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.
The English, French, and Dutch all established colonies in the Americas within a few years of one another, in the early seventeenth century. Cultivating Colonies is the story of how that happened. Focusing on tobacco, it makes a case for the importance of Iberian colonies, Indigenous knowledge, and skilled African laborers to their success.
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
304 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.
