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.

A sweeping history of urban incarceration in Chicago and Cook County, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care.

The Engine of Free Expression shows that, over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, copyright became a powerful tool and product of the growth of local, state, and national governments, establishing precedents that are with us in the present.

Lucifer’s Land invites readers into the social, cultural, and material world of premodern miners. Drawing on a wide array of historical and archaeological sources, G. Geltner argues that miners’ transformation of rural society, culture, and environments was and has been substantial and lasting.

Black Self-Governance argues that Black people—including the enslaved—in seventeenth-century Lima, Peru (a majority Black city) created political corporations that enabled them to govern themselves and negotiate with authorities. Marcella Hayes explores not only their political status but also their place in the emerging colonial order.

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.

The Kinetic Text revisits the eccentric literary landscape that emerged in England in the roughly two hundred years after the rise of print in order to introduce a new theory of early modern poetics centered on the expressive potential of the material text.

How could a place be at once a life-giving paradise and sinister threat to health? In Debility and Power, Elaine LaFay answers this question by exploring the powerful and surprising role of debility in the nineteenth-century US South and by showing how imperial actors weaponized weakness and fragility to control both land and people.

For thirty-five years Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital healthcare resource for understanding cultural differences and how to best address them. The timely updates in this sixth edition reinforce its position as an invaluable guide to what can go wrong when cultures clash—and how to make things right.

Dyan Elliott demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.