History
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Priya Nelson
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Ben Tate
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David McBride
Publisher, Politics (American Political History)
The history list is characterized by its long-standing efforts to seek out and publish the most exciting new research, innovative topics, field-defining books, and projects with a global approach. Our titles range across time periods, from ancient and medieval to early modern and modern history.
We also publish in intellectual history, the history of philosophy and science, religious history, and Jewish and Islamic history, as well as economic, legal, environmental, and military history. The subjects of our books span all continents, and reinforce our endeavors to draw from a diverse and international pool of authors.
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Listen in: The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution is a provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined.
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Game, scam, cult: The many faces of QAnon
When viewed within the corpus of 4953 similar posts that accreted over the months between October 2017 and December 2020, Drop #199 was nothing out of the ordinary.
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Jaws (1975): A study of American masculinity
When I first saw Jaws聽in the 1980s, I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, and I was plum terrified. I was terrified of the shark, obviously, but even more terrified of the water鈥攖he idea that the monster could be right underneath you or your boat, but you couldn鈥檛 access him or see him.
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When folk horror goes beautiful: You Won鈥檛 Be Alone (2022)
This is a folk horror witch film about severe, abject child abuse. And as we鈥檒l also see, it鈥檚 about resistance to that kind of abuse, and the desire to find meaning and beauty in life, even with the knowledge that horrific, monstrous evil exists.
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Bones and All (2022), or, When Horror Goes Beautiful II
Something must have been in the air in 2022. In the same year that You Won鈥檛 be Alone聽came keening gloriously out of Macedonia, Bones and All聽loped its achingly beautiful way out of Hollywood. Film essay by Eleanor Johnson, whose book Monstrous Bitch is forthcoming.
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Peter N. Miller on Conservation as a Human Science
Conservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation that links the world around us鈥攏atural and man-made鈥攖o the world inside us鈥攐ur genome, our memories.