The Penn Press list for spring 2021 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.
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, pb May 2021, 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 2020, eb 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 2020, eb 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)
Hemphill/Hessinger, Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America (hc Jun 2021, eb Jun 2021)
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 2020, eb 2020)
Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (hc 2020, eb 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, pb Jun 2021, 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 2020, eb 2020)
Mongey, Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean (hc 2020, eb 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)
Murphy, The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (hc Oct 2021, eb Oct 2021)
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)
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