New Books in History

Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)

Justin F Jackson, "The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines" (UNC Press, 2025)

Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)

Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUNY Press, 2026)

Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)

Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years" (U California Press, 2026)

Bruno Shirley, "Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)

Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)

Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Joanna Dee Das, "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)

The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region redefines modern Japanese urban history by positioning the Fukuoka-Pusan corridor as a critical, interconnected imperial region. Modern Japanese historian Hannah Shepherd argues that urbanization cannot be separated from imperial expansion, ...

Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Elite masculinity in 15th-century Italy functioned as a performative, fluid construct rather than a fixed ideal, serving as a vital instrument for maintaining political power. Noblemen utilized visual displays—including armor, hunting prowess, and the strategic flaunting of mistresses—to project virility and justify th...

H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere functioned as a grand strategy of opportunism rather than a static, coherent blueprint. Initially a vague concept, the Sphere evolved as Japan navigated the geopolitical pressures of World War II, including a defensive alliance with Germany born from mutual distrust. Nationali...