Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
Dying Unneeded
The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
In the early 1990s, Russia experienced one of the most extreme increases in mortality in modern history. Men's life expectancy dropped by six years; women's life expectancy dropped by three. Middle-aged men living in Moscow were particularly at risk of dying early deaths. While the early 1990s represent...
by Gershon Baskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had...
Memory Activism
Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
SAGE Memory Studies Journal & Memory Studies Association Outstanding First Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2019
Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this rich ethnographic study offers an innovative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian...
Not Trying
Infertility, Childlessness, and Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
One message that comes along with ever-improving fertility treatments and increasing acceptance of single motherhood, older first-time mothers, and same-sex partnerships, is that almost any woman can and should become a mother. The media and many studies focus on infertile and involuntarily childless...
by Amber Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016
Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After...
A Life of Control
Stories of Living with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in...
by Alonso de Ercilla Y Zuniga
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Jacksonian and Unionist
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of...
Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia
Development and Culture in the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua...
Sounds of the Citizens
Dancehall and Community in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable,...
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA
Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA's Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labor and environmental regulations. Through field research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas,...
Beyond Cuban Waters
Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Twenty-first century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily...
Empire's End
Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers the nation's imperial legacy beyond this period, all the...