Books

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan’s study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.

Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field ...

Winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, selected by Min Jin Lee

The first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

A New Poem from the Author of The Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and The Book of Delights

Winner of the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

A Nuanced Analysis of Perceptions about the Relationship between Evolutionary Science, Religion, and Personal Belief

How Ordinary People in Poland Experienced the Last Months of World War II and the First Months of Peace

The Untold Story of Carnegie’s Prized Dinosaur and Its Influence on European Culture

What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide ...

Winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

A New Environmental History that Integrates Cultural and Urban Identity Across German Cities and Their Outskirts

The First Translation of a Major Uruguayan Poet into English

A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women’s Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women’s ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women’s Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.

A Fascinating Study of One of the Earliest and Most Influential Groups to Settle Western Pennsylvania