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Browse Our Philosophy 2019 Catalog
Our new Philosophy catalog includes an interpretative argument for the relational approach, a fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion...
View ArticlePrinceton University Press Partnership with Public Books
Princeton University Press is pleased to announce that we have entered into a nonexclusive partnership with Public Books to develop and produce an ongoing series of essays containing press-related...
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Luke Hunter on Carnivores of the World
Covering all 250 species of terrestrial, true carnivores, from the majestic polar bear and predatory wild cats to the tiny least weasel, Luke Hunter’s comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly...
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Christie Henry: Notes on a New Ecosystem, One Year Out
For just over a year now, I have had the inordinate fondness and pleasure of serving as Director of Princeton University Press. I have been fortunate to have generous companions and collaborators in...
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An Interview with the Authors of Dark Matter Credit
Imagine a world without banks. Because there are no credit cards, you have to pay cash for everything, and there’s no way to borrow either. How do you buy car or a house, or start a new business? You...
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Rebecca Bengoechea on the Guadalajara Book Fair
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: the home of mariachi, tequila, and since 1987, the Feria del Libros Internacional (FIL), Latin America’s premier bookfair. This year, PUP’s Rights team were delighted to...
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Erika Lorraine Milam on Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold...
After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed...
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First Time Author Spotlight: Austin Carson’s Secret Wars
Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to...
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Thomas Crow on Restoration
As the French Empire collapsed between 1812 and 1815, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift. The final abdication of Emperor Napoleon, clearing the way for a restored monarchy,...
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Jason Brennan: When the state is unjust, citizens may use justifiable violence
If you see police choking someone to death – such as Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black horticulturalist wrestled down on the streets of New York City in 2014 – you might choose to pepper-spray them...
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Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti on Love, Money, and Parenting
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly...
View ArticleChristie Henry on Shaping History–Through Books
The founder of the antecedent of Black History Month, Carter Woodson, astutely noted that “the mere imparting of information is not education.” Adapting these profound words to the realm of...
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William L. Silber on The Story of Silver
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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First-Time Author Spotlight: Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one...
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Cass Sunstein on On Freedom
In this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn’t nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate...
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Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi on Austerity
Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at...
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Francesca Trivellato on The Promise and Peril of Credit
The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so...
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Browse our 2019 Computer Science Catalog
Our new Computer Science catalog includes an introduction to computational complexity theory and its connections and interactions with mathematics; a book about the genesis of the digital idea and why...
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Ken Steiglitz on The Discrete Charm of the Machine
A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers. Today our world...
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Browse our 2019 Art Catalog
We are pleased to announce our new Art catalog for 2019! Among the exciting new titles are an exploration of how cataclysmic social and political transformations in nineteenth-century Europe reshaped...
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