"Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton offer the first biography of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of dark matter. An outstanding scientist herself, Rubin also championed women in science, by mentoring, advocating for hiring women facult…
"During the era known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. This book explores the role theatre played during this period, covering the formation of the Theatre Guild, the short-lived Federal Theatre Project, an…
"A critical narrative of how gender norms and the modernist movement shaped one another in the early 20th century, using vivid case studies"--Provided by publisher "Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time …
"This book offers a genealogy of queer theory, tracing its roots to an unexpected source: empirical research on marginal sex practices and communities in the era before Stonewall. Scholars trained in the heady philosophical version of queer theory that emerged in the late 1980s …
"The introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late-nineteenth century transformed rural society and created an enduring economic legacy. Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of …
"Este volumen recoge algunas de las contribuciones al congreso "Nuevas aproximaciones al exilio" que se celebró en la Residencia de Estudiantes (Madrid) en agosto de 2016. El congreso, organizado por el equipo del proyecto "Left-wing Exile in Mexico" (ERC n.º 312717) con sede en…
by Casanova, Julián, Gil Andrés, Carlos, Douch, Martin
"This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democracy…
