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.
Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison reveals how slave rebellions that were brutally crushed in their time shaped the ideas and practices of racial violence that were enacted into law. These liberatory struggles shaped how lawmakers established the legal traditions that created the modern prison.
Developmental Approaches to American Party Politics
Edited by Jessica Hejny and Adam Hilton
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512828085
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Drawing together a new generation of historically oriented party scholars into one volume, Parties, Power, and Change both contributes to readers’ understanding of the durability and dynamism animating American party politics and explores the roots of partisan polarization and democratic backsliding that threaten American democracy today.
Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, Living with Risk in the Late Roman World demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks that they perceived.
Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
Bradley J. Dixon
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826425
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians tells the story of Indigenous leaders who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law and how they gave meaning to the modern idea of tribal sovereignty.
Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of small-scale gold miners in the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, revealing how mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect.
Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic state to describe an entity that acts like a state even as nonrecognition renders it unrealizable. They argue that only by rethinking the de facto state as a realm of practice will we be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.
