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The Most Complete and Accessible Introduction to Central Asia Available Today

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

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

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

The First Systematic Study of Nuclear Expertise in Italy

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

Shows the Connections between Urban Plans and Street Protests in Brazil

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

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.

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

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

Contextualizes and Critically Analyzes Fitness Culture within the History of Imperialism

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

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

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