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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
Marie Deans, one of the most compassionate,
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
The death penalty has been the topic of heated
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 he C o ld W ar i n G L o b al P erspective
Vanderbilt University Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new
series The Cold War in Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. M
uehlenbeck.
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.
More information about the inaugural volume of the series, The Abongo Abroad:
Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 19591992,
can be found on page 6.
Today Americas death penalty seems to be in
thoughtful, committed, and humane people Ive decline and America seems to be on the road
ever known, hated to be thought of as the Angel to abolition. But if we look back into the late
of Death Row. She did work she thought was twentieth century, few could have foreseen such
urgently important but felt anyone could do and a possibility. Opposing the death penalty then
everyone should. And what she accomplished was very much an uphill struggle. A Courageous
in the years I knew her, cajoling attorneys to Fool offers a compelling account of that struggle.
take hard cases representing hopeless people, It does so by telling the story of Marie Deans, a
driving long hours to spend precious minutes little-known but important foot soldier in the
encouraging the condemned to think, to know abolition movement. This book tells that story in
their rights, and believe in themselves, made a nuanced and complex way. In the end it shows
broken men realize someone cared and helped that the struggle for justice is a very human one,
to heal wounded souls. She taught bitter men one in which heroic actions are carried on by
to laugh, and she wept as the state killed them. fools like Marie Deans.
The woman youll meet in this powerful book Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of
was not the Angel of Death Row, but somehow Jurisprudence, Amherst College, and author of Gruesome
miracles flourished in her wake. Spectacles: Botched Executions and Americas Death
Penalty
Mike Farrell, best known as BJ of TVs M*A*S*H, is the
author of Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and
Activist and Of Mule and Man A Courageous Fool is the riveting story of Marie
Deanss life and the death row prisoners she
befriended, defended, and frequently watched
debates and struggles for centuries, but few die in the electric chair in the Commonwealth of
participants have been the equal of Marie Virginia. Her heart broke every time. The authors
Deans. Yes, there have been many who have write that Marie Deans was neither a saint nor
publicly d ebated the issues, some who have had a psycho. But she differed from the rest of us in
star turns in the media, and others who have that she was incapable of turning a blind eye.
dabbled around the edges. More significantly, It takes first-rate biographers to do justice to a
lawyers and their teams have labored in the first-rate human being. Marie Deans got lucky.
trenches to save their clients lives. Few, if any, Phyllis Theroux, author of California and Other States
however, have worked so long and hard for so of Grace and The Good Bishop
little appreciation and reward as Marie Deans.
This wonderful tribute to her notes that Marie A powerful story of a Virginia heroine.
felt like the world had forgotten her. No chance. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)
Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law Emeritus, Ohio
Northern University, and author of Death Penalty for
Juveniles

The intimate biography of a death penalty opponent who, in Sister Helen
Prejeans words, worked like hell for justice for condemned men in South
Carolina and Virginia
A Courageous Fool
Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty
To d d C . P e pp e r s wi t h M a r g a r e t A . A n d e r s o n
T
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 circumstancesincluding the murder
of her beloved mother-in-lawinto 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.
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.
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 Maries 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.
Margaret A. Anderson is a
graduate student in public policy
analysis at the University of
Virginia.
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Some say Ive done a thing or two for human
rights, but next to Marie Deans Im 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 dont put it to work like hell for
justice? Marie wasnt a lawyer, but that didnt
stop her from learning the Constitution on her
own so she could fight smart for the rights of her
clients.
Maries 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
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Ar t / Ar t History
A Frist Center for the Visual Arts Title
October 2016
136 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches
80 color illustrations, 44 color plates
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Kathryn E. Delmez is a curator at
the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
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.
Shinique Smith
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A collection of exuberant, multidimensional sculptures and paintings by a
contemporary American artist
Shinique Smith
Wonder and Rainbows
Edited by K at h r y n E . D e l m e z
L
ike spiral galaxies composed of millions
of orbiting stars, the works of New
York Statebased 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 Smiths paintings, these elements
intermingle 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
Smiths 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 M ergel, the Robert L. Beal, Enid L.
Beal, and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.
John Schweikert

