Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Holly A. Crocker
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829679
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.
Mass produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Sumptuously illustrated, Medieval Badges considers all badges, whether they originated in religious or secular contexts, and highlights the ways in which badges could confer meaning and identity on their wearers.
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829624
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Scott Youngstedt
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.
Liberty’s Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation’s promise of liberty. Reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarceration.
The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
Patrick Chung
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828733
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.
Blue-Collar Conservatism presents a nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged. Reissued with a new preface that explores the rise of Donald Trump and the changes to Philadelphia’s demographics and politics since the Rizzo era.
Featuring a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Charlene Mires’s chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall argues that the building’s significance cannot be fully appreciated without assessing its full political, cultural, and social history. Reissued with a new preface that discusses the importance of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding to public perception of the site.
The Gospel of Work and Money is the first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history and foreground the many ways that ‘work’ remains the primary pedagogical lens of capital in our present era.
