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The Failure of Latin America

Postcolonialism in Bad Times

By John Beverley

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

Unintended Affinities

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

By Adam Kozuchowski

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

Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874

By Kevin Padraic Donnelly

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.

Crisis Cultures

The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil

By Brian S. Whitener

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

Legacy Cities

Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival

Edited By J. Rosie Tighe, Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

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

Open Invitation, The

Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect

By Freya Schiwy

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

Nature and the Iron Curtain

Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990

Edited By Astrid Kirchhof, J. R. McNeill

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

Anxious Times

Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jennifer Wallis

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

Destined for the Stars

Faith, the Future, and America's Final Frontier

By Catherine L. Newell

Divine Destiny and the Popularization of Space Exploration in America

Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare

Poems

By Lola Haskins

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

Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life

Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800

By Joan Steigerwald

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

Working with Paper

Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge

Edited By Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, Christine von Oertzen

Reveals Both the Gendered and Material Dimensions of Knowledge Production

The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

By David Philip Miller

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

Inevitably Toxic

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise

Edited By Brinda Sarathy, Janet Brodie, Vivien Hamilton

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.

Cuban Studies 48

Edited By Alejandro de la Fuente

In this special issue, Cuban Studies 48 explores Afro-Cuban issues.