She is currently an independent scholar and consultant based in Berkeley, California. NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES
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MILITARY HISTORY • AFRICAN STUDIES
MILITARY HISTORY • AFRICAN STUDIES
War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953
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Apartheid’s Black Soldiers
Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa
By Alfred Tembo
By Lennart Bolliger Written from a Zambian perspective, this leading study shows how the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) organized and deployed human, military, and natural resources during and after the Second World War.
New oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa’s security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged.
Alfred Tembo first examines the role of government propaganda during the recruitment of personnel for the Northern Rhodesia Regiment and the latter’s service in East Africa, Palestine, Ceylon, Burma, and India. Later, Zambia’s economic contribution to the Allied war effort would foreground the central importance of the colony’s mining industry as well as its role as supplier of rubber and beeswax following the fall of the Southeast Asian colonies to the Japanese in early 1942. Finally, Tembo presents archival and oral evidence about life on the home front, including the social impact of wartime commodity shortages, difficulties posed by incoming Polish refugees, and the more interventionist forms of colonial governance that these circumstances engendered.
In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements’ armed wings. Despite these soldiers’ significant impact on the region’s military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa’s anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship. Black troops from Namibia and Angola spearheaded apartheid South Africa’s military intervention in their countries’ respective anticolonial war and postindependence civil war. Drawing from oral history interviews and archival sources, Lennart Bolliger challenges the common framing of these wars as struggles of national liberation fought by and for Africans against White colonial and settler-state armies. Focusing on three case studies of predominantly Black units commanded by White officers, Bolliger investigates how and why these soldiers participated in South Africa’s security forces and considers the legacies of that involvement. In tackling these questions, he rejects the common tendency to categorize the soldiers as “collaborators” and “traitors” and reveals the un-national facets of anticolonial struggles. Finally, the book’s unique analysis of apartheid military culture shows how South Africa’s military units were far from monolithic and instead developed distinctive institutional practices, mythologies, and concepts of militarized masculinity.
“In this first comprehensive study of Zambia during the Second World War, Alfred Tembo has produced a text that is both elegantly written and based upon meticulous and well-presented original research. Throughout, Tembo makes seamless linkages between the grand political/strategic levels and the ‘on the ground’ participation in the conflict of this important African colony. The accessibility of its presentation makes this book ideal for academics, historians, and general interest readers alike.” —Ashley Jackson, professor of imperial and military history, King’s College London, and visiting fellow, University of Oxford
“Alfred Tembo sheds light on how the Second World War affected Zambian society in this excellent study. Based on a close reading of hitherto underutilized Zambian archives, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the effects of the war in a colonial context.” —Andrew Cohen, coauthor of Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900–2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi ALFRED TEMBO is a research associate with the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa, and a lecturer in the Department of Historical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Zambia.
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LENNART BOLLIGER is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and a visiting researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research has previously been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies and the South African Historical Journal.
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“Lennart Bolliger’s exceptionally wellresearched monograph . . . makes a major contribution to our knowledge of that war and of what happened to those who fought in it. Apartheid’s Black Soldiers is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of the liberation of southern Africa and the region’s postliberation politics.” —Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town ELECTRONIC 978-0-8214-4741-3 $79.99 S OHIOSWALLOW.COM
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Village Work
Islam, Migration, and Place Making
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“Wiemers challenges conventional understandings of statecraft and humanizes the development process at all levels, detailing the improvisations and inconsistencies that lay behind the promise of ‘progress.’”
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Embodied Engineering
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali By Laura Ann Twagira Foregrounding African women’s ingenuity and labor, this pioneering case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule.
“Through vivid stories of individual innovation and strategies of survival, Twagira offers a new perspective on twentieth-century biopolitics in Mali. Embodied Engineering adds important critical nuance to understandings of environmental crisis, cultural value, and gendered knowledge production in West Africa.” —Emily S. Burrill, author of States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali
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“An exemplary social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of a community that has been creatively adjusting to a constantly changing world. . . . Bold and innovative in his conception and execution of this book, Babou persuasively argues for the crucial role played by migration in reshaping the identity and global performance of the Murid community, culturally, politically, and religiously, at home and abroad.” —Mamadou Diouf, editor of Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal
“Illuminates the crucial point that the nascent diaspora of the Muridiyya has meant the continuous reinvention, in new spaces, of the life and creative force of the order.” —Souleymane Bachir Diagne, coauthor of In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought NOVEMBER 336 PAGES 6 × 9 IN. 62 B&W ILLUS.
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The Great Upheaval
Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield
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“Judith Byfield [shows] that focusing on gender forces us to rethink histories of kingship, urban life, trade, taxation, religion, protest movements, and memorialization—indeed, the entire history of the region and its relationship to Nigeria.” —Frederick Cooper, author of Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives
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Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis By Robert Booth The key to mitigating the environmental crisis isn’t just based on science; it depends upon a profound philosophical revision of how we think about and behave in relation to the world. Our ongoing failure to interrupt the environmental crisis in a meaningful way stems, in part, from how we perceive the environment—what Robert Booth calls the “morethan-human world.” Anthropocentric presumptions of this world, inherited from natural science, have led us to better scientific knowledge about environmental problems and more science-based—yet still inadequate—practical “solutions.” That’s not enough, Booth argues. We must critically and self-reflexively revise how we perceive and consider ourselves within the more-than-human world as a matter of praxis to arrest our destructive impact on it. Booth brings ecophenomenology—environmentally focused phenomenology—into productive dialogue with a rich array of other philosophical approaches, such as ecofeminism, new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology. The book thus outlines and justifies why and how a specifically ecophenomenological praxis may lead to the disruption of the environmental crisis at its root. Booth’s observations and arguments make the leap from theory to practice insofar as they may influence how we fundamentally grasp the environmental crisis and what promising avenues of practical activism might look like. In Booth’s view, this is not about achieving a global scientific consensus regarding the material causes of the environmental crisis or the responsible use of “natural resources.” Instead, Booth calls for us to habitually resist our impetus to uncritically reduce more-than-human entities to “natural resources” in the first place.
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