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A long-forgotten masterpiece. In his secret diary, written inside the Nazi

camps, the Norwegian prisoner Odd Nansen paints a deeply affecting
picture of everyday terror, sketching the inmates life and death with
exceptional clarity and compassion. Rarely has the inhumanity of the
camps been captured with such humanity. An invaluable document for
anyone interested in the Nazi camps.

African Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

This is one of the most searing contemporaneous accounts of the Holocaust,

but also one of the best written of the great documents of World War II. It
is a profound indictment of evil, a daily diary of torment and torture, yet
also somehow a deeply moving love letter. It should find a place on the
bookshelf of every home, be taught in every school, made into a movie,
and feted for what it says about mans capacity for humanity in the face
of satanic loathsomeness. Mr. Nansens decency and courage in the most
vicious of circumstances shines through on every page; he personifies the
civilization for which the Allies fought.

Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Caregiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Caribbean Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Civil Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Cuban Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 8
Death and Dying . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Environmental Studies . . . . . . . 10
European History . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Film Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Health Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Hispanic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Holocaust Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Jewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Latin American Studies . . . 3, 8, 9, 10
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 6
Public Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Regional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Social Movements . . . . . . . . . . 10
Transatlantic Studies . . . . . . . . . .9
Urban Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
US History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second
World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the
West, 19411945; and Napoleon: A Life

This extraordinary diary by a non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime and its
collaborators is a rich historical document. Nansens stunning illustrations
provide a pictorial narrative into the concentration camp world he endured.
Superbly translated by Katherine John, his text renders his experience
in clear, muscular prose. We see through his eyes and imagine what he
describes. We follow him, day by day, as his diary traverses three and a
half yearsan eternity at that timeand moves with him from the
Norwegian camp system, the Norwegian regime, and occupied Norway to
his perspective on the German camp of Sachsenhausen, the Nazi regime in
Germany, and the final disintegration of the Third Reich.
Timothy Boyces introduction frames the diary beautifully, setting the
diary years into the larger picture of Nansens life with just the right balance between the private and the public. And his extensive editorial notes
provide guideposts along the way.
Debrah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Director, Strassler Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews,
19331946
Above right: Sketch by Odd Nansen. One of the death gangs on the way to the
place of execution, conducted by the AA General.
Below: Sketch by Odd Nansen. Divine service behind the barbed wire at Veidal.

From reviews of the 1949 edition:

From Day to Day is unlike any other record of personal
war experience which has yet appeared. There have
been plenty of other accounts of imprisonment
and concentration camps but none by a man like
Mr. Nansen. Writing with no thought of publication,
merely to keep a record for his wife and to express his
own boiling emotions, Mr. Nansen somehow created a
remarkable book. Using stolen paper and stolen time,
always in fear of being caught, he described each days
adventures with stark simplicity and intimate authority.
His book, although immensely long, is a continuously
engrossing narrative. It is filled with vivid, concrete
details, sharp character sketches, unspeakable horrors.
Orville Prescott, New York Times

Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about

the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. But
this book is different from all the others this reviewer
has read. True, it does not slur over the unspeakable
barbarities. But it rises above them and reminds us in
never-to-be-forgotten pages how noble and generous
the human spirit can be in the face of terrible adversity.
William L. Shirer, New York Herald-Tribune

cover illustration:
Publicity still, Carmen Miranda in
The Streets of Paris, 1939.
Courtesy of www.doctormacro.com.

The first two-thirds of Day after Day can only be

compared with Dostoevskys House of the Dead; but
compared with the last third of Hr. Nansens book
The House of the Dead reads like Jane Austen. . . . It
is a masterpiece. . . . The number of men who have
successfully exploited the unique character of the diary
as an art-form can still be counted on the fingers of
one hand.
Times Literary Supplement

