Current Season: European History, World History

The Penn Press list for spring 2019 includes hardcover releases, first-time paperbacks, and ebook editions intended for scholars, students, and serious general readers worldwide. Click here to explore our forthcoming books, grouped by subject area.

Current Season: European History, World History

New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.

Allsen, The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire (hc May 2019, eb May 2019)

Bainton, History and the Written Word: Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins (hc Jan 2020, eb Dec 2019)

Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 (hc Oct 2019, eb Sep 2019)

Beck, The Moment of Rupture: Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought (hc Sep 2019, eb Aug 2019)

Breen, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (hc Dec 2019, eb Nov 2019)

Chenoweth, The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language (hc Nov 2019, eb Oct 2019)

Du, Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey (hc May 2019, eb May 2019)

Lipartito/Jacobson, Capitalism's Hidden Worlds (hc Jan 2020, eb Dec 2019)

Maguire, Carnal Spirit: The Revolutions of Charles Péguy (hc Jun 2019, eb May 2019)

Marroquín Arredondo/Bauer, Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science (hc May 2019, eb 2019)

Rouighi, Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib (hc Jul 2019, eb Jun 2019)

Sparling, Political Corruption: The Underside of Civic Morality (hc May 2019, eb 2019)

Steinberg, Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era (hc Jul 2019, eb Jun 2019)

Vague, A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (hc Jun 2019, eb 2019)

Whalen, The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century (hc Jun 2019, eb May 2019)

Wurgaft, Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (hc 2015, pb May 2019, eb 2015)