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 When I first came to Congress in 1969, to work on the Hill and write a PhD
dissertation (on congressional staffs!), I quickly became aware of the reputations
of senators who qualified as giants (we called them whales). Warren Magnuson
was one. Mike Pertschuk was the first name on the lips of almost every insider
New Title when it came to the handful of Senate staffers who also were admired, revered
or detestedfor the extraordinary role they played in shaping and passing key
Subject Index policies.
Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 The period from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s was a golden age in the
African Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Senate when it came to implementing the modern regulatory framework, in the
Caribbean Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 7
environment, energy, and transportation realms, along with every other area of
economic life in America. We have a lot of books giving us the history, some by
Criminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mike Pertschuk. But in this book, he adds an important dimension, the key role
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
of the staff, in a witty and penetrating fashion. There is no bragging here, but the
European History . . . . . . . . . . . .3 insights of someone retired from the fray, informing and perhaps energizing a new
Family Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 group of young, bright Americans to create their own policy advances by restoring
Global Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 the Senate to its rightful functional role.
Hispanic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Norman J. Ornstein, contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and the Atlantic,
and co-author of Its Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided
Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3
with the New Politics of Extremism and The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and
International Relations . . . . . . . .2 How to Get It Back on Track
Latin American History . . . . . . . . 7
Latin American Studies . . . . . . . . 7
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Medical Anthropology . . . . . . . . 8
Middle Eastern Studies . . . . . . . .2
Peace Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Political Science . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5
Public Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Regional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Reproductive Health . . . . . . . . . .8
Southern Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .6
US History . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 5, 6

Taken on December 17, 1974, this rare photograph of a closed session of the Senate Commerce Committee captures
Senator Norris Cotton at the last session he would attend before his r etirement. Senator Warren Magnuson and six
committee staff members were in attendance; three of them were "Bumblebees" whose stories appear in When
the Senate Worked for Us: Tom Allison, Ed Merlis, and Fred Lorden. Standing together to the side are author Michael
Pertschuk and Arthur Pankopf, the Democratic and Republican staff directors. Courtesy of the US Senate Historical Office.

cover illustration: This may be the most important political book written about our current political
Spanish Civil War poster dysfunction because it lays bare a hidden truth. Mike Pertschuk describes an era
commissioned by Socorro when young, idealistic people came to Congress, learned its intricacies, became
Rojo de Espaa (Spanish Red experts in their fields, became trusted friends with members of the opposite
Aid) to encourage refugee aid.
persuasion, and were motivated by their desire to solve big problems. It is what
(Translation of Acgela!: Take
her in!) Ca. 19361939. kept the special interest lobbyists in check and Congress dedicated to the c ommon
good. It is not the case today.
Artist: Jos Miguel Lpez Padial
Matt Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Archival image available at the
International Institute for Social
History in Amsterdam.

