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City at the Center of the World

…society struggling to keep the memory of its colonial and indigenous roots alive. | Ernesto Capello| Pitt Latin American Series| History / General History / Latin America / South America

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London

|9780822944270|Water and the Making of the Modern City| As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died…

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Medicine and Modernism

…his research into the human nervous system. He did a series of experiments in collaboration with W. H. R. Rivers in which cutaneous nerves were surgically severed in Head’s arm…

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The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh

…the Works Progress Administration and featuring books on states, cities, rivers, and ethnic groups, it also opened an unprecedented view into the lives of the American people during this time….

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Development Design

…West Indies) History / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba History / Caribbean & West Indies / General History / Latin America / Central America Political Science / World /…

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