Tides of Progress demonstrates the richness of periodicals as an archive of multilingual hemispheric exchanges that both reflected on modernity and in some sense produced it. This edited collection includes the best of both worlds: deep dives into particular periodicals and a sweeping scope of hemispheric comparativism through key concepts.

Catherine Keyser, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA

Tides of Progress is an impressive collection of scholarly work that crosses the Americas and takes a bilingual approach to print-culture studies. The articles cover a remarkable range of periodical publication, from advertisements in newspapers to literary magazines, and do so across various parts of the hemisphere. Attentive to questions of translation and transmission, this important collection is indispensable reading for anyone interested in print culture outside of nationalist frames.

Rodrigo Lazo, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

This is a superb book that brings a fresh perspective upon the multifaceted periodical culture of the Anglo-Hispanic world. In a range of incisive essays we find an exciting picture of how complex notions of progress and modernity shaped Anglo-Hispanic exchanges in fascinating ways: this is a brilliant and essential collection for anybody working on modern periodical studies.

Andrew Thacker, Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University, UK

A century ago, an extraordinary wave of magazines flourished across the Americas. In its pages, workers, poets, translators, anthropologists, educators, filmmakers, and journalists forged a progressive culture across the perceived divisions between Anglo and Hispanic societies. Today, although armies of automated scanners have sought to make this print culture machine readable, its lessons (at home with difference but in search of commonalities) have been mislaid. In Tides of Progress, Peter Hulme and Ana Rodríguez Navas assemble ten experts to help us recover the historical contours and episodes of this ambitious era of cultural exchange. This book is an essential touchstone for hemispheric cultural history and for anyone who cares about maintaining the infrastructure of communication across borders.

Harris Feinsod, Research Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, USA