Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Edited by Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney
Contributions by Edward G. Gray, Christian J. Koot, Alexander Zukas, John Morton, Paul Musselwhite, Kim Gruenwald, Karen Rann, Charles W. A. Prior, Chad McCutchen, Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Sarah Chute and Scott Truett
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829259
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Featuring reproductions of twenty historical maps and using historical examples of people, Claiming Land, Claiming Water explores how and why some people imagined and made claims to bounded space—and how and why other people confounded or challenged those claims—through a formative period of intense change in North America and the Atlantic world.
Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri
John Craig Hammond
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828429
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s and concluding with the Missouri Crisis of 1819, The Centrality of Slavery examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained, and challenged systems of slavery in the Middle Mississippi Valley.
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Nicholas P. Wood
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828320
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Let the Oppressed Go Free recovers the sophistication and influence of antislavery theology and abolitionist activism in eighteenth-century America. Far from inevitable, the abolition of slavery in the North resulted from tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals during the American Revolution.
Property, Personhood, and the Domestication of Anglo-American Slavery, 1547–1729
John N. Blanton
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828306
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
The Household War shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in the household resulted in the development of two distinct systems of bondage in colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, laying the foundation for a future house divided.
Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation
Kirsten Fischer
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828764
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as "heretical," Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States.
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.
The War for the American Interior and the Infrastructural Routes of Revolution
Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828283
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis maps the Seven Years’ War for the American Interior and reconstructs the inter-imperial roots of the American Revolution. The construction of a British infrastructure state propelled Britain to wartime victory. Yet, in its aftermath, it was also the empire’s undoing, laying the roads to revolution.
Benjamin VanWagoner shows how early modern maritime drama connected English venturing to economic vulnerability, helping to develop the economic logic that would come to be codified as risk. In revealing this process, Imperial Ventures demonstrates how risk became a perverse instrument for justifying Anglophone imperialism.
