A Reader of Radical Undercurrents
Edited by John Asimakopoulos and Richard Gilman-Opalsky
A broad, nonsectarian collection of anti-capitalist thinking, featuring landmark contributions both classic and contemporary
358 pages
| 6 x 9
Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century
Rachel Ida Buff
Reveals the formerly little-known history of multiracial immigrant rights organizing in the United States
298 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 figures, 18 halftones, 1 map
The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954
Robert M. Zecker
The history of the International Workers Order’s struggle to enact a social-democratic, racially egalitarian vision for America
384 pages
| 6 x 9
| 14 halftones
Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”
J. Mark Souther
Explores how civic and business leaders used image-making in an effort to reimagine and revive Cleveland in the decades after World War II
284 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 12 halftones, 2 maps
An Enduring American Challenge
Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, and Ben Feldmeyer
A systematic exploration of how criminology has accounted for the role of community over the past century
274 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 line drawings
Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Traces the origins of the gender wage gap to part-time teenage work, which sets up a dynamic that persists into adulthood
208 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 tables, 8 line drawings
An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Greg L. Warchol
A contemporary criminological analysis of the African and Asian illegal trade in wildlife
208 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables, 16 halftones, 2 maps
Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel
Patrick Elliot Alexander
The first interdisciplinary study of mass incarceration to intersect the fields of literary studies, critical prison studies, and human rights
260 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 halftones
Political Change in the Postindustrial City
Edited by Marion Orr and Domingo Morel
The first book to examine the rise of Latino mayors in the United States
310 pages
| 6 x 9
| 32 tables, 9 line drawings, 2 maps
A Philadelphia Affair
Beth Kephart
From the best-selling author of Flow comes a love letter to the Philadelphia region, its places, and its people
176 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
| 39 halftones
Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia
Sean Scalmer
The story of how the “stump speech” was created, diffused, and helped to shape the modern democracies of the Anglo-American world
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 halftones
Finding the Hidden City
Joseph E. B. Elliott, Nathaniel Popkin, and Peter Woodall
Revealing the physical and cultural intricacies of Philadelphia, from the intimate to the monumental
192 pages
| 7.875 x 10.5
| 102 color photos, 8 halftones
His Best Writing on the Sixers, the Dream Team, and Beyond
Edited by Andy Jasner
Three decades of reporting by renowned Philadelphia Hall of Fame sportswriter Phil Jasner
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 13 halftones
State Formation and Financial Development in India and the United States
Abhishek Chatterjee
Explains the concomitant and interconnected emergence of “public” finance and “private” banking systems in the context of state formation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
186 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 2 tables, 1 figure
Families, Markets, and the Color Line
Elizabeth Raleigh
Examines cross-race adoptions from the perspectives of adoption providers, showing how racial hierarchies and the supply and demand for children shape the process
250 pages
| 6 x 9
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