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No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

An inside look at the transformation of Hershey, Pennsylvania, from a model industrial community into a twenty-first century suburbia powered by a $12 billion philanthropy.

Andrew Morris tells the story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, changed the way the nation responded to disasters—drawing civil rights activists, conservative white southerners, liberal Congressional Democrats, and President Richard Nixon into a reconfiguration of the nation’s disaster policy.

Bringing critical race theory and science fiction together, Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging perceptions of race, ethnicity, whiteness, and Blackness in US culture.

Making All the World America offers a new account of the Doctrine of Discovery. While scholars have maintained that the doctrine operated through the suppression of Indigenous peoples, Timothy Bowers Vasko contends that the doctrine’s ideological work actually depended on the recognition of Indigenous rights and sovereignty.