Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
by William K. Bolt
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was...
The Secrets of the Hopewell Box
Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"Squires' . . . grandfather was a sheriff's deputy who carried a gun and a clenched fist, a man whose talk with cronies was full of references to 'sonofabitching judges' and 'goddamn n*****s.' He was also, Squires relates, one of the muscle men behind a vicious cabal of power brokers headed by...
People Power
The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people," someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United...
Pro-Life, Pro-Choice
Shared Values in the Abortion Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than "mere tissue." She examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent...
Unclenching Our Fists
Abusive Men on the Journey to Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors. These men speak frankly about the abuse they inflicted on their families, what it took to get them...
Domesticating Empire
Enlightenment in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest,...
Doing Time for Peace
Resistance, Family, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and life...
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
by Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. Lowrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation,...
How Human Rights Can Build Haiti
Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at...
Letting Go
Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
At a time when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation,...
Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty
Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects. Although clinical trials attempt...
Living in the Land of Limbo
Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Living in the Land of Limbo is the first anthology of short stories and poems about family caregivers. These men and women find themselves in "limbo," as they struggle to take care of a family member or friend in the uncertain world of chronic illness. The authors explore caregivers' experiences...
Screening Neoliberalism
Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the experience of movie-going is universal. The cinematic experience in Mexico is no less profound, and has evolved in complex ways in recent years. Films like Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Mariachi, Amores Perros, and the...