Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781512831368
Pub Date: May 2027
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Vanishing Vienna reveals the foundational role philosemitism played in the effort to reimagine urban cultures after the Holocaust. Frances Tanzer uncovers a seldom discussed aspect of the postwar era—a society that continues to consume, redefine, and bestow symbolic meaning on the victims in their relative absence.
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World reveals that Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers allied behind Spain’s colonial officials and missionaries to wage wars against pirates and argues that anti-piracy politics held Spain’s Asian empire together and ensured its surprising resilience and longevity.
The New Yorker’s Paris studies the cultural impact of Janet Flanner, better known as Genêt, the overseas correspondent of The New Yorker magazine for fifty years (1925-1975). Her witty, wry, well-crafted columns helped her audience understand Parisians and the legacy of her insights reverberates among reporters today.
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Through the life and writings of Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508), Forgotten Paths to Modernity illuminates two distinct yet overlapping intellectual developments of early modern thought: Jewish intercultural understanding of the rising early modern empires before and after1492 and the interreligious history of early modern historical criticism.
Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-1350
George W. Dameron
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829969
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune explores food security and the political economy of grain in Tuscany, one of the most prosperous and culturally significant areas of later medieval Europe. George W. Dameron demonstrates how the evolution of food policy went hand-in-hand with political developments.
Lucifer’s Land invites readers into the social, cultural, and material world of premodern miners. Drawing on a wide array of historical and archaeological sources, G. Geltner argues that miners’ transformation of rural society, culture, and environments was and has been substantial and lasting.
Dyan Elliott demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.
Loyalism, Marching, and the Meaning of the Political in Northern Ireland
Sean French
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830248
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Music and Noise examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in present-day Northern Ireland. Refraining from common categorizations of parading as straightforwardly political or apolitically “cultural,” anthropologist Sean French’s ethnographic study instead asks: political in what way?