Inside stories of maneuvering by activist staffers
fighting to enact laws in the public interest
When the Senate Worked for Us
The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
MICHAEL PERTSCHUK
E
very politically sentient American
knows that Congress has been
dominated by special interests, and
many people do not remember a time
when Congress legislated in the public
interest. In the 1960s and 70s, however,
lobbyists were aggressive but were coun-
tered by progressive senators and represen-
tatives, as several books have documented.
What has remained untold is the major
behind-the-scenes contribution of entre-
preneurial congressional staff, who planted
the seeds of public interest bills in their
bosses minds and maneuvered to counter-
act the influence of lobbyists to pass laws
in consumer protection, public health, and
other policy arenas crying out for effective
This book is the story of a public servant
Mike Pertschukand his fellow activist staffers,
whose valiant work on consumer protection
has helped millions of Americans. As a major
opponent of the tobacco industry, Pertschuk
was advocate, publicist, datalyst, strategist, and
exporter abroad of the drive to curb pernicious
promotion by the cigarette companies and alert
smokers to the dangers. His crusade against the
tobacco industrydone with more wit and
humor than is the custom in Washingtonwas
just a warm-up. Pertschuk became the point man
for a wave of consumer protection legislation
such as this country has never before witnessed.
Corporate lobbyists tried everything short of
bribery to stop him. But their calculations and
contrivances did not work.
Ralph Nader
POLITICS / PUBLIC ADVOC ACY / US HISTORY
government regulation. They infuriated
Nixons advisor, John Ehrlichman, who
called them bumblebees, a name they
wore as a badge of honor.
For his insider account, Pertschuk
draws on many interviews and his fifteen
years on the staff of the Senate Commerce September 2017
Committee that Senator Warren Magnuson 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches
chaired and as Democratic Staff Director. 2 b&w photographs, notes, index
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words, the Grand Central Station for con-
sumer protection advocates.
Michael Pertschuk served as chairman
of the Federal Trade Commission from
1977 to 1981, and he cofounded the
Advocacy Institute. He is the author of
Michael Pertschuk was a master strategist on Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement
Capitol Hillputting into place some of the Leadership from the Tobacco Wars and
nations most important consumer regulations. The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public
Hes also a master storytellerwith a great gift Will into Political Power (both published
for letting readers in on what actually happened by Vanderbilt University Press) and
and how. A wonderful read. three other books.
Robert B. Reich, former US Secretary of Labor and
author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Mike Pertschuk has written a lively and thought-
provoking book about our democracy from an
insiders perspective. He is a widely respected
former Senate committee staff director who
has captured the way Congress worked during
a time when it was a civilized and functioning
institution. His detailed and often humorous
stories about the Senate offer wisdom and
in-depth lessons for our current polarized and
dysfunctional Congress.
James A. Thurber, Director, Center for Congress and
Presidential Studies, American University
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From C hapter O ne
I cross borders. I travel and meet
people throughout Israel and
throughout Palestine. With the
exception of Gaza, which has been
off-limits to Israelis since June 2007, I
visit cities, towns, villages, and refugee
camps throughout Palestine on a
regular basis. Yes, I break the law in
doing so. I am not afraid. I go and I
listen and I talk, challenge, learn, and
teach. I hear the same things from both
sides: we want peace, but we have no
partner on the other side.
Gershon Baskin is among Israels most
intrepid pursuers of peace. His book is not
only a fascinating journey across the Jewish-
Palestinian divide, it also provides that rarest
commodity in these dark times: hope.
Peter Beinart, author, The Crisis of Zionism
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A visionary road map out of the worlds oldest conflict by the
initiator of the secret back channel between Israel and Hamas
that led to the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit
In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
GERSHON BASKIN
G
ershon Baskins memoir of thirty-eight
years of intensive pursuit of peace
begins with a childhood on Long Island
and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his
family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back
in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz
in Israel, where he announced to his par-
ents that he had decided to make aliya,
immigrate to Israel. They persuaded him
to return to study at NYU, after which
he finally immigrated under the auspices
of Interns for Peace. In Israel he spent a
pivotal two years living with Arabs in the
village of Kufr Qara.
Despite the atmosphere of fear, Baskin
found that he could talk with both Jews
and Palestinians, and that very few others
were engaged in efforts at mutual under-
standing. At his initiative, the Ministry
of Education and the office of right-wing
Prime Minister Menachem Begin created
the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab
Coexistence with Baskin himself as
Gershon Baskin, whom I have known for many
years, is one of the outstanding originators of
peace initiatives in our era. This is based on a
deep belief in the qualities of human affinity,
human dignity, and selflessness. He is a pluralist
and recognizes that social behavior is essential
to building peace through participation from
the bottom up. Gershon promotes the art of
conversation and listening, which in my mind is a
major contribution to waging peace.
His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
irector. Eight years later he founded and
d
codirected the only joint Israeli-Palestinian
public policy think-and-do tank in the
world, the Israel/Palestine Center for
Research and Information. For decades he
continued to cross borders, often with a
kaffiyeh (Arab headdress) on his dashboard
to protect his car in Palestinian neighbor-
hoods. Airport passport control became
Kafkaesque as Israeli agents routinely iden-
tified him as a security threat.
During the many cycles of peace
negotiations, Baskin has served both as an
outside agitator for peace and as an advisor
on the inside of secret talksfor example,
during the prime ministership of Yitzhak
Rabin and during the initiative led by
Secretary of State John Kerry. Baskin ends
the book with his own proposal, which
includes establishing a peace education
program and cabinet-level Ministries of
Peace in both countries, in order to foster a
culture of peace.
Gershon Baskin is the founder and
current cochairman of Israel-Palestine:
Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI,
formerly Israel/Palestine Center for
Research and Information). He is
a political and social entrepreneur
focusing on renewable energy projects
in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in
International Affairs from the University
of Greenwich.
 H I S PA N I C S T U D I E S / H U M A N R I G H T S / E U R O P E A N H I S T O R Y

How historians, journalists, photographers, and filmmakers

have dealt with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco
dictatorship, and the Transition

Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War

History, Fiction, Photography
S E B A S T I A A N FA B E R

T
he ability to forget the violent twentieth-
century past was long seen as a virtue
in Spain, even a duty. But the common
wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers
of Spaniards want to know what happened,
who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory
Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how
historiography, fiction, and photography
have shaped our views of the 19361939 war
and its long, painful aftermath.
Faber traces the curious trajectories
of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs
by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David
Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent
Spanish novels and essays; interrogates
basic scholarly assumptions about history,
memory, and literature; and interviews nine
Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War is a
fascinating, judiciously blended mix of interviews
and portraits, cultural criticism, meditations, and
reportage, refreshingly unlike any other book in
the field that Ive read. Sebastiaan Faber wears
his erudition lightly, but brings a deep knowledge
of a country he loves and of its struggles to come
to terms with a tragic and violent piece of its
scholars, activists, and documentarians
who in the past decade and a half have
helped redefine Spains relationship to its
past. In this book, Faber argues that recent
political developments in Spainfrom the
grassroots call for the recovery of historical
memory to the indignados movement and
the foundation of Podemosprovide an
November 2017
opportunity for scholars in the humanities 256 pages, 7 x 10 inches
to engage in a more activist, public, and 21 illustrations, references, index
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Fabers collection of bracing, enjoyable, and
provocative essays steps squarely into the middle
of Spains ongoing (but, thankfully, bloodless)
cultural civil war over the past. He plunges a finger
into the countrys deepest and most durable sore
with a series of sizzling critiques of how historians,
writers, and intellectuals view Spains legacy of
fratricide and a forty-year dictatorship that casts
its long shadow over the present. Just how does
(or should) Spain deal with the uncomfortable
facts and emotions left behind by Francoism
and the successful but imperfect transition to
democracy that followed it? There is much to agree
with, and much to disagree with, but the merit in Jenn Manna

past. Its worth reading alone to hear the voices of
historians about what drew them to Spain in this
erawhy dont more people pose that question
to scholars?
Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts:
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939
Fabers writing comes from the way it re-inspects
and challenges many of the assumptions on
which depictions of Spains recent past are based,
obliging the reader to do the same.
Giles Tremlett, author of Ghosts of Spain: Travels through
Spain and Its Silent Past and Isabella of Castile: Europes
First Great Queen
Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic
Studies, Oberlin College, is the author of
several books, including Exile and Cultural
Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico,
19391975 (also published by Vanderbilt
University Press).

