Library Guides/ American Studies

New Ebooks on our Ebook Platforms

The six links below lead to overviews of new ebooks that enter our collection through our publisher package deals.
For individually purchased print books and ebooks from other publishers, please see below.

Brill (Brill and partner presses)
All books in the field of American Studies published in 2023 and 2024.
Cambridge Core (Cambridge University Press and partner presses)
All books in the field of American Studies published in the last 12 months.
De Gruyter (De Gruyter and partner presses)
Link to the general De Gruyter catalogue. On their subject index, American Studies is not represented as a separate field.
Oxford University Press
All books in the field of History of the Americas published in 2023 and 2024.
Taylor & Francis (T&F and partner presses)
All books in the field of American Studies published in the last 12 months.
Bloomsbury Collections
All books in the field of United States History published in 2023 and 2024.

New Books (March 2024)

Black Scare / Red Scare

Burden-Stelly, Charisse. Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Freedman, Paul. Ten Restaurants That Changed America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.

Appetite City

Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York: North Point Press, 2009.

Restaurant Republic

Erby, Kelly. Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston. Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press, 2016.

The Culinarians

Shields, David S. The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism

Kornbluh, Anna. Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. London: Verso, 2023.

Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Carole Boyce Davies. Banbury: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2011.

Latin America

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Yesterday

Becker, Tobias. Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.

New Books (January-February 2024)

New Polarizations, Old Contradictions

Albo, Gregory, Leo Panitch, and Colin Leys, eds. New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism. Socialist Register, 2022. London: The Merlin Press, 2021.

Tidal Wave

Evans, Sara. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. Riverside: Free Press, 2010.

Locating American Studies

Maddox, Lucy, ed. Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Writing Backwards

Manshel, Alexander. Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

The Strange Genius of Mr. O

Eastman, Carolyn. The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

The Overlooked Americans

Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth. The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2023.

Red Africa

Okoth, Kevin Ochieng. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. London: Verso, 2023.

Smoke on the Water

Fazzi, Dario. Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.