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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.

Divine Destiny and the Popularization of Space Exploration in America

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

Challenges to the Current Cultural Histories of the Neoliberal Period in Mexico and Brazil

Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the “average man,” he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.

Nineteenth–Century German and Polish Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

New and Collected Essays on the Idea of Latin America by John Beverley

A Social History of Urbanization and Popular Politics in the Turn of the Century Mexico

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

An Ethnography of the Underground Print Book in Latin America

“His poetry strikes a hammer blow to the heart.”-James Deahl

Electrification as an Engine of Change in the Modern South

The Development of Latin American Literary Journalism and the Emergence of an Original Literature

Examining the Circulation, Commodification, and Organization of Healing Goods and Healing Knowledge

The Movement and Circulation of Materials, People, and Practices across the Eurasian Continent over Nearly Two Millennia