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A dramatic, acutely observed account of three and a half years

of concentration camp life and death as they unfolded

From Day to Day

One Mans Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps
Odd Nansen
Edited & annotated by Timothy J. Boyce Preface by Thomas Buergenthal

n 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was

arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the
remainder of World War II in concentration campsGrini in Oslo, Veidal above
the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen
in Germany. For three and a half years,
Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-
thin pages later smuggled out by various
means, including inside the p
risoners
hollowed-out breadboards.
Unlike writers of retrospective Holo
caust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mundane and horrific details of camp life as
they happened, from day to day. With an
unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual
brutality and random terror that was the
fate of a camp prisoner. His entries reveal
his constantly frustrated hopes for an early
end to the war, his longing for his wife
and children, his horror at the especially
barbaric treatment reserved for Jews, and
his disgust at the anti-Semitism of some of
his fellow Norwegians. Nansen often confronted his German jailors with unusual
outspokenness and sometimes with a
sense of humor and absurdity that was not
appreciated by his captors.
After the Putnams edition received
rave reviews in 1949, the book fell into
obscurity. In 1956, in response to a poll
about the most undeservedly neglected
book of the preceding quarter-century,
Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to
Day, calling it an epic narrative, which

took its place among the great affirmations of the power of the human spirit
to rise above terror, torture, and death.
Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors of
the camps, yet still saw hope for the future.
He sought reconciliation with the German
people, even donating the proceeds of the
German edition of his book to German
refugee relief work. Nansen was following
in the footsteps of his father, Fridtjof, an
Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for
his work on behalf of World War I refu
gees. (Fridtjof also created the Nansen
passport for stateless persons.)
This new edition, the first in over sixty-
five years, contains extensive annotations
and new diary selections never before
translated into English. Forty sketches
of camp life and death by Nansen, an
architect and talented draftsman, provide a
sense of immediacy and acute observation
matched by the diary entries. The preface is
written by Thomas Buergenthal, who was
Tommy, the ten-year-old survivor of the
Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen
met at Sachsenhausen and saved using
his extra food rations. Buergenthal, who
later served as a judge on the International
Court of Justice at The Hague, is a recipient
of the 2015 Elie Wiesel Award from the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum.

May 2016
640 pages, 7 x 10 inches
19 b&w photos, 1 map, 40 original sketches
appendixes, index
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Odd Nansen, a Norwegian architect, organized

relief efforts for Jews and other refugees
beginning in 1936 and was imprisoned by the
Nazis in a series of concentration camps. After the
war, he remained active in humanitarian work
until his death in 1973.
Timothy J. Boyce practiced law for thirty-five
years, most recently as the managing partner
of the Charlotte office of Dechert LLP, an
international law firm.

Self-portrait of Odd Nansen in prison.

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H e a lt h P o l i c y / C i v i l R i g h t s / US H i s t o r y

On the 50th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare,

a behind-the-scenes account of the role of civil rights activists

The Power to Heal

Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform
Americas Health Care System
David Barton Smith

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July 2016
256 pages, 6 x 9 inches
references, index
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This book is the recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J.

Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the
best book in the area of medicine.

David Barton Smith, Professor Emeritus in

Health Administration at Temple University,
is the author of Reinventing Care: Assisted
Living in New York City (also published by
Vanderbilt University Press) and Health Care
Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. He is
assisting in the production of a companion
documentary supported by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.

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n less than four months, beginning

with a staff of five, an obscure office
buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nations hospitals
from our most racially and economically
segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions,
which had for a half century selectively
served people on the basis of race and
wealth, began equally caring for all on the
basis of need.
The book draws the reader into the
struggles of the unsung heroes of the
transformation, black medical leaders
whose stubborn courage helped shape
the larger civil rights movement. They

The Power to Heal brings to life the neglected

history of one of the greatest victories of
the civil rights strugglesthe successful
confrontation with the institutional racism
and racial segregation long entrenched in
Americas hospitals, north as well as south,
that had relegated African American patients
to basement wards and inferior treatment.
David Barton Smiths brilliant account reads
like a political thriller, detailing the ways in
which a small group of determined activists
for social justice, working quietly in the halls of
government, used the leverage of new social
programsMedicare and Medicaidto
accomplish a great social change. This story
speaks to the future as well as the past.
H. Jack Geiger, MD, Logan Professor Emeritus of
Community Medicine, City University of New York
Medical School

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demanded an end to federal subsidization

of discrimination in the form of Medicare
payments to hospitals that embraced the
separate but equal creed that shaped
American life during the Jim Crow era.
Faced with this pressure, the Kennedy and
Johnson A
dministrations tried to play a
cautious chess game, but that game led
to perhaps the biggest gamble in the history of d
omestic policy. Leaders secretly
recruited volunteer federal employees to
serve as inspectors, and an invisible army
of hospital workers and civil rights activists
to work as agents, making it impossible for
hospitals to get Medicare dollars with mere
paper compliance. These triumphs did
not come without casualties, yet the story
offers lessons and hope for realizing this
transformational dream.

David Barton Smith is a superb storyteller, and

in The Power to Heal he has quite a story to tell.
It is the story of the racism at the foundations
of the American health care system and of
the men and women who dedicatedand
sometimes gavetheir lives to fight it. In
particular, Smith tells how the implementation
of Medicare became the most successful
desegregation program in American history.
While racial disparities persist in American
health care, that they are now understood
as a problem rather than the natural order of
things is attributable to the heroic efforts he
describes.
Timothy Jost, Emeritus Professor, Washington and Lee
University School of Law

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The brilliant life of the Brazilian Bombshell

Creating Carmen Miranda

Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez

armen Miranda got knocked down

and kept going. Filming an appear ance on The Jimmy Durante Show
on August 4, 1955, the ambassadress of
samba suddenly took a knee during a
dance number, clearly in distress. Durante
covered without missing a beat, and
Miranda was back on her feet in a matter
of moments to continue with what she did
best: performing. By the next morning, she
was dead from heart failure at age 46.
This final performance in many ways
exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda.
The actress, singer, and dancer pursued
a relentless mission to demonstrate the
provocative theatrical force of her cultural
roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff
dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic
fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the
show in films like That Night in Rio and

The Gangs All Here. For American film

audiences, her life was an example of the
exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South
America. For Brazilian and Latin Ameri
can audiences, she was an icon. For the
gay community, she became a work of art
personified and a symbol of courage and
charisma.
In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn
Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through
the myriad methods Miranda consciously
used to shape her performance of race,
gender, and camp culture, all to further
her journey down the road to becoming a
legend.

July 2016
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Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has written a

veritable tour de force that will stand as the
definitive study of Carmen Miranda for many
years to come.
Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden:
Tropiclia and the Emergence of a Brazilian
Counterculture

Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez is a professor

of Portuguese and gender and womens
studies at the University of Wisconsin
Madison. She is coeditor of Performing
Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the
Performing Arts.

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C a r e g i v i n g / A g i n g / D e at h a n d Dy i n g

How to care for an aging parent and how to handle

this rite of passage in our own lives

Caring for Red

A Daughters Memoir
M i n dy F r i e d

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220 pages, 6 x 9 inches
20 b&w illustrations, references, index
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aring for Red is Mindy Frieds moving

and colorful account of caring for her
ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny
an actor, writer, and labor organizerin
the final year of his life. This memoir
chronicles the actions of two sisters as they
discover concentric circles of support for
their father and attempt to provide him
with an experience of engaged aging in
an assisted living facility.
The story is also that of a daughter of
a powerful and outspoken man who took
risks throughout his life and whose politi
cal beliefs had an enduring impact on his

Mindy Fried has written a moving and

insightful memoir about being a longdistance caregiver (with her sister) for her
ninety-seven-year-old father in the last year
of his life in an assisted living facility in Buffalo,
New York. She has also captured the meaning
of his life as a union activist, playwright, actor,
late-life student, and teacher. Frieds book
offers compelling testimony on behalf of her
adored but difficult father. As his caregiver she
honored him as a father, and with her memoir,
as a seeker for justice.
Mindy Fried, a sociologist, is
Co-Principal of Arbor Consulting
Partners. She is the author of
Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy
and Corporate Culture.

