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 (April 2024)

Repast

Lesy, Michael, and Lisa Stoffer. Repast: Dining out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Insurrection

Short, John Rennie. Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on America Reveals About America and Democracy. London: Reaktion Books, 2024.

The Search for Reagan

Shirley, Craig. The Search for Reagan the Appealing Intellectual Conservatism of Ronald Reagan. New York: Post Hill Press, 2024.

Game Change (DVD)

Roach, Jay, Amy Sayres, Danny Strong, Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Livingston, et al. Game Change. Burbank, Calif.: Home Box Office, 2013.

Boundaries of Belonging

Hatfield, April Lee. Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655-1715. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing

Bennett, Karen, ed. The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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.

Until I Find You

Nolan, Rachel. Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024.

The Silver Women

Flores-Villalobos, Joan. The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

New Books (December 2023)

Energizing Neoliberalism

Wellum, Caleb. Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America. Energy Humanities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Child of the Dark

Jesus, Carolina Maria de. Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Translated by David St. Clair. Signet Classics. New York: New American Library, 2003.

Searching for Africa in Brazil

Capone, Stefania. Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomble. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Born in Blood and Fire (4th Edition)

Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Fourth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices (2nd Edition)

Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011.

Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature

Bricker, Victoria Reifler. Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature. Indigenous Cultures of Latin America Series, 2. New York: Peter Lang, 2023.

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

Cruse, Harold. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership. New York Review Books Classics. New York: New York Review Books, 2005. Originally published in 1967.

Jesmyn Ward

Harrison, Sheri-Marie, Arin Keeble, and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, eds. Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

New Books (November 2023)

Ain't I an Anthropologist

Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L. Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston, Beyond the Literary Icon. New Black Studies. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

A Daughter of the Samurai

Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki. A Daughter of the Samurai. Foreword by Janice P Nimura, introduction by Christopher Morley. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2023.

The Unwinding (ebook)

Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.

The Second Coming of the KKK

Gordon, Linda. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.

The Evolving Presidency (6th Edition)

Nelson, Michael, ed. The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents. Sixth edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2019.

Eli and the Octopus

García Matt. Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World's Most Notorious Corporations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.

The Rediscovery of America

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.

New Books (October 2023)

Oil, Wheat and Wobblies

Sellars, Nigel Anthony. Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

Woman

Faderman, Lillian. Woman: The American History of an Idea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

New Books (September 2023)

New Daughters of Africa

Busby, Margaret, ed. New Daughters of Africa. Oxford: Myriad Editions, 2019.

Daughters of Africa

Busby, Margaret, ed. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Terms of Exchange

Merkel, Ian. Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences. The Life of Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Up in the Air (DVD)

Jason Reitman, director. Up in the Air (DVD). Paramount Home Entertainment, 2010.

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Edited by James L. W West. Introduction by Jesmyn Ward, and foreword by Eleanor Anne Lanahan. New York: Scribner, 2020.

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, eds. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases. New York: Avid Reader Press, 2020.

The Anthropocene and the Undead

Bacon, Simon, ed. The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination. Lexington Books Horror Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022.

Dawn

Butler, Octavia E. Dawn. Book One of the Xenogenesis Trilogy. New York: Aspect, 1997.

Ecotopia

Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. 40th Anniversary Epistle Edition. Second ed. Berkeley, California: Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books, 2014.

New Books (August 2023)

The Fire This Time

Ward, Jesmyn. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Shoot an Iraqi

Bilal, Wafaa, and Kari Lydersen. Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun. New York: City Lights, 2013.

Migrant Futures

Bahng, Aimee. Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Insurgent Aesthetics

Kapadia, Ronak K. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Art History Publication Initiative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

New Books (July 2023)

King: A Life

Eig, Jonathan. King: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Mute Compulsion

Mau, Søren. Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. La Vergne: Verso, 2023.

Supervision

Hamacher, Sophie, and Jessica Hankey, eds. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2023.

Voor elkaar met elkaar

Beuker, Chris. Voor elkaar met elkaar: Black Lives Matter. Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt, 2022.

New Books (June 2023)

The Declassification Engine

Connelly, Matthew. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets. New York: Pantheon Books, 2023.

Pretend We're Dead

Newitz, Annalee. Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. E-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Art-Horror

Gmelch, Adrian. Art-Horror: Die Filme von Ari Aster und Robert Eggers. Marburg: Büchner Verlag, 2022.

Cancel Wars

Ben-Porath, Sigal R. Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.