Category: New Scholarly Books

• Cambria Press Book Launch at Wilson Center! Public policy scholar Sanchita Saxena will discuss her highly praised new book!

  Cambria Press author Sanchita Saxena, (Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies and Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California at Berkeley) will discuss her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which has earned rave reviews…

  Cambria Press

  July 23, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Book Review, International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science

  academic publisher, 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

• China and the Artic – International Relations and the Arctic

    An article in The Economist today discusses China and the Arctic, which is detailed in International Relations and the Arctic edited by Robert W. Murray and Anita Dey Nuttall, which has just been published by Cambria Press. The article echoes the findings of their study regarding China’s strong interest. The book states that: “China’s…

  Cambria Press

  July 11, 2014

  International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science

  academic publisher, Anita Dey Nuttall, Arctic, Cambria Press, China and Arctic, China Nordic, international politics, international security, Northern Sea Route, Robert W. Murray, Xue Long

• Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies

  At the 2014 LASA congress last month, there was much excitement not only for Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo’s two highly praised books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also her series, Slavery: Past and Present, because the inaugural title Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in…

  Cambria Press

  June 24, 2014

  African Studies, Africana Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, Afro Hispanic, Afro-Cuban, black women, Cambria Press, cubanismo, mestizaje, Nancy Morejón, negrismo, slavery, transculturación, women writers

• Cambria Press Book Highlight: Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua

  An excerpt from Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua: Spectacles of Gender, Sexuality, and Marginality: [An] example of a public performance of marginality that critically responds to the Nicaraguan regime’s theatricality of power is the performance of Shayra, a twenty-four-year-old gay transvestite man, in the fringe circus called King Cat in a modest barrio of Managua. Escaping years of…

  Cambria Press

  June 24, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Latin American Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Sociology, Theatre

  academic publisher, Alberto Guevara, barrio, Cambria Press, class exploitation, gender, homophobia, LGBT, machismo, Marginality, Nacaragua, political corruption, sexuality, socioeconomic, transgender, transvestite, violence

• Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America

    At the recent 2014 LASA congress, a book which attracted much interest was Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision by Currie Thompson. The book, which was published just in time for the LASA congress, is the inaugural title of the groundbreaking Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures series headed by…

  Cambria Press

  May 29, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology

  Abuso de confianza, academic publisher, Afro-Argentine, Almafuerte, Angel Magaña, Argentina, Argentine film, Argentine history, Armando Bó, Arturo García Buhr, Así es la vida, Asunto terminado, Barrio gris, Beatriz Guido, Cadetes de San Martín, Cambria Press, Carlos Borcosque, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Carlos Schlieper, Cándida, Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor, comedy of remarriage, Cosas de mujer, Currie Thompson, Daniel Tinayre, Edición extra, El amor nunca muere, El cañonero de Giles, El conventillo de la Paloma, El crimen de Oribe, El cura Lorenzo, El fin de la noche, El grito sagrado, El hijo del crack, El pendiente, El que recibe las bofetadas, El vampiro negro, Enrique Carreras, Enrique Muiño, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Ernesto Arancibia, Escuela de campeones, Eva Duarte, Eva Peron, Evita, Fanny Navarro, Fernando Birri, film noir, Filomena Marturano, Francisco Mugica, Francisco Petrone, Fuego sagrado, Fuera de la ley, generación del 60, government film censorship, Guillermo Battaglia, Hombres a precio, Homero Manzi, Huella, Hugo del Carril, José Agustín Ferreyra, Juan Carlos Thorry, Juan Domingo Perón, Juan Duarte, Juan Manuel Fangio, Julio Saraceni, La bestia debe morir, La bestia humana, La cabalgata del circo, La casa del ángel, La guerra gaucha, La niña de fuego, La orquídea, La rubia del camino, La rubia Mireya, La Tigra, Latin America, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Libertad Lamarque, Los hijos del otro, Los inundados, Los tres berretines, Lucas Demare, Luis Bayón Herrera, Luis César Amadori, Luis Moglia Barth, Luis Saslavsky, Luisito, Manuel Romero, Mario Soffici, marriage-divorce screwball, Mirtha Legrand, Niní Marshall, No abras nunca esa puerta, nouvelle vague, nuevo cine, Orestes Caviglia, Pampa bárbara, Pasaporte a Río, patria potestad, Paulina Singerman, Pelota de trapo, Peronism, Picturing Argentina, political cinema, Por buen camino, Prisioneros de la tierra, Puerta cerrada, Punto negro, Raúl Alejandro Apold, Roland Barthes, Román de la Campa, Sacachispas, screwball comedy, Se abre el abismo, Si muero antes de despertar, Su mejor alumno, Suburbio, Tire dié, Tita Merello, transvestite film, Vidalita, Viento norte, Yo conocí a esa mujer, Zully Moreno

