In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...

Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...

O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...

Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...

In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...

Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Why do Americans eat so much beef?

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

Fuller debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...

Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...

"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...