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.
Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right
Jack Jackson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826876
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
Drawing upon legal scholarship and critical theory, Jack Jackson explores an ascendant radical and illiberal power on the American Right and considers how it has undermined the very idea of constitutional government.
Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters.
Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.
