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Soviet Space Mythologies

…flawless technologies. Soviet Space Mythologies explores the history of the Soviet human space program within a political and cultural context, giving particular attention to the two professional groups—space engineers and

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Desert Cities

…the public’s perception of each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America’s largest and fastest-growing cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of growth, and has only one…

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Garbage In The Cities

|9780822958574|Refuse Reform and the Environment| As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand…

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Black Urban History at the Crossroads

|9780822948162|Race and Place in the American City|Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical,…

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Three Cities After Hitler

|9780822946977|Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders| Winner, 2023 SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under…

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