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American history
American history 20C American history NEW IN PAPERBACK
Educating the Empire American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines Sarah Steinbock-Pratt | University of Alabama
This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt demonstrates how, in the classroom, American individuals challenged official narratives of empire, and how daily interactions created imperial realities on the ground that often diverged from the dictates of the colonial state. • Fills a gap in existing literature by focusing solely on colonial education in the Philippines • Provides a new perspective by focusing on the experiences of teachers rather than on pedagogy or colonial policy • Draws on research in twenty-one archives in the United States and the Philippines
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 39pp 9. 2021 9781108461009 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 2.2019 9781108461009 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108666961
The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 3 1900–1945 Brooke L. Blower | Boston University
This volume covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. It will set the standard for understanding this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world. • Grants deeper insight into the transformation of the United States from regional upstart to global superpower • Offers the latest in early twentieth century scholarship from thirty-two prominent scholars • Covers traditional topics and emerging themes to reveal how American engagement unfolded on a global scale The Cambridge History of America and the World 800pp 12. 2021 9781108419260 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108297530
The Hughes Court From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 Mark V. Tushnet | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
This comprehensive study unpacks the claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937, instead concluding that US constitutional law gradually transformed throughout the 1930s. In combining doctrinal analysis with the political, economic and social contexts of the Court’s decisions, this will interest both historians and legal scholars. • Explores the far-ranging work of the Supreme Court, such as constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and civil rights and civil liberties • Combines careful doctrinal analysis with examinations of the political, economic, and social contexts within which the Court’s decisions were situated • The most current appraisal of the important claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1270pp 1. 2022 9781316515938 Hardback GBP 200.00 / USD 300.00 eISBN 9781009031141
The New Atlantic Order The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933 Patrick O. Cohrs | Yale University, Connecticut
The New Atlantic Order sheds new light on the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order. Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ‘world order’ of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system. • Introduces readers to the concept of the ‘long twentieth century’ and a new way of understanding how the modern global order was transformed. • Offers a broad readership a new and comprehensive interpretation of what caused the First World War. • Essential reading for scholars interested in American foreign relations, twentieth-century European history, diplomatic and international history and international relations. 550pp 4. 2022 9781107117976 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316338988
African American history All for Liberty The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 Jeff Strickland | Montclair State University, New Jersey
Jeff Strickland tells the incredible story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston workhouse slave rebellion of 1849. Written in an accessible style, this book is an essential read for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the history of slavery. • Tells the incredible story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the largest workhouse slave rebellion in US history • Incorporates current debates on the legacy of slavery in modern America • One of the most detailed accounts of a slave workhouse and its role in the brutal punishment of enslaved men, women, and children 256pp 11. 2021 9781108492591 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 11. 2021 9781108716918 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108592345
Beacons of Liberty International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America Elena K. Abbott
Examines the American anti-slavery movement through stories of harrowing escape, political grandstanding, and mass migration. Shows how debates over citizenship, equality, and national character in the nineteenth century unfolded on an international stage against the backdrop of free-soil havens in places like Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. • Offers story-driven historical analysis that brings together a diverse cast of characters over a fifty-year period • Expands the typical geography of the American anti-slavery movement to include Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, England, and South America • Incorporates a rich archive of historical sources, including novels, newspapers, ex-slave narratives, congressional records, and sociological reports 304pp 4. 2021 9781108491549 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 89.99 4. 2021 9781108798457 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108863681
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Freedom Seekers Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860 Damian Alan Pargas | Universiteit Leiden
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Taking a continental approach, Freedom Seekers introduces a new conceptualization of ‘spaces of freedom’ in North America, revealing the diversity of slave fight by dividing the continent into three distinct (and continuously evolving) spaces. An essential study for students of African-American history and the American South. • Offers a new conceptualization of ‘spaces of freedom’ for fugitive slaves in North America • Reveals the role of freedom seekers themselves in creating and defending spaces of freedom throughout the continent • Applies a continental perspective of slave fight, identifying the similarities and differences of freedom seekers within the US South, the US North, and beyond the borders Cambridge Studies on the American South 288pp 1. 2022 9781107179554 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 1. 2022 9781316631355 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781316832264
Running from Bondage Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America Karen Cook Bell
Running from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War. Exploring who these women were and what motivated them to escape, Karen Cook Bell places their compelling stories within the broader historical narratives of slave resistance and the American Revolution. • Sheds light on the untold stories of enslaved Black women who escaped bondage during the Revolutionary era • Reconstructs fugitive women’s stories through newspaper advertisements, first-person accounts in trial records, antebellum memories and interviews with former slaves • Underscores the centrality of women’s self-emancipation during the Revolution 254pp 7. 2021 9781108831543 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108917551
American history - 1861 - 1900 Black Resettlement and the American Civil War Sebastian N. Page | University of Oxford
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America’s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States. It synthesizes a wealth of individual, state-level, and national considerations to reorient the field and set a new standard for Atlantic history. • Examines the scale and complexity of black resettlement projects and proposals between the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 • Re-narrates colonization into the center of American political and social life • Challenges the dominant historical narrative of America’s racial progress and of the American Civil War as a forerunner of the modern civil rights era Cambridge Studies on the American South 312pp 1. 2021 9781107141773 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781316493915
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‘I Made Mistakes’ Robert McNamara’s Vietnam War Policy, 1960–1968 Aurélie Basha i Novosejt | University of Kent, Canterbury
Drawing on recently declassified personal papers and interview material, Aurélie Basha i Novosejt provides a new analysis of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s decisions during the Vietnam War, revealing little-known misgivings he held toward the direction, strategy, and politics of the conflict. • Offers an important update to the literature on the Vietnam War by arguing that Robert S. McNamara aggressively pushed for withdrawal from the war • Places McNamara’s decisions in the context of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and bridges diplomatic history with economic history • Provides new evidence - including diaries kept by McNamara’s closest advisor - documenting McNamara’s frustrations over the war and around his decisions and attitudes towards it Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 342pp 3. 2021 9781108401555 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3.2019 9781108415538 Hardback GBP 39.99/USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108234108
After Saigon’s Fall Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000 Amanda C. Demmer | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
This new history of United States policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War revises our understanding of the conflict’s aftermath. Focusing on migration programs that brought one million Vietnamese to the US, Demmer offers new insights on a topic of perennial interest. • The first history of US policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War to center refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights • Combines insights from foreign relations, migration studies, human rights, and humanitarianism • Uses previously untapped nongovernmental and congressional archives Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 288pp 4. 2021 9781108488389 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108770354
American Survivors Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Naoko Wake | Michigan State University
Examining the little-known history of U.S. casualties of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, American Survivors brings to light the compellingly personal stories of U.S. survivors about war, illness, gender, and community in transPacific contexts. • The first book-length study of U.S. casualties of the 1945 atomic bombings • Draws on fascinating oral histories of Japanese and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombings to tell a story that is people-centered rather than nation-centered • Provides a gendered analysis to the history of nuclear weaponry 408pp 6. 2021 9781108835275 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108892094
American history
The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 4 1945 to the Present David C. Engerman | Yale University, Connecticut
This volume examines the heights of American global power in the midtwentieth century and the challenges to that power since. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, it anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to what was increasingly called ‘the American empire.’ • Presents a historical arc of America and the world since 1945 • Offers the latest in late twentieth century scholarship from thirty-three prominent scholars • Highlights both a broad interpretation of changing American relations to the world and the internal fissures, divergences, and contradictions that came with that increased power The Cambridge History of America and the World 800pp 12. 2021 9781108419277 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108297554
The Regime Change Consensus Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003 Joseph Stieb | Ohio State University
The Regime Change Consensus offers a compelling look at how the United States pivoted from a policy of containment to regime change in Iraq after September 11, 2001, and traces how a coalition of political actors successfully argued that the totalitarian rule of Saddam Hussein’s regime meant containment was a doomed policy. • The first book-length study of the policy of containment of Iraq • Focuses on a wide swathe of political and intellectual groups, as opposed to just neoconservatives • Links policies and political debates on Iraq to larger, post-Cold War historical contexts Military, War, and Society in Modern American History 288pp 7. 2021 9781108838245 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108974219
The Second Cold War Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy Aaron Donaghy
In The Second Cold War, Aaron Donaghy examines the rise and fall of the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on American history, the Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, foreign policy, politics, and international relations. • Provides a new understanding of how the end of the Cold War began • Covers a moment in the Cold War too often explored as only a segue to later events • Weaves international and domestic factors to show how domestic politics shaped US foreign policy during the Carter and Reagan administrations • Sheds new light on the origins of Reagan’s proposal for a Strategic Defense Initiative, a major development in the story of the end of the Cold War Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 288pp 4. 2021 9781108838030 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108937016
Atlantic history A Concise History of the Caribbean Second edition B. W. Higman | Australian National University, Canberra
A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. Patterns of colonisation and the development of slave societies are linked to the ethnic and cultural features of the region, and to the process of creolisation. • One of the most comprehensive histories of the Caribbean now updated to cover developments up to 2020 • Emphasis on climate change provides important information about earthquakes, hurricanes, resource ecologies, and the environmental characteristics of the Caribbean as an island-group • Enables readers to appreciate the role of insularity and exposure to natural hazards in the geopolitical and economic history of the region Cambridge Concise Histories 476pp 5. 2021 9781108480987 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 5. 2021 9781108703680 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108645973
Becoming Free, Becoming Black Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes. • Examines the development of the legal regimes of slavery and race in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the dawn of the Civil War • Demonstrates that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way race developed over time • Draws on a variety of primary sources, including local court records, original trial records of freedom suits, legislative cases, and petitions Studies in Legal History 295pp 12. 2021 9781108468145 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 eISBN 9781108612951
Bonds of Empire The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783 Lee B. Wilson | Clemson University, South Carolina
Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history. • Offers a clear explanation of the relationship between early modern English law and the expansion of slavery • Uses South Carolina as a case study against the larger trends of the Atlantic World • Highlights how law played a role in limiting slave resistance Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 288pp 7. 2021 9781108495257 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108861762
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Friends of Freedom The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Micah Alpaugh
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From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish nationalists to French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of an interconnected pattern. Friends of Freedom tells how activists worked together across nations to alter and overthrow regimes. • Explains how cosmopolitanism shaped the Age of Revolutions’ popular movements, as well as its elite intellectual history • Reveals the strong international influences on the founding and spread of the late eighteenth century’s most celebrated movements, including the American Sons of Liberty, British reform, abolitionism, and the French Jacobins 400pp 10. 2021 9781316515617 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009026116
She Is Weeping An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World Dannelle Gutarra Cordero | Princeton University, New Jersey
This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery. A unique contribution, this book weaves together the intellectual history of emotions into the histories of the Atlantic World. • Offers a new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery • Analyzes a diverse selection of sources on enslavement, ranging from antiquity to the present day • Bridges the gap between the intellectual history of emotions and the histories of empire and enslavement in the Atlantic World 261pp 1. 2022 9781316512203 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009057974
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Female Husbands A Trans History Jen Manion | Amherst College, Massachusetts
The first book-length history of female husbands: people assigned female at birth who transed gender to live fully as men in the United States and United Kingdom. Jen Manion draws on a wealth of sources to offer a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past. • Charts the rise and fall of female husbands from the 1740s to the 1910s in a clear and accessible way • Reveals key turning points in the history of gender and sexuality in the United States and United Kingdom • Draws on a diverse source base that includes all references to female husbands in US and British print culture
350pp 5. 2021 9781108718271 Paperback GBP 11.99 / USD 15.95 3. 2020 9781108483803 Hardback GBP 17.99/USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108652834
The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 1 1500–1820 Eliga Gould | University of New Hampshire
This volume examines how the United States emerged out of a series of commercial, colonial, and imperial encounters. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, it presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. • Examines early American history from 1500-1812 with sections on people, empires, circulation/connections, institutions, and revolutions • Offers the latest in early American scholarship from twenty-seven prominent scholars • Reveals the global influences on early American development The Cambridge History of America and the World 800pp 12. 2021 9781108419222 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108297455
Early republic and antebellum history Slavery and Sacred Texts The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America Jordan T. Watkins | Brigham Young University, Utah
Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans’ appeal to the nations’ sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance. • Provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of antebellum intellectual history • Discusses the use and reading of two historical documents that remain meaningful to Americans today • Offers innovative readings of thinkers like Moses Stuart, Charles Hodge, William Ellery Channing, Roger Taney, Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, William C. Nell, and Abraham Lincoln Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 336pp 7. 2021 9781108478144 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108784344
The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 2 1812–1900 Kristin Hoganson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
This volume examines how the United States became an imperial power in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world shaped the United States in this pivotal era. It places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world. • Approaches the United States in the world from diplomatic, political, social, cultural, legal, environmental, technological, military, and economic history • Offers the latest in nineteenth century scholarship from thirty prominent scholars • Goes beyond older accounts focusing on the North Atlantic world to tell a more global story The Cambridge History of America and the World 800pp 12. 2021 9781108419239 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108297479
American history / British and Irish history
The Deviant Prison Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Ashley T. Rubin | University of Hawaii, Manoa
Using Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenthcentury prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today. • Accounts for the rise and fall of Eastern State Penitentiary, covering the period from 1829–1913 • Draws on institutional history and theory to explain the reasons for Eastern’s unique system and the myths that have grown up around it • Interprets and uses data from prison records to provide rich illustrations of prison life, the institution, and key actors Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 320pp 2. 2021 9781108484947 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108754095
‘To Save the People from Themselves’ The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions Robert J. Steinfeld | State University of New York, Buffalo
In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during the 1780s. This book will be an indispensable resource to those interested in constitutional history, as well as to legal scholars more generally. • Offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of judicial review • Sheds light on the agency of judges and lawyers in developing the case for judicial review • Provides a detailed analysis of the distinctive constitutional system the first American constitutions created Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 431pp 9. 2021 9781108839235 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108989619
Truth and Privilege Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840 Lyndsay Campbell | University of Calgary
This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic institution-building, gender roles, slavery and other religious and social reform movements. It demonstrates how individuals shaped the law, as they navigated societal change and fought with their neighbors. • Compares how two places with a common body of law diverged in ideas and practices in the early nineteenth century • Reworks our understanding of how expression has been constrained and protected under both written and unwritten constitutions • Assesses how individuals - including women - used the law to navigate societal change and dispute with their neighbors Studies in Legal History 442pp 12. 2021 9781316510698 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009039406
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Williams’ Gang A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts Jeff Forret | Lamar University, Texas
Williams’ Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence. • Provides the first study of a shipment of convict slaves, delving into previously unexplored legal issues surrounding the slave trade • Offers a comprehensive portrait of the Antebellum era by situating the slave trade within the economy, society, and politics of the time • Draws on a variety of resources, including court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, and penitentiary data
484pp 12. 2021 9781108730365 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 19.95 1.2020 9781108493031 Hardback GBP 22.00/USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108651912
British and Irish history 20C history of Britain Contact Zones of the First World War Cultural Encounters across the British Empire Anna Maguire | Queen Mary University of London
The first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Through a narrative journey across five spatial contact zones, Anna Maguire follows colonial troops to explore what it meant to encounter new peoples and places during the First World War. • Offers an alternative war narrative by showing the reader why cultural encounters and spaces are important for understanding the everyday experience of colonialism in a time of global conflict • Provides a rich variety of textual and visual material, including letters, diaries, newspapers, fiction and photographs, to draw on the experience of colonial troops from across the world • Considers how fragmented colonial experience was interlinked and differentiated through categories like race, gender and class 300pp 8. 2021 9781108833875 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983082
For King and Country The British Monarchy and the First World War Heather Jones | University College London
This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions that monarchism played. It is the first study to fully explore the role of the monarchy during the war and challenges assumptions that the conflict undermined the crown. • Revisionist account of the British monarchy during the Great War which shows that the war actually consolidated the crown rather than undermining it • Reveals the role of the monarchy – and monarchism – in British war identities, morale and commemoration as well as its role in empire, Ireland and in European diplomacy • Takes a cultural history approach to shed new light on wartime attitudes to gender, grief, empire and Britishness Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 320pp 9. 2021 9781108429368 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108554619
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British and Irish history
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Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England Mo Moulton | Harvard University, Massachusetts
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How did English interwar stability survive the Anglo-Irish War? This book analyzes the process by which Ireland and the Irish were redefined in English culture as a feature of personal life and civil society rather than a political threat. It compares the Irish case to European conflicts and later decolonizations. • Reintegrates the Irish dimension into interwar English history • A distinctive social and cultural approach to historical problems traditionally viewed from a narrower political angle • Sets the Irish case within the broader framework of decolonization following the collapse of multi-ethnic empires in the early twentieth century
