Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the
nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging …

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated
maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to …

Greek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider
sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks'" encounter with the barbarian" …

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear
age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples …

This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing
that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the …

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American
senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the …

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement
with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the …

Contesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of
political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation …

O ensaio analisa a historiografia das exposições internacionais, encaradas como
fenômenos geopolíticos da modernidade aos quais estariam associados a ordem burguesa …

" Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story...[Procter] dissects
western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to …