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New Releases in American Studies: Spring and Summer 2022
US and Canadian History
Pre-1800
- Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Lindsay M. Chervinsky, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Carla Cevasco, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- E. Wesley Reynolds, Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Gerard N. Magliocca, Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Daniel Diez Couch, American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic (Philadelphia, PA: Penn Press, 2022).
1800-1861
- Andrea G. McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Laura F. Edwards, Only the Clothes on her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- David Silkenat, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Rachel E. Walker, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Anna Koivusalo, The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion in the American South (Charleston, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2022).
- Marcy J. Dinius, The Textual Effect’s of David Walker’s Appeal: Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851 (Philadelphia, PA: Penn Press, 2022).
- Peter J. Aschenbrenner, James Monroe, John Marshall and “The Excellence of Our Institutions”, 1817-1825 (London: Routledge, 2022).
1861-1900
- Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Kevin M. Levin, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Sarah J. Purcell, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Angela Esco Elder, Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- David K. Thomson, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Earl J. Hess ed., Animal Histories of the Civil War Era (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
- Bradley R. Clampitt, Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
- Philip D. Dillard, The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning (London: Routledge, 2022).
1900-1945
- Eric Rauchway, Why the New Deal Matters (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Emmanuel Destenay, Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland (1914-1918): Divergent Destinies (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Zachary Shore, This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
- Maria L. Quintana, Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (Philadelphia, PA: Penn Press, 2022).
- Charles E. Neu, The Wilson Circle: President Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
- Andrew J. Hazelton, Labor’s Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022).
- Megan Birk, The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022).
- Kenneth J. Bindas, The New Deal and American Society, 1933-1941 (London: Routledge, 2022).
1945-1980
- Robert Jacobs, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- John Maurer, Competitive Arms Control: Nixon, Kissinger and SALT, 1969-1972 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Jodi Kim, Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Spiro Simeon Z. Paravantes, Britain and the United States in Greece: Anglo-American Relations and the Origins of the Cold War (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Miles Taylor and Jill Pellew, Utopian Universities: A Global History of New Campuses of the 1960s (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Barbara A. Perry, Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- David Paul Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Kathryn J. McGarr, City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Heather Hendershot, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Chris J. Madoc, A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Timothy N. Thurber, The Nixon Presidency (London: Routledge, 2022).
1980-Present
- Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Andy Horowitz, Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Penny M. VonEschen, Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Howard Gillette, Jr., The Paradox of Urban Revitalization (Philadelphia, PA: Penn Press, 2022).
African American History
- Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Thulani Davis, The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Shannen D. Williams, Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Kelli Moore, Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Lawrence Aje and Catherine Armstrong eds., The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Rafael Torrubia, Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Lane Demas, Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth Century America (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Treva B. Lindsey, America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
- Aria S. Halliday, Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022).
- Patricia A. Banks, Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022).
- E. James West, Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. (Amherst, MA: University of Massachussetts Press, 2022).
Native American and Indigenous History
- Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Lisa Uperesa, Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Alexandra Harmon, Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).
- Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthé, and Andrew J. Jolivétte eds., Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).
- Cutcha Risling Baldy, We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).
- Ronald L. Tropser, Indigenous Economies: Sustaining Peoples and their Lands (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2022).
Asian American History
- Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Heather Hathaway, That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Denise Khor, Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese Film Culture before World War II (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress (New York, NY: NYU Press, 2022)
- Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream” (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022).
- Chrissy Yee Lau, New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).
- Eric C. Wat, Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).
Queer History
- Susy J. Zepeda, Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022).
- Amy L. Stone, Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (New York, NY: NYU Press, 2022).
- Karen Kampwirth, LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2022).
Cultural History
- Joseph Bolisi, Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Mike Owen Benediktsson, In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Wendy A. Woloson, Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Katherine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, The Tacky South (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
General/Other US History
- Kathryn Gin Lum, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Megan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Lillian Faderman, Woman: The American History of an Idea (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- John Faragher, California: An American History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Carl Bontempo, Immigration: An American History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Hal Weitzman, What’s the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State has Favored the Rich, Powerful and Criminal – And How It Has Cost Us All (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Eva Rosen, The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- George Conyne, The History of the United States Supreme Court: A Modern Commentary and Analysis (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns, Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Dominique A. Tobbell, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Caribbean History
- Larisa Kingston Mann, Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Stacy J. Lettman, The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Michael Jarvis, Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints: An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609-1684 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
- Hakan Karlsson and Tomas Diez Acosta, The Policy of the Ford Administration Toward Cuba (London: Routledge, 2022).
