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Ideas with lasting consequence.

Independent publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Books for the long conversation.

Corso publishes original scholarship with intellectual reach—work that rewards close reading and remains useful well beyond its first season.

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Illustrative titles for stakeholder review

Political Thought

The Quiet Republic

Institutions, memory, and the futures we share

by Mara Voss

A lucid study of how civic life is sustained through ordinary institutions, inherited habits, and the public stories a society chooses to remember.

01 · Hardback · Autumn 2026

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History & Place

The Cartographer's Dilemma

Maps, borders, and the making of modern place

by Adrian Vale

A richly argued history of the maps that made territories legible—and of the communities, routes, and rival claims they left at the margins.

02 · Hardback · Spring 2027

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History & Memory

After the Archive

Evidence, absence, and the unfinished past

by Noor Adebayo

An elegant inquiry into fragmentary records, contested evidence, and the new histories that become possible when absence is treated as part of the source.

03 · Paperback · Spring 2027

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Our list

Scholarship across boundaries.

We welcome books that are grounded in a discipline but alive to the questions unfolding beyond it.

01

Philosophy & intellectual history

Arguments that clarify enduring questions and recover overlooked traditions.

02

History & political thought

Serious histories of institutions, ideas, movements, and public life.

03

Cultural studies & social inquiry

Interdisciplinary work on meaning, identity, technology, and social change.

The Corso approach

Selective by design. Editorial by nature.

Corso Publishing is an independent academic press based in New York. We publish work that advances serious conversation across the humanities and social sciences.

We work with a focused list so each project receives close editorial attention—from proposal and peer review through design, production, and the sustained work of reaching readers. Our aim is straightforward: rigorous books, clearly made, with a life in classrooms, libraries, and public discourse.

01Ideas first
02Engaged editing
03Lasting readership

For authors

Bring us the book only you can write.

We consider original monographs, concise works of synthesis, and ambitious interdisciplinary projects for scholars, students, and serious general readers.

A proposal should include

  1. 01Project overview and central argument
  2. 02Readership and comparable titles
  3. 03Annotated table of contents
  4. 04Sample chapter and author CV
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