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Cultivating Victory

…farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily women, who readily volunteered in what came to be known as Women’s Land Armies. Stirred by national propaganda…

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Echo’s Chambers

|9780822946571|Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space|A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically…

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Tasteful Domesticity

|9780822965138|Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940|Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public…

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Sharing Spaces

|9780822948308|Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships|Human and animal lives intersect, whether through direct physical contact or by inhabiting the same space at a different time. Environmental humanities scholars have begun investigating…

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Brownsville to Braddock

…Artists / Monographs History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers Nature / Regional…

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