• Latin American Studies catalog now up for LASA 2014

  The Latin American studies catalog is now up for LASA 2014! Download it now &/or pick one up at the Cambria Press booth (#209) in the LASA book exhibit hall next week in Chicago! Be sure to check out the new books in the series headed by: Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania): Cambria…

  Cambria Press

  May 13, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, anthropology, Culture, Current Events, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology, Theatre

  Afro-Cuban, Ana Lucia Araujo, Argentina, Argentine film, Eva Peron, John Clum, Juan Peron, LASA, LASA 2014, Latin America, Latin American history, Latin American literature, Latin American Performing Arts, Latin American theatre, Nicaragua, Román de la Campa, slavery, theatre and society

• Cambria Press New Book! Philip Roth and World Literature

    Cambria Press New Book! Philip Roth and World Literature   “Far from insular, Roth’s work appears deeply rooted in the American canon, while at the same time it exhibits a remarkable openness, a persistent need for contact with his European forebears, and true engagement with contemporary world literature.”  – Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages …

  Cambria Press

  April 29, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Literature, MLA, New Scholarly Books

  academic publisher, American Jewish writers, American literature, American studies, Cambria Press, comparative literature, Contemporary literature, contemporary writer, Jewish, Jewish studies, Philip Roth, postmodern, transatlantic, transnational, world literature, Zuckerman Books

• Cambria Press New Book! Contemporary Chicana Literature is now available!

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Contemporary Chicana Literature is now available! Excerpts from this new book by Cristina Herrera: “A major element of Chicana women’s experience is navigating a society that is often racist, sexist, homophobic, and classist. … In order for the Chicana daughter to forge an identity, she must first come…

  Cambria Press

  April 8, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, Ana Castillo, Cambria Press, Carla Trujillo, Chicana daugher, Chicana lesbian, Chicana literature, Chicana mother, Contemporary literature, Cristina Herrera, Denise Chávez, La Llorona, La Malinche, La Virgen, Latina literature, Loving Pedro Infante, Melinda Palacio, mestiza, Ocotillo Dreams, Peel My Love Like an Onion, Sandra Cisneros, So Far From God, taboo, The House on Mango Street, The Last of the Menu Girls, virgin/whore, What Night Brings, Woman Hollering Creek

• AAS 2014 Conference: Sanchita Saxena’s Speech on Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka!

  #AAS2014 Book Launch – Watch Dr. Sanchita Saxena (UC Berkeley) speak about her book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries Click here for the Cambria Press book launch speeches by all authors at the AAS 2014 book launch session.   Check out the 2014 Cambria Press Asian…

  Cambria Press

  April 4, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Book Review, Conferences, International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science

  AAS, AAS2014, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Bangladesh, Bangladesh factory tragedy, book review, Cambodia, Cambria Press, Conferences, domestic coalition, garment export, garment industry, garment labor, global garments and textiles industries, international studies, Multi Fiber Agreement, New Scholarly Books, policy networks, Political Science and tagged academic publisher, Sanchita Saxena, Sri Lanka, tariff, textile export, textile industry, textile labor

• Victor Mair and other Cambria Press authors speak at the AAS 2014 conference book launch session

  Another major reason why the AAS 2014 conference was such a huge success for Cambria Press was the book launch session for our authors. The room was filled with scholars across many disciplines in Asian studies who came to hear the following authors speak about their new books (click on author’s name to watch their…

  Cambria Press

  April 3, 2014

  AAS, Asian Studies, Conferences, History, International Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Political Science, Promotion

  AAS 2014 Philadelphia, AAS2014, Alison Groppe, Association of Asian Studies, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cambria Press, Cambria Press SInophone World Series, Cecilia Segawa Seigle, China, Chinese, Chinese art, Chinese literature, Chinese poetry, Chinese writers, Edo period, garment, Japan, Japanese, Karen An-hwei lee, Koh Jongsok, Korea, Korean, Linda H. Chance, Lu Xun, Nicholas Kaldis, Ooku, Paul Manfredi, Ross King, Sanchita Saxena, Shogun, Sinophone, Sri Lanka, Tanya Storch, textile, Tokugawa, Toni Tan, Victor Mair, Yecao