What is the relationship between race, technology and sound?

Intrinsic to the practice of empire is the creation of boundaries...

Traphagan presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of small-business entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of contemporary rural Japan...

The first people to record their reactions to the falls in North America were fascinated by its beauty and power...

Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,

Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...

Balakrishnan examines the novel phenomenon of the conversion of agrarian landowners into urban shareholders in India’s newly emerging “corridor cities.”

In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce.

While the term ‘Europe’ was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained a prevalence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which it did not possess before...

Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...

To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...

Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...

Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century...

Naldrett begins his enjoyable trip around the British coast with the notion that reaching the seaside for most Britons is a matter of only a 1-2 hour car ride...

This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...

Siddiqi offers a forceful meditation on a number of key issues around the social contract, citizenship, and state provisions such as disaster relief and social protection...

We explore her primary argument, that Venetians used their knowledge, and their ability to employ that knowledge, to write Venetians into the story....

What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...

Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...

Olson situates the urban geography of Paris and the very material of maps of the city at the heart of the story of Republican national consolidation, from the initial stabilization of the Third Republic to the 1930s...