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Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune
Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-c. 1350
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829969
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Fatherhood, Race, and the American State
The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829846
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829471
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
In Ancien Régime France, the discourse of society was usually referred to as bruit, or noise. Public Acoustics explores how writers manipulated this acoustic metaphor to theorize the political and social force of common talk, offering an alternative history of the public sphere that resonates with the noisy digital media environments of today.
Illusions of Progress
Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829716
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism” back to the 1930s and contends that, by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving.
Work, Capitalism, and Democracy
The United States Since the New Deal
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828719
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Using the broad categories of work, capitalism, and democracy to reinterrogate the past, contributors to this volume contend, is the only way to understand today’s conflicts over the future of how Americans will work, how capitalism will function, and how the country will be governed.
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties
Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829655
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.
Nuclear Country
The Origins of the Rural New Right
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827897
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
Religion in the Public Square
Sheen, King, Falwell
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826906
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Religion in the Public Square examines how three very different members of clergy—Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—each persuaded politicians and ordinary people that his theological ideas formed the foundation of American politics.
Making Republicans Liberal
Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826234
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
As poor and working people demanded a redistribution of wealth and power in the mid-twentieth century United States, they pressured Republican politicians to compromise. Kristoffer Smemo shows how, for the next four decades, those compromises forced a bloc of Republicans to articulate their own vision of liberalism.
Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824964
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
This collection of essays charts the evolution of Christian practice and institutions across the world throughout decolonization. Contributors argue that Western imperialism’s formal collapse ultimately triggered a radical change in the trajectory of global Christianity as the center of growth shifted from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune
Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-c. 1350
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829969
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Fatherhood, Race, and the American State
The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829846
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829471
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
In Ancien Régime France, the discourse of society was usually referred to as bruit, or noise. Public Acoustics explores how writers manipulated this acoustic metaphor to theorize the political and social force of common talk, offering an alternative history of the public sphere that resonates with the noisy digital media environments of today.
Illusions of Progress
Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829716
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism” back to the 1930s and contends that, by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving.
Work, Capitalism, and Democracy
The United States Since the New Deal
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828719
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Using the broad categories of work, capitalism, and democracy to reinterrogate the past, contributors to this volume contend, is the only way to understand today’s conflicts over the future of how Americans will work, how capitalism will function, and how the country will be governed.
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties
Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829655
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.
Nuclear Country
The Origins of the Rural New Right
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827897
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
Religion in the Public Square
Sheen, King, Falwell
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826906
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Religion in the Public Square examines how three very different members of clergy—Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—each persuaded politicians and ordinary people that his theological ideas formed the foundation of American politics.
Making Republicans Liberal
Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826234
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
As poor and working people demanded a redistribution of wealth and power in the mid-twentieth century United States, they pressured Republican politicians to compromise. Kristoffer Smemo shows how, for the next four decades, those compromises forced a bloc of Republicans to articulate their own vision of liberalism.
Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824964
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
This collection of essays charts the evolution of Christian practice and institutions across the world throughout decolonization. Contributors argue that Western imperialism’s formal collapse ultimately triggered a radical change in the trajectory of global Christianity as the center of growth shifted from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa.