Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.

A detailed comparative study of resources and military mobilizations in the ancient Mediterranean, this book examines how Rome achieved hegemony over the region and offers a new understanding of the economy of that time.

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights.

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.