Courtney J. Campbell et al, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)

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Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

Underneath picturesque views of palm trees, fruity cocktails in hotel lounges, and day trips to preserved colonial zones lies a history of tourism design that intersects with larger projects of development and national and cultural identity formation. Locating modernity and colon ...  Show more

Imperial Depths: Mark Letteney and Matthew Larsen on the Roman Prison System (JP)

The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without the possibility of long-term confinement in purpose-built institutions? To others, we already have a template. Didn’t Michel Foucau ...  Show more

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