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Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism

Gerald D. Feldman | University of California, Berkeley This book gives a detailed account of how two major banks - the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the Länderbank Wien - profited from their service to the Nazi regime. It traces their involvement in the dispossession of Jewish business owners and in financing industrial firms vital to the Third Reich’s war effort. • Written by a pre-eminent, prolific historian • This is the first time this text has appeared in English translation • Bolstered by a new introduction for this English edition

Publications of the German Historical Institute

591pp March 2020 9781108799263 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 December 2015 9781107001657 Hardback GBP 93.00 / USD 144.00 eISBN 9781139051569

Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered

Sarah Shortall | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory. • Highlights the global turn in the history of human rights. • Showcases a range of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between religion and human rights. • Transforms our understanding of both human rights theory and the history of Christianity.

Human Rights in History

300pp September 2020 9781108424707 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108341356

Decolonization, SelfDetermination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics

A. Dirk Moses | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This is the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. Leading scholars demonstrate how human rights were embraced and deployed by a diverse collection of actors, including both nationalists and imperialists, activists and diplomats, in contesting self-determination and national independence. • Challenges orthodox historical narratives to provide a deeper, and multi-polar, examination of the origins and use of human rights across numerous sites of struggle • Features a variety of case studies, spanning much of the globe, each investigating human rights claims as reality, not abstraction • Provides an insight into what constituted ‘human rights’ for particular peoples, places, and circumstances to allow for a greater appreciation of the diversity of causes, struggles, and movements which embraced human rights

Human Rights in History

450pp July 2020 9781108479356 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783170

Humanitarianism and Human Rights

A World of Differences? Michael N. Barnett | George Washington University, Washington DC Human rights and humanitarianism are two totems of global ethics and politics in today’s world, but they have a complicated relationship that is not always understood or appreciated. To capture that past, present, and future, this volume explores what each hopes to attain and how those ambitions converge or diverge. • Unpacks and interrogates the relationship between human rights and humanitarianism • Explores different notions of humanity and the tensions and conflicts that this can create • Provides a philosophical and practical consideration of global ethics

Human Rights in History

340pp November 2020 9781108836791 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 November 2020 9781108819206 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108872485

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The Cambridge History of Communism

Volume 1 World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941 Silvio Pons | Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ Volume One of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, analyzing the roots, impact, and development of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, and the development of the movement on a global scale. • Charts the rise of communism as a global force from the Russian

Revolution and Civil War to the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War • Situates Communist history in the context of the aftermath of the First

World War, the crisis of empires, the Great Depression, and the rise of

Fascism in Europe • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines

The Cambridge History of Communism

676pp April 2020 9781107467361 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107092846 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316137024

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The Cambridge History of Communism

Volume 2 The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s Norman Naimark | Stanford University, California Volume Two of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Key themes include the relationship between East European parties and Moscow, and the spread of communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as nationalism fed anti-imperialist sentiment. • Charts the onset of the Cold War and the growth of communism across

Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America • Analyzes the transformative and tumultuous geopolitics, political economy, society and culture of Communist revolutions and movements around the globe • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines

The Cambridge History of Communism

700pp April 2020 9781107590014 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107133549 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316459850

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The Cambridge History of Communism

Volume 3 Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present Juliane Fürst | University of Bristol Volume Three of The Cambridge History of Communism charts the global Cold War in its last two decades, the collapse of Soviet socialism, the resurgence of China as a global power, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict. • Charts the rise of China as a global power and the collapse of Soviet socialism • Proposes new historical perspectives on the fifty year decline and eventual fall of Communist revolutions in the Soviet Union and Eastern

Europe, and questions the continuing legacies of the Communist era • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines

The Cambridge History of Communism

660pp April 2020 9781316501597 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107135642 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316471821

The Cambridge History of Communism 3 Volume Paperback Set

Silvio Pons | Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ The Cambridge History of Communism is an unprecedented global history of communism in the twentieth century. This three volume reference work examines communism in the context of wider political, social, cultural, and economic processes, while at the same time revealing how communism contributed to shaping them. • The first global survey of the Communist movement, utilizing the mass of material that has become available since the fall of the Soviet Union • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines • Analyzes the successes and failures of Communism, its leaders, key events and ideological differences

The Cambridge History of Communism

0pp April 2020 9781316634578 3 Paperback books GBP 79.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316634561

The Cambridge World History of Violence

Volume 4 1800 to the Present Louise Edwards | University of New South Wales, Sydney Why do humans continue to inflict both mass and interpersonal violence upon each other? This comprehensive, global study examines violence and its consequences as produced in nation-states, colonies, institutions, and families alongside analyses of its commemoration and representation and significance in leisure. • Facilitates a comparative understanding of violence as a significant common phenomenon across all human societies • Explains how new technology and new forms of social organization enhance or constrain violence • Presents new insights into the changing social, political and economic significances of violence in human society

The Cambridge World History of Violence

694pp 7 b/w illus. 1 map March 2020 9781107151567 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316585023

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The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

Law, History, and Jurisprudence David Cohen | Stanford University, California Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo trial was foundational in the field of international law. However, the persistent notion of ‘victor’s justice’ in the existing literature has made it difficult to objectively assess. Cohen and Totani redress this by providing a fresh perspective based on careful examination of the trial record. • The first truly comprehensive assessment of the Tokyo trial as a judicial process, separating it from other ideologically motivated studies • Illustrates the Tokyo Trial’s importance for international jurisprudence by placing it in the context of both modern Japanese history and international criminal law • The book is based on often neglected sources, including a draft judgment by Sir William Webb, the President of the Tokyo tribunal 559pp May 2020 9781108820684 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 November 2018 9781107119703 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316348659

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World War One

The Global Revolution Second Edition Lawrence Sondhaus | University of Indianapolis This revised and updated interpretation of World War I highlights the revolutionary nature and legacy of the conflict of 1914–1919. It examines the political, economic, social and cultural history of the war at home as well as the war’s origins, ending and subsequent legacy. • Demonstrates the revolutionary global impact of World War I • Includes a range of pedagogical features including images, timelines, key documents from the war, online essays and guides to further reading • Contains a range of sources, including first-hand accounts of the war, to provide students with an understanding of the impact of the war on the lives of ordinary people 495pp 49 b/w illus. 14 maps November 2020 9781108496193 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 November 2020 9781108791632 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 eISBN 9781108866354

African History

A History of the Republic of Biafra

Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War Samuel Fury Childs Daly | Duke University, North Carolina Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, this accessible study examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from the perspective of the courtroom, demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country’s long experience of crime that was to follow. • An accessible account of the Nigerian Civil War using previously unexamined legal records and oral histories • Examines the connection between warfare and crime, both in postcolonial Africa and within a global context • Demonstrates how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country’s long experience of crime that was to follow 300pp 10 b/w illus. 1 map August 2020 9781108840767 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887748

A History of West Central Africa to 1850

John K. Thornton | Boston University An original interpretative history for students or scholars of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 which benefits from comprehensive and in-depth treatment of internal histories, inter-state interactions, and external relationships for an original approach to regional histories. • An accessible interpretative history of West

Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 • Equal focus is given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external dynamics and relationships • Features an expanded regional focus including treatment of the

Portuguese colony of Angola

New Approaches to African History

384pp 7 maps March 2020 9781107127159 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 March 2020 9781107565937 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316411568

Abolition in Sierra Leone

Re-Building Lives and Identities in NineteenthCentury West Africa Richard Peter Anderson | University of Exeter Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100,000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain’s abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this history of colonial Africa and examination of the African diaspora explores the links between emancipation, colonization, and identity formation in the Black Atlantic. • A new approach to a major field of the history of British anti-slavery, studied not as a history of legal victories (abolitionism) but of enforcement and lived experience (abolition) • Unites two major historiographical fields within the history of colonial

Africa and of the African diaspora • Explores the linkages between emancipation, colonization, and identity formation in the Black Atlantic

African Identities: Past and Present

306pp 3 b/w illus. 3 maps 12 tables January 2020 9781108473545 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108562423 NEW IN PAPERBACK

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade

Volume 2 Essays on Sources and Methods Alice Bellagamba This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. It will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa. • Explores the potentials and limits of diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records, and African intellectual writings • Stimulates historians to think critically about the methods needed to use these sources • Offers guidelines on how to uncover African voices about slavery when sources do not readily yield them 216pp 3 b/w illus. May 2020 9780521145299 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 April 2016 9780521199612 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781139043359

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Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa Jonathon L. Earle | Centre College, Danville, Kentucky This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archival material to recast the end of empire in East Africa. It will be ideal for researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in the cultural, intellectual, religious and political history of modern East Africa. • The first global intellectual history of colonial Buganda, giving readers an alternative perspective of the region’s history • Uses previously-unseen private and institutional archive material on colonial literacy to offer readers a new understanding of the end of empire in East Africa • Tackles three separate subjects within colonial Buganda: colonial literacy, the end of empire, and nationalist historiography, appealing to a wide range of readers

African Studies

299pp 25 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table February 2020 9781108404365 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2017 9781108417051 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108264723

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Colonizing Consent

Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Elizabeth Thornberry | The Johns Hopkins University Drawing on more than a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry provides a ground breaking social and political history of rape in colonial South Africa, as well as an important case study for comparative legal history, histories of sexuality, and public policy on sexual violence. • Incorporates evidence from over 500 rape cases • Draws on records from civil and criminal courts, customary courts, and church displinary procedings, thereby capturing a broad legal landscape • Reads evidence of court cases alongside political debates

African Studies

379pp 4 b/w illus. 2 maps June 2020 9781108460316 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2018 9781108472807 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108659284

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Doing Business in Cameroon

An Anatomy of Economic Governance José-María Muñoz | University of Edinburgh Focusing on four distinct sectors (cattle trade, transport, public contracts and NGO work), Muñoz combines an ethnographic study of business practices with a lucid analysis of policies and legal rules to provide an in-depth look at how businesses and state bureaucracies cope with unpredictability in times of crisis and reform. • Builds on intensive fieldwork engagement sustained over a period of ten years • Makes sense of the legal aspects of doing business • Focuses on diverse economic sectors that are often treated separately

The International African Library

241pp 7 b/w illus. 2 maps November 2020 9781108452823 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 September 2018 9781108428996 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108684477

France’s Wars in Chad

Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa Nathaniel K. Powell | King’s College London The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad’s civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982, this study explores France’s counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye and its contribution to the rise to power of Hissène Habré, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators. • The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad’s civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982 • Provides context for better understandings of ongoing military involvement in the Sahel • Of interest to students and scholars looking at the impact of foreign interventions in civil wars and the limits of counterinsurgency strategies in weak states

African Studiesl

336pp November 2020 9781108488679 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771610 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Hasan al-Turabi

Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan W. J. Berridge | University of Newcastle upon Tyne A comprehensive study of the life and political thought of Sudanese Islamist scholar and politician Hasan al-Turabi, for undergraduate and graduate students studying the modern Sudanese state and Islamic government and politics in Africa and the Middle East, and journalists and policy-makers focused on core debates on democracy, Islamism and Jihad. • A full, comprehensive overview of al-Turabi’s life and political thought through which the author offers new perspectives on the key concepts of Jihad, democracy and Islamism • Applies post-colonial theory to the study of Islamism, allowing readers to move away from ‘crypto-Fascist’ or ‘crypto-Marxist’ readings of

Islamism, recognising the colonial origins of Islamism • Offers a local Islamist narrative, focusing on the specific dynamics of

Sudanese government and its relationship with Islamism 365pp February 2020 9781316632406 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 August 2017 9781107180994 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316848449

Hunting Game

Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic Louisa Lombard | Yale University, Connecticut The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years. • The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic (CAR) • Examines the skills, encounters, and consequences associated with raiding as a political mode in its own right • Shows readers how harmful popular theories and buzzwords such as

‘failed state’ are

The International African Library

270pp March 2020 9781108478779 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108778794

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Imagining Africa

Whiteness and the Western Gaze Clive Gabay | Queen Mary University of London At times of Western crisis, such as the 2007–8 financial crisis, there has been a sudden growth of Afro-optimism, seemingly predicting Africa’s ‘rise’. Gabay examines British imperial attitudes towards Africa and shows that this phenomenon of positive coverage of Africa is neither unique, unexpected nor unpredictable. • Presents a historical approach to questions concerning change and international order • Places race and racism at the centre of changes in and imaginations of international hierarchies • Focuses ‘inwards’ to the changing contours of whiteness, rather than purely ‘outwards’ to the ways that non-Western regions have been racialised 282pp June 2020 9781108461924 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 November 2018 9781108473606 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108652582

Islam in a Zongo

Muslim Lifeworlds in Asante, Ghana Benedikt Pontzen Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of ‘everyday’ lived religion among Muslims in Ghana’s Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people’s lives in a zongo community. • Explores the diversity and complexities of lived Islam by immersing the reader into everyday Islam and Muslim lifeworlds • Focuses on three Islamic phenomena encountered in the zongos:

Islamic prayer practices, the authorisation of Islamic knowledge, and ardently contested divination and healing practices • Draws on empirical and archival research, oral histories, and academic studies to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Islam with the lives of people in this unique community

