september 2024
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Love and Loss
The Short Life of Ray Chapman
Scott H. Longert
Ray Chapman lived the American dream as a star baseball player for the Cleveland Indians until 1920, when he was fatally struck in the head by a fastball. This biography details Chapman’s fairy tale life and how it became an American tragedy.
All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Timothy Steele second edition
This best-selling guide to meter and versification, now in its twenty-fifth year, features a fresh cover design and a new preface by Timothy Steele, one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets.
A group of artists who worked together as faculty at the Casablanca École des Beaux-Arts from approximately 1956 to 1978 collectively produced works that were key vectors in Moroccan modernism, which the author locates in relation to postcoloniality.
september
Sick to Death
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Starting with a daring art heist and a walloping surprise for private eye Andy Hayes, this riveting mystery novel—the eighth in the series— takes readers on a roller coaster ride through COVID and the anti-vaxxer movement, the streets of Columbus, Ohio, and an FBI investigation that points too close to home.
andy
october 2024 6 × 9 in. 400 pp. e-book
The Buffalo Book
The Full Saga of the American Animal
David A. Dary
Originally published in 1989, this book is one of the top references noted in Ken Burns’s documentary film, The American Buffalo The journals and memoirs of nineteenth-century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains.
Available Light
Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
This biography of photographer Omar Badsha, who was intimately involved in documenting the struggle against apartheid, is also an intellectual history of protest in South Africa. Drawn from personal archives and interviews, the book conveys an intimate sense of Badsha’s political engagement from the 1950s to today.
september 2024
5½ × 8½ in. 264 pp. paper $16.95
Fatal Judgment
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Judge Laura Porter fiercely guarded her privacy, and never more so than during her long-running—and long in the past—affair with disgraced quarterback-turned-private investigator Andy Hayes. Now she’s missing, disappeared just hours after she calls Andy out of the blue explaining she’s in trouble and needs his help.
andy hayes mysteries — 10th anniversary
Africa and the Olympics
Winning Away from the Podium
Todd Cleveland
Rather than measuring Africa’s success at the Olympic Games in terms of sporting triumphs, this book examines how African states, athletes, and officials have utilized the Olympics to engage in transformative political activity, realize social mobility, and enhance the quality of life for individuals, communities, and entire nations.
Projections of Dakar
This comprehensive overview of contemporary Senegalese documentary film culture features interviews with contemporary Senegalese filmmakers living and working in Dakar and analyses of the interconnections between cinema, social issues, and urban life in Senegal.
Elusive Histories
Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980
Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya, and Barbara S. Isaacman
Making visible the hundreds of thousands of Mozambican men and women who made their lives in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Elusive Histories offers rich insights into the social history of labor migration and the experience of racism, and it rebukes the idea that arbitrary borders determine where and how a person belongs.
Malaria on the Move Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015
Kundai Manamere
Malaria on the Move provides a historical analysis of malaria control in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late nineteenth century to 2015. The book examines how migration and travel influenced the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socio-economic factors in designing and implementing interventions.
Ujamaa’s Army
The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979
Charles G. Thomas
This first scholarly study of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force is a critical text in the story of Cold War international support for African liberation movements and armed liberation fronts. The military reflected the national project of a newly independent Tanzania and became a stable and effective force in supporting liberation struggles across southern Africa.
Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana
Ernest Harsch
Using Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the international discourse on corruption and demonstrates that contemporary opposition to it dates as far back as the precolonial era. That perspective counters negative stereotypes of African societies as complacently corrupt and shows that African actors—including ordinary citizens—have long been engaged in anticorruption struggles.
The Morality of Revolution Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1974–1990
Benedito Luís Machava
This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimo’s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the party’s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
The Brontës and the Fairy Tale
Jessica Campbell
This is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of the Brontë family of writers: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell. It engages with and extends the contemporary critical discourse on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, national identity, and the position of women in the Victorian period.
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Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda
Julia Ross Cummiskey
This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, by whom, and where. The book covers colonial Uganda through the first years of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency.
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
Admire Mseba
This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
Sense and Uncertainty
A Phenomenology of Rational Actions in an Uncertain World
Esteban Marín-Ávila
Drawing primarily on the phenomenological work of Edmund Husserl and Luis Villoro, Sense and Uncertainty explores the possibility and conditions of rational, practical agency in our non-ideal world, characterized by forms of irrationality, violence, and oppression.
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