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Technocratic Visions

…reveals how these transformations were uniquely Mexican and thoroughly global.| J. Justin Castro James A. Garza|| History / Latin America / Mexico Science / History Technology & Engineering / History…

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Rouge Pulp

|9780822957898|Rouge Pulp explores notions of body and beauty, birth and death, in a contemporary America driven by its contradictions: material plenty and spiritual lack. Dorothy Barresi writes about strippers, hair…

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Appetite

…Appetite attacks its subjects with wit, candor, and compassionate intensity. These poems announce their presence with a style that is as beautifully wrought as it is provocative. In the America

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The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

…in 1950s America. He watches the McCarthy hearings, conquers the Congo, assassinates the president, has his head stuffed into a toilet, drops his uniform on the fifty-yard line, and tries…

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To Risk It All

…Seven Years’ War in America. While most histories of the period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what…

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