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Every Form of Ruin

Poems

By Erin Adair-Hodges

A Refutation of Silence and Choosing of Operatic Anger over Abuse and Marginalization

The Vortex

An Environmental History of the Modern World

By Frank Uekötter

Dissects a Global Environmental Legacy That Will Shape Policies in the New Millennium

New Energies

A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America

Edited By Stephen G. Gross, Andrew Needham

Captures the Drama and Complexity of Past Transitions While Looking toward Energy Sources of the Future

The Many Voices of Modern Physics

Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries

By Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross

A Tribute to the Communicative Practices of Physicists in the Twentieth Century

Donora Death Fog

Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

By Andy McPhee

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

Iron Artisans

Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel

By Ronald L. Lewis

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

Capitalist Outsiders

Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela

By Leslie C. Gates

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Representing the Barrios

Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas

By Rebecca Jarman

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Writing and Desire

Queer Ways of Composing

By Jonathan Alexander

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens

Making the World a Better Place

African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900

By Jacqueline Jones Royster

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

Building Power to Shape Labor Policy

Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile

By Pablo Perez Ahumada

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

Mexican Icarus

Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960

By Peter B. Soland

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Now We Are in Power

The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia

By Angus McNelly

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

Reading the Walls of Bogotá

Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

By Alba Griffin

A Nuanced Study of the Complex Social Imaginary and Hegemony of Violence in Colombia

The Age of Mammals

International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

By Chris Manias

Shows the Cultural Resonance of Mammal Paleontology from an International Perspective