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Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America
Audacious Reforms examines the creation of new political institutions in three Latin American countries: direct elections for governors and mayors in Venezuela, radical municipalization in Bolivia, and direct election of the mayor of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Diverging from the usual incremental processes of political change, these cases marked a ......
Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating inequality among poor and working-class ......
Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countriesincluding China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuelahave developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal international political order. Meanwhile, the ......
''Original and delightful . . . [Mayr's] persuasive and beautifully written book is reminiscent of Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.''--American Historical Review.
Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America
The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study -- for the first time -- by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession.Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology -- from ......
Automated counters provide data on blood samples with greater speed and precision than manual microscopic methods, but generate reports with unfamiliar terms as well as previously unavailable types of information. 'Automated Blood Counts and Differentials' gives the first in-depth examination of this new technology, the data it provides, and their ......
Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century-conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century.
Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century-conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century.
How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory
How the internet's memory infrastructure developed-averting a "digital dark age"-and introduced a golden age of historical memory. In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-lasting? Drawing on archival material in the Internet Archive and ......
