Artist, Activist, and Author in the African Diaspora
Edited by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828399
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois, this volume examines how African and African American culture infused her artistry as a musician, dramatist, editor, and author and analyzes how her creative intellect shaped the evolution of her radical political commitments across the global Black freedom struggle.
Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States
Whitney Martinko
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828795
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. She argues that early advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.
With nearly 200 illustrations, Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen particularly significant case studies, including the Beowulf manuscript, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.
Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. The most comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware in more than a century, Americana Insights 2025 is a celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition.
Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri
John Craig Hammond
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828429
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s and concluding with the Missouri Crisis of 1819, The Centrality of Slavery examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained, and challenged systems of slavery in the Middle Mississippi Valley.
Edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth S. Wenger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
What happens when scholars from diverse disciplines connect to explore the American Jewish experience? The Future of American Jewish Pasts shines a penetrating light on some of the most provocative questions of historical interpretation. These essays reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life to reimagine American Jewish studies.
Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Caroline Egan
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828467
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.
