Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico
Manuel Lozada and La Reforma, 1855-1876
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class. As Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico develops the story of this struggle, the role of one key rebel, Manuel Lozada, comes...
Each Day I Like It Better
Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the fall of 2009, Amy Lutz and her husband, Andy, struggled with one of the worst decisions parents could possibly face: whether they could safely keep their autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, at home any longer. Multiple medication trials, a long procession of behavior modification strategies,...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War
History, Fiction, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography,...
The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho...
The Merchant of Havana
The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association
As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...
Saving International Adoption
An Argument from Economics and Personal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018
International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and...
From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans
Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as the Kayapó of Brazil, the Mapuche of Chile, the Kichwa of Ecuador, and the Ayuuk of Mexico, among others, as they engage video, DVDs,...
Battering States
The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Battering States explores the most personal part of people's lives as they intersect with a uniquely complex state system. The book examines how statecraft shapes domestic violence: how a state defines itself and determines what counts as a family; how a state establishes sovereignty and defends its...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production.
Hispanic Issues Series
Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief
Hispanic Issues Online
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Abortion Pills, Test Tube Babies, and Sex Toys
Emerging Sexual and Reproductive Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From Viagra to in vitro fertilization, new technologies are rapidly changing the global face of reproductive health. They are far from neutral: religious, cultural, social, and legal contexts condition their global transfer. The way a society interprets and adopts (or rejects) a new technology reveals...
by Roger C. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amendments have been approved in...
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
As Marko Dumančić writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, "despite the centrality of gender and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War. . . . It is not an exaggeration to say that few were left...
When the Senate Worked for Us
The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives,...