This collection of lyric poems traces genealogies of trauma and healing within a southern family. Han VanderHart deftly weaves together documentary poetics with Ovidian mythology to narrate, ultimately, a story of survival.

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa's postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa.

Addresses consumption of food, drink, and drugs in the conspicuously consuming 19th century in order to explore the question of what, in fact, makes a man in novels of the period. This book analyzes the rituals of dining room, opium den, and cocaine lab and the ways in which these alimentary behaviors make, unmake, and remake the gentlemanly body.

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 influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions.

This collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.

This collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.

This book examines the emergence of Yorùbá-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.

This book examines the emergence of Yorùbá-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.