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.
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.
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.
The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima
Marcella Hayes
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830330
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Black Self-Governance argues that Black people—including the enslaved—in seventeenth-century Lima, Peru (a majority Black city) created political corporations that enabled them to govern themselves and negotiate with authorities. Marcella Hayes explores not only their political status but also their place in the emerging colonial order.
Using rarely studied financial records from the Inquisition’s archives, Ana María Silva Campo reveals how the Spanish Inquisition seized property from prosperous Black women and descendants of Portuguese Jews—a process of selective persecution and wealth redistribution that helped create racialized economic hierarchies in a Spanish colonial city.
The Barberini Butchers shows how seventeenth-century Rome’s preoccupation with the consumption of meat was the result of papal policy. But this consumption was not sustainable, fueling sensational rumors of murder and cannibalism and, Bradford A. Bouley contends, sparking the outbreak of civil war, as vassals rebelled against papal oversight.
Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England
Matthew Ritger
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828993
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Examining how the work of writers including More, Shakespeare, and Milton dealt with humanism’s entanglements with these new prisons, Houses of Correction constructs the first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions.
Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Casey Schmitt
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828146
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The Predatory Sea explores the deeply entangled histories of captivity and colonialism in the greater Caribbean between 1570 and 1670. Casey Schmitt explicates the captive economy that shaped English and French colonization, inter-imperial competition, and the lived experiences of captives and their captors during this violent century.
Early Modern Jewish Historians on the Spanish and Ottoman Expansion
Martin Jacobs
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827699
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Martin Jacobs considers unexplored perspectives on the Spanish and Ottoman empires by reading three early modern Jewish historians who wrote about great power rivalries while they simultaneously grappled with their own self-conceptions, highlighting the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between competing empires.
Meirav Jones shows how political theory did not develop solely from within a conversation among elites; neither was it conceived as a Godless enterprise. She argues that the foundations of modern politics were laid in conversation with theological politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas and ideas of the Jews.
