Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Ben Highmore, Playgrounds: The Experimental Years press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Playgrounds
A history of post-war playgrounds and their enduring legacy. After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, t...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ben Highmore, Playgrounds: The Experimental Years press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...
Health as Property by Nic John Ramos - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...
Alexander Wood, Building the Metropolis Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Building the Metropolis
A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world’s great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million bu...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Alexander Wood, Building the Metropolis Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Joe Malloy, Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music repeaterbooks.com/product/acid...
Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music - Repeater Books
Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit’s musical and social history from the 1960s to the present day. Redefining the counterculture as a time of Acid Communism, Acid Detroit d...
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Joe Malloy, Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music repeaterbooks.com/product/acid...
Stephen. M. Koeth, Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America, press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Crabgrass Catholicism
How suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church. The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs o...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Stephen. M. Koeth, Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America, press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Tom White, Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster repeaterbooks.com/product/bad-...
Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster - Repeater Books
Once used extensively in schools, hospitals, and housing, asbestos has taken the lives of millions. Bad Dust traces the international history of the asbestos disaster -- from mining operations in apar...
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Tom White, Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster repeaterbooks.com/product/bad-...
Kyle J. Anderson, The Egyptian Labor Corps Race, Space, and Place in the First World War utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333624/
The Egyptian Labor Corps
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Kyle J. Anderson, The Egyptian Labor Corps Race, Space, and Place in the First World War utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333624/
Jake P. Smith, The Ruin Dwellers Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Ruin Dwellers
Traces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and ’80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics. The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts dur...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Jake P. Smith, The Ruin Dwellers Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Jeanne Moisand, A Spanish Commune: The Cartagena Canton and its Worlds www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
A Spanish Commune
The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Jeanne Moisand, A Spanish Commune: The Cartagena Canton and its Worlds www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Dominic A. Pacyga, Clout City The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Clout City
Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades. In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Dominic A. Pacyga, Clout City The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity
New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers mak...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity
New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Joseph Kellner, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The Spirit of Socialism by Joseph Kellner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
The Spirit of Socialism is a cultural history of the Soviet collapse. It examines the millions of Soviet people who, during the cascading crises of the collapse and the post-Soviet transition, embarke...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Joseph Kellner, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa www.plutobooks.com/product/whit...
White City, Black City - Pluto Press
A hidden history of colonialism and war seen through a changing architectural landscape
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Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa www.plutobooks.com/product/whit...
David H. Pinkey, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and Haussmann
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
David H. Pinkey, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...