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  • Catalonia's Advocates

    Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900

    by Stephen Jacobson ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona’s lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political and economic change, mediating between state, family, and society.Beginning with the resurrection ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rethinking Atlantic Empire

    Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles

    Edited by Scott Eastman, Stephen Jacobson ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Latin American and Spanish History
    In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race, identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Rethinking Atlantic Empire

    Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles

    Edited by Stephen Jacobson, Scott Eastman ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Latin American and Spanish History
    In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race, identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor

    Sage Advice from the Experts

    by Stacey Edmonson, Connie Fulmer, Stephen Jacobson, Gema López-Gorosave, Catherine Lugg, Betty Merchant, Patrick Pauken, William Place, Mary Frances Agnello, Jeanne T. Amlund, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Patti L. Chance, Maria Luisa Gonzalez, Mark A. Gooden, James E. Henderson, CarolAnne M. Kardash, Judson C. Laughter, Charles L. Slater, Bruce W. Tuckman, Michelle D. Young, Pamela Angelle, H. Richard Milner IV, George Theoharis, Megan Tschannen-Moran ...
    This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Black in Latin America

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    The third installment of Gates's documentary trilogy on the Black Experience, following America Behind the Color Line and Wonders of the African World.Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, ... Read more

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  • Brazil - An Interpretation

    by Gilberto Freyre ...
    A series of lectures on the ethnic and social fusion that makes Brazil the country it is today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Insurgent Cuba

    Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

    by Ada Ferrer ...
    In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe’s oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.Ada Ferrer examines the participation of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Beyond Slavery

    The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Darién J. Davis ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    by Karen Y. Morrison ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus