Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century
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During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of...
Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China's Modernity
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Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis...
The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
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A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined...
Attunement: Architectural Meaning After the Crisis of Modern Science
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Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation...
Street Furniture Design: Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain
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Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which...
The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
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Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese...
Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print
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In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a...
