Beginning with some self-promotion 😊
My book, along with the entire catalog, at the University of Virginia Press is 50% off through Cyber Monday with code 10TURKEY.
I explain how mapmakers and merchants and many more made sense of the new global encounters in the sixteenth century.
UVA Press has excellent books in many categories, including Early America, African-American history and, of course, #CivilWar history. Not to mention the Studies in Early Modern German History series, including this one-of-a-kind diary of an executioner in Nuremberg in the sixteenth century.
https://upress.virginia.edu/title/4975/
All 50% off through Monday with code 10TURKEY
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All Cornell University Press books are 44% off through December 5 with code 9WINTER.
Cornell has a wonderful series in #Russian and #Eurasian studies. #Soviet and post-Soviet societies and questions of all types.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781872/encountering-race-in-albania
Winner of the Stavro Skendi Book Award of the Society for Albanian StudiesEncountering Race in Albania is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines...
University Press Sales, cont'd
TODAY (12/1) ONLY - Johns Hopkins University Press is having a Cyber Monday sale:
🎁 50% Off All Books! ☃️
Code HCYB25 is valid only on 12/01/25. Free shipping valid on $50 spent after discount.
As you'd expect, Johns Hopkins has a great selection of #books on the #history of #medicine and #PublicHealth.
For example, this trenchant look at how global health policy is formed:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12606/nothing-nets
Next up, the University of Georgia Press sale - 50% off all books with code 08THANKFUL.
UGA has a "History in the Headlines" series that brings together experts for a conversation about the history of a topic currently making, well, headlines. 📰
Past volumes include #RoeVWade and #January6th; America at 250 is forthcoming!
https://www.ugapress.org/browse-books/?series=history-in-the-headlines
#AbortionRights #USPol #history #histodons #books #bookstodon #America250
40% off all University of Notre Dame Press #books through the end of December! Use code 14HOLIDAY
Many books on the #history of #religion, of course, but also #Irish history (Fighting or otherwise). 🍀
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268036140/the-1916-irish-rebellion/
40% off all books from the University of Massachusetts Press through January 4, 2026 with code HOLIDAY!
They feature early American/colonial American history, including important discussions of settler/native interactions.
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625349071/gathered-into-a-church/
Fordham University Press #books are 25% off with code JOY2025 through January 5! Plus, free shipping! 📚 📯
Check out their books on the #history of #NewYorkCity, including this updated edition of _South Bronx Rising_. It tells the neighborhood's history from New Amsterdam to COVID, with this latest edition praised as a "street-level" narrative of communities facing destruction and #gentrification.
https://fordhampress.com/south-bronx-rising-pb-9781531501211.html
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by commun
The University Press of Kansas is having a 40% off sale with code UPKHOLIDAY25 through December 26.
Lots of great #Midwestern and related #history. And UPK has an important series on the history of #law and #SupremeCourt cases.
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme court cases is a landmark decision about #BirthrightCitizenship, which #Trump is seeking to overturn.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634217/
#USPol #histodons @histodons #LegalHistory #bookstodon #WongKimArk
Continuing the 🧵 of university press sales and awesome books for the holidays 📚
The University of California Press's holiday sale gives you 30% of all books with code HOLIDAY30.
UCP is a great press for #Asian #history, including translations of #literature in their "World Literature in Translation" series.
For example, you can read the first-ever English translation of a #Kalmyk epic, relating the experiences of the #Eurasian #steppe.
The University of the West Indies has a 50% off holiday sale with code 03UWIP25. And since web orders from the U.S. are shipped from their U.S. distributors, you won't have to worry about the shipment being blown up in the Caribbean by our trigger-happy war-criming administration. Sorry, that took a dark turn.
Check out their wonderful selection of all things #Caribbean, including histories of #slavery and the case for #reparations by the eminent scholar Hilary McD. Beckles.
https://www.uwipress.com/9789766408695/how-britain-underdeveloped-the-caribbean/
The University of Pennsylvania Press is offering 40% off available titles with code PENN-HOLIDAY25. 📚
They've got histories of the #DrugTrade (hint: it started earlier than you think), #pearls in the #Mongol Empire, and this 👇 history of how Black #enslavement in the #AtlanticWorld coexisted with powerful #African kingdoms. 🌍
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224627/african-kings-and-black-slaves/
#history #histodons @histodons #bookstodon #BlackHistory #slavery
The 🧵 on Sales at University Presses and The Awesome Books You Can Buy, cont'd.
It's 50% off all books at the University of #Arizona Press through December 17 (plus free shipping in continental U.S. for orders over $75) with code AZWinter50. 🌵 ❄️
This press specializes in the #history of the #Southwest and #Mexico (colonial and modern), including #books on #NativeAmerican history and culture.
_A Diné History of Navajoland_ tells the stories of the Diné peoples through origin stories and oral histories, using archaeological and documentary evidence to supplement, not supplant, the oral traditions.
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-dine-history-of-navajoland
From the Southwest to the #Southeast - The University of South Carolina's sale gives you 50% off all books + free shipping for U.S. orders over $50 with code JHOL25.
In addition to many important scholarly studies of the #history of the South, the press has editions of letters, diaries, and other primary sources covering all aspects of #Southern history.
From enslavers to enslaved rebellions to #CivilRights and beyond:
Back to my 🧵 of University Press Sales and the Marvelous Books of History. 📚 📚 📚
Princeton University Press is offering 30% off print, audio, and ebooks with code PUP30 (awwww 🐶 ).
PUP has tail-waggingly good books in many history fields, including #USHistory and #EuropeanHistory. This book in the #history of #medicine caught my eye 👀 :
The "Wound Man" was a ubiquitous diagram displaying all kinds of external injuries that circulated widely in medieval and early modern Europe to as far away as Japan. It serves as a cultural touchstone on technology (the musket ball to the leg was added after gunpowder weapons became popular), the body, and medicine. With extensive illustrations, you can see for yourself.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243481/wound-man
Only one more day left to score 40% off books from Penn State University Press (ends December 19).
One of their strengths is in the #history of #witchcraft, including translated primary sources and this wonderful book on the #WitchHunt in the #Basque region of Spain. Yes, you should expect the #SpanishInquisition, but also skepticism (from the Spanish Inquisition), the rare phenomenon of child #witches, and how local beliefs and connections shaped the experiences of the villagers in the middle of the storm. Based on fresh readings of the trial records and new archival material - yes, #historians are still making new discoveries!
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09181-5.html
This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches’ harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil’s gatherings against their will.
The University of Michigan Press sale is still on - save 50% with code HOLIDAY25.
From their "Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World" series comes _The Information Master:
Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System_. Learn all about state #surveillance in the #France of #LouisXIV - the use of information for control has a very long #history.
Northwestern University Press is having a new year's sale (50% off) through the new year (January 3) with code NEWYEAR. ❄️ 🥳 📚
One highlight from their catalog is _I Will Mix Your Blood With Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine_, which delves into the history and current situation of the #Donbas region in #Ukraine.
Scroll back through 🧵 for more university press sales and books!
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https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810148543/i-will-mix-your-blood-with-coal/
Holiday sales from university presses continue through the new year! Including from the University of Washington Press, which is offering 40% off all titles and free domestic shipping through January 2nd with code HOLIDAY25.
Excellent selection of books on the history of #China and #EastAsia, and well as the U.S. #West. Particularly intrigued by _Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region_. The story of how Americans throughout the centuries have imagined and created the West is very familiar. But Westerners also influenced how Americans thought about "back east", as this book on American regional differences and influences shows.
Christine Johnson
