Award-Winning Books: History
Beyond Preservation
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
248 pages
6 x 9
3 maps 14 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0229-5 $33.95 May 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0228-8 $86.50 May 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0230-1 $33.95
National Council on Public History's Book Award Award, 2012
Boathouse Row
Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing
288 pages
10 x 8
63 color photos, 3 line drawings, 110 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1282-9 $35.00 Oct 16
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia 2018 Preservation Education Award
The City on the Hill from Below
The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics
250 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-0656-9 $30.95 Aug 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0655-2 $71.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0657-6 $30.95 Jun 11
American Political Science Association's Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, 2012
A City within a City
The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan
248 pages
6 x 9
3 tables, 12 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0922-5 $31.95 Dec 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0921-8 $91.50 Dec 12
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0923-2 $31.95 Dec 12
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2013
Claiming America
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era
226 pages
6 x 9
4 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-576-2 $31.95 Jan 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0770-2 $31.95 Jan 98
Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2001
The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
336 pages
6 x 9
6 tables, 3 figs., 1 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-582-0 $31.95 Feb 09
HC: 978-1-59213-581-3 $61.50 Feb 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-583-7 $31.95 Feb 08
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City
262 pages
6 x 9
7 tables, 11 figs., 4 halftones, 6 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1394-9 $34.95 Oct 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1393-2 $94.50 Oct 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1395-6 $34.95 Oct 16
Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award, 2017
Deregulating Desire
Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice
252 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-0989-8 $34.95 Oct 16
HC: 978-1-4399-0988-1 $94.50 Oct 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0990-4 $34.95 Oct 16
The Organization of American Historians' David Montgomery Award for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history, 2017
Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 halftone
PB: 978-1-4399-0980-5 $31.95 May 13
HC: 978-1-4399-0979-9 $86.50 May 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0981-2 $31.95
Contributor Dea H. Bolster, won the Disability History Association Award for Best Book Chapter, 2015
The Disability Rights Movement
From Charity to Confrontation
360 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-4399-0744-3 $35.95 Jun 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0743-6 $91.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0745-0 $35.95 Jun 11
Frieda Zames is the recipient of the Eileen Healy Public Service Award, 2003
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent
198 pages
5.5 x 8.5
PB: 978-0-9840429-6-8 $15.95 Apr 13
Parrott Library Award from the St. Albans School Library, 2014
Kirkus Reviews' Best in Children's Books, 2013
East Indian Music in the West Indies
Tân-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture
288 pages
7 x 10
1 map 34 figures 18 halftones
HC: 978-1-56639-762-9 $96.50 Jun 00
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0570-8 $43.95 Jun 00
Gordon K. Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association, 2000
Envisioning Emancipation
Black Americans and the End of Slavery
240 pages
7 x 10
150 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0986-7 $24.95 Feb 17
HC: 978-1-4399-0985-0 $59.50 Feb 13
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Non-Fiction, 2014
One of the Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles, Choice, 2013
Healing Our Divided Society
Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report
488 pages
6 x 9
9 tables, 54 figs.
PB: 978-1-4399-1603-2 $24.95 Mar 18
HC: 978-1-4399-1602-5 $99.50 Mar 18
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2018
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
272 pages
6 x 9
8 tables 3 figures 3 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-856-5 $30.95 Mar 01
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0301-8 $30.95 Mar 01
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Award, The Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2002
The Historiography of Communism
264 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-922-4 $31.95 Dec 08
HC: 978-1-59213-921-7 $86.50 Dec 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-923-1 $31.95 Dec 08
Michael Brown, recipient of 2019 American Sociology Association Marxist Section's Lifetime Achievement Award
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
The Argentine Puzzle in Context
264 pages
6 x 9
2 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0910-2 $
HC: 978-1-4399-0909-6 $76.50 Jan 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0911-9 $76.50
Honorable Mention, Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award Committee of the Latin American Studies Association, 2014
A Life in the Struggle
Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
320 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-321-8 $32.95 May 89
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0775-7 $32.95 Feb 95
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1989
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
336 pages
6 x 9
5 figs., 10 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-445-1 $31.95 Apr 96
HC: 978-1-56639-444-4 $69.95 Apr 96
Historic Preservation Book Prize, The Center for Historic Preservation at Mary Washington College, 1997
Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
296 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 5 figs., 45 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-604-9 $31.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-603-2 $81.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-605-6 $31.95 Apr 08
Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award, 2008
The New Left Revisited
280 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-56639-976-0 $33.95 Jan 03
HC: 978-1-56639-975-3 $96.50 Jan 03
Ebook: 978-1-59213-797-8 $33.95 Jan 03
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2003
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
248 pages
6 x 9
11 figs., 6 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1203-4 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1202-7 $85.50 Jul 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1204-1 $30.95
National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Division Book of the Year 2017
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
240 pages
6 x 9
4 figs.