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 Donelson
Jacksonian and Unionist
R . D o u g l a s Sp e n c e
T
his richly detailed biography of Andrew
Jackson Donelson (17991871) 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 uncles secretary, he weathered
Old Hickorys tumultuous presidency,
including the notorious Petticoat War.
Building his own political career,
he served as US charg daffaires to the
Republic of Texas, where he struggled to
achieve annexation against an enigmatic
President Sam Houston, British and French
US H i s t o r y / P o l i t i c s / T e n n e s s e e H i s t o r y
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 A New Perspectives on Jacksonian America
attempted as editor of the Washington Series Title
Union to reunite the Democratic party,
and, when he failed, he was nominated July 2017
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as Millard Fillmores vice-presidential
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running mate on the Know Nothing party
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ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War
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wreck the Union he loved, devastate his
farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.
Rafael Aguilera
R. Douglas Spence is Associate Professor
of Biology at the University of Texas of the
Permian Basin.
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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 / US H i s t o r y
The paradox of repeated failures to amend the Constitution
S
June 2017
288 pages, 6 x 9 inches
notes, bibliography, cases cited, index
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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.
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How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution
Mobilize Political Change
Roger C. Hartley
ince the Constitutions 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 countermobilization).
Similarly, the Supreme Courts ban on
compulsory school prayer led to a barrage
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
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.
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 Hartleys 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 Constitutions existing text does and should
mean.
Douglas NeJaime, Professor of Law and Faculty
Director of the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
 Glo b a l H e a lt h / H IV & AI 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 l o 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
Mistreated
The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
Nora Kenworthy
A
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 worlds
second-highest HIV prevalence, HIV treat-
ment has had unintentional but pervasive
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.
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.
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 responses that it has generated at every level,
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.
Joo 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
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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.
Nora Kenworthys new book is the finest example of
a new wave of ethnographic studies documenting
the impact of the HIV epidemic, and of the
from the global to the local. Kenworthys analysis
provides key insights into the political dimensions
of the epidemicnot 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
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C o ld Wa r S t u d i e s / M i l i ta r y H i s t o r y / I n t e r n at i o n a l R e l at i o n s
A Cold War in Global Perspective SERIES TITLE
May 2017
288 pages, 6 x 9 inches
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New Series
Announcing the inaugural volume in
The Cold War in Global P erspective, 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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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
The Abongo Abroad
Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World,
19591992
J o h n V. C lu n e
B
lending African social history with US families would forge. As an act of faith,
foreign relations, John V. Clune docu- American military assistance policy with
ments how ordinary people experienced Ghana remained remarkably consistent
a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The despite little evidence that military educa-
book describes how military-sponsored tion and training in the United States pro-
international travel, especially military duced any measurable results.
training abroad and United Nations peace- Merging newly discovered docu-
keeping deployments in the Sinai and ments from Ghanas armed forces and
Lebanon, altered Ghanaian service mem- declassified sources on American military
bers and their families during the three assistance to Africa, this work argues that
decades after gaining independence in military-sponsored travel made individual
1957. Military assistance to Ghana included Ghanaians outlooks on the world more
sponsoring training and education in the international, just as military assistance
United States, and American policymakers planners hoped they would, but the Gha-
imagined that national modernization naian state struggled to turn that new iden-
would result from the personal relation- tity into political or economic progress.
ships Ghanaian service members and their
John Clunes 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.
John V. Clune is Assistant Professor
of History at the United States Air Timothy H. Parsons, author of The African Rank-and-
File and The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of
Force Academy.
Modern East Africa

The hidden battlefront of the Cold War era: the fight against gender norms
and roles
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War
A Global Perspective
Edited by P h i l i p E . M u e h l e n b e ck
A
s Marko Dumani 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-
contents
Introduction
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Histories of
Gender and Sexuality during the Cold
War
Marko Dumani Manning the Enemy: US Perspectives
Part I: Sexuality
Faceless and Stateless: French
Occupation Policy toward Women
and Children in Postwar Germany
(19451949)
Katherine Rossy
Patriarchy and Segregation: Policing
Sexuality in US-Icelandic Military
Relations
Valur Ingimundarson
Queer(ing) Subversives in Cold War
Canada
Patrizia Gentile
H i s t o r y / P o l i t i c a l Sc 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 u a l i t y
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 May 2017
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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. Philip E. Muehlenbeck is Professorial
Lecturer in History at The George Washington
University. He is the author of Betting on the
Africans: John F. Kennedys 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
Non-religious Activities: Sex, Mobilizing Women? State Feminisms in
Anticommunism, and Progressive Communist Czechoslovakia and Socialist Press).
Christianity in Late Cold War Brazil Egypt
Benjamin A. Cowan May Hawas and Philip E. Muehlenbeck
A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War The volumes global reach is impressive. It covers
on International Birthrates during the Story: Duc Hoan, 19372003
Cold War Karen Turner some fifteen nations drawn from both the
Kathleen A. Tobin global north and the global south, and it brings
Global Feminism and Cold War
Part II: Femininities Paradigms: Womens International NGOs together an unusual array of international
and the United Nations, 19701985
Indian Peasant Womens Activism in a Karen Garner
scholars. As a result, it promises to fill a
Hot Cold War significant gap in the scholarship by showing
Elisabeth Armstrong Part III: Masculinities
that the role of gender and sexuality in shaping
The Medicalization of Childhood in Men of the World or Uniformed Boys? domestic and foreign policy was not limited to
Mexico during the Early Cold War, Hegemonic Masculinity and the British
19451960 Army in the Era of the Korean War the US but extended globally.
Nichole Sanders Grace Huxford
Robert Corber, author of Cold War Femme: Lesbianism,
Africas Kitchen Debate: Ghanaian Yuri Gagarin and Celebrity Masculinity in National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
Domestic Space in the Age of Cold War Soviet Culture
Jeffrey S. Ahlman Erica L. Fraser
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L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s / T r a n s at l a n t i c S t u d i e s / L i t e r at u r e / Ed u c at i o n

How the Lima literary community influenced education, publishing,

and a new equality in the postcolonial American world

The Moral Electricity of Print

Transatlantic Education and the Lima Womens Circuit, 18761910
Ronald Briggs

April 2017
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M
oral electricitya 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 wasnt
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.

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
Liz Van Hoose

interpretations, always linking back to the Lima

group. The narrative is graceful, clear, and direct, all
characteristic of Briggss style.
Ronald Briggs is Associate Professor of William Acree, author of Everyday Reading: Print Culture and
Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Collective Identity in the Ro de la Plata, 17801910
Barnard College and author of Tropes of
Enlightenment in the Age of Bolvar: Simn
Rodrguez and the American Essay at
Revolution (also published by Vanderbilt
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