Joseph Gilbert: 41 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...
Financial Missionaries to the World
The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
*Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S....
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...
Haunted by Empire
Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the...
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 Harvey S. Singer, Jonathan Mink, Donald L. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Movement Disorders in Childhood, Second Edition, provides the most up-to-date information on the diseases and disorders that affect motor control, an important area of specialization within child neurology.
Over the past several decades, advances in genetics, neuroimaging, neurophysiology,...
A Date Which Will Live
Pearl Harbor in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites...
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,...