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.
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.
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.
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.
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
Edited by Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor and Arman Schwartz
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828030
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Tracing the pathways through which sound traveled across a variety of conceptual and physical domains in the first half of the twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire.
Salt glazing, with its distinctive "orange peel" surface, has long attracted both ceramicists and collectors. In his new book, well-known potter Phil Rogers looks at all the aspects of this very special...
The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
Michael Leja
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512826807
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
In the three decades before the Civil War, pictures of many kinds assumed essential functions and mediated all sorts of individual and collective experiences for a large segment of the population. In A Flood of Pictures, Michael Leja explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a culture accustomed to printed and spoken words.
Contributions by Patrick Spero, Michelle Craig McDonald, John Van Horne, David R. Brigham, Caroline O’Connell and Bayard Miller
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181225
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
110 Pages
This book, based on an APS exhibition, focuses on the diverse lived experiences of Philadelphians before, during, and after the fight for independence. It includes a fully-illustrated checklist, three essays and two short project history statements, each offering a unique perspective on Philadelphia’s role in the American Revolution.
