History - Cross Discipline

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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989 Kateřina Lišková | Masaryk University, Czech Republic 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 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

Diplomatic, International History

American Transitional Justice

Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation Natalie R. Davidson | Tel-Aviv University 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

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Diplomacy Meets Migration

US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War Hideaki Kami | Kanagawa University, Japan Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War. Drawing on multi-archival research, this study demonstrates how the US government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to the emergence of the Cuban-American community as a new, politically mobilized constituency. • Traces the historical trajectory of American-Cuban relations • Includes a historical analysis of migration and diplomacy, based on multi-archival research, giving readers first-hand knowledge of how migration would shape diplomacy • Proposes a new interpretation of diplomatic and international history, showing how new forces shaped American and international politics

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations

376pp 9 b/w illus. 1 map January 2020 9781108437547 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2018 9781108423427 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108526043

International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War

Jaclyn Granick | Cardiff University Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands. She provides insights into the origins of American Jewish philanthropy and politics and its implications for understanding modern humanitarianism as a whole. • Synthesizes Jewish and international history within one narrative • Reveals unexplored global power dynamics, international connections, and political positioning in a world of nation-states • Uses detailed, multi-archival research to provide a new and astonishing narrative about international Jewish humanitarianism

Human Rights in History

380pp January 2021 9781108495028 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108860697

Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust

Nathan A. Kurz | Birkbeck College, University of London Nathan A. Kurz examines the separation between Jewish advocacy organizations and international human rights after Israel’s creation.A key text for those interested in the global politics of Israel, international advocacy of non-governmental organizations, political relations between diasporas and homelands, and the recent history of human rights. • Weaves together Jewish and international history • Provides a case-study of non-governmental organizations in action • Covers a broad geographical range to enable the reader to draw connections between regions and locales

Human Rights in History

300pp September 2020 9781108834926 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108870429 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s

Eckart Conze | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s is an interdisciplinary anthology addressing the political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s, thereby making a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s. • Brings together scholarship from the United States and Europe to examine the dynamics of anti-nuclear protest movements in the West in the 1980s • Contributes to the emerging historiography of the 1980s by focusing on an under-researched aspect of the decade • Attests to the vital role of culture in communicating and popularizing anti-nuclear messages, with bearing on transformations in culture in the 1980s as a whole

Publications of the German Historical Institute

386pp 3 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316501788 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 31.99 February 2017 9781107136281 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316479742

Plotting for Peace

American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917 Daniel Larsen | University of Cambridge Daniel Larsen reveals the dramatic role of British codebreaking during the First World War - leading to a revolutionary re-interpretation of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s diplomacy, British Prime Ministers H.H. Asquith’s and David Lloyd George’s war leaderships, British intelligence, and the Anglo-American economic relationship during the war. • Provides a dramatic re-interpretation of the role of British codebreaking during the First World War • Weaves together diplomatic, political, economic, and intelligence history • Explores the impact of US efforts to achieve a diplomatic end to the war on British war strategy and economic policy 400pp January 2021 9781108486682 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108761833

Rogue Diplomats

The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy Seth Jacobs | Boston College, Massachusetts Historians have long ignored America’s record of diplomatic indiscipline. Rogue Diplomats redresses that deficiency, demonstrating that titanic accomplishments such as the Louisiana Purchase resulted in great part because diplomats refused to follow instructions. • Finds that many of the most important political, territorial, economic, and geostrategic triumphs during America’s first two hundred years of national existence came about because American diplomats intentionally disobeyed orders • Adopts a biographical approach, with each chapter focusing on the actions of one diplomat during one a pivotal foreign relations crisis • Draws on a variety of sources, including government archives, presidential libraries, and the private papers of diplomats

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations

406pp May 2020 9781107079472 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781139941884

Economic History

Boom and Bust

A Global History of Financial Bubbles William Quinn | Queen’s University Belfast Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? Boom and Bust reveals why bubbles happen, and why some bubbles have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences, whilst others have actually benefited society. • Ranges across three hundred years of bubbles from the South Sea

Bubble of 1720 to the sub-prime crisis and Chinese stock market crash • Provides tangible approaches that investors and governments can take to predict and address bubbles • Shows that not all bubbles are economically destructive and that some have actually benefited society 296pp 27 b/w illus. 13 tables August 2020 9781108421256 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108367677

GATT and Global Order in the Postwar Era

Francine McKenzie | University of Western Ontario In this international and institutional history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Francine McKenzie shows how trade was implicated in foreign policy and international relations in the postwar era. This accessibly written and timely study revises our understanding of the liberal international order. • Places global trade at the forefront of international relations and shows how trade was implicated in foreign policy, relations between states, and global order • Revises conventional narratives of the nature, dynamics, drivers, priorities and functioning of post-1945 international relations and the liberal international order • Explains why trade elicits divisive and controversial reactions from different people, organizations and states at different times and in different contexts 336pp 9 b/w illus. 3 tables April 2020 9781108494892 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108860192

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The Economic Consequences of the War

West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945 Tamás Vonyó | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan For many, Germany’s post-war economic power was based on liberal market reforms and the Marshall Plan. This book disputes this old myth. Quantitative evidence shows instead how the re-emergence of Germany as a leading industrial power was founded in the Second World War itself and the conditions it left behind. • Combines vast amounts of research, comprising contemporary economic and statistical analyses and historical studies that are not easily obtainable • The book’s rich quantitative evidence is presented in an accessible form and placed into a broader historical context with the data being of interest to both economists and historians • Each chapter focuses on a unique aspect of Germany’s economic development, making the information easy to navigate

Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series

292pp 27 b/w illus. 26 tables May 2020 9781107568716 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 February 2018 9781107128439 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99 eISBN 9781316414927

Unravelled Dreams

Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840 Ben Marsh A fascinating account of attempts to cultivate silk across New Spain, New France, British North America and the early United States. Ben Marsh shows how commodity failure, as much as success, can offer new insights into the aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies. • A unique account of commodity failure in contrast to the much more heavily-studied success stories of silver, sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton • Sheds new light on the distinctive features of British, French and

Spanish Atlantic settlements and environments and demonstrates how failed schemes nonetheless contributed to colonial life and landscapes • Stresses the human challenges and improvisations at the household level, and how different populations sought to surmount the difficulties of establishing raw silk production with particular attention to the role of women and non-white labour 500pp April 2020 9781108418287 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108289672

Why Democracy Failed

The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War James Simpson | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid This distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War tackles the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain’s democratic Second Republic failed. James Simpson and Juan Carmona explore the interconnections between economic growth, state capacity, rural social mobility and the creation of mass competitive political parties. • Shows the restrictions imposed on young democracies by the levels of state capacity and systems of political organization that they inherited • Includes inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives showing the interconnections between political change and economic development • Explains how individuals with moderate political views became disillusioned with the Second Republic and were driven towards the extremes of the political spectrum

Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series

316pp May 2020 9781108487481 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781108720380 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108766999