336pp 5. 2021 9781107632387 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 3. 2014 9781107052680 Hardback GBP 87.99 / USD 123.95 eISBN 9781107280717
History of Britain - 1066 - 1450 A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St Mary-le-Bone Comprising a Copious Description of its Public Buildings, Antiquities, Schools, Charitable Endowments, Sources of Public Amusement, etc. with Biographical Notices of Eminent Persons Thomas Smith
Little is known about Thomas Smith, the author of this 1833 history of St Marylebone in London, where he was born and had lived for thirty-six years. The illustrated book describes the boundaries of the parish, its buildings, and some of the famous people who had lived in the district. Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish history, General 350pp 6 b/w illus. 1 map 2. 2021 9781108079037 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 35.99 eISBN 9781316014387
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Refugees in TwentiethCentury Britain A History Becky Taylor | University of East Anglia
Based on rich archival sources, this timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain, demonstrating how refugees’ experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. • Provides a chronological framework for the history of refugees to modern Britain • Integrates the history of refugees with ‘mainstream’ histories of Britain • Explores how the British state’s attitudes towards ‘vulnerable strangers’ changed over the century 290pp 5. 2021 9781107187986 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 5. 2021 9781316638385 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316946299
Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex Agnieszka Sobocinska | Monash University, Victoria
An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations. • Introduces the ‘humanitarian-development complex’ to explain how cultural power converged with geopolitics in international development • Unearths overlooked nodes of Third World and Global South resistance to Western intervention • Includes case studies drawn from Asia, Africa and Latin America Global and International History 288pp 6. 2021 9781108478137 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108784320
England’s Northern Frontier Conflict and Local Society in the FifteenthCentury Scottish Marches Jackson W. Armstrong | University of Aberdeen
This first book-length study of England’s northern borderlands in the fifteenth century addresses issues of conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance. Examining the region at different social levels, this book expands our understanding of late medieval English political society, within its broader chronological and European context. • The first book-length study of England’s far north and the AngloScottish borderlands in the fifteenth century • Frames the region in a broad English, European and chronological context, c.1300–c.1600 • Integrates the study of conflict in late medieval England into the wider European historiography of feud, contrary to the view of England’s development as exceptional and distinct Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 412pp 12. 2021 9781108460859 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 8.2021 9781108460859 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108561686
Pain, Penance, and Protest Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England Sara M. Butler
In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure – pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens, this book blurs the lines between law, religion, and literature to understand how it functioned within the medieval criminal justice system. • The first book-length study of peine forte et dure; a punishment which involved placing heavy weights on the bodies of those who refused to plead to a criminal indictment • Unveils the mythology surrounding peine fort et dure; how it was used not only to extract a plea, but also an opportunity for penance • Integrates medieval law with religious culture, helping readers to better understand how the law functioned in practice Studies in Legal History 459pp 12. 2021 9781316512388 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009067065
British and Irish history
History of Britain (general) Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 30 Andrew Spicer | Oxford Brookes University
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world’s most distinguished historians. This volume includes articles on the Edict of Pîtres, the sugar boycotts in Britain, and iconoclasm in the Spanish Civil War. • Provides an annual collection of major articles that represents some of the best historical research by some of the world’s most distinguished historians • Covers a wide range of topics including the Pacific’s Age of Revolution, the Great War, and the origins of the Medieval castle • Presents a diverse range of historical, geographical and social contexts Royal Historical Society Transactions 166pp 1. 2021 9781108833189 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 75.00 eISBN 9781108973571
History of Britain after 1450 Armed with Sword and Scales Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860–1913 Sascha Auerbach | University of Nottingham
Examines the relationship between the creation of modern courtrooms and their widespread portrayal in journalism, literature, and popular culture. Sascha Auerbach argues that London’s municipal courtrooms shaped the social experience and cultural meanings of law, contested moral norms, and helped determine boundaries of government authority. • The first book to focus specifically on the courtroom as a distinct feature of modern life • Introduces the courtroom as a discrete subject of analysis in historical, legal, and cultural scholarship • Illuminates why the courtroom is portrayed so ubiquitously in newspapers, novels, plays, movies, and television Studies in Legal History 336pp 2. 2021 9781108491556 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108863711
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Art and Identity in Scotland A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott Viccy Coltman | University of Edinburgh
This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, weaves together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history to examine how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. • The book is richly illustrated and draws on a large number of previously unpublished archival materials from public and private collections • Offers a welcome corrective to outdated and clichéd ideas of Scottishness and identity • Integrates the histories of London, Europe, and empire with the history of Scotland
352pp 66 b/w illus. 32 colour illus. 3. 2021 9781108405584 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99 11. 2019 9781108417686 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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Empire of Hell Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875 Hilary M. Carey | University of Bristol
This revisionist history challenges current ideas about convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion. It examines religious arguments for and against convict transportation, asks why elites believed it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished. • Provides a comprehensive historical investigation of convict transportation that reveals the full scale of religious engagement in the practice • Reveals the full range of convict experience beyond popular misconceptions • Demonstrates the full extent to which the arguments of religious thinkers affected penal reform and eventually led to the abolishment of convict transportation
371pp 3. 2021 9781108716802 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 3. 2019 9781107043084 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107337787
England’s Second Reformation The Battle for the Church of England 1625–1662 Anthony Milton | University of Sheffield
This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, rather than a destructive aberration, this period is integral to (and indeed the climax of) England’s post-Reformation history. • Examines the religious history of the interregnum and the Restoration through both print and manuscript sources including treatises, pamphlets, histories, devotional tracts, disputations, letters and commonplace books • Situates the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier reformations • Integrates both puritan and ‘Anglican’ experiences of the period within a single sustained analysis Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 450pp 9. 2021 9781107196452 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108164757
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century Bob Harris | University of Oxford
English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a ‘gambling mania’. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why. • Provides a systematic account of gambling in its various forms in British society in this period, encompassing the whole of Britain • Draws out the fundamental connections between gambling and wider debates about the nature and character of British society in the long eighteenth century • Introduces the reader to new empirical evidence from archives across Britain, to move beyond a reliance on purely or mainly impressionistic comment 320pp 1. 2022 9781316512449 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009067348
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Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood Protection and Reform in the NineteenthCentury British Empire Amanda Nettelbeck | University of Adelaide
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Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies protecting the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects, whether through conciliatory, coercive or punitive measures. • Compares the colonial governance of indigenous and indentured peoples of the British Empire • Explores the neglected history of how the protection of Aboriginal rights operated as a vehicle for indigenous people’s reform and regulation through law • The shifts in policy around the Empire are brought to life through illustrative human stories
240pp 3. 2021 9781108458382 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781108471756 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108559225
Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England Harriet Lyon | University of Cambridge
The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern England. This book offers a new perspective on the English Reformation, through an analysis of how the dissolution of the monasteries was remembered. • Recovers the dissolution of the monasteries as essential to our understanding of the English Reformation • Extends our understanding of the workings of memory in the early modern period, and of how and why some moments become watershed historical events • Interrogates the conventional divide between the medieval and early modern periods, challenging our understanding of traditional models of historical periodisation Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 300pp 10. 2021 9781316516409 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009029100
Protecting the Empire’s Humanity Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870 Zoë Laidlaw | University of Melbourne
Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of midnineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in ‘protecting’ and ‘civilizing’ indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines’ Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial ‘humanitarianism’. • Provides a new framework for understanding British settler colonialism and plantation slavery during a key period of transition in Britain’s imperial history • Demonstrates the connections between British and Indigenous individuals from different parts of the British Empire and what these personal connections and individual lives reveal about big issues in the history of British colonialism • Reassesses nineteenth-century British humanitarianism showing how it extended beyond anti-slavery and how it was shaped by science, religion and economics Critical Perspectives on Empire 330pp 9. 2021 9781107196322 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108164658
Ruling the World Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire Alan Lester | University of Sussex
Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period. • Reassesses nineteenth-century colonial governance during a series of key moments in the development of the British Empire • Provides a more complete understanding of the diverse colonies under British rule • Develops a new perspective on governmentality and offers a new framework for understanding key episodes in British imperial history 510pp 1. 2021 9781108426206 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 1. 2021 9781108444897 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108584227
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Oskar Cox Jensen | University of East Anglia
Ballad-singers were central to the cultural, social and political life of Britain for three centuries. Focusing on those who plied this musical trade, and complemented by recordings of over sixty songs, this engaging study offers the first in-depth history of the London ballad-singer during the period of their heyday and decline. • Offers the first long-form, interdisciplinary analysis of ballad-singing as a historical practice and provides an invaluable contextual resource • Examines a figure of central importance in the processes of continuity and change across the Atlantic archipelago • Presented alongside over sixty recordings of the ballads discussed in the text 340pp 2. 2021 9781108830560 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108908108
British and Irish history
The House of Lords 1604–29 3 Volume Set Andrew Thrush
The early Stuart House of Lords has long been neglected by scholars. These volumes remedy this deficiency. Based on detailed manuscript research in 120 archives, they include more than 280 detailed biographies and a ground-breaking Introductory Survey on key aspects of the upper House in the early seventeenth century. • An authoritative guide to the early Stuart House of Lords, its contribution to parliamentary life and the role played by its members based on detailed manuscript research and including over 280 detailed biographies • Depicts notable figures of central political importance in fresh light, including Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Prince Charles and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham • Accompanied by a ground-breaking Introductory Survey, this unique resource is capable of transforming our understanding of early Stuart Parliaments The History of Parliament 4386pp 1. 2021 9781009008976 Multiple copy pack GBP 250.00 / USD 350.00
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The Poverty of Disaster Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain Tawny Paul | University of California, Los Angeles
Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt, with many motivated by a fear of financial failure rather than a desire for upward social mobility. This study examines the role that debt insecurity played within society, and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned it. • Tells the history of the eighteenth-century British economy through human stories and experiences • Offers a new perspective on economic growth and class formation in early modern Britain • Integrates histories of emotions and gender with the history of debt to appeal to those interested in both cultural and Economic history
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 299pp 1. 2021 9781108739252 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2019 9781108496940 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108690546
The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire William J. Bulman | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. This expansive history charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies, in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. • E xplains the emergence of majority decision-making in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries • Offers a long-range, expansive understanding of the role of majority rule in modern elected, representative government, in particular in Britain and the United States • Offers an alternative to exclusively intellectual or cultural explanations for political transformation by highlighting institutions, practices, and structures
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History of Britain before 1066 Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 Rory Naismith | University of Cambridge
Blending narrative with clear explanations of key events and sources, this undergraduate textbook deconstructs the early history of Britain within an accessible framework. Extensive primary sources encourage students to interrogate and debate a dynamic era which saw deep change in culture, language politics, religion and social structure. • Blends an engaging narrative with explanations of key events and sources, giving students an accessible and memorable understanding of the major changes across all parts of medieval Britain • Explains how embryonic versions of modern nations came into being, building a strong framework for students to firmly grasp the formative stages and developments of British history • Foregrounds questions of identity and the meaning of ‘Britain’ in this period, encouraging students to contextualise and interrogate primary source texts and images for themselves • Wide-ranging primary sources illustrate the concepts of each chapter, provoking discussion as students are introduced to the latest debates and problems of interpretation. Cambridge History of Britain 490pp 7. 2021 9781108424448 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 7. 2021 9781108440257 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108335638
Europe and the Anglo-Saxons Francesca Tinti
This publication explores the interactions between the inhabitants of early medieval England and their contemporaries in continental Europe. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxons’ relations with the continent had a major impact on the shaping of their political, economic, religious and cultural life.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World 75pp 8. 2021 9781108931953 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108942898
The Laws of Alfred The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law Stefan Jurasinski | State University College, Brockport, New York
King Alfred’s domboc (‘book of laws’), the most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period, combines translated biblical laws with Alfred’s own ordinances and those of the early West-Saxon King Ine. This edition and commentary - the first in over a century - will interest all students of English history and law. • The first scholarly edition of the laws of Alfred and Ine in over a century • Allows readers to see this text in relationship with other legal materials from England and elsewhere • Offers a fresh assessment of questions fundamental to understanding Alfred’s domboc, such as the role of the ordeal, the purpose of its use of biblical law, and the nature of manuscript evidence Studies in Legal History 320pp 5. 2021 9781108840903 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108881708
330pp 4. 2021 9781108842495 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923 Conor Morrissey | University of Oxford
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From the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the Irish Civil War, Protestant nationalists forged a distinct counterculture within an increasingly Catholic nationalist movement. This ambitious, wide-ranging book describes the experiences of Protestant advanced nationalists in Ireland, and describes the ultimate failure of this tradition. • Includes new and surprising insights into the relationship between religion and national identity in Ireland • Emphasises the important role played by Protestant women in Irish nationalism during this period • The first analysis of Protestant nationalist activism to uncover the role of Protestant servicemen in the National Army
263pp 9. 2021 9781108462877 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2019 9781108473866 Hardback GBP 75.00/ USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108596251
European history 20C European history NEW IN PAPERBACK
A People’s Music Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990 Helma Kaldewey
This first full history of jazz over the lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, draws on previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts to reveal the experiences of jazz musicians and fans, and the surprising ways state policies sought to manage and control jazz during the cultural Cold War. • Tells a story that has never before been told in full, and illuminates dynamics of the cultural Cold War dynamics from the perspective of jazz • Illustrates how jazz was used as an ideological tool within a communist country, through firsthand accounts and declassified sources • Overturns the established scholarly and popular view that jazz was primarily an art form of dissent
New Studies in European history 343pp 10. 2021 9781108731928 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 7.2021 9781108486187 Hardback GBP 75.00/ USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108645638
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Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945–1950 Andrew H. Beattie | University of New South Wales, Sydney
This first in-depth study of Allied internment compares the detainment of Germans by all four occupying powers in the post-war period. It challenges common assumptions about divergent western and Soviet approaches to detainees, revealing how the process of denazification was more complex and severe than previously believed. • The first in-depth and comparative treatment of internment by all four occupying powers, offering an important corrective to previous accounts • Challenges assumptions about the differences between western and Soviet approaches to internment and denazification • Uses internment to make broader arguments about the Allied occupation and transitional justice 260pp 1 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables 9. 2021 9781108720731 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 2. 2021 9781108487634 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767538 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust Michael Fleming
The book surveys the extent of allied knowledge regarding Auschwitz and other concentration camps during the Second World War. It reveals how Allies were aware of what was happening at camps much earlier than previously thought, and how propaganda and information agencies in the West controlled and prevented its dissemination. • Draws from the latest research to provide new data on allied knowledge of Auschwitz • Explores wartime information and censorship policies in relation to the Holocaust; explaining how and why information about Auschwitz was censored by allied forces • Unites typically disparate Western and Polish debates on Auschwitz and the Holocaust 416pp 3. 2021 9781107633667 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 4. 2014 9781107062795 Hardback GBP 90.99 / USD 118.99 eISBN 9781107477339
Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity Gideon Reuveni | University of Sussex
This book is the first to investigate the intersection between consumption, identity, and Jewish history in Europe. It aims to examine the role and place of consumption within Jewish society and the ways consumerism generated and reinforced Jewish notions of belonging from the eighteenth century onwards. • Suggests a new perspective of Jewish history, which will appeal to those interested in Jewish history and minority cultures in general • Looks at Jews not only as money-makers but as money-spenders, encouraging readers to reflect on the complexity of Jewish experiences • Puts the marketplace at the centre of Jewish experience, endorsing a cultural approach to economic activities 279pp 32 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781107648500 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9780511894893
European history
Empires of the Mind
Migrating Memories
The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present Robert Gildea | University of Oxford
Romanian Germans in Modern Europe James Koranyi | University of Durham
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain’s relations with Europe. • The issues and conflicts of the contemporary world are viewed through the lens of colonialism • This book is a comparative study of France and Britain, but also references Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United States • Reveals the ‘colonial’ dimension of immigration, metropolitan reactions to it, and its effect on contemporary feelings towards migrants
Migrating Memories charts the transnational story of German speakers from Romania during a turbulent century in modern European history. From uneasy supporters of their home country, to enthusiastic Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans, Romanian Germans have been at the centre of major European events since 1918. • Provides an interdisciplinary in-depth study of a minority in modern Europe • Draws on extensive archival research and oral testimony to investigate shifting memories in modern Europe • Charts modern European history by following a migration story, embedding migration studies in broader European trends
Enemies of the People
Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
The Wiles Lectures 366pp 20 b/w illus. 2. 2021 9781316612330 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 eISBN 9781316671702
Hitler’s Critics and the Gestapo J. Ryan Stackhouse
Explores the Gestapo’s complex system of enforcement and control to reveal the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing only through terror and totalitarianism, drawing on research in hundreds of secret police case files. • Offers the first systematic account of the Gestapo’s routine investigation, interrogation, surveillance, and enforcement practices, and how these changed over time • Counters myths that persecution was random and average Germans obeyed Hitler out of fear • Explains how ‘selective enforcement’ by the Gestapo was able to create a degree of German support for Hitler and his regime 330pp 9. 2021 9781108832601 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108961677
