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Building Character

The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style

By Charles L. Davis II

Traces the Racial Charge of the Architectural Writings of Five Modern Theorists

World’s Fairs in the Era of the Cold War

Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress

Edited By Arthur P. Molella, Scott Gabriel Knowles

Investigates the Ways World’s Fairs Expressed and Provoked Cold War Culture

Women at Work

Rhetorics of Gender and Labor

Edited By David Gold, Jessica Enoch

Addresses Women’s Rhetorical Relationship to Work

Blues Walked In, The

A Novel

By Kathleen E. George

A Fascinating Historical Novel, featuring Lena Horne, and a Vividly Imagined Portrait of Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Hill District in the 1930’s

Tenant of Fire, The

By Ryan Black

Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Solid State Insurrection

How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter

By Joseph D. Martin

A new perspective to some of the most enduring questions about the role of physics in American history.

Inevitably Toxic

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise

Edited By Brinda Sarathy, Janet Brodie, Vivien Hamilton

The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

By David Philip Miller

A Deeper Understanding of the Work and Character of the Great Eighteenth-Century Engineer

Cuban Studies 48

Edited By Alejandro de la Fuente

In this special issue, Cuban Studies 48 explores Afro-Cuban issues.

Working with Paper

Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge

Edited By Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, Christine von Oertzen

Reveals Both the Gendered and Material Dimensions of Knowledge Production

Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life

Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800

By Joan Steigerwald

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare

Poems

By Lola Haskins

“I recommend this poet to anyone listening for an original voice that is gentle as well as penetrating.”–George MacBeth

Nature and the Iron Curtain

Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990

Edited By Astrid Mignon Kirchhof, J. R. McNeill

A Political and Comparative History of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the Communist and Capitalist Worlds During the Cold War Years

Legacy Cities

Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival

Edited By J. Rosie Tighe, Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

The Rise, Fall, and Potential Revival of Post-Industrial Rust Belt Cities, with a Focus on Cleveland, Ohio

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.

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