The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.
Edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Contributions by Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt and Susan Weiler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829563
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Illustrated by nearly fifty of Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa’s stunning photographs as well as color photographs, archival drawings, blueprints, maps, plans, and diagrams, Penn’s Sylvania not only showcases the critical importance of trees to University of Pennsylvania urban campus but also introduces the people responsible for establishing and conserving its rich botanical heritage.
Constructing Christendom examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries—emphasizing the divinely ordained centrality of papal authority and solidifying a cohesive European Christian identity in the process.
Through an exploration of ostensibly race- and gender-neutral policy approaches to alleviate patriarchal anxieties, H. Howell Williams reveals that political advocates’ efforts to regulate fatherhood were really attempts to bolster White American patriarchy and protect its dominance.
Edited by Josh Garrett-Davis and Linde B. Lehtinen
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780873282741
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Richly illustrated with documents, photographs, and artworks spanning from before 1776 into the twenty-first century, This Land Is . . . tells a story about place in US history and culture. More than twenty writers and artists reflect on the conflicting visions of American land, engaging with colonial legacies, national identity, and resilience.
Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.
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.
