What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

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...

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

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

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?

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

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...

"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...

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

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...

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..