Emily S Rosenberg: 38 books
The World of Lucha Libre
Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters,...
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Essays from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2001
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S....
Between Hollywood and Moscow
The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle...
Tropical Zion
General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of...
by Elliott Young, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against...
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.
More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories....
Juan Soldado
Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for...
Rural Revolt in Mexico
U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1998
Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico...
September 11 in History
A Watershed Moment?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations....