scholarly journals Book Reviews

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Robert N. Seidel ◽  
Raymond G. Hebert ◽  
Richard D. Schubart ◽  
H. Roger Grant ◽  
William F. Mugleston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Junior College ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The People

Gerda Lerner. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 509. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $7.95; Caroline Bird. Enterprising Women. New York: Mentor Books, 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95; Anne F. Scott and Andrew M. Scott. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. Pp. xiii, 173. Paper, $3.25. Review by Sally G. Allen of Hampshire College. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Collins. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. 1976. Pp. 309. Paper, $2.50; Robert Douglas Mead, ed. Colonial American Literature: From Wilderness to Independence. New York: Mentor Books. 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95. Review by Robert K. Peters of Texas A&M University. Harry P. Owens, ed. Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Pp. xii, 188. Cloth, $8.50; paper, $3.50. Review by William F. Mugleston of Albany Junior College. Carl N. Degler. The Age of the Economic Revolution, 1876-1900. 2nd edition. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1977. Paper, $4.50; Walter T. K. Nugent. From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876-1917. Indianapolois: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Paper, $3.95. Review by H. Roger Grant of The University of Akron. The Staff, Social Sciences 1, University of Chicago, eds. The People Shall Judge. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1949, 1976. Pp. xiv, 244; vii, 452. Paper, $5.95 per vol. Review by Noel C. Eggleston of Radford College. Kenneth M. Roemer. The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976. $10.00; Paul Kagan. New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Paper, $5.95. Review by Richard D. Schubart of Phillips Exeter Academy. A. J. P. Taylor, Essays in English History. New York: Penguin Books in assocation with Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Pp. 335. Paper, $2.95. Review by Raymond G. Herbert of Thomas More College. Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith, eds. New Approaches to Latin American History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 275. $8.75. Review by Robert N. Seidel of Empire State College, Rochester Center.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-130
Author(s):  
Andrew Barnfield ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
African City ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
And Migration ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Being Lighter Than Air Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback) Challenging Landscapes of Confinement Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 352 pp. £81 (hardback). “Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30 (paperback). Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback). Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback). The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30 (paperback). A Sense of What Commuting Takes David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback). Vanishing Point? The City after the Car Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter, Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT Press), 326 pp, $29.95 Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25. Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv + 328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback). No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)

scholarly journals Introduction: Words and Deeds: Racial and Gender Dialogue, Identity, and Conflict in the Viceroyalty of New Spain

1998 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-489
Author(s):  
Kimberly S. Hanger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Conference Papers

The genesis for this special issue on "Words and Deeds" was a panel discussion held in conjunction with the January 1997 joint meeting of the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association in New York City. Participants Richard Boyer, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Kimberly Hanger, and Jane Landers presented the papers included in this volume. The essays all flowed together so nicely and initiated such a lively exchange among panelists and the audience that the editors of The Americas asked us to prepare them for publication, incorporating some of the commentary offered at the session. What you read in the following pages is a result of that process, although we still think it rather ironic that a journal produced by the Academy of American Franciscan History should want to include articles with so many off-color words and references to sexual conduct and violence!The fact that these essays generated such interest as conference papers and appear in this special issue of The Americas confirms the value cultural historians are placing on the study of insults, conflicts, and other confrontational behavior to reconstruct societal norms and worldviews and assess challenges to them. What constituted an insult or defined anti-social behavior reveals much about what the community considered each person's position in it; resistance to one's assigned role and identity or objection to someone else misconstruing this identity unmasked a sense of injustice that community members, especially its leaders, had to rectify in order to maintain social order.

Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-437
Author(s):  
Olivia Cosentino ◽  
Niamh Thornton ◽  
Natália Pinazza ◽  
Sharonah Fredrick ◽  
Marc Ripley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Transnational Cinema ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Latin American Cinema

La India María: Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco, Seraina Rohrer (2018) Austin: University of Texas Press, 220 pp., ISBN 978-1-47731-345-9, p/bk, $29.95 USDMexican Transnational Cinema and Literature, Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Mauricio Díaz Calderón and James Ramey (eds) (2017) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 312 pp., ISBN 978-1-78707-066-0, p/bk, $69.95The Latin American (Counter-)Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity, Nadia Lie (2017) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 260 pp., ISBN: 9783319435534, h/bk, £57.65, p/bk, £71.96Evolvi ng Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema, Norah Glickman and Ariana Huberman (eds) (2018) Austin: University of Texas Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47731-471-5, p/bk $29.95 USDThe Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy and Sci-Fi, Shelagh Rowan-Legg (2016) London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 214 pp., ISBN 978 1 78453 677 0, h/bk, $103.50; e-book, $82.80

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