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The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market—but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quic

One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015 "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the wo

An imaginative analysis of the interplay between rhetoric and physical space in the creation of the nation's capital.

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, dev

As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles—those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with