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Carceral Afterlives Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda By Katherine Bruce-Lockhart This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe. The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. AVAILABLE Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers This detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales. Apartheid’s Black Soldiers Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa By Lennart Bolliger Thousands of Black troops served in South Africa’s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger’s new research leads him to reject their common depiction as “collaborators,” challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for national liberation, and reveal the complexity of South Africa’s military culture. The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ubuntu George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents By Sheila D. Collins George M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime. Militarizing Marriage West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire By Sarah J. Zimmerman By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of women was indispensable to military conquest and colonial rule across French Empire. Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers This detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales. Kwame Nkrumah Visions of Liberation By Jeffrey S. Ahlman This new biography of Kwame Nkrumah (1909–72), Ghana’s first president, demonstrates how his accomplishments extend well beyond his role in Ghanaian decolonization, state-building, and the promotion of pan-Africanism to include his broader anticolonialist work toward an independent, unified Africa. Winner, Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies. Awarded to the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs, from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies · Honorable mention for the 2020 Heldt Prize for the best book by a woman in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies, awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920 By Lenny A. Ureña Valerio Ureña Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective. Ubuntu George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents By Sheila D. Collins George M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime. Militarizing Marriage West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire By Sarah J. Zimmerman By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of women was indispensable to military conquest and colonial rule across French Empire. Seeing Like a Citizen Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980 By Kara Moskowitz In focusing on rural Kenyans as they actively sought access to aid, Moskowitz offers new insights into the texture of political life in the decolonizing and early postcolonial world. Her account complicates our understanding of Kenyan experiences of independence, and the meaning and form of development. Winner, Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies. Awarded to the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs, from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies · Honorable mention for the 2020 Heldt Prize for the best book by a woman in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies, awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920 By Lenny A. Ureña Valerio Ureña Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective. Winner of the 2010 Ali Sastroamidjojo Award · A CHOICE Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, 2010–11 Making a World after Empire The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives Edited by Christopher J. Lee Preface by Christopher J. Lee 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. Amílcar Cabral A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary By Peter Karibe Mendy Amílcar Cabral’s charismatic and visionary leadership, his pan-Africanist solidarity and internationalist commitment to “every just cause in the world,” remain relevant to contemporary struggles for emancipation and self-determination. This concise biography is an ideal introduction to his life and legacy. 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. First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Last BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154