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Powering Colonialism explores the history of electrification and its relationship to colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 1880s, the Phoenix Mine in Otago installed a hydroelectric system to power its mining equipment, making gold mining one of the first industries in the colony to harness the potential of electric ...

This book explores how ideals of house and home provided crucial sites for the negotiation of India’s urban modernity during the twentieth century. Focused on Bombay, the cosmopolitan metropolis that defined the nature and possibilities of urban life on the subcontinent, Abigail McGowan centers domestic space in the narrative ...

There are large Hmong communities that relocated to Minnesota and Wisconsin following the end of the Laotian Civil War in 1975. Many of the children of these refugees are adults now who use translingual literacies as a bridge to connect places, cultures, and generations in their communities. These connections of language ...

In Atlantic Unbound, Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World—a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Minosh focuses on France during the expansion of its colonial empire and the French ...

Rhetoric has been concerned with truth from the beginning. Beginning at least with Plato, rhetoric often has been blamed for the death of truth. And the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth seems to be doing a lot of ...

Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. Spatial Solidarities illuminates how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these spaces, prisoners responded creatively: producing ...

A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and ...

The seventeenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall includes 456 letters, documenting a pivotal period in his life. It opens with Tyndall’s resignation from his long-held post as scientific adviser to the Board of Trade and Trinity House, a decision that provoked a very public dispute with a government ...

Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru and their counterparts at US research centers and philanthropies shaped the life sciences in the region. Despite assumptions that countries in the Global South produced science of doubtful quality, and despite institutional and economic obstacles, Latin ...

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more. In Volume 56, the Voices from Cuba section includes ...

Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Award Finalist for the 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in the Social Sciences Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education ...

The fifteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 466 letters covering the period from November 1875 to December 1877. Tyndall was by now an established man of science with a far-reaching reputation. The most significant work he undertook in this period involved his experiments on spontaneous generation and his consulting for ...

Despite the precariousness of an oil-based economy and the government’s professed concern about climate change, a failure of imagination regarding alternatives continues to trap Venezuela in an oil-fueled status quo. Elizabeth Barrios examines the ideologies that helped normalize oil production in Venezuela, which further made oil-led development appear to ...

The development of the global illicit drug trade has posed significant challenges to democracy throughout Latin America. Scenes of violence and disorder linked to organized crime and the “war on drugs” are imprinted in the popular consciousness. The case of Bolivia, though, shows that the dominant narrative wasn’t the ...

American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane’s life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and ...