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.
How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Michelle Craig McDonald
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827552
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
When and why coffee became part of North American daily life is at the center of Coffee Nation. Using a wide range of archival, quantitative, and material evidence, Michelle Craig McDonald presents a sweeping history that explores how coffee shaped the lives of enslaved laborers and farmers, merchants and retailers, consumers and advertisers.
Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512827309
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Occasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire. Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano reveals the ways in which literary language affected bureaucratic practice and became a means to advance one’s own political career.
An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Lindsay O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827200
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
The Two Princes of Mpfumo brings to life East African individuals caught up in the eighteenth-century slave trade—known in the historical record as Prince James and Prince John—and shows how their stories reveal an emerging global British empire, one in which competing organizations and interests created a chaotic situation on the ground.
Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825091
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Examining dozens of plays depicting common tropes of pagan ritual—magical conjurations, oracular prophecies, barbaric triumphal parades, and group suicides—Making Pagans shows how early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition.
Through extensive archival research on the information gathering, record-keeping, and diplomatic correspondence of Portuguese officials, Jorge Flores demonstrates how the Portuguese territories along the western coast of India were incorporated into the Persianate cultural sphere.
