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Dividing Hispaniola

…regardless of their actual color, whiteness was synonymous with Dominican cultural identity. Paulino examines the campaign against Haiti as the construct of a fractured urban intellectual minority, bolstered by international…

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Of Greater Dignity than Riches

and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in…

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The Age of Smoke

…valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress. | Frank Uekötter| History of the Urban Environment| History / General Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Pollution Control Technology…

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The Dogs of Detroit

…grief as a prism to explore the beguiling bonds within families. The stories span a variety of geographies, both urban and rural, often considering collisions between the two.| Brad Felver|…

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The Truly Needy And Other Stories

…Needy, Lucy Honig has created a heartbreaking, imaginative world that is the American urban landscape.| Lucy Honig| Drue Heinz Literature Prize| Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories (single author)…

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