PB: 978-1-59213-698-8 $32.95 May 10
HC: 978-1-59213-697-1 $66.50 Jul 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-699-5 $32.95
Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 2010
On the Stump
Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia
232 pages
6 x 9
8 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1504-2 $27.95 Sep 17
HC: 978-1-4399-1503-5 $89.50 Sep 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1505-9 $27.95 Sep 17
New South Wales Premier's History Award in General History, 2018
Out in the Union
A Labor History of Queer America
240 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1140-2 $30.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1139-6 $55.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1141-9 $30.95 Jun 14
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Revised and Expanded Edition
312 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-494-6 $31.95 Mar 06
HC: 978-1-59213-493-9 $91.50 Mar 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-495-3 $31.95 Mar 06
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
The Puerto Rican Diaspora
Historical Perspectives
320 pages
6 x 9
5 tables, 20 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-413-7 $30.95 Aug 05
HC: 978-1-59213-412-0 $75.50 Aug 05
Ebook: 978-1-59213-414-4 $30.95 Aug 05
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2006
Rubble Films
German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich
240 pages
6 x 9
19 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-878-7 $31.95 Jun 01
HC: 978-1-56639-877-0 $81.50 Jun 01
Ebook: 978-1-59213-806-7 $31.95 Jun 01
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002
Second Cities
Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia
264 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 3 figs., 13 halftones, 5 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-0232-5 $31.95 Aug 13
HC: 978-1-4399-0231-8 $71.50 May 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0233-2 $31.95 May 11
Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award from the Urban History Association, 2011
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2012
Shadows on the Past
Studies in the Historical Fiction Film
264 pages
6 x 9
19 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-182-5 $32.95 Jun 94
HC: 978-1-56639-181-8 $69.50 Jun 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0488-6 $32.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1995
The Smoke of the Gods
A Social History of Tobacco
296 pages
6 x 9
HC: 978-1-59213-480-9 $41.50 Oct 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-482-3 $41.50
A "Best of the Best from the University Presses" program selection at the 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference
The Spirits of America
A Social History of Alcohol
344 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-269-0 $31.95 Aug 04
HC: 978-1-59213-214-0 $51.50 Sep 03
Ebook: 978-1-59213-769-5 $31.95
A "Best of the Best from the University Presses" program selection at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference
St. Peter's Church
Faith in Action for 250 Years
272 pages
8 x 10
125 color illustrations
HC: 978-1-4399-0795-5 $41.50 Oct 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0797-9 $41.50
Laurence D. Fish Award for Outstanding Parish History from the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists, 2014
The Story of Reo Joe
Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
256 pages
6 x 9
7 tables, 17 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-258-4 $30.95 Jun 04
HC: 978-1-59213-257-7 $81.50 Jun 04
Ebook: 978-1-59213-788-6 $30.95
Selected for inclusion on the list of Michigan Notable Books, 2005
Cugnot Award of Distinction, 2005
Chosen by the Adult Non-fiction Committee of the Society of Midland Authors as the first runner-up, 2004-5
The Temp Economy
From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
2 tables, 7 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0081-9 $30.95 Nov 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0080-2 $76.50 Nov 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0082-6 $30.95
Honorable Mention, Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012
Veils and Daggers
A Century of National Geographic's Representation of the Arab World
224 pages
6 x 9
34 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-752-0 $33.95 Feb 00
HC: 978-1-56639-751-3 $70.50 Feb 00
The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics’ Choice Award, 2001
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
288 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-024-5 $31.95 Apr 03
HC: 978-1-59213-023-8 $86.50 Apr 03
Ebook: 978-1-59213-775-6 $31.95 Apr 03
Honorable Mention in the category of Disability Rights, Gustavus Myers Book Award, 2004
Paul Longmore was selected by the American Association of People with Disabilities to receive The Henry B. Betts Award, 2004
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