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Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health Care

Project, United Hospital Fund, and editor of Living in
the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family
Caregiving

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family. (After Manny was called before the

House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blackballed and his family was
shunned.)
As an actor, Manny was affiliated with
Elia Kazans Group Theatre and the Federal
Theatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, and played everything from
the tormented father in Arthur Millers All
My Sons to an infant in a baby carriage in
Thornton Wilders Infancy, from the Rabbi
in Fiddler on the Roof topoignantly for
this bookthe role of Morrie in Tuesdays
with Morrie.
As she devotes herself to caring for her
dying father, Mindy grapples anew with the
complexity of their relationship. She questions whether she can be there for him and
how to assert her own voice as her fathers
caregiver in his last days.

Raw and real. Anyone who has experienced

caregiving can appreciate Mindy Frieds story.
I was reminded of Roz Chasts Cant We Talk
about Something More Pleasant? Both books
help caregivers to feel less alone and to put
the life course in perspective, and both Fried
and Chast offer helpful advice along the way.
Meika Loe, author of Aging Our Way: Lessons for
Living from 85 and Beyond and The Rise of Viagra:
How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America

Ur b a n P l a n n i n g / P u b l i c H e a lt h / R e g i o n a l

Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living

Shaping the Healthy Community

The Nashville Plan
Gary Gaston and Christine Kreyling

he shape we give to our city in turn

shapes us. The form that Americans
began to give to their cities and suburbs
in the years following World War II has
molded an increasingly underactive, overweight population subject to a variety of
preventable diseases, as well as an environment with degraded air and water quality.
Shaping the Healthy Community explores
the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an
action plan for a healthier city.
The book analyzes Nashville using
the transect, an urban planning model
central to the New Urbanist and smart
growth movements. By considering the
seven transect zonesnatural, rural,
suburban, urban, downtown, centers, and
districtsthe book provides a diagnosis of
the health-promoting and health-defeating
aspects of each.
Strategies tailored to each zone focus
on six built environment factors that impact health: neighborhood design and

Twenty-first-century cities are reinventing

themselves, and the best and brightest want
to live in lively, healthy places. Cities must
tell their stories to the world, as Nashville has
done, beautifully.
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, was for nine years
Director of the CDCs National Center for Environmental
Health

evelopment, transportation, walkability

d
and pedestrian safety, food resources,
housing, and open space and parks. Individual chapters include case studies of specific neighborhoods, contributions by experts, infographics, site photographs, and
detailed before-and-after visualizations.
Shaping the Healthy Community pre
sents real world facts, policy recommendations, and design strategies to enable health
and planning professionals, developers and
designers, educators and community organizations to build places in which healthy
practices can be part of daily life.
Like The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to
a Great City, this book is a collaboration
of the Nashville Civic Design Center,
Vanderbilt University Creative Services,
and Vanderbilt University Press.

Nashville, the city that has shaped our popular

culture and made it global, now stands to
help us rethink our built environment. Though
this books focus is on one unique American
city, its findings provide metropolitan cultures
everywhere with a blueprint for healthy living.
With their thorough research and analysis, the
authors point the way to achieving the humanand Earth-centered places our century is ready
to embrace.
Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief,
Metropolis Magazine

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March 2016
352 pages, 11 x 9 inches
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Gary Gaston, Director of the Nashville Civic

Design Center, is a lecturer with the University of
Tennessee College of Architecture and Design.
He was co-author of Moving Tennessee Forward:
Models for Connecting Communities and executive
producer of the 2012 NEA-funded documentary
film Design Your Neighborhood.
Christine Kreyling is the author of The Plan of
Nashville and co-author of Classical Nashville,
both published by Vanderbilt University Press. As
the architecture and urban planning critic for the
Nashville Scene, she received three awards from
the American Planning Association for the best
writing in the nation. Kreyling was one of the
founders of the Nashville Urban Design Forum
and the Nashville Civic Design Center.

