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Fills the Gaps of an Important Modernist Brazilian Writer’s Early Career and Illuminates Recurring Themes of His Later Works

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

A History of the Women’s Antifascism Movement in Argentina That Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today

The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

Demonstrates How Public Opinion Can Be Brought to Bear against Powerful Nations

Captures the Complexity of Foucault’s Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

A Study of the Twenty-First-Century Latin American Novel in an Era of Apocalyptic Catastrophe

This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Orlando Bentancor ties the colonizers’ attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire’s rightful place in the global sphere. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.

Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980...

Examines the Intersection of Energy Policy and Environmental Regulation after the 1973 OAPEC Oil Embargo

Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Now in Paperback

A Comprehensive History of the Architectural Design Projects that Defined India

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people’s lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state along the Pamir Highway, Mostowlansky shows how conceptualizations of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan.

A study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a buffer zone on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti through the establishment of state institutions and an ideological campaign against what was considered an encroaching black, inferior, and bellicose Haitian state.

Vicky A. Clark presents a comprehensive study of the work of iconic Pittsburgh artist Robert Qualters. Complimented by over eighty color images, Clark shows Qualters to be a remarkable visual storyteller, who infuses allegory, narrative, and memory into his kinetic images filled with bold brush strokes and fauvist colors.

Robert Qualters has been named Pennsylvania Artist of the Year for 2014, as part of the Governor’s Awards for the Arts