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  Global Quakerism, 1938-2018

  Steven Ward Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt

  Despite the British and Anglo-American origins of Quakerism, the majority of Friends today are persons of color living in the Global South. Reflecting this profound shift, this volume examines the transformation and diversification of Quaker belief, practice, and community across the past century, while situating these developments within the legacy ... Read More

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  Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education: Stories of Selfhood

  Alison Cook-Sather

  Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education features accounts of how blindness and low vision intersect with other dimensions of identity for both students and faculty in higher education. Contributors from a range of institutional contexts illuminate “common but not comparable” experiences, as well as importantly different ones, and explore different ... Read More

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  Lost Plays of Old Comedy

  Matthew C. Farmer

  This is the first accessible volume exploring and analysing evidence for Greek Old Comedy through what remains only in the form of fragments of plays.Hundreds of comedies were written and performed in Athens during this period (roughly 486-386 BCE), but only eleven survive intact from this era; all eleven are ... Read More

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  Borderland Solidarity: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland

  Emily Hong

  Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism, and protracted war between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar Army. Kachinland's rich natural resources—including jade and hydropower—are coveted by the ... Read More

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  Practice Dialogues: Listening to the Wisdom of Care Work

  Alice Lesnick

  Attending to the wisdom that emerges through care work, Practice Dialogues uplifts the complexity, creativity, and interconnection of care across fields of endeavor. Written by a collective of practitioners, Practice Dialogues calls readers to learn from, not simply about, care work and those dedicated to it. Recognizing the need to ... Read More

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  Founding, Struggling, Surviving, Succeeding: A Financial and Administrative History of Haverford College, 1833 to 1933, Volume 1

  G. Richard Wynn

  This two-volume monograph details the financial and administrative history of Haverford College from its founding in 1833 through 1933, with additional content spanning into the World War II era. The source material are the hand-written financial records (ledgers, cash books, stock subscriptions, receipt books, farm records, “stationery” (student) accounts, payrolls, ... Read More

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  Founding, Struggling, Surviving, Succeeding: A Financial and Administrative History of Haverford College, 1833 to 1933, Volume 2

  G. Richard Wynn

  This two-volume monograph details the financial and administrative history of Haverford College from its founding in 1833 through 1933, with additional content spanning into the World War II era. The source material are the hand-written financial records (ledgers, cash books, stock subscriptions, receipt books, farm records, “stationery” (student) accounts, payrolls, ... Read More

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  Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy: A Reassessment

  Günter Bischof and Michael Burri

  Despite his significance, the role of Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky remains under-represented in Anglo-American Cold War scholarship. Serving as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and chancellor from 1970 to 1983, his political career oversaw seismic developments in both Austria’s postwar recovery and broader international relations with the Middle East, ... Read More

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  Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology

  Jane Chandlee

  This Element surveys the various lines of work that have applied algorithmic, formal, mathematical, statistical, and/or probabilistic methods to the study of phonology and the computational problems it solves. Topics covered include: how quantitative and/or computational methods have been used in research on both rule- and constraint-based theories of the ... Read More

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  The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (4th ed.)

  Henry Louis Gates Jr., Valerie A. Smith, William L. Andrews, and Kimberly W. Benston

  The Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep in cultural and historical significance. Preeminent scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr., who presided over the book's creation in the 1990s, continues as general editor, working with a team of highly ... Read More

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  Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-century United States

  Jess Libow

  Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was produced by men, Vigorous Reforms focuses on the understudied literary history of how women came to understand physicality and its connection ... Read More

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  Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century

  Stephen McGovern

  Immigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization Politics, Stephen J. McGovern offers a new approach to analyzing contemporary urban politics in light of these broad, societal changes. Redirecting the focus from the top-down orientation of regime theory toward a more bottom-up perspective, ... Read More

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  Westonia: Selected Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston

  Bret Mulligan, Mary Anna Ball, Felix K. Bieneman, Hannah Rebecca Cohen '25, Erica S. Collin, Harry Cottrell '27, Rowan Killina '26, Celia Levy '25, Priya Nwakanma '27, Claire Pettit '25, and Claudia van Vloten '25

  Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581-1612) was born in England, but spent most of her life in the intellectual hub of early-modern Europe: the imperial court of Rudolph II in Prague. She is remarkable for her determination to work professionally as a poet and to publish her writings, a path not generally ... Read More

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  Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

  Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak

  Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future ... Read More

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  Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq

  Zainab Saleh

  Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalization ... Read More

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  Habsburg Encounters with Native America: Familiar Strangers

  Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Krízová, and Michael Burri

  The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual action across several centuries that has produced numerous and varied instances of cultural dialogues, perspectives, and ... Read More

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  The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition

  H. G. Wells and Kimberly W. Benston

  This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1896 William Heinemann edition of Wells’s novel—a cauldron of scientific ambition, interspecies conflict, and neocolonial violence—with a glossary of nautical, botanical, and geological terms. A preface with a note on the text, contextualizing headnotes, and explanatory footnotes by Kimberly W. Benston. Eight illustrations, including ... Read More

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  Persians

  Aeschylus and Deborah H. Roberts

  The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event—the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written—Persians appears in Deborah H. Roberts' brilliant new verse translation accompanied by her Introduction, Notes, Maps, and Chronology. Also included are newly translated excerpts from ... Read More

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  Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy

  Carola Binder

  Many foundational moments in American economic history—the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve—occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The government’s decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of ... Read More

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  A Companion to Aristophanes

  Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

  A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an ... Read More

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  Henry Cadbury: Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic

  James Krippner and David Harrington Watt

  This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. During his lifetime, he was well known as ... Read More

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  Tell It Slant: A prophetic life of adventure & writing on religion, war, and justice, love and laughter

  Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner

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  The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe

  Karen Masters

  Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent – Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. ... Read More

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  Governance and Intervention in Mali: Elusive Security

  Susanna Wing

  This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades. The work contextualizes external military engagement (including that of the United States, France, the United Nations and G5 Sahel) within the broader framework of weak democratic consolidation, unmet development goals and ... Read More

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  Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980

  Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever

  In Thanks for Nothing, Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever explore the contradictions that lie at the heart of single motherhood. Drawing on forty years of data from two large national surveys, they find that the mystery of single mothers' economic stagnation can be explained by changes in the kind ... Read More