General History
Explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed and used firearms, both legal and otherwise, and how the state and white people responded.
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw Sylvester Allen, Belle Boggs
27th January, hb, £25.99, 9781469689999
Brings additional commentary to the conversation about a third Reconstruction in America. Also offers ways forward for any community struggling with a history of racism.
The Home Front Lauren Duval 16th December, hb, £39, 9781469690056
Captures daily life during the US Revolution through those who intimately experienced it, showing how people understood its implications for their lives, families and the nascent American Republic.
Brown and Blue Brian D Behnken 18th November, pb, £31, 9781469690704
Sweeping history tells a story of fits and starts in Mexican Americans’ interactions with law enforcement and the criminal justice system in the US.
Archie Bunker for President Oscar Winberg 18th November, pb, £25.99, 9781469690902
The intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, seen through the prism of the sitcom All in the Family.
Times Books
History of the World in Maps Mick Ashworth, Philip Parker
9th October, 3rd edn, hb, £30, 9780008774714
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps this collection includes more than 70 charts that challenge and illuminate our understanding of society, history and our rapidly changing world.
Troubador
Who Killed Oswald Grey? Jon Berry 28th August, pb, £14.99, 9781836283997
Thought-provoking story of the last man to be
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Jews, Nazis and the Holocaust Hyman Wolanski 28th September, pb, £16.99, 9781836284642
The terrible story of the Holocaust informed by Wolanski’s family’s direct experience.
University of Chicago Press
Our Grief is Not a Cry for War Jeremy Varon
7th October, hb, eb, £28, 9780226827681
History of the popular movement against the War on Terror.
Unrefined David Singerman 2nd September, hb, eb, £28, 9780226837376
How modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity.
University of Hawai’i Press
Legacies of Incarceration Kelli Y. Nakamura 31st October, pb, £22.99, 9798880700981
Provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawai’i’s Japanese before, during and after the Second World War.
University of Massachusetts Press
Women March for Peace Denise Lynn 9th September, pb, £31, 9781625349033
Examines the lives of seven Black women and their resistance to domestic and foreign US policies during the height of anticommunist hysteria.
University of Oklahoma Press
Mormon Settler Colonialism Vol 25: Inventing the Lamanite Elise Boxer
28th October, hb, £39, 9780806196046
Provocative book deepens the intersection of Mormonism, race (Indigeneity) and colonialism in a critical and necessary direction.
Jersey Gold Margaret Casterline Bowen, Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles
11th November, pb, £20.99, 9780806196404
Chronicles the experiences of the New
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Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found.
University of Pennsylvania Press
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London Katherine L French 11th November, pb, £27.99, 9781512828658
How increased consumption following the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London’s merchants and artisans for years to come.
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE Robin Fleming
14th October, pb, £23.99, 9781512828818
Argues that Continental immigrants alongside people whose ancestors had long lived in Britain built a new material world, forging an identity that descendants would come to think of as English.
University of Pittsburgh Press
Grounding Berlin Timothy Moss (ed) 6th October, hb, £46, 9780822948322
Full overview of the city’s environmental and infrastructure politics over 150 years. Explores themes such as urban engineering, resource flows and pollution.
Rehabilitate Marx Jan Mervart, Jiri Ruzicka 7th October, hb, £51.50, 9780822948803
“Valuable contribution to the legacy of Marxism through a detailed and analytical history of one of its most important periods”—Ian H Angus, professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University.
Liberty’s Double- edged Sword Catherine McKenna 9th September, hb, £51.50, 9780822965763
Pivotal moment in Polish history under the microscope. McKenna reveals how political leaders exploited the civil liberties they were meant to protect, leading to the downfall of Europe’s earliest republic.
University of Toronto Press
Death in the Rubble Richard Bodek
16th December, pb, £23.99, 9781487552916
Set against the shattered landscape of postwar Berlin, the true story of a nurse battling addiction who murders to buy gifts for her lover, a married police detective.
