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"The title of Whitney Martinko’s book, Historic Real Estate, is deceptively modest...Martinko’s gaze encompasses nothing less than the shaping of American institutions of civil society and political economy...This is a cultural history, not a legal, political, or economic one; it makes a case for the salience of culture and capitalism in shaping one another."—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

"Giuseppe Paparella has produced a stimulating and significant book. Ambitious in scope and based on an impressive amount of research, this book examines a series of key moments spanning seventy-five years to cogently show how four very different presidents' national beliefs shaped their policy toward the Asia Pacific region. A must-read for both historians and theorists." —Steven Casey, London School of Economics

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

“Berebitksy provides essential historical context, revealing how female sexual subordination was baked into office culture from the 1860s, and her keen analysis of gendered power dynamics illuminates a path forward.” —Kimberly Hamlin, author of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener

"Rum was global integration in liquid form, a distillation of the greed, ingenuity, violence, and resilience that organized the early modern Atlantic world. In The Invention of Rum, Jordan B. Smith displays the best of the historian’s craft as he ranges across multiple scholarly fields, revises familiar interpretations, recognizes the complexities of the past, and reckons with the continuities that shape our world today."—Seth Rockman, author of Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

“An unconventional biography that reads like fiction, Sherry Smith’s Bohemians West traces a twentieth-century sojourn with alternative romance. Although the portrait of America’s decades-long transformation through modernity may draw interest on its own—with the complex interplay of new radicals, old conservatives, industrialism, war, and impending recession—it is the even more complex magnetism between Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood that makes each page turn itself.”—Pacific Historical Review