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Learning Empire Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919 Erik Grimmer-Solem | Wesleyan University, Connecticut
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism. • Highlights Germany’s entanglement with the world since the 1870s, particularly the importance of the United States, Japan, and China in the development of German imperialism • Recasts the pre-war imperial rivalries between Germany and the other great powers as a response to the challenges of global trade, investment, and migration • Connects German liberal imperialism with German war aims and with the interwar German right and National Socialism, to explain why ‘the German question’ was resolved after 1945, but not after 1918
New Studies in European history 340pp 2. 2022 9781316517772 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009047449
Robert Brier
Robert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy. • Demonstrates the contested nature of human rights language during the 1970s and 1980s • Provides a nuanced account of the role of human rights during the Cold War • Includes analyses of intellectual and political debates in four countries and across two continents Human Rights in History 310pp 6. 2021 9781108478526 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108565233
Reinventing French Aid The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in FrenchOccupied Germany, 1945–1952 Laure Humbert | University of Manchester
Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid was influenced by French politics of national recovery and the rivalries of the Cold War. She highlights different cultures of rehabilitation in the French zone of occupied Germany, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about ‘overcoming’ poverty and warinduced injuries in the domestic context. • Connects events and policies in French-occupied Germany to domestic issues and concerns in France • Calls into question the ‘success’ story of post-war humanitarianism • Examines the often-neglected issue of gender and the gendering of rehabilitation in French occupied Germany 350pp 5. 2021 9781108831352 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108916981
668pp 19 b/w illus. 12 maps 12. 2021 9781108705158 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99 9. 2019 9781108483827 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108593908
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Remaking Ukraine after World War II The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power Filip Slaveski | Deakin University, Victoria
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Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, this examines Soviet Ukraine’s transition from war to ‘peace’ in the long aftermath of World War II, exploring the battle for land, resources and power among collective farmers, local and central Soviet authorities in reconstructing post-war Ukraine. The consequences of this battle resonate today. • Draws on recently declassified Soviet sources to shed new light on the post-war period • Brings to light the struggle of ordinary people against the local government that sought to destroy them • Connects the past to the present, by tracing Ukraine’s experience from the 1940s to today New Studies in European history 200pp 1. 2021 9781108840255 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879293
Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe
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Student Revolt in 1968 France, Italy and West Germany Ben Mercer | Australian National University, Canberra
This comparative and transnational study of three student revolts in France, Italy and West Germany in the 1960s examines the origins, course and dissolution of these protests, arguing that the student protests of 1968 should be understood as a conflict between different forms of democratisation. • Provides a comparative and transnational history of social protest in the 1960s, and its impact • Offers a new account of the meaning of cultural and political democracy in the 1960s • Explains how student protest emerged simultaneously in three different states in the late 1960s New Studies in European history 311pp 10. 2021 9781108735957 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 11.2019 9781108484480 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108696111 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The German Right, 1918–1930
The Deluge of 1919 Eliza Ablovatski | Kenyon College, Ohio
Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy Larry Eugene Jones | Canisius College, New York
Eliza Ablovatksi offers an innovative comparative and transnational study of revolution and counterrevolution in Central Europe in 1919. She employs the experiences of Munich and Budapest to analyze how revolutionary scripts and narratives, framed by antisemitism and gender stereotypes, shaped political events and violence. • Offers an innovative comparative and transnational history of the 1919 revolutions in Munich and Budapest • Examines the impact of race and gender in political violence and culture • Demonstrates the importance of narrative formation and memory surrounding the events of 1919
This important contribution to the history of Weimar Germany examines the role that the non-Nazi Right played in the destabilization and paralysis of Weimar democracy, and why it failed to achieve the unity that was essential to hold in check the more radical challenge to Weimar democracy by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. • Makes a significant contribution to the history of Weimar Germany • Offers a comprehensive account of the non-Nazi German Right from 1918 to 1930 by placing its political fortunes within the broader context of the socio-economic developments of the post-war period • Examines the role of both human agency and long-range structural and cultural factors in the collapse of Weimar democracy
Saving Nature Under Socialism
European history - 1000 - 1450
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 300pp 7. 2021 9780521768306 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139049535
Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 – 1990 Julia E. Ault | University of Utah
When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. Saving Nature Under Socialism introduces readers to environmentalism in Cold War East Germany and traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe from the 1960s. • Illuminates the complexity of society under dictatorship, and the impact on environmental movements • Demonstrates connections across geographic regions and questions assumed boundaries • Connects disparate historiographies on Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War New Studies in European history 300pp 9. 2021 9781316519141 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009003810
656pp 16 b/w illus. 12. 2021 9781108713863 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99 2. 2020 9781108494076 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108643450
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Blood Royal JDynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Robert Bartlett | University of St Andrews, Scotland
This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal and imperial dynasties. From royal marriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked uncles, Robert Bartlett casts fresh light on an essential feature of the medieval world. • Demonstrates the central importance of dynastic rule in the political cultures of medieval Europe • Covers the whole of Latin Christendom and Byzantium from 500 to 1500 • Featuring lots of colourful and surprising anecdotes and examples, this is a tour de force from a master historian 774pp 7. 2021 9781108796163 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 26.95 eISBN 9781108854559
European history
Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries Janna Coomans | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Debunking the myth of medieval cities as apathetic in the face of filth and disease, Janna Coomans builds a new understanding of how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, with responsibilities negotiated among different groups, across areas ranging from water, food and sanitation to pigs, prostitutes and plague. • Demonstrates how health practices influenced perceptions of community and were developed in reaction to specific environmental factors • Uses new archival evidence and theories on public health to offer comparative insights, both across Europe and beyond • Puts responses to plague epidemics and infectious disease into the broader context of public health practices and politics of prevention Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 350pp 8. 2021 9781108831772 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108924344
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Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić | University of Washington
Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and selfrepresentation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscriptions, or epigrams, on works of art. Offers a penetrating and highly original account of Byzantine art and its place in Byzantine society and religious life. • Situated at the convergence of art history, epigraphy and literary studies, while intervening in several adjacent disciplines, including social history, religious studies and material culture studies • Examines an array of monuments and artifacts, from church buildings to icons and icon veils, reliquaries, liturgical vessels and textiles, crosses, biblical codices, mosaics and frescoes • Incorporates translations of numerous epigrams, many of which have never been rendered or discussed in English or in any other modern language 530pp 104 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 8. 2021 9781316606094 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 7.2016 9781107151512 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.99 eISBN 9781316584989
Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages Julie Barrau | University of Cambridge
Offering a new take on the identities of medieval people, this volume intertwines the study of identities with current scholarship to reveal their multi-layered, sometimes contradictory dimensions, and looks beyond family, regional, or national communities to address the disparities forged by social status, gender, age, education, and displacement. • Provides a multifaceted view of the central themes of medieval identity • Draws together the expertise and perspectives of an international team of political, social, economic and cultural historians and scholars • Seeks to make medieval women visible and audible, while reflecting on the limits imposed by our sources.
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Magic in the Middle Ages Third edition Richard Kieckhefer | Northwestern University, Illinois
This revised and expanded edition surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval times. Examining its relationship with religion, science, philosophy, art, literature and politics, Richard Kieckhefer sheds light on the different types of magic that were used, the people who practiced it and the reasoning behind their beliefs. • Extensively revised and expanded to bring the reader up-to-date on current scholarship, including a new chapter on angel magic • Engages readers with a clear and lively account of various types of magic, both natural (‘white’) and demonic (‘black’), and of attitudes to their existence and to ways of using them • Explores the relationship between magic and religion, science, philosophy, art, literature and politics, providing readers with an integrated perspective 302pp 9. 2021 9781108494717 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 9. 2021 9781108796897 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108859721
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult Siren Çelik
Constructing a rich, in-depth portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425), this biography focuses not only on political events, but also on the personality, personal life and literary output of Manuel. Will appeal to medievalist scholars of various backgrounds as well as non-specialist readers. • Combines history and literary analysis to offer a different kind of biography of a Byzantine emperor • Sheds much new light on a key figure in Late Byzantine, Early Ottoman and Western European history • Examines a range of topics such as history, diplomacy, literary history, theology, philosophy and daily life 448pp 3. 2021 9781108836593 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108874038
Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517 Wolfgang P. Müller | Fordham University, New York
From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. This study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North and South of Europe, and what this reveals about the institutions of marriage and the Church. • Demonstrates that marriage was not a clearly defined single institution in the Middle Ages and that late medieval marriage litigation was demand-driven • Integrates legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history • Ranges widely across Europe, including England, French- and Germanspeaking areas, Italy, and Iberia, revealing broad geographical diversity 300pp 9. 2021 9781108845427 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108955812
320pp 9. 2021 9781107160804 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316676004
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European history
Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. | University of Glasgow
This Element explores the longest spell that can be computed from quantifiable fiscal records when the gap between rich and poor narrowed. It was the post-Black-Death century, c. 1375 to c. 1475. Threatened by economic equality after the Black Death, elites turned primarily to political and cultural spheres to preserve their distinctions.
Elements in the Renaissance 75pp 8. 2021 9781108970389 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD20.00 eISBN 9781108980586
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Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200 Björn Weiler | University of Wales, Aberystwyth
What did kingship mean to medieval Europeans - especially to those who did not wear a crown? From the training of heirs, to the deathbed of kings and the choosing of their successors, this engaging study explores how a ruler’s subjects shaped both the idea and the reality of power. • Shifts attention from rulers to the ruled to explore how a ruler’s subjects shaped the ideals and realities of power • Avoids a ‘kings and queens’ narrative to show how the ruled sought to prevent tyrants and grifters from seizing the throne • Takes a trans-European approach to shed light on both the commonalties and the differences between European monarchies. 300pp 9. 2021 9781316518427 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD39.99 eISBN 9781009008853
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy Roland Betancourt | University of California, Irvine
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focuses on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century and combines insights and approaches from sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history. • Provides a multi-sensory approach to the study of manuscript illumination • Shows how Byzantine artists worked between text, its sonic recitation, and the space of its recitation to produce the illustrations accompanying the text in manuscripts • Lavishly illustrated in full colour 320pp 5. 2021 9781108491396 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD130.00 eISBN 9781108868532
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Princely Power in Late Medieval France Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany Erika Graham-Goering
The first critical study of Jeanne de Penthièvre (c.1326–1384), duchess of Brittany and an important political player of the early Hundred Years’ War, sheds light on status, gender, and cooperation as crucial components of late medieval power structures. • The first critical study of Jeanne de Penthièvre (c.1326–1384), duchess of Brittany and an important political player of the early Hundred Years’ War • Sheds light on women’s rulership as a component of power structures in the early Hundred Years’ War • Will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, social, political, and gender history Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 302pp 10. 2021 9781108733434 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2020 9781108489096 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773904 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond Teresa Shawcross | Princeton University, New Jersey
This comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire explores the relationships of author and audience, manuscript and textual transmission, and orality and literacy within their wider social and political context. It targets students of Classics, Byzantine studies, and Medieval Europe. • The first survey of the history of books, readers and reading in Byzantium to be published in English • Covers primary sources produced in many different genres, styles, languages and contexts and discusses a range of modern methodological approaches • Engages with wider scholarship on the history of the book and suggests future directions for the study of books, readers and texts in the post-Gutenberg age of the internet 744pp 3 tables 8. 2021 9781108406031 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 52.99 4. 2018 9781108418416 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108289993 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium Roland Betancourt | University of California, Irvine
Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and medieval people believed they saw, and the role that our imagination played in this process. An indispensable contribution to the history of optics, philosophy, and science. • Proposes a new understanding of theories of vision in the Byzantine world • Surveys material from the ancient and medieval Greek worlds • Discusses secular and religious, high and low texts 417pp 3 tables 8. 2021 9781108440899 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 12. 2018 9781108424745 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108344067
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Sources for Byzantine Art History Volume 3 The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081– c.1350) Foteini Spingou | University of Edinburgh
Presents 150 original medieval sources for Byzantine visual culture, accompanied by commentaries from over fifty leading scholars. An essential handbook for the study of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, for both students and advanced researchers of the pre-modern world. • Gathers and presents in the original text and in translation a huge number of primary sources on Byzantine visual culture • Identifies the major cultural and social tendencies of later Byzantium • Suggests a new periodization of Byzantine cultural history which sheds light on the intellectual developments between the late eleventh and early fourteenth century Sources for Byzantine Art History 500pp 11. 2021 9781108483056 Multiple copy pack GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781009093699
The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law Anders Winroth | Universitetet i Oslo
Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, regulating marriage, oaths, usury, just war, and of course the clergy. No one interested in the Middle Ages can afford not to understand law. Many medievalists are interested in approaching law, but explanations in non-technical language have previously been difficult to find. • Introduces and explains medieval canon law using as little technical language as possible • Provides a comprehensive survey of medieval canon law, both chronologically and thematically • Includes essays by both established young and senior scholars 550pp 12. 2021 9781107025042 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 180.00 eISBN 9781139177221
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The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 Their Origins and Reception Danica Summerlin | University of Sheffield
Despite the growing centralisation of medieval papal government, this study argues that twelfthcentury papal councils - a critical mechanism for contemporary papal government - relied on input from local clerics to formulate the conciliar decrees and, later, ensure their dissemination, thereby limiting the influence of the papacy. • Offers the first comprehensive evaluation of manuscripts from the 1179 conciliar decrees • Uses medieval canon law to examine twelfth-century papal government in an accessible way • Combines legal and church history to offer a deeper insight into the medieval papacy
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 330pp 6. 2021 9781108813846 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 11. 2019 9781107145825 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316536209
European history - 450 - 1000 Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200 Contact, Myth and History Caroline Brett | University of Cambridge
Drawing on literary, linguistic and archaeological research, this volume explores the medieval history of Brittany and its wider contacts. The authors address questions of cultural interaction and textual transmission, teasing apart the layers of myth and historical record. • Explores a relatively long period, from the fall of Rome to the central Middle Ages • Shows how medieval ideas about Brittany’s early history functioned in the political and social context of their production • Accepts and contextualises the unique position of Brittany within the early medieval history of Europe. 380pp 5 b/w illus. 10 maps 11. 2021 9781108486514 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108760102
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Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 Zachary Chitwood | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world’s richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. The first study of its kind, it explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty. • Presents an accessible social history of Byzantine law • Avoids the specialist digressions of Byzantine legal historians • Uses sources from a wide variety of genres, not just normative legal texts
248pp 8. 2021 9781316633601 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2017 9781107182561 Hardback GBP 68.99 / USD 94.99 eISBN 9781316861547
Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453 Magdalena Skoblar
An international team of historians and archaeologists examines the textual sources and material evidence for trade and administration between the medieval Adriatic and Byzantium. They offer stimulating ideas concerning the entire Mediterranean and provide a better understanding of this important region before the heyday of Venice. • Investigates the Adriatic both before and after the rise of Venice, examining the conditions that would lead to Venetian dominance • Includes new material from archaeological excavations published in Italian and/or Croatian that was previously inaccessible to a larger English-speaking audience • Uses ideas about the Adriatic to suggest new ways of rethinking the history of the Mediterranean during the period
British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity 372pp 56 colour illus. 2 maps 5 tables 4. 2021 9781108840705 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108886987
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Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy Caroline Goodson | University of Cambridge
Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of foodgrowing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values. • Challenges conventional ideas about the Fall of Rome • Offers a new way to see and analyse urban experience in early medieval cities • Unites textual and material evidence for urban horticulture
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336pp 3. 2021 9781108489119 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773966
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Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier, c. AD 500–700 Coins, Artifacts and History Andrei Gandila | University of Alabama, Huntsville
An interdisciplinary analysis of Byzantine frontier policy in the northern Balkans and the Black Sea region. Explores cultural interaction between Romans and barbarians, warfare, diplomacy, and the creation of identities before the final collapse of the ancient world order. • An interdisciplinary analysis of Byzantine frontier policy, contributing to a better understanding of the last Roman century • Redefines the notion of ‘frontier river’ in Late Antiquity by synthesizing a wide range of textual and archaeological evidence • Challenges previous interpretations of coins found beyond the frontier through an innovative comparative approach
396pp 69 b/w illus. 19 maps 8. 2021 9781108455978 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 10.208 9781108470421 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108666374 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century Edward Roberts | University of Kent, Canterbury
Flodoard of Rheims (893/4–966) is one of the tenth century’s most intriguing but neglected historians, who wrote in the tumultuous decades that followed the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire. This important re-appraisal of his life and work casts new light on the political and cultural history of tenth-century Europe. • The first major study in English of one of the tenth century’s most important authors, making this interesting but obscure author accessible to a wider audience • Provides a vital point of reference for Flodoard’s writings and the development of historical writing in medieval Europe • Brings new literary and cultural perspectives to the history of western Europe following the break-up of the Carolingian empire
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 282pp 3 tables 6. 2021 9781316649879 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2019 9781316510391 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108226851
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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium Brooke Shilling | University of Lincoln