Environmental History

Social Sustainability, Past and Future

Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth’s Survival Sander van der Leeuw | Arizona State University For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, studying the past to understand the present in order to deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access. • Proposes a new approach to integrated socio-environmental science • Views human history as a co-evolution of cognition, demography, social organization, technology and interaction with the environment • This title is also available as Open Access

New Directions in Sustainability and Society

350pp 72 b/w illus. 33 colour illus. February 2020 9781108498692 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108595247

The American Steppes

The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s David Moon | University of York Between the 1870s and 1930s, there were transfers of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia’s steppes to the similar environment of North America’s Great Plains. Drawing on archival research in the US, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, this book explores the unexpected Russian roots of Great Plains agriculture. • Offers the first transnational environmental history of the North

American Great Plains and the Eurasian steppes • Explores unexpected transfers of science and technology, specifically from Russia to the United States, in order to challenge stereotypes of

Russian inferiority and American exceptionalism • Draws extensively on Russian- and German-language sources, making findings more accessible to historians of the United States

Studies in Environment and History

352pp 1 b/w illus. 6 maps 1 table April 2020 9781107103603 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316217320

The Power of the Periphery

How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World Peder Anker | New York University What is the source of Norway’s culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an idealised ecological microcosm. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • Brings together the Norwegian history of anthropology, philosophy, theology, environmental studies, management, geology and economics • Demonstrates the global impact of environmental scholar-activists • Shows how collaboration between the sciences and the humanities has advanced the environmental cause • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Studies in Environment and History

300pp May 2020 9781108477567 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99\ eISBN 9781108763851

Global History

A History of Humanity

The Evolution of the Human System Patrick Manning | University of Pittsburgh Integrates approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics to trace the evolution of humans and our complex social system, demonstrating how the strength of human institutions nevertheless brought us to the crises of today. • Demonstrates how human capabilities and social institutions arose through various processes of biological and cultural evolution, migration, and social evolution - resulting in the unique character of human society • Explores how the development of the human system now threatens the natural world of Gaia and threatens social conflict within and among societies • Integrates a wide range of disciplines and approaches in natural and social sciences, including history, evolutionary biology, cultural evolution, linguistics, systems theory, paleontology, environmental studies, psychology, history of science, popular culture, and philosophy 376pp 13 maps February 2020 9781108478199 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 February 2020 9781108747097 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108784528

Colonialism in Global Perspective

Kris Manjapra | Tufts University, Massachusetts This vibrant, compelling relational history of colonialism explores one of the most enduring and contested social, political, and cultural phenomena of all time. Here Manjapra communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields in clear and accessible ways for all readers wishing to understand the making of the modern world. • Introduces interlocking histories and dynamics of colonialism and its contestation • Reveals the entangled legacies of settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire across Asia through to the present day • Communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields of study in a clear and accessible way 288pp May 2020 9781108425261 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781108441360 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108560580

Feeding the People

The Politics of the Potato Rebecca Earle | University of Warwick Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today everyone eats them. This book traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. En route it helps explain why we feel so ambivalent about governmental dietary guidelines and celebrates the contributions of ordinary people to shaping how we eat. • Offers a fresh account of how a plant that in 1500 was eaten by less than 5% of the world’s population is now the fourth most important global food crop • Places food (and especially potatoes) at the heart of the profound transformations that have created the world we live in today • Demonstrates the central role played by ordinary people in shaping how we eat today and the historical importance of mundane activities (such as eating) and ordinary things (such as potatoes) 308pp 33 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108484060 Hardback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108688451

Humanitarianism in the Modern World

The Moral Economy of Famine Relief Norbert Götz | Södertörns Högskola, Sweden Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • Provides innovative narratives of how humanitarianism has developed over the past two centuries • Takes a fresh look at humanitarian action by applying a reframed moral economy approach that focuses on aid appeals, the allocation of relief, and aid accounts • Presents three case studies of famine relief in different periods, geographical locations, and political circumstances: the Great Irish

Famine of the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s • This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core 320pp July 2020 9781108493529 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108655903

Nationals Abroad

Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law Christopher A. Casey | University of California, Berkeley A broad-ranging and ambitious study of the changing relationships between countries and their nationals abroad, and the impact that mass migration played in shaping modern international law and politics. • Explores the concept of nationality and its changing role in organizing the international legal order • Provides a thorough exploration of the history of diplomatic protection • Contrasts the success of international property rights against the seeming failure of other international individual rights regimes

Human Rights in History

316pp July 2020 9781108489454 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784047

Race, Rights and Reform

Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War Sarah C. Dunstan | Queen Mary University of London Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from not only France and the United States, but also the French Caribbean and African colonies. • Reveals the rich and ongoing collaborations between black peoples as they fought for access to citizenship rights • Utilizes a range of sources from archives in North America and across

Europe, including private correspondence, literary works, government documents and journals • Enriches and de-provincializes the study of black activism in the United

States and France

Global and International History

320pp March 2021 9781108486972 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764971

Refugee Crises, 1945-2000

Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison Jan Jansen | German Historical Institute, Washington DC This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, it pays particular attention to receiving societies in the Global South and to the long-term consequences of ‘refugee crises’. • Examines the ways receiving societies have handled the sudden inflow of large numbers of refugees between 1945 and 2000 • Includes cases studies from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, emphasizing that ‘refugee crises’ are not confined to affluent Western nations • A timely study published during a period of intense public debate surrounding Europe’s ‘refugee crises’ and the challenges posed for EU member states

Publications of the German Historical Institute

350pp October 2020 9781108835138 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108891745

The Cambridge World History of Violence 4 Volume Hardback Set

Phillip Dwyer | University of Newcastle, New South Wales The Cambridge World History of Violence presents readers with an overview of the nature and the extent of violence across time and place, examining its causes, and considering the reasons for particular levels of violence at given moments of history. All four volumes are written by contributors who are experts in their fields. • Provides the first long-term study of violence, allowing us to place today’s world and its social problems in a much broader chronological context • Provides an accessible compendium to non-specialist readers; a readable account of the history of this crucial phenomenon; and a forward-looking project, exploring where current trends in research might, or should, lead over the coming years • The latest scholarship in a dynamic field, taking a specifically historical stance and focusing squarely on the changing nature of violence from pre-historic times to the present

The Cambridge World History of Violence

2805pp March 2020 97813166268874 Hardback books GBP 385.00 / USD 500.00 eISBN 9781316626863

The Limits of Universal Rule

Eurasian Empires Compared Yuri Pines | Hebrew University of Jerusalem This volume explores the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia. It is the first comparative study that systematically addresses the factors - ideological, ecological, military, economical, and other - that shaped the empires’ space. • State-of the art analyses of major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern • Provides systematic comparisons of the spatial trajectories of major

Eurasian empires • Brings together an international team of leading specialists 350pp January 2021 9781108488631 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771061

The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750

David Veevers | Queen Mary University of London This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise. • Provides a chronological and narrative-driven analysis of the British presence in Asia between 1600 and 1750 • Brings together diverging historiographical strands in imperial history, integrating both European and Asian histories of empire and state formation • Uses a wealth of archival sources to challenge long-established,

Eurocentric views on imperial expansion and colonialism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries 318pp 4 maps June 2020 9781108483957 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108669344

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The Right to Dress

Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800 Giorgio Riello | University of Warwick The regulation of dress had a profound effect on global consumption and the shaping of the modern world. Leading scholars reveal why items of dress became aspirational goods, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and how people asserted their right to choose how they dressed as a ‘human right’. • Offers a new view of social change and the history of human rights by focusing on the regulation of dress in history • Challenges the current view that ordinary people before 1800 were uninterested in expressing identity through clothing • Includes more than fifty illustrations, vividly bringing to life a much neglected field of inquiry 523pp February 2020 9781108469272 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 January 2019 9781108475914 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108567541

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What Is a Slave Society?

The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective Noel Lenski | Yale University, Connecticut This book examines the widely accepted binary distinction between ‘slave societies’ and ‘societies with slaves’ as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding. Top scholars engage in lively debate over the usefulness of this distinction and its applicability to societies across the world and through time. • Assembles leading international scholars who specialize in the study of slavery • Offers a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective • Proposes a reexamination of the traditional binary distinction used to examine slaveholding societies • Covers extensive ground and speaks at a level of general interest, such that the volume can serve as a textbook 526pp 22 b/w illus. 8 maps December 2020 9781316508039 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 May 2018 9781107144897 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781316534908

History of Ideas and Intellectual History

Constituent Power

A History Lucia Rubinelli | University of Cambridge Tracing the history of constituent power over five key moments from the French Revolution onwards, Lucia Rubinelli considers the history of the idea in relation to the state and its institutions, and asks why constituent power is so often conflated with sovereignty. • The first in-depth treatment of the history of the language of constituent power • Offers a clear analysis of the difference between constituent power and ideas of sovereignty • Will appeal equally to historians, who tend to confuse constituent power with notions of sovereignty, political theorists, who often disregard its history, and to scholars in public and constitutional law

Ideas in Context

276pp May 2020 9781108485432 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108757119

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought

Joanne Paul | University of Sussex Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the ‘monarchy of counsel’, from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, and its relation to the discourse of sovereignty, through analysis of the relevant texts in their social and political contexts. • The first comprehensive exploration of early modern English political counsel in the Tudor and Stuart periods • Goes beyond the traditional ‘canonical’ thinkers in the history of political thought by considering a broader range of political commentators and actors in this period • Suggests a new understanding of the origins of a modern politics of sovereignty in the early modern discourse of counsel

Ideas in Context

264pp February 2020 9781108490177 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780407

Emotion, Sense, Experience

Rob Boddice | Freie Universität Berlin A call for historians of emotions and the senses to converge on a new history of experience. Unpicking some assumptions about affective and sensory experience, the human being is re-imagined as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

75pp October 2020 9781108813631 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108884952

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Volume 1 Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty Quentin Skinner | Queen Mary University of London An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and constitutional liberties, debates about the relationship between free persons and free states, and freedom as the ideal of citizenship. • Truly world-class team of contributors assembled by two of the world’s leading historians of ideas • Discussion ranges across the length and breadth of Europe, exploring a wide range of thinkers, political systems and Protestant, Catholic and

Islamic states • Sheds fresh light on a neglected part of Europe’s intellectual heritage, which is as resonant today as in centuries past 427pp June 2020 9781108817776 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 March 2013 9781107033061 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 108.00 eISBN 9781139519281

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Volume 2 Free Persons and Free States Quentin Skinner | Queen Mary University of London An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and constitutional liberties, debates about the relationship between free persons and free states, and freedom as the ideal of citizenship. • Truly world-class team of contributors assembled by two of the world’s leading historians of ideas • Discussion ranges across the length and breadth of Europe, exploring a wide range of thinkers, political systems and Protestant, Catholic and

Islamic states • Sheds fresh light on a neglected part of Europe’s intellectual heritage, which is as resonant today as in centuries past 421pp June 2020 9781108817783 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 March 2013 9781107033078 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139519298

Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

Anna Becker | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, Anna K. Becker argues that the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns. • Women are often strangely absent from histories of political thought, so this book fills a significant gap • Looks beyond conventional narratives of the political participation of women to look at gender holistically • Resets the standard framework of the history of political thought to enable a fuller understanding of Renaissance thought in its complexity

Ideas in Context

282pp January 2020 9781108487054 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108765404 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain

Mark Bevir | University of California, Berkeley This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to public culture, it will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history. • Shows how widespread historicism is in the study of human life and society, and reveals wider trends and parallels between particular disciplines • Highlights the distinctive and developmental nature of Victorian historicism and situates it in the context of romanticism and

Enlightenment historicism • Brings together ten leading international scholars, representing a range of disciplines, to discuss developmental historicism across the human sciences 279pp June 2020 9781108814164 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 March 2017 9781107166684 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316711286

In the Shadow of Leviathan

John Locke and the Politics of Conscience Jeffrey R. Collins | Queen’s University, Ontario Offering a vivid account of the revolutionary times through which they lived, this book revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes and Locke. Focused on their own era, it reveals a great deal about how religious toleration and religious politics developed within modern liberalism, and explores tensions that are with us still. • Reopens the old and neglected question of Hobbes’s influence over

Locke with new evidence and interpretive methods • Develops and explains not just the arguments of Hobbes and Locke, but their political context, the circulation and reception of their ideas, and the print history of their books • Draws out the significance of early modern intellectual history to modern, liberal thinking around religious toleration

Ideas in Context

456pp February 2020 9781108478816 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108778879

Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia

From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution Vanessa Rampton | McGill University, Montréal • Adds an important yet neglected dimension to the history of political liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries • Places the Russian experience in a global context and makes it accessible to readers without specialist training • Contributes a valuable perspective at a time when nationalistic populist ideologies are resurgent

Ideas in Context

252pp February 2020 9781108483735 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108652353

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Modernism and the Social Sciences

Anglo-American Exchanges, c.1918–1980 Mark Bevir | University of California, Berkeley This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the study of the social sciences. It explores the rise and nature of modernism tropes and approaches within social sciences such as economics, econometrics, behaviourism, sociology, international relations, administrative science, linguistics, history and anthropology. • Shows how widespread modernism has become in the social sciences, revealing wider trends and parallels to scholars who specialise in particular disciplines • Situates various synchronic and formal styles of analysis in the contest of the rise of modernism, providing readers with the opportunity to relate the accounts of social science disciplines to well-known broader cultural and artistic movements • Highlights the connections between many superficially different forms of explanation, so that readers can locate current methodological disputes in a much wider historical context 273pp 1 table June 2020 9781316626306 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 September 2017 9781107173965 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316795514

Newborn Imitation

The Stakes of a Controversy Ruth Leys | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. This Element offers a critical assessment of the theories of newborn imitation and the stakes involved.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

75pp July 2020 9781108826730 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108920308

