Duke University Press: 2463 books
The Bolivia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources and dilemmas of economic development, and its political conflict and creativity. Featuring both classic...
When Rains Became Floods
A Child Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an anthropologist. Gavilán Sánchez's...
Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Revised and Expanded Edition
Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee...
The Deportation Regime
Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability,...
by Sidney Rittenberg, Amanda Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until...
by Louis Sell
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
In Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse and the history and consequences of international interventions in the wars in...
Hotel Trópico
Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico...
The Enduring Legacy
Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...
Global Cinderellas
Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with...
Mama Africa
Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness....
Warfare in the American Homeland
Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former...
We Dream Together
Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates...
A Place in Politics
São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São Paulo...