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Fields of Play

Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

By Robert T. Hayashi

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity

The Invention of Imagination

Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche

By Justin Humphreys

A Provocative Examination of the Origin of Imagination

Rock That Is Not a Rabbit, The

Poems

By Corey Marks

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”

OCTOBERS

Poems

By Sahar Muradi

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

The Secret Police and the Soviet System

New Archival Investigations

Edited By Michael David-Fox

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

Transplanting Modernity?

New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment

Edited By Thomas B. Robertson, Jenny Leigh Smith

Calls for an Honest Reckoning of the Successes, Failures, and Unanticipated Results of International Developments

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

By Marylynne Pitz, Laura Malt Schneiderman

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Ghost Variations

Poems

By Elton Glaser

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

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

Multicultural Commonwealth

Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

By Stanley Bill, Simon Lewis

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

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

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

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

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