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Willing Servant to an Unknown God Catharine Pierce Wells | Boston College, Massachusetts Reassessing one of the most influential figures in American law, Wells examines all aspects of Holmes’s life to provide a new understanding of his multifaceted personality. This analysis of the Supreme Court Justice will appeal to legal scholars, historians, philosophers, and general readers interested in biography and American history. • Written in clear, non-technical language • Examines Emersonian transcendentalism and its effect on Holmes • Discusses Holmes’ constitutional theories as well as his relationship with the founders of American pragmatism

Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

222pp January 2020 9781108475952 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781108469302 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108686839 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain Gregory Conti | Princeton University, New Jersey How did the Victorian era - the epoch when the modern democratic state was made - understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity? Here, Gregory Conti examines how the Victorians conceived the representative and deliberative functions of the House of Commons and what it meant for parliament to be the ‘mirror of the nation’. • Produces a new history of British political thought during one of the most critical periods of modernity: the transition from elite parliamentarism to mass democracy • Offers the first theoretical reconstruction and analysis of the British movement for proportional representation • Provides a new window on the concept of ‘representation’ and the relationship between democracy, diversity, deliberation, and liberalism

Ideas in Context

432pp January 2020 9781108450959 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 April 2019 9781108428736 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108582469

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Parliamentarism

From Burke to Weber William Selinger | University College London Offering novel interpretations of canonical liberal authors, including Burke, Constant, and Mill, this history of liberal political ideas suggests a new paradigm for interpreting the development of modern political thought, inspiring fresh perspectives on historical issues from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. • Offers novel interpretations of an extraordinary variety of canonical authors including Burke, Constant, Mill, and Bagehot • Presents a thorough treatment of liberal politics and political theory from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries • Demonstrates the broad significance of parliament and the theory of parliamentarism in the development of European political thought, and its relevance for contemporary representative government

Ideas in Context

267pp June 2020 9781108468855 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2019 9781108475747 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108585330

Playful Virtual Violence

An Ethnography of Emotional Practices in Video Games Christoph Bareither | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Violence in video games has been a controversial object of public discourse for several decades. Building upon an extensive ethnographic study of players’ emotional practices,this Element provides new insights into the complexity and pleasures of player experiences, contributing to societal and academic debate on a critical aspect of video gaming.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

75pp November 2020 9781108819435 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108873079

Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century

Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves | Jagiellonian University, Krakow This landmark study provides conceptual and contextual analysis of political literature and debate in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania and its contribution to early modern republicanism. It demonstrates the republican character of Polish discourse and the originality of Polish concepts such as the relationship between law, liberty and virtue. • Demonstrates the original contribution of Polish discourse to the early modern republican tradition • Situates Polish republican discourse within both the classical and early modern republican traditions • Explains how republican political ideas developed in early modern

Europe in response to new political and institutional developments and the impact of civic humanism

Ideas in Context

292pp April 2020 9781108493239 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108695008

Radical Conduct

Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815 Mark Philp | University of Warwick Radical Conduct reinterprets literary and political radicalism in London at the time of the French Revolution. It explores the tensions between the world people took for granted and their aspirations for change, exploring language, sociability, gender relations, music and dance. • Presents the period in a new way that sheds new light on major figures of English radicalism and feminism, questioning common assumptions about the literary and political world of the 1790s • Knits together social and cultural history with intellectual history through a fresh interpretation of literary sources • Illuminates the tensions between the world that the radicals imagined and sought to bring into being, and the social conventions and norms of their time that undercut their ambitions 290pp September 2020 9781108842181 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108898768

Recognition

A Chapter in the History of European Ideas Axel Honneth | Columbia University, New York The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is perceived in different ways throughout the world, according to different cultural and political conditions. This study explores the complex history of ‘Recognition’ in Britain, France and Germany and its place in modern political and social self-understanding. • Explains the historical origins of an idea that is central to contemporary understandings of the self • Traces the exchange and transfer of leading ideas within Western

Europe and clarifies the cultural differences between France, Britain and Germany • Places the key idea of ‘recognition’ within the context of the development of the fundamental political ideas of a modern democracy

The Seeley Lectures

200pp October 2020 9781108836869 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 October 2020 9781108819305 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108872775 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Linde Lindkvist | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Focusing on Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the book provides a groundbreaking and multi-layered account of the most influential statement on religious freedom in human history. It examines the origins, background, key players, and outcomes of Article 18. • Provides a multi-layered account of the Universal Declaration’s Article 18 on religious freedom, benefiting those who wish to understand more about the Article, its history and its consequences • Locates human rights in different political and intellectual contexts, providing the reader with a solid history of Article 18 and the

Declaration in general • Written in an accessible style, which gives the book a wider, interdisciplinary appeal

Human Rights in History

188pp May 2020 9781316612224 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 26.99 August 2017 9781107159419 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316671542

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Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871–1885

Julia Nicholls | King’s College London This first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after France’s nineteenthcentury revolution with new interpretations of the French revolutionary tradition. Drawing together material from around the world, Nicholls pieces together the nature and content of French revolutionary thought in this often overlooked era. • Transcends national and imperial boundaries to offer a global and transnational history of nineteenth-century ideas • Moves away from the study of only ‘canonical’ thinkers by drawing on a wide range of previously unstudied sources including newspapers, police reports, plays and pamphlets • Features new interpretations of key historical and political ideologies such as Marxism

Ideas in Context

330pp August 2020 9781108713344 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108499262 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108634199

Satire and the Public Emotions

Robert Phiddian | Flinders University Phiddian explores the distinction between satirical and comic laughter, and the role of satire in licensing public expression of harsh emotions defined in neuroscience as the CAD (contempt, anger, disgust) triad. With a focus on eighteenthcentury satirists such as Jonathan Swift, he reveals the importance of satire to free political expression. • Reveals the centrality of the harsh emotions defined in neuroscience as the CAD (contempt, anger, disgust) triad to political satire • Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the works of

Jonathan Swift (particularly Gulliver’s Travels) and other eighteenthcentury satirists • Exposes the tension between the aims and the effects of political satire and reflects on satire’s role in recent US politics and the digital age

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

75pp February 2020 9781108798839 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108869263

Scholastic Affect

Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions Clare Monagle | Macquarie University, Sydney The history of the Virgin Mary in medieval theology is one of an ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This Element deploys the intellectual history of medieval thought to map the moves made in codifying Mary’s perfection. It then uses contemporary gender and affect theory, mapping the emotional regimes of the medieval past upon the present.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

75pp August 2020 9781108814263 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108886406

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The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

Douglas Moggach | University of Ottawa The 1848 Revolutions in Europe marked a turningpoint in the history of political thought, raising fundamental questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion, and helping to define liberal, socialist, and conservative ideological currents that continue to orient contemporary politics. This volume examines 1848 and its legacy in a pan-European perspective. • Offers a comparative and comprehensive examination of the 1848

Revolutions in pan-European perspective • Includes essays from international experts from five countries to highlight various national and disciplinary angles • Studies the emergence of essential modern issues, such as democracy, nationalism, religion, and the economy 498pp March 2020 9781108819381 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 February 2018 9781107154742 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316650974

