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History - Cross Discipline
Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989 Kateřina Lišková | Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Diplomatic, International History
This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Analyzing rich archival sources covering forty years of state socialism, it shows how sexologists and other experts advised the state on population development, marriage and the family to shape the most intimate aspects of people’s lives. • The first systematic analysis of sexuality and gender in postwar Czechoslovakia • Reverses Western narratives of sexual liberation, revealing how in the state-socialist East progressive measures came early, often advanced by expertise • Reinterprets the histories of the Cold War, showing that it was not simply a case of the state oppressing society, but that the experts influenced state policies that in turn shaped people’s lives
Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation Natalie R. Davidson | Tel-Aviv University
293pp May 2020 9781108440844 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 May 2018 9781108424691 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108341332
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 Alexander Morrison | New College, Oxford
Russia’s conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule. • Provides multiple perspectives on the conquest, giving a voice and agency to Central Asian actors • Combines Russian and English-language archival sources with memoir literature and Persianate chronicles • Based on extensive research in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and India 480pp December 2020 9781107030305 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781139343381
American Transitional Justice
Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filártiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory. • Offers a new interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute and two of its foundational cases, Filártiga and Marcos • Demonstrates how stories told in court in one country can be reinterpreted and transformed in other countries, and how the press shapes our understanding of human rights litigation • Examines human rights lawsuits using the methodologies of law, history, anthropology and communication studies to show how interdisciplinary analysis can contribute to understanding the history of human rights and planning human rights activism Human Rights in History 270pp July 2020 9781108477703 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774529
Cold Wars Asia, the Middle East, Europe Lorenz M. Lüthi | McGill University, Montréal
This ambitious study provides a new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and addresses the long-term political, economic, intellectual and religious developments in these regions that continue to shape the world to this day. • Proposes a radical reinterpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of middle and smaller powers in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe • Features new archival sources from two dozen archives in four different continents • Analyses long-term economic, intellectual, and religious developments in multiple world regions to help us to comprehend the complexities of current times 784pp 10 maps March 2020 9781108418331 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 March 2020 9781108407069 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108289825
