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Knowing and Seeing

|9780822945703|Reflections on Fifty Years of Drawing Cities| In Knowing and Seeing, muralist Douglas Cooper reflects on his long career as a muralist in various cities around the world. Part memoir…

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Communicating Physics

…their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan. Simon’s Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot’s two textbooks: Traite elementaire de physique experimentale et appliquee…

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Kaufmann’s

…tailor shops in Pittsburgh’s North and South sides, the Kaufmann brothers caught the wave of a new type of merchandising—the department store—and launched what would become their retail dynasty with…

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Metropolitan Belgrade

…entertainment industry during the interwar years. | Jovana Babović| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe / Eastern Social Science / Popular Culture Social Science / Sociology / Urban

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From Citizens to Subjects

…all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a hundred-year period. Murphy examines the government of…

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