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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One

|9780822955511|Government, Business, and Environmental Change|Roy Lubove’s Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as “hell with the lid…

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The Book in Movement

|9780822965879|Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground|Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to…

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Reforming Women

…Female Moral Reform Society. Established in 1834, the society took aim at prostitution, brothels, and the lascivious behavior increasingly visible in America’s industrializing cities. In particular, female moral reformers contested…

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The Contracted World

…in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war, and peace are filtered through the imagination and verbal skills of one of our brightest poets. The new poems experiment with form, and

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The Metamorphosis of Heads

…Denise Y. Arnold Juan de Dios Yapita| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| History / Latin America / South America Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / General…

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