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American History
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Talbot C. Imlay | Université Laval, Québec Chronicles the life, work and significance of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement, revealing the importance of public political cultures and federalist frameworks. The first comprehensive study to explore Streit, this book will interest historians and students of twentieth-century US foreign relations.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
254pp Feb. 2023 9781009298988 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009299022
The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 3 1900–1945 Brooke L. Blower | Boston University This volume covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. It will set the standard for understanding this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.
The Cambridge History of America and the World
774pp Mar. 2022 9781108419260 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297530
The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 Volume 11 Mark V. Tushnet | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts This comprehensive study unpacks the claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937, instead concluding that US constitutional law gradually transformed throughout the 1930s. In combining doctrinal analysis with the political, economic and social contexts of the Court’s decisions, this will interest both historians and legal scholars.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
1272pp Feb. 2022 9781316515938 Hardback GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781009031141
The New Atlantic Order
The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933 Patrick O. Cohrs | Università degli Studi, Florence The New Atlantic Order sheds new light on the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order. Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ‘world order’ of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system.
1130pp May. 2022 9781107117976 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316338988
This Is Not Who We Are
America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue Zachary Shore | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California This Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lovers of American history and those who look to the past to question the present.
348pp Jan. 2023 9781009203449 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 27.95 eISBN 9781009203418
African American history
Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance Nikki M. Taylor | Howard University, Washington DC Using case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of enslaved women who used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. Original and compelling, this book is for general readers interested in US history and social justice.
239pp May. 2023 9781009276849 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009276818
Gruesome Looking Objects
A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things Elijah Gaddis | Auburn University, Alabama This innovative study uses objects—made, collected, and imagined—to tell the story of the 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer in North Carolina. Utilizing material culture, memory, and landscapes, it brings important new insights to the understanding of racial violence in the American South and beyond.
Cambridge Studies on the American South
212pp Nov. 2022 9781316514023 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009082266
American history-1861-1900
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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.
Cambridge Studies on the American South
327pp Oct. 2022 9781316506707 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2021 9781107141773 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781316493915
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Scandinavians, citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870 Anders Bo Rasmussen | University of Southern Denmark Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple languages, this work is a unique addition to American Civil War history for both students and scholars alike.
292pp May. 2022 9781108845564 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108980135
American history (general)
Mark Philip Bradley | University of Chicago The Cambridge History of America and the World offers a transformative account of American engagement in the world from 1500 to the present. The four-volume reference work represents a new scholarship informed by the transnational turn in the writing of US history and American foreign relations.
The Cambridge History of America and the World
3200pp Mar. 2022 9781108419208 4 Hardback books GBP 310 / USD 400 eISBN 9781108297417
American history after 1945
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After Saigon’s Fall
Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000 Amanda C. Demmer | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University This new history of United States policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War revises our understanding of the conflict’s aftermath. Focusing on migration programs that brought one million Vietnamese to the US, Demmer offers new insights on a topic of perennial interest.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
328pp May. 2022 9781108726276 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.99 Apr. 2021 9781108488389 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108770354
Contesting France
Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early cold War Susan McCall Perlman Contesting France tells the story of how a transnational web of French sources used their exchanges with US intelligence to shape American policy towards France in the early Cold War. A much-needed addition to intelligence studies, this book will interest students and researchers of the early Cold War.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
275pp Nov. 2022 9781316511817 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009053907 NEW IN PAPERBAck
Crack
Rock cocaine, Street capitalism, and the Decade of Greed David Farber | University of Kansas Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling ‘rock’ cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld.
302pp 11 b/w illus. Sep. 2022 9781108444064 Paperback GBP 11.99 / USD 15.95 Oct. 2019 9781108425278 Hardback GBP 20 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781108349055
Improbable Diplomats
How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-china Relations Pete Millwood | The University of Hong Kong Improbable Diplomats reveals the critical role of Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists in rebuilding US-China relations in the 1970s. Examining an overlooked aspect of ties between the two societies, this revisionist account of US-China rapprochement will interest historians and students of Chinese and US foreign relations.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
336pp Oct. 2022 9781108837439 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108935982
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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.
Human Rights in History
324pp 7 b/w illus. Aug. 2022 9781108797184 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Apr. 2020 9781108495639 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 62.99 eISBN 9781108862455
The Attack on Higher Education
The Dissolution of the American University Ronald G. Musto Takes a long historical perspective on the evolution of education in our culture to analyze the state of higher ed in America. Will interest university administrators, faculties in the arts and sciences, policy-makers in academia, government, foundations, and the general public seeking a handle on American politics and education.
370pp Jan. 2022 9781108471923 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108559355
The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 4 1945 to the Present David C. Engerman | Yale University, Connecticut This volume examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and the challenges to that power since. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, it anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to what was increasingly called ‘the American empire.’
The Cambridge History of America and the World
810pp Mar. 2022 9781108419277 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297554
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Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord
The United States since 1945 Salim Yaqub | University of California, Santa Barbara This book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 US history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last seventy-seven years shaped today’s world.
450pp Oct. 2022 9781108721882 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2022 9781108496728 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108654524
Atlantic history
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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.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
216pp Oct. 2022 9781108747479 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jul. 2020 9781108489720 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779289
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
José Lingna Nafafé | University of Bristol This groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the agency of Africans in the quest for abolition. The book reveals how the legal debate on abolition was begun by Africans, not Europeans. An essential new work for scholars and students interested in the abolition movement.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
377pp Aug. 2022 9781108838238 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108974196
Colonial American history
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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.
191pp Mar. 2022 9781108746199 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2020 9781108478786 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108778817
The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 1 1500–1820 Eliga Gould | University of New Hampshire This volume examines how the United States emerged out of a series of commercial, colonial, and imperial encounters. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, it presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America.
The Cambridge History of America and the World
618pp Mar. 2022 9781108419222 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297455
The Dreadful Word
Speech crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 Kristin A. Olbertson The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.
Studies in Legal History
258pp Mar. 2022 9781009098908 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009106535
Early republic and antebellum history
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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.
358pp 1 b/w illus. 3 maps Jun. 2022 9781108733281 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2020 9781108489010 Hardback GBP 48.99 / USD 62.99 eISBN 9781108773669
