Books

This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Orlando Bentancor ties the colonizers’ attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire’s rightful place in the global sphere. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.

The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture

Rescripting the Ecstatic in the Midst of Violence

Winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Winner of the 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Poems That Breathe through Grief to Find Comfort in the Natural World

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era