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U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S Svanderbilt

Spring & Summer 2017

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African Studies 5

Anthropology 5

Art 2

Art History 2

Cold War Studies 6

Criminology 1

Education 8

Gender Studies 7

Global Health 5

History 7

HIV & AIDS 5

International Development 5

International Relations 6, 7

Latin American Studies 8

Law 1, 4

Literature 8

Military History 6

Political Science 7

Politics 3, 4, 5

Public Policy 1

Sexuality 7

Social Movements 4

Tennessee History 3

Transatlantic Studies 8

US History 3, 4

New TitleSubject Index

cover illustration:Shinique Smith. Gifted (detail), 2014. Ink, acrylic, paper, fabric collage, and found objects on canvas over wood panel. Private collection. © Shinique Smith

T H E C o L D W A R I n G L o b A L P E R S P E C T I V E

Vanderbilt University Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new series The Cold War in Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck.

This series aims to publish innovative books that combine methods of political and cultural history, utilize previously untapped materials from foreign archives, and make significant contributions to the histori ography of social and cultural aspects of the Cold War.

More information about the inaugural volume of the series, The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992, can be found on page 6.

“Marie Deans, one of the most compassionate, thoughtful, committed, and humane people I’ve ever known, hated to be thought of as the ‘Angel of Death Row.’ She did work she thought was urgently important but felt anyone could do and everyone should. And what she accomplished in the years I knew her, cajoling attorneys to take hard cases representing hopeless people, driving long hours to spend precious minutes encouraging the condemned to think, to know their rights, and believe in themselves, made broken men realize someone cared and helped to heal wounded souls. She taught bitter men to laugh, and she wept as the state killed them. The woman you’ll meet in this powerful book was not the Angel of Death Row, but somehow miracles flourished in her wake.” — Mike Farrell, best known as BJ of TV’s M*A*S*H, is the author of Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist and Of Mule and Man

“The death penalty has been the topic of heated debates and struggles for centuries, but few participants have been the equal of Marie Deans. Yes, there have been many who have publicly debated the issues, some who have had star turns in the media, and others who have dabbled around the edges. More significantly, lawyers and their teams have labored in the trenches to save their clients’ lives. Few, if any, however, have worked so long and hard for so little appreciation and reward as Marie Deans. This wonderful tribute to her notes that ‘Marie felt like the world had forgotten her.’ No chance.” — Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law Emeritus, Ohio Northern University, and author of Death Penalty for Juveniles

“Today America’s death penalty seems to be in decline and America seems to be on the road to abolition. But if we look back into the late twentieth century, few could have foreseen such a possibility. Opposing the death penalty then was very much an uphill struggle. A Courageous Fool offers a compelling account of that struggle. It does so by telling the story of Marie Deans, a little-known but important foot soldier in the abolition movement. This book tells that story in a nuanced and complex way. In the end it shows that the struggle for justice is a very human one, one in which heroic actions are carried on by

‘fools’ like Marie Deans.” — Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence, Amherst College, and author of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty

“A Courageous Fool is the riveting story of Marie Deans’s life and the death row prisoners she befriended, defended, and frequently watched die in the electric chair in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her heart broke every time. The authors write that Marie Deans was neither a saint nor a psycho. But she differed from the rest of us in that she was incapable of turning a blind eye. It takes first-rate biographers to do justice to a first-rate human being. Marie Deans got lucky.” — Phyllis Theroux, author of California and Other States of Grace and The Good Bishop

“A powerful story of a Virginia heroine.” — Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)

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Todd C. Peppers, Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College and Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, is co-author of Anatomy of an Execution: The Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas.

here have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances—including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law—into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the “machinery of death.”

The intimate biography of a death penalty opponent who, in Sister Helen Prejean’s words, “worked like hell for justice” for condemned men in South Carolina and Virginia

A Courageous FoolMarie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death PenaltyT o d d C . P e P P e r s w i t h M a r g a r e T a . a n d e r s o n

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Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie’s time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exon-erate the innocent and the lows of standing watch in the death house with thirty- four condemned men.

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328 pages, 7 x 10 inches

49 b&w photographs, notes, appendixes, index

hardcover $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2160-6

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“Some say I’ve done a thing or two for human rights, but next to Marie Deans I’m a pale little wimp. She and I believed in the same kind of scrappy Jesus. Marie used to say, ‘Faith? What good is it if you don’t put it to work like hell for justice?’ Marie wasn’t a lawyer, but that didn’t stop her from learning the Constitution on her own so she could fight smart for the rights of her clients. Marie’s soul was so wide.Her spirit so truthful.Her being so passionate and generous.Her language so salty and her humor so outrageous. All of which kept me sane through many a tortuous ordeal. Thank God we have this book so others can meet her and love her, too.” — Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking

Margaret a. anderson is a graduate student in public policy analysis at the University of Virginia.

