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Central Asia

Contexts for Understanding

Edited By David W. Montgomery

The Most Complete and Accessible Introduction to Central Asia Available Today

Literacy as Conversation

Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

By Eli Goldblatt, David A. Jolliffe

A Hopeful Approach to the Problem of Literacy Among Communities in Need

Region Out of Place

The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968

By Courtney J. Campbell

A Look at Subnational Regional Identity Formation in Brazil within a Global Perspective

Building Schools, Making Doctors

Architecture and the Modern American Physician

By Katherine L. Carroll

How Medical Colleges Defined and Promoted a Reformed Pedagogy, Modern Science, and the New Physician

The Atomic Archipelago

US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy

By Davide Orsini

The First Systematic Study of Nuclear Expertise in Italy

Ladies of Honor and Merit

Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain

By Elena Serrano

Tells the Unknown Story of How Women Shaped Scientific Culture in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Street Matters

A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil

By Fernando Luiz Lara, Ana Paula Koury

Shows the Connections between Urban Plans and Street Protests in Brazil

A New Ecological Order

Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe

Edited By Ştefan Dorondel, Stelu Şerban

Explores the Role of State Planners, Bureaucrats, and Experts as Agents of Change in the Natural World of Eastern Europe

Modern Architecture in Mexico City

History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital

By Kathryn E. O'Rourke

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.

Beyond the Lab and the Field

Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Edited By Eike-Christian Heine, Martin Meiske

A Much-Needed Study ofInfrastructures and How Technologies of Modernity Enriched Scientific Knowledge

American Workman

The Life and Art of John Kane

By Maxwell King, Louise Lippincott

A Richly Illustrated Exploration of John Kane’s Life, the Value and Dignity of Labor, and Who Decides What Is Art and What Is Not

Embodying Modernity

Race, Gender, and Fitness Culture in Brazil

By Daniel Silva

Contextualizes and Critically Analyzes Fitness Culture within the History of Imperialism

Intercolonial Intimacies

Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964

By Paula C. Park

A New Approach to Transpacific Studies Linking the Literature and Thought of the Americas and the Philippines

Buenos Aires Across the Arts

Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

By Eleni Kefala

An In-Depth Analysis of Cultural Modernity and Urban Space across Artistic Disciplines in 1920s and 1930s Argentina

Community of Peace

Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia

By Christopher Courtheyn

A Rich Ethnography of Grassroots Organizing for Peace in San José de Apartadó