Books from Vanderbilt University Press
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
By William C. Van NormanIn this broad, interdisciplinary study, William Van Norman describes how each type of plantation and the amount of manual labor it required directly influenced the nature of slave life in that community.
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Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America
By William K. Bolt1832; William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836 (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), 272–73; Joseph H. Parks, Felix Grundy: Champion of Democracy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State ...
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The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959-1992
By John V. CluneCollins, Robert O., and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. 2nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Cooper, Frederick. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California ...
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Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
By Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol wrote some letters to his friends, none of which were a nose of high rank. Many are reproduced here (the letters, not noses).
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A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty
By Todd C. Peppers, Margaret A. AndersonDuring the attack, Horn stated that the man told her to be quiet or he “was going to do me like he did that girl on Slate Creek.” Horn added that her friends later explained to her that the “girl on Slate Creek” was Wanda McCoy.
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A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty
By Todd C. Peppers, Margaret A. AndersonRicky visited with Mrs. Shaw for over an hour as the unsuspecting woman served him three cups of tea. At 8:30 p.m., Boggs suddenly rose and repeatedly hit Mrs. Shaw with the round piece of steel. She fell to the floor.
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Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
By Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Carol B. LiebmanA few months later, Mr. Samuels complained of pain in his side and back, which Dr. Peterman initially thought was due to fractured ribs caused by several falls. Eventually Mr. Samuels was admitted to the hospital with severe back pain; ...
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Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care
By Lori Freedman“DataWatch. Physician employment patterns: Challenging conventional wisdom.” Health Affairs (Millwood) 7:137–45. Maslach, C. 1982. Burnout: The cost of caring. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. McKinlay, J. B., and L. D. Marceau.
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Enter Rabelais, Laughing
By Barbara C. BowenOn a broad level, Enter Rabelais, Laughing serves as an excellent introduction to French Renaissance literature and exhibits a remarkably charming and lucid writing style, free of jargon.
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The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers
By Ryan C. Hendrickson42 In effect , Congress's resolution provided Johnson the blank check he sought to begin a fullscale military operation in Vietnam . Throughout the fighting in Southeast Asia , this resolution was the principal means by which Johnson ...
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Classical Nashville: Athens of the South
By Christine KreylingClassical Nashville celebrates the continuation of classical ideals in present-day Nashville, ideals that serve not as monuments to a lost past, but as sources of energy, creativity, and imagination for the future of a city.
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Obesity Among Poor Americans: Is Public Assistance the Problem?
By Patricia K. SmithFrongillo, E., Jyoti, D., and Jones, S. 2006. “Food Stamp Participation Is Associated with Better Academic Learning among School Children.” Journal of Nutrition 136 (4): 1077–80. Frongillo, E., Olson, C., Rauschenbach, B., and Kendall, ...
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Andrew Jackson Donelson: Jacksonian and Unionist
By Richard Douglas Spence... 27 Jackson and, 34, 35, 108 Eaton, Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, 36–37, 39–42, 43–46, 47–60, 62–65 Eckford, John, ... 228 Forsyth, John, 84 Foster, Ephraim H., 298n20 Foster, Winslow, 130 Franz Joseph, Emperor, 192 Free-Soil Party, ...
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
By Andrew MaranissThe team's publicity man, Bill Stewart, tried his hardest to walk the standard tightrope—generating excitement while not raising expectations so high that they would become a burden to Skinner. “Cautious optimism is the watchword for ...
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Domesticating Empire: Enlightenment in Spanish America
By Karen StolleyThis question was prompted by research for the chapter on eighteenthcentury narrative that I was writing at the time for the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, edited by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker.
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
By Rachel Louise Martin410248137, Dorothy Lee Prince [Dorothy Lee Wright] [Dorothy Davis], digital image, Ancestry.com, accessed December 3, 2019, http://ancestry.com. 29. Davidson County, Tennessee, death certificate no. 20878 (1946), Jasper Lee Prince, ...
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Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative
By Wendy B. FarisAnd soon , Tita cooks quail in a sauce made from the rose petals of a bouquet that Pedro has given her . The dish communicates her forbidden feelings of love to Pedro , to whom it tastes like “ the pleasure of the gods .
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How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change
By Roger C. HartleyReed, where the Court merely applied a rational basis test to find that the classification at issue lacked a rational relationship to any legitimate governmental interest.40 Three cases between 1870 and 1895 had upheld state-sponsored ...
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The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy & Waste Management
By Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. LowrieJohn T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, University of California (hosted); Gerhard Peters (database). www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43393. Text: Partial text in Legislation on foreign ...
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The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy & Waste Management
By Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. LowrieMichael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. Lowrie, Henry J. Mayer. cultural artifacts. ... however, does have provisions related to fine particulate emissions that could require U.S. utilities to re-evaluate reliance on coal.