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.
Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues sheds new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present.
Naftali S. Cohn argues that the earliest rabbinic text, the Mishnah, manifests an implicit theory of what doing rituals accomplishes. Correctly performed rituals, according to the Mishnah, orchestrate bodily interaction with the environment, activate cultural values, and instill feelings, thereby shaping individual and collective Jewish bodies.
The Art of Knowing Everything explores the legacy of medieval philosopher and theologian Ramon Llull, tracing the transformation of Llull’s philosophical system, known as the Art (Latin Ars), through medieval and early modern book technology.
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.
Robert G. Boatright, Caroline Tolbert and Nathan K. Micatka
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512829730
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
The Problem with Primary Voters uses state voter files to show how and why US primary voters are unrepresentative of the electorate. The authors argue that low and inconsistent primary turnout makes it difficult for politicians to represent the voters and they advocate for a national primary day to increase democratic participation.
The Paradox of Postconflict Power Sharing in Africa
Alexander Noyes
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512829600
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
192 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.
Speculation Nation chronicles the “mania” for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation’s elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. It reveals how the American Revolution produced a republican “empire of liberty” with financial speculation at its core.
American Burial Ground reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims.