Nashville is already a national leader in the

health care industry, but I want nothing less
than for us to be a national leader in health.
As a physician and a policymaker, my mantra
has become make the healthy choice the easy
choice. Shaping the Healthy Community is
about just that.
from the Preface by Senator William H. Frist, MD

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Discovering popular culture around the world, and bringing it back to Cuba

Beyond Cuban Waters

frica, La Yuma, and the Islands Global Imagination
Pau l R y e r

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wenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural

stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism.
Nike products and poverty in Africa.
The New York Yankees and the meaning
of blackness. The quest for American
consumer goods and the struggle in Africa
for political and cultural independence
inform the daily life of Cubans at every
cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer
argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing
on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans,
this book examines Cuban understandings of the world and of Cubas place in it,
especially as illuminated by two contrasting notions: La Yuma, a distinctly Cuban
concept of the American experience, and

frica, the ideological understanding of

that continents experience. Ryer takes us
into the homes of Cuban families, out to
the streets and nightlife of bustling cities,
and on boat journeys that reach beyond
the typical destinations, all to better under
stand the nature of the cultural life of a
nation.
This pursuit of Western status symbols
represents a uniquely Cuban experience,
set apart from other cultures pursuing the
same things. In the Cuban case, this represents neither an acceptance nor rejection
of the American cultural influence, but
rather a co-opting or Yumanizing of
these influences.

Zeroing in on discourses of race in Cuba, Ryer

counterposes two imagined geographies:
the geography of management of the Cuban
state, which has insisted on an absence of racial
hierarchies and racism, and the geography of
desire in everyday conversations about racial
and national identity and the beckoning yet
forbidden capitalist world beyond the island. Ryer
is an endlessly fascinating and sure-footed guide
to the interplay of the global and local in Cuba.
David Luis-Brown, author of Waves of Decolonization:
Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba,
Mexico, and the United States
Paul Ryer is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at the University of
California, Riverside.

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H i s pa n i c S t u d i e s / R e l i g i o n / L i t e r at u r e / Afr i c a n S t u d i e s

From slavery to Veneration, the life story of an

eighteenth-century African nun

Black Bride of Christ

Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by
Sue E. Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero

eresa de Santo Domingo, born with

the name Chicaba, was a slave captured
in the territory known to seventeenthand eighteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese navigators and slave traffickers as La
Mina Baja del Oro, the part of West Africa
that extends through present-day eastern
Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria.
Upon the death of her Spanish master,
she was freed to enter a convent. The
Dominicans of La Penitencia in Salamanca
accepted her after she had been rejected
by several other monasteries because of
her skin color. Even in her own religious
community, race put her at a disadvantage
in the highly stratified social hierarchy
of monastic houses of the era. Her life
story is known to us through a document
entitled Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar

de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana

de Santo Domingo, which is the foundational documentary evidence in the case
for beatification of this nun, and as such it
is the most significant and comprehensive
source of information about her.
This volume, the first English translation of the Compendio, is a hagiography,
an example of a biographical genre that
recounts the lives and describes the spiritual practices of holy peoplesaints officially canonized by the Church, informally
recognized by local devotees, or respected
ecclesiastical leaders. The effort to have
Chicaba canonized continues today, as
Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in
their introduction to the volume.

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Sue E. Houchins is Associate Professor of

Womens & Gender Studies at Bates College and
editor of Spiritual Narratives.
Baltasar Fra-Molinero is Professor of Latin
American Studies at Bates College.

First and last pages of the Oracin fnebre,

published soon after Sor Teresa Chicabas
funeral in 1749. Chicabas epitaph is framed on
the last page. (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid)

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A need to vilify in an age of uncertainty and

the rise of anti-Semitism in Cuba

The Merchant of Havana

The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Stephen Silverstein

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s 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 and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became
organized in Cuba, the argument grew
that Jews participated in the African slave
trade and in New World slavery, and that

Silverstein puts a new twist to the discussion

about slavery and the rise of capitalism by
looking at the key role debt had in transforming
the upper echelons of Cuban society, and the
reason why the image of Shylock became so
rooted in their imaginary.
Ariana Huberman, author of Gauchos and Foreigners:
Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine
Countryside

Stephen Silverstein is Assistant Professor

of Spanish at Baylor University.

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this participation gave Jews extraordinary

influence in the new Cuban economy and
culture. What was remarkable about this
anti-Semitism was the decidedly small
Jewish population on the island in this era.
This form of anti-Semitism, Silverstein
reveals, sprang almost exclusively from
mythological beliefs.

