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Medicine in the Meantime
The Work of Care in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
Working Difference
Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela...
Wandering Paysanos
State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
A pioneering examination of the experiences of peasants and peons, or paysanos, in the Buenos Aires province during Juan Manuel de Rosas’s regime (1829–1852), Wandering Paysanos is one of the first studies to consider Argentina’s history from a subalternist perspective. The distinguished Argentine...
Into the Archive
Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people’s words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus did on American shores in October 1492 was...
Cochabamba, 1550-1900
Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies
This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns...
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and...
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1995
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist...
English Lessons
The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...
The Art of the Network
Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed...