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Big Steel

…manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support the manufacturing superstructure…

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The Workers’ State

…understandings of the role of labor and the importance of local histories in Eastern Europe under communism. | Mark Pittaway| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe / Eastern…

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The Spectator and the Topographical City

…led to the creation of architectural forms; man’s response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. From its origins as a frontier fortification to its heyday of industrial…

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Slick Policy

…Act, and revolutionized the way that the United States dealt with environmental pollution. At the same time, scientists developed methods to detect chemical pollution that had been discharged into rivers

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Distant Publics

|9780822962045|Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis| Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it. In Distant Publics, Jenny Rice examines…

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