Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
Strong Inside
Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball...
Recovery's Edge
An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental...
Mistreated
The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further...
Transforming Therapy
Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Oaxaca is known for many things—its indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textiles—but not for mental health care. When one talks with Oaxacans about mental health, most say it's a taboo topic and that people there think you "have to be crazy to go to a psychologist."...
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Creating Community as We Grow Older
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker...
Anonymous in Their Own Names
Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Anonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found and...
by John Tytell
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The story and history of the Beats couldn't be found in the traditional libraries or archives of academic research. For preeminent historian of Beat culture John Tytell, it had to be found in the bars, towns, roads, and hangouts of these writers and figures. And as Writing Beat demonstrates, the same...
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus,...
Coup
The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption and madness...
Becoming the Tupamaros
Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In Becoming the Tupamaros, Lindsey Churchill explores an alternative narrative of US-Latin American relations by challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of revolutionary movements like the Uruguayan Tupamaros group. A violent and innovative organization, the Tupamaros demonstrated that...
Seeds of Change
The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin
Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what...
The World of the John Birch Society
Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
As far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren. Founded in 1958 as a force for conservative political...
Equality for Contingent Faculty
Overcoming the Two-Tier System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "From...
The Rise of Euroskepticism
Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...