Emily M Emily: 133 books
The Enduring Legacy
Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history...
Continental Crossroads
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections....
Empire of Care
Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History Association
In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within...
Banana Wars
Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought...
Confronting the American Dream
Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research...
Empire and Dissent
The United States and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment...
by Grant Walsh-Haines, Marla J. Jarmer, Kevin R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...
Linked Labor Histories
New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken...
by Tonya M. Palermo, Emily F. Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"Madeline is a 15-year-old girl with abdominal pain and headaches that occur most days of the week. Because of her pain, she has missed 99 days of school this year and is no longer able to play volleyball. Her parents have taken her to see a number of specialists and she has tried many different medications...
Buddhism and Whiteness
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions – the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy – in order to explore the ways in which these traditions can inform, correct, and improve each other....
The School of the Americas
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation...
The World of Lucha Libre
Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters,...