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Industrial Genius

…producer in America. President Woodrow Wilson called on Schwab to head the Emergency Fleet Corporation to produce merchant ships for the transport of troops and materials abroad during World War…

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Bound Lives

…system to its advantage, while also shaping the nature of colonialism itself. | Rachel Sarah O’Toole| Pitt Latin American Series| History / General History / Latin America / South America

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Vernacular Latin Americanisms

|9780822965541|War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline|In Vernacular Latin Americanisms, Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and still inform…

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Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia

|9780822985846|The Making of an Industrial Working Class| Kenneth Straus weaves together many threads in Russian social history to develop a new theory of working-class formation in the years of Stalin’s…

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Drugs on the Page

…bodies as a means to standardize therapeutic practice, were particularly important to scientific and colonial enterprises. They served, in part, as tools for making sense of encounters with a diversity…

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