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Modern Architecture in Mexico City

History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital

Kathryn E. O’Rourke offers a new interpretation of the development of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform.

Imperfect Present

Poems

By Sharon Dolin

A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning Poet

The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela

Revolution, Crime, and Policing During Chavismo

Edited By David Smilde, Verónica Zubillaga, Rebecca Hanson

An Innovative Approach to Studying the Relationship between Politics, Crime, and Violence

Technocratic Visions

Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico

Edited By J. Justin Castro, James A. Garza

Explores Mexico’s Long History of State-Influenced Engineering

Seduced by Radium

How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace

By Maria Rentetzi

Traces the Evolution of Radium from a Scientific Object to a Desirable Commodity

Death of the Daily News

How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism

By Andrew Conte

Death of the Daily News Sounds a Warning for an Unfolding American Crisis

An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 1

Biological Rhythms Emerge as a Subject of Scientific Research

By Jole Shackelford

The First Systematic Academic History of the Study of Biological Rhythms

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By Paul Hlava Ceballos

Winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Brown Girl Chromatography

By Anuradha Bhowmik

Winner of the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

The Language of the In-Between

Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru

By Erika Almenara

Presents a New Way of Understanding Modernization, Exclusion, and Nationalist Discourse through the Voices of Gender and Sexual Dissident Writers

Decolonizing American Spanish

Eurocentrism and Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Exploring Colonialism in University Spanish and Hispanic Studies Departments

Other Americans

The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary

By Matthew Bush

How Contemporary Art, Literature, Film, and Television Create an Imagined Version of Latin America in the United States

Bound in the Bond of Life

Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy

Edited By Beth Kissileff, Eric Lidji

Essays That Confront the Personal and Public Aspects of Surviving Tragedy and Demonstrate How Pittsburgh Is Still Stronger Than Hate

Casualty Reports

Poems

By Martha Collins

A Lament for the Casualties of Corporate Destruction, Racism, War, and Personal Loss

An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 2

Biological Rhythms in Animals and Humans

By Jole Shackelford

The First Systematic Academic History of the Study of Biological Rhythms