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Cambria Press Book Launch at Wilson Center! Public policy scholar Sanchita Saxena will discuss her highly praised new book!
ByCambria Press July 23, 2014July 23, 2014

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,…

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China and the Artic – International Relations and the Arctic
ByCambria Press July 11, 2014July 11, 2014

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….

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Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies
ByCambria Press June 24, 2014June 24, 2014

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…

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Cambria Press Book Highlight: Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua
ByCambria Press June 24, 2014

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…

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Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America
ByCambria Press May 29, 2014May 29, 2014

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…

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Latin American Studies catalog now up for LASA 2014
ByCambria Press May 13, 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…

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Cambria Press New Book! Philip Roth and World Literature
ByCambria Press April 29, 2014

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…

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Cambria Press New Book! Contemporary Chicana Literature is now available!
ByCambria Press April 8, 2014April 8, 2014

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…

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AAS 2014 Conference: Sanchita Saxena’s Speech on Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka!
ByCambria Press April 4, 2014April 4, 2014

#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…

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Victor Mair and other Cambria Press authors speak at the AAS 2014 conference book launch session
ByCambria Press April 3, 2014April 7, 2014

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…

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