Ohio State University Press

  • LANCASTER OHIO 1800–2000

    In Lancaster, Ohio, 1800–2000, David R. Contosta tells the story of one American town as it has evolved over a two-hundred year period. Contosta has found that Lancaster was never…

    $27.95
  • Listen to Me Good

    Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates…

    $24.95
  • LITTLE MEN

    Ira Mittelman, the middle-aged hero of “A Box of Ashes,” one of two novellas in Little Men, is wrestling with a dilemma: should he fulfill his late father’s dying wish…

    $33.95
  • LITTLE SONGS

    “Billone’s book redefines the sonnet as a vital part of women’s literary history.” —Scott Lewis, editor of The Brownings’ Correspondence Amy Christine Billone is an assistant professor of English at…

    $54.95
  • LITTLE SONGS

    “Billone’s book redefines the sonnet as a vital part of women’s literary history.” —Scott Lewis, editor of The Brownings’ Correspondence Amy Christine Billone is an assistant professor of English at…

    $14.95
  • LIVINGSTON AND THE TOMATO

    A. W Livingston (1821-98) was a Reynoldsburg, Ohio, tomato seedsman who was the best known developer of tomato varieties in the United States in the nineteenth century. First published in…

    $26.95
  • MAKING STORIES, MAKING SELVES

    Ruth Linden’s bold, experimental book explores the interconnected processes of remembering, storytelling, and self-fashioning. Juxtaposing autobiography and ethnography, Linden begins this study by situating herself in the context of her…

    $29.95
  • MANHOOD CITIZENSHIP AND THE NATIONAL GUARD

    “Eleanor Hannah wisely places the Illinois Guard firmly in the life of the state’s cities and towns. An effective history of a state militia force must go to its roots,…

    $119.95
  • MANHOOD CITIZENSHIP AND THE NATIONAL GUARD

    “Eleanor Hannah wisely places the Illinois Guard firmly in the life of the state’s cities and towns. An effective history of a state militia force must go to its roots,…

    $14.95
  • MEN AND VIOLENCE

    There is growing interest in the history of masculinity and male culture, including violence, as an integral part of a proper understanding of gender. In almost every historical setting, masculinity…

    $24.95
  • NURSING AND THE PRIVILEGE OF PRESCRIPTION

    “The book’s most important contribution will be that it describes what nurses did for clients, their actual activities that required advanced knowledge and skill, as there was more than just…

    $60.95
  • NURSING AND THE PRIVILEGE OF PRESCRIPTION

    “The book’s most important contribution will be that it describes what nurses did for clients, their actual activities that required advanced knowledge and skill, as there was more than just…

    $14.95