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Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more. In Volume 56, the Voices from Cuba section includes ...

Science under Adversity argues that the Global South served as a dynamic arena of scientific innovation, circulation, and international collaboration. In this richly detailed history of the development of Latin American physiology in the early- to mid-twentieth century, Marcos Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, ...

The seventeenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall includes 456 letters, documenting a pivotal period in his life. It opens with Tyndall’s resignation from his long-held post as scientific adviser to the Board of Trade and Trinity House, a decision that provoked a very public dispute with a government ...

A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and ...

Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. Spatial Solidarities illuminates how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these spaces, prisoners responded creatively: producing ...

Rhetoric has long had a contentious relationship with the idea of truth, and the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has often been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth is doing a lot of real-world damage, even if truth itself may never have been completely reliable. The ...

In Atlantic Unbound, Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World—a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Minosh focuses on France during the expansion of its colonial empire and the French ...

The Bridge Generation Grows Up examines how daughters of Hmong refugees growing up in America develop skills to read and write across languages and cultures. Kaia L. Simon demonstrates how a childhood spent bridging languages and cultures leads members of this community to relocate Hmong language, literacy, and culture for ...

Housing Modern India explores how ideals of house and home provided crucial sites for the negotiation of urban modernity during the late colonial and early independence periods. Focusing on Bombay, the cosmopolitan metropolis that helped define the promise and perils of urban life on the subcontinent, Abigail McGowan places concerns ...

Powering Colonialism explores the history of electrification and its relationship to colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Exploitative electric infrastructure, Nathan N. Kapoor argues, was not inevitable, and it was not determined by geography or a coincidence of colonization—it was by design. By the twenty-first century, hydropower provided more than ...

Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe—but he didn’t do it alone. The Road to Relativity traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period (1880–1905) through Einstein’s 1905 breakthrough and the long road to acceptance into the 1930s. Dan Siegel explains the radical ...

Throughout Capricorn in Flux, Glaser’s eleventh book of poetry, we hear that same voice, vivid and precise and crackling with verve and wit. To borrow a line from Robert Lowell, he is still “free-lancing out along the razor’s edge.” But this time, the sprightliness is shadowed by a ...

New Asian Connectivities brings together scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law to reimagine the nuances of regional interconnectivity in Asia and to challenge notions of boundaries and boundedness in reconceptualizing the field of Asian studies. Focusing on connections that animate Asian regionalism and the academic study of ...

The ancient landmass of Gondwanaland began to break up two hundred million years ago into what would become present-day Africa, Antarctica, Australasia, South America, and South Asia—a prehuman “Global South” connected territorially across the southern hemisphere. Named by European geologists in the nineteenth century after the Gondwana region in ...

Intersectionality emerged as a critique of feminism from Black feminist activists and teacher-scholars in the 1970s. Intersectional perspectives illuminate how multiple aspects of identity come together and relate to one another. Yasmine Romero proposes intersectional processes for analyzing classroom talk and text, as well as innovating teaching and learning strategies ...