This collection restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Experts in the history of art and culture, archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one location. • The first study of water culture and fountains in Byzantium • Presents Byzantine material in a longer chronology, across several disciplines, embracing late Roman material as well as Ottoman material • Includes work from established names in the field as well as new voices 415pp 83 b/w illus. 2 maps 7. 2021 9781107513884 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 10.2016 9781107105997 Hardback GBP 83.99 / USD 109.99 eISBN 9781316226742 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium Veronica della Dora | Royal Holloway, University of London
Engaging with a wide range of textual and visual sources, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It will appeal to historical and cultural geographers, Byzantine scholars, environmental historians and theologians. • Offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Byzantine perceptions of nature and the environment • Develops a new conceptual framework to explore the principles that underpin Byzantine perceptions • Numerous illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography make this a useful resource and reference work 320pp 47 b/w illus. 13 colour illus. 3 maps 8. 2021 9781316502242 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2016 9781107139091 Hardback GBP 71.99/ USD 98.99 eISBN 9781316488386 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity Writings of an Unexpected Emperor Meredith L. D. Riedel | Duke University, North Carolina
Examines political strategies employed by Leo VI in his writings and the role of religion as a carrier of communal identity in Byzantium. Highlights differences between Christianity and Islam, deployment of Christian identity by the Byzantine emperor, and the role of religion during the heyday of history’s longestlived Christian empire. • Explores important developments for the middle Byzantine period with respect to the increasing focus on Christianity and religion as key identifiers of East Roman imperial rule and society • Shows the increasing emphasis placed on the differences between Christianity and Islam, and the deployment of Christian identity by the Byzantine emperor • Highlights the political and ideological strategies employed by Leo VI in his literary output, with discussions of his most important works 239pp 7. 2021 9781107662575 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2018 9781107053076 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781107281967
European history
Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Patrons, Politics and Saints Óscar Prieto Domínguez | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument Elena N. Boeck | DePaul University, Chicago
The first book to comprehensively examine the literature of Byzantine Iconoclasm and its aftermath not as isolated phenomena, but within their own social, cultural and political contexts. Argues for the key role played by literary circles emerging both during the persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843. • Pioneering study of the literary nature of the texts produced during Iconoclasm • Emphasises the texts’ use as ideological tools by different circles, such as ecclesiastical institutions and imperial power structures • Adopts a multidisciplinary approach combining sociology of literature, religious and cultural studies, political history and source criticism 420pp 2. 2021 9781108491303 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108868129
Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500 A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres Catherine Holmes | University of Oxford
How did elites gain and retain power and resources in the medieval Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic world? This set of parallel studies offers readers an invaluable framework for understanding and comparing the political cultures and societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean. • Offers the first systematic presentations of the three spheres’ political cultures in English-speaking or any scholarship • Provides readers with a ready tool for comparative study • Represents an important first stage in a wider project to identify and explain comparisons and connections between the spheres 500pp 8. 2021 9781316519769 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009022231
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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past András Németh
The first comprehensive study of the Excerpta, a sort of ‘Byzantine Google’ which repackaged many key works of Greek historiography stretching back into antiquity, and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century. Also tackles wider issues including the history of information management, philological practices and book culture. • The first in-depth analysis of the historical excerpts, including many key historians from classical and late antiquity, in the context of their production in Byzantium • Proposes a new and coherent interpretative framework of several key works produced at Byzantine Court in the tenth century • Tackles theoretical problems beyond Byzantium, such as the understanding of time, history, textual coherence, the practical reading of history and managing information overload
The Byzantine empire’s bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired international acclaim. This engrossing and pioneering biography demonstrates that the colossal, the exceptional, and the stationary can help us understand a global middle ages. • The first interdisciplinary study of the medieval Mediterranean’s most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument • Breaks new ground in global approaches to medieval visual culture • An engrossing biography accessible to a wide range of readers 376pp 4. 2021 9781107197275 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108178341
The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople Sarah Bassett | Indiana University
This book describes Constantinople between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries. It discusses practical matters of urban infrastructure together with the administrative, social, and cultural institutions that gave the city life. It examines visitors’ encounters with one of the great cities of the middle ages. • Provides a comprehensive and systematic collection of essays built on the most recent scholarship dedicated to the history of Constantinople • Focuses solely on Constantinople - its physical structure, population, activities etc. • It examines visitors’ encounters with Constantinople Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World 450pp 12. 2021 9781108498180 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 12. 2021 9781108705578 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108632614
The Hippodrome of Constantinople Engin Akyürek | Koç University, Istanbul
The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed by the Roman Emperor Constantine I and became the ceremonial and recreational center of the city during the Byzantine and the Ottoman period. This Element describes the history, architecture and social role of the Hippodrome.
Elements in the History of Constantinople 75pp 9. 2021 9781108931984 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108942959
352pp 7 b/w illus. 3 maps 4 tables 8. 2021 9781108438216 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 11. 2018 9781108423632 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00V eISBN 9781108529068
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The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Irene van Renswoude | Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This in-depth and accessible analysis of the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers challenges preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages, revealing that there was room for political dissent in this period, as long as critics employed the right rhetoric and adhered to scripted roles. • Studies the rhetoric of controversial dissidents, outsiders and truthtellers, with contemporary political resonance • Presents rhetoric as a cultural performance in ways which do not require familiarity with technical vocabulary • Studies patterns of continuity and change over several centuries, to appeal also to non-specialists who are interested in the history of ideas and the historical development of political concepts
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 289pp 6. 2021 9781108725477 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2019 9781107038134 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139811941
The Statues of Constantinople Albrecht Berger | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
A presentation of the ancient statues once set up in Byzantine Constantinople, with a special focus on their popular reception. This Element examines how they came to the city, where they were set up and when they were lost, and analyses their allegorical and magical interpretation by the people.
Elements in the History of Constantinople 75pp 7. 2021 9781108958370 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 25.00 eISBN 9781108956147 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist Sarah Gador-Whyte | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Romanos’ lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological themes in these kontakia. Through rhetorical techniques like dialogue, metaphor and vivid description, biblical stories and theological concepts are performed, adapted and vivified. • The first English-language study of the thought and poetry of Romanos the Melodist • Identifies Romanos’ distinctive contributions to homiletics and traditions of late antique poetry • Provides original translations of significant passages in Romanos’ kontakia, making his Greek poetry more widely accessible
247pp 8. 2021 9781316505618 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2017 9781107140134 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 103.99 eISBN 9781316492512
European history (general) A Concise History of Greece Fourth edition Richard Clogg | University of Oxford
Reissued in its fourth edition, this updated concise history provides an illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. • The fourth edition of Richard Clogg’s classic account of Greek history from independence in 1830 to the present day • Includes a new concluding chapter considering recent developments, with updated tables, new illustrations and further reading • Established as the most reliable and approachable single-volume history of modern Greece in print Cambridge Concise Histories 366pp 3. 2021 9781108844895 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 3. 2021 9781108948999 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108953924
European history after 1450 NEW IN PAPERBACK
A Renaissance of Violence Homicide in Early Modern Italy Colin Rose | Brock University, Ontario
With evidence from more than 700 homicide trials, Colin Rose demonstrates how and why incidents of violence - in small rural communities, in crowded urban centers and within tightly-knit families grew so rapidly in North Italy in the seventeenth century. • Combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to show how broader socio-economic and environmental factors shape violence • Brings Italy into broader debates about violence in early modern Europe for the first time • Based on an extensive selection of more than 700 trials for homicide in Northern Italy 259pp 38 b/w illus. 2 maps 7. 2021 9781108726924 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 30.99 10. 2019 9781108498067 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108627948
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Exiled Among Nations German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age John P. R. Eicher
How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies. • Provides a truly transnational account of German and North/South American Mennonite relationships to twentieth-century nationalism • Illuminates how millions of overseas Germans selectively promoted and abandoned their identifications as agrarian, Christian, German, and ‘white’, to adapt to the homogenizing - though ever-shifting demands of national citizenship • Explains how and why conservative Mennonites used transnational means for their own anti-national ends, and why they chose to live as premodern, agrarian subjects rather than as modern, nationalized citizens
Publications of the German Historical Institute 359pp 10. 2021 9781108731799 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 2. 2020 9781108486118 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108626392
In Fortune’s Theater Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy Nicholas Scott Baker
This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures in Italian society and demonstrates important shifts in attitudes towards time, decision making about the future and risk-taking during the Renaissance. • Provides a new way of thinking about a period that has been largely understood as oriented toward the past • Traces an important shift in early modern European thinking about chance, Providence, and human action • Interweaves a wide variety of archival, textual, and visual sources to offer a new perspective on the economic, social and cultural history of Renaissance Italy. 320pp 7. 2021 9781108843881 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108920674
Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy Christine Shaw
Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in practice. This wide-ranging comparative survey showcases the variety of political thinking across all five Italian republics, Florence, Venice, Genoa, Siena and Lucca, as well as princes and signori. • Offers the first general, comparative survey of practical political thinking in Renaissance Italy, covering both republics and signorie • Shows the variety of political thinking in Renaissance Italy, across all the Italian republics, not just Florence and Venice • Extends our understanding of the range of political ideas in Renaissance Italy, beyond those available in formal treatises.
State Formation and Shared Sovereignty The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1696 Christopher W. Close | St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
Through a comparative study of alliances in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries, Christopher W. Close offers new perspectives on how alliances in early modern Europe promoted shared sovereignty, and how this influenced the evolution of states in early modern Europe. • Offers the first comparative account of the political development of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic • Shows how the history of past alliances and memories of previous leagues shaped seminal events like the Thirty Years War and the Dutch Revolt • Explains why state formation occurred as it did in the German and Dutch-speaking regions of Europe 350pp 2. 2021 9781108837620 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108946827
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars Volume 3 Experience, Culture and Memory Alan Forrest | University of York
In Volume III, leading scholars discuss the social and cultural history of the Napoleonic Wars. They explore the widespread impact of the wars, considering how they affected those who fought in them as well as their impact on civilians and on European culture. • Places emphasise on experience of those who lived through the Napoleonic Wars • Contextualises the history of the wars and their legacy for the nineteenth-century • Takes an interdisciplinary approach by including scholarship in cultural studies, gender history, art and literature The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 600pp 25 maps 2. 2022 9781108417679 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108278119
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars Volume 1 Politics and Diplomacy Michael Broers | University of Oxford
A comprehensive history of the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading scholars examine the political context that produced the wars and set them within the broader context of eighteenth century great power politics in the Age of Revolution. • Includes chapters by leading specialists in foreign policy and governance to reflect the latest research on the wars • Integrates themes from the political history of the Napoleonic Wars, creating a rounded picture of the origins of the wars • Uses a wide range of modern scholarship to bring the subject to a wider audience The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 625pp 30 b/w illus. 25 maps 2. 2022 9781108424370 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108334846
400pp 12. 2021 9781108845373 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108955713
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The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800 Michael Kwass | The Johns Hopkins University
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A bold new interpretation of the ‘consumer revolution’ in the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers purchased unprecedented quantities of clothing, household goods, and colonial products. This volume examines globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and revolution. • Brings together the history of European empires, world trade, and slavery in the Americas to offer a global account of the consumer revolution. • Advances a new interpretation of the politics of consumption in the eighteenth century, incorporating social, cultural, and political perspectives. • Examines the role of consumer activism in the Atlantic Revolutions the American and French Revolutions - and in the movement to abolish slavery - abolitionism. New Approaches to European history 262pp 12. 2021 9780521198707 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 12. 2021 9780521139595 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9780511979255
The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe Paul M. Dover | Kennesaw State University, Georgia
This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the ‘information revolution’ over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, especially through the use of paper, had a transformative impact on political, social, cultural and economic life. • Introduces an important new meta-theme which will encourage a rethinking of many of the fundamental developments of early modern Europe • Surveys early modern Europe’s ‘information revolution’ as paper and the information written on it became central to European political, social, cultural and economic life • Translates the historical significance of the book’s central themes of information and information management for the present day New Approaches to European history 270pp 10. 2021 9781107147539 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 10. 2021 9781316602034 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316556177
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The Venetian Discovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters Elizabeth Horodowich | New Mexico State University
As the print capital of early modern Europe, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America. • Proposes a new understanding of the Renaissance by considering Italian history in a global context • Makes significant new arguments about the Mediterranean world • Brings discussions from Italian scholarship into an Anglophone arena
343pp 74 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316606841 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 6. 2018 9781107150874 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316596692
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Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour Paola Bianchi
This book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600–1800, when SavoyPiedmont was one of the principal political powers of modern Europe, through a series of twentytwo essays by an international group of scholars exploring a range of disciplines. • Presents extensive new research and an entirely new approach to British-Savoy relations in the early modern period, based on new archival documentation and discoveries • A pioneering publication in English that examines British-Savoy diplomacy and cultural relations, and the particular and distinguishing characteristics of the Grand Tour in Piedmont • Adopts a fresh approach to the study of cultural relations and exchange across Europe at the time of the Grand Tour, considering the experiences of British travellers to Piedmont as well as of Turinese visitors to Britain British School at Rome Studies 515pp 8. 2021 9781316602133 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 52.99 9. 2017 9781107147706 Hardback GBP 111.00 / USD 149.99 eISBN 9781316556276
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Pipe Dreams Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin Maya K. Peterson | University of California, Santa Cruz
Pipe Dreams analyzes the transformation of Central Asia’s landscapes through tsarist- and Sovietera hydraulic projects. Arguing that water was a central concern, Maya K. Peterson brings a critical region into view across a long period and engages environmental questions through a rich political and social framework. • Evaluates the importance of water in the social and political history of Central Asia • Analyzes the deep-seated roots of the disappearance of the Aral Sea, one of the twentieth century’s worst environmental tragedies • Draws on a wealth of published primary sources and archival collections in four of the five Central Asian states, Russia, and the United States Studies in Environment and History 421pp 18 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108468541 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2019 9781108475471 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108673075
European history / History - cross discipline
Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia
The Soviet Myth of World War II
The Transfer of Power 1450–1725 Paul Bushkovitch | Yale University, Connecticut
Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR Jonathan Brunstedt | Texas A & M University
This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar’s power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, overturns generations of scholarship to argue that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law. • Explains how the state worked in early modern Russia by analysing the transfer of power, an essential feature of all states • Places Russian history within a European context, showing what was distinctive about succession to the throne in Russia and what was not • Provides a critique of the ‘absolutism’ paradigm for early modern Russia 400pp 3. 2021 9781108479349 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783156
Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war’s memory in Russia today. • Provides a new interpretation of the role of World War II’s memory in Soviet political culture • Examines the complex, multinational character of the USSR as a unique supranational and socialist entity rather than simply ‘Russia’ • Examines the role of political myths and notions of patriotism in complex, modern societies, and their connection to collective identities Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 320pp 7. 2021 9781108498753 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108595773
Survivors Warsaw under Nazi Occupation Jadwiga Biskupska
Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia’s resistance to Nazi occupation. • Introduces readers to a number of World War II-era Polish figures beyond those familiar in Western Europe and the US, including women, young people, and civilians • Appeals to a broad range of historians of Eastern Europe, World War II, war and society, and the Holocaust • Provides examples of a wide range of collaboration and resistance behaviours under occupation Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 320pp 4 maps 2. 2022 9781316515587 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026017
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The Firebird and the Fox Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks Jeffrey Brooks | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
Showcasing the genius of Russian art, literature, music, and dance over a century of turmoil, Jeffrey Brooks uses the emblematic characters of the firebird and the fox to demonstrate the shared traditions, mutual influences and enduring themes that made up the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped these works. • Beautifully illustrated, with a colour plate section including many illustrations which have never before been republished • Explores how Russia moved from the periphery of European culture to the cutting edge • Places classic works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Akhmatova, Malevich, Chagall, and other Russian ‘greats’ in their cultural context
364pp 5. 2021 9781108735872 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10 . 2019 9781108484466 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108695893
History - cross discipline Diplomatic, international history Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919 Sakiko Kaiga | University of Tokyo
Sakiko Kaiga offers the first full-scale study of the pre-history of the League of Nations. By combining social, intellectual, political history and international relations, she reveals how the proLeague of Nations movement in Britain during the Great War influenced the unexpected development of the first international organisation for peace. • Reveals how the first international organisation for peace was planned, and how it influenced the present international system • Traces how ideas about the post-war order were discussed and elaborated inside groups such as the Bryce Group and the League of Nations Society • Incorporates intellectual, social and political history as well as international relations 300pp 4. 2021 9781108489171 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774130
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War Jaclyn Granick | Cardiff University
Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands. She provides insights into the origins of American Jewish philanthropy and politics and its implications for understanding modern humanitarianism as a whole. • Synthesizes Jewish and international history within one narrative • Reveals unexplored global power dynamics, international connections, and political positioning in a world of nation-states • Uses detailed, multi-archival research to provide a new and astonishing narrative about international Jewish humanitarianism Human Rights in History 418pp 6. 2021 9781108495028 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108860697
