Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States
Whitney Martinko
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828795
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. She argues that early advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.
With nearly 200 illustrations, Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen particularly significant case studies, including the Beowulf manuscript, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.
Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri
John Craig Hammond
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828429
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s and concluding with the Missouri Crisis of 1819, The Centrality of Slavery examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained, and challenged systems of slavery in the Middle Mississippi Valley.
Edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth S. Wenger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
What happens when scholars from diverse disciplines connect to explore the American Jewish experience? The Future of American Jewish Pasts shines a penetrating light on some of the most provocative questions of historical interpretation. These essays reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life to reimagine American Jewish studies.
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Nicholas P. Wood
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828320
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Let the Oppressed Go Free recovers the sophistication and influence of antislavery theology and abolitionist activism in eighteenth-century America. Far from inevitable, the abolition of slavery in the North resulted from tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals during the American Revolution.
Property, Personhood, and the Domestication of Anglo-American Slavery, 1547–1729
John N. Blanton
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828306
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
The Household War shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in the household resulted in the development of two distinct systems of bondage in colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, laying the foundation for a future house divided.
Cuba’s small business owners are on the front lines of a changing economy. The Struggle for the Market takes readers inside Havana’s vibrant marketplaces, revealing small-scale entrepreneurs’ challenges and triumphs as they navigate the complexities of legal reforms and their relationship with the state that both empowers and constrains them.
