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From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia's economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," …
The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in …
The first history of the formidable campaign that transformed Los Angeles into one of the world's greatest coastal metropolises, revealing how the city's man-made shores became the …
What did it mean that in the world's first mass democracy only a minority ruled? Women--free and enslaved, white and Black, single and married--constituted the bulk of those barred …
Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued …
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker …
The first biography of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Following Fredi Washington's debut in her first dramatic role in 1926, …
Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasília, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism. Among the dozens of New …
A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's …
Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Arab Brazil is the first book of its kind to highlight the …