Category: International Studies

• #ASA2014 Featured Author: Ana Lucia Araujo

  Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history and director of graduate studies at Howard University, has published highly acclaimed books on slavery. Two of these books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade are the perfect studies for this year’s African Studies Association annual meeting theme. Her interdisciplinary books, which have earned…

  Cambria Press

  November 17, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies

  #ASA2014, academic publisher, African Studies Association, Ana Lucia Araujo, Benin, black slavery, Brazil, Cambria Press, Cambria Studies in Slavery, collective memory, Journal of African History, Journal of Latin American Studies, national identity, Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Public Memory of Slavery, slave

• #ASA2014 Highlight! Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing

  This week, we will be featuring books that year’s exemplify the African Studies Association annual meeting theme “Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation.” One such book is Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing by Paula Sanmartín. “African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has stated that…

  Cambria Press

  November 17, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature

  #ASA2014, abolitionism, Africa, African American, African diaspora, Afro-Cuban, atlantic slave trade, black female, black mother, black slavery, black women, black women writers, black women’s resistance, Cuban poet, Cuban Revolution, Custodians of History, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, Dessa Rose, Fugitive Slave Act, Georgina Herrera, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Louis Gates, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, Lydia Maria Child, miscegenation, Nancy Morejón, national identity, neo-slave narrative, racist stereotype, Reyita sencillamente Testimonio de una negra cubana nonagenaria, sexist stereotype, Sherley Ann Williams, slave narrative, slave writings, testimonio

• Outstanding Book Review: The Nigeria-Biafra War by Chima Korieh is “worthy and invaluable.”

    The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory by Chima J. Korieh (who also coedited Minorities and the State in Africa) has been praised by the Journal of Asian and African Studies for being “worthy and invaluable.” The book review stated that “Korieh’s research disclosed hard documentary evidence showing the names of notable Hausa-Fulani…

  Cambria Press

  November 3, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science

  academic publisher, Africa, Biafra, Cambria Press, Chima Korieh, genocide, History, Igbo, international politics, Nigeria, war

• International Relations and the Arctic coeditor Robert Murray’s interview on Alberta Primetime

    Robert Murray, Vice President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, was on Alberta Primetime and interviewed about International Relations and the Arctic, a book he coedited with Anita Dey Nuttall, the associate director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta. As the interviewer noted, “Eight countries have claims…

  Cambria Press

  October 29, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, International Studies, Political Science

  academic puiblisher, Anita Dey Nuttall, Arctic, Cambria Press, circumpolar North, geopolitics, International Relations, International Relations and the Arctic, Robert Murray

• Why is Africa important to the rest of the world?

  President Barack Obama recently declared that the future stability of the world depends on African nations’ prosperity and self-reliance. Reinforcing this is Toyin Falola, leading authority in African studies, who stated that “scholars and policy makers have the obligation to show Africa and the world how to succeed.” This is why African studies continues to…

  Cambria Press

  October 27, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science, Sociology

  academic publisher, Africa, African, African Studies, Africanist, Barack Obama, Cambria African Studies Series, Cambria Press, Moses Ochonu, President Barack Obama, Toyin Falola, Vanderbilt University

• Cambria Press New African Studies Series by Toyin Falola (UT Austin) and Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University)

  Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series which will be led by Toyin Falola, the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and Moses Ochonu, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. The Cambria African Studies Series will…

  Cambria Press

  September 23, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science

  Africa, African, African diaspora, African Studies Association, Africanist, Africans, Moses Ochonu, Toyin Falola

• Sanchita Saxena’s interviews by Voice of America and the Wilson Center on her new book

  The launch of Sanchita Saxena’s new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, at the Wilson Center was an extremely successful one. The Wilson Center highlighted the book again in an interview of Dr. Saxena, who is the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) and the Director of the Chowdhury Center…

  Cambria Press

  September 8, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Current Events, International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, APSA2014, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cambria Pres, domestic coalition, garment industry, garment workers, garments and textiles industry, global South, import quota, international trade, international trade policy, labor conditions, labor rights, labor studies, Multi-Fiber Arrangement, NGOs, policy network, public policy, Rehman Sobhan, Sanchita Saxena, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sri Lanka, textile industry

• Cambria Press APSA 2014 Book Highlights

  Check out the #APSA2014 book highlights! Pick up a catalog at the Cambria Press booth 524 at APSA. Stay posted! LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook, followCambria Press on Twitter, and share this news from Cambria Press on Google+! Visit the Cambria Press website

  Cambria Press

  August 19, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, American Politics, Book Review, CHOICE Recommendation, International Studies, Political Science

  academic publisher, APSA, APSA2014, Cambria Press

• Obamacare: Lessons from the North

  A recent Huffington Post article reports that “one big hurdle to future sign-ups is the public’s chronically poor understanding of how key parts of Obamacare can help low- and middle-income people afford coverage. … And public opinion about the law itself is negative.” Given how there are still an estimated 54 million Americans are still uninsured, improving public understanding of the…

  Cambria Press

  August 19, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Book Review, International Studies, Political Science, Public Health

  Affordable Care Act, Canada Health Act, economic sustainability, healthcare, Huffington Post, insurance, Monique Bégin, Obamacare, political sustainability, public opinion, U.S. federal state

• How is public relations shaping globalization efforts and practices in countries that have historically been under Western control?

  As “former public relations practitioners with agency and corporate experience who now teach and conduct research in the field,” Patricia Curtin (University of Oregon) and Kenn Gaither (Elon University) explained in their book that “[w]ithin the cultural-economic model, public relations practitioners act as cultural intermediaries, putting representations and identities into circulation to create shared meaning.” The purpose…

  Cambria Press

  July 30, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Communication, Culture, Current Events, International Studies, Mass Communications, Public Relations

  AEJMC, AEJMC14, agriculture, Cambria Press, geopolitical economies, global society, globalization, healthcare, Kenn Gaither, nation building, national identity, Patricia Curtin, pollution, postcolonial, public relations, social justice, Western control