The International African Library

325pp January 2021 9781108830249 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108900706

Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia

The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 Terje Østebø | University of Florida Discussing an armed insurgency in south-eastern Ethiopia from 1963-1970, a time when a range of liberation struggles emerged across the Horn of Africa, this in-depth study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion, interreligious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism during conflicts. • An in-depth study of armed insurgency in Ethiopia during the 1960s within the context of armed struggles in the broader Horn of Africa • New perspectives on how to understand the relationship between religion and ethnicity through the concept peoplehood • Resists talking about ethnic and religious groups as mutually exclusive categories, arguing for an integrated approach which recognizes the role of embodied experiences and emplaced realities in shaping ethnic and religious identities

African Studies

300pp October 2020 9781108839686 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108884839

Nigeria and World War II

Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict Chima J. Korieh | Marquette University, Wisconsin Recounting the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people in World War II, this history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during the largest global conflict of the twentieth century draws on hitherto unexplored archival resources, challenging the perception that it was primarily a European conflict. • Challenges the dominant perception that the Second World War was primarily a European conflict • Recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war • Provides detailed accounts of what Nigerian men, women, and children from all walks of life were doing and thinking on the home front and abroad in service of the empire 310pp 11 b/w illus. 2 maps 9 tables March 2020 9781108425803 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108579650 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa

Homophobia in Malawi Ashley Currier | University of Cincinnati By systematically documenting the emergence of politicized homophobia in Malawi, its appropriation by political elites as a strategy to consolidate power, and its effect on different social movements, Currier challenges Western portrayals of Africa as a hotbed of homophobia. • An account of the rise of politicized homophobia in Malawi, designed to show that it is not an intrinsic part of ‘African culture’ • Highlights how homophobia has been deployed as a political weapon by leaders across Africa • Documents how politicized homophobia affects different social movements - HIV/AIDS, human rights, LGBT rights, and women’s movements - and LGBT people 318pp June 2020 9781108448376 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 November 2018 9781108427890 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108551984

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Politics and Violence in Burundi

The Language of Truth in an Emerging State Aidan Russell | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Telling a neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordinary change, from democracy to genocide. His study is the only English account of the first postcolonial genocide on the African continent. • Reveals the history behind contemporary political events in Burundi through analysis of internal and regional construction of postcolonial states • Draws on both African and European language source material • Provides the only detailed English account of the first postcolonial genocide in Africa

African Studies

330pp November 2020 9781108713412 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2019 9781108499347 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108581530

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Power and the Presidency in Kenya

The Jomo Kenyatta Years Anaïs Angelo | Universität Wien, Austria Reconstructing Jomo Kenyatta’s political biography and presidency in order to explore the links between his emergence as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya, this is the first study to use Kenyatta as a basis for examining the origins of presidentialism in Africa. • Reconstructs Jomo Kenyatta’s political biography to examine the links between his leadership and Kenya’s deeper colonial history • Offers new perspectives on the origins and history of presidentialism in

Kenya through the study of one man’s rise to power and the presidency • Will appeal to historians and political scientists interested in both

African and Kenyan postcolonial history, political history and biographical writing

African Studies

323pp November 2020 9781108713832 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2019 9781108494045 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108625166

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Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria

Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty Hannah Hoechner | Université Libre de Bruxelles An ethnographic study of Qur’anic schools in northern Nigeria that debunks stereotypes about such schools being recruitment grounds for Boko Haram and other violent groups. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Hannah Hoechner explores through the eyes of students the true nature of being young, poor, and Muslim in a context of pervasive inequality. • Provides valuable insights into the role that religion plays in the everyday lives of poor, young Qur’anic students • Offers a novel perspective by bringing research from education studies, poverty research, and youth studies to bear on debates about Islamic education • Uses ethnographic and participatory methods to uncover the real perspectives of Qur’anic students and their communities in northern

Nigeria

The International African Library

291pp 10 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108441735 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 March 2018 9781108425292 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348270

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Radio Soundings

South Africa and the Black Modern Liz Gunner | University of Johannesburg How did Zulu Radio in apartheid South Africa, intended to stifle debate, become one of the largest stations in Africa? Gunner maps the fashioning of a modernising Black culture through radio and highlights links between these media figures with writers and political leaders from Harlem to the American South. • Maps out a new field of literary and media history in Africa • Demonstrates radio’s role in linking progressive forces across the Black

Atlantic, Britain and post-colonial Africa • Sheds light on how radio became part of a modernizing popular culture cutting through apartheid repression

The International African Library

241pp January 2020 9781108456357 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 January 2019 9781108470643 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108556903

Shaping the African Savannah

From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia Michael Bollig A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in one of southern Africa’s most sought after exotic tourism destinations, often dubbed as ‘Arid Eden’. It demonstrates the impacts of colonialism, capitalism and creative local adaptations of environmental infrastructures in the region. • Provides a case study of 150 years of environmental history of one specific region • Marks the impacts of colonialism, capitalism and creative local adaptations of environmental infrastructures on the region’s people and animals • Discusses the possible futures and future-making agendas for an arid landscape which will be hit hard by global climate change

African Studies

336pp 7 b/w illus. 20 maps July 2020 9781108488488 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764025

Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith

Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa Mauro Nobili | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Representing a significant re-examination of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history of West Africa, this study makes use of previously unpublished Arabic manuscripts to reveal the true author of the chronicle and its place in the evolution of West African civilization. • Examines the chronicle Tārīkh al-fattāsh, one of the most important sources on West African history, that has been misunderstood and misused by scholars for more than a century • The first monograph in English to look at the Caliphate of Ḥamdāllahi, presenting to an English-speaking audience one of the most important, yet neglected states of pre-colonial West Africa • Makes extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic manuscripts written by West African Muslim intellectuals

African Studies

288pp 10 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108479509 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108804295

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker Blessing-Miles Tendi | University of Oxford An essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics, and an important figure in Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party, this biography of General Solomon Mujuru is based on unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence services, police and ZANU PF elites. • The first full-length biographical account of one of the most illustrious figures in modern Zimbabwean military and political history • Features oral accounts conveyed by Solomon Mujuru, his family and associates • Based on the author’s unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence, police and ZANU PF elites 348pp 12 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108472890 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108561600

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The Cambridge History of South Africa

Volume 1 From Early Times to 1885 Carolyn Hamilton | University of Cape Town Coming fourteen years after South Africa’s achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country’s past. The book’s chapters, by ten of the best historians of South Africa, represent a reassessment of the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide. • Includes new material on identity and consciousness and Boer-African relations • Written in an objective, clear and refreshing manner which will be accessible to students • Written by ten of the best historians of the country, presenting their new data, interpretations and perspectives on the South African past

Cambridge History of South Africa

487pp January 2020 9781108791991 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 May 2010 9780521517942 Hardback GBP 103.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781139056083

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The Cambridge History of South Africa

Volume 2 1885–1994 Robert Ross | Universiteit Leiden This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. • Many of the best historians of South Africa present four decades of scholarship on South Africa in the twentieth century • Brings together analysis of political, economic, social and intellectual history • An important reassessment of all the major historical events in South

Africa

Cambridge History of South Africa

736pp 16 b/w illus. 6 maps 18 tables January 2020 9781108798433 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 November 2011 9780521869836 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 204.00 eISBN 9780511851995

The Idea of Development in Africa

A History Corrie Decker | University of California, Davis An innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development which has been an essential component of the ‘idea of Africa’ in western discourses since the early 1800s, this engaging coursebook provides detailed case study analysis to enhance understanding of key theoretical and historical concepts. • An accessible and engaging course book containing a balance between historical overview and analysis of case studies with each chapter providing at least one detailed case study to demonstrate key themes • Provides a refreshing take on the history and culture of development that begins with the foundations of the idea of development in nineteenth-century imperialism and colonialism • Offers important and useful historical context for students and scholars working in African development today

New Approaches to African History

280pp November 2020 9781107103696 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 November 2020 9781107503229 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316217344

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The Kongo Kingdom

The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity Koen Bostoen | Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bringing new insights on one of the most famous pre-colonial polities in Central Africa, this unique book provides a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of the Kongo kingdom. Both distinguished and upcoming scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, history, and linguistics share a thematic focus on political space. • Maintains a strong regional and thematic focus • Deals exclusively with the Kongo kingdom, allowing readers to reconstruct the history of a pre-colonial African polity • Uses new bodies of evidence in conjunction with traditional sources for

African history, such as linguistic data and archaeological finds 334pp 29 b/w illus. 9 maps March 2020 9781108463928 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2018 9781108474184 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108564823

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda

Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State Omar Shahabudin McDoom | London School of Economics and Political Science Rwanda has become a touchstone case in genocide studies. This study evaluates the myriad theories behind the genocide. Combining original field data with some of the best existing evidence, it offers a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it. • A rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide in Rwanda occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it • Draws on extensive original field data, including interviews with over three hundred Rwandans, both killers and non-killers, and comparative case studies of violence in six local communities • Provides a broader engagement with key theoretical debates in the study of genocides and ethnic conflict

African Studies

350pp November 2020 9781108491464 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868839

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The Politics of Poverty

Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania Felicitas Becker | Universiteit Gent, Belgium A long-term analysis of development projects in rural Tanzania, tracing the improvised, reactive nature of small-scale interventions, aimed at staving off the threat posed by acute poverty to local governments’ legitimacy and effectiveness. • Challenges prevailing assumptions about the political role of development in Africa • Focuses on the role of environmental, practical, financial and political limitations in shaping development intervention, bringing out overarching patterns in the implementation of policy • Offers accounts of villagers’ own attitudes towards poverty and inequality, giving us an in-depth understanding of their priorities

African Studies

380pp 11 b/w illus. 1 map September 2020 9781108739245 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2019 9781108496933 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108690485

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The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe

Law and Politics since 1950 George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane | University of Edinburgh This book examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history. It is for researchers interested in the history of the state in Southern Africa, as well as those interested in African legal history. • Offers readers a unique long-term study of law and politics in

Zimbabwe, providing an extensive overview in one key text • By avoiding technical legal concepts, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to Zimbabwean law and history • Taking forward important debates in the social and political history of law in Africa, it will appeal to students and scholars interested in historiographical debates in African history

African Studies

292pp 14 b/w illus. 3 tables March 2020 9781316640333 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 November 2017 9781107190207 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316996898

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The Temne of Sierra Leone

African Agency in the Making of a British Colony Joseph J. Bangura | Kalamazoo College, Michigan An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony. It is ideal for students, researchers, and scholars interested in the foundations of colonial Sierra Leone and its social, political and economic history, and Colonial Studies and African history more widely. • Offers readers a new, alternate perspective of the development of the

Sierra Leone colony in West Africa, shifting focusing on the role of non-

Creole ethnic groups in the country • Challenges current literature by shifting focus on the foundation of

Sierra Leone from a western-centric perspective to the contributions of rural intellectuals, ethnonationalists and Islamic elites • Examines contemporary concepts of identity politics, class and tribal conflicts in multi-ethnic African societies through a colonial and postcolonial lens 235pp June 2020 9781316647967 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 November 2017 9781107197985 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108182010 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Value of Disorder

Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara Julien Brachet Based on long-term research in an area long closed to researchers, this book provides an internal account of trans-border connectivity, armed conflict, labour and gender relations, and aspirations to political autonomy in northern Chad. It sheds light on current Saharan political developments, and adds a new perspective to Saharan studies. • Provides original research on an area that is little known, but hotly contested • Challenges some of the main assumptions of the social sciences, about the nature of exchange, wealth creation, violent conflict and political order • Thematically organised, this book provides vivid historical and ethnographic accounts, and contains original maps and illustrations

African Studies

371 June 2020 9781108449342 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May 2019 9781108428330 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108566315

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Transforming Sudan

Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation Alden Young | Drexel University, Philadelphia This book traces the development of a new Sudanese state during the postcolonial era, following how economic development fostered state formation and civil war. It is for historians of colonial and postcolonial Africa. It offers important archival research for those examining the economic history of Sudan and the wider region. • Provides the reader with a historical treatment of debates on postcolonial state formation which intervenes in social science debates on bureaucrats in African and Middle Eastern states, bridging gaps between multiple disciplines • Explains Sudan’s civil wars through the lens of economic and development policy, disputing the claim in existing literature that postcolonial civil war was not the result of ethnic or religious tensions • Provides an easy introduction to development studies and economic history across Sudan and the wider region, ideal for non-specialists

African Studies

195pp 1 b/w illus. 2 maps February 2020 9781316623848 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 December 2017 9781107172494 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316779071

Australian History

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A Concise History of Australia

Fifth Edition Stuart Macintyre | University of Melbourne The fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia’s First Nations’ peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. • Written by one of Australia’s most respected historians • A lively and clear narrative history accessible to general readers • The fifth edition explores contemporary Australia, and recent scholarship in the fields of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories

Cambridge Concise Histories

420pp 48 b/w illus. 6 maps October 2020 9781108728485 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108628914

Empire and the Making of Native Title

Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People Bain Attwood | Monash University, Victoria Bain Attwood re-examines the historical treatment of indigenous peoples’ sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand, demonstrating that it was primarily the outcome of political struggles between multiple players at the metropolitan centre and the peripheries of empire, rather than the workings of abstract norms. • Sheds new light on the ways an imperial power treated the sovereignty and property rights of indigenous peoples • Pays careful attention to historical context and historical circumstances to reveal why native title was made in some colonies but not others • Challenges accounts that emphasise the importance of abstract norms by paying careful attention to legal politics at the centre of empire and forces on the ground 454pp July 2020 9781108478298 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108776424

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Taking Liberty

Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890 Ann Curthoys | Australian National University, Canberra At last a history of how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. Set within the broader context of colonial politics, it shows how Britain’s policies influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with the new political institutions. • Australia’s nineteenth-century history is set within a global context, expanding on the traditional national narrative • Connects and compares British imperial and settler government policies concerning indigenous dispossession and governance • The first history to connect indigenous dispossession, governance and survival with the arrival of democracy in the Australian colonies

Critical Perspectives on Empire

446pp 2 maps May 2020 9781107446847 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 October 2018 9781107084858 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316027035

The Long Search for Peace

Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006 Volume 1 The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Peter Londey | Australian National University, Canberra In The Long Search for Peace, Peter Londey, Rhys Crawley and David Horner weave a rich and compelling tapestry of official government files and personal narratives of peacekeeping veterans to present this authoritative account of the origins of Australian peacekeeping. • Provides an overview of Australian peacekeeping missions from 1947 to 2006 • Interweaves official government documents and the personal narratives of veterans to present an authoritative history of the origins of Australian peacekeeping • Details all major decolonisation efforts (Kashmir, Cyprus, the Middle

East, Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia) as well as smaller-scale missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon 940pp 6 b/w illus. 130 colour illus. January 2020 9781108482981 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108628938

East Asian History

After the Korean War

An Intimate History Heonik Kwon | University of Cambridge This ground-breaking study investigates the history and legacy of the Korean War within the realm of intimate human social experience. In doing so, it boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and examines how Korea’s civil war memories remain present in the Korean consciousness. • Provides a fresh perspective of the Korean War and Korea’s Cold War experience from the ground up • Introduces the concept of kinship into an analysis of modern history and politics to help understand the human experience of the Cold War and its aftermath • Draws upon newly available historical and testimonial evidence, as well as a sensitive, long-term participant observation

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

246pp April 2020 9781108487924 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108768313

An Early Modern Economy in China

The Yangzi Delta in the 1820s Bozhong Li | Peking University, Beijing The first English translation of Li Bozhong’s pioneering study An Early Modern Economy in China, which uses sophisticated analysis to reconstruct the GDP of the Lower Yangzi Delta. An innovative economic history that contributes to the Great Divergence debate, Li draws comparisons the Netherlands in the same period. • Makes available in English the ground-breaking work of one of China’s leading economic historians • The first attempt to apply methods of HSNA (historical system of national account) study to pre-modern Chinese GDP • Establishes a benchmark for future reconstructions of regional economies through GDP

The Cambridge China Library

360pp 6 maps 75 tables September 2020 9781108479202 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782753

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Animals through Chinese History

Earliest Times to 1911 Roel Sterckx | University of Cambridge This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, the essays explore not only developments in the human-animal relationship but the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access. • These essays move beyond the issue of animal symbolism, instead placing animals in the context of evolving knowledge paradigms • Takes a longue durée view rather than focusing on a particular historical period • Based on hitherto unstudied materials from China • This title is also available as Open Access 291pp 21 b/w illus. 2 tables May 2020 9781108446112 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108428156 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108551571

Chinese Culture and the Chinese Military

Haizong Lei This is the first English translation of Lei Haizong’s iconic study of the Chinese army. First published in 1940 in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Lei examines the rise and fall of ideas about militarism in China in a global context. • The first English translation of a classic study of

Chinese military culture • Written and published during the Second Sino-Japanese War • Will be of interest to a wide range of historians and teachers of twentieth-century history

The Cambridge China Library

282pp 1 b/w illus. 6 tables April 2020 9781108479189 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108782715

Chinese Diasporas

A Social History of Global Migration Steven B. Miles | Washington University, St Louis In this concise and compelling survey of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day, Steven B. Miles traces the experiences of Chinese migrants and their families. Essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the history of migration more broadly. • Introduces concepts and debates in migration history • Compelling case studies focus on individual migrants and their descendants • Provides an integrated history of internal and external Chinese migration

New Approaches to Asian History

278pp 10 b/w illus. 5 maps 2 tables February 2020 9781107179929 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 February 2020 9781316631812 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316841211

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

Gina Anne Tam | Trinity University, Texas Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chinese nationalism from the perspective of fangyan - dialects or regional languages distinct from Mandarin - and in so doing, shows how they were central to the making of modern nationalism in China. • Challenges the widely accepted historical narrative that language standardization creates national citizens • Introduces a novel way of studying nationalism that highlights diverse visions of the nation without ignoring those who seek to maintain it as a homogenous concept • Encourages readers to expand the history of information methodology to consider both how knowledge is constructed and how that knowledge is filtered down and subsequently shapes all areas of public and private life 272pp 20 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108478281 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776400

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture Sarah Dauncey | University of Nottingham Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenship in China from 1949 to the present. She proposes a dynamic relationship of identity and belonging, encompassing both the perils of difference and the potential for empowerment. • Analyses a wide variety of Chinese cultural genres • Offers a dynamic and objective framework for understanding disability and citizenship in different societies • Reveals perspectives dependent upon closeness to the disability experience and highlights the gendered nature of disability 300pp 4 b/w illus. September 2020 9781107118539 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316339879

Economic Thought in Modern China

Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 Margherita Zanasi | Louisiana State University Margherita Zanasi argues that ideas of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged in China in the late 1500s, roughly a century and half earlier than in Europe. This book is for those interested in modern Chinese history and in economic thought, theories of economic modernization and economic globalization. • Places the development of Chinese economic thought in a comparative/global perspective • Focuses the relationship between economic ideas and economic circumstances to stimulate conversation between economic historians and historians of ideas • Bridges interpretative gaps between the Ming-Qing and Republican period 252pp 2 maps May 2020 9781108499934 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108752787

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea Hyaeweol Choi | University of Iowa Arguing that religion cannot be separated from modernity, Choi demonstrates how twentiethcentury Korea exemplifies the role global Protestant networks played in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices, instilling a sense of locality and the world, and claiming new space for women in the public sphere. • Considers the influence of multiple cultures in shaping modern gender relations in Korea • Illustrates how Protestant global networks played a significant role in shaping gendered modernity • Demonstrates colonial and postcolonial roots of gender norms and practices in modern Korea 320pp July 2020 9781108487436 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108766838

Honor and Shame in Early China

Mark Edward Lewis | Stanford University, California Shedding new light on the history of the early Chinese empires, Mark Edward Lewis explores the evolution of ideas about honor and shame. He shows that honor-shame discourse had a farreaching impact on political structures, family and gender roles, and the public reception of writing in early China. • Demonstrates the important role of the honor-shame discourse in the development of the imperial Chinese state • Carefully examines a comprehensive variety of early Chinese texts • Includes comparisons with other empires, most importantly the Roman

Empire 350pp January 2021 9781108843690 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108919678

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Japan’s Carnival War

Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 Benjamin Uchiyama | University of Southern California This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of unrelenting repression. Uchiyama demonstrates that ‘carnival war’ coexisted with the demands of total war to promote consumerist desire alongside sacrifice and fantasy alongside nightmare, helping mobilize the war effort. • Provides a fresh glimpse into Japanese mass culture during the war years beyond well-known government propaganda • Examines familiar but under-studied tropes of wartime Japan, such as the kamikaze pilot and the soldier • Explores the Japanese home front experience in World War II 292pp 27 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316637449 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 March 2019 9781107186743 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316899823 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Japan’s Castles

Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace Oleg Benesch | University of York An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for Japan’s future. The transformation of castles from symbols of Japan’s martial spirit into cultural heritage sites charts changing understandings of the past. • Provides the first history of Japan’s castles in the modern period • Examines castles in a wide range of locales from the nineteenth century to the present • Lavishly illustrated 376pp 42 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108741651 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 31.99 May 2019 9781108481946 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108680578

Japan’s Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Australian National University, Canberra By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twentieth-and twenty-first-century social experiments with particular relevance in the context of today’s global crisis of democracy. • Explores little-known cases of grassroots self-help activism in modern

Japan • Provides new insights into cross-border networking by informal politics groups • Contributes to international debates about democratic alternatives in the twenty-first-century world 246pp May 2020 9781108490078 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780049

Mao Zedong

A Biography Volume 1 1893–1949 Pang Xianzhi Volume 1 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893–1949. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China. • Introduces the official Chinese interpretation of the Mao period • Based on archives to which no Western scholars have yet had access • An introductory essay provides context and highlights differences in interpretation

The Cambridge China Library

1018pp 21 b/w illus. 3 maps February 2020 9781107092723 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781316136492

Mao’s Third Front

The Militarization of Cold War China Covell F. Meyskens | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California Covell Meyskens reveals a little-known chapter of Chinese history in this examination of the ways that socialism, militarism, and economic development became intertwined in a giant industrial campaign to protect socialist China from the military dangers of the Cold War. • A vivid account of how Cold War security tensions became woven into the political economy and everyday life of

Mao’s China • Examines a Chinese social engineering campaign when the geopolitical friction of the Cold War in Asia was at its most intense • The first detailed exploration of the most expensive industrialization initiative undertaken in China during the Mao era 292pp May 2020 9781108489553 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784788

Ming China and its Allies

Imperial Rule in Eurasia David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York The book is for anyone interested in the Mongol Empire, Chinese history, and the ways politicians exploit historical memory to win legitimacy at home and abroad. David M. Robinson shows that even the world’s most powerful rulers such as the Ming emperor needed allies and were willing to pay for them. • Contextualizes China in global history, breaking out of ‘isolated China’ historical narrative • Provides a full analysis of Chinese diplomacy and international leadership in the early modern period • Provides compelling new ways of thinking about power and legitimacy in the pre-modern world 258pp 2 maps January 2020 9781108489225 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108774253\

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Qing Travelers to the Far West

Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China Jenny Huangfu Day | Skidmore College, New York This is the first English-language study of China’s first travelers, envoys and diplomats to Europe and the United States. This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how SinoWestern engagements transformed literary traditions, diplomatic institutions, networks of communications and intellectual orientations. • Demonstrates how perspectives from literature, communication studies, intellectual history, and cultural history can inform the study of diplomacy and information order • Examines the period between the Opium Wars and the Sino-Japanese

War to provide a fresh explanation for the explosion of interest in foreign policy, international affairs, and institutional reform after 1895 • Proposes a new narrative of Sino-Western relationships in the late

Qing through the personal stories of travelers to the West 283pp 12 b/w illus. 1 table March 2020 9781108457729 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 December 2018 9781108471329 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108571005 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Rethinking China’s Rise

A Liberal Critique Jilin Xu | Shanghai Normal University This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China’s economic rise, critiquing China’s rejection of universal values, the nation’s embrace of particularism and the cult of the state. • A fascinating insight into contemporary China’s intellectual world • A fresh critique of China’s ascendancy • The first volume of Xu Jilin’s work available in English translation

The Cambridge China Library

250pp May 2020 9781108456586 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 July 2018 9781108470759 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108556965

Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires

Zongli Lu | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology This is the first English translation of Lu Zongli’s study of how rumor formed and spread through non-official channels in early Chinese history. Utilising popular songs, mythology and prophetic texts, Lu explores rumors in all their diverse forms, dissecting their nature, function and implications for politics and culture. • The first English translation of a major work of Chinese scholarship • Highlights the significance of public opinion and how it formed and spread through non-official channels in Chinese politics • Explores early Chinese history using an interdisciplinary framework

The Cambridge China Library

396pp September 2020 9781108479264 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782913

The Chinese Communist Party

A Century in Ten Lives Timothy Cheek | University of British Columbia, Vancouver Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. These essays reveal the Party’s one-hundred year history, reflecting on power, setbacks, adaptability and change, and illuminating possible paths for China’s future. • Lively and accessible introduction to one-hundred years of Chinese history • Presents innovative personal histories of the Chinese Communist Party • Brings together an international team of leading historians 250pp June 2021 9781108842778 Hardback GBP 60.00 / USD 75.00 June 2021 9781108822619 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108904186

The City of Blue and White

Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World Anne Gerritsen | University of Warwick Anne Gerritsen demonstrates the key role Chinese porcelain played in the creation of early modern global connections. Through its manufacture and global consumption, China participated in the early modern world. Drawing on research in multiple languages, this beautifully illustrated book situates porcelain in both a local and global context. • Provides a new way of approaching global history by connecting the global and the local • Demonstrates the key role of Chinese porcelain in the circulation of global material culture • Examines the long history of China’s connections with the wider world 354pp 4 b/w illus. 53 colour illus. 8 maps 1 table May 2020 9781108499958 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108753104

The Great Exodus from China

Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang | University of Missouri, Columbia Yang uncovers the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese civil war by examining the lives of ordinary people who were displaced from China to Taiwan in 1949. He presents a trajectory of repeated traumatization and a search for home, belonging, and identity that reconsiders notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation. • Uncovers the painful aftermath of Chinese civil war from the perspective of those traumatized and displaced by it • Discusses conflicting cultural traumas/historical memories between

Taiwan and China • Offers a powerful critique of the Eurocentric notions of trauma and memory 320pp September 2020 9781108478120 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108784306

The History of Famine Relief in China

Yunte Deng This is the first English translation of Deng Yunte’s classic study of famine relief in Chinese history. Richly researched, Deng both plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican period and provides a fascinating example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China. • The first English translation of Deng Yunte’s classic study of famine relief throughout the history of China • A deeply researched study of famine in China spanning more than three millennia • A valuable example of historical scholarship from t wentieth-century

China

The Cambridge China Library

660pp 41 tables July 2020 9781108479905 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108801065

The Making of a New Rural Order in South China

Volume 2 Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700 Joseph P. McDermott | University of Cambridge This book is written for anyone interested in Chinese history, Chinese business, banking, family structure, and local society over two crucial centuries in the making of modern China. It reveals how some Chinese families acquired and retained great wealth and power over the Chinese economy. • Provides a holistic framework and analysis of Chinese society and its economy, both rural and urban • Shows how kinship affects business practice and organization • Analyses how Chinese merchants carved niches for their commercial activities within the Chinese government and relates this to the development of distinctive forms 497pp 2 maps 13 tables July 2020 9781107048515 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 99.00 eISBN 9781107261471

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The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism

Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 Sidney Xu Lu | Michigan State University This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the anxiety about overpopulation to justify settler colonialism. Lu reveals the ideological ties, human connections, and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese emigration in Hawaii, North and South America. This title is also available as Open Access. • Examines the nexus between Japanese colonial expansion in Asia and

Japanese migration to Hawaii and the Americas • Analyzes the discourse of ‘Malthusian expansionism’ and places it at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism • Reveals how Japanese expansion developed in tandem with the history of Anglo-American settler colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries • This title is also available as Open Access 329pp 30 b/w illus. 4 tables June 2020 9781108712316 PaperbackGBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108482424 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108687584

The Making of Song Dynasty History

Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE Charles Hartman | University at Albany, State University of New York Charles Hartman undertakes a detailed revisionist analysis of the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279), deconstructing the master narratives that emerge from these sources as products of political discourse. • Presents a comprehensive introduction to the major sources for Song dynasty history • Offers the first analysis of the received narratives of Song history from a deconstructionist perspective • Provides a new governance model for middle period China 400pp October 2020 9781108834834 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108877176

The Meiji Restoration

Japan as a Global Nation Robert Hellyer | Wake Forest University, North Carolina An international team of historians employ global history in novel ways to offer new economic, social, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration, Japan’s modern revolution, and the subsequent creation of a globally-cast Japanese nation-state in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. • Brings together cutting-edge research by twelve historians from North

America, Europe, and Japan • Reveals the ways in which global contexts defined how institutions and individuals navigated and experienced the Meiji Restoration • Explores the global contexts that shaped new institutions created after the Meiji Restoration 298pp 18 b/w illus. 4 tables May 2020 9781108478052 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775762

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The Politics of the Past in Early China

Vincent S. Leung | Lingnan University, Hong Kong This is a study of the political uses of the past in early China. Engaging with a variety of historical materials, including inscriptional records, excavated manuscripts, and transmitted texts, it is a wideranging exploration of the fraught relationship between politics and historical imagination in ancient China. • Furthers our understanding of the history of early China and the ancient world • Contributes to our understanding of historiography from the Bronze

Age to the first millenium BCE • The book is based on a diverse set of primary sources, including inscriptional materials and excavated manuscripts 214pp February 2020 9781108443241 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 July 2019 9781108425728 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348843

Unending Capitalism

How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution Karl Gerth | University of California, San Diego With the establishment of the PRC in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare, Communist Party policies developed capitalism and expanded consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949–1976) down to the present. • Challenges conventional histories of capitalism and consumerism • Presents a provocative new interpretation of China - and the world - in the Mao era • Provides fresh, engaging material to explain complex concepts and topics 394pp May 2020 9780521868464 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 May 2020 9780521688468 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139025225

World History and National Identity in China

The Twentieth Century Xin Fan Xin Fan utilizes a variety of archival sources to tell the story of four generations of Chinese historians who created the field of world history in China over the course of the twentieth century, and offers a long-term view of the rise of nationalism in China today. • Provides a narrative of Chinese intellectual history over the course of the entire twentieth century • Considers the influence of critics of narrow nationalism on the formation of Chinese identity • Evaluates the legacy of world-historical studies in China 11000pp February 2021 9781108842600 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903653

History (General) after 1500

The Cambridge World History of Violence

Volume 3 AD 1500–AD 1800 Robert Antony Violence is a universal theme in human history and a major problem facing society today. In order to confront it, it is essential that we understand it. This volume shows how many of the problems that the world faces today are rooted in the first age of globalisation: the period between 1500 and 1800. • Not simply a summation of expert current knowledge, but provides original explanatory frameworks for understanding the problem of violence • Takes a thematic approach that provides a template for thinking about violence in a global context • A comprehensive introduction shows the potential of world history for rethinking traditional historical problems in new and productive ways across time and space

The Cambridge World History of Violence

732pp 24 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table March 2020 9781107119116 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316340592

The Problems of Genocide

Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression A. Dirk Moses | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A. Dirk Moses historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence, like crimes against humanity and war crimes, and suggests an alternative understanding of the causes and categorization of civilian destruction. • The first intellectual history of genocide that frames the concept as a problem rather than as an achievement • Shows how genocide functions to mask and normalize other kinds of violence against civilians • Highlights the function of ‘permanent security’ as the driver of civilian destruction

Human Rights in History

288pp January 2021 9781107103580 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2021 9781107503120 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316217306

History (General) before 1500

The Cambridge World History of Violence

Volume 1 The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds Garrett G. Fagan | Pennsylvania State University Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, this volume moves beyond the study of ancient warfare alone, taking a broader look at violence on a world-wide scale. Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world. • Looks at violence globally across a wide range of human history enabling a comparative perspective • At the cutting edge of the history of violence, taking into account the latest scholarship • Provides a wide range of interpretations by both recognized authorities in the field and up-and-coming scholars across an array of disciplines, including archaeology, history, art history, ethnography and literature

The Cambridge World History of Violence

756pp 42 b/w illus. 1 map 3 tables March 2020 9781107120129 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316341247

The Cambridge World History of Violence

Volume 2 AD 500–AD 1500 Matthew Gordon | University of Miami This volume set takes a broad look at violence on a world-wide scale. It looks specifically at what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 5000–1500 CE), and analyzes violence from Japan and China in the east, across Central Asia and North Africa, to Western Europe, with two additional chapters on Aztec and Mayan culture. • Takes a thematic approach that provides a template for thinking about violence in a global context • At the cutting edge of the history of violence, taking into account the latest scholarship • Provides a wide range of interpretations by both recognized authorities in the field and up-and-coming scholars across an array of disciplines, including archaeology, history, art history, ethnography and literature

The Cambridge World History of Violence

722pp 31 b/w illus. March 2020 9781107156388 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316661291

History (General), World History

Arabian Boundaries New Documents 1966–1975 18 Volume Hardback Set

Richard Schofield Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This collection of illuminating Foreign and Commonwealth Office documents chronicle the most critical decade in the territorial evolution of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region, a wholly unique area in geopolitical terms. • This title is part of an unofficial series with three sets:Arabian

Boundaries 1853-1960; Arabian Boundaries New Documents 1961-1965;Arabian Boundaries New Documents 1966-1975 • Provides a unique tie-in of historical primary source documents and representative contemporary maps • Provides a uniquely curated collection of historical primary source documents from British archive sources 11000pp August 2020 9781788068963 18 Hardback books GBP 6300.00 / USD 8370.00

History after 1945 (General)

The Past Can’t Heal Us

The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights Lea David | University College Dublin Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that ‘proper’ remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to understand how the human rights memorialization agenda developed globally and why it often ends up strengthening nationalist sentiment and shaping social inequalities on the ground. • Introduces a new theoretical approach to assess the impact the human rights memorialization agenda has had in conflict and post-conflict settings • Highlights the intersection of historical events, discourses and practices that have enabled the rise of moral remembrance • Offers thought-provoking insights into some of the dangers and pitfalls of the human rights memorialization agenda on the ground

Human Rights in History

300pp July 2020 9781108495189 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861311

Latin American History

A Silver River in a Silver World

Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 David Freeman | University of Missouri, Kansas City A study for scholars of colonial Latin American, Dutch, and economic history that explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade during an understudied period of Spanish America’s history. It raises questions about foreign ‘contraband’ traders and ‘corrupt’ officials, underscoring that their activities frequently proceeded within the law. • Explores an understudied region and era of colonial America so that new entities are introduced into the historiography of colonization • Focuses on the impact Dutch traders had on colonial South America’s economy through trade transactions • Stresses the legitimacy with which these transactions were carried out in order to challenge popular narratives surrounding colonial trade

Cambridge Latin American Studies

238pp 2 maps April 2020 9781108417495 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108277754

Agrarian Puerto Rico

Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940 César J. Ayala | University of California, Los Angeles An examination of the evolution of land tenure and social structure in various economic zones of Puerto Rico during the early twentieth century. Archival data show that the integration of Puerto Rico into the US economy led to overwhelmingly diverse outcomes in different socioeconomic regions of the island. • Avoids dominant historical narratives to pursue a nuanced understanding of the impacts of colonialism on Puerto Rico’s economy under US control • Takes advantage of empirical data to correct common perceptions of

Puerto Rican socioeconomics • Emphasizes the importance of land tenure structures which provides a unique perspective useful to scholars trying to revisit the island’s colonial past 322pp January 2020 9781108488464 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108763981

Anarchists of the Caribbean

Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion Kirwin R. Shaffer | Pennsylvania State University Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the Caribbean with Spain, the US, Mexico, South America, and Central America. He uncovers how these groups challenged local and national elites as well as US political, military, and economic expansion. • Explores anarchism from a transnational perspective • Demonstrates the central tension between US foreign policy and anarchist anti-imperialism • Places a special emphasis on the biographies of anarchists who were key in developing transnational networks and shaping anarchist culture

Global and International History

322pp May 2020 9781108489034 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773706

Beyond Babel

Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada Larissa Brewer-García | University of Chicago This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spiritual intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world. • Offers a strong counter-narrative to the emergence of racism and racial hierarchy in the period by outlining the emergence of a discourse of blackness as an attribute of beauty, virtue, and holiness • Focuses on two major cities in seventeenth-century Spanish America:

Cartagena de Indias and Lima • Brings several notable documents to light for the first time, including first-person accounts by Afro-latino subjects and text such as the 1629

Oraciones traducidas en la lengua del Reino de Angola

Afro-Latin America

321pp 16 b/w illus. 2 tables August 2020 9781108493000 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632416

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Black British Migrants in Cuba

Race, Labor, and Empire in the TwentiethCentury Caribbean, 1898–1948 Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres | University of Puerto Rico This book provides a detailed analysis of AfroCaribbean experiences in Cuba from 1898 to 1948. Paying particular attention to labor, race, politics, and imperial relations, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres weaves together a complex story of transnationalism in the African Diaspora. • Offers a comprehensive history of British

Antilleans in Cuba • Focuses on the pre-World War II era to fill the historical void in twentieth-century analysis of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora • Uses regional newspapers to provide concrete examples of discrimination against Caribbean migrants

Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora

323pp April 2020 9781108437585 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108423465 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108526128 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755

Christoph Rosenmüller | Middle Tennessee State University This book provides the first detailed analysis of the evolving concept of corruption in colonial Mexico. Drawing on fresh archival material from historical, legal, religious, and political documents, Christoph Rosenmüller explores the enigma of corruption, its meanings, and its temporal differences. • Provides the first detailed analysis of corruption in colonial Mexico • Utilizes a variety of fresh resources, including judicial treatises and royal legislation, to trace the historical meaning of corruption • Places corruption charges in colonial Mexico within the legal, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic world

Cambridge Latin American Studies

361pp June 2020 9781108701938 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May 2019 9781108477116 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108756761

Empire on Edge

The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatan’s Caste War, 1847–1901 Rajeshwari Dutt This transnational account of colonialism at the margins reveals why frontiers are key to understanding imperial anxieties and conflicts. This book is the first monograph to explore Yucatán’s Caste War of 1847–1901 in the context of frontiers and borderlands studies, British history, and imperial and colonial studies. • Offers the first transnational study of how the Caste War of Yucatán transformed neighboring Belize • Allows readers to grapple with questions of colonialism, empire, conflict, ethnicity, and identity through an accessible and readable case study • Explores intersections between British imperial history and Latin

American history 198pp March 2020 9781108493420 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108642309

Finding Afro-Mexico

Race and Nation after the Revolution Theodore W. Cohen | Lindenwood University, Missouri Interrogating the racial, cultural, and political foundations of Mexican nationality and the African Diaspora, Theodore W. Cohen reveals how Mexicans, African Americans, and Cubans have understood black identity in Mexico since the 1910 Revolution. This study provides crucial context for the position of Afro-Mexicans in today’s society. • Bridges the rich historical literature on slavery and race in the colonial period with scholarship on the contemporary politics of Blackness • Traces the long history of African-American intellectual engagements with Mexico • Contributes to the expanding literature on the politics of racial comparison and connection along sub-national, national, and transnational lines

Afro-Latin America

348pp 15 b/w illus. 12 maps May 2020 9781108493017 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108632430

Islanders and Empire

Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690 Juan José Ponce Vázquez | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Islanders and Empire is a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the role smuggling played in the economic and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries that will interest students and scholars of the Caribbean, colonial Latin American, and the Atlantic World. • Provides a rare, on-the-ground study of a Spanish Caribbean society in the seventeenth century, a previously understudied period and region • Discusses significant examples of colonial peripheries and borderlands in shaping overall imperial governance • Features a strong narrative style as a key feature of historical inquiry

Cambridge Latin American Studies

320pp October 2020 9781108477659 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776967

Laboring for the State

Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971 Rachel Hynson Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state, drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories. • Offers an in-depth, historical treatment of the internal dynamics of four early revolutionary campaigns that sought to control women’s reproduction, promote marriage, end prostitution, and compel men into state-sanctioned employment • Advances new arguments based on primary source material, archival research, and personal interviews • Focuses on individual beliefs and responses to campaigns as opposed to just state prerogatives and impositions to provide evidence of both the government’s grand narrative and citizens’ counter narratives

Cambridge Latin American Studies

332pp 14 b/w illus. January 2020 9781107188679 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108105330

Modern Brazil

A Social History Herbert S. Klein | Columbia University, New York The most detailed social history of Brazil to date, this book is the first to examine all aspects of the region’s transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an urban, industrialized one. An indispensable resource for scholars and students of Brazilian and Latin American politics and history. • Draws upon extensive quantitative research while providing an excellent survey of the secondary literature • An exemplary model of a modern social history that offers a macro perspective on societal changes • Provides a valuable tool for scholars comparing Brazil to other BRIC countries and analyzing the modernization process 432pp 90 b/w illus. 3 maps 95 tables March 2020 9781108489027 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 March 2020 9781108733298 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108773683

Modernity in Black and White

Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945 Rafael Cardoso | Freie Universität Berlin Rafael Cardoso provides a groundbreaking account of artistic modernization in Brazil in his first singleauthored English-language publication. He puts popular culture and racial tensions at the center, situating cultural debates within the broader currents of Brazilian life, such as the rise of favelas, carnival, mass media, and dictatorship. • A comprehensive and meticulously researched introduction to artistic modernization in Brazil • Analyzes the tension in Brazil between Western definitions of ‘the modern’ and Brazil’s largest African-descended population, from which popular cultural markers such as carnival dominate • Showcases a vast archive of images across a range of visual cultural production, including painting, graphic art, and photography

Afro-Latin America

288pp November 2020 9781108481908 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108680356

Our Time is Now

Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala Julie Gibbings | University of Edinburgh Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of modern politics, economics, and social norms was central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution. • Examines Q’eqchi Maya efforts to forge an alternative vision of modernity via indigenous traditions, politics, culture, economics, and general worldviews during a period of unrest in postcolonial

Guatemala • Demonstrates the ways that historical time was central to contests over race and aspects of political modernity including citizenship, labor, and nation • Uses sources including oral histories, municipal and national archives, newspapers, poetry and novels, popular histories and photographs, and plantation records

Cambridge Latin American Studies

419pp 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 1 table June 2020 9781108489140 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108774048

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The Mexican Revolution’s Wake

The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929 Sarah Osten | University of Vermont A social and political history of regional socialist parties that set critical precedents for the creation of Mexico’s single-party system following the Mexican Revolution. For scholars and students of modern Latin America across disciplines. • Includes a four-state comparison of socialist parties in Southeast Mexico, which contributes a truly regional perspective to a field dominated by locally-specific histories • Addresses the origins of Mexico’s idiosyncratic post-revolutionary political system, and facilitates comparisons with histories of stateformation elsewhere in the world • Highlights the political histories of less-studied states in Mexico, and offers background on relevant figures and events, complicating and enriching previous interpretations of this history with new data

Cambridge Latin American Studies

303pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps January 2020 9781108401289 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 February 2018 9781108415989 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108235570

The Sexual Question

A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s Paulo Drinot | University College London Exploring the links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot’s study engaging and thoroughly researched. • Based on extensive, rich sources that include letters written by prostitutes themselves • Presents analysis which is empirically driven and engaging • Enhances strong scholarship on the history of prostitution in Latin

America and beyond

Cambridge Latin American Studies

328pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps March 2020 9781108493123 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 March 2020 9781108717281 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781108675659

Middle East History

A History of Jeddah

The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ulrike Freitag Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city’s urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula. • An urban history considered through the perspective of Jeddah’s diverse population comprised of long-distance merchants, shipping magnates and ex-slaves • Will appeal to historians of the modern Middle East, as well as those with an interest in urban history and the social and political history of

Saudi Arabia • Re-evaluates Jeddah’s place in the Middle East against the backdrop of modernisation and Saudi nation-building 404pp March 2020 9781108478793 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108778831

Arabic Poetics

Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature Lara Harb | Princeton University, New Jersey Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history. • Gives the modern reader tools to read and appreciate classical Arabic literature, the Quran, and to understand the idiosyncratic interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics in Arabic • Engages with, and deepens understanding of aesthetic theory and classical Arabic literary theory • Considers works from the thirteenth and fourteenth century, which have received much less attention in modern scholarship on classical

Arabic literature

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

318pp May 2020 9781108490214 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780483

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Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age

Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda Jens Hanssen | University of Toronto This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. It reassesses Arabic cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship and extends the analysis beyond Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt and the outbreak of World War II. • Assesses the impact of the doyen of the field, the late Albert Hourani, fifty years after his seminal book Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 (Cambridge, 1962) • Introduces the paradigmatic Arabic term Nahda for Hourani’s liberal age and relates it to the emerging field of global intellectual history • Proposes a paradigmatic shift in the study of modern Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature, offering conceptual innovation, greater geographical coverage and deeper historical probing into the origins and transformations of Arab modernity 461pp January 2020 9781316501825 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 December 2016 9781107136335 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316479827

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Child Custody in Islamic Law

Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim | McGill University, Montréal In this longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim challenges Euro-American exceptionalism and unveils developments akin to the Euro-American concept of the best interests of the child, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). • A longitudinal study of child custody in Egypt, showing the parallels between pre-colonial and post-colonial family ideologies and legal change • Offers a new perspective on pre-modern legal practice • Provides a non-Euro-American history of child custody

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

279pp June 2020 9781108456197 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 August 2018 9781108470568 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108648042

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Christianity in FifteenthCentury Iraq

Thomas A. Carlson | Oklahoma State University Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Carlson explores Christianity in fifteenth-century Iraq and opens new possibilities for understanding this religiously-diverse pre-industrial society and culture. This book expands the possibilities for global Christianity and shows that ‘Islamic Civilization’ can’t be understood through Muslim sources alone. • Draws on a rich variety of sources, including Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Syriac sources • Provides a method for analyzing the cultural dimension of social diversity • Broadens the social and geographical horizons for historians of both global Christianity and the Islamic world

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

323pp 2 b/w illus. 5 maps June 2020 9781316637135 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 September 2018 9781107186279 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316888919

Collective Liability in Islam

The ‘Aqila and Blood Money Payments Nurit Tsafrir | Tel-Aviv University Offering the first close analysis of the ‘Aqila, a group jointly liable for blood money payments on behalf of its members, this study traces the transformation of this important institution from pre-Islamic custom to the Shari‘a, and follows its further re-shaping through the modern period, in relation to Islamic religion, state, and society. • Provides the first analysis of the Shari’a institution of the ‘Aqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments • Presents a clear, detailed outline of the law’s evolution from its pre-

Islamic origins through to the modern day • Places legal theory within the context of historical transformations in religion, state and society

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

188pp January 2020 9781108498647 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108654241

Cosmopolitan Radicalism

The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties Zeina Maasri | University of Brighton Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in 1960s Beirut, this compelling and original study examines a critical period in Lebanon’s history, now celebrated as the ‘golden age’. It draws from uncharted archives of visual and print culture, filling a major gap in the literature on the history of the postcolonial Arab East. • Provides a new understanding of the cultural politics of decolonization in transnational circuits and global contexts • Examines unexplored primary sources and archives of visual culture, shedding light on graphic design practices and the visual politics of print media • Develops new interdisciplinary frameworks for the analysis of visual and print culture and makes a compelling case for applying these methods in future studies

The Global Middle East

342pp 39 b/w illus. 40 colour illus. August 2020 9781108487719 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108767736 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan

From World War II to Nasserism Rami Ginat | Bar-Ilan University, Israel This book is a revised history of Egypt’s doctrine of the unity of the Nile Valley, tracing its struggle from monarchy to revolution. It is for scholars and students of Middle Eastern and African history, studying courses on colonial and imperial history, and social movements, and for general readers. • The first study to comprehensively investigate Egypt’s struggle to unite the Nile Valley under its rule, attracting interest from students and scholars in both Middle Eastern and African history • Uniquely examines Egyptian methods and assertions to prove categorically that the Sudan in its entirety was an integral part of

Egypt, making a useful read for those studying colonialism, imperialism and third worldism • Presents a variety of socio-political perspectives on the issue of unity in the Nile Valley, for those studying nationalism, political Islam, communism, radical ideologies, social movements, federalism and emigration 292pp March 2020 9781316647929 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 August 2017 9781107197930 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108181952

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Friends of the Emir

Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought Luke B. Yarbrough | University of California, Los Angeles The rulers of the premodern Islamic world employed vast numbers of non-Muslim officials. Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and others rose to positions of influence at the courts of Muslim caliphs and sultans. This book traces and analyzes how Muslims thought and wrote about these nonMuslim officials who helped to administer their governments. • Proposes a new model for the development of exclusionary political views in Islamic history • Uncovers a wide range of sources from chronicles and law to belles lettres, polemic, and poetry • Offers a wide range of examples from across the premodern Islamic world: from Europe and the Middle East to East Asia

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

378pp September 2020 9781108721745 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2019 9781108496605 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108634274

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Ibadi Muslims of North Africa

Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition Paul M. Love, Jr Examining the Ibadi Muslims of North Africa, this book traces the history of Arabic texts to tell the story of how people and their networks build religious traditions. Combining the study of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools, it explains how this religious community created and maintained a tradition over nearly a millennium. • Offers a new and in-depth overview of Ibadi history in North Africa • Situates the Ibadis within the broader historical context of the history of the Maghrib, the Mediterranean, and the Sahara • Develops a model for studying the complementary networks of people and ideas across regions

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

231pp 27 b/w illus. 1 map June 2020 9781108459013 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 September 2018 9781108472500 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108560498

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Iranian Cosmopolitanism

A Cinematic History Golbarg Rekabtalaei | Seton Hall University, New Jersey In the lead-up to the revolution, Iran’s cinematic culture reveals much about its society and politics. With her unique take, Golbarg Rekabtalaei opens new avenues for the understanding of cosmopolitanism in Iran and the ways in which it became a style of national imagination through the lens of cinema. • Proposes a re-reading of cinematic history to shed fresh light on the cultural and political history of Iran • Shows how Iranian modernity was linked to social and cultural cosmopolitanism • Draws on a wide array of original language primary sources

The Global Middle East

319pp September 2020 9781108407465 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108418515 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108290289

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Iranian Masculinities

Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran Sivan Balslev | Hebrew University of Jerusalem This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history by examining how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from when under Qajar rule. Balslev finds that the notion of what made a ‘proper Iranian man’ shifted with changes in wider Iranian society. • An in-depth exploration of the role masculinity played in Iranian history • Re-examines nationalism, modernisation and westernisation in Iran, through this lens of masculinity • Draws on a wide variety of sources, including visual sources 330pp September 2020 9781108456333 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2019 9781108470636 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108556880

Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad

Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979 Eric Lob | Florida International University Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and development experts, this is the first study to examine the significant yet understudied organization and ministry, Reconstruction Jihad, as a key institution in the political and socioeconomic development of the Iranian Republic. • The first full-length study of a significant yet understudied organization and ministry, Reconstruction Jihad, from the 1979 revolution to the present day • Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, development experts, and local residents • Will be of interest to Middle East and Iran specialists, historians, social scientists, development experts, policymakers, and practitioners 404pp 13 b/w illus. 16 tables February 2020 9781108487443 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108766852

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Iran’s Troubled Modernity

Debating Ahmad Fardid’s Legacy Ali Mirsepassi | New York University Ahmad Fardid (1910–94), an ‘anti-Western’ philosopher, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, coining the term ‘Westoxication’. With thirteen interviews relating his colourful life and intellectual legacy, Mirsepassi sheds light on Iran’s twentieth-century intellectual and political selfconstruction. • Contains detailed new research into the colourful life and times of

Ahmad Fardid • Uses thirteen extensive interviews to relate the story and provide a conversational quality to the narrative • Presents an extensive study of anti-orientalist discourse and its relationship with the formation of the Islamic Republic

The Global Middle East

381pp November 2020 9781108700269 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2018 9781108476393 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108566124

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Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt

From the Monarchy to the Republic Mohammad Salama | San Francisco State University Boasting an in-depth analyses of individual texts over half a century, this intriguing history of the dynamics of Islam and culture in modern Egypt presents the conflict between tradition and secular values in a challenging new light. Including literature and film as crucial sources, this book is accessible to general readers and scholars alike. • Offers a fresh non-historicist account of thinking and writing about

Islam and the culture of modern Egypt in the first half of the twentieth century • Defiantly confronts holistic dictates of historical positivism and offers instead local interventions on debates around Islam, modernity, secularism, and the production of knowledge • Shows how an incipient nationalism born in Egypt at the outset of the last century was co-opted by local currents, imperialist powers, anticolonial resistance, as well as Islamist and secular ideologies 238pp 6 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108404679 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 November 2018 9781108417181 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108265027

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Islam in Israel

Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States Muhammad Al-Atawneh | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Focussing on the evolving role of Islamic law in the construction of a Muslim minority identity in Israel, this valuable contribution to the literature on Islam in Israel, as well as Islamic studies and Israel studies in general, will be of great interest to scholars and students alike. • Provides important up-to-date data about

Muslims living in Israel • Suggests a unique window through which to view the most influential

Islamic organizations in Israel today • Examines personal, social, and geographic factors influencing evolving

Muslim identities in Israel 212pp 4 b/w illus. 124 tables March 2020 9781108436007 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 27.99 January 2018 9781108423267 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108525671

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Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

A. C. S. Peacock | University of St Andrews, Scotland Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries to offer new understanding of the process of Islamisation in Anatolia and integrate its study with that of the broader Islamic world. • Analyses literature, religion and society during a crucial yet neglected period in Anatolian history, that of Mongol domination in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries • Contributes to new understanding of the emergence of the Ottoman

Empire and ultimately the modern Republic of Turkey by marking a decisive phase in the process of the Islamisation of medieval Anatolia • Brings together sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish to integrate the study of Anatolia with that of the broader Islamic world

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

323pp November 2020 9781108713481 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2019 9781108499361 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108582124

Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt

Hilary Kalmbach | University of Sussex For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood. • A ground-breaking study of a pivotal, yet understudied school, Dar al-’Ulum, an institution that has not been published on for thirty-five years • Demonstrates the importance of Arabic and Islamic knowledge to performances of authority, belonging, and authenticity within a modernising Muslim-majority community • Establishes a 130-year history for tensions over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres, tensions that were central to the outcomes of the 2011 Arab Uprisings 288pp October 2020 9781108423472 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108526142

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Islamic Law of the Sea

Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought Hassan S. Khalilieh | University of Haifa, Israel In this pioneering research, Hassan S. Khalilieh sheds light on the often ignored Islamic law of the sea, and customary practices that were influential in the development of many of the fundamental principles of the pre-modern international law governing the legal status of the high seas and the territorial sea. • Approaches the subject of Islamic international law from the maritime perspective • Focusses on three legal themes: the territorial sea, the high seas, and maritime piracy • Cites Qur’anic verses, prophetic traditions, and the 630 CE Treaty in the original Arabic

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

304pp 2 maps September 2020 9781108722391 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May 2019 9781108481458 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108630702

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Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East

International Relations in the Interwar Period Amit Bein | Clemson University, South Carolina This book offers a multifaceted perspective of Turkey’s international relations during the interwar period. It is for scholars, students and researchers of Middle Eastern history and politics, international relations, as well as general readers interested in the wider Middle East. • Offers readers a revised view of regional dynamics in the history of the

Modern Middle East, moving away from overly Eurocentric approaches to the period • Shows readers how Kemalist Turkey’s international relations in the interwar period has had a lasting influence on the region’s current politics • Corrects misconceptions regarding Turkey’s engagement with the

Middle East in the early post-Ottoman period, offering readers an accurate historical perspective 305pp 17 b/w illus. 8 maps March 2020 9781316647981 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2017 9781107198005 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108182072

King Abdul Aziz: Diplomacy and Statecraft 1902–1953 4 Volume Hardback Set

Diplomacy and Statecraft 1902–1953 A Burdett Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This collection of primary source documents evidences the methods, policies and diplomacy employed by Abdul Aziz Al Saud in extending and then consolidating the Saudi state. It traces his relations with Arab rulers, Britain, the United States and other European powers. • Contains collections of key documents from the India Office Library • Previously unknown or fragmented material is now available in a coherent collection • This title is one of a pair with ‘King Abdul Aziz: Political

Correspondence 1904–1953’, which has a slightly different focus with many original Arabic documents. This title has no Arabic documents. 2000pp August 2020 9781788062107 4 Hardback books GBP 1400.00 / USD 1860.00

Kuwait Political Agency 12 Hardback Set

Arabic Documents 1899–1949 M. Asser Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This collection constitutes a comprehensive publication of the Arabic documents found in the files of the British Political Agency, Kuwait and a valuable research resource for Kuwaiti, Saudi and the Arab Gulf. Arranged in chronological order and with detailed documents listing. • Previously unknown or fragmented material is now brought together in a coherent collection • The collection is arranged in chronological order and is complemented by the addition of a detailed contents list describing every document • The majority of the correspondence passed between the Ruler and the Political Agency in Kuwait but the volume and range of material is extensive concerning the Persian Gulf waters and islands, Iran, and

Saudi Arabia 8000pp August 2020 9781788067102 12 Hardback books GBP 4550.00 / USD 6045.00

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Law and Politics under the Abbasids

An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui Abu Ma’ali al-Juwayni (d. 478/1085) is a lauded figure in Islamic intellectual history but his thought remains underexplored. Living during a politically precarious period, he became preoccupied with questions of religious certainty and continuity. Siddiqui reveals the dynamism of his thinking on the relationship between theology, law and politics. • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to Islamic studies, revealing connections between theology, law and politics • Challenges the notion of al-Juwayni being a prototypical Ash’ari theologian and Shafi’i jurist • Shows that Islamic political thought was not solely focused on the power of the imam • Provides a new way for conceptualizing the Shari’a in varying social and political circumstances

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

329pp June 2020 9781108721950 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 April 2019 9781108496780 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108654784

Leaving Zion

Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II Ori Yehudai Ohio State University Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspectives of governments, aid organizations, Jewish communities and the personal stories of individual migrants. • Looks at the land of Israel not only as a country of Jewish immigration but also of emigration • Pays close attention to the personal stories of individual migrants to reconstruct the migration process from a new angle • Uses previously unexamined primary sources collected from twenty-two archives in six countries to bring to light a hitherto unknown chapter in

Israel’s history 280pp May 2020 9781108478342 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108777490

Life after the Harem

Female Palace Slaves, Patronage and the Imperial Ottoman Court Betül Ipsirli Argit The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, it demonstrates the diversity of experiences in non-dynastic femaleagency in the early-modern Ottoman world. It focuses particularly on the period following their manumission and transfer from the imperial palace. • The first study to explore the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, including the period following their manumission and transfer from the imperial palace. • Demonstrates the diversity of experiences and agency of non-dynastic female members of the imperial courts • Opens new horizons for those interested in the roles of palace women, the nature of patronage relationships, and personal and political dynamics in the Ottoman imperial court 304pp 5 b/w illus. 1 map 9 tables October 2020 9781108488365 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770316

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Mapping Kurdistan

Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism Zeynep N. Kaya | London School of Economics and Political Science Addressing the lack of rigorous research and analysis of Kurdish politics from an international perspective, this study examines how the map of Kurdistan, which represents the ideal of a unified Kurdish homeland in an ethnically and geographically complex region, was created within international political history. • Tells the story of the map of Kurdistan, and how its historical construction informs the Kurdish sense of territory, identity and homeland • Takes a non-political approach to notions of nationhood and territoriality for a systematic and historically engaged study of Kurdish politics and Kurdish engagement with the international community • Of importance to those interested in the renewed media focus on the

Kurds, plus scholars and students of international relations, nationalism and Middle Eastern studies 243pp 7 maps June 2020 9781108474696 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108629805

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Mapping the Ottomans

Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean Palmira Brummett | Brown University, Rhode Island Maps serve as centerpieces for discussions of early modern space, time, borders, stages of travel, information flows, invocations of authority, and cross-cultural relations. Enriched by examples of Ottoman self-mapping, this book examines how the Ottoman Empire was mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe’s Christian kingdoms. • Contains multiple illustrations of early modern maps • Provides comparisons to Ottoman self-mapping • The evidence ranges widely across area, time, and genre 383pp 95 b/w illus. 17 colour illus. 1 map May 2020 9781107462953 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 July 2015 9781107090774 Hardback GBP 35.99 / USD 57.00 eISBN 9781316117316

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Muhammad’s Heirs

The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622–950 Jonathan E. Brockopp | Pennsylvania State University This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century through the examination of early Muslim texts and discourse. It is for scholars and advanced students studying Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, Islamic law and early Islamic literature. • Offers a wide array of primary sources (including significant excerpts from texts) to provide an overview of the history of early Muslim scholarly communities • Sets the rise of Islam in a multi-religious context through the use of sources from a variety of religious viewpoints, making it ideal for readers of multiple faiths and disciplines • Presents the first published overview of important early Islamic manuscripts in a separate appendix

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

247pp 17 b/w illus. February 2020 9781107514379 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 August 2017 9781107106666 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316227145

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Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam

Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania Alison Vacca | University of Tennessee, Knoxville This book explores the Christian provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as caliphal provinces and part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere. It is aimed at historians of Islam, Iran and the Caucasus, and for those studying themes of memory, diversity and Muslim-Christian relations in the Near East. • Analyzes Armenia and Albania as provinces under Islamic rule, shifting away from previous literature that usually places them in a Byzantine context • Balances both Christian and Arabic sources, often unexplored by

Islamic historians, to offer a more all-encompassing view of the period • Focuses on the transition from Sasanian to caliphal rule, offering a novel example for the transition to Islamic rule in the region

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

289pp 7 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316638552 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 September 2017 9781107188518 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316979853 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Ottoman Women during World War I

Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict Elif Mahir Metinsoy The book studies the experience of Ottoman Muslim women during the First World War, focusing on the everyday problems of life on the home front and the role of women in shaping wartime social policy. It is an ideal read for researchers of gender history, Middle Eastern and social history. • Provides a concise, accessible overview of the lives of Ottoman women during the First World War, free of academic jargon, for both scholars and the general reader • Uses previously unseen archive sources to propose a new view of

Ottoman and Turkish women’s history, exploring the role of women from all social circumstances in shaping Ottoman history • Draws conclusions on life on the Ottoman home front, and the role of women in shaping social and political developments, that can be applied to the modern day events shaping the Middle East 289pp March 2020 9781316648391 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 November 2017 9781107198906 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108182850

Palestine and Transjordan Administration Reports 1918–1948

R. Jarman Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This is an essential research source providing facsimile documents regarding British administration in Palestine and Transjordan, on the continuous tensions of the period between the Arab and Jewish populations, on civil disorders and the eventual unworkability of the Mandate. • Complete for the first time: the series includes the pre-Mandate reports of 1918–1923, the Mandate and Departmental Annual Reports from 1923–1947/8, (including the unpublished Mandate Reports for 1940 and 1941), the extensive Survey of Palestine 1946–7 and the formal papers covering the termination of the Mandate in 1948 • Included in this set are various historical memoranda produced by the Palestine and British Governments for the United Nations Special

Committee on Palestine, giving an overall view of the mandate period 11500pp August 2020 9781788067300 16 Hardback books GBP 5600.00 / USD 7440.00

Persian Historiography across Empires

The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals Sholeh A. Quinn The first comparative study of Persian historiography of the early modern Islamic empires, the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, presenting in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources to illustrate the extensive universe of literary-historical writing that Persian historiography can be found within. • This first comparative study of Persian historiography from the 16th17th centuries • Presents in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources written under the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals • Draws attention to the importance of placing these historical chronicles within their previously neglected historiographical context 250pp January 2021 9781108842211 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108906975

Political Repression in Bahrain

Marc Jones This rich 100-year modern history of Bahrain uses multiple sources, from freedom of information requests, interviews, and social media data to show how and why the Bahrain regime has used different techniques of political repression to maintain power since the 1920s. With new insights, this book challenges existing knowledge on Bahrain. • An interdisciplinary analysis of political repression in Bahrain • Provides a concise and accessible history of Bahrain over 100 years • Will appeal to Gulf area experts, historians, social movement scholars, those interested in post-colonial studies, social justice as well as policymakers and the general reader

Cambridge Middle East Studies

400pp July 2020 9781108471435 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108458009 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108558822

Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean

Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire Malte Fuhrmann A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, which re-examines the European influence over the urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender and national identity, providing an alternative view of the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe. • A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities including Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica • Provides new perspectives on the region by featuring lower class and subaltern perspectives • Examines urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender, and national identities for an alternate view on the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe 444pp October 2020 9781108477376 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769716

Records of the Emirates 19661971 6 Volume Hardback Set

Anita Burdett Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. Great Britain had been responsible for the various emirates’ external affairs for over 150 years. This collection concentrates on the central development of the Emirates infrastructure and government including coverage of the process of achieving union of the separate emirates. • Provides a unique collection of key historical primary source documents from British archive sources • Previously unknown or fragmented material is now available in a coherent collection • Builds on the original collection Records of the Emirates 1820–1960, and connects with the further extension Records of the Emirates 1961–65 3000pp August 2020 9781788065269 6 Hardback books GBP 2100.00 / USD 2790.00

Records of Yemen 1798–1960 16 Volume Hardback Set

Doreen Ingrams Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. The important historical material in this work, including privileged access to ancient and fragile archives now closed to public view provides scholars with an extensive and importance repertoire of primary documents reflecting the history of the Yemen. • This publication provides a uniquely curated collection of historical primary source documents from British archive sources • Having lived in Yemen as part of the British governmental apparatus, and being permitted access to fragile papers now closed, the two editors were uniquely positioned to create a work of unusually high status 12000pp August 2020 9781788065481 16 Hardback books GBP 5600.00 / USD 7440.00

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Religious Politics in Turkey

From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP Ceren Lord | University of Oxford The AKP period in Turkey has often been understood as a break from the ‘secular’ pattern of state-building. Ceren Lord challenges this by showing how Islamist mobilisation in Turkey has been facilitated by state institutions established during early nation-building, offering a new perspective on the politicisation of religion. • Based on original archival material, offers new analytical framework for understanding state-religion relations in Turkey and the wider Middle

Eastern region • Uses new data to propose an alternative account of the historical roots of the AKP period in Turkey • Looks at the expansion of religious infrastructure in Turkey

Cambridge Middle East Studies

386pp March 2020 9781108458924 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2018 9781108472005 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108638906

Reversing the Colonial Gaze

Persian Travelers Abroad Hamid Dabashi | Columbia University, New York Moving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the adventures of more than a dozen Persian travelers in the nineteenth century rediscovers and reclaims the world as seen through their rich travelogues, removing the colonial borders within which their narratives had been placed. • Counters Eurocentric approaches to travel writing, reclaiming the world through the narratives of Persian travelers abroad in the nineteenth century • Features detailed analysis of critical sources within travel literature, and postcolonial and postmodern theory • Will be of interest not only to college and graduate students and researchers of the Middle East and Iran and India, but also to those interested in travel writing beyond the Western world

The Global Middle East

408pp 15 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108488129 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108768986

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Revolution and its Discontents

Political Thought and Reform in Iran Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | University of Oxford Starting with the end of the Iran-Iraq War in August 1988 and the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi looks at the rise and evolution of reformist thought in Iran and how it came to rethink the nature of political and religious authority under the Islamic Republic. • Presents an in-depth intellectual history of Iran’s reform movement • Highlights Muslim thinkers’ contributions to political and theological debates in modern Iran • Connects Iran’s intellectual history to the wider intellectual debates of the global Cold War

The Global Middle East

455pp 1 table June 2020 9781108445061 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 February 2019 9781108426343 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108681834

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Russia’s Turn to Persia

Orientalism in Diplomacy and Intelligence Denis V. Volkov | University of Manchester Drawing on recently declassified and previously unpublished archival documents, Denis V. Volkov presents an in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies as a leading sub-domain within the broader field of Oriental studies in the period from the 1850s to 1941, and analyses its involvement in Russia’s foreign policy towards Iran. • Studies various aspects of the relations between Iran and Russia from different levels of society • Investigates the relationships between state and scholarly knowledge • Advances the Foucauldian approach for scholarly enquiry into Russia’s

Oriental studies 283pp 12 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108446693 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 August 2018 9781108490788 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108645270

Security in the Gulf

Local Militaries before British Withdrawal Ash Rossiter A reinterpretation of how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf before its withdrawal from the region in 1971, benefitting from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government archival documents and India Office records. • A new interpretation of how Britain maintained order to protect its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its withdrawal from the region in 1971 • Explores the successes and failures of Britain’s approach to security in the Gulf, using previously unexamined declassified government documents • Ideal for courses on Gulf studies, late imperial history, and of interest to scholars and students of military and security studies, and of the

Middle East 306pp June 2020 9781108488372 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770330 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Jeff Eden | Cornell University, New York This in-depth study of the slave trade that spurred the Russian conquest of Central Asia offers an unprecedented window into slaves’ lives from eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newlyuncovered interviews which demonstrate that the slaves brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region’s history. • Challenges the consensus that it was the Russian Empire that liberated

Central Asia’s slaves and offers a compelling new theory • Sheds new light on slaves’ lives and human trafficking in Central Asia on the eve of the Russian conquests • Draws extensively on slaves’ own testimonies, including autobiographies and interviews

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

240pp March 2020 9781108456111 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2018 9781108470513 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108637329

Temporary Marriage in Iran

Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature Claudia Yaghoobi | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institution of sigheh or temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the last two centuries. • Brings feminist theories of embodiment to bear on the Iranian literary and cinematic tradition to understand the concept and practise of temporary marriage in Iran • Examines the representation of sigheh women within novels and short stories from the Pahlavi era and cinematic works produced after the

Islamic Revolution • Breaks away from standard narratives about Iranian female sexuality to offer a new perspective on definitions of Iranian womanhood

The Global Middle East

308pp January 2020 9781108488105 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108768948

The Caravan

Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad Thomas Hegghammer | Universitetet i Oslo The much-awaited book about Abdallah Azzam, one of the jihadi movement’s most important figures. It explains why jihadism went international in the 1980s, paving the way for the events of 9/11. Azzam’s extraordinary life story makes for compelling reading and should appeal to readers far outside specialist circles. • Tells the entertaining story of Azzam’s extremely eventful life, culminating in his extremely mysterious death • Explains why the jihadi movement went international in the 1980s, improving our understanding about this ideology and the people behind it • Revises early history of al-Qaida through the use of previously untapped primary sources 718pp 26 b/w illus. 4 maps March 2020 9780521765954 Hardback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781139049375

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The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem

From African Slave to Power-Broker Jane Hathaway | Ohio State University Eunuchs were a common feature of virtually all Islamic empires yet remain mysterious to modern scholars. Using a wide range of primary sources, Jane Hathaway analyzes the origins of the Chief of the African eunuchs and traces the evolution of this powerful official from the late sixteenth through the early twentieth century. • Uses an array of sources written in the original languages • Incorporates the Chief Harem Eunuch’s origins in Africa and his ties to

Ottoman provinces such as Egypt and Arabia • Places the Chief Harem Eunuch in the context of the Ottoman Empire’s transformations between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries 339pp 27 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables March 2020 9781107519206 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2018 9781107108295 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316257876

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The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam

Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty Christopher Markiewicz | University of Birmingham Examines how ideological and administrative crises within Islamic lands in the late fifteenth century brought about a new conception of kingship for the early modern period. Through Idris Bidlisi, a major intellectual and statesman, this book paints a picture of a changing Ottoman Empire: shifting from regional dynastic kingdom to global empire. • Analyses a wide range of sources from Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in an accessible and approachable way • By using the life of Idris Bidlisi as a departure point, it grounds global and intellectual trends in individual lived experience • Contextualises imperial Ottoman political and intellectual developments within the wider events and processes of Islamic lands

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

364pp September 2020 9781108710572 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2019 9781108492140 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108684842

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The Emergence of Public Opinion

State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire Murat R. Şiviloğlu | Trinity College Dublin The emergence of public opinion was perhaps the most important political transformation of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, with such sweeping ramifications as the creation of a parliament. This book takes an integrated and comprehensive approach to this phenomenon, which has been hitherto considered a uniquely Western experience. • Explores the historical evaluation of the concept of public opinion • Uses previously unused archival and historical sources • Takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to what has often been considered as a uniquely Western phenomenon 331pp June 2020 9781316641392 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 October 2018 9781107190924 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108120371 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The First of the Modern Ottomans

The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif Ethan L. Menchinger | University of Toronto This book explores Ottoman intellectual life, politics and reform during the eighteenth century through the study of the key statesmen and historian Ahmed Vâsıf. It is for students and researchers of intellectual history, the Enlightenment period, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. • Covers a pivotal period in the Ottoman Empire and the wider Middle

East, allowing readers to better understand the challenges faced by the

Empire at the time • Uses the life story of central intellectual and political figure Ahmed

Vâsıf to provide a narrative backdrop to explorations of modernity in the Ottoman Empire • Explores important intellectual debates among Ottomans of the times, highlighting changes in a concise and easy-to-follow manner

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

356pp February 2020 9781316647943 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 August 2017 9781107197978 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108181990

The Origins of the ArabIranian Conflict

Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars Chelsi Mueller | Tel-Aviv University Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the presentday Arab-Iranian conflict in the interwar period, filling a gap in the literature on the history of ArabIranian relations in the Gulf and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy during Reza Shah’s rule. • Examines the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf

Arab shaykhdoms to reveal the origins of the present-day Arab-Iranian conflict • Pays particular attention to Bahrain in charting the revival of Iranian claims to sovereignty during the interwar period • Fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of Arab-Iranian relations in the Gulf and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy during the Reza Shah period 298pp August 2020 9781108489089 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773881

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The Ottoman ‘Wild West’

The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Nikolay Antov | University of Arkansas An analysis of Balkan Islam and the formation of Muslim communities in the early modern Ottoman Balkans. This book will be of interest to Balkan, Ottoman and Islamic World historians, as well as scholars of early modern empires, political scientists, and sociologists and anthropologists of religion. • The first monograph-length study of the formation of one of the most significant Muslim communities in the Balkans, helping the reader develop their knowledge of the origins of Balkan Islam and Islamic

‘indigenization’ • Explores the interplay of Islamization in a regional, frontier setting, and the impact of Ottoman state policies on these processes, contributing to the reader’s understanding of Islamization and Islamic expansion • Uses administrative, legal, and literary-ideational sources to provide a methodological model for the use of typologically diverse sources in early modern Ottoman and Islamic world historiography 344pp March 2020 9781316633748 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2017 9781107182639 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316863084

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The Rebel and the Imām in Early Islam

Explorations in Muslim Historiography Najam Haider | Barnard College, New York Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to question why we impose modern notions of history on a pre-modern society. • Contains an accessible and comprehensive overview of current controversies in the study of early Islamic history • Employs three specific case studies to shed light on broad historiographical questions • Challenges modern assumptions about the critical sources shaping our understanding of the early Muslim world 318pp October 2020 9781108708142 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.79 September 2019 9781107026056 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139199223 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class

Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat Relli Shechter | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The Middle Eastern oil boom during the 1970s–80s led to swift economic growth and increased socio-economic mobility in Egypt. Here, Relli Shechter offers a local version of a wider Middle Eastern and international story: the global formation of middle-class societies, whose members strove for respectable lives with only partial success. • Presents a revisionist explanation of the fast expansion of the Egyptian middle class • Uses Egypt as a case study to document broader and global social and economic change • Examines statistical evidence, as well as accounting for how public commentators explained contemporary transitions 285pp 16 b/w illus. September 2020 9781108464703 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2018 9781108474481 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108672627

The Unforgettable Queens of Islam

Succession, Authority, Gender Shahla Haeri | Boston University Explores the lives and legacies of several Muslim women rulers from different cultures and historical periods who were at the forefront of the political scene, contesting patriarchal rules of dynastic succession and electoral competition to become sovereign leaders in medieval Yemen and India, and modern Pakistan and Indonesia. • Takes a cross-cultural and ethno-historical perspective to explore the lives and legacies of several Muslim women rulers from medieval to modern times • Challenges both the western stereotypes and Islamist religious and political arguments against Muslim women political leadership • Makes the striking history of the lives of charismatic Muslim women rulers accessible to a broad readership 278pp 12 b/w illus. March 2020 9781107123038 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 March 2020 9781107554894 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316389300

Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda

Peter Hill Examining the massive social changes that reshaped the Middle East over the long nineteenth century, this study of the ‘Nahda’, a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, presents a crucial and often overlooked part of the Arab world’s encounter with global capitalist modernity. • The first in-depth study of the little-known early phase of the Arab Nahda movement in the mid nineteenth-century • Situates the Arab Nahda within a global historical context • Combines intellectual and literary material with elements of social history 318pp 5 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108491662 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108666602

South Asian History

A Genealogy of Terrorism

Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea Joseph McQuade | University of Toronto Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. • Traces the genealogy of counter-terrorism laws in colonial India • Shows how the idea of terrorism built on older criminal categories such as thugs and pirates • Demonstrates the role of violence in shaping the Indian nationalist movement and colonial responses 300pp November 2020 9781108842150 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108896238

