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Cuban Studies 53

Edited By Alejandro de la Fuente

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba

In Parachutes Descending

Poems

By Tana Jean Welch

Creature

Poems

By Marsha de la O

Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Infrastructure and Everyday Life

Edited By Enrique Dussel Peters, James A. Cook, Joseph S. Alter

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Political, Economic, and Cultural Consequences of China’s Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pluriversal Literacies

Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures

Edited By Damián Baca, Romeo Garcia, Ellen Cushman

A Global Analysis of Sites, Practices, and Processes of Decolonial and Indigenous Meaning-Making

Changing Minds

Women and the Political Essay, 1960-2000

By Ann Jurečič

How Five Prominent Women Writers Reshaped the Essay in the Late Twentieth Century

Inka Bird Idiom

Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

By Claudia Brosseder

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

Transatlantic Radio Dramas

Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II

By Daniel Mandur Thomaz

Fills the Gaps of an Important Modernist Brazilian Writer’s Early Career and Illuminates Recurring Themes of His Later Works

From the Steel City to the White City

Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition

By Zachary L. Brodt

How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions

National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920

Edited By Bernard Lightman, Sarah Qidwai

How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions

Multicultural Commonwealth

Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

By Stanley Bill, Simon Lewis

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Making the Frontier Man

Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry

By Matthew C. Ward

Contextualizes the Development of Early American Violence and Gun Culture

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

By Roland Jackson

Traces the Early Evolution of Britain’s System of Scientific Advice

Business Power and the State in the Central Andes

Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison

By John Crabtree, Jonas Wolff, Francisco Durand

Offers Fresh Insight into Crucial Debates over the Causes of Diverging and Converging Political Trajectories in the Region

Ghost Variations

By Elton Glaser

Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy