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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 PressAll 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 CollectionsAll books in the field of United States History published in 2023 and 2024.
New Books (October 2024)
Religion and American Politics
Napierała, Paulina, ed. Religion and American Politics: Domestic and International Contexts. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.
Homegrown
Toobin, Jeffrey. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students (5th Edition)
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 5th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012.
American Gun
McWhirter, Cameron, and Zusha Elinson. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. New York: Picador, 2024.
New Sincerity
Kelly, Adam. New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2024.
New Books (September 2024)
The Mosaic Myth
Diamante, Domenic. The Mosaic Myth: The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2023.
When the Clock Broke
Ganz, John. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Tramps and Trade Union Travelers
Moody, Kim. Tramps & Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900. Newburyport: Haymarket Books, 2019.
Radical American Partisanship
Kalmoe, Nathan P., and Lilliana Mason. Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
The Retreat from Class
Meiksins Wood, Ellen. The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism. London: Verso, 1998.
Stolen Pride
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right. New York: The New Press, 2024.
New Books (July-August 2024)
Five Films by Patricio Guzmán
Five Films by Patricio Guzmán. Interview by José Carlos Avellar. Edited by Hélène Girard, Emmanuelle Joly, and Claudio Martínez. New York: Icarus Films Home Video, 2014.
State Capitalism under Neoliberalism
Bonanno, Alessandro, and Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, eds. State Capitalism under Neoliberalism: The Case of Argiculture and Food in Brazil. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.
Being Somebody and Black besides
Nesbitt, George B., St Clair Drake, and Imani Perry. Being Somebody and Black besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life. Edited by Prexy Nesbitt and Robert Zebulun Larson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
American Studies
Deloria, Philip Joseph, and Alexander I. Olson. American Studies: A User’s Guide. Oakland,: University of California Press, 2017.
Schuster's & Gimbels
Geenen, Paul. Schuster’s & Gimbels: Milwaukee’s Beloved Department Stores. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2019.
Born in Blood and Fire (5th Edition)
Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Fifth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Rhetorical Public Speaking (4th Edition)
Crick, Nathan. Rhetorical Public Speaking: Social Influence in the Digital Age. Fourth edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
New Books (June 2024)
The Racketeer's Progress
Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Minority Rule
Berman, Ari. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
A War for the Soul of America (Second Edition)
Hartman, Andrew. A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. Second edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
The Lie Detectives
Issenberg, Sasha. The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age. New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2024.
The Mexico Reader (Second Edition)
Joseph, G. M., and Timothy J. Henderson, eds. The Mexico Reader : History, Culture, Politics. Second edition, revised and updated. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
New Books (May 2024)
The Age of Grievance
Bruni, Frank. The Age of Grievance. New York: Avid Reader Press, 2024.
Farm Worker Futurism
Marez, Curtis. Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
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.