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Reading the World

Reading the World

British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the ...
Sanitizing Moscow

Sanitizing Moscow

Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russia’s urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the major social and political changes, triggered by the liberal reforms of the 1860s and 1870s, and ...
Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity explores literacy’s entanglement in networks of economic and political forces. Mihut proposes and theorizes the figure of the literacy broker, embodied by those who help immigrants with reading and writing as they ...
What God in the Kingdom of Bastards

What God in the Kingdom of Bastards

Poems
What God in the Kingdom of Bastards is a poetic exploration of grief, memory, Blackness, and the haunting legacy of familial trauma by way of colonialism, told through the lens of two brothers: Lot, the elder, who is flesh and alive, and Frank, the younger, a ghost navigating his post-suicide ...
Satan Says

Satan Says

45th Anniversary Edition
A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds’s Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds’s Poetry, All Poetry enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane ...
The Same Man

The Same Man

Poems
Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize A one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, The Same Man is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the past. Haunted by memory and powered by the demands and joys of new ...
Development Design

Development Design

Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean
Underneath picturesque views of palm trees, fruity cocktails in hotel lounges, and day trips to preserved colonial zones lies a history of tourism design that intersects with larger projects of development and national and cultural identity formation. Locating modernity and coloniality as the key framework within which tourism development takes ...
Writing Architectural History

Writing Architectural History

Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space ...
The Animal Who Writes

The Animal Who Writes

A Posthumanist Composition
Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also ...
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Shannon Cain’s stories chart the treacherous territory of the illicit. They expose the absurdity of our rituals, our definitions of sexuality, and above all, our expectations of happiness and self-fulfillment. Cain’s protagonists are destined to suffer—and sometimes enjoy—the consequences ...
World Observation

World Observation

Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan ...
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14

The Correspondence, October 1873–October 1875
The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. More notably, this volume spans the period of the composition, delivery, and furious reaction to Tyndall’s famous—or, more accurately, infamous—Belfast Address. This prestigious lecture, which he ...
Grounding Berlin

Grounding Berlin

Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present
Edited By Timothy Moss
Grounding Berlin explores the city’s pioneering contributions to urban technology and urban ecology in Europe and around the world over the past 150 years. Following the 1871 unification of Germany, Berlin experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Providing the necessary energy, water, waste removal, and land required massive interventions in the city ...
A Promising Past

A Promising Past

Remodeling Fictions in Parque Central, Caracas
Vicente Lecuna examines an array of fictions surrounding Parque Central, a high-rise development conceived and built by the Venezuelan government as a key component of a modernization and urban renewal project. He classifies these fictions into two types: modeling and remodeling. Modeling fictions reflect an inaugural, festive, utopian nature and ...
Achy Affects

Achy Affects

Crisis and Compositions of Selfhood
Achy Affects is the first affect text to refuse the emotional binary. CE Mackenzie’s insistence on recognizing the range of feelings, specifically their collisions and overlaps, is grounded in community outreach, formed through life writing and positioned at the intersections of health rhetoric, trans and affect theories, and composition ...

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