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Memo for Nemo

Memo for Nemo

Memo for Nemo

by William Firebrace

ISBN: 9780262544085

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne's Captain Nemo to NASA's ECC02 project.
A Landscape History of New England

A Landscape History of New England

A Landscape History of New England

Edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd

Afterword by John Elder

ISBN: 9780262525275

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 13, 2013

An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

Edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith

ISBN: 9780262515627

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 29, 2010

Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.
Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890-1970

Edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen and Arie Rip

ISBN: 9780262013628

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 15, 2010

An account of the trajectory of modernization through technology in the Netherlands.
The German Issue

The German Issue, New Edition

The German Issue

Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

Introduction by Sylvère Lotringer

ISBN: 9781584350798

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: October 2, 2009

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.
Inventing American History

Inventing American History

Inventing American History

by William Hogeland

With Deborah Chasman

ISBN: 9780262012881

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 13, 2009

A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
Guy Debord and the Situationist International

Guy Debord and the Situationist International

Guy Debord and the Situationist International

Texts and Documents

Edited by Tom McDonough

With Adam Lehner

ISBN: 9780262633000

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 27, 2004

Critical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.
Health and Disease in Human History

Health and Disease in Human History

Health and Disease in Human History

A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

Edited by Robert I. Rotberg

ISBN: 9780262681223

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 10, 2000

For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary historians have studied how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite food scarcities, nutritional deficiencies, exposure to virulent disease...
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