Books

A New Explanation for the Foundations of the Modern Venezuelan State

An Incisive Study of a Towering Figure in Modern Japanese Architecture

The First Comprehensive Biography of a Barrier-Breaking Black Radio and Television Newscaster

Combining Affect Theory and Life Writing to Employ Harm Reduction as an Effective Way to Understand Crises

An Examination of Venezuelan Culture Conceptualized through Urban Renewal

A Historical Survey of Environmental and Infrastructure Politics in Berlin

A Cultural, Ethical, and Rhetorical Study of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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

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

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