Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
The Golden Leaf
How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a...
Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and bestselling authors,...
The Washington Dissensus
A Privileged Observer's Perspective on US-Brazil Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
During the five years in which he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war...
Toxic War
The Story of Agent Orange
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Peter Sills demonstrates in Toxic War, veterans faced a new enemy beyond post-traumatic...
Symptoms of Unknown Origin
A Medical Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body—something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear...
A Courageous Fool
Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances—including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law—into...
by Marshall Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Marshall Chapman knows Nashville. A musician, songwriter, and author with nearly a dozen albums and a bestselling memoir under her belt, Chapman has lived and breathed Music City for over forty years. Her friendships with those who helped make Nashville one of the major forces in American music culture...
Bobby Braddock
A Life on Nashville’s Music Row
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
If you know country music, you know Bobby Braddock. Even if you don't know his name, you know the man's work. "He Stopped Loving Her Today." "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." "Golden Ring." "Time Marches On." "I Wanna Talk About Me." "People Are Crazy." These...
A Good-Natured Riot
The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
On November 28, 1925, a white-bearded man sat before one of Nashville radio station WSM's newfangled carbon microphones to play a few old-time fiddle tunes. Uncle Jimmy Thompson played on the air for an hour...
A&R Pioneers
Architects of American Roots Music on Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...