Latin American History
- Thomas Klubock, Ranquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence and Historical Memory in Chile (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Francesca Lessa, Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Danielle Terrazas Williams, Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Lilia Mortiz Schwarcz, Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Mary Pat Brady, Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Jorge Pontes and Marcio Anselmo, Operation Car Wash: Brazil’s Institutionalized Crime, and the Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Jennifer Eaglin, Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Gwen Burnyeat, The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Alejandra J. Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado eds., Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2022).
- Alexander Dawson, Latin America Since Independence: A History with Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2022).
Literature and Culture
- Josh Lambert, Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing and Postwar America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Soyica Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Aaron Sachs, Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Gene Andrew Jarrett, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Stanley Corngold, The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Ryan S. Kemp and Jordan M. Rodgers, Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel: A Philosophical Account of her Christian Vision (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Charles Egan, Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Laurie Rodrigues, The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Sarah E. L. Bowskill, The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish American Literature (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Andrew Cunning, Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Christopher Chen, Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods: Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Hugh Foley, Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Lydia Moland, Lydia Mary Child: A Radical American Life (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Esther Gabara, Non-Literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Jennifer L. Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Sheng-Mei Ma, The Tao of S: America’s Chinee and the Chinese Century in Literature and Film (Charleston, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2022).
- Matthew A. Snipe, Understanding Philip Roth (Charleston, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2022).
- Christopher P. Iannini, Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani, Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Carrie Conners, Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Christopher Kempf, Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
- Hannah Walser, Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022).
- Patrick Colm Hogan, American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Alice Sundman, Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm, Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Polina Mackay, Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Christopher Kempf, Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)
Art History and Architecture
- Patricio Del Real, Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Dieter Buchardt, Keith Haring / Jean-Michel Basquiat (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Alison Rowley, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing Painting (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Lisa Hodgkins, Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs: American Women of the Late Nineteenth Century (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Jonathan Flatley, Like Andy Warhol (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Bernard L. Herman, The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Matthew Frye Jackson, The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- Ross Barrett, Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
- Martin A. Berger, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
- E. James West, A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022).
Politics and Current Affairs
- Anthony J. Badger, Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Thomas W. Merrill, The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall and the Future of the Administrative State (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Ethan B. Kapstein, Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Martin Loughlin, Against Constitutionalism (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- William J. Novak, New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022).
- John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch and Lynn Vavreck, The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Julian E. Zelizer ed. The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Bruce G. Carruthers, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power and Credit in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Donald F. Kettel, The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Daniel Q. Gillion, The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Michael Knights, Accidental Allies: The US-Syrian Democratic Forces Partnership Against the Islamic State (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison, We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Nicholas Goedert, Ground War: Courts, Commissions, and the Fight over Partisan Gerrymanders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- William R. Thompson, American Global Pre-Eminence: The Development and Erosion of Systemic Leadership (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Nina M. Yancy, How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Bruce Kuklick, Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Peter M. Shane, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
- R. Douglas Arnold, Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age (Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univeristy Press, 2022).
Music
- Laurence Estanove, Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown, Claire Hélie, 21st Century Dylan: Late and Timely (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Vera Wolkowicz, Inca Music Reimagined: Indigent Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Will Kaufman, American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
- Charlotte Bentley, New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Jas Obrecht, Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2022).
- David McKay Powell, Cather and Opera (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
- Mat Callahan, Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Charles Kronengold, Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
Film, TV, and Theatre
- Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda eds. Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).
- Thomas Leitch, The History of American Literature on Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Larrie Dudenhoeffer, Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First Century US Filmmaking (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Elisa Pezzotta, The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay, and Quentin Tarantino
- Anna Cooper, The American Abroad: The Imperial Gaze in Postwar Hollywood Cinema (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Cary Edwards, The Vigilante Thriller: Violence, Spectatorship and Identification in American Cinema, 1970-76 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Grant Wiedenfeld, Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Douglas Horlock, The Films of Delmer Davis: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Sara Lindey and Jason King, The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Amy Lawrence, Ghost Channels: Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022).
- Jon Lewis, Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
Philosophy and Religion
- David Sehat, This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Joanna Bard Richlin, In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser, Outsourcing Duty: The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Kristy Nabhan-Warren ed.,The Oxford Handbook of Latinx Christianity in the United States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Mark A. Noll, America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Robert Tobin, Privilege and Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Paul William Harris, A Long Reconstruction: Racial Caste and Reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Erika Doss, Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Vincent Phillip Munoz, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Jonathan Strassfeld, Inventing Philosophy’s Other: Phenomenology in America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Geography and Nature
- W. Carter Johnson, Ecology of Dakota Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
- Sarah Rose, Spiders of North America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
- Peter S. Alagona, The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
- Robert Chaney, The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022).