History
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Priya Nelson
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Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Humanities (Europe)
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.
New & Noteworthy
Featured Audiobooks
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Brianna Nofil on The Migrant’s Jail
Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world’s largest system of migrant incarceration.
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Listen in: And Still the Waters Run
And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil.
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Protecting or punishing women through an ‘empire of purity’?
Debates over women’s right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race.
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How to solve a refugee crisis
There are always some good people who try to help out when disaster strikes. Tents, blankets, medicine and food enable refugees to survive at a minimal level. But none of this solves the underlying question of what to do with them if they can’t or won’t return to their homelands.
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The Migrant’s Jail
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails.
