New This Week: December 3rd
It’s the first week of December and we have a fabulous selection of new titles in Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Military History, and Southern Studies. Keep scrolling to browse this week’s new book or head to our Hot Off The Press Page to see all of our November releases in one place.
Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery by Jenny Shaw
“An astoundingly detailed intimate history of slavery, servitude, kinship, and legacy originating on one late seventeenth-century Barbados plantation. . . . With The Women of Rendezvous, Jenny Shaw leads the field of gender and slavery into new methodological territory.”—Marisa J. Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
“This book is gorgeously written from the very first sentence. Through her impeccable scholarship and creative skill, Shaw turns scattered references to enslaved and free women into a coherent story of early modern women’s efforts toward family and freedom.”—Sharon Block, author of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner
“Scribner’s focus is novel: the American War for Independence needs environmental histories. This book is a pleasure to read, the scholarship is excellent, and it makes an important contribution to the historiography of the American War for Independence.”—Ricardo A. Herrera, author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
“With thorough research and a talent for vivid storytelling, Vaughn Scribner shows how British and German soldiers’ encounters with the American environment were not just hazardous and frustrating but downright disabling to their minds and bodies. Full of terror and wonder, this nimble, humane account changes our understanding of the American Revolutionary War experience. “—Benjamin Carp, author of The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
Money Isn’t Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto
“A pathbreaking study of gender and sexuality in modern Argentina. Patricio Simonetto’s cutting-edge analysis of sexual commerce and the construction of modern masculinities takes us beyond limited US and European models.”—Donna Guy, The Ohio State University
“Simonetto has rewritten the history of sex work in Argentina and provided scholars around the world with innovative ways to rethink the tangled web of sexuality, gender, capitalism, and the state.”—Jonathan Ablard, Ithaca College
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016 by Thad Williamson, Julian M. Hayter, Amy L. Howard
“The authors are deeply knowledgeable about Richmond and its politics, racial history, and leadership. . . . A much-needed thorough examination of modern urban crises and Richmond’s so-far limited efforts to improve the lives of its citizens.”—Library Journal, starred review
“The book—which focuses on Richmond history from 1988 to 2016 — is essential reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how Richmond landed at this particular intersection of fresh hope and lingering despair.”—Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch
In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland by Kyle E. Harvey
“This systematic history of Chilean-Argentine migration across the Andes deftly connects western Argentina to the Pacific world. Moving beyond national boundaries as containers of analysis, it offers instead a nuanced narrative rooted in the lived experience of rural Andean life.”—Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., author of Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
“Marvelous . . .Harvey tackles the issues head-on while still offering a discussion marked by both nuance and respect for the story. The arguments and structure alike are well balanced and rich and leave the reader wanting more in the best possible way.”—Benjamin D. Hopkins, author of Ruling the Savage Periphery