Power, Politics, and the World showcases new stories in the fields of the history of U.S. foreign relations, international history, and transnational history. The series is motivated by a desire to pose innovative questions of power and hierarchy to the history of the United States and the world. Books published in the series examine a wide range of actors on local, national, and global scales, exploring how they imagined, enacted, or resisted political, cultural, social, economic, legal, and military authority.
Series Editors: Christopher R. W. Dietrich Associate Professor of History, Fordham University
Jennifer Mittelstadt Professor of History, Rutgers University
Russell Rickford Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
Staff Editorial Contact: Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512829907
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Troop Movements explains how mass mobilization for World War II—involving multiracial soldiers and defense workers—provided an opportunity for entangled alliances across race, class, and global concerns. This mobilization and conflicts within it catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period.
Uruguay–United States Diplomacy During the World War II Era
Pedro M. Cameselle-Pesce
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512830101
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Focusing on the relations between Uruguay and the United States in the context of World War II, Forgotten Neighbors emphasizes Uruguay’s important role in the era’s inter-American affairs and in the evolving US security matrix, highlighting both the vast reach and limits of US power.
The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
Patrick Chung
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828733
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.
The Gospel of Work and Money is the first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history and foreground the many ways that ‘work’ remains the primary pedagogical lens of capital in our present era.
How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
R. Joseph Parrott
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827675
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and how these grassroots movements helped define a New Left Internationalism that injected Global South priorities into US political debates.
From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close.
Bringing together scholarly analyses of U.S. colonial wars in the American west and across Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Prehistories of the War on Terror reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts.
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.
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Of Light and Struggle uncovers the messy process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, suggesting that discussions occurring around the globe about the small country on the Río de la Plata had international implications for the limits and possibilities of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Stephanie L. Freeman
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and grassroots movements across the globe pursued the radical goal of nuclear abolition. Together, they reshaped U.S. and Soviet approaches to nuclear arms control and Europe in a way that brought the Cold War to an end.
