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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
What do “nature” and “place” mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler’s work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
The Lion at Dawn
Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
The Lion at Dawn opens a new, critical perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire, and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
We Shook Up the World
The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison
We Shook Up the World offers a new, intimate perspective on two outsize figures in the nation’s and the world’s cultural history, and a new understanding of their unique contributions to the consciousness of their time and ours.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces
This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view, and a deeper appreciation, of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people, and what we value as a society.
Hollywood's Imperial Wars
The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity
Tracing what Prats calls the “anxiety of legacy” through the films of the World War II and post–Vietnam War periods, this book offers a new way of looking at both the Hollywood war movie and the profound cultural shifts it reflects and refracts.
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia
Powhatan People and the Color Line
Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions.
For the Birds
American Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice
For the Birds gives Nice her due recognition, lending compelling insight into her activism promoting conservation and preservation, her field methods, and the role of women in the history of science, particularly in ornithology. Nice’s life acts as a looking glass into the various challenges faced by fellow female pioneers, their resolve, and their contributions.
Who Is a Worthy Mother?
An Intimate History of Adoption
As the United States once again finds itself embroiled in heated disputes over women’s bodily autonomy—disputes in which adoption plays a central role—Wellington’s book offers a unique and much-needed frame of reference.
The Washington Apple
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
Today, as this book reveals, the apple industry continues to evolve in response to shifting consumer demands and accelerating climate change. Yet, through it all, the Washington apple maintains its iconic status as Washington’s most valuable agricultural crop.
An Aide to Custer
The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, An Aide with Custer gives readers an unprecedented view of the Civil War and one of its most important commanders, and unusual insight into the experience of a staff officer who served alongside him.
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
What do “nature” and “place” mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler’s work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
The Lion at Dawn
Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
The Lion at Dawn opens a new, critical perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire, and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
We Shook Up the World
The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison
We Shook Up the World offers a new, intimate perspective on two outsize figures in the nation’s and the world’s cultural history, and a new understanding of their unique contributions to the consciousness of their time and ours.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces
This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view, and a deeper appreciation, of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people, and what we value as a society.
Hollywood's Imperial Wars
The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity
Tracing what Prats calls the “anxiety of legacy” through the films of the World War II and post–Vietnam War periods, this book offers a new way of looking at both the Hollywood war movie and the profound cultural shifts it reflects and refracts.
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia
Powhatan People and the Color Line
Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions.
For the Birds
American Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice
For the Birds gives Nice her due recognition, lending compelling insight into her activism promoting conservation and preservation, her field methods, and the role of women in the history of science, particularly in ornithology. Nice’s life acts as a looking glass into the various challenges faced by fellow female pioneers, their resolve, and their contributions.
Who Is a Worthy Mother?
An Intimate History of Adoption
As the United States once again finds itself embroiled in heated disputes over women’s bodily autonomy—disputes in which adoption plays a central role—Wellington’s book offers a unique and much-needed frame of reference.
The Washington Apple
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
Today, as this book reveals, the apple industry continues to evolve in response to shifting consumer demands and accelerating climate change. Yet, through it all, the Washington apple maintains its iconic status as Washington’s most valuable agricultural crop.
An Aide to Custer
The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, An Aide with Custer gives readers an unprecedented view of the Civil War and one of its most important commanders, and unusual insight into the experience of a staff officer who served alongside him.