The library is pleased to share news about recent acquisitions that enhance its vast collection of books and resources available to students and the community.
American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States by David Pedersen In American Value, David Pedersen examines a new way of life as it extends across two places: Intipucá, a Salvadoran town infamous for its remittance wealth, and the Washington, D.C., metro area, home to the second largest population of Salvadorans in the United States. Pedersen charts El Salvador’s change alongside American deindustrialization, viewing the Salvadoran migrant work abilities used in new low-wage American service jobs as a kind of primary export, and shows how the latest social conditions linking both countries are part of a longer history of disparity across the Americas.
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South by Anthony E. Kaye In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye describes men and women opening paths from their owners’ plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing and storytelling, slaves fashioned their neighborhoods into the locus of slave society. Joining Places is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves.
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Artificial Economics and Self Organization: Agent-based Approaches to Economics and Social Systems by Stephan Leitner and Friederike Wall, editors This volume presents recent advances in the dynamic field of artificial economics and its various applications. Artificial economics provides a structured approach to model and investigate economic and social systems. In particular, this approach is based on the use of agent-based simulations and further computational techniques.