Early American Studies

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, 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)

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 (hc 2018, pb 2019, eb 2018)

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

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 2017, 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)

Jones, Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (hc Nov 2019, eb Oct 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 Jan 2020, eb Dec 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)

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)

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 Jul 2019, eb Jun 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 2015, eb 2015)

Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (hc 2000)

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 Jun 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 (hc 2014, pb Sep 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 Nov 2019, eb Oct 2019)

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

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 Sep 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)