Georgetown University Press

06/18/2026

📱 Mobile phones extend the capabilities of billions of people across the globe. In A Phone is a Cow, George Mason University professor Philip E. Auerswald profiles the market pioneers who were instrumental in bringing about the mobile revolution. Featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Bengt Holmström, this book is the first to tell the story of the unprecedented impact of a device that has transformed from luxury accessory to productivity necessity. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, A Phone is a Cow shows that when market pioneers successfully carry a new economic combination into practice, the frontier of development advances.

🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/A-Phone-Is-a-Cow

06/16/2026

More than 90 percent of business leaders surveyed say they want to capitalize on data—yet nearly two-thirds admit they feel stuck. According to Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, the problem is not that data initiatives are failing, rather, they are succeeding at reinforcing the status quo. Data Inspired offers a road map to leveraging data to create transformative and lasting change. Drawing on more than twenty years of frontline experience guiding organizations through successful data transformations, Wernicke offers a practical roadmap for turning data into a truly strategic asset.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Data-Inspired

05/14/2026

Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played a decisive role in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble fight for freedom, rather than a means to preserve slavery. Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause by Georgetown University professor emeritus Robert Emmett Curran sheds light on the surprising legacy of white American Catholics during and after the war years.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause

05/12/2026

New Book

In The Diplomacy of Pope Francis, Italian Jesuit priest Antonio Spadaro, SJ, explores Pope Francis's approach to geopolitics. Now translated into English from the original Italian by Gigi Fulginiti, Danielle Guida, and Thomas Mormino, this book provides a deeper understanding of the Church, the global challenges it faces, and the pope who sought Christ at the center of relations between the two.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Diplomacy-of-Pope-Francis

05/05/2026

New Book

After years of macroeconomic instability, central bank independence (CBI) is playing a pivotal role in achieving low inflation worldwide. But in some nations—including Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, India, Mexico, Türkiye, and the United States—central banks have been blamed for focusing only on fighting inflation at the expense of economic growth. Central Bank Independence and Inflation: Lessons from Latin America, by former governor of the Central Bank of Ecuador Luis I. Jácome, warns against the consequences of weakening this institutional arrangement. It is the first book to provide a historical account of Latin America's CBI and will be a valuable resource for those interested in monetary policy.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Central-Bank-Independence-and-Inflation

04/13/2026

New Book

Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy by Loyola University Chicago professor Amy J. Heineke and University of North Carolina at Charlotte professor Kristin J. Davin is a roadmap for enhancing students' equitable access to biliteracy development.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Pathways-to-the-Seal-of-Biliteracy

04/10/2026

France’s foreign intelligence service for espionage, analysis, covert action, and security is the formidable Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE). The DGSE by Leiden University associate professor Damien Van Puyvelde offers an accessible introduction to this multifaceted organization. This book features a thorough examination of official reports, rare declassified documents, interviews, memoirs, and French secondary sources. The DGSE is essential reading for understanding how France operates on the global stage.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-DGSE

04/09/2026

New Book

Japan and the Emotional Politics of National Image by UMass Boston associate professor Paul Kowert examines the way emotion shapes perceptions of Japan and influences its diplomacy. Kowert traces how the emotional dynamics of international relations delineate shifts in national image that cannot be explained solely by geopolitics, domestic politics, or historical memory. With evidence drawn from case histories, statements by leading politicians, and text analyses of newspapers, the book reveals that Chinese and Korean attitudes toward Japan in particular are more variable than is commonly appreciated—and vary in ways that can be predicted by improved models of political emotion.

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Japan-and-the-Emotional-Politics-of-National-Image

04/08/2026

🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-White-Green

The aftermath of Algerian independence in 1962 was a time of extraordinary upheaval. Blue White Green by Algerian writer Maïssa Bey—originally published in French and now translated into English for the first time by Georgetown University professor Erin Twohig—is a coming-of-age tale of two children as they grow up amidst this political and cultural transformation. This book is narrated with humor and keen cultural observations, raising important questions about the impact of colonization and the enduring human drive to find meaning, love, and belonging in a changing world.

03/08/2026

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2026 by revisiting books by and about women. Dive in to find your next read!
https://press.georgetown.edu/post/Celebrating-International-Womens-Day-2026

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2026 by revisiting books by and about women. Dive in to find…