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
How consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politicsAmid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism....
How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
R. Joseph Parrott
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827675
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
How anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970sDream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial...
Reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflictsPrehistories of the War on Terror examines the longstanding American project of classifying...
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
During the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle,...
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, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved...
Between 1900 and 1950, many internationalist U.S. women referred to themselves as "citizens of the world." This book argues that the phrase was not simply a rhetorical flourish; it represented a demand...