A History of Bangladesh

Second Edition Willem van Schendel | Universiteit van Amsterdam This revised and updated edition reveals the vibrant, colourful past of Bangladesh, chiefly known in the West through media images of poverty, underdevelopment and disasters. Based on the latest academic research and richly illustrated, this is a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. • Brings together social, economic, political, cultural and environmental history to explain the history of Bangladesh • Accessible for a wide audience - Lonely Planet lists the first edition as

‘the best nonfiction book’ on Bangladesh • Includes many previously unpublished illustrations and maps, biographies of key political figures, a glossary to help the reader with pronunciation and suggestions for further reading 456pp July 2020 9781108473699 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108462464 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108684644

A Hygienic City-Nation

Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta Nabaparna Ghosh This book offers the first comprehensive history of everyday urban spaces – that is, spaces planned by the people, and not the state – in a colonial South Asian city. It will interest students, researchers, and faculty of history, South Asian studies, empire and colonialism, nationalism, comparative cities, architecture, and city-planning. • This is the first academic monograph on the everyday spaces of colonial Calcutta’s neighbourhoods or paras • The book explains urbanization as a pedagogic process that targeted both spaces and bodies in the city • It points to the conflation of urbanism and nationalism in nationalist (Swarajist) discourses on public health and the city 250pp September 2020 9781108489898 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779654 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Citizen Refugee

Forging the Indian Nation after Partition Uditi Sen | University of Nottingham Uditi Sen explores how partition refugees were used as agents of nation-building in post-colonial India. Utilising archival records and oral histories, Sen analyses official policies towards Hindu refugees, and their own perspectives ‘from below’. This book expands our understanding of popular politics and citizenship in post-partition India. • Gives equal weighting to oral history and archival research, bringing the policies of resettlement to life • Uses a pan-Indian analytical framework to transcend the conventional

East versus West regional division that characterises partition studies • The personal accounts of refugees reveal unexplored aspects of everyday citizenship and identity formation 303pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps 5 tables August 2020 9781108441094 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2018 9781108425612 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348553

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

The Hijra , c.1850–1900 Jessica Hinchy | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes. • Examines the history and social practices of the nineteenth-century transgender Hijra community • Analyses colonial archival practices and the formation of colonial knowledge • Based on extensive archival research in India and the UK, including previously unexamined documents 323pp March 2020 9781108716888 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 April 2019 9781108492553 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108592208

Imagining Afghanistan

The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge Nivi Manchanda | Queen Mary University of London An innovative examination of knowledge production relating to Afghanistan in the imperial imagination. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda argues that the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled both colonial and contemporary foreign intervention in the region. • Provides an interdisciplinary framework through which to study modern Afghanistan • Uses a methodologically diverse toolkit to explore the ‘history of the present’ • Develops postcolonial theory grounded in the empirically rich ‘case’ of

Afghanistan 266pp 11 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108491235 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867986

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India’s Revolutionary Inheritance

Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh Chris Moffat | Queen Mary University of London This innovative account of revolutionary thought in South Asia explores the long-term legacies of militant violence and the politics of commemoration in a post-colonial context. Asking how anti-colonial martyrs have come to ‘haunt’ the independent state, Chris Moffat provides an exciting new window into contemporary Indian politics. • Presents the first critical study of the multifarious afterlives of iconic anti-colonial revolutionary Bhagat Singh • Proposes a new framework for understanding the relationship between anti-colonial histories and post-colonial politics in the modern world • Foregrounds the importance of martyrdom, myth and memory in the global history of revolutionary politics 294pp 33 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108739016 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108496902 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108655194

Language and the Making of Modern India

Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956 Pritipuspa Mishra | University of Southampton Mishra explores the history of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, to illustrate the relationship between linguistic politics and nationalism. She considers the ways the state has dealt with multilingualism and the role of languages in the constitution of the Indian nation. This title is also available as Open Access. • Provides a nuanced framework for understanding regional history in

India • Situates the regional history of Odisha within broader national and global trends to help readers understand how language and nation interact in post-colonial contexts • Presents a coherent history of multilingualism in India relevant to global debates about linguistic justice and governance of multilingualism • This title is also available as Open Access 256pp 7 maps January 2020 9781108425735 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108591263

Let there be Light

Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 Suvobrata Sarkar Let There Be Light focusses on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources, and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, and the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West. • Brings back the use of vernacular sources to understand Indian appropriation of modern technoscience • Explores the uncharted terrain of electrification in a colonial context 320pp September 2020 9781108835985 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108874205

Making a Muslim

Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India S. Akbar Zaidi Post 1857, colonial India witnessed the emergence of numerous new forms of Muslim identities, some emerging as new Islamic ‘sects’ (maslaks), and others based on educational priorities. This book critically examines, how a feeling of utter humiliation - zillat - acted as an agentive force allowing Muslims to remake their many identities. • Uses previously unseen Urdu sources to further our knowledge and understanding of Muslim North India • Challenges the definition of unitary Muslim quam and identity • Acknowledges zillat as an agentive force in the remaking of Muslim identities in North India after 1857. 300pp December 2020 9781108490535 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108781152

Negotiating Mughal Law

A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires Nandini Chatterjee | University of Exeter In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access. • Combines quantitative methods with micro-historical analysis to explore law, empire and society • Provides a people-centred story of one of the greatest Islamic empires of all times • Incorporates a wide range of sources, including a reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents • This title is also available as Open Access 310pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps April 2020 9781108486033 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108623391

Revolutionary Pasts

Communist Internationalism in Colonial India Ali Raza | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan In this history of the communist movement in South Asia from the eve of the First World War to Independence, Ali Raza reveals the lives, dreams, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and their utopian visions of remaking the world. • Presents a compelling narrative of communist internationalism in Colonial India • Offers a methodologically innovative social and intellectual history of

Indian communism • Charts the entanglement of local, regional, and global politics in the

Indian independence movement 294pp April 2020 9781108481847 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108693875

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age

Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 Ishita Pande | Queen’s University, Ontario Ishita Pande’s innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India’s coming of age, examining India’s Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of ‘age’ as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India. • Provides the first history of ‘age’ in colonial India • Brings theoretical perspectives and methods from the history of childhood, legal history, queer theory and critical secular studies to bear on the history of child marriage • Uses the archives of colonial India to engage broader debates on the history of age, childhood, sexuality and legal personhood 320pp July 2020 9781108489744 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779326

The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India

Manu V. Devadevan This book posits that India as an idea is neither a colonial construct nor a phenomenon as old as the Vedas or the Harappan age, but a historical reality that had its beginnings in the ‘early medieval’ times. It is a mustread for anyone interested in the meaning of India’s past. • Provides a fresh assessment of the early medieval period and its point of departure from the early historical period • Expands the thematic scope of early medieval historiography by including aspects such as identities (caste, language, religion and territory) and ideas that governed science, literature and performative arts • Identifies the early medieval as the period when institutions, ideas and identities associated with India began to evolve 420pp September 2020 9781108494571 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781108748513 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108781176

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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates

Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis Emma J. Flatt | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Emma J. Flatt shows the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She argues that a shared courtly disposition facilitated travel, knowledge acquisition and encounters in the Persian-speaking world. This became a route to employment, worldly success and ethical refinement. • Draws attention to the history of courts, rather than kings, in Indian history • Allows a more complex understanding of ethical life in pre-colonial

Indo-Persian societies • Utilises understudied sources, such as those on magic and astrology 338pp June 2020 9781108741644 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108481939 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108680530 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Decline of the Caste Question

Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal Dwaipayan Sen | Amherst College, Massachusetts This revisionist exploration of the decline of castebased politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that it was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal, the leader of the Dalit movement, over the transition of Partition and Independence. • Utilises Jogendranath Mandal’s private papers and freshly discovered archival materials • Traverses the watershed of Independence in 1947, and joins themes often treated distinctly, such as caste, partition, communalism, and the transfer of power • Presents a new explanation for the puzzling absence of caste-based politics in Bengal 317pp 7 b/w illus. 1 table November 2020 9781108405706 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2018 9781108417761 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108278348

The Frontier Complex

Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 Kyle J. Gardner | George Washington University, Washington DC Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial bordermaking practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962. • Offers a new history of the rise of geopolitics • Based on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages • Highlights how ongoing border disputes between India and China are rooted in colonial British border-making practices 300pp February 2021 9781108840590 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886444

The Frontier in British India

Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century Thomas Simpson | University of Cambridge An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration. • The first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast colonial India • Advances an innovative framework for understanding colonial power and knowledge • Moves beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries and critically engages with various distinct fields of theory and historiography 350pp January 2021 9781108840194 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879156

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The Insecurity State

Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India Mark Condos | Queen Mary University of London Condos explores the ‘dark underside’ of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. He argues that India’s colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence. • A provocative, new view of the British Empire in India • Based on rich archival research • Contributes to the major debates on colonial state-building, colonial violence, imperial sovereignty, and postcolonial legacies of empire 272pp 11 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108407014 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 August 2017 9781108418317 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108289740

The Making of the Indo-Islamic World

c.700–1800 CE André Wink | University of Wisconsin, Madison André Wink offers a new interpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography, situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world. • Provides a world-historical perspective on the history of South and

Southeast Asia • Introduces an environmental and geographical dimension to Indian history • Situates the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and

Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world 308pp August 2020 9781108417747 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 August 2020 9781108405652 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781108278287

South-East Asian History

A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand

Patrick Jory | University of Queensland Patrick Jory presents the first ever history of manners in Thailand. Utilising Thai etiquette manuals dating from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, he explores how societies have regulated personal and social behaviour over time. • Presents the first history of manners in Thailand • Places the history of manners in Thailand within a global historical framework • Based on a wide range of little-known primary source materials 350pp February 2021 9781108491242 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868006

Islam and Asia

A History Chiara Formichi | Cornell University, New York A new history of Asia and Islam from the seventh century to today, approached as an interconnected space of encounters and interactions. Challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle East in the development of Islam, Formichi argues for Asia’s centrality in the development of global Islam as a religious, social and political reality. • Provides a transnational history of Asia and Islam grounded in specific case-studies • Facilitates discussion in the classroom, and makes abstract concepts accessible to readers • Includes a range of pedagogical features including introductions to key personalities and concepts, primary sources, illustrations, maps and suggestions for further reading

New Approaches to Asian History

348pp 14 b/w illus. 7 maps May 2020 9781107106123 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781107513976 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316226803

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Making Two Vietnams

War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975 Olga Dror | Texas A & M University This comparative study of North and South Vietnam, the first of its kind, shows how young Vietnamese were raised during the war. Through the prism of adult-youth relations, it analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures. • The first systematic comparative study of youth culture in North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War • Reveals the experiences of non-combatants during the Vietnam War • Based on extensive archival and textual work and an innovative methodology 340pp 14 b/w illus. 7 tables November 2020 9781108455244 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2018 9781108470124 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108556163

Miracles and Material Life

Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya Teren Sevea Through a close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked Malay Islamic manuscripts, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) across the Indian Ocean world and on the frontier of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century. • Takes a new approach to understanding connections between miracles and magic, and material life, labour, production, extraction and technology • Reveals a universe of peripatetic, professional Islamic miracle workers and Sufis in the past and the present, in the Malay world and beyond • Draws on hitherto untranslated Malay and Sufi manuscripts, providing readers with access to little-known esoteric content

Asian Connections

290pp 10 b/w illus. 2 maps July 2020 9781108477185 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108569781

Saigon at War

South Vietnam and the Global Sixties Heather Stur | University of Southern Mississippi South Vietnamese activists, intellectuals, students, and professionals had multiple visions for Vietnam’s future as an independent nation. In expressing their views in the press and in public demonstrations, they performed democracy even as the Saigon government and US intervention stymied the development of democratic institutions. • Highlights the diversity of the Saigon intellectual scene while illustrating American attempts, struggles, and failures to make sense of the urban political milieu • Fills a gap in the existing literature by introducing South Vietnamese voices into the Vietnam War narrative • Draws on a plethora of Vietnamese archival materials, including South

Vietnamese government and military documents, newspapers and magazines, intelligence reports, and letters from citizens to various government officials in the 1960s and 1970s

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations

292pp June 2020 9781107161924 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 June 2020 9781316614112 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316676752

The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia

Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation Gregg Huff | University of Oxford Gregg Huff presents the first comprehensive account of the economic and social impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia during World War II.This is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and economies of Southeast Asia before, during, and in the decades after the Pacific War. • Provides the first comprehensive study of Southeast Asian economy and society during the 1941-1945 Japanese occupation • Features an extraordinarily wide range of archive material drawn from 25 archives over three continents • Includes economic, social and historical analysis to assess the longterm impact of the Pacific War and Japanese occupation on Southeast

Asia 450pp October 2020 9781107099333 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316162934

The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia

A Cultural History Marieke Bloembergen This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states. • Uncovers how heritage sites and their politics transcend national boundaries • Examines the politics of heritage, orientalism, and mobility from an

Asian perspective • Provides a fresh perspective on the international debate about heritage formation and cultural knowledge production

Asian Connections

338pp 29 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108499026 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614757

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