Books published by Purdue University Press

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather forecast. This book details Sutcliffe's life and ideas, and illuminates the impact of the larger forces that propelled him on his consequential trajectory.

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.