How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics
Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicenters of the crisis. The Midwest, if considered at all, appears as a footnote to the social, medical, and political struggles of coastal queer communities. But the US heartland cultivated its own regionally distinct strategies of survival that became the ......
How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics
Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicenters of the crisis. The Midwest, if considered at all, appears as a footnote to the social, medical, and political struggles of coastal queer communities. But the US heartland cultivated its own regionally distinct strategies of survival that became the ......
In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation ......
In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation ......
The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program-created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime-aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to ......
The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program-created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime-aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to ......
How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies
In this book, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade. Instead, Kutulas argues that the experiences and attitudes that were radical in the 1960s were becoming part of mainstream culture in the 1970s, as sexual freedom, gender ......
What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem
Locally, regionally, and nationally, the lack of affordable housing is an urgent and ongoing issue. As elected officials rush to ramp up aid for the construction of affordable apartments, scholars and policymakers are asking how our present system of housing subsidies-both its strengths and its shortcomings-came into being. In this book, Thomas W. ......
What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem
Locally, regionally, and nationally, the lack of affordable housing is an urgent and ongoing issue. As elected officials rush to ramp up aid for the construction of affordable apartments, scholars and policymakers are asking how our present system of housing subsidies-both its strengths and its shortcomings-came into being. In this book, Thomas W. ......
