History

Showing results 1-10 of 363

Filter Results OPEN +

Sort by: Per page: ‹12 3 4 5 ›

Let Geography Die

Chasing Derwent's Ghost at Harvard

by Alison Mountz and Kira Williams

ISBN: 9780262551595

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 24, 2025

An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional politics.

Ascending Republic

The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France

by Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira

ISBN: 9780262549806

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 10, 2025

Why and how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential symbols of late nineteenth-century modernity, and how the balloon's reinvention shaped the airplane's assimilation in the early years of aviation.

Joséphine Baker across the Colonial Modern

by Ines Weizman

ISBN: 9781915609564

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: May 27, 2025

On renowned night-club performer and Allied spy Joséphine Baker's movements during the Second World War, told through essays, archival material, and photography.

Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints

The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science

by Massimiano Bucchi

Translated by Tania Aragona

ISBN: 9780262551847

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 13, 2025

A rich account of the world's leading science prize told through the lives it has changed, the controversies it has generated, and the impact it has made on the public.

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

by Ian Penman

ISBN: 9781635902532

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: April 22, 2025

Playing at the World, 2E

Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262552318

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 8, 2025

The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.

Inhuman Resources

by Evan Calder Williams

ISBN: 9781915609366

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 1, 2025

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.

Modern Chinese Foodways

Edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King and Jakob A. Klein

ISBN: 9780262551311

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 4, 2025

An edited collection that explores the multifaceted experiences of Chinese culinary modernity both within and outside of mainland China from the mid-19th century to present.