America in the Nineteenth Century proposes a rigorous rethinking of this most formative period in U.S. history. Books in the series will be wide-ranging and eclectic, with an interest in politics at all levels, culture and capitalism, race and slavery, law, gender, the environment, and regional and transnational history. The series aims to expand the scope of nineteenth-century historiography by bringing classic questions into dialogue with innovative perspectives, approaches, and methodologies.
Series Editors:
Brian DeLay
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Hahn
Professor of History, New York University
Amy Dru Stanley
Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
M. Scott Heerman
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225174
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and...
In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the...
The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
William S. Kiser
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225020
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems,...
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
William S. Kiser
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253511
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics,...
Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondage and experienced freedom. Mastering Emotions...
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years...
Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous...
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been...
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Peter Wirzbicki
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812252910
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle...
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But...
