Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies...

In "Somebody's Children," Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces--poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence--that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Focusing particularly on the experiences of those who have lost their children to adoption, Briggs analyzes the circumstances under which African American and Native mothers in the United States and indigenous and poor women in Latin America have felt pressed to give up their children for...

In "Somebody's Children," Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces--poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence--that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Focusing particularly on the experiences of those who have lost their children to adoption, Briggs analyzes the circumstances under which African American and Native mothers in the United States and indigenous and poor women in Latin America have felt pressed to give up their children for...

Over sixty years ago, a World War II soldier mailed a Christmas card from overseas to his sweetheart. That card has finally arrived-but to an address now called home by Samantha, a young missionary awaiting her next assignment. Inspired by the card's amazing journey-and the tender message of its sender-Samantha searches for the card's rightful owner against the odds. Her best hope seems to lie with Ty, a wounded soldier sent home to finish his career behind a desk. Feeling trapped, bitter, and alone, he wants nothing more than to bury himself in his work. But Samantha's quest draws him into...

A search for historic secrets may uncover a present day love... Writer-historian Jenna Cade has spent her life in search of the past, particularly with her latest quest to document abandoned cemeteries of the South and the stories behind the stones. But her search for a forgotten graveyard in quaint Sylvan Spring leads her to more than the ghosts of graves untended by human hands-it leads her to the doorstep of reclusive stone carver Con Taggart. Still grieving his wife's death, Con has shut himself away from the world, But then a beautiful historian shows up at his door seeking a link...

THE CUSTOMER REVIEWS BELOW INCLUDE THOSE FOR THE AMERICAN EDITION OF DEAR MISS DARCY. THE EDITION LISTED ON THIS SITE IS THE NEW UK EDITION, WHICH CONTAINS BRITISH, SPELLINGS, GRAMMAR, AND SLANG COURTESY OF A UK EDITOR. Fans and critics alike have requested it-a more authentic British version of Dear Miss Darcy-and now it's here. Packed with UK spellings, slang, and terminology, from lifts and dustbins to diaries and windscreens, while retaining the same Austenesque plot and language as before. Successful 'agony aunt' Olivia Darcy owes her career of romantic advice to her ancestors-Lizzie and...

Successful 'agony aunt' Olivia Darcy owes her career of romantic advice to her ancestors-Lizzie and Fitzwilliam Darcy's- famous name as much as her insights. But definitely not to her disastrous track record of first dates, ones she keeps hidden from even her closest friends. But both are tested when she inadvertently challenges successful, self-made Christopher Stanley-one of London's biggest playboys-over his latest relationship woes. When he demands a retraction, Miss Darcy ends up sparring with him, publicly and privately in a quest to prove she's right. Only her curiosity about...