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Plotting for Peace American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917 Daniel Larsen | University of Cambridge
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Daniel Larsen reveals the dramatic role of British codebreaking during the First World War - leading to a revolutionary re-interpretation of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s diplomacy, British Prime Ministers H.H. Asquith’s and David Lloyd George’s war leaderships, British intelligence, and the Anglo-American economic relationship during the war. • Provides a dramatic re-interpretation of the role of British codebreaking during the First World War • Weaves together diplomatic, political, economic, and intelligence history • Explores the impact of US efforts to achieve a diplomatic end to the war on British war strategy and economic policy 444pp 4. 2021 9781108486682 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108761833
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Securing Europe after Napoleon 1815 and the New European Security Culture Beatrice de Graaf | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This volume by a team of leading historians and scholars of international relations reveals the political and cultural transformations that took place in Europe in and after 1815, and contributes to debates within international relations about security, securitisation and security culture. • Presents new research into the post-1815 Vienna order in Europe by a team of leading scholars • Sets out a new approach to international history that examines a wider range of multilateral institutions and historical actors, as well as integrating networks and ideas • Applies new concepts from international relations and security studies to history
326pp 1 b/w illus. 1 table 3. 2021 9781108446426 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 7. 2019 9781108428224 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108597050
The Letters and Reports of British Consular and Diplomatic Agents in Tripoli, 1793– 1832 Volume 60 Sara ElGaddari
This edition presents the official correspondence and reports of the British consular and diplomatic agents stationed in the Regency of Tripoli from 1795 to 1832, providing political intelligence on local and regional developments, and revealing both the personal ambitions of the consuls and the official interests of the British government. • This volume brings together the official correspondence and reports of British consular and diplomatic agents stationed in the Regency of Tripoli from 1795 to 1832 for the first time • Dispatches in the volume provide insights into the importance of Tripoli to British interests at that time, in the broader geographic context of North Africa and the Mediterranean • Correspondence collected in this volume also reveals the personal ambitions of the consuls stationed in the Regency of Tripoli, including Simon Lucas, William Wass Langford and Hanmer Warrington Camden Fifth Series 356pp 1. 2021 9781108843706 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781108919692
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The Rinderpest Campaigns A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century Amanda Kay McVety | Miami University
This book uses the history of the struggle to eradicate rinderpest to expand our understanding of development and international relations in the twentieth century. It highlights the vital role that UN agencies played in development during the twentieth century, focusing on foreign relations and diplomatic history and global health policy. • Reminds readers of the importance of environmental factors in the creation of economic and political institutions • Demonstrates the role that animals played in the creation of the idea of a ‘common humanity’ • Moves the conversation about the history of development out of the typical Cold War framework Global and International History 308pp 13 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108434065 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2018 9781108422741 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108381673
The Tricontinental Revolution Third World Radicalism and the Cold War R. Joseph Parrott | Ohio State University
The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism. As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used armed revolts and confrontational diplomacy to challenge the United States and the inequitable international system it supported. • Brings together a diverse set of global case studies examining militant Third World internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s • The first book to use archives and expertise on five continents to situate Tricontinentalism within the wider history of Third World and anti-imperial internationalism • Connects the Latin American tradition of Tricontinentalism to traditions of Afro-Asian collaboration and the Cold War’s impact in the Third World Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 313pp 3. 2022 9781316519110 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009004824
Worlds Apart A Documentary History of US–Iranian Relations, 1978–2018 Malcolm Byrne
Using declassified records, this book documents the tumultuous relationship between the US and Iran. Its innovative and accessible approach to history provides glossaries, discussion questions, and clear instructions for decoding records and will serve as an indispensable resource for those interested in US foreign policy and Iranian history. • Explores over sixty once-highly classified White House, CIA and State Department records as well as a selection of Iranian materials • Offers a unique perspective into the lives and viewpoints of American and Iranian protagonists themselves • Provides an evidence-based foundation for understanding the next critical phase in US-Iran relations 283pp 8. 2021 9781108838528 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 8. 2021 9781108971546 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108975148
History - cross discipline
Economic history After the Virus Lessons from the Past for a Better Future Hilary Cooper
After the Virus is a provocative manifesto for change post-COVID-19. Shining a light on the deep fractures in our society, Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal why the UK was unable to respond effectively to the pandemic and what we can learn from our own history to forge a fairer, more resilient future. • Reveals why the UK was so lacking in resilience after decades of neoliberal economics that it was unable to respond effectively to the pandemic • Argues that Britain’s history, going right back to the reign of Elizabeth I, demonstrates that welfare spending has always been a vital stimulus for, not a burden on, economic growth • Presents readers with practical proposals, inspired by our own history, which provide a blueprint for building an empowering society that will enable us to tackle the bigger challenges that are coming after COVID-19 444pp 9. 2021 9781009005203 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 eISBN 9781009036412
Between Depression and Disarmament The International Armaments Business, 1919–1939 Jonathan A. Grant | Florida State University
Jonathan A. Grant analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement in Eastern Europe, 1919–1939. He sheds new light on the international history of the interwar period and expands the discussion of armaments beyond the realm of governments or peace movement activists. • Uses unpublished corporate archives to get inside the private armaments sector • Proposes a new view of the arms trade by covering successful and unsuccessful sales, revealing the contingent nature of the armaments business and arms sales • Expands the view of disarmament and re-armament beyond the realm of government negotiators or peace movement activists 238pp 3. 2021 9781108448505 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108552721
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Boom and Bust A Global History of Financial Bubbles William Quinn | Queen’s University Belfast
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? Boom and Bust reveals why bubbles happen, and why some bubbles have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences, whilst others have actually benefited society. • Ranges across three hundred years of bubbles from the South Sea Bubble of 1720 to the sub-prime crisis and Chinese stock market crash • Provides tangible approaches that investors and governments can take to predict and address bubbles • Shows that not all bubbles are economically destructive and that some have actually benefited society
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Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past Simon Mee
This is a study of how German monetary history – in the form of the lessons learned from Germany’s experience of inflation in 1922–3 and 1936–45 - became politicised in the post-war era and transformed into a political weapon in debates surrounding the establishment of West Germany’s central bank and who should control monetary policy. • Offers a new explanation of why Germany’s political culture is preoccupied with inflation • Sheds new light on contemporary debates about monetary policy and the role of a central bank in the Eurozone • Highlights the extent to which a politicised version of Germany’s history was exported to the European continent in the form of the European Central Bank’s establishment
371pp 13 b/w illus. 3 tables 5. 2021 9781108731300 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 12. 2019 9781108499781 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108759601
Debt, Trust and Reputation Extra-legal Finance in Northern India Sebastian Schwecke | Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Studying the operation of credit/debt beyond the reach of state regulation, the book explores the dynamics of trust and reputation that make extra-legal markets work, their production as part of partially failing modernizing projects, and the social responses to them – as well as their impacts on everyday life in India. • Combines a rich historical and ethnographic study with the inquiry into concepts of credit and debt beyond standard paradigms • Employes the inquiry into financial markets in order to study the lasting, and sometimes negative impacts on poverty and development of modernizing projects in India • Takes history into the present by embedding the historical study into an anthropological inquiry and adding ethnographic detail from the present to the historical inquiry Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches 410pp 11. 2021 9781316517260 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009043670
Making Social Spending Work Peter H. Lindert | University of California, Davis
How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter H. Lindert provides a compelling global guide to public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and links them to inequality and fiscal redistribution. • Provides the first global history of social spending, showing which countries got it right and which got it wrong • A global account covering not just the core OECD countries, but also East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America • Uses historical evidence to offer policy recommendations about the world’s tax-based social safety nets 434pp 4. 2021 9781108478168 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108784467
374pp 27 b/w illus. 13 tables 10. 2021 9781108431651 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 6. 2020 9781108421256 Hardback GBP 18.99.00 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108367677
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The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World Volume 1 1700 to 1870 Stephen Broadberry | University of Oxford
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This volume offers an unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth, focusing on the period from 1700 to 1870. It offers both regional studies from across the globe and thematic analyses to consider the key factors governing differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. • Provides a global perspective on the emergence of modern economic growth • Highlights the range of economic outcomes across both space and time • Considers the causes and consequences of growth and development The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World 512pp 6. 2021 9781107159457 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316671566
The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World Volume 2 1870 to the Present Stephen Broadberry | University of Oxford
This volume offers an unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth, focusing on the period from 1870 to the present. It offers both regional studies from across the globe and thematic analyses to consider the key factors governing differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. • Provides a global perspective on the emergence of modern economic growth • Highlights the range of economic outcomes across both space and time • Considers the causes and consequences of growth and development The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World 572pp 6. 2021 9781107159488 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316671603
The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World 2 Volume Hardback Set Stephen Broadberry | University of Oxford
These volumes offer an unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world since 1700. They offer both regional studies from across the globe and thematic analyses to consider the key factors governing differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. • Provides a global perspective on the emergence of modern economic growth • Highlights the range of economic outcomes across both space and time • Considers the causes and consequences of growth and development The Cambridge Economic history of the Modern World 800pp 6. 2021 9781108953771 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00
The Reserve Bank of India 1997–2008 Volume 5 Tirthankar Roy | London School of Economics and Political Science
The fifth volume on the history of the Reserve Bank of India covers the years from 1997–98 to 2007–08. It is a narrative history of the Bank and also a rich resource for understanding how an emerging market central bank manages change and shapes the economy to face future challenges. • Economic history of the central bank of India • Utilises data from archives and photograph to substantiate the narration 750pp 10. 2021 9781316511329 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781009052252
Environmental history Fueling Mexico Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 Germán Vergara | Georgia Institute of Technology
Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels became the basis of Mexican society, comparing Mexico’s fossil transition with those of other countries. The transition from a solar energy regime to one dependent on fossil fuels transformed Mexico’s economy, politics, and culture - with serious environmental and social consequences. • Places energy transition in economic, political and cultural context • Demonstrates the central role of politics and environment in the pace of energy transitions • Draws on a rich range of primary sources Studies in Environment and History 300pp 6. 2021 9781108831277 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108923972
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague Adam Sundberg | Creighton University, Omaha
Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present. • Expands the scope of disaster studies with new examples, sources, and methods from Environmental history • A detailed case study of disaster, looking at the roots of and responses to multiple environmental hazards • Incorporates scholarship from two important geographic traditions (American and Dutch) and multiple disciplines and specializations (environmental and climate history, disaster studies, historical geography, cultural history, rural and agricultural history) Studies in Environment and History 300pp 1. 2022 9781108831246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108923750
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability Melissa K. Nelson | San Francisco State University
This book is for anyone interested in Native American studies, environmental studies, and sustainability studies who wants to learn more about contemporary and historic examples of Indigenous peoples’ ethical and practical relationship to land, place, and the environment. • Offers a diversity of Indigenous voices and cases on the topic of sustainability • Challenges standard approaches to sustainability with more cultural and pragmatic solutions • Proposes a holistic ecophilosophy of indigenous sustainability New Directions in Sustainability and Society 290pp 6. 2021 9781108450447 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 11. 2018 9781108428569 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108552998
Global history Convicts A Global history Clare Anderson | University of Leicester
A radical new global reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation and global connections across the world. • Takes a Global history perspective, showing connections and relationships within and between empires and polities • Disrupts the dominant narrative of penal history, of the rise and dominance of incarceration • Shows how Global history can be written as history from below 400pp 12. 2021 9781108840729 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 12. 2021 9781108814942 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108887496
How Cities Matter Richard Harris | McMaster University, Ontario
Why should we care how cities matter? What difference does it make to how we understand our daily lives or, for those of us who are academics, to what we research and how we teach? This Element examines these questions. Elements in Global Urban History 75pp 8. 2021 9781108749268 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108782432
Oceania, 800-1800CE A Millennium of Interactions in a Sea of Islands James L. Flexner | University of Sydney
Race, Rights and Reform Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War Sarah C. Dunstan | Queen Mary University of London
Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from not only France and the United States, but also the French Caribbean and African colonies. • Reveals the rich and ongoing collaborations between black peoples as they fought for access to citizenship rights • Utilizes a range of sources from archives in North America and across Europe, including private correspondence, literary works, government documents and journals • Enriches and de-provincializes the study of black activism in the United States and France Global and International History 320pp 2. 2021 9781108486972 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764971
Real Estate and Global Urban History Alexia Yates | University of Manchester
This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels.
Elements in Global Urban History 75pp 8. 2021 9781108797115 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108850551
Revolutionary World Global Upheaval in the Modern Age David Motadel | London School of Economics and Political Science
The first truly Global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, Revolutionary World brings together some of the world’s leading historians to explore the origins, course and consequences of the major revolutionary moments in modern history, from the Atlantic Revolutions to the Arab Spring. • Provides the first truly Global history of revolutions in the modern age • Demonstrates how the major revolutions of modern history were almost never contained within state borders and were usually part of broader revolutionary moments • Analyses the spread of ideas and the movements of revolutionaries to offer insights into the nature of revolutionary waves 285pp 3. 2021 9781107198401 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 3. 2021 9781316648179 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108182409
Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. These histories provide an important cross-cultural perspective for the concept of ‘the Middle Ages’ from outside of the usual Old World focus.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages 75pp 11. 2021 9781108823289 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913782
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History Chris Cook
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A comprehensive guide to the main global events, personalities and themes which have shaped the modern world from the eighteenth century to the present. Compiled by an international team of leading scholars, the book combines extended overviews of major themes with shorter entries on key individuals and events. • A comprehensive and truly global account of modern world history, with almost 2,500 entries written by an international team of historians • Addresses the need for an introductory guide for students taking the increasing number of world history courses • Combines broad overviews of key themes with shorter entries on the individuals and events which have shaped the modern world 723pp 4. 2021 9780521612388 Paperback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9780511842740
The Limits of Universal Rule Eurasian Empires Compared Yuri Pines | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This volume explores the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia. It is the first comparative study that systematically addresses the factors - ideological, ecological, military, economical, and other - that shaped the empires’ space. • State-of the art analyses of major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern • Provides systematic comparisons of the spatial trajectories of major Eurasian empires • Brings together an international team of leading specialists 350pp 1. 2021 9781108488631 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771061
The Market in Poetry in the Persian World Shahzad Bashir | Brown University, Rhode Island
I provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on poets’ lives, I illuminate the social scene in which poetry was produced and consumed. The discussion elicits poetry’s close connections to political and religious authority, economic exchange, and the articulation of gender.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages 75pp 11. 2021 9781108948647 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108953016
The NGO Moment The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid Kevin O’Sullivan | National University of Ireland, Galway
Offers a fresh interpretation of the social, cultural and ideological foundations that shaped the rapid expansion of the global NGO sector. Kevin O’Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular compassion for the global poor and how this shaped the West’s relationship with the post-colonial world. • A major contribution to our understanding of how global civil society was forged from the 1960s to the 1980s • Breaks away from the American-centric frames that have dominated the historiography by focusing on the experiences of organisations in three Anglophone states with differing experiences of empire and globalisation – Britain, Canada and Ireland • Appeals to a strong inter-disciplinary audience, particularly those interested in humanitarianism, human rights, development, international relations, and transnational activism Human Rights in History 300pp 10. 2021 9781108477307 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 10. 2021 9781108708548 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108769556
Historical theory, historical method and historiography TEXTBOOK
History and Identity How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice Stefan Berger | University of Manchester
This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger highlights key trends in the theory of history and how these have led to a new self-reflexivity in historical writing across traditional and emerging new fields. • Clear and lucid descriptions enable students to understand diverse bodies of historical theory and how these relate to historical practice • Uses examples of historical writing from a wide range of historians and from different historical fields to give students a thorough understanding of how theory has informed historical writing • Comprehensive coverage of the development of historical fields will make this essential reading for students taking Historical Theory and Historiography courses 270pp 11. 2021 9781107011403 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 85.00 11. 2021 9781107648845 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9780511984525
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History of ideas and intellectual history NEW IN PAPERBACK
Alfarabi’s Book of Dialectic (Kitāb al-Jadal) On the Starting Point of Islamic Philosophy David M. DiPasquale | Boston College, Massachusetts
This book presents the first complete English translation of Alfarabi’s Book of Dialectic, regarded as a foundational text of the Islamic philosophical tradition. With meticulously researched commentary and extensive notes, David M. DiPasquale challenges accepted scholarly interpretations and opens up novel ways of viewing Alfarabi’s work. • The first complete English translation of this central text in the Islamic philosophical tradition • Demonstrates Alfarabi’s wide-ranging influence, on Jewish and Greek thought as well as Islamic philosophy and history • A meticulously researched edition including a full commentary and notes on the text
Empire of Eloquence The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World Stuart M. McManus | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. • Draws on primary research in 13 countries and 7 languages to offer a truly global perspective • The first in-depth study of public speaking in the Iberian world, placing the orations within their educational, scholarly, political and ritual contexts • Provides a model for other pre-modern global intellectual histories Ideas in Context 320pp 4. 2021 9781108830164 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108909181
362pp 7. 2021 9781108405430 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2019 9781108417532 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108277822
Feeling Terrified?
Conciliarism, Humanism and Law
This Element presents original research into how young people interact with violent extremist material, including terrorist propaganda, when online. It explores a series of emotional and behavioural responses that challenge assumptions that terror or trauma are the primary emotional responses to these online environments.
Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400–c. 1520 Joseph Canning | University of Cambridge
Set against the background of juristic thought and addressing the arguments that people at the time found convincing, this study explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, through the two key intellectual movements of the fifteenth century: conciliarism in the church, and humanism. • Offers a fresh interpretation of conciliar and humanist political thought • Deconstructs assumptions about authority and examines how power can be justified • Fills a genuine gap in the history of political thought by focusing on the 15th century, a period often overlooked in favour of the canonical works of the 14th and 16th centuries 200pp 7. 2021 9781108831796 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108924627
Emotions and Temporalities Margrit Pernau
Emotions mediate between the past, the present and the future, allowing ghosts to transcend the boundaries believed to divide times. This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both.
The Emotions of Online Violent Extremism Lise Waldek | Macquarie University, Sydney
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 75pp 10. 2021 9781108814232 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108886369
Georg Simmel and German Culture Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents Efraim Podoksik | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Through penetrating interpretations of Georg Simmel’s reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, this study places the German philosopher and social thinker’s ideas on culture, education and civilisation within the context of intellectual life in Imperial Germany. • Offers a unified, systematic understanding of Simmel’s mode of thought • Provides analysis of Simmel in the context of German intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries • Maps central German debates regarding culture and society to present a coherent narrative of the history of the German idea of culture. Ideas in Context 340pp 7. 2021 9781108845748 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108990783
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 75pp 9. 2021 9781108825122 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108918701
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History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865 Callum Barrell
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This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians’ historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, arguing that, contrary to their reputations as ahistorical and even antihistorical thinkers, they developed complex frameworks in which to learn from and negotiate the past. • Situates utilitarian ideas in their historical and intellectual contexts, without the baggage of later (especially twentieth-century) developments • Challenges long-established interpretations of their thought, with consequences for contemporary utilitarianism, political theory, and ethics • Draws on original archival research and unpublished material to enrich readers’ understanding and provide access to otherwise rare or unseen sources Ideas in Context 300pp 10. 2021 9781316519073 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009004718
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In the Shadow of Leviathan John Locke and the Politics of Conscience Jeffrey R. Collins | Queen’s University, Ontario
Offering a vivid account of the revolutionary times through which they lived, this book revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes and Locke. Focused on their own era, it reveals a great deal about how religious toleration and religious politics developed within modern liberalism, and explores tensions that are with us still. • Reopens the old and neglected question of Hobbes’s influence over Locke with new evidence and interpretive methods • Develops and explains not just the arguments of Hobbes and Locke, but their political context, the circulation and reception of their ideas, and the print history of their books • Draws out the significance of early modern intellectual history to modern, liberal thinking around religious toleration
Ideas in Context 458pp 10. 2021 9781108746229 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 2. 2020 9781108478816 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108778879 NEW IN PAPERBACK
John Selden and the Western Political Tradition Ofir Haivry
John Selden (1584–1654) was a formidable figure in Renaissance England, whose true importance and influence are now coming to be recognised after many years of neglect. This detailed analysis highlights his crucial role in the development of early modern political ideas, and the impact of Jewish ideas on Western political thought. • Proposes a new interpretation of Selden as an important thinker of the Anglo American constitutional tradition • Offers, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of Selden’s ideas on religion and society • Presents in full the role of Selden’s immersion in Jewish thought on his political ideas
532pp 12 b/w illus. 1. 2021 9781108978125 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 6. 2017 9781107011342 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 103.99 eISBN 9780511894923
Making Noise in the Modern Hospital Victoria Bates | University of Bristol
This Element examines hospital noise, a problem that has repeatedly been discovered anew, with each new era bringing its own efforts to control and abate unwanted sound in healthcare settings. Explores the changing cacophony of the late twentieth-century hospital, bringing together sensory, spatial, technological, societal, and medical histories.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 75pp 10. 2021 9781108813662 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108885010
Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives From George Dedlow to Dante Alastair Minnis | Yale University, Connecticut
‘Phantom limb pain’ designates the sensations which emanate from limbs that in reality are missing. First coined in the American Civil War, Alastair Minnis traces the medieval parallels for this concept. Is a complete body necessary for personhood? These issues were as absorbing for medieval thinkers as they are for neuroscientists today. Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 75pp 2. 2021 9781108970556 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108989695
Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion Sophie Nicholls | University of Oxford
Based on fresh analysis of the political and polemical literature produced by members of the Holy League during the French wars of religion, this study scrutinises their political thought and rethinks their positioning in the wider intellectual context of the religious wars. • Situates the political thought of the Holy League within the broader intellectual and political history of the Wars of Religion • Challenges existing perspectives on early modern French political thought, by demonstrating the intellectual connections between the League and European, scholastic ideas regarding sovereignty, law and the church • Shows how League political thought did not ‘end’ with the demise of the movement, but metamorphosed in the seventeenth century, as debates about the relationship between church and state continued Ideas in Context 340pp 5. 2021 9781108840781 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887786
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Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France A Conceptual History Emma Claussen | University of Cambridge
During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word ‘politique’ and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century. • Investigates questions of language and power over a century of politics and political discourse in France • Brings together canonical and non-canonical texts, and visual sources • Offers an interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism and the history of ideas Ideas in Context 320pp 6. 2021 9781108844178 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108933582
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Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century Iain Stewart | University College London
Raymond Aron is one of the most important liberal political thinkers of the twentieth century. The first historical account of his place in the liberal tradition, this book will appeal to readers interested in modern French history and the intellectual history of the Cold War. • The first intellectual history of Raymond Aron’s role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the twentieth century • Provides an original contribution to emerging historiographies of the ‘French liberal revival’ and Cold War liberalism • Takes a critical perspective, replacing laudatory proclamations of Aron’s importance in the history of liberal thought with a critical explanation of his position in this history
Ideas in Context 317pp 2. 2021 9781108735865 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108484442 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108695879
The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism Steven Katz | Boston University
An important and accessible new collection of original articles, written by international scholars for students and non-experts. This volume explores the history, literature, and philosophy of antisemitism, showing how antisemitism existed throughout centuries and how it reappears today all over the world in both left-wing and right-wing circles. • Provides a comprehensive one-volume study of antisemitism • Written for the non-expert in clear, straightforward language • Covers a range of interdisciplinary topics, including antisemitism in history, literature, art, and politics Cambridge Companions to Religion 350pp 1. 2022 9781108494403 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 1. 2022 9781108714525 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108637725
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Paperback Set Warren Breckman | University of Pennsylvania
This two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth century to the present. It explores not only individual figures, but also the political, social, institutional and disciplinary contexts within which they developed their ideas. • Presents an authoritative survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual history written by leading scholars in the field • Organized in roughly chronological fashion to provide an accessible introduction to European intellectual history • Balances coverage of the classic themes of European intellectual history with explorations of European and non-European figures and movements
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 1200pp 11. 2021 9781108677448 2 Paperback books GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 8. 2019 9781107097780 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 Christopher S. Celenza | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the European Enlightenment, this book touches on how people in the past changed their reading habits, and how technology changed their perception of truth. • Offers a history of the humanities since the Italian renaissance, examining the renaissance as a driver. • Connects to present day issues in the humanities • Suitable for scholars both in and outside of the represented fields 336pp 9. 2021 9781108833400 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108980623
The Persistence of Party Ideas of Harmonious Discord in EighteenthCentury Britain Max Skjönsberg | University of Liverpool
This fundamental re-evaluation of the origins and importance of the idea of ‘party’ in British political thought and politics in the eighteenth century draws on the writings of Rapin, Bolingbroke, David Hume, John Brown and Edmund Burke to demonstrate that attitudes to party were more complex and penetrating than previously thought. • Demonstrates the importance of the concept of party in the eighteenth century, providing a new focus in the history of political thought • Besides books, pamphlets and newspapers, the books draws extensively on archival sources along with printed and private correspondence • Brings together political thought and political history Ideas in Context 350pp 1. 2021 9781108841634 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108894500
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Women’s International Thought: A New History Patricia Owens | University of Oxford
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This cross-disciplinary history of women’s international thought brings together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations today to recover and analyse the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to midtwentieth century. • Recovers and analyzes the important work of Black diasporic, AngloAmerican, and European historical women who are missing from existing histories of international thought • Systematically analyses the work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics in the early and mid-twentieth century • Opens new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women’s and gender studies, and provides a framework for future research 360pp 1. 2021 9781108494694 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 1. 2021 9781108796873 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108859684
Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon Patricia Owens | University of Oxford
This first anthology of women’s international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid-20th century. Encompassing a diverse and extensive collection of thinkers on a range of subjects, the volume demonstrates the centrality of women to international relations discourses. • The first ever anthology of women’s international thought, and one of the largest studies of international thought ever compiled • Offers a different approach to histories of international thought, international theory, and pedagogy, by making historical women’s work accessible, some of it for the first time • Designed to become a core text for students and scholars of international political thought, international relations, intellectual history and women’s and gender studies 600pp 11. 2021 9781316518243 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 11. 2021 9781108999762 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009004978
Writers and Revolution Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 Jonathan Beecher | University of California, Santa Cruz
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon. • Conveys a sense of the revolution of 1848 as a lived experience • Captures the moment when many European writers and intellectuals believed that they could change the world through their work • Shows how ideologies and attitudes grew out of events to offer a richer, more nuanced sense of the history of political and social thought in the 19th century 494pp 4. 2021 9781108842532 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108909792
History of medicine Disorder Contained Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900 Catherine Cox | University College Dublin
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners’ experiences of mental breakdown. • The first major historical investigation of prisons as sites of mental disorder, drawing on a broad range of archival and printed evidence and personal accounts • Examines the role of prison medical officers as disciplinary authorities, arbiters of mental illness, and providers of care and treatment • Explores gendered perceptions of mental disorder, the creation of new forms of psychiatric labelling and practice in the context of the prison and prisoners’ own experiences of mental breakdown • Available as Open Access 320pp 4. 2022 9781108834551 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993586
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 Kalle Kananoja | University of Oulu, Finland
In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade, Kananoja considers both African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. • Places Atlantic Africa in a global historical context • Argues that Africa and Africans were engaged in multidirectional exchanges of healing knowledge • Shows how local knowledge was central in shaping responses to illness Global Health Histories 320pp 2. 2021 9781108491259 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868020
Hidden Histories of the Dead Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research Elizabeth T. Hurren | University of Leicester
This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War Two retraces the harvesting and recycling of bodies and body-parts for tissue culture and pathology labs, transplantation surgery facilities, brain banks, and dissection teaching spaces between 1945 and 2000. This title is also available as Open Access. • Provides a trans-disciplinary study of the medical sciences in action • Maps bodies, body parts, organs, brains, on their post-mortem journeys • Provides a novel reframing of the medical ethics of networks, actors, and economics • This title is also available as Open Access 350pp 2. 2021 9781108484091 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108633154
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Humane Professions
The Origins of AIDS
The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 Rob Boddice
Second edition Jacques Pépin | Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
In this compelling examination of the story of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. • Examines international networking of medical scientists • Provides insights into the lived experience of medical science • Offers a revised understanding of the role of the medical establishment in influencing public opinion and government policy 280pp 1. 2021 9781108490092 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780087
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It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. In this updated edition of his acclaimed book, Jacques Pépin traces the origins and amplification of AIDS, and describes the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic. • This revised and updated edition incorporates nearly a decade’s worth of new research on AIDS • Offers a unique combination of epidemiology and history in tracing the origins and amplification of AIDS within Africa and then worldwide • Explains the complex routes of the virus and how the extension of World War I to Africa might have allowed HIV to make its fateful journey from Southeast Cameroon to Léopoldville 392pp 1. 2021 9781108487498 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 1. 2021 9781108720397 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781108767019
Polio Across the Iron Curtain Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic Dóra Vargha | University of Exeter
Hungary was one of the first countries to introduce a national oral vaccination campaign against polio, built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West. Dóra Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. This title is also available as Open Access. • Entwines histories of international organizations, national politics, diplomacy, medicine, scientific networks and patient experiences • Presents a new geographical focus that enriches the history of global public health • Explores Cold War interaction and collaboration between East and West • This title is also available as Open Access
Global Health Histories 266pp 8 b/w illus. 1. 2021 9781108431019 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 1. 2018 9781108420846 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108355421
Population Politics in the Tropics Demography, Health, and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola Samuël Coghe | Freie Universität Berlin
Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of multilingual archival research and comparative and transimperial perspectives, Samuël Coghe argues that colonial policy was driven by a persistent, but imprecise, idea of demographic crisis. • Situates the case of Portuguese Angola within the broader historiography of colonialism in Africa • Connects various fields of study rarely analysed together • For scholars of colonial, medical and demographic history in Africa, and transnational history more broadly Global Health Histories 320pp 3. 2022 9781108837866 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108943307
History of science and technology Imperial Science Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire Bruce J. Hunt | University of Texas, Austin
A vast network of telegraph cables spread around the globe in the second half of the nineteenth century. By showing how deeply this network shaped work in electrical physics, Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light on both the history of the Victorian British Empire and the relationship between science and technology. • Examines how telegraph technology and electrical physics interacted in the nineteenth century • Provides a fresh perspective on the development of the Victorian British Empire • Sheds new light on the relationship between science and technology Science in History 320pp 1. 2021 9781108830669 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108902700
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe Mark A. Waddell | Michigan State University
Mark A. Waddell introduces the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion. Written in clear, engaging language and thoughtfully illustrated, this is ideal reading for students as well as anyone with an interest in the history of science and ideas. • Surveys the relationship between science, magic and religion in early modern Europe • Introduces readers to complex historical and philosophical ideas using accessible language, clear examples, and engaging images • Suitable for courses on the Renaissance and early modern Europe, the history of science, the History of medicine, and the history of religion New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine 300pp 1. 2021 9781108425285 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 1. 2021 9781108441650 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108348232
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Progress Unchained
Victims of Fashion
Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future Peter J. Bowler | Queen’s University Belfast
Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain Helen Louise Cowie | University of York
Bowler charts developments in thinking about progress using the emergence of Darwinism in biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development. He shows how linear models of progress headed toward a final goal have been replaced by open-ended views defined by innovation and diversity. • Offers new insights into the development of the idea of progress • Links theories on the evolution of life to ideas about social development • Charts correlations between ideas of progress in the past and speculations about the future 314pp 3. 2021 9781108842556 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108909877
Technological Internationalism and World Order Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Search for International Peace, 1920–1950 Waqar H. Zaidi | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
A unique study of technology and international relations, Zaidi’s book explores early attempts at the governance of aviation and atomic energy through international organizations such as the United Nations. It speaks to growing interest in the international governance of powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons. • The first in-depth study of technological internationalism • Brings together the histories of aviation and atomic energy • Demonstrates how technological internationalism was a significant force in twentieth century politics and culture. Science in History 320pp 6. 2021 9781108836784 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108872416
The Origins of Modern Science From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution Ofer Gal | University of Sydney
The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the tools to study science like a historian, Gal covers everything from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton’s Principia, introducing the complex relationships between institutions, beliefs and politics. • Readers are introduced to scientific reasoning and practices in accessible and engaging ways • Non-humanities students are provided with the tools to understand science through a historical lens • Readers gain new insights into the complex relations between institutions, beliefs and political structures and practices 412pp 2. 2021 9781316510308 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9781316649701 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108225205
Helen Cowie examines the role of animal commodities in Victorian Britain. Focusing on six animal products – feathers, sealskin, ivory, alpaca wool, animal perfumes and exotic pets – she traces their rise and fall in popularity and assesses the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption. • Offers new insights into the ethics of consuming animal products in Victorian Britain • Explores the ecological impact of the commodification of animals and the measures taken to mitigate it • Global in scope, covering animal commodities from multiple continents Science in History 300pp 12. 2021 9781108495172 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108861267
Military history America’s Wars Interventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War Thomas H. Henriksen | Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, California
