LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...

Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps through a collection of essays...

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...

McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...

It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?

Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....

This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet...

Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...

In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...

James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...

Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...

Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....

This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...

Gibbons examines the intersection between video games and classical music...

This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...

In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...

Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...

Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,

Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...