The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration

Gaby Mahlberg | University of Warwick Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration. • Vividly connects English political thought with the European experience • Offers an accessible history of seventeenth-century English republicanism with a study of the exiles’ lived experience • Draws on previously unpublished primary sources from a broad range of English and continental European archives

Ideas in Context

300pp October 2020 9781108841627 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108894463

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The History of the Arthaśāstra

Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India Mark McClish | Northwestern University, Illinois The Arthaśāstra is the foundational text of Indic political thought. By analyzing its early history, Mark McClish overturns prevailing beliefs that ancient India was governed by religion and shows that this text originally espoused a political philosophy characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the sacred mandate of dharma altogether. • Proposes a new theory of the composition of the Arthaśāstra • Demonstrates the onset of a new kind of political theology in the late classical period • Offers a concrete historical argument about the development of political thought in ancient India, particularly charting out the rise of

Brāhmaņism as a political force

Ideas in Context

307pp September 2020 9781108701747 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108476904 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641586

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The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning Christopher S. Celenza | Georgetown University, Washington DC This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy and literature, and Latin and Italian sources, it brings together recent scholarship, makes an original contribution to the field, and works beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. • Proposes a new view of the history of philosophy, allowing readers clear, concise, jargon-free introduction to a new way of thinking abut philosophy in the Renaissance • Offers a new view of the history of Italian literature in a little-studied period, filling a century-long research gap between Petrarch and

Machiavelli with clear case studies • Offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life by integrating sources in Italian and Latin but does not require any knowledge of those languages 454pp February 2020 9780521177122 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 January 2018 9781107003620 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781139051613

The Persistence of Party

Ideas of Harmonious Discord in EighteenthCentury Britain Max Skjönsberg | University of Liverpool This fundamental re-evaluation of the origins and importance of the idea of ‘party’ in British political thought and politics in the eighteenth century draws on the writings of Rapin, Bolingbroke, David Hume, John Brown and Edmund Burke to demonstrate that attitudes to party were more complex and penetrating than previously thought. • Demonstrates the importance of the concept of party in the eighteenth century, providing a new focus in the history of political thought • Besides books, pamphlets and newspapers, the books draws extensively on archival sources along with printed and private correspondence • Brings together political thought and political history

Ideas in Context

350pp January 2021 9781108841634 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108894500

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Thinking with Rousseau

From Machiavelli to Schmitt Helena Rosenblatt | City University of New York Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau’s actual place in that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. This volume reconsiders Rousseau’s contribution through a series of essays exploring the relationship between Rousseau and other ‘great thinkers’. • Explores the relationship between Rousseau and other philosophers, both his predecessors and his successors, allowing readers to see how ideas are transformed and new ones are generated • Reconsiders Rousseau’s place within the Western intellectual tradition, giving readers fresh perspectives on specific historical contexts • Includes discussions of thinkers who were highly influential in their time, but have been forgotten since 338pp 8 b/w illus. 1 table June 2020 9781107513594 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2017 9781107105768 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316226490

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Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment

The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley Niall O’Flaherty | King’s College London Charts the evolution of ‘theological utilitarianism’, one of the most influential traditions in eighteenthcentury Anglophone moral and political thought, and addresses the contested issue of whether there was an ‘English Enlightenment’, through the life and thought of moral philosopher and clergyman, William Paley (1743–1805). • The first book-length treatment of an immensely influential tradition in moral philosophy • Offers a case study of mainstream social, political and religious thought in a momentous period in British and European history • Proposes a new view of the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment

Ideas in Context

360pp June 2020 9781108464680 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108474474 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108662048

Women’s International Thought: A New History

Patricia Owens | University of Oxford This cross-disciplinary history of women’s international thought brings together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations today to recover and analyse the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to midtwentieth century. • Recovers and analyzes the important work of Black diasporic, Anglo-

American, and European historical women who are missing from existing histories of international thought • Systematically analyses the work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics in the early and mid-twentieth century • Opens new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women’s and gender studies, and provides a framework for future research 360pp December 2020 9781108494694 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781108796873 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108859684

History of Medicine

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Difference and Disease

Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire Suman Seth | Cornell University, New York Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference. • Introduces the term ‘race-medicine’ as an alternative to the term ‘racescience’ • Offers an accessible postcolonial history of colonial medicine • Brings together histories of empire, race, and slavery

Global Health Histories

340pp May 2020 9781108407007 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2018 9781108418300 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108289726

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 Kalle Kananoja | University of Oulu, Finland In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade, Kananoja considers both African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. • Places Atlantic Africa in a global historical context • Argues that Africa and Africans were engaged in multidirectional exchanges of healing knowledge • Shows how local knowledge was central in shaping responses to illness

Global Health Histories

320pp February 2021 9781108491259 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868020

Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research Elizabeth T. Hurren | University of Leicester This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War Two retraces the harvesting and recycling of bodies and body-parts for tissue culture and pathology labs, transplantation surgery facilities, brain banks, and dissection teaching spaces between 1945 and 2000. This title is also available as Open Access. • Provides a trans-disciplinary study of the medical sciences in action • Maps bodies, body parts, organs, brains, on their post-mortem journeys • Provides a novel reframing of the medical ethics of networks, actors, and economics • This title is also available as Open Access 350pp February 2021 9781108484091 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108633154

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Mapping AIDS

Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic Lukas Engelmann | University of Edinburgh This new and unique visual history of AIDS focuses on the AIDS atlas, published by dedicated clinicians between 1986 and 2008. The epidemic’s history is retold through clinical photographs, epidemiological maps and icons of HIV asking how this devastating epidemic has come to be seen as a controllable chronic condition. • Offers an innovative visual approach to the history of HIV and AIDS • Uses a new methodological framework to demonstrate the relevance of photographs, maps and models in furthering medical knowledge • Positions the AIDS Atlas as a way to engage with the history of the epidemic

Global Health Histories

266pp November 2020 9781108444057 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 November 2018 9781108425773 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108348959

Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874 Tim Lockley | University of Warwick This book demonstrates how Britain’s black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using militarymedical literature about the West India Regiments, Lockley shows how Britain’s black soldiers were central to intellectual debates around ideas of blackness and whiteness in the Atlantic world. • Highlights the importance of the West India Regiments in changing attitudes towards race • Demonstrates the crucial role of black soldiers in the evolution of racial thought over the nineteenth century • Links racial thought with medical thought to show how race became fixed in the body in the nineteenth century 220pp 2 b/w illus. 2 maps April 2020 9781108495622 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862417 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

Tracey Loughran | University of Essex This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran examines the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse and reveals the contribution of shell-shock on the development of psychoanalytic approaches to mind and behaviour. • Provides a detailed account into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain • Places shell-shock within the longer historical context of British psychological medicine • Explores the role of mind-body relations, gender, willpower and instinct within the diagnosis of shell-shock

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

291pp May 2020 9781107569478 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 March 2017 9781107128903 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316415672

