Books

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

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

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

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.

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

The Rise, Fall, and Potential Revival of Post-Industrial Rust Belt Cities, with a Focus on Cleveland, Ohio

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

A Political and Comparative History of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the Communist and Capitalist Worlds During the Cold War Years

The Pressures of Modern Life and Their Impact on Bodily and Mental Health in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Divine Destiny and the Popularization of Space Exploration in America

“I recommend this poet to anyone listening for an original voice that is gentle as well as penetrating.”–George MacBeth

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Reveals Both the Gendered and Material Dimensions of Knowledge Production

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

The essays in this collection ask us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life using the example of exposure of people in four countries to nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare.