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American History
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Injury Impoverished
Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era Nate Holdren | Drake University, Iowa Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally. • Approaches Gilded Age compensation laws from a critical perspective • Shows how gender, disability, and class intersect in the issue of workplace injury • Offers tools and concepts to analyze the complexity of justice and injustice
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
300pp 2 tables April 2020 9781108488709 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108657730
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LBJ’s 1968
Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval Kyle Longley | Arizona State University Drawing on an extensive trove of written and oral sources, Longley explores how President Lyndon Baines Johnson perceived the most significant events of 1968 and how he responded. He highlights many of the challenges faced by the president during this year, which LBJ characterized as a ‘year of a continuous nightmare’. • Analyzes the crisis management style of a President • Features modern continuities in policymaking and political discourse, providing readers with a better understanding of the ongoing debates in today’s political sphere • Highlights the challenges facing a president after five years of almost non-stop change and a rising conservative backlash 374pp 12 b/w illus. January 2020 9781316643471 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 15.95 April 2018 9781107193031 Hardback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108140379
Nature at War
American Environments and World War II Thomas Robertson This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens, focusing on how the War remade American landscapes, institutions, and environmental thinking, and how wartime developments shaped the contours of postwar American environments and environmental thinking. • Offers an in-depth examination of the twelve dimensions of the wartime environmental experience in the United States • Reveals how transportation networks, mines, farms, factories, and training camps transformed the US into an ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ • Contributes to the understanding of the military-industrial complex and the roots of the Great Acceleration and the Cold War 387pp 24 b/w illus. 6 maps 10 tables April 2020 9781108419765 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 April 2020 9781108412070 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108304146
African American History
Advocates of Freedom
African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles Hannah-Rose Murray | University of Edinburgh Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery on British soil. Written with a wide audience in mind, it appeals to those who have an interest in American slavery and abolition, black activism, and the transatlantic journeys of African Americans to Britain. • Creates a framework for analysing activist resistance to slavery in the
British Isles • Highlights anti-slavery activism in Britain after the American Civil War, an area vastly neglected by scholars • Updates and radically alters the scholarly field on transatlantic abolitionism after 1865
Slaveries since Emancipation
378pp September 2020 9781108487511 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767057
American Slavery, American Imperialism
US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914 Catherine Armstrong | Loughborough University Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery’s victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally. • Considers the global implications of U.S. slavery and demonstrates its relevance to the contemporary world • Draws on newspapers, cartoons, and popular media to understand the legacy of slavery • Explains how global trends were key to the economic and cultural aftermath of slavery
Slaveries since Emancipation
412pp 87 b/w illus. 26 tables 300pp 9 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108477093 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108663908
As If She Were Free
A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas Erica L. Ball | Occidental College, Los Angeles Based on original archival sources, this sweeping and groundbreaking work brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. • Offers a new history of freedom by showing how women acted as agents of emancipation • Takes a comparative and comprehensive approach to the history of slavery and emancipation, rather than focusing on one nation or region • All chapters are original work and written by senior and rising women historians 320pp October 2020 9781108493406 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108737036 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108623957
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The Anticolonial Front
The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960 John Munro | Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia A transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. This book recasts the postwar history of the United States in the light of global decolonisation and racial capitalism. • Engages in scholarly literature of diplomatic history and American studies • Proposes a new interpretation of the interaction between the post-war
African American freedom struggle and decolonisation • This book makes arguments, but pays attention to narrative
Critical Perspectives on Empire
345pp 18 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316638415 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 September 2017 9781107188051 Hardback GBP 30.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316946350
American History-1861-1900
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War
Sebastian N. Page | University of Oxford Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America’s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States. It synthesizes a wealth of individual, state-level, and national considerations to reorient the field and set a new standard for Atlantic history. • Examines the scale and complexity of black resettlement projects and proposals between the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 • Re-narrates colonization into the center of American political and social life • Challenges the dominant historical narrative of America’s racial progress and of the American Civil War as a forerunner of the modern civil rights era
Cambridge Studies on the American South
312pp February 2021 9781107141773 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781316493915
The Destruction of the Bison
An Environmental History, 1750–1920 Andrew C. Isenberg | University of Kansas The Destruction of the Bison offers a concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a foreword that connects the book to developments in the field over the last two decades and an afterword that brings the story of the bison up to the present. • The first and only book-length environmental history of the bison • Interdisciplinary analysis synthesizes ecology, anthropology, and history • Connects developments in environmental, western, gender, transnational and Native American history over the last two decades
Studies in Environment and History
232pp March 2020 9781108816724 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108848879
American History after 1945
Pulp Vietnam
War and Gender in Cold War M!en’s Adventure Magazines Gregory A. Daddis | San Diego State University Pulp Vietnam argues that Cold War-era men’s adventure magazines crafted a particular version of martial masculinity that shaped GIs’ expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam by idealizing wartime heroism and the sexual conquest of women. • Explores the possible connection between representations of masculinity in men’s adventure magazines in the 1950s and 1960s and sexual violence committed by US soldiers in
Vietnam • Relevant to current discussions of sexual harassment and assault in today’s military and to toxic masculinity in society at large • Daddis is both a historian and a retired US Army colonel, having served in both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom • Features nearly sixty images from the pulps to illustrate how the ideal man was depicted as both heroic warrior and sexual conqueror
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
358pp October 2020 9781108493505 Hardback GBP 24.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108655774
Razing Kids
Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West Jeffrey C. Sanders | Washington State University Analyzing the linked histories of childhood, the West, and the environment after World War II, Razing Kids argues that in wartime mobilization, post-war defense, public health, anti-poverty programs, and environmental activism, adults consistently paired youth and environment with their visions of the social and environmental good. • Fills an important gap in environmental history by examining youth and environment in the second half of the twentieth century • Draws on five case studies that explore US history at the intersection of youth and the environment from 1943 to 1990 • Uncovers the roots of youth environmental movements in post-war
America, with parallels to today’s school strikes and climate activism 256pp December 2020 9781107110588 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781107527546 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316275412
Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights
Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard | Lunds Universitet, Sweden This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It explores how executivelegislative relations shaped attention to human rights in US foreign policy and how the issue of human rights, in turn, impacted governmental relations. • Provides the first comprehensive history of human rights in American foreign relations in the 1980s centered on the relationship between the Reagan administration and members of Congress • Introduces influential but often-overlooked members of Congress to the history of human rights to offer an examination of how individual members of Congress shaped US human rights policy • Combines a broad assessment of human rights in American foreign relations with in-depth case studies of how human rights shaped
US foreign policy toward Soviet Jewry, South African apartheid, and
Nicaragua
Human Rights in History
324pp 7 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108495639 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862455
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Greg Whitesides | University of Colorado, Denver This book explores the history of science in American foreign relations since World War II. From atomic energy and space sciences to genetic engineering and global warming, Greg Whitesides demonstrates that the sciences were central to American diplomacy during and after the Cold War. • Provides an extensive treatment of science in
American foreign relations from World War II to the present day • Addresses topics of popular interest, including the atomic bomb,
Sputnik, healthcare, global warming, and intellectual property rights • Uses topical headlines so readers can easily access specific sections for reference
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
352pp 3 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108409919 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 January 2019 9781108420440 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108303965
Atlantic History
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Alejandro de la Fuente | Harvard University, Massachusetts Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes. • Examines the development of the legal regimes of slavery and race in
Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the dawn of the Civil War • Demonstrates that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way race developed over time • Draws on a variety of primary sources, including local court records, original trial records of freedom suits, legislative cases, and petitions
Studies in Legal History
294pp 17 b/w illus. 6 maps 2 tables January 2020 9781108480642 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108612951
In a Sea of Empires
Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean Jeppe Mulich | London School of Economics and Political Science By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entangled nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Caribbean during the age of revolutions. • An innovative approach to global and imperial history emphasizing cross-border networks and integration across empires • Builds on multi-sited research in archives across Europe and the
Americas, using sources in Danish, English, French, and Swedish • Draws on historical sociology, international relations, and global history to provide a reinterpretation of imperial integration and early nineteenth-century globalization
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
300pp July 2020 9781108489720 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779289
The Smell of Slavery
Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World Andrew Kettler | University of California, Los Angeles In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental. African subjects were defined as scented objects, appropriated as filthy to create ownership through forceful sensory discourse. • Uses smell as a frame of analysis for constructions and perceptions of race and environment in the age of Atlantic slavery • Demonstrates that the roots of racism transgressed intellectual and political arenas and included the realm of senses • Offers a transnational framework for understanding the connections between olfactory discourse and blackness before the nineteenth century 254pp May 2020 9781108490733 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108854740
Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Volume 28 Part 1 Karwan Fatah-Black | Universiteit Leiden When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods of control as well as routes to emancipation changed in the century before emancipation. • Contributions to this volume re-examine slavery in an urban context, exploring the relationship between cities and slave societies • Contributions look in depth at cities in the British and French
Caribbean, West-Central Africa, Brazil, the United States, and South
Africa • A range of topics are covered, including marronage, freedom of movement, and the legacy of slavery
International Review of Social History Supplements
248pp July 2020 9781108825757 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108919128
Colonial American History
Female Husbands
A Trans History Jen Manion | Amherst College, Massachusetts The first book-length history of female husbands: people assigned female at birth who transed gender to live fully as men in the United States and United Kingdom. Jen Manion draws on a wealth of sources to offer a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past. • Charts the rise and fall of female husbands from the 1740s to the 1910s in a clear and accessible way • Reveals key turning points in the history of gender and sexuality in the
United States and the United Kingdom • Draws on a diverse source base that includes all references to female husbands in US and British print culture 350pp 26 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108483803 Hardback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108652834
Puritans Behaving Badly
Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America Monica D. Fitzgerald Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that threatened the peace, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. These practices transformed ‘the errand into the wilderness’ as the normative Puritan became female. • Examines largely unexplored church disciplinary records, which reveal the lives of ordinary people through vignettes of confessions • Makes the history of early American religion and gender accessible to a wider readership through narrative style and storytelling • Contributes to the recent inquiries into gender and lived religion, religious declension, public speech and masculinity studies 186pp May 2020 9781108478786 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108778817
Early Republic and Antebellum History
Bawdy City
Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915 Katie M. Hemphill | University of Arizona This vivid social history of Baltimore’s prostitution trade centers women in a story of how sexual commerce and debates over its regulation shaped an American city. A critical addition to the current literature addressing women’s history, the history of gender and sexuality, and labor history in nineteenth-century America. • Presents a history of capitalism that focuses on women’s labor and its relationship to the broader urban economy • Provides an overview of the sex trade’s development • Fills a significant gap in the historiography, allowing readers to broaden their ideas about who counted as an agent in economic development
Cambridge World Archaeology
352pp 1 b/w illus. 3 maps January 2020 9781108489010 Hardback GBP 46.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108773669
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Moral Contagion
Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America Michael A. Schoeppner | University of Maine, Farmington During the Antebellum era, thousands of free black sailors were arrested for violating the Negro Seamen Acts. In retelling the harrowing experiences of free black sailors, Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship. • Analyzes the history of African American citizenship beginning in the antebellum era • Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Negro Seamen Acts • Draws heavily on primary sources, including state laws, legal cases, newspapers, and family papers
Studies in Legal History
266pp July 2020 9781108455121 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108469999 Hardback GBP 42.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108695404
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Murder in the Shenandoah
Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia Jessica K. Lowe | University of Virginia Jessica K. Lowe tells the story of Commonwealth v. Crane, exposing deep rifts in post-Revolutionary Virginia and using it to unearth Revolutionary America’s gripping debates over justice, criminal punishment, and equality before the law. She shows how post-Revolutionary Virginia was gripped by the question of what it means to make law ‘sovereign’. • Argues for the importance of the lived experience of the law • Demonstrates quickly changing ideas at the time of the American founding about what it meant to establish law in a republic • Shifts the emphasis of Virginian history to the upper Shenandoah
Valley, in what is now West Virginia
Studies in Legal History
224pp 10 b/w illus. 1 table June 2020 9781108432290 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 February 2019 9781108421782 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108377812
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Michael F. Conlin In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several ‘unwritten’ rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the conflicting constitutional interpretations of ordinary and elite Americans aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war. • Addresses the cause of the Civil War in a new and compelling way • Explains the complex legal history of the relationship between slavery and the Constitution in an accessible manner • Provides the first quantitative account of the historic three-fifths clause’s effect on the House of Representatives and the Electoral
College
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
349pp June 2020 9781108459969 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2019 9781108495271 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108575522
The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Ashley T. Rubin | University of Hawaii, Manoa Using Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today. • Accounts for the rise and fall of Eastern State Penitentiary, covering the period from 1829–1913 • Draws on institutional history and theory to explain the reasons for
Eastern’s unique system and the myths that have grown up around it • Interprets and uses data from prison records to provide rich illustrations of prison life, the institution, and key actors
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
320pp December 2020 9781108484947 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108754095
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The Genesis of America
US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793–1815 Jasper M. Trautsch | Universität Regensburg, Germany Interprets American nationalism as an external demarcation process and early US foreign policy as a vital instrument of nation-building. It introduces a new perspective on the ideological foundations of American foreign relations and the origins and nature of American nationalism, making it relevant to all historians of the early republic. • Reconsiders the conventional narrative of the emergence of the
American nation, by emphasizing the importance of foreign enemies and external threats • Covers many major political and diplomatic events and developments of the early republic, from Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation to the War of 1812, and illuminates how intricately domestic politics and foreign policy were intertwined by putting identity debates at the center of the analysis • Engages myriad sources ranging from newspapers and pamphlets to congressional debates and diplomatic correspondence
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
328pp May 2020 9781108453547 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 September 2018 9781108428248 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108635301
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
Robert H. Churchill | University of Hartford, Connecticut The story of fugitives from enslavement and their travels on the Underground Railroad is a story of violence. This book tells the story of violent encounters between slave catchers, fugitives, Underground activists, and Northern communities and how these encounters contributed to sectional alienation and the coming of the Civil War. • Divides patterns of behavior and attitudes toward abolition into three
Northern regions determined by their distance to the South • Stresses the cultural and political implications of these divisions as decisive factors that led to the Civil War • Introduces the concept of a culture of violence to better contextualize the conflicts between slave catchers and antislavery crowds 266pp 11 maps 1 table January 2020 9781108489126 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2020 9781108733465 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108773997
Williams’ Gang
A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts Jeff Forret | Lamar University, Texas Williams’ Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence. • Provides the first study of a shipment of convict slaves, delving into previously unexplored legal issues surrounding the slave trade • Offers a comprehensive portrait of the Antebellum era by situating the slave trade within the economy, society, and politics of the time • Draws on a variety of resources, including court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, and penitentiary data 482pp 9 b/w illus. 5 maps 3 tables January 2020 9781108493031 Hardback GBP 22.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108651912