University of Virginia Press
Napoleon in America Mark F Ehlers 26th September, pb, £31, 9780813953540
Sheds light on how Napoleon’ s legacy infused American debates over empire in the 19th century.
University of Wales Press
Series
Studies in Welsh History pb,eb, £24.99, 9781837722
Series aims to serve historical scholarship and encourage the study of Welsh history. Volumes include research on the political, social and economic history of Wales. Waging War and Building Peace Leon Gooberman 15th October, vol 34 709 Emlyn Hooson and the Welsh Liberal Party, 1962-1979 Nicholas Alderton 15th November, vol 35 976
Heirs to the Princes David Stephenson 15th September, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781837722761
Account of the rise of a new Welsh magnate class after the Edwardian conquest of 1277–88 provides a fresh and more realistic understanding of Welsh medieval history.
James II and Wales William Gibson 15th January, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781837723164
Examines the reign of James (1685-88) in Wales. The role of Wales and its people during his reign has been largely overlooked.
University of Wisconsin Press
The Secret Protocol Antonella Salomoni, Antony Shugaar (tr)
6th January, hb, £69, 9780299354909
Scrutinises a consequential document and its many afterlives, focusing less on its well-studied history and more on the discourse that surrounded it.
University Press of Kansas
A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty Thomas N Ingersoll, Tryntje Helfferich (ed)
2nd December, hb, £54, 9780700640362
The final work by late historian Ingersoll on the political crisis posed by the US presidential election of 1800, the reverberations of which are still felt today.
Rural Rebellion Ross Benes 18th November, pb, £25.99, 9780700640744
The story of one man coming to terms with both his past and present in Nebraska.
The Constitution’s Penman
Dennis C Rasmussen 21st November, pb, £28.99, 9780700640782
Demonstrates that it is impossible to fully understand the United States Constitution without appreciating the central role that Gouverneur Morris (1752- 1816) played in shaping it.
University Press of Mississippi
The Tougaloo Nine MJ O’Brien, Bennie Thompson
17th November, hb, £31, 9781496856036
Presents those who risked their lives and future livelihoods to fight for full social and political equality during sit-ins at the all-white Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi, during segregation.
Border War Marilyn Ferris Motz 15th December, pb, £25.99, 9781496860057
Features the evocative writings of a young couple to illuminate the challenges faced by many rural American households during the Civil War era.
Verso Books
A Spanish Commune Jeanne Moisand 14th October, pb, eb, £25, 9781804292242
Previously untold history of a powerful federalist revolution in Spain in 1873 and its links with the colonial and global social protests of its time.
Revolutions Donald Sassoon 18th November, hb, eb, £35, 9781804299920
Sweeping comparative history from a leading historian of big ideas.
Racial Fictions Hazel V Carby 18th November, pb, eb, £22, 9781804299937
Virile critique of the myths that continue to shape our world.
The Idea of Israel Ilan Pappe 7th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781836740407
A history of Zionism and Israel by the renowned author of Ten Myths About Israel.
Resisting Erasure Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox, Rafeef Ziadah
26th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836740759
Critical examination of the ongoing struggle in Palestine reframes that struggle within the contexts of imperialism and global capitalism.
The Paris Commune Quentin Deluermoz 6th January, pb, eb, £25, 9781839768187
World revolutionary event that crossed from Paris to Algeria and New York and was the laboratory for many republican and socialist ideas.
Viking
Muslim Europe Tharik Hussain 20th November, hb, eb, £25, 9780241742822
Revelatory history traversing the ancient roots of Islam in Europe.
War and Power Phillips Payson O’Brien 28th August, hb, eb, £22, 9780241744031
Bold, revisionist study from a professor of Strategic Studies challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war.
A Short History of America Simon Jenkins
6th November, hb, eb, £25, 9780241747599
Bestselling historian on the nation that rules the world and how it came to do so.
Virago Press Fenwomen
Mary Chamberlain, Alexandra Harris 11th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780349020419
Fiftieth-anniversary edition of Virago’s first title—a fascinating snapshot of a vanished
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