The collapse of the Soviet Union inaugurated a period of unconstrained American military intervention. In America’s Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how in the post-Cold War period the United States intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes in its quest to protect democracy, human rights, and America’s interests. • A comprehensive overview of the history of US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era • Explores the United States’ diplomatic and military policy and considers why they engaged in a series of interventions, regime changes, and insurgencies during this period • Will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students across war studies, the history of US foreign relations, Military history and international relations Cambridge Military Histories 320pp 1. 2022 9781316511602 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 1. 2022 9781009055086 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781009053242
An Army of Influence Eighty Years of Regional Engagement Craig Stockings | University of New South Wales, Sydney
The importance of regional cooperation is becoming more apparent as the world moves into the third decade of the 21st century. An Army of Influence is a thought-provoking analysis of the Australian Army’s capacity to change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. • Written by highly regarded highly regarded historians, strategists and practitioners • Full-colour maps and images • An academically rigorous exploration of the Australian Army’s engagement in the region that seeks to drive scholarly enquiry 352pp 2. 2022 9781316514399 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009086929
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Dear John
Queen Victoria’s Wars
Love and Loyalty in Wartime America Susan L. Carruthers | University of Warwick
British Military Campaigns, 1857–1902 Stephen M. Miller | University of Maine, Orono
In this sweeping history, Carruthers explores the infamous ‘Dear John’ letter, providing a compelling analysis of intimate relationships from WWII to today. Written in lively and engaging prose, and incorporating vivid personal experiences, this unique study explores the challenges of keeping love alive in wartime. • Incorporates ongoing debates into far-ranging analysis that spans a century of US war-making • Explores wartime relationships and breakdowns from multiple perspectives – civilian and military, male and female, historical and contemporary • Sheds new light on emotional life during wartime • Deploys a diverse range of research, using personal letters, declassified documents, press reports, psychiatric literature, movies, and popular music
This is a new history of Britain’s imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand, and Africa, it traces the origins and outbreak of each war, the nature of the opposing forces, the goals of both sides, the course of the war, the nature of battle, the role of technology, and the war’s aftermath. • Provides a revised and updated history of thirteen imperial wars • Offers both general and detailed examinations of war, including case studies of individual battles • Examines both sides of each conflict, offering both British and African/ Indian/Australasian perspectives
294pp 1. 2022 9781108830775 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108913867
Forgotten Wars Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916 Włodzimierz Borodziej | Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
Examines the origins, outbreak and early campaigns of the First World War in Central and Eastern Europe to reconstruct the experiences, changes in minds, behaviour and habits of people, uniformed or not, males and females, from multiple nations located in an imagined triangle between Helsinki, Bucharest and Vienna. • Reintegrates the story of the Eastern fronts between 1912 and 1916 into the history of the First World War • Focuses on the impact of wartime experiences on both individuals and communities • Demonstrates both the obvious differences and the forgotten similarities between ‘East’ and ‘West’ Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 345pp 4. 2021 9781108837156 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108938495
Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation Why Germany Declared War on the United States Klaus H. Schmider
In this revisionist account, Klaus H. Schmider examines German strategy, foreign policy and war production to uncover the chain of events which would incite Hitler to declare war on the United States - a move which may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but which would doom the Third Reich. • Provides the first in-depth study of the German-American road to war in 1941 • Uncovers the frames of reference Hitler would have been working with in the months before the declaration of war on the US • Based on in-depth archival research, including a wide-range of German and Japanese primary sources Cambridge Military Histories 610pp 1. 2021 9781108834919 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108870405
334pp 6. 2021 9781108490122 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108785020
Return to Vietnam An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys Mia Martin Hobbs | University of Melbourne
Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Viê∙t Nam. This oral history tells their story and explores the national narratives which shaped those return journeys. It shows how veterans returned in search of resolution, or peace, manifesting in shifting nostalgic visions of ‘Vietnam.’ • Draws on extensive, original source material with over fifty oral history interviews, situating veteran and military histories within the ‘emotional turn’ in the study of history • Uses a comparative approach to reveals key similarities and differences between veterans’ memories, national narratives, and counternarratives and to challenge dominant American and Australian narratives of national exceptionalism • Situates the human story of Vietnam War legacies in transnational context, revealing interconnections between pasts and presents in multiple time periods and across three countries Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 300pp 9. 2021 9781108832663 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108972987
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Revolutionary France’s War of Conquest in the Rhineland Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797 Jordan R. Hayworth
What for revolutionary France started as a war for liberty in the Rhineland became a war for conquest. Jordan R. Hayworth shows how French foreign policy and military strategy became influenced by the idea of attaining the natural frontiers, causing much confusion in the war and helping undermine France’s democratic experiment. • Shows that the military effectiveness of the French Revolution’s citizen armies has often been exaggerated by examining French campaigns and occupation policy in the Rhineland • Sheds new light on the influence of the natural frontiers doctrine in transforming revolutionary France’s war for liberty in the Rhineland into a war for conquest • Brings together themes and issues that are often analyzed separately, in particular the role of the war of conquest in upsetting France’s democratic experiment
Cambridge Military Histories 358pp 1 map 3. 2021 9781108703055 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 7. 2019 9781108497459 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Strategy and Command Issues in Australia’s Twentieth-century Wars David Horner | Australian National University, Canberra
Strategy and Command is a compilation of research and writing on Military history by one of Australia’s pre-eminent military historians. It is a crucial read for anyone interested in Australia’s involvement in 20th-century wars. • Comprehensive coverage of the Australian army’s engagements across the 20th century • Written by one of Australia’s leading military historians • Insightful discussion of strategy and command
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare Second edition Geoffrey Parker | Ohio State University
The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in Classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. • Readers are able to follow the development of warfare right up to the present day with a new chapter that covers war down to 2019 • Students can engage with the cohesive argument of the book that military and naval superiority was crucial to the rise of the West • Students develop a broad understanding of warfare through history, as the book focuses on Western military progress but explores the military effectiveness of other regions • Readers will benefit from a wealth of illustrative materials, including nearly 100 that are new to this edition Cambridge Illustrated Histories 554pp 8. 2021 9781107181564 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 120.00 8. 2021 9781316632758 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316855065
The Malayan Emergency Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire Karl Hack | The Open University, Milton Keynes
This is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency. Drawing on oral history, memoirs and documents from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack sheds new light on terror and violence, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted, and how revolution was defeated. • Draws on recently declassified material from the UK Public Record Office and Malaysian archival materials as well as oral history interviews • Provides comprehensive coverage of the Malayan Emergency • Essential reading for those interested in the Malayan Emergency, Malaysian history, general insurgency, and counterinsurgency, and violent decolonisation. Especially students, academics and military practitioners Cambridge Military Histories 340pp 2. 2022 9781107080102 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 2. 2022 9781107439481 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781139942515
The New Art of War The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict Geoffrey F. Weiss
Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious and original survey of war’s nature, character, and future. He presents a unique theoretical framework and lexicon that sheds new light on the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains why war changes form; and outlines a methodology for contemplating war’s future. • Offers a clearly written, holistic, original, and objective treatise on war, theory, and strategy • Introduces, clarifies, and critiques war’s greatest theorists and theories • Presents an innovative general war theory, inclusive of multi-domain and small wars concepts, that updates our understanding of war’s human, political, strategic, and combat dimensions • Provides guidance for thinking about war’s future that may help prevent, shorten, and end wars, or win the wars we cannot avoid 470pp 9. 2021 9781108837644 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108946902
Violence in Defeat The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 Bastiaan Willems | University College London
Explores the diverse intra-ethnic violence that gripped the country in the months prior to Germany’s defeat, and examines the interplay between the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party to shed important new light on the roles both played in shaping German society at the end of the war. • Introduces the German Wehrmacht as a committed actor in state-sponsored violence in the final stage of the Second World War • Explores the regional dynamics of this phenomenon • Examines the evacuation measures in Eastern Germany as a dialogue between the safeguarding of the population and the army’s operational conduct Cambridge Military Histories 366pp 2. 2021 9781108479721 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108856270
War’s Logic Strategic Thought and the American Way of War Antulio J. Echevarria II
Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of twelve leading theorists, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist’s critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war. • Describes the paradigms that underpinned how leading twentiethcentury American strategic theorists thought about war • Illustrates the relationship between a theorist’s core strategic principles and the nature of war • Situates American strategic thinking within its critical sociocultural contexts Cambridge Military Histories 300pp 2. 2021 9781107091979 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 2. 2021 9781107465015 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781316135730
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A History of the Republic of Biafra
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Night on Earth A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930 Davide Rodogno | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Near East in the period following the First World War. Davide Rodogno reveals how international ‘relief’ and ‘development’ were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations with humanitarians attempting to reshape entire communities and nations. • Illustrates how international humanitarianism in the Near East was based on colonial motivations and ideologies. • Appeals to a broad interdisciplinary audience across the history of human rights and humanitarianism, international law and international relations and the history of the interwar period. • Offers a nuanced analysis showing the extent to which older practices persisted during the interwar years. Human Rights in History 420pp 1. 2022 9781108498913 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 1. 2022 9781108712842 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108689892
The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War Graydon A. Tunstall | University of South Florida
This is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall charts the challenges of forging a multi-national force and the army’s performance on the battlefields of Galicia, Serbia, Romania, the Middle East and Italy through to its ultimate collapse in 1918. • A revisionist account of the Habsburg Army during World War I which challenges established myths • Integrates military, diplomatic, ethnic, economic, political, and strategic factors to show why and how the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapsed • Draws on extensive new archival research Armies of the Great War 410pp 9. 2021 9780521199346 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 9. 2021 9780521181242 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781139043342
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
286pp 10 b/w illus. 1 map 10. 2021 9781108743914 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2020 9781108840767 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887748
Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith | Northwestern University, Illinois
An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region’s colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos explains precolonial law and international relations, contrasting them with the violence wrought by colonisation. It brings new archival evidence to light on the history of Somalia, Djibouti and Yemen. • An interdisciplinary and transnational approach to understanding the relationship between the southern Red Sea region’s colonial past and its contemporary instability • Offers a personal account of the story through the perspective of three compelling characters - a Somali sultan, a Yemeni militia leader, and a French merchant • Brings new archival evidence to light on the history of Somalia, Djibouti and Yemen, offering a clear and readable account of the region’s complex history 256pp 7. 2021 9781108845663 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108990400
Decolonizing Heritage Time to Repair in Senegal Ferdinand De Jong | University of East Anglia
Senegal’s cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future. • Offers insights into how an independent nation goes about decolonising its UNESCO World Heritage sites to imagine a national future • Analyses the appropriation of heritage to repair the wounds of colonialism • Examines themes of race, restitution and reconciliation in sites such as the House of Slaves and the Museum of Black Civilisations in Senegal The International African Library 292pp 1. 2022 9781316514535 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009086189
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Imperial Incarceration Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa Michael Lobban | London School of Economics and Political Science
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Michael Lobban examines the use of detention without trial in the British African Empire, evaluating the various legal powers used to facilitate imperial expansion. An essential text for lawyers and historians, Imperial Incarceration demonstrates the importance of context in understanding the law’s effect. • Demonstrates the importance of legal powers in the expansion of empire • Combines contextual and archival research to provide a rigorous analysis of the concepts of law • Uncovers the various interpretations of the law across the British African Empire Studies in Legal History 379pp 9. 2021 9781316519127 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009004848
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 1. 2021 9781108830249 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108900706
Living for the City Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt Miles Larmer | University of Oxford
A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining communities, informal settlements and urban agriculture into the region’s history. • A holistic history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt incorporating the region’s social history with the production of knowledge about it, to challenge previous misrepresentations of Copperbelt society • Integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining communities, informal settlements and urban agriculture into the region’s history • This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core 288pp 8. 2021 9781108833158 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108973120
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Making Identity on the Swahili Coast Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo Steven Fabian | State University of New York
Combining extensive archival research with local fieldwork in the port of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this first full history of the town re-examines and re-conceptualises the notion of urban identity as it has been traditionally understood on the Swahili Coast. • The first published examination of the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania from the pre-colonial era to independence • Seeks a new framework for understanding the formation of community and identity along the Swahili Coast • Combines extensive archival research in African and European archives with local fieldwork African Identities: Past and Present 369pp 10 b/w illus. 4 maps 10. 2021 9781108710046 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2019 9781108492041 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108590853
Privileged Precariat White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
A rethinking of South Africa’s recent past, this book presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, from the 1970s to present, placing this in the context of global debates on neoliberalism and identity politics. • Presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, 1970s to present • Provides a chronological and interpretative rethinking of South Africa’s recent past by placing the transition and post-apartheid present in the context of the global ascendance of neoliberalism and identity politics • Offers insights into the interaction of race and class in relation to identity formation, politics and organization from a context marked by explicit racial politics and minority power The International African Library 290pp 4. 2021 9781108831802 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108924702
Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe The Cold War and Decolonization,1960–1984 Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia | Kent State University, Ohio
Examining the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of diplomacy, before and after Zimbabwe’s Independence in 1980, this offers a fresh perspective on how nationalist leaders, especially Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, would use Cold War diplomacy to shape Zimbabwe’s decolonization process. • A comprehensive look at Zimbabwean African nationalist diplomacy during the negotiation of the decolonization of Zimbabwe • Breaks with the common assumption that the intransigence between the two main nationalist parties, ZANU and ZAPU, originated from an ethno-nationalist incapacity to coordinate efforts against the Rhodesian military and state • Offers a fresh perspective on how nationalists shaped independent Zimbabwe after years of diplomatic negotiations with the UK, the US, and South Africa African Studies 320pp 9. 2021 9781316511794 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009053860
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Revolutionary StateMaking in Dar es Salaam
The Path to Genocide in Rwanda
African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 George Roberts | King’s College London
Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State Omar Shahabudin McDoom | London School of Economics and Political Science
Examining revolutionary Dar es Salaam as a key site of Third World attempts to shape a new global order after empire, this book analyses the encounter between the transnational dynamics of the Cold War and African liberation with the politics of socialism in post-colonial Tanzania. • Examines the intersecting politics of Cold War rivalries, African liberation, and socialist state-making in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania • Explores the tensions between transnational, international, national, and local histories within the framework of Dar es Salaam • Enables a nuanced understanding of socialist state-making in Tanzania as a contested and contingent process. African Studies 288pp 9. 2021 9781108845731 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108990721
Struggles for SelfDetermination The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa Josiah Brownell | Pratt Institute, New York
Offering a unique comparison between four secessionist states in Southern Africa as they fought for sovereign recognition, this book reveals how unrecognized states, such as Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei and Bophuthatswana, navigated the international state system and the implications of being denied international legal status. • Provides a unique comparison between four secessionist movements Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei, and Bophuthatswana in Southern Africa • Offers detailed insights into how unrecognized states navigate the international state system and the implications of being denied international legal status • Of interest to researchers looking at African statehood, African history and international relations, and those more broadly interested in rebel states and secession 288pp 1. 2022 9781108832649 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 1. 2022 9781108959971 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108966825
The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa Michelle Moore Apotsos | Williams College, Massachusetts
Through the lens of the masjid, Michelle Apotsos examines alternative spaces and architectural landscapes of Islamic practice in contemporary Africa that highlight the unique solutions that Muslim communities are adopting in order to confront contemporary modernization and the new diverse conditions it brings. • Explores how African Muslims are using architecture and space to contend with evolving societal conditions on the continent • Considering Islam as both a religion and way of life, this re-imagines the masjid in the context of modern Islamic spirituality and practise • For students and academics interested in the nature of contemporary Islamic identity in Africa, and those interested in the art and architecture of the wider Islamic world 304pp 7. 2021 9781108473347 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108573931
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 3. 2021 9781108491464 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868839
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa 1700 to the Present William Beinart | University of Oxford
An innovative overview of scientific activity in South Africa over three centuries. Bridging a range of disciplines from astronomy to zoology, this book explores individual careers, stories and connections in the history of science in South Africa, demonstrating how scientific knowledge and institutions shaped South Africa’s path to modernity. • An innovative overview and interpretation of scientific work on and in South Africa covering three centuries • Adds a new dimension to the historiography of South Africa’s racebased modernity and will be of interest to scientists and general readers as well as historians • Examines the work of remarkable individual scientists and institutions, as well as the contributions of leading politicians from Jan Smuts to Thabo Mbeki 418pp 5. 2021 9781108837088 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 5. 2021 9781108940085 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108938198
The Wealth and Poverty of African States Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century Morten Jerven
A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven shows how these findings transform our understanding of African economic performance and state development across the twentieth century. • Offers a new perspective on African economic development in the twentieth century • Provides a synthesis of quantitative empirical contributors over the past decade • Will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students across Economic history, African history, African politics, African studies, development studies and development economics New Approaches to Economic and Social History 280pp 12. 2021 9781108424592 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 74.99 12. 2021 9781108440707 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108341080
