Patriot Builders traces the story of Philadelphia’s leading master builders from the days of William Penn through 1800. Familial ties, strong connections within their community, and control of the building trade enabled them to design and construct Philadelphia’s remarkable eighteenth-century architecture.
Featuring essays by leading academics as well as new voices, this collection shows how liberals reoriented themselves after the 1960s, how they struggled for a more inclusive Democratic Party, and how they developed creative strategies, occasionally succeeding in advancing their own agenda despite the countervailing headwinds.
Suspicion delves into some of modernity’s most characteristic features—living within a democracy, embracing secularism, valuing rationality—and adds one more: suspicion. Joshua D. Urich contends that suspicion has become such a necessary part of American society that we deliberately seek out, even invent, reasons to be suspicious of each other.
The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.
New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
Adrian Chastain Weimer
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781512831306
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
When royal commissioners came to enforce the demands of the newly restored King Charles II, many New Englanders chafed against what they saw as arbitrary rule. Adrian Chastain Weimer shows how, despite being under immense metropolitan pressure, they mobilized to defy the crown, forming a robust and longstanding constitutional culture.
The Apache Diaspora brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were separated. Paul Conrad charts Apaches' efforts to survive or return home from places as far-flung as Cuba and Pennsylvania, Mexico City and Montreal.
Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America
Jason T. Sharples
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781512831276
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
In dozens of slave conspiracy scares in North American and the Caribbean, colonists terrorized and killed slaves whom they accused of planning to take over the colony. Jason T. Sharples explains the deep origins and historical triggers of these incidents and argues that conspiracy scares bound society together through shared fear.
Edited by Gregory A. Hargreaves, Timothy J. LeCain and Nicole Welk-Joerger
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830576
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Raw Capital is a deep synthesis of business history with new understandings of creative materiality in the natural world. Dissolving the human-nature dichotomy and adopting a new materialist approach to business history, this volume interrogates the deep ways that the environment makes up the creative stuff of business history.
Humanism and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century
Paul Murphy
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512830217
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Many American intellectuals hoped humanism would be the source of shared values in a secular age. The Dividing of the American Mind examines the New Humanists and religious humanists, both of whom attempted to show how. Rather than creating a unified national mind, they helped divide it more than ever.
Why American Universities Have Always Had to Hustle
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830415
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
In The Business of Education, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that US colleges and universities have always had to hustle to limit expenses while aggressively competing for donations, business contracts, federal grants, state allocations, and students willing and able to pay tuition.
