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Raw Capital
More-Than-Human Business History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830576
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Dividing of the American Mind
Humanism and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512830217
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
The Business of Education
Why American Universities Have Always Had to Hustle
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830415
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
No Wood, No Kingdom
Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512830521
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.
This Is My Jail
Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512830514
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
A sweeping history of urban incarceration in Chicago and Cook County, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care.
The Engine of Free Expression
Copyright and the State in Early America
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830194
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
The Engine of Free Expression shows that, over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, copyright became a powerful tool and product of the growth of local, state, and national governments, establishing precedents that are with us in the present.
Capitalism and the American Century
Toward a Global History of Postwar America
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512830293
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Capitalism and the American Century argues that post–World War II US political economy cannot be understood as primarily a domestic story. The contributors to this volume show that treating postwar US capitalism as a global story transforms our narratives of the period’s political, social, and cultural life.
Debility and Power
How Climate Knowledge Made the Nineteenth-Century US South
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512830279
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
How could a place be at once a life-giving paradise and sinister threat to health? In Debility and Power, Elaine LaFay answers this question by exploring the powerful and surprising role of debility in the nineteenth-century US South and by showing how imperial actors weaponized weakness and fragility to control both land and people.
American Preacher
The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830200
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.
Raw Capital
More-Than-Human Business History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830576
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Dividing of the American Mind
Humanism and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512830217
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
The Business of Education
Why American Universities Have Always Had to Hustle
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830415
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
No Wood, No Kingdom
Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512830521
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.
This Is My Jail
Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512830514
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
A sweeping history of urban incarceration in Chicago and Cook County, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care.
The Engine of Free Expression
Copyright and the State in Early America
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830194
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
The Engine of Free Expression shows that, over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, copyright became a powerful tool and product of the growth of local, state, and national governments, establishing precedents that are with us in the present.
Capitalism and the American Century
Toward a Global History of Postwar America
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512830293
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Capitalism and the American Century argues that post–World War II US political economy cannot be understood as primarily a domestic story. The contributors to this volume show that treating postwar US capitalism as a global story transforms our narratives of the period’s political, social, and cultural life.
Debility and Power
How Climate Knowledge Made the Nineteenth-Century US South
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512830279
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
How could a place be at once a life-giving paradise and sinister threat to health? In Debility and Power, Elaine LaFay answers this question by exploring the powerful and surprising role of debility in the nineteenth-century US South and by showing how imperial actors weaponized weakness and fragility to control both land and people.
American Preacher
The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830200
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.