Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.
The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Francesca Brittan and Carmel Raz
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512829945
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
An exploration of the history of auditory attention between roughly 1800 and 1930, The Attentive Ear probes the origins, key theories, and experimental trajectories of attentional discourses around the globe, demonstrating the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distraction.
The Story of the Scientists Who Discovered Genetics and Reinvented Evolution
William deJong-Lambert
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781606181560
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
The Fly Room tells the story of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan’s laboratory at Columbia University where he and his students, by experimenting with and breeding fruit flies, invented genetics, which would eventually lead to the refutation of the theory of eugenics and prove Darwin’s theory of evolution right.
Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512829907
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Troop Movements explains how mass mobilization for World War II—involving multiracial soldiers and defense workers—provided an opportunity for entangled alliances across race, class, and global concerns. This mobilization and conflicts within it catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period.
In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.
Edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Contributions by Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt and Susan Weiler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829563
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Illustrated by nearly fifty of Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa’s stunning photographs as well as color photographs, archival drawings, blueprints, maps, plans, and diagrams, Penn’s Sylvania not only showcases the critical importance of trees to University of Pennsylvania urban campus but also introduces the people responsible for establishing and conserving its rich botanical heritage.
Constructing Christendom examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries—emphasizing the divinely ordained centrality of papal authority and solidifying a cohesive European Christian identity in the process.
Through an exploration of ostensibly race- and gender-neutral policy approaches to alleviate patriarchal anxieties, H. Howell Williams reveals that political advocates’ efforts to regulate fatherhood were really attempts to bolster White American patriarchy and protect its dominance.
