Explores how Ohiou2009—u2009as a “public enterprise state,” creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and controlu2009—u2009led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.

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.

This interdisciplinary volume on widowhood in Africa offers in-depth perspectives on a previously underexplored subject. Empirical case studies from across the continent make the book an excellent resource for teaching gender studies in African contexts.

In this raw, honest memoir, Kara Zivin reveals her battle with depression and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum, challenging stigma and redefining maternal mental health through personal narrative, research, and advocacy.

In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.

This book adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs, featuring selected works from the museum's collection and concise essays by scholars of art who reflect on respond to the distinctive aspects of each work.

This fresh, diverse anthology of American short fiction challenges readers to interrogate commonly held ideas about the genres of realism and naturalism.

If religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.

Safari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa's national parks-often derided by scholars as colonial impositions-survived the end of white rule on the continent.