How Climate Knowledge Made the Nineteenth-Century US South
Elaine LaFay
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512830279
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
How could a place be at once a life-giving paradise and sinister threat to health? In Debility and Power, Elaine LaFay answers this question by exploring the powerful and surprising role of debility in the nineteenth-century US South and by showing how imperial actors weaponized weakness and fragility to control both land and people.
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.
Uruguay–United States Diplomacy During the World War II Era
Pedro M. Cameselle-Pesce
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512830101
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Focusing on the relations between Uruguay and the United States in the context of World War II, Forgotten Neighbors emphasizes Uruguay’s important role in the era’s inter-American affairs and in the evolving US security matrix, highlighting both the vast reach and limits of US power.
Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Francesca Brittan and Carmel Raz
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512829945
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
An exploration of the history of auditory attention between roughly 1800 and 1930, The Attentive Ear probes the origins, key theories, and experimental trajectories of attentional discourses around the globe, demonstrating the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distraction.
American Burial Ground reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims.
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 reveals how abolitionists harnessed the power of the written word to further their political aims, arguing that letter writing enabled a disparate and politically marginal assortment of people to take shape as a mass movement.
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 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.