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A D O P T I O N / FA M I LY P O L I C Y / E C O N O M I C S
January 2018
288 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 inches
3 tables, 2 figures, notes, references, index
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Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell
have taught economics at Grinnell
College for twenty-seven years. Their
research publications range from higher
education and employment policy to
child care and gender discrimination.
They have three grown childrena birth
daughter, a son adopted domestically,
and a son from Sierra Leone.
Illuminating? Infuriating? It depends
on your perspective when you open the
book. Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell
bring their experience as economists and
adoptive parents to a subject where views
have become both polarized and petrified.
An informed, novel, and provocative
contribution to the debate on international
adoption, a subject desperately in need of
new insights.
Dana E. Johnson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Minnesota
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What if instead of being too commercial,
international adoption is not commercial enough?
Saving International Adoption
An Argument from Economics and Personal Experience
M A R K M O N TG O M E R Y and I R E N E P O W E L L
I
nternational adoption is in a state of
virtual collapse, rates having fallen by
more than half since 2004 and continuing
to fall. Yet around the world millions of
orphaned and vulnerable children need
permanent homes, and thousands of
American and European families are eager
to take them in. Many government offi-
cials, international bureaucrats, and social
commentators claim these adoptions are
not in the best interests of the child. They
claim that adoption deprives children of
their birth culture, threatens their racial
identities, and even encourages widespread
child trafficking. Celebrity adopters are
publicly excoriated for stealing children
from their birth families.
This book argues that opposition to
adoption ostensibly based on the well-
being of the child is often a smokescreen
for protecting national pride. Concerns
about the harm done by transracial adop-
tion are largely inconsistent with empirical
This book takes a refreshingly candid and
original look at issues in international adoption.
With courage and insight, the authors apply the
disciplinary lens of economics to examine the
regulation of international adoption and the
unintended consequences of that regulation
for vulnerable children and families. Required
reading for those who seek novel perspectives
advocating for every childs fundamental right
to a family.
Rebecca Compton, Professor of Psychology, Haverford
College, and author of Adoption Beyond Borders: How
International Adoption Benefits Children
evidence. As for trafficking, opponents
of international adoption want to shut it
down because it is too much like a market
for children. But this book offers a radical
challenge to this viewthat is, what if
instead of trying to suppress market forces
in international adoption, we embraced
them so they could be properly regulated?
What if the international system func-
tioned more like open adoption in the
United States, where birth and adoptive
parents can meet and privately negoti-
ate the exchange of parental rights? This
arrangement, the authors argue, could
eliminate the abuses that currently haunt
international adoption.
By daring to suggest that the market forces
of supply and demand should be recognized,
and even embraced, in international adoption,
Montgomery and Powell are sure to provoke the
many international adoption critics who hold
sacrosanct the notion that money and profit-
seeking have no place in adoption. Yet Saving
International Adoption is a must-read for anyone
concerned about the state of international
adoption today. It weaves together top-notch
economic analysis, sobering statistics, and
personal narratives from adoptive children and
families, birth parents, and adoption facilitators.
Perhaps the books most important and
memorable feature, however, is the emotional
honesty with which Montgomery and Powell
share their own familys experience.
Kimberly D. Krawiec, Kathrine Robinson Everett
Professor of Law, Duke University

A provocative history of criminal procedure, focusing on
our perplexing overregulation of searches and seizures
and underregulation of confessions and eyewitness accounts
The Prohibition Era and Policing
A Legacy of Misregulation
WESLEY M. OLIVER
L
egal precedents created during Prohibi-
tion have lingered, leaving search-and-
seizure law much better defined than
limits on police use of force, interrogation
practices, or eyewitness identification pro-
tocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus
guarded against more thoroughly than an
unnecessary shooting or a wrongful con-
viction.
Intrusive searches for alcohol during
Prohibition destroyed middle-class Ameri
cans faith in police and ushered in a
new basis for controlling police conduct.
State courts in the 1920s began to exclude
perfectly reliable evidence obtained in an
illegal search. Then, as Prohibition drew
to a close, a presidential commission
awakened the public to torture in interro-
gation rooms, prompting courts to exclude
coerced confessions irrespective of whether
the technique had produced a reliable
statement.
Prohibitions scheme lingered long past
the Roaring Twenties. Racial tensions and
police brutality were bigger concerns in
Wes Oliver tells a fascinating story of criminal
procedure in the early twentieth century, and
he makes a novel, compelling argument
for the centrality of the Prohibition Era in
understanding the way the United States
currently regulates the police. This is an
important and provocative book.
David Alan Sklansky, Stanley Morrison Professor
of Law, Stanford University
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the 1960s than illegal searches, yet when
the Supreme Court imposed limits on
officers conduct in 1961, searches alone
were regulated. Interrogation law during
the 1960s, fundamentally reshaped by the
Miranda ruling, ensured that suspects who
invoked their rights would not be subject
to coercive tactics, but did nothing to en-
sure reliable confessions by those who were January 2018
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its decisions excluding evidence had not
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refused to exclude identifications merely
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because they were made in suggestive
lineups. Perhaps a larger project awaits
refocusing our rules of criminal procedure
on those concerns from which Prohibition
distracted us: conviction accuracy and the
use of force by police.
Wesley Olivers The Prohibition Era and Policing
places him firmly within the wonderful new
body of historical work that shows us how
Prohibition continues to shape American law,
governance, and society. Oliver does what
historians do bestdemonstrate how our
present circumstances are profoundly shaped Wesley M. Oliver is Professor
by our past, and how we might imagine a better of Law at Duquesne University.
future. Oliver believes that Americans deserve a
more effective and more accountable criminal
justice system, and uses history to help us see
our present system as both contingent and
changeable.
Kenneth W. Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
and Affiliate Professor of History, Harvard Law School
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POLITIC AL SCIENCE / SOUTHERN STUDIES / US HISTORY / REGIONAL

