Capitalism and the American Century argues that post–World War II US political economy cannot be understood as primarily a domestic story. The contributors to this volume show that treating postwar US capitalism as a global story transforms our narratives of the period’s political, social, and cultural life.
Uruguay–United States Diplomacy During the World War II Era
Pedro M. Cameselle-Pesce
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512830101
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Focusing on the relations between Uruguay and the United States in the context of World War II, Forgotten Neighbors emphasizes Uruguay’s important role in the era’s inter-American affairs and in the evolving US security matrix, highlighting both the vast reach and limits of US power.
The Gospel of Work and Money is the first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history and foreground the many ways that ‘work’ remains the primary pedagogical lens of capital in our present era.
Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics
Jessica Ann Levy
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512828573
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Black Power, Inc. examines the transnational rise of Black empowerment politics from the 1960s through the early 2000s and from the United States to Africa, highlighting how various public and private actors reconciled American-style free enterprise with anti-apartheid politics at the local, national, and international level.
How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
R. Joseph Parrott
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827675
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and how these grassroots movements helped define a New Left Internationalism that injected Global South priorities into US political debates.
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse and Christina L. Davis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512826838
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Landscapes of Law shows that assertions of national culture are not always a retreat from globalism but a way of managing the contested zone between borderless capital and bordered states. A roster of international, interdisciplinary contributors offer innovative, ethnographic analyses of the ways culture works through transnational law.
Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights
Chris Kendall
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512826210
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Between Possibility and Peril explains how the highest courts in three young democracies—Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa—used international law to protect human rights while building their own institutional legitimacy, carefully balancing the demands of advocates, politicians, and international law itself.
Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention
Marsha Henry
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825237
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies. Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, this book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Stephanie L. Freeman
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and grassroots movements across the globe pursued the radical goal of nuclear abolition. Together, they reshaped U.S. and Soviet approaches to nuclear arms control and Europe in a way that brought the Cold War to an end.
