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Matthew Evan Davis – Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World
INTRODUCTION – MATTHEW EVAN DAVIS, TAMSYN MAHONEY-STEEL, AND ECE TURNATOR 1 – This time of renewal has become a key part of how we have dealt [...]
21 November, 2021
Roy Rosenzweig – Clio Wired
6 – Thus historians need to be thinking simultaneously about how to research, write, and teach in a world of unheard-of historical abundance and how [...]
21 November, 2021
Bonnie Ruberg – Video Games Have Always Been Queer
1 – Amidst a dominant games culture that has proven itself to be openly hostile to diversity, the politics of queer play echo outward across games [...]
19 November, 2021
Roopika Risam – New Digital Worlds
3 – The Puerto Rico Mapathon is an important example of how postcolonial digital humanities has come to the fore as an intervention in digital [...]
19 November, 2021
Elizabeth Losh & Jacqueline Wernimont – Bodies of Information
Introduction – Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh Ix – This volume also emerges in an era when the tasks of intersectional feminisms, of [...]
19 November, 2021
Jerome McGann – A New Republic of Letters
1 – Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated and reedited in digital forms [...]
18 November, 2021
Sinah Theres Kloß – The Global South , Vol. 11, No. 2 – The Global South as Subversive Practice
The Global South as Subversive Practice: Challenges and Potentials of a Heuristic Concept — Sinah Theres Kloß 1 – It argues that the “Global [...]
12 November, 2021
Frederick Cooper – Colonialism in Question
3 – Such concerns have led some scholars to examine thoughtfully the complex ways in which Europe was made from its colonies and how the very [...]
12 November, 2021
Fabiana Li – Unearthing Conflict
3 – Why was it that, in this so-­called mining country, extractive activity ended up at the center of controversy and local resistance? How did water [...]
6 November, 2021
Thomas Miller Klubock – La Frontera
2-3 – This book brings together the social and environmental histories of the southern frontier territory to examine the origins of Chile’s recent [...]
5 November, 2021
Molly Doane – Stealing Shining Rivers
Preface – Why the Environment Is Political Vii – The exhibit condenses landscapes and idealizes their elements by, for example, including live [...]
5 November, 2021
Matthew Vitz – City on a Lake
INTRODUCTION Mexico City is, indeed, a city facing extraordinary social and environmental predicaments. This book helps explain the origins and evolution [...]
5 November, 2021
Reinaldo Monzote – From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba
No theoretical underpinnings, no argument, just an endless stream of arcane quantitative facts and summaries barely stitched into a narrative, and [...]
5 November, 2021
Andra Chastain & Timothy Lorek – Itineraries of Expertise
Introduction 3 Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek  3 – We contend that, beneath the conflicts waged by diplomats and militaries, the Latin [...]
5 November, 2021
Elinor Melville – A Plague of Sheep
“1 – biological and social regimes” 12-13 – environment as active variable 13 – indigenous agricultural proficiency belied the fragility [...]
4 November, 2021
Mikael Wolfe – Watering the Revolution
1-2 – “Mexican federal engineers, also known as tecnicos, were not merely passive implementers of large-scale state development schemes such as [...]
4 November, 2021
Andrew Mathews – Instituting Nature
2 – this book about the effort to produce a regime of transparent knowledge in mexican forestry 3 – bureaucracy as performance 4 – [...]
4 November, 2021
Christopher Boyer – A Land Between Waters
3 – “Generations of historians have studied environmental revolution associated with colonialism, but they have largely ignored the more recent and [...]
4 November, 2021
Tore Olsson – Agrarian Crossings
 8 – if not neatly a process of “americanization” what about a process of “industrialization”, first of the US South by the North and, then, [...]
3 November, 2021
Christopher Boyer – Political Landscapes
xiii – political landscapes is two stories of redemption that each begin with campesino loss of land or land access and end with the recuperation of [...]
3 November, 2021
Myrna Santiago – The Ecology of Oil
2 – “No explanation is offered – no identification, no mention of whose private property the stinking lake is and who the authorized personnel [...]
3 November, 2021
Warren Dean – With Broadax and Firebrand
4 – A kind of forest history has been written in North America in which the forest appears as raw material for the timber trade, nothing more. The [...]
3 November, 2021
Eve Buckley – Technocrats and the Politics of Drought
Eve Buckley’s Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil studies the drought-prone sertao region of Brazil and [...]
3 November, 2021
Dolly Jorgensen – New Natures
Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology StudiesPromises, Challenges, and Contributions – Sara Pritchard 1-2 – For example, [...]
3 November, 2021
Ashley Carse – Beyond the Big Ditch
5 – Here, then, are the paradoxes at the core of this book: (1) the Panama Canal needs forests and (2) the canal had to be saved from machetes. [...]
3 November, 2021
William Cronon – Uncommon Ground
Foreword to the Paperback Edition Highlight (yellow) – Location 243 Even when we travel through a beautiful mountain landscape in the Sierra Nevada [...]
2 November, 2021
Cynthia Radding – Landscapes of Power and Identity
Preface Highlight (yellow) – Page 18 · Location 178 Landscapes of Power and Identity undertakes two challenges that speak to the heart of the [...]
30 October, 2021
Oscar de la Torre – The People of the River
4 – In sum, according to a number of scholars, the 1988 constitutional clause underlies the present-day process of black peasants’ identity-building [...]
26 October, 2021
Gabriela Soto Laveaga – Jungle Laboratories
INTRODUCTION Highlight (yellow) – Page 19 · Location 183 This book is about a forgotten chapter in Mexican history : the search for wild yams called [...]
24 October, 2021
Cynthia Radding – Wandering Peoples
Preface Highlight (yellow) – Page xv · Location 623 Wandering Peoples recounts the persistence of indigenous peasant nations in Sonora during the [...]
24 October, 2021
Gregory Cushman – Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
1 Introduction Highlight (yellow) – Location 281 His subordinates owed him labor and allegiance as kin . In reciprocity , it was his sacred duty to [...]
23 October, 2021
Alfred Crosby – The Columbian Exchange
Xiii – Nothing can be understood apart from its context, and man is no exception. He is a living entity, dependent on a number of other living [...]
22 October, 2021
Patrik Svensson – Between Humanities and the Digital
1 – The volume describes the breadth and depth of how the humanities engage with the digital and information technology, including [...]
18 October, 2021
Eric T. Meyer – Knowledge Machines
1 – This book is about how the Internet has transformed knowledge. More specifically, it is about how digital tools and data, used collaboratively [...]
16 October, 2021
Susan Schreibman – A New Companion to Digital Humanities
PREFACE Xvii – It remains debatable whether digital humanities should be regarded as a “discipline in its own right,” rather than a set of related [...]
15 October, 2021
Samuel Truett – Fugitive Landscapes
What is most surprising is not how hard it was to predict this world in 1891 , but how hard it is to remember it today . This is partly due to the power of [...]
10 October, 2021
Franco Moretti – Graphs, Maps, Trees
2 – The distant reason for these choices lies in my Marxist formation, which was profoundly influenced by Galvano DellaVolpe, and entailed therefore [...]
9 October, 2021
Allen F. Isaacman – Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development
4 – The newly installed Frelimo government—after years of claiming that Cahora Bassa, by providing cheap energy to apartheid South Africa, would [...]
8 October, 2021
Thomas Bartscherer – Switching Codes
INTRODUCTION 2 – It is precisely this kind of dialogue— the exchange between Powers and the other contributors— that Switching Codes aims to [...]
5 October, 2021
Julie Thompson Klein – Interdisciplining Digital Humanities
Foreword Cathy N. Davidson Vii – Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field challenges the reader to not only visit the [...]
2 October, 2021
John Soluri – Banana Cultures
3 – The banana’s late-nineteenth-century transition from an exotic novelty to a commodity of mass consumption in the United States produced much more [...]
30 September, 2021
Arthur & Bode – Advancing Digital Humanities
INTRO – Collecting Ourselves – Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur 1- Digital humanities has become an influential and widely adopted term [...]
30 September, 2021
Domenico Fiormonte – The Digital Humanist
Preface Digital Humanities at a political turn? Geoffrey Rockwell X – The new version of this book is current, accessible, and argues that humanists [...]
26 September, 2021
Matthew K. Gold – Debates in the digital humanities. 2019
INTRO – A DH That Matters – Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein Ix – What is the role of the digital humanities in the charged [...]
25 September, 2021
Thomas Rogers – The Deepest Wounds
1 –  Freyre indicts the brutal, race-based system of bondage and the concentration of land ownership in the hands of a powerful and avaricious few as [...]
24 September, 2021
Constance Crompton – Doing Digital Humanities
1 – The Digital Humanities Summer Institute has grown concurrently with the dynamic field of digital humanities. Best defined as the intersection of [...]
20 September, 2021
Anne Burdick – Digital_Humanities
Vii – The present volume puts itself forward in support of a Digital Humanities that asks what it means to be a human being in the networked [...]
19 September, 2021
Nicholas A. Robins – Mercury, Mining, and Empire
4 – Just as the explosion of silver production would have far-reaching consequences on the global economy, it also had a profound and enduring effect [...]
6 September, 2021
Gabrielle Hecht – Being Nuclear
In Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, Gabrielle Hecht explores the economic, political, and technoscientific components of uranium [...]
31 August, 2021
Traci Brynne Voyles – Wastelanding
Traci Brynne Voyles Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country is a ghastly tale of zombies, marxistly vampiric corporations, the Naayéé’ [...]
26 August, 2021







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