Expanded edition of an insiders account of the secret

bipartisan plot to oust a governor, with a newly discovered
narrative from a key figure

Coup
The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican
Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal
KEEL HUNT
With a newly discovered account by S E N ATO R L A M A R A L E X A N D E R
Forewo rd by J O H N L . S E I G E N T H A L E R

August 2017
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O
n January 17, 1979, driven by new infor-
mation uncovered during Governor
Ray Blantons pardon scandal that some
of the worst criminals in Tennessees peni
tentiaries were about to be released (and
fears that James Earl Ray might be one
of them), a small bipartisan group came
together to save the state.
Senior Democratic leaders, friends
of the sitting governor, together with
Republican governor-elect Lamar Alex-
ander agreed to oust Blanton from office
before night fell. It was a maneuver unique
in American political history. Coup is the
behind-the-scenes story of this unprece-
dented moment.

There was a time when government was willing

History can be opaque, but not this history: in
Keel Hunts capable hands a critical but often-
overlooked chapter in American politics comes
to vivid life. In the last days of a Tennessee
governorship, the Democratic incumbent, soon
to depart, began selling pardons, fundamentally
betraying the public trust. A dynamic young
Republican governor-elect, Lamar Alexander,
came into the breach as Democrats reached out
to him to take office early and save the state
further chaos and embarrassment. And so he did.
Now, in this expanded edition of Hunts excellent
narrative, we have, for the first time, Alexanders
own long-missing recollections of these tense days.
The result is a brilliantly evocative story of crisis
managementa story everyone interested in
American politics and power should know.
Jon Meacham, author of American Lion: Andrew
Jackson in the White House and Thomas Jefferson:
The Art of Power
to act. Keel Hunt was a key player on one such
occasion in Tennessee and tells the story with
elegance and precision. This book tells about
government doing whats neededquickly,
without hand-wringing and without seeking
partisan advantage. Every elected official in
America should read it.
Phil Bredesen, Governor of Tennessee, 20032011
Zach Hunt
EXPANDED EDITION OF COUP
In December 2015 something unexpected
happened. Keel delivered to my Nashville In his early career, Keel Hunt was a
office a brown three-ring binder. He had reporter, editorial writer, Washington
only recently discovered it in a box that had correspondent, and City Editor for
been in storage for thirty years. the Nashville Tennessean. He left the
Senator Lamar Alexander newspaper to join Lamar Alexanders
successful campaign for Governor of
This binder contained the f orgotten
Tennessee. Following the 1978 election,
typescript, written in 1985, of Alexanders
he was appointed Special Assistant to
recollections of the events leading up
the Governor, serving as a speechwriter
to his early inauguration on January
and coordinator of the Governors
17, 1979. In this expanded edition of
Policy Group. Since 1986 he has been
Coup, the Senators 22,000-word text has
a speechwriter and public affairs
been added as a lost footnote to Hunts
consultant.
definitive account.

