In addition to our booth in the AHA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space to showcase our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of History at SUP.
Announcements
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S22XAHA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
New Digital Projects
Shadow Plays explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR). Typically studied as part of the prehistory of cinema or the archaeology of media, analog technologies such as the mondo nuovo or cosmorama, the magic lantern, the moving panorama, and the stereoscope evoked shadow copies of our world long before the advent of digital technologies and exercised a powerful pull on minds and imaginations.
Through six case histories and eight interactive simulations, Massimo Riva explores themes of virtual travel, social surveillance, and utopian imagination, shedding light on illustrious or, in some instances, forgotten figures and inventions from Italy's past. Arguing for the continuity of experience and imagination, Riva adopts the term virtual realism, an experience marked by the virtualization of the real and the realization of the virtual. At a time when the gap between simulations and "real" experiences is getting ever smaller, a cultural-historical exploration of the prehistory of virtual reality can help us better understand the present in light of the past while exploring the past using the tools forged in the present.
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, newspapers in the United States—even newspapers which were not published by a religious denomination or organization—made frequent recourse to the Bible. Newspapers printed sermons and Sunday school lessons. They featured jokes whose punchlines required familiarity with the Bible and aired political commentary that cited the Bible on all sides of a given issue.
America's Public Bible is an interactive scholarly work that uncovers the history of the Bible in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. When the Bible was cited on one side or the other of an issue, only rarely was its meaning explicated rather than assumed. Those who cited the text most typically thought that their readers would understand its meaning precisely as they did. But the multiple and mutually exclusive ways in which newspapers used the Bible test that assumption. By identifying and studying quotations in American newspapers, the site offers a commentary on how the Bible was used in public life, uncovering trends and patterns that would be invisible to a single scholar's reading of these documents.
Recent Award Winners
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan »
Kathryn Babayan
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Beau Breslin
- Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (U.S.) Category.
Susan A. Crane
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico »
A.S. Dillingham
- Winner of the 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, sponsored by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation »
Mona El-Ghobashy
- Joint-Winner of the the 2022 Charles Taylor Book Award, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group (IMM).
- Joint-Winner of the the 2022 APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Middle East and North Africa Politics Section.
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution »
Brett Gary
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (U.S.) Category.
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity »
Sonia Gollance
- Finalist of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier »
Chris Gratien
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment »
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War »
Shay Hazkani
- Longlisted in the 2021 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University and the Cundill Foundation.
- Winner of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies, sponsored by the Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel.
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway »
Mikiya Koyagi
- Co-Winner of the the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, sponsored by the International Society for Iranian Studies.
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center Book Prize, sponsored by the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.
Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control »
Michael Krepon
- Named one of the Best New Diplomacy/Arms Control Books to Read in 2022 by BookAuthority.
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
- Winner of the 2022 Douglas Dillon Award, sponsored by the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil »
Heather F. Roller
- Winner of the 2022 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize for the Best Book in Social Sciences, sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
AHA Resources
We welcome inquiries from prospective authors, instructions for submitting book proposals to SUP are available online.
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