The Cult of Youth

Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain James F. Stark | University of Leeds This study engages with histories of modern Britain, as well as science, technology, medicine, gender, and advertising to examine how antiageing became part of mainstream culture. It connects scientific and medical theories of how the body works and ages with the commercial world of anti-ageing products and procedures. • The first historical account of the ideas and practices associated with anti-ageing, or rejuvenation, in interwar Britain • Examines how anti-ageing became part of mainstream culture during the interwar years • Draws on a unique constellation of commercial archives, as well as newspapers and published scientific and medical texts, to provide an insight into the interaction between commercial and scientific activities 262pp March 2020 9781108484152 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108695428

The Origins of AIDS

Second Edition Jacques Pépin | Université de Sherbrooke, Canada It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. In this updated edition of his acclaimed book, Jacques Pépin traces the origins and amplification of AIDS, and describes the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic. • This revised and updated edition incorporates nearly a decade’s worth of new research on AIDS • Offers a unique combination of epidemiology and history in tracing the origins and amplification of AIDS within Africa and then worldwide • Explains the complex routes of the virus and how the extension of

World War I to Africa might have allowed HIV to make its fateful journey from Southeast Cameroon to Léopoldville 315pp January 2021 9781108487498 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 January 2021 9781108720397 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781108767019

The Yellow Flag

Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860 Alex Chase-Levenson | University of Pennsylvania Alex Chase-Levenson examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system from 1780 to 1860, demonstrating how quarantine fostered early forms of European integration, laid the foundation for modern public health, and shaped Western perceptions of the ‘East’. • The first English-language examination of the

Mediterranean quarantine system during its period of greatest reach • Uses a diverse range of literary, commercial, diplomatic, administrative, and naval source material • Reveals an international genealogy for the history of public health reform in Britain

Global Health Histories

318pp 23 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108485548 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108751773

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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Family, Market and Homoeopathy Shinjini Das | University of Oxford Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which Western homeopathy was re-interpreted in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen. • Broadens the history of colonial medicine in India beyond studies of

British state medicine and studies of Indian traditional medicine, such as Ayurveda • Foregrounds the role of family as both producer and consumer in the history of colonial medicine • Based on both official archival sources and Indian language vernacular sources 306pp 16 b/w illus. November 2020 9781108430692 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2019 9781108420624 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108354905

War Against Smallpox

Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination Michael Bennett | University of Tasmania Michael Bennett offers the first global history of the spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on the experience of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by doctors and parents in the early nineteenth century, and the children put arm-to-arm in the war against smallpox. • Provides a global history of the spread of vaccination • Offers new insights into the hopes and fears of parents and children, as well as the ambitions of medical men • Discusses early vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination movements 434pp June 2020 9780521765671 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 June 2020 9780521147880 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781139019569

History of Science and Technology

A Singular Remedy

Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820 Stefanie Gänger | Universität Heidelberg Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, from which quinine is derived, she provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange and connections in the realm of medicine between the Atlantic empires and beyond. • Provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange, expertise and therapeutic connections in the Atlantic empires and beyond • Revises assumptions about non-elite participants in the history of medicine • Provides a valuable window into the realm of medicine at the turn of the nineteenth century

Science in History

300pp October 2020 9781108842167 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108896269

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German Science in the Age of Empire

Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers Moritz von Brescius | Universität Bern, Switzerland A study of German scientists who travelled to other nations’ empires to observe, record, and collect rich materials that shaped European views of the East. This lavishly illustrated book provides a gripping account of trans-cultural overseas exploration, colonial science, and Anglo-German cooperation and conflicts in the nineteenth century. • Combines European and indigenous perspectives and agency in colonial exploration • The book is based on sources written in eight languages, from seven countries, and collected from more than fifty museums and archives • This lavishly illustrated book includes more than thirty-five colour figures

Science in History

428pp 50 colour illus. November 2020 9781108446068 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 March 2019 9781108427326 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108579568

Imperial Science

Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire Bruce J. Hunt | University of Texas, Austin A vast network of telegraph cables spread around the globe in the second half of the nineteenth century. By showing how deeply this network shaped work in electrical physics, Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light on both the history of the Victorian British Empire and the relationship between science and technology. • Examines how telegraph technology and electrical physics interacted in the nineteenth century • Provides a fresh perspective on the development of the Victorian British

Empire • Sheds new light on the relationship between science and technology

Science in History

320pp January 2021 9781108830669 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108902700

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Physics and Psychics

The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain Richard Noakes | University of Exeter In this first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between Victorian physical sciences and what we now call the paranormal, Richard Noakes challenges our view of the history of physics, and deepens our understandings of the relationships between science and the occult, and science and religion. • Includes many of the most celebrated figures in the history of British physics • Questions entrenched distinctions between science and pseudo-science • Exposes new aspects of Victorian scientific creativity

Science in History

419pp June 2020 9781316638569 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2019 9781107188549 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316882436

Social Mendelism

Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948 Amir Teicher | Tel-Aviv University In this ground-breaking study, Amir Teicher explores the ways genetics informed Nazi racial and eugenic policies, presenting a new paradigm for understanding links between genetics and racism, and between biological and social thought. • Challenges long-accepted ‘truths’ in popular notions of twentieth-century biology and Nazi policies • Utilizes a rich variety of evidence to investigate the relationship between biological and social thought • Offers a clear, accessible approach to the social impact of science in history 280pp 24 b/w illus. 1 table February 2020 9781108499491 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108583190

Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Barbara Hahn | Texas Tech University Placing the British Industrial Revolution in global context, Barbara Hahn explores the role of technological change in world history. Tracing this transformative moment from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond, Hahn provides a new perspective on the relationship between technology and society. • Offers an accessible and concise history of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change • Explains the relationship between technological and social change in simple terms • Places the technologies of the Industrial Revolution in their global settings

New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

236pp 21 b/w illus. 1 map January 2020 9781107186804 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2020 9781316637463 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781316900864

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 8 Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context Hugh Richard Slotten | University of Otago, New Zealand Brings together a group of highly respected specialists to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of modern science in national, transnational, and global contexts. Exploring local contexts of science and analyzing science using national and regional frameworks, the essays introduce the latest thinking in the history of science. • Analyzes the history of modern science during the late eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries • Covers the entire world, with essays on all major countries or regions • Valuable in university courses in the history of science, technology, and medicine

The Cambridge History of Science

870pp April 2020 9780521580816 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781139044301

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The Origins of Modern Science

From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution Ofer Gal | University of Sydney The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the tools to study science like a historian, Gal covers everything from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton’s Principia, introducing the complex relationships between institutions, beliefs and politics. • Readers are introduced to scientific reasoning and practices in accessible and engaging ways • Non-humanities students are provided with the tools to understand science through a historical lens • Readers gain new insights into the complex relations between institutions, beliefs and political structures and practices 350pp February 2021 9781316510308 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 119.99 February 2021 9781316649701 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108225205

The Science of Useful Nature in Central America

Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 Sophie Brockmann | De Montfort University, Leicester Following material practices and scientific exchanges through local and global networks, Sophie Brockmann demonstrates how interactions with landscape and environment played a key role in constructing ideas of patriotism and nation in Enlightenment Central America. • Combines intellectual history and the history of science with historical geography and environmental history • Traces the impact of Enlightenment ideas and late-colonial reformers’ projects on the independent nations of Central America • Situates the global history of Enlightenment in a place usually considered ‘peripheral’ in world history and even within the Spanish empire 320pp September 2020 9781108421232 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108367615

Military History

Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War

Defending and Forging Empires Stefano Marcuzzi | University College Dublin Drawing on a broad range of new archival material, Stefano Marcuzzi analyses the British strategy of imperial defence and the Italian strategy of imperial expansion within the context of World War I, the Peace Conference and the Fiume crisis. • Provides an original account of World War I by using Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a lens through which to analyse Allied grand strategy • Includes examinations of both the war and the peace conference to highlight how war strategy and peace-making were intertwined • Reassesses Italian foreign policy and military and naval efficiency

Cambridge Military Histories

348pp December 2020 9781108831291 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108924009

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Britain’s Pacification of Palestine

The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939 Matthew Hughes | Brunel University More than just a military history of Britain’s suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, this is a dissection of how the British empire worked to supress dissent and how subject peoples resisted colonial rule. • Will appeal to those who need a full history of the Palestinian insurgents and the counter-insurgency arrayed against them • New regimental archival material provides new perspectives on the

Arab revolt • Contextualises the pacification of Palestine in the 1930s to the British colonial emergency state and other imperial pacification operations

Cambridge Military Histories

504pp December 2020 9781107501492 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 41.99 January 2019 9781107103207 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316216026

Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare

Daniel Whittingham | University of Birmingham Daniel Whittingham presents the first comprehensive study of one of Britain’s most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell. His book explores the development of British military thought to shed new light on colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, the South African War, tactics, maritime strategy, and the First World War. • The first comprehensive biography of one of Britain’s great military thinkers, Charles E. Callwell • Provides a new perspective on the ‘British way in warfare’ and British military thought • Considers both Callwell’s famous works, such as Small Wars and

Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance, and his lesser-known works which have not been cited before

Cambridge Military Histories

286pp January 2020 9781108480079 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628846 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914–1918

Brian N. Hall | University of Salford This is a major new study of the role of communications in shaping the outcome of British military operations on the Western Front during World War 1. It argues that communications were not only a leading cause of the trench stalemate of 1915–17, but were also crucial in helping break the deadlock in 1918. • Includes end-of-chapter summaries, allowing readers to monitor their understanding of the material presented • Includes both thematic and chronological chapters, providing readers with a broader and deeper understanding of the subject matter • Will become a core text for both undergraduates and postgraduates studying military history, strategic studies and the First World War in particular

Cambridge Military Histories

362PP 33 b/w illus. 1 map 5 tables May 2020 9781316623695 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 June 2017 9781107170551 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316771747

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Decades of Reconstruction

Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War Ute Planert ‘New wars’ of the present day have raised awareness about the importance of transformation between war and peace, which are shaped by substantial changes in economy, politics, society and culture. Examining the decades of reconstruction following wars from the eighteenth to the twentieth century in international comparison, this book demonstrates why foreign and domestic policy cannot be separated. • Proposes a new view of transitions from war to peace which will benefit those who are uncomfortable with the view of a ‘zero hour’ in postwar eras • Sets transitions from war to peace in long-term and global perspectives, allowing readers to put the postwar experience after 1945 into a broader historical context • Combines pioneering archival research with broad perspectives on historical turning-points and trends, appealing to specialists and the educated public • Aids temporal and geographic comparability by focusing on ten-year periods following the conclusion of major military conflicts in world history, thus providing focus and breadth

Publications of the German Historical Institute

393pp 4 b/w illus. May 2020 9781316617083 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 June 2017 9781107165748 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316694091

Expertise, Authority and Control

The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War Alexia Moncrieff | University of Leeds This book charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War and examines how the role of the Australian Army Medical Corps was transformed by these experiences. It focuses on the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease. • The first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy years • Takes an exhaustive approach, mapping the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease • Reassesses Australian military medicine and maps the transition to an infrastructure for the AIF in the field, especially in response to conflicts with traditional imperial, military and medical hierarchies

Australian Army History Series

236pp February 2020 9781108478151 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108784382

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Fighting the People’s War

The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War Jonathan Fennell | King’s College London Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world. • Integrates the military, political and social histories of Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South

Africa • Uses 925 censorship reports based on 17 million soldiers’ letters to shed new light on their experiences, performance and political beliefs • Provides new explanations for the performance of the British and

Commonwealth armies in campaigns, including the crises of 1940–42,

Cassino, D-Day and Normandy • The first comprehensive history of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War

Armies of the Second World War

0pp 42 b/w illus. 38 maps 21 tables May 2020 9781107609877 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 January 2019 9781107030954 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781139380881

Forgotten Wars

Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916 Włodzimierz Borodziej | Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland Examines the origins, outbreak and early campaigns of the First World War in Central and Eastern Europe to reconstruct the experiences, changes in minds, behaviour and habits of people, uniformed or not, males and females, from multiple nations located in an imagined triangle between Helsinki, Bucharest and Vienna. • Reintegrates the story of the Eastern fronts between 1912 and 1916 into the history of the First World War • Focuses on the impact of wartime experiences on both individuals and communities • Demonstrates both the obvious differences and the forgotten similarities between ‘East’ and ‘West’

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

345pp March 2021 9781108837156 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108938495 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand R. Scott Sheffield During the Second World War, Indigenous people in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mobilised en masse to support the war effort. This is an examination of their participation on the battlefields and home fronts, focusing on their diverse and unique contributions to the war, and its legacies. • Provides a new perspective on the national histories of Indigenous communities through a comparative and transnational lens • Draws heavily on Indigenous oral histories and written sources, as well as policy documents and other archival records • Provides a gendered reading of Indigenous service 365pp 20 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108440745 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 December 2018 9781108424639 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00

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Morale and Discipline in the Royal Navy during the First World War

Laura Rowe | University of Exeter This is the first detailed study of the social history of the Royal Navy during and immediately after the First World War. Laura Rowe uses the experiences of men who fought at sea to shed new light on the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet. • The issues of morale and discipline are considered within a naval context, rather than the typical trench warfare one • Military and civilian naval history are looked at in tandem to give a more overarching historical reading of the period • Uses both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to lessen the limitations of taking only one approach

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

278pp 8 b/w illus. 16 tables October 2020 9781108409421 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 August 2018 9781108419055 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108296816

Sisters in Arms

Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War Jeremy A. Crang | University of Edinburgh During the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women’s auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces. • Covers all three women’s auxiliary services: the

WAAF, ATS and WRNS • Combines an organisational history of the women’s auxiliary services with the personal experiences of servicewomen • Explores both the gender advances - and the limits of those advances as represented by the women’s auxiliary services

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

352pp September 2020 9781107013476 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781139004190

