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I Am My Own Path
A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets. Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) is best known for her poetry, but she is …
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain
Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico. A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of Nahua boys, especially …
Sports through the Lens
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years. Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, …
Undoing Modernity
An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness. On the Yucatán Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studying linguistics and culture in …
The Interior
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions. In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared …
Arretium (Arezzo)
A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium. Beneath the Italian city of Arezzo lie the remains of Etruscan Arretium. This volume, …
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas. Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to …
The Earth That Modernism Built
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary …
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s. Though her acting career is well known, Ida …
Prohibition in Turkey
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.Prohibition in Turkey investigates …
It's All in the Delivery
How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights. …
Texian Exodus
A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas. Two events in Texas …