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The contributors to Rural Social Movements in Latin America include academic researchers as well as social movement leaders who are seeking to effect change in their countries and communities. As a group they are at the forefront of some of the most critical environmental, social, and political issues of the day.

In Miami’s Art Boom, art critic Elisa Turner captures the evolution of Miami’s visual arts community before and after the inaugural Art Basel Miami Beach, revealing how local artists, galleries, and museums transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchange.

In this extensively researched book, Anna Clayfield challenges contemporary Western views on the militarization of Cuba. She argues that, while the pervasiveness of armed forces in revolutionary Cuba is hard to refute, it is the guerrilla legacy, ethos, and image—guerrillerismo—that has helped the Cuban revolutionary project survive. The veneration of the guerrilla fighter has been crucial to the political culture’s underdog mentality.  

Madagascar from A to Z (English), Madagasikara manomboke A ka hatramy Z (Vezo), Madagascar de A à Z (French) is the second book in the Madagascar from A to Z series, with the first book published in 2018 and honored with the prestigious Mary Ellen LoPresti Publication Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Publishing by ARLIS/NA Southeast in 2019. This new "Vezo edition" highlights the unique plants and animals of the Andavadoaka community in the southwest region of Madagascar. It is one of the only children's books written in the local Vezo dialect, French, and English. This book is used in Madagascar to teach reading in these three languages and instill in children a pride in the unique local flora and fauna and an interest in protecting them.

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the western United States was known as Alta California, a distant corner of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California examines those materials to reinterpret the economic position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire.

Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina.

Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is like for working women. Forced to find a factory job herself so that she could speak more intimately with working women, Cairoli was able to learn firsthand why they work, what working means to them, and how important earning a wage is to their sense of self.

Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history.