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Crisis Cultures

…the long downturn and global turn to finance.| Brian S. Whitener| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| History / Latin America / General Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American…

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The Voice of Science

|9780822946816|British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America|For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This…

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The Tormented Mirror

|9780822957638|This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty…

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Translingual Inheritance

|9780822946687|Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia| Honorable Mention, 2022 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award Translingual Inheritance tells a new story of the early days of democracy in the United…

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The Andean Wonder Drug

…forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the…

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