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.

Early American Studies

Series Editors: Daniel K. Richter, Kathleen M. Brown, Max Cavitch, and David Waldstreicher

Altschuler, The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Appelbaum/Sweet, Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (pb 2005, eb 2012)

Barr/Countryman, Contested Spaces of Early America (pb 2017, eb 2014)

Beckert/Rockman, Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (hc 2016, pb 2018, eb 2016)

Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (pb 2006, eb 2015)

Ben-Atar/Brown, Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (pb 2016, eb 2014)

Beneke/Grenda, The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America (pb 2014, eb 2011)

Block, Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (pb 2001, eb 2010)

Browne, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean (hc 2017, pb 2020, eb 2017)

Brownlee, The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Bullock, Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Connolly, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Dayton/Salinger, Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (pb 2017, eb 2014)

Dennis, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (pb 2011, eb 2012)

Dierks, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (pb 2011, eb 2011)

Dillon/Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Donegan, Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (pb 2016, eb 2013)

Dun, Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (hc 2016, eb 2016)

DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (pb 2007, eb 2011)

Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (pb 2011, eb 2013)

Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (pb 2015, eb 2012)

Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (pb 2009, eb 2013)

Fischer, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation (hc Dec 2020, eb Nov 2020)

Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (pb 1996, eb 2014)

Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America (pb 2008, eb 2014)

Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (hc 2016, pb 2018, eb 2016)

Fur, A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians (pb 2012, eb 2012)

Gallup-Diaz/Shankman, Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Gerbner, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (pb 2019, eb 2018)

Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (pb 2007, eb 2012)

Gosse/Waldstreicher, Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century (hc Aug 2020, eb Aug 2020)

Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (pb 2016, eb 2013)

Hall, Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (pb 2012, eb 2012)

Harper, Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley (hc 2018, eb 2017)

Hartigan-O'Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (pb 2011, eb 2012)

Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (pb 2001, eb 2010)

Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 (hc 2005, eb 2013)

Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (hc 2003, eb 2011)

Howell, Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Jaffee, A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (pb 2011)

Johnson, Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution (hc Oct 2020, eb Sep 2020)

Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (hc Aug 2020, eb Aug 2020)

Jones, Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution (pb 2006, eb 2010)

Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (pb 2018, eb 2016)

Kelly, Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America (hc 2016, eb 2016)

LaCombe, Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (hc 2012, eb 2012)

Larson, Laid Waste!: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Lawrence, One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism (hc 2011, eb 2011)

Leavelle, The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (pb 2014, eb 2011)

Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Lewis, A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic (hc 2011)

Lindman, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America (pb 2011, eb 2011)

Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (pb 2007, eb 2013)

Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (pb 2007)

Lukasik, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America (hc 2010, eb 2011)

Luskey/Woloson, Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America (hc 2015, eb 2015)

MacLeitch, Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire (hc 2011, eb 2012)

Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (hc 2015, pb 2019, eb 2015)

Marietta/Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (hc 2006)

Martinko, Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States (hc 2020, eb 2020)

Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (pb 2013, eb 2013)

Merwick, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time (hc 2013, eb 2013)

Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (hc 2006, eb 2011)

Middleton/Smith, Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (pb 2010, eb 2011)

Miller, Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850 (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Mills, The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire (hc Oct 2020, eb Sep 2020)

Mongey, Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean (hc Oct 2020, eb Sep 2020)

Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (pb 2004, eb 2011)

Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (pb 2006, eb 2013)

Nash, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (hc 2017, eb 2017)

Navakas, Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (hc 2017, eb 2017)

Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (pb 1999, eb 2010)

Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (pb 2003, eb 2013)

Nobles, John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman (hc 2017, eb 2017)

O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (pb 2000, eb 2015)

Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians (pb 2010, eb 2013)

Oberg, Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (pb 2011, eb 2013)

Parsons, A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (pb 2003, eb 2018)

Plank, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (hc 2005, eb 2015)

Plank, John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire (hc 2012, eb 2012)

Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (pb 2006, eb 2014)

Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (pb 2010, eb 2010)

Reeder, Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (pb 2000)

Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior (hc 2010, eb 2011)

Riley, Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America (hc 2016, eb 2015)

Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (hc 2001)

Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic (pb 2008, eb 2010)

Roberts, Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Salafia, Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River (pb 2017, eb 2013)

Saler, The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest (pb 2019, eb 2014)

Schlereth, An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States (hc 2013, pb 2018, eb 2013)

Schloss, Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (pb 2012, eb 2012)

Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (pb 2007, eb 2013)

Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (pb 2011, eb 2011)

Seeman, Speaking with the Dead in Early America (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (hc 2007)

Sharples, The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America (hc 2020, eb 2020)

Shire, The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Smolenski/Humphrey, New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (pb 2007, eb 2013)

Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (pb 2012, eb 2011)

Soderlund, Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn (hc 2014, pb 2016, eb 2014)

Spero, Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (pb 2018, eb 2016)

Spero/Zuckerman, The American Revolution Reborn (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Stanwood, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Stevens, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (pb 2006, eb 2010)

Sullivan, The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (pb 1998, eb 2010)

Turner, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (hc 2017, pb 2019, eb 2017)

Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (pb 2003)

Vidal, Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World (hc 2013, eb 2013)

Wells, Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic (hc 2017, eb 2017)

White, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (pb 2014, eb 2013)

Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Zabin, Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (pb 2011, eb 2011)

Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (pb 2008, eb 2011)