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The Silver Women
How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828757
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
The Silver Women argues that Black West Indian women made the construction of the Panama Canal possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. The book links this labor to the histories of U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
Headstrong
Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512824650
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.
Strange Bedfellows
Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828771
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Strange Bedfellows recounts the unlikely ways in which the efforts of feminists and divorced men's activists dovetailed with the activity of lawmakers, judges, welfare activists, immigrant spouses, the LGBTQ community, the Reagan coalition, and other Americans, to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms.
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828818
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the economy, and the state collapsed. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming charts this collapse, and its foundational role in making the world we characterize as early medieval.
A Brotherhood of Liberty
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828788
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Dennis Patrick Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations.
Cracked Foundations
Debt and Inequality in Suburban America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828221
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Cracked Foundations reveals that the postwar suburban boom was built on debt and speculation. Historian Michael R. Glass shows how home mortgages and municipal bonds made suburban life increasingly precarious and insecure, and how they established inequalities that have persisted to this day.
The Invention of Rum
Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512828184
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Focusing on the lived experiences of British colonists, Indigenous people, and enslaved Africans, The Invention of Rum shows how people engaged in making and consuming this commodity created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic world.
Facsimile
Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827057
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
Imperfect Oracle
What AI Can and Cannot Do
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781606181379
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Imperfect Oracle is about both the promise and limits of artificial intelligence. The promise is that in important ways AI is a lot better than we are at making judgments, while its limits are evidenced by the fact that AI cannot always make accurate predictions—not today, not tomorrow, and not the day after, either.
The Abortion Market
Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512828207
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. While we may have imagined securing an abortion as a hidden, woman-only experience before 1973, this history reveals the extent to which businesses and businessmen openly selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women.
The Silver Women
How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828757
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
The Silver Women argues that Black West Indian women made the construction of the Panama Canal possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. The book links this labor to the histories of U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
Headstrong
Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512824650
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.
Strange Bedfellows
Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828771
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Strange Bedfellows recounts the unlikely ways in which the efforts of feminists and divorced men's activists dovetailed with the activity of lawmakers, judges, welfare activists, immigrant spouses, the LGBTQ community, the Reagan coalition, and other Americans, to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms.
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828818
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the economy, and the state collapsed. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming charts this collapse, and its foundational role in making the world we characterize as early medieval.
A Brotherhood of Liberty
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828788
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Dennis Patrick Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations.
Cracked Foundations
Debt and Inequality in Suburban America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828221
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Cracked Foundations reveals that the postwar suburban boom was built on debt and speculation. Historian Michael R. Glass shows how home mortgages and municipal bonds made suburban life increasingly precarious and insecure, and how they established inequalities that have persisted to this day.
The Invention of Rum
Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512828184
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Focusing on the lived experiences of British colonists, Indigenous people, and enslaved Africans, The Invention of Rum shows how people engaged in making and consuming this commodity created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic world.
Facsimile
Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827057
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
Imperfect Oracle
What AI Can and Cannot Do
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781606181379
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Imperfect Oracle is about both the promise and limits of artificial intelligence. The promise is that in important ways AI is a lot better than we are at making judgments, while its limits are evidenced by the fact that AI cannot always make accurate predictions—not today, not tomorrow, and not the day after, either.
The Abortion Market
Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512828207
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. While we may have imagined securing an abortion as a hidden, woman-only experience before 1973, this history reveals the extent to which businesses and businessmen openly selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women.