Posted on Apr 23, 2004

Teresa
Meade,
associate professor of history and director of Women's Studies, has published a
revised and updated paperback version of her book A Brief History of Brazil (Facts
on File, 2003). The new version, in the Checkmark Series, includes a discussion
of the election of Brazil's
president, Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva (“Lula”) in late 2003 and other recent events. In addition
Blackwell Publishers has selected A Companion to Gender History (2004),
which Meade co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, for
distribution as an “eBook.” It will be
available to library collections through “netLibrary,”  the world's premier provider of online reference,
scholarly and professional books. Finally, Meade was the invited commentator at
the European Social Science History Conference, Berlin,
Germany, March
24-27, for a session, “International Technology and American Hegemony in the
1970s.”