Compiled by Ellen Hostetter, Ph.D., Book Review Editor for Material Culture
Contact: ehostetter@uca.edu or call 501-205-6301.
Adams, Vincanne. Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move. Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Anderson, Timothy G., and Schoen, eds. Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond. Ohio University Press, 2023.
Bardes, John. The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930. The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Barua, Maan. Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Bell, Lindsay A. Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Bixby, Patrick. License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport. University of California Press, 2023.
Bolin, Goran, and Per Stahlberg. Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution. MIT Press, 2023.
Bosma, Ulbe. The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2023.
Brigham, David R., ed. Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Brunk, Robert. A Question of Value: Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer. The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Buggenhagen, Beth A. The Future Is in Your Hands: Portrait Photography from Senegal. University of Indiana Press, 2023.
Burman, Barbara. The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters. Reaktion Books, 2023.
Butt, Waqas H. Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan. Stanford University Press, 2023.
Byala, Author Sara. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Calkin, Sydney. Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom across Borders. University of California Press, 2023.
Callaway, H. B. The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris. Harvard Historical Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.
Collins, Lisa Gail. Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt. University of Washington Press, 2023.
Declercq, Robrecht, Duncan Money, and Hans Otto Frøland, eds. Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980. University of British Columbia Press, 2023.
Dyck, Erika. Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey. The MIT Press, 2024.
Elmore, Bart, Rachel S. Gross, and Sherri Sheu, eds. Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores. University of Wyoming Press, 2024.
Fisher, Chelsea. Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan. University of California Press, 2023.
Forth, Aidan. Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Fox, William L., Mark Klett, Hillary Mushkin, Britt Salvesen, Kim Stringfellow, Jason Weems, Will Wilson, and Amy Scott, eds. Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West. Autry Museum of the American West, 2024.
Fracchia, Adam D., and Patricia M. Samford. Below Baltimore: An Archaeology of Charm City. University Press of Florida, 2023.
Frohlich, Xaq. From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age. University of California Press, 2023.
Gardner, Nathanial. The Study of Photography in Latin America: Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches. University of New Mexico Press, 2023.
Godlewski, Joseph. The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. Routledge Press, 2024.
Goldberg, Rob. Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America. Radical Perspectives. Duke University Press, 2023.
Gould, Hannah. When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Gross, Rachel S. Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. Yale University Press, 2024.
Guo, Li, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun, eds. Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures. University of Washington Press, 2024.
Harrell, Stevan. An Ecological History of Modern China. University of Washington Press, 2023.
Henry, Matthew S. Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Howard, Hugh. Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
Huff, Steven. Resting among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York. Syracuse University Press, 2023.
Jaffee, Daniel. Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice. University of California Press, 2023.
Johnson, Alix. Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland. University of California Press, 2023.
Jr, Raymond Thompson. Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster. University Press of Kentucky, 2024.
Kane, Carolyn L. Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America’s White Imaginary. University of California Press, 2023.
Kaun, Anne, and Fredrik Stiernstedt. Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology. MIT Press, 2023.
Ketchum, Alex D. Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses. University of British Columbia Press, 2023.
Keyes, Sarah. American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Khayyat, Yasmine. War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon. Syracuse University Press, 2023.
Kisin, Eugenia. Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Koehl, Albert. Wheeling through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Kolavalli, Chhaya. Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Kusserow, Karl, ed. Object Lessons in American Art. Princeton University Art Museum, 2023.
LaPinta, Linda Elisabeth. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce. University Press of Kentucky, 2023.
Lasner, Matthew. High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. Yale University Press, 2023.
Lauck, Jon K., and Gleaves Whitney. North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity. University of Oklahoma Press, 2023.
Lemke, Ashley. The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor. Texas A&M University Press, 2024.
Lewis, Jovan Scott. Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Lewthwaite, Stephanie. Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940. University of Arizona Press, 2022.
Lucas, Patrick Lee. Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860. University of Kentucky Press, 2023.
Lyall, Victoria I. El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean. Oklahoma University Press, 2024.
Marken, Damien B., and M. Charlotte Arnauld, eds. Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics. University Press of Colorado, 2023.
Matheson, Susan B., and J. J. Pollitt. Old Age in Greek and Roman Art. Yale University Press, 2023.
McCabe, Brian J., and Eva Rosen, eds. The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
McKee, Guian A. Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Miron, Rose. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Morefield, Heidi. Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Mullaney, Thomas S. The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. The MIT Press, 2024.
Museum, Kentucky Derby, Jessica K. Whitehead, and Chris Goodlett. The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects. University Press of Kentucky, 2024.
Narath, Albert. Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Newman, Sarah. Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Ocejo, Richard E. Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Oldershaw, Cally. Stones: A Material and Cultural History. Reaktion Books, 2023.
O’Rourke, Kathryn E., and Ben Koush. Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Palumbi, Anthony R. At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Paoletti, Giulia. Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa. Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past. Yale University Press, 2023.
Perz, Stephen C., and Jorge Luis Hurtado. The Road to the Land of the Mother of God: A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Porter, Eric. A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. University of California Press, 2023.
Pratt, Kenneth L., and Scott A. Heyes, eds. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. University of British Columbia Press, 2023.
Real, Patricio del. Constructing Latin America; Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art. Yale University Press, 2022.
Ross, Corey. Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Schlogel, Karl. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Scorer, James. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Senie, Harriet F. Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Shoop, Tom. A Place Called Ilda: Race and Resilience at a Northern Virginia Crossroads. Rivanna, 2024.
Sluga, Glenda, Kate Darian-Smith, and Madeleine Herren, eds. Sites of International Memory. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Stewart, Whitney Nell. This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Svenson, Sally E. Adirondack Photographers, 1850-1950. Syracuse University Press, 2023.
Takeshita, Chikako. The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women’s Bodies. MIT Press, 2023.
Taylor, Iain A., and Oliver Carter, eds. Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning. Intellect Books, 2023.
Taylor, Professor Jessica Lauren. Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Turner, Dare, and Leila Grothe, eds. Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum. Baltimore Museum of Art & University of Washington Press, 2024.
Turner, James Morton. Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. University of Washington Press, 2023.
Van Damme, Ilja, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene, eds. Creativity from Suburban Nowheres: Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices. University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Viestad, Vibeke Maria, and Andreas Viestad. Living with the Dead: How We Care for the Deceased. Translated by Matt Bagguley. Reaktion Books, 2023.
Vincent, Amanda Shoaf. Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris’s New Parks, 1977-1995. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Wagner, Barnes &. Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land. University Press of Kentucky, 2023.
Weber, Joe, and Selima Sultana. The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System. University of Georgia Press, 2024.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety. Fordham University Press, 2023.
White III, William A. Segregation Made Them Neighbors: An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Whiteman, Stephen H. Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World – Penn Press. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Wiencek, Henry Alexander. Oil Cities: The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Wiles, Margaret. In the Shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped London. Yale University Press, 2023.
Wilson, Thomas D. Charleston and Savannah: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Wood, Kirsten E. Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Wright, Aaron M., ed. Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology. University of Utah Press, 2024.