No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.
Keeping Our Enemies Closer reveals what happens when college students, police, and community members talk across political lines. Based on in-depth research, it explores the promises and limits of dialogue in polarized times—offering a nuanced, powerful look at how real conversations can both challenge and change individuals and institutions.
Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512829907
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Troop Movements explains how mass mobilization for World War II—involving multiracial soldiers and defense workers—provided an opportunity for entangled alliances across race, class, and global concerns. This mobilization and conflicts within it catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period.
Through an exploration of ostensibly race- and gender-neutral policy approaches to alleviate patriarchal anxieties, H. Howell Williams reveals that political advocates’ efforts to regulate fatherhood were really attempts to bolster White American patriarchy and protect its dominance.
An inside look at the transformation of Hershey, Pennsylvania, from a model industrial community into a twenty-first century suburbia powered by a $12 billion philanthropy.
Edited by Connor Ewing, Benjamin Kleinerman and Charles Zug
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512829587
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
People usually think of separation of powers as a roadblock, a system of checks and balances designed to stymie change. The contributors to Beyond Checks and Balances argue instead that the separation of powers is best understood as a political arrangement that promotes democratic collaboration between branches of government.
The Paradox of Postconflict Power Sharing in Africa
Alexander Noyes
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512829600
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Power-sharing pacts are a key strategy for resolving a wide range of violent conflicts worldwide, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Alexander Noyes argues that postconflict power-sharing accords lead to compromised coalitions and that their negatives all too often outweigh their positives.
Edited by Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles and Rodrigo Ugarte
Contributions by Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Anirban Kapil Baishya, Jih-Fei Cheng, Moon Choi, Vivian Choi, Nishaant Choksi, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sukanya Deogam, Kim Fortun, Alice Fothergill, Danya Glabau, Monica H. Green, Dolly Jørgensen, Dani Joslyn, Christine Keeves, Hyunah Keum, Christos Lynteris, Rachel Margolis, Katherine A. Mason, Tyesha Maddox, Luke J. Matthews, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Samantha Montano, Courtney Page-Tan, Hyeonbin Park, Lori Peek, Elisa Perego, Rashawn Ray, Kalpesh Rathwa, Monica Sanders, Amanda Savitt, Sarah Senk, Robert Soden, Jacob Steere-Williams, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Kathleen Tierney, Kristin Urquiza, Ashton M. Verdery, Carlos Villegas, Haowei Wang, Jacqueline Wernimont, Sarah S. Willen, Heather M. Wurtz, Myungji Yang and Carl A. Zimring
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829495
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
COVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic. Examining the pandemic as a process that was shaped by longer histories of what came before it and that continues to make new realities in the present, the contributors suggest that we are still researching and writing from inside the disaster.