[Silverstein] argues convincingly that we

can neither fully understand Afro-Cuban
racial identities nor the mechanism of racial
hierarchies in Cuba unless we also comprehend
the role of the merchant class, foreign-born
bourgeoisie, and the lexicon of Jewish usury in
nineteenth-century Cuba.
Amelia Weinreb, author of Cuba in the Shadow of
Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution

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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas

New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
Elise Bartosik-Vlez

America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during
the pre- and post-revolutionary periods,
New World societies commonly imagined
themselves as legitimate and powerful
independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of
Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had
been construed as a figure of empire for
centuries, fit perfectly into that framework.
By adopting him as a national symbol, New
World nationalists appeal to Old World
notions of empire.

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216 pages, 5.5 x 8.25 inches
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[T]his book should be of interest to many readers.

The fact that it is tightly argued and pleasantly
written will surely enhance its appeal.
Hispanic American Historical Review

Carl Sander Socolow

hy is the capital of the United States

named in part after Christopher

Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on
what would become the nations mainland?
Why did Spanish American nationalists
in 1819 name a new independent republic
Colombia, after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they
had recently broken free? These are only
two of the introductory questions explored
in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in
the Americas, a fundamental recasting of
Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in
imperial constructs.
Bartosik-Vlez seeks to explain the
meaning of Christopher Columbus
throughout the so-called New World,
first in the British American colonies and
the United States, as well as in Spanish

[Bartosik-Vlez] shows how the use of apocalyptic

and prophetic language, and specifically Columbuss
self-portrayal as a martyr as he fell from favor,
formed the basis for a rhetorical distancing from
the Spanish Empire upon which later nationalist
renditions would depend.
Kristine Ibsen, author of Maximilian, Mexico, and the
Invention of Empire

Elise Bartosik-Vlez is Associate Professor

of Spanish at Dickinson College.

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Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA

Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border
S u z a nn e S i m on

S
New paperback February 2016 (Cloth published 2014)
240 pages, 6 x 9 inches
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For applied and practicing anthropologists and

for teachers and students interested in social
justice initiatives, this is recommended reading
that imparts valuable lessons.
American Ethnologist

Simons study unveils the perverse nature of

[a] discourse of participation, sustainability,
and stewardship. The burden, ultimately, falls
not to the state but, rather, to the poor and
marginal, who must be unrelentingly resilient.
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA
attests to their struggles in a borderland world
that is rapidly turning into an environmental
wasteland.
American Anthropologist

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ustaining the Borderlands in the Age

of NAFTA provides the only book length study of the impact on residents
of the US-Mexico border of NAFTAs
Environmental and Labor Side Accords,
which required each state to enforce labor
and e nvironmental regulations. Through
field research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, anthropologist Suzanne Simon tests
the premise that the side accords would
encourage Mexican grassroots democratization. The effectiveness of the side accords
was tied to transparency and accountability
and practically bound to opportunities for
Mexican border populations to participate
in the side accord petitioning and civil society input mechanisms. Simon conducted
sixteen months of fieldwork with both a
group of environmental activists and a
group of those fighting for labor justice
in Mexico. Both of these groups became
enmeshed in the types of cross-border
advocacy networks and coalition building
efforts that are typical of the NAFTA era.
Although the key to the side accords
anticipated success lay in their ostensibly
generous encouragement of a participatory politics and sustainable development
opportunities, Sustaining the Borderlands
reveals that the Mexican border populations for which they were largely created
are effectively excluded from participating
due to the ongoing online, territorial,
class, and cultural barriers that shape the
borderlands. Rather than experiencing

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the side accords and their companion

institutions as transparent and accessible,
residents experienced them as opaque and
indecipherable. Simon concludes that the
side accords have failed to deliver on their
promise of bringing democracy to Mexico
because practical mechanisms that would
ensure their effective implementation were
never put in place.
NAFTA took effect at a time when
Mexico was undergoing a democratic
transition. The treaty was supposed to
encourage this transition and improve
environmental and labor conditions on
the US-Mexico border. This book demonstrates that, twenty years later, the promises
of NAFTA have not come to pass.

Suzanne Simon is Assistant Professor of

Anthropology at the University of North
Florida.

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