Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the Omohundro Institute!
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the Omohundro Institute Conference in Williamsburg, VA. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are available in print via print on demand and as e-books! Please browse and follow the links to shop!
- Available in print at 40% off. Use coupon code NR18
- Available in e-book
- New & forthcoming
- Essential backlist
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to early American studies.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
Out of concern for the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, and in response to a statewide order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses, PSU Press has suspended warehouse operations until further notice and will not be shipping physical books during this time. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Available in print
Use coupon code NR18 for 40% off!
Passing to América
Antonio (Née María) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
Thomas A. Abercrombie
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Steven Carl Smith
The Chankas and the Priest
A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
Sabine Hyland
A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Edited by Jan Stievermann and Oliver Scheiding
Condorcet
Writings on the United States
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Guillaume Ansart
William Parks
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
A. Franklin Parks
Lessons from America
Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798
Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Pennsylvania's Revolution
Edited by William A. Pencak
The Economy of Early America
Historical Perspectives and New Directions
Edited by Cathy Matson
Community of the Cross
Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem
Craig D. Atwood
Available as an e-book
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Writings by an Early American Polymath
Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Edited by Cécile Fromont
Babel of the Atlantic
Edited by Bethany Wiggin
The Quakers, 1656–1723
The Evolution of an Alternative Community
By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Owen S. Ireland
The History of the New World
Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Girolamo Benzoni, translated by Jana Byars, and edited by Robert C. Schwaller and Jana Byars
Speaking to Body and Soul
Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers, 1785–1786
Edited and translated by Katherine M. Faull
Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, Edited with an introduction by Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Lia Markey
The Native Conquistador
Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain
Edited and translated by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Pablo García Loaeza
Jacob Green’s Revolution
Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
S. Scott Rohrer
Citizens in a Strange Land
A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730–1830
Hermann Wellenreuther
New & Forthcoming books
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
The Play World
Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
Patricia Anne Simpson
The Word in the Wilderness
Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Alexander Lawrence Ames
Baptism Through Incision
The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren
Iconoclasm in New York
Revolution to Reenactment
Wendy Bellion
A Material World
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta M. Lovell
The Writings of Elizabeth Webb
A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726
Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins
The Susquehannocks
New Perspectives on Settlement and Cultural Identity
Edited by Paul A. Raber
Essential backlist
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
To Heaven or to Hell
Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario
David Thomas Orique, O.P.
The Grid and the River
Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682–1876
Elizabeth Milroy
Of Cannibals and Kings
Primal Anthropology in the Americas
Neil L. Whitehead
Defending the Conquest
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
Edited by Kris Lane, and translated by Timothy F. Johnson
The Art and Science of William Bartram
Judith Magee
Down and Out in Early America
Edited by Billy G. Smith
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
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