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Visions for Racial Equality David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi Harri Englund | University of Cambridge
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Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenthcentury Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation. • Provides an in-depth analysis of a vision for racial equality in 19thcentury Africa • Offering insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation, this will appeal to scholars of African history, social anthropology and the history of religion • Challenges the reader to examine their understanding of historical struggles for racial equality 294pp 3. 2022 9781316514009 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009076487
When ‘Adjusted’ People Rebel Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day) Volume 29 Leyla Dakhli
This volume examines social movements and unrest in the Middle East and Africa in the context of the implementation of neoliberal economic policies. It investigates the ways in which the upheavals brought about by this new liberalization were actually experienced by people in their daily lives and their shared concepts of fairness and unfairness. • Examines protests and social movements across the Middle East and Africa, from a range of countries such Egypt, Tunisia, Niger, Ethiopia, Jordan and Togo • By focussing on multiple social responses to structural adjustments policies, this volume investigates the ways in which the upheavals brought about by this new liberalization were actually experienced by the people of Africa and the Middle East in their daily and material lives and their shared concepts of fairness and unfairness • This volume aims to highlight the long-standing reality of discontent with capitalism in this part of world International Review of Social History Supplements 240pp 6. 2021 9781009069960 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009071680
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Human Rights in TwentiethCentury Australia Jon Piccini
This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today’s debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history. • Presents the first critical history of how human rights emerged in Australia • Locates how key moments in Australian history engaged with, were informed by or rejected the idea of human rights • Contributes to an emerging scholarship that situates the emergence of human rights not in the longue duree of Western civilization but in contemporary events Human Rights in History 219pp 8. 2021 9781108460279 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2019 9781108472777 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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Sir Earle Page’s British War Cabinet Diary, 1941–1942 Volume 61 Kent Fedorowich | University of the West of England, Bristol
This account of Sir Earle Page’s eight-month mission to London provides insights into Anglo-Australian wartime relations during a crucial phase of the Second World War. The defence of Malaya/Singapore and the stunning collapse of British prestige at the hands of the Japanese serves as a backcloth to Page’s mission and its significance. • Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page was a name synonymous with the Country Party of Australia. This volume sheds light on a little-known aspect of his career, his wartime mission to London • This wartime diary provides a new and critical lens on a pivotal moment in Anglo-Australian relations • This volume contains an introduction from the editors, and an index of individuals, subjects and place names Camden Fifth Series 300pp 8. 2021 9781108844949 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781108954020
East Asian history 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 7. 2021 9781108479202 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782753
An Urban History of China Toby Lincoln | University of Leicester
For thousands of years China had a vibrant imperial urban civilization, which over the last century has been transformed into the largest urban society in the world. Toby Lincoln offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. • Accessible and engaging introduction both to urban history and the history of China • Includes extracts from primary sources • Examines the legacy of China’s cities in contemporary rapid urbanization New Approaches to Asian History 320pp 5. 2021 9781107196421 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 5. 2021 9781316647288 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108164733
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Designing Boundaries in Early China The Composition of Sovereign Space Garret Pagenstecher Olberding | University of Oklahoma
Designing Boundaries in Early China explores how ritual structures signified the organization of sovereign space in early China. By drawing on a range of source materials, Garret Pagenstecher Olberding makes a compelling case for how sovereign boundaries were formed and negotiated in the ancient world. • Appeals to scholars of early, pre-modern, and modern China, as well as historians of the ancient world, political theorists and philosophers • Includes classical Mediterranean societies in cross-cultural analytical frameworks • Demonstrates structural similarities across the ancient world 300pp 12. 2021 9781316513699 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009075862
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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 275pp 9. 2021 9781108745697 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2020 9781108478281 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776400
Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law Geoffrey C. Gunn
With extradition a major political issue today, this examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh in colonial Hong Kong offers timely insights into rule of law and extradition issues in general. Gunn sheds new light on Ho Chi Minh, communist and anticolonial networks and Franco–British relations. • Uncovers details regarding Ho Chi Minh’s arrest, incarceration and successful legal defense in Hong Kong • Explores the rule of law and the issue of extradition in Hong Kong • Examines communist and anti-colonial networks across East and Southeast Asia 300pp 7. 2021 9781108833257 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973809
Island Fantasia Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan Wei-Ping Lin | National Taiwan University
This in-depth study of the Matsu islands between China and Taiwan charts their sudden transition from a forbidden outpost in the Qing period to a military frontline during the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict, and showcases the cultural vibrancy of the people as they imagine their future. • A vital source of information on the Matsu islands, which straddle a highly strategic position between China and Taiwan • An excellent case study for exploring crucial issues of theoretical importance in anthropology • Proposes a new framework of studying society from the perspective of the ‘imagining subject’ • This title is Open Access Taiwan Studies 250pp 9. 2021 9781316519370 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009023481
June Fourth The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 Jeremy Brown | Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
In this vivid new social history of the Tiananmen protests, Beijing massacre, and nationwide crackdown of 1989, Jeremy Brown explores the key turning points of the crisis in China and shows how the massacre and its aftermath were far from inevitable. • An up-to-date and comprehensive approach to the complex history of the Tiananmen protests in a single, reader-friendly book • Utilises a wide range of previously untapped sources and shows the nationwide nature of the protest movement • Explores alternative paths based on participants’ own memories New Approaches to Asian History 288pp 4. 2021 9781107042070 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 4. 2021 9781107657809 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781107323728
Mao Zedong A Biography Volume 2 1949–1958 Chongji Jin
Volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1949–1958. 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 • Introductory essay provides context and highlights differences in interpretation The Cambridge China Library 600pp 10. 2021 9781107092747 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00 eISBN 9781316136522
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Mao Zedong
Soju
A Biography Volume 3 1958–1976 Chongji Jin
A Global history Hyunhee Park | City University of New York
Volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1958–1976. 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 • Introductory essay provides context and highlights differences in interpretation
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The Cambridge China Library 600pp 9. 2021 9781107092761 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00 9. 2021 9781009010405 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316136546
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Realistic Revolution Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989 Els van Dongen | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Realistic Revolution covers the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989 from a transnational perspective. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, the book is relevant for anyone with an interest in modern China, including historians, intellectual historians, political scientists and sociologists. • Offers a broad overview of the main intellectual debates behind reform in China • Traces scholarly networks from mainland China, to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States • Illuminates the ideological contradictions between economic liberalization and political control
The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju beverage. Tracing the history of soju from the premodern world to the twenty-first century, Hyunhee Park provides fascinating new insights into the transfer of technology, flows of trade, cross-cultural encounters, and Korea’s place in Eurasian history. • Uncovers the importance of long-distance, cross-cultural exchanges in the history of Korea • Based on interdisciplinary methods including Global history, food studies, and the History of science and technology • Includes a comparative discussion of distillation methods around the world Asian Connections 300pp 2. 2021 9781108842013 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895774
State and Family in China Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform Yue Du | Cornell University, New York
State and Family in China examines the intersection of politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949 through the concept of filial piety. In this ambitious study, Yue Du explores changes in family law, parent-child relationships and the changing nature of the Chinese state during this period. • Shows how the state in China shaped family relations through concrete legal mechanisms • Examines parent-child relations that define the Chinese family and how this is connected to the state • Engages those interested in Chinese history and politics, as well as scholars of family law, gender, childhood or state building 350pp 1. 2022 9781108838351 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108974479
288pp 3. 2021 9781108431729 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 6. 2019 9781108421300 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108367783
The Cambridge Economic history of China
Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese Economic history, past and present, in English. Volume II covers the period from 1800 to the present in twenty-one thematically and chronologically organized chapters, charting the development of the institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped China’s modern economy. • Comprehensive but accessible coverage of all aspects of the modern Chinese economy • Combines thematic organization with broad temporal coverage across all of Chinese history in modern times • Contributions by a diverse range of international experts draw on the latest methodology of social science disciplines and scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages
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 3. 2021 9781108479264 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782913
Debin Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
The Cambridge Economic history of China 700pp 2. 2022 9781108425537 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108348485
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The Cambridge Economic history of China HB Set
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
Debin Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Mark Edward Lewis | Stanford University, California
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese Economic history, past and present. Original contributions by an international team of noted experts survey all fields of Economic history, including environment, demography, law, household, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and sociology. • Comprehensive but accessible coverage of all aspects of Chinese Economic history • Together the two volumes provide broad temporal coverage across all of Chinese history, including recent developments in contemporary China • Draws on contributions by a diverse range of international experts
This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia wielded violence to create and display authority. It also explores how their licit violence was entangled in the violence whose suppression justified their power, suggesting that violence is a version of the problem it claims to solve.
The Cambridge Economic history of China 1400pp 2. 2022 9781107146068 Multiple copy pack GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781316536360
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 302pp 5. 2021 9781108842778 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 5. 2021 9781108822619 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108904186
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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
Elements in Ancient East Asia 75pp 9. 2021 9781108972147 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108975551
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 2. 2021 9781108842600 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903653
History (general) after 1500 Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking History and Contemporary Policy Genevieve LeBaron | University of Sheffield
Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking assembles leading social scientists and historians from the Yale Working Group on Modern Slavery to tackle key controversies surrounding the antislavery movement, marshalling insights about historic struggles against slavery and bringing these to bear on present day challenges. • Assembles leading scholars from the Yale Working Group on Modern Slavery tackle key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery movement • Spans the 18th century to the present, bringing together insights about abolitionism and slavery • Presents rare empirical evidence from across a range of policy areas, sectors, and supply chains on the (in)effectiveness of anti-slavery efforts Slaveries since Emancipation 285pp 7. 2021 9781108830621 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 7. 2021 9781108822404 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108902519
329pp 9. 2021 9781108746878 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2020 9781108478120 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108784306
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In the Cause of Humanity
The Problems of Genocide
A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century Fabian Klose | Universität zu Köln
Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression A. Dirk Moses | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century. Fabian Klose traces how the idea of humanitarian intervention first established itself as a recognized instrument in international politics and international law. • Connects issues of military intervention, colonialism, imperialism, internationalism, humanitarianism and human rights • Explains the complexity and entanglement of these issues with a wide geographical perspective • Investigates the often blurred boundaries between humanitarianism and human rights
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 420pp 1. 2022 9781316516201 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009029186
Human Rights in History 610pp 2. 2021 9781107103580 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9781107503120 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316217306
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
History (general) before 1500
Steven L. B. Jensen
This volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights from the Middle Ages to the present day. It situates this history within perennial struggles over obligation, while probing the relationship of social rights to questions of religion, race, gender, class, empire and globalisation. • Situates the history of social rights in national and global contexts • Reveals the paradoxical relationship between social rights and social differences, especially of gender, race and class • Will appeal to a broad range of scholars interested in human rights across History, Politics and Law Human Rights in History 335pp 3. 2022 9781316519233 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009008686
The Cambridge History of Terrorism Richard English | Queen’s University Belfast
Many - perhaps most - people have an interest in terrorism: its causes, nature and consequences; its effects on their lives; and the question of how we should respond to it. This volume offers an accessible, authoritative, well-researched analysis of case studies and themes from the history of terrorism to inform and change scholarly debate. • Provides a comprehensive and authoritative reference work on terrorism from a historical perspective • Examines the phenomenon of terrorism through regional case studies, largely written by local scholars • Combines and integrates historical themes and methodology to explore the relationship between terrorism and other historical forces, such as colonialism, religion and gender 718pp 5. 2021 9781108470162 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108556248
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Tamta’s World The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia Antony Eastmond | Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture. • The first general account of the medieval world to the north of the Crusader states in which Christians and Muslims lived and fought each other • Highlights the networks between cultures and religions, and demonstrates the high degree of mobility of people - including women - in this period • Concentrates on finding a voice for the women who are excluded from most histories, by exploring the monuments they commissioned to give themselves a public face 478pp 158 b/w illus. 6 maps 8. 2021 9781316618066 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 4. 2017 9781107167568 Hardback GBP 37.99 / USD 48.99 eISBN 9781316711774
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History (general), world history The Cambridge World History of Slavery Craig Perry | Emory University, Atlanta
This volume is aimed at researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in a global overview of slavery and the slave trade in the period between 500 CE and 1420 CE. Chapters offer current knowledge, present new research, and provide suggestions for further reading. • The first multi-author volume written by specialists to cover slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe • Offers comparative coverage of slavery in seventeen different medieval societies and regions as well as thematic chapters on the practice of slavery • Completes the four-volume set, which is the first attempt to examine the role of slavery across 2.5 millennia of human history The Cambridge World History of Slavery 602pp 8. 2021 9780521840675 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781139024723
Latin American history A Concise History of Bolivia Third edition Herbert S. Klein | Columbia University, New York
Klein’s history of Bolivia from pre-conquest times to the present day has become the standard survey. In this new edition, he expands on the government of Evo Morales, and the various changes to Bolivia’s economy. An essential work for scholars of Latin America and those interested in this nation generally. • Offers a concise analysis of the major developments in Bolivian history from pre-conquest times to the present day • New edition incorporates the government of Evo Morales and his role in shaping Latin American development • Provides a view into one of the most original and unique Amerindian societies of the Americas Cambridge Concise Histories 352pp 12. 2021 9781108844826 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 99.99 12. 2021 9781108948890 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108953719
Black Legend The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina Paulina L. Alberto | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multigenerational struggle for recognition and belonging, will appeal to readers interested in Black lives across the Americas, and lovers of history, music and stories. • Tells the gripping story of Raúl Grigera, the Afro-Argentine icon of Buenos Aires’ bohemian nightlife • Brings Argentina firmly into the African Diaspora, emphasizing Black presence over absence • Centers the lives of non-elite, non-white characters in national histories • A new approach to history-writing, combining microhistory and biography with intellectual, cultural, social, literary and political history • Offers a harrowing illustration of the power of racial storytelling, and how such stories shaped lives
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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 349pp 5. 2021 9781108730310 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2020 9781108493017 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108632430 NEW IN PAPERBACK
For Christ and Country Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Robert Weis | University of Northern Colorado
Examines the religious beliefs and practices of a generation of Catholics who came of age in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. It centers on José de León Toral, who killed revolutionary leader Álvaro Obregón to combat anticlerical laws and bring on a millenarian vision of the Kingdom of Christ. • Explores the life experiences of a generation of Mexicans who came of age in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution • Offers a different narrative of the Mexican Revolution by analyzing the beliefs and practices of people who opposed it • Highlights the importance of religion in revolutionary reforms, which typically emphasize land, labor, and politics
Cambridge Latin American Studies 216pp 3. 2021 9781108730358 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108493024 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632492
For Land and Liberty Black Struggles in Rural Brazil Merle L. Bowen | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For Land and Liberty addresses black rural communities’ claims to land in Brazil. By analyzing the national quilombo (African-descent rural communities) movement to protect land rights, traditional practices, resources, and food sovereignty, Bowen offers readers new perspectives on rural movements, mobilizations, and resistance in Brazil. • Analyzes a cluster of communities in different regions of Brazil over time • Employs mixed methodology, using qualitative and quantitative sources • Places labor at the center of the land debate Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora 249pp 4. 2021 9781108832359 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935968
410pp 12. 2021 9781108845557 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
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Freedom’s Captives
Modernity in Black and White
Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific Yesenia Barragan | Rutgers University, New Jersey
Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945 Rafael Cardoso | Freie Universität Berlin
A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by exploring competing struggles over disparate modes of freedom, unfreedom, and bondage in Colombia during the age of gradual emancipation. • Guides readers through otherwise complicated historical events using narrative and storytelling • Brings together a huge wealth of fragmented archival evidence • Focuses on an understudied region in African Diasporic history: the Black Pacific World
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 257pp 7. 2021 9781108832328 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935890
Islands in the Lake Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain Richard M. Conway | Montclair State University, New Jersey
An essential text for those interested in the history of Native Americans and Mexico. It offers a novel approach to understanding cross-cultural encounters and colonialism in the early modern period, combining Environmental history with Spanish and native-language sources to explain socioeconomic and cultural continuities. • Represents a new approach to understanding the history of Native Americans in their encounters with Europeans in the colonial period • Contributes to the literature on the Environmental history of imperialism in the early modern world • Utilizes native-language sources to understand one of the Americas’ great, ancient cities Cambridge Latin American Studies 337pp 10. 2021 9781