Strangling the Axis

The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War Richard Hammond | Brunel University This is a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean. Richard Hammond demonstrates how the antishipping campaign was the fulcrum about which strategy in the theatre pivoted, and the vital enabling factor ultimately leading to Allied victory in the region. • Reassesses the contribution of Allied anti-shipping operations in the

Mediterranean towards Allied victory in the Second World War • Helps to understand how both the Allied and Axis powers perceived the relationship between the war on land and the war at sea • Includes a wide range of new multinational, multilingual source material

Cambridge Military Histories

290pp June 2020 9781108478212 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784566

Surviving the Great War

Australian Prisoners of War on the Western Front 1916–18 Aaron Pegram | Australian War Memorial Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia’s involvement in the First World War. • Provides the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in the First World War on the Western Front • Places the experiences of prisoners of war in a broader social and military context, thus adding a new dimension to the national wartime experience • Challenges popular representations of Australia’s involvement in the

First World War

Australian Army History Series

284pp 28 b/w illus. 14 colour illus. 2 maps 4 tables February 2020 9781108486194 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108643559

The Cambridge History of War

Volume 2 War and the Medieval World Anne Curry | University of Southampton An expert account of war in the medieval period world-wide, showing how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and time. Each chapter is written by a recognised expert in the field and demonstrates the place of war in society as well as examining how it was fought. • Each chapter is written by experts in the field to provide up-to-date scholarship across a wide range of topics and a large number of geographical areas • Takes war in its broadest definition to offer informative synthesis as well as much fascinating detail • Readers can trace the relationships between strategy, tactics, weapons technology, logistics, military institutions and financing, social structures, and cultural influences

Cambridge History of War

650pp 22 b/w illus. 16 maps October 2020 9780521877152 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 156.00 eISBN 9781139025492

The Cambridge History of Warfare

Second Edition Geoffrey Parker | Ohio State University The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. • Offers a fully updated account of war in the West, with a new chapter on modern warfare • Continues to demonstrate that military and naval superiority was crucial to the rise of the West • Focuses on Western military progress but explores the military effectiveness of other regions 608pp 20 maps June 2020 9781107181595 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781316632765 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316855089

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The Civilianization of War

The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014 Andrew Barros | Université du Québec, Montréal This volume provides a new understanding of an issue at the heart of contemporary conflicts: distinguishing between civilians and combatants. A multi-disciplinary study of over a dozen case studies from across the world and over the last century, it upends current orthodoxies by showing the civil–military divide to be extremely dynamic. • Provides new insights into why levels of civilian exposure to war violence have remained so fluid, and why its avoidance is, in practice, so difficult to achieve • Presents valuable case studies and a global perspective on the treatment of civilian populations in war • Includes a multi-disciplinary collaboration of international historians, political scientists, and international lawyers

Human Rights in History

344pp 4 tables October 2020 9781108453042 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 August 2018 9781108429658 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108643542

The Great War in History

Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present Second Edition Jay Winter | Yale University, Connecticut This revised and updated edition provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020. It demonstrates how the history of the Great War has now gone global, and how the internet revolution has affected the way we understand the conflict. • The first up-to-date and fully global account of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020 • Charts the positive and negative effects of the digital revolution on the writing of the history of the Great War • Surveys how history and memory overlap, informing professional history, history in museums, in films, on stage, and in re-enactments

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

300pp October 2020 9781108843164 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 October 2020 9781108823968 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108914970

The Unknown Enemy

Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control Christian Tripodi | King’s College London Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that improved socio-cultural understanding enables a greater chance of success in counterinsurgency warfare. Tripodi illustrates that in fact it often leads to the reverse. The Unknown Enemy illustrates how the drive for such knowledge results not in better outcomes but in a costly illusion of control. • Considers how attempts to better understand the sociocultural surrounds of the operating environment can influence counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations • Utilizes a mixture of historical and theoretical analysis to examine why certain types of military operation fail • Draws upon a range of in-depth case studies from different eras of warfare to highlight recurring behaviours and outcomes across time 300pp November 2020 9781108424608 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 November 2020 9781108440714 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108341110

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The Veterans’ Tale

British Military Memoirs of the Second World War Frances Houghton | University of Manchester Reveals how veteran memoirs serve as rich repositories of information about the ways in which former servicemen remembered, understood, and recounted the Second World War, shedding new light on experiences of battle and the veteran’s sense of wartime self, as well as the emotional meanings war memoirists attached to their narratives. • Explains how Second World War veterans remembered, interpreted, and told their wartime experiences • Examines military memoirs as a tool to review wartime experience • Positions veteran memoirs as the guardians of memories of the Second

World War, through which the writers actively sought to contest

‘erroneous’ representations of the war

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

305pp October 2020 9781108739061 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 January 2019 9781108496919 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108690164

Violence in Defeat

The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 Bastiaan Willems | University College London Explores the diverse intra-ethnic violence that gripped the country in the months prior to Germany’s defeat, and examines the interplay between the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party to shed important new light on the roles both played in shaping German society at the end of the war. • Introduces the German Wehrmacht as a committed actor in statesponsored violence in the final stage of the Second World War • Explores the regional dynamics of this phenomenon • Examines the evacuation measures in Eastern Germany as a dialogue between the safeguarding of the population and the army’s operational conduct

Cambridge Military Histories

340pp February 2021 9781108479721 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108856270

War’s Logic

Strategic Thought and the American Way of War Antulio J. Echevarria II Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of twelve leading theorists, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist’s critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war. • Describes the paradigms that underpinned how leading twentiethcentury American strategic theorists thought about war • Illustrates the relationship between a theorist’s core strategic principles and the nature of war • Situates American strategic thinking within its critical sociocultural contexts

Cambridge Military Histories

300pp March 2021 9781107091979 Hardback GBP 60.00 / USD 90.00 March 2021 9781107465015 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316135730

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Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War

Alison S. Fell | University of Leeds This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage. • Proposes a bottom-up approach to the question of the impact of the war on women’s lives by focusing on individual women’s letters, diaries, memoirs, articles and speeches • Is the first history of the period, which tend to focus on single nations, to compare the histories of women in two nations, here France and

Britain, allowing for a broader understanding of war’s impact on women • Draws on a wide range of documents, publications and artefacts to explore the experiences of women from a wide range of social backgrounds

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

236pp 23 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108444026 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 July 2018 9781108425766 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348935

World War II

A New History Second Edition Evan Mawdsley | University of Glasgow A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley’s acclaimed global history of World War II. Accessibly written and well-illustrated with maps and photographs, the book also includes insightful short studies of the figures, events and battles that shaped the war, as well as fully updated guides to further reading. • Provides a global approach to the history of the Second World War, integrating events in Asia and the Pacific, India, North Africa, Europe,

Russia and America • Includes a fully revised further reading section with many new sources published since 2009 • Features extensive maps and illustrations, text boxes outlining key individuals, events, and themes, timelines at the start of each chapter, suggestions for further reading and links to relevant websites 410pp April 2020 9781108496094 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 April 2020 9781108791403 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108866026