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Community of Peace

Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia

By Christopher Courtheyn

A Rich Ethnography of Grassroots Organizing for Peace in San José de Apartadó

Buenos Aires Across the Arts

Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

By Eleni Kefala

An In-Depth Analysis of Cultural Modernity and Urban Space across Artistic Disciplines in 1920s and 1930s Argentina

American Workman

The Life and Art of John Kane

By Maxwell King, Louise Lippincott

A Richly Illustrated Exploration of John Kane’s Life, the Value and Dignity of Labor, and Who Decides What Is Art and What Is Not

Intercolonial Intimacies

Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964

By Paula C. Park

A New Approach to Transpacific Studies Linking the Literature and Thought of the Americas and the Philippines

Embodying Modernity

Race, Gender, and Fitness Culture in Brazil

By Daniel Silva

Contextualizes and Critically Analyzes Fitness Culture within the History of Imperialism

Building Schools, Making Doctors

Architecture and the Modern American Physician

By Katherine L. Carroll

How Medical Colleges Defined and Promoted a Reformed Pedagogy, Modern Science, and the New Physician

Beyond the Lab and the Field

Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Edited By Eike-Christian Heine, Martin Meiske

A Much-Needed Study ofInfrastructures and How Technologies of Modernity Enriched Scientific Knowledge

A New Ecological Order

Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe

Edited By Ştefan Dorondel, Stelu Şerban

Explores the Role of State Planners, Bureaucrats, and Experts as Agents of Change in the Natural World of Eastern Europe

Street Matters

A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil

By Fernando Luiz Lara, Ana Paula Koury

Shows the Connections between Urban Plans and Street Protests in Brazil

Region Out of Place

The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968

By Courtney J. Campbell

A Look at Subnational Regional Identity Formation in Brazil within a Global Perspective

Ladies of Honor and Merit

Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain

By Elena Serrano

Tells the Unknown Story of How Women Shaped Scientific Culture in Eighteenth-Century Spain

The Slovak Question

A Transatlantic Perspective, 1914–1948

By Michael R. Cude

A Comprehensive History of Slovak National Identity Formation from World War I through the End of World War II

The Atomic Archipelago

US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy

By Davide Orsini

The First Systematic Study of Nuclear Expertise in Italy

Central Asia

Contexts for Understanding

Edited By David W. Montgomery

The Most Complete and Accessible Introduction to Central Asia Available Today

Psychic Investigators

Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age

By Efram Sera-Shriar

Examines British Anthropology’s Engagement with the Modern Spiritualist Movement