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The Gospel of Work and Money
Industrial Education and Its Global Legacies
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828931
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The Gospel of Work and Money is the first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history and foreground the many ways that ‘work’ remains the primary pedagogical lens of capital in our present era.
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828955
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Americana Insights 2025
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9798988533122
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. The most comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware in more than a century, Americana Insights 2025 is a celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition.
Freedom's Horizon
Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827613
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across the Atlantic world.
Longing and Belonging
Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827118
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Longing and Belonging investigates the histories of Jews living among Muslims from 1900 until 1950. The volume depicts modern Jewish protagonists as active participants in an expansive Islamic civilization, reflecting a mutuality and cross-fertilization in the region that raises new lines of inquiry and which offers enduring lessons for the world today.
The Great Power of Small Nations
Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827071
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
The Great Power of Small Nations tackles questions of Native power past and present and provides a fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws, Houmas, Mobilians, and Tunicas—who helped shape the modern Gulf South.
Fighting for the Higher Law
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826821
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery.
Americana Insights 2024
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9798988533115
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Hardcover
275 Pages
A richly illustrated presentation of the latest research on traditional American folk art, Americana Insights 2024 offers fresh perspectives on American creativity and ingenuity, introducing readers to the makers and materials of early America, from Appalachia to the mid-Atlantic and New England.
A Male Hysteria
Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
Price: $49.50
ISBN: 9781606189016
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
A Male Hysteria examines diabetes medicine in Victorian England and the lives of Victorian diabetics. Diabetes was thought to be psychological in origin and patients were kept from work or excitement. Some, including diabetic doctors and nurses, rebelled. A Male Hysteria traces the origins of the persistent belief in a diabetic personality.
The Root and the Branch
Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825923
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery movements with working-class demands for economic equality, access to the soil, and the right to the fruits of labor, Sean Griffin shows how labor reformers and radicals made invaluable contributions to the antislavery project in the decades before the Civil War.

The Gospel of Work and Money
Industrial Education and Its Global Legacies
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828931
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828955
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Americana Insights 2025
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9798988533122
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
Freedom's Horizon
Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827613
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Longing and Belonging
Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827118
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Great Power of Small Nations
Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827071
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Fighting for the Higher Law
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826821
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Americana Insights 2024
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9798988533115
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Hardcover
275 Pages
A Male Hysteria
Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
Price: $49.50
ISBN: 9781606189016
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
The Root and the Branch
Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825923
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages