The Penn Press list for spring 2020 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: Political Science, Public Policy

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

Botting, Artificial Life After Frankenstein (hc Dec 2020, eb Nov 2020)

Broxmeyer, Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age (hc Aug 2020, eb Aug 2020)

Carter Jackson, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (hc 2019, pb Aug 2020, eb 2019)

Chakrabarti, Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India (hc Dec 2020, eb Nov 2020)

Critchlow, Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan (hc 2018, pb Oct 2020, eb 2018)

Daly/Barak, Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (hc 2012, pb Oct 2020, eb 2012)

Elinoff/Vaughan, Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia (hc Dec 2020, eb Nov 2020)

Huret/Lichtenstein, Capitalism Contested: The New Deal and Its Legacies (hc Dec 2020, eb Nov 2020)

Schroedel, Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches (hc Oct 2020, eb Sep 2020)

Smith/Beeman, Modern Constitutions (hc Aug 2020, eb Aug 2020)