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A fresh perspective on a Revolutionary era, focusing on the role
of Afro-Caribbean privateers in the struggle for Spanish American
independence from Spain
No Limits to Their Sway
Cartagenas Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean
in the Age of Revolutions
EDGARDO PREZ MORALES
F
ollowing the 1808 French invasion of
the Iberian Peninsula, an unprece-
dented political crisis threw the Spanish
monarchy into turmoil. On the Carib-
bean coast of modern-day Colombia, the
important port town of Cartagena rejected
Spanish authority, finally declaring inde-
pendence in 1811. With new leadership that
included free people of color, Cartagena
welcomed merchants, revolutionaries,
and adventurers from Venezuela, the
Antilles, the United States, and Europe.
Most importantly, independent Cartagena
opened its doors to privateers of color from
the French Caribbean. Hired mercenaries
of the sea, privateers defended Cartagenas
claim to sovereignty, attacking Spanish
ships and seizing Spanish property, espe-
cially near Cuba, and establishing vibrant
maritime connections with Haiti.
Most of Cartagenas privateers were
people of color and descendants of slaves
who benefited from the relative freedom
A graceful account of the masterless
privateers during the Age of Revolutions
that brings needed attention to Cartagena,
an extremely important site in the Spanish
Atlantic and an understudied one.
Jane Landers, author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age
of Revolutions
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and flexibility of life at sea, but also faced
kidnapping, enslavement, and brutality.
Many came from Haiti and Guadeloupe;
some had been directly involved in the
Haitian Revolution. While their manpower
proved crucial in the early anti-Spanish
struggles, Afro-Caribbean privateers were January 2018
also perceived as a threat and suspected of 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
holding questionable loyalties, disorderly 8 halftones, notes, index
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tendencies, and too strong a commitment
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to political and social privileges for people
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of color. Based on handwritten and printed
sources in Spanish, English, and French,
this book tells the story of Cartagenas
multinational and multicultural seafarers,
revealing the transatlantic and maritime
dimensions of Spanish American indepen-
dence.
The fearsome Cartagena privateers have
long haunted Atlantic history. Edgardo Prez
Morales brings them out of the dark shadows
and gives them the rich, vivid, well-researched
treatment they deserve. This exciting work
adds an important new dimension to the
Atlantic Age of Revolution.
Marcus Rediker, author of Outlaws of the Atlantic: Edgardo Prez Morales is
Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Southern California.
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How women in Cameroon find pathways to their social aspirations
in managing uncertain reproductive events
Wasted Wombs
Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon
ERICA VAN DER SIJPT
C
entral to the book are Gbigbil womens
experiences with different reproductive
interruptions: miscarriages, stillbirths,
child deaths, induced abortions, and
infertility. Rather than consider these
events as inherently dissimilar, as women
do in Western countries, the Gbigbil
women of eastern Cameroon see them all
September 2017
288 pages, 6 x 9 inches as instances of wasted wombs that leave
3 figures, notes, references, appendixes, index their reproductive trajectories hanging in
hardcover $79.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2169-9 the balance. The women must navigate this
paperback $34.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-2170-5 uncertainty while negotiating their social
ebook $9.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-2171-2 positions, aspirations for the future, and
the current workings of their bodies.
Providing an intimate look into these pro-
cesses, Wasted Wombs shows how Gbigbil
women constantly shift their interpreta-
tions of when a pregnancy starts, what
it contains, and what is lost in case of a
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reproductive interruption, in contrast to
Western conceptions of fertility and loss.
Depending on the context and on their life
aspirationsbe it marriage and mother-
hood, or rather an educational trajectory,
employment, or profitable sexual affairs
with so-called big fishwomen negotiate
and manipulate the meanings and effects of
reproductive interruptions. Paradoxically,
they often do so while portraying them-
selves as powerless. Wasted Wombs care-
fully analyzes such tactics in relation to the
various social predicaments that emerge
around reproductive interruptions, as well
as the capricious workings of womens
physical bodies.
Erica van der Sijpt is a medical
anthropologist at the University of
Amsterdam.
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