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Kathryn e. delmez is a curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

a r t / a r t H i s to r y

A collection of exuberant, multidimensional sculptures and paintings by a contemporary American artist

ike spiral galaxies composed of millions of orbiting stars, the works of New York State–based artist Shinique Smith are graceful yet forceful combinations of many different materials and ideas. The wide range of inspirations that inform her artistic practice includes dance, Eastern spiritual philosophies, fashion, graffiti, music, childhood wonder, Japanese callig-raphy, and poetry.

Smith makes her sculptures, which hang from the ceiling or sit directly on the floor, by binding together an array of textiles, typically old clothing sourced from multiple locations, with knotted cords and ribbons. Tucked within the folds of fabric are seemingly unimportant items from everyday life such as artificial flowers, butterfly decals, and stuffed ani-mals. In Smith’s paintings, these elements

Shinique SmithWonder and Rainbowsedited by K aT h r y n e . d e l M e z

inter mingle with cloth fragments, bold calligraphic brushwork, and vivid waves of color to create energetic expressions of her personal history as well as a greater sense of cultural concern and cosmic connec-tivity.

In addition to an introduction to Smith’s work by Kathryn Delmez, cura-tor of an accompanying exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the book includes a biography and bibliography of Shinique Smith, a statement by the artist (“Black Wonder and Rainbows”), and an interview with her conducted by Jen Mergel, the Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal, and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

A FrISt CeNter For the VISuAl ArtS tItle

october 2016

136 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches

80 color illustrations, 44 color plates

paperback $29.95t ISBN 978-0-8265-2158-3

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Shinique Smith. Black/Blue/Green/Yellow/Orange/Red/Pink, 2015. Clothing, fabric, and ribbon on wood panel.

Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery, Miami.

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his richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871) sheds new light on the political and per-sonal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those integral but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle’s secretary, he weathered Old Hickory’s tumultuous presidency, including the notorious “Petticoat War.”

Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d’affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled to achieve annexa tion against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French

u s H i s to r y / P o L i t i C s / t e n n e s s e e H i s to r y

The biography of a figure involved in four decades of US politics, his life tracing the Age of Jackson, the European revolutions of 1848, the Sectional Crisis, and the Civil War

Andrew Jackson DonelsonJacksonian and Unionistr . d o u g l a s s P e n C e

A NeW PeRSPectiveS oN JackSoNiaN aMeRica SerIeS tItle

July 2017

448 pages, 7 x 10 inches

notes, bibliography, index

cloth $39.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2163-7

ebook $9.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-2165-1

intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore’s vice-presidential running mate on the Know Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.

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r. douglas spence is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

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roger C. hartley, Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America, teaches constitutional law and labor

law. He is co-author of Labor Relations Law in the Private Sector.

L aw / P o L i t i C s / s o C i a L m o v e m e n t s / u s H i s to r y

The paradox of repeated failures to amend the Constitution

ince the Constitution’s ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Con-gress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amend-ments have been approved in 225 years. Why do members of Congress continue to introduce amendments at a pace of almost two hundred a year?

This book demonstrates how social reformers and politicians have used the amendment process to achieve favorable political results even as their proposed amendments have failed. For example, the ERA “failed” in the sense that it was never ratified, but the mobilization to ratify the ERA helped build the feminist movement (and also sparked a counter mobilization). Similarly, the Supreme Court’s ban on compulsory school prayer led to a barrage

How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Changer o g e r C . h a r T l e y

of proposed amendments to reverse the decision. They failed to achieve the requi-site two-thirds support from Congress, but nevertheless had an impact on the political landscape. The definition of the relation-ship between Congress and the president in the conduct of foreign policy can also be traced directly to failed efforts to amend the Constitution during the Cold War.

Roger Hartley examines familiar examples like the ERA, balanced bud-get amendment proposals, and pro-life attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, but also takes the reader on a three-century tour of lesser-known amendments. He explains how often the mere threat of calling a con-stitutional convention (at which anything could happen) effects political change.

June 2017

288 pages, 6 x 9 inches

notes, bibliography, cases cited, index

hardcover $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2148-4

paperback $27.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2149-1

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“Hartley provides a comprehensive and useful framework for thinking about the role that efforts to pass constitutional amendments, especially those efforts that fail, play in constitutional, political, and social change. Through Hartley’s lens, we see how failed attempts to change the text of the Constitution may actually spur constitutional change by voicing and channeling arguments about what the Constitution’s existing text does and should mean.” — Douglas NeJaime, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law

“With insightful examples, Roger Hartley explains how the political initiative of failed amendments can force rethinking and corrections in judicial rulings, illustrating how the general public often understands the Constitution better than the Supreme Court.” — Louis Fisher, Scholar in Residence, The Constitution Project

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s global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly “scaled up” programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts.

In Lesotho, which has the world’s second- highest HIV prevalence, HIV treat-ment has had unintentional but pervasive

g Lo b a L H e a Lt H / H i v & a i D s / a f r i C a n s t u D i e s / P o L i t i C s / i n t e r n at i o n a L D e v e Lo P m e n t / a n t H r o P o Lo g y

A critical ethnography of global health initiatives, showing how, even as they save lives, they can usher in new forms of disenfranchisement for citizens in African states

Mistreatedthe Political consequences of the Fight against aiDS in Lesothon o r a K e n w o r T h y

June 2017

264 pages, 6 x 9 inches

9 b&w photos, 4 figures, references, notes, index

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political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social con-tract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chill-ingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014.

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nora Kenworthy is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell and adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington Seattle.

“This book should be required reading in any course on global health. It leads us to consider the legacy and unintended consequences of HIV scale-up, scale-down on recipient societies dependent on external aid and to question the HIV experience as a template for future global health projects. Kenworthy provides us with a multi-site ethnography that aptly illustrates ways in which global health is becoming a form of governance undermining struggles for democracy in African states by introducing yet another form of colonialism.” — Mark Nichter, author of Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter

“Mistreated is a timely, people-centered critique of the global health enterprise. Grounded in close-up, careful, ethnographic engagement and offering rich and nuanced theoretical insight, the book takes up HIV in Lesotho as a site not only of health, illness, and interventionism, but of the transformation of politics and subjectivity. Vividly narrated, this is a powerful and much-needed call for the democratization of global health policies.” — João Biehl, author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival and co-author of When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health

“Nora Kenworthy’s new book is the finest example of a new wave of ethnographic studies documenting the impact of the HIV epidemic, and of the responses that it has generated at every level, from the global to the local. Kenworthy’s analysis provides key insights into the political dimensions of the epidemic—not only into the more abstract dimensions of biopower and governmentality, but also in the ways in which the politics of AIDS play out in the everyday experience of people confronting the epidemic on the ground. This is critical social research at its very best.” — Richard G. Parker, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and editor-in-chief of Global Public Health

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.

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John V. Clune is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy.

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How the Cold War strategy of military education and training sponsored by the United States led to an alternate global identity for some Ghanaian families

lending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune docu- ments how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military- sponsored inter national travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peace-keeping deployments in the Sinai and Leba non, altered Ghanaian service mem-bers and their families during the three decades after gaining independence in 1957. Military assistance to Ghana included sponsoring training and education in the United States, and American policymakers imagined that national modernization would result from the personal relation-ships Ghanaian service members and their

The Abongo AbroadMilitary-Sponsored travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992J o h n V. C lu n e

families would forge. As an act of faith, American military assistance policy with Ghana remained remarkably consistent despite little evidence that military educa-tion and training in the United States pro-duced any measurable results.

Merging newly discovered docu-ments from Ghana’s armed forces and declassified sources on American military assistance to Africa, this work argues that military-sponsored travel made individual Ghanaians’ outlooks on the world more inter national, just as military assistance planners hoped they would, but the Gha-naian state struggled to turn that new iden-tity into political or economic progress.

A coLD WaR iN GLobaL PeRSPective SerIeS tItle

May 2017

288 pages, 6 x 9 inches

3 tables, bibliography, index

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“John Clune’s masterful The Abongo Abroad productively and provocatively pushes the growing literature on African military institutions into the post-colonial era. Focusing on Ghanaian soldiers and their families, Clune convincingly argues that peace-keeping operations, international military educational exchange programs, and other ‘modernizing’ nation-building initiatives fostered a new military internationalism that transcended the limits of the African nation-state. This fresh and innovative social history will interest Africanists of all disciplines and scholars of American foreign relations and international peace and security.” — Timothy H. Parsons, author of The African Rank-and- File and The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

Announcing the inaugural volume in the cold War in Global Perspective, a new series edited by Philip e. Muehlenbeck

This series aims to publish innovative books that combine methods of political and cultural history, utilize previously untapped materials from foreign archives, and make significant contributions to the historiography of social and cultural aspects of the Cold War.

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s Marko Dumančić writes in his intro- duction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, “despite the centrality of gen-der and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War. . . . It is not an exaggeration to say that few were left unaffected by Cold War gender politics; even those who were in charge of produc-ing, disseminating, and enforcing cultural norms were called on to live by the gender and sexuality models into which they breathed life.” This underscores the impor-tance of this volume, as here scholars tackle issues ranging from depictions of mascu-

H i s to r y / P o L i t i C a L s C i e n C e / i n t e r n at i o n a L r e L at i o n s / g e n D e r s t u D i e s / s e x ua L i t y

The hidden battlefront of the Cold War era: the fight against gender norms and roles

Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold Wara Global Perspectiveedited by P h i l i P e . M u e h l e n b e C K

May 2017

312 pages, 7 x 10 inches

6 b&w illustrations, references, notes, index

cloth $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2142-2

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linity during the all-consuming space race, to the vibrant activism of Indian peasant women during this period, to the policing of sexuality inside the militaries of the world.

Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose combined research spans fifteen countries across five continents, claiming a place as the first volume to examine how issues of gender and sexuality impacted both the domestic and foreign policies of states, far beyond the borders of the United States, during the tumult of the Cold War.

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Philip e. Muehlenbeck is Professorial Lecturer in History at The George Washington University. He is the author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders and editor of Religion and the Cold War and Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War (also published by Vanderbilt University Press).

“The volume’s global reach is impressive. It covers some fifteen nations drawn from both the global north and the global south, and it brings together an unusual array of international scholars. As a result, it promises to fill a significant gap in the scholarship by showing that the role of gender and sexuality in shaping domestic and foreign policy was not limited to the US but extended globally.” — Robert Corber, author of Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema

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introduction

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Histories of Gender and Sexuality during the Cold WarMarko Dumančić

Part i: Sexuality

Faceless and Stateless: French Occupation Policy toward Women and Children in Postwar Germany (1945–1949)Katherine Rossy

Patriarchy and Segregation: Policing Sexuality in US-Icelandic Military RelationsValur Ingimundarson

Queer(ing) Subversives in Cold War CanadaPatrizia Gentile

“Non-religious Activities”: Sex, Anticommunism, and Progressive Christianity in Late Cold War BrazilBenjamin A. Cowan

Manning the Enemy: US Perspectives on International Birthrates during the Cold WarKathleen A. Tobin

Part ii: Femininities

Indian Peasant Women’s Activism in a Hot Cold WarElisabeth Armstrong

The Medicalization of Childhood in Mexico during the Early Cold War, 1945–1960Nichole Sanders

Africa’s Kitchen Debate: Ghanaian Domestic Space in the Age of Cold WarJeffrey S. Ahlman

Mobilizing Women? State Feminisms in Communist Czechoslovakia and Socialist EgyptMay Hawas and Philip E. Muehlenbeck

A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story: Duc Hoan, 1937–2003Karen Turner

Global Feminism and Cold War Paradigms: Women’s International NGOs and the United Nations, 1970–1985Karen Garner

Part iii: Masculinities

“Men of the World” or “Uniformed Boys”? Hegemonic Masculinity and the British Army in the Era of the Korean WarGrace Huxford

Yuri Gagarin and Celebrity Masculinity in Soviet CultureErica L. Fraser

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The Moral Electricity of Printtransatlantic education and the Lima Women’s circuit, 1876–1910ronald briggs

How the Lima literary community influenced education, publishing, and a new equality in the postcolonial American world

oral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shap-ing a greater society. This concept wasn’t strictly an American idea, of course, and Ronald Briggs introduces us to one of the greatest examples of this power: the literary scene in Lima, Peru, in the nineteenth cen-tury. As Briggs notes in the introduction to The Moral Electricity of Print, “the ideological glue that holds the American hemisphere together is a hope for the New

World as a grand educational project com-bined with an anxiety about the baleful influence of a politically and morally deca-dent Old World that dominated literary output through its powerful publishing interests.” The very nature of living as a writer and participating in the literary salons of Lima was, by definition, a revolu-tionary act that gave voice to the formerly colonized and now liberated people. In the actions of this literary community, as men and women worked toward the same edu-cational goals, we see the birth of a truly independent Latin American literature.

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“By emphasizing Lima and the connections that linked intellectuals based there to debates and processes in Europe and the United States, Briggs makes a seminal contribution to expanding hemispheric American studies from a Latin American (and a Latin Americanist) perspective. He does so through an ambitious reading of a broad group of sources across the Americas, with bold interpretations, always linking back to the Lima group. The narrative is graceful, clear, and direct, all characteristic of Briggs’s style.” — William Acree, author of Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780–1910

April 2017

272 pages, 7 x 10 inches

4 b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, index

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ronald briggs is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College and author of Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolívar: Simón Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution (also published by Vanderbilt University Press).

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Credit: Credit will be allowed at invoiced discounts. For this reason, the appropriate invoice numbers are required. If invoice numbers are not supplied, credit will be issued at the maximum applicable discount. Only books bought from the publisher will be credited. Claims for damaged books, wrong titles, short shipments, etc., must be made within sixty days from invoice date.

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Review Copies Please submit your request on letterhead by fax or mail to:Marketing DepartmentVanderbilt University Press PMB 351813 Nashville, TN 37235-1813 fax (615) 343-8823or email:[email protected]

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Direct orders from individuals are accepted at the above address and numbers, but prepayment, including shipping charges, must be provided in US funds by check, money order, or credit card (Visa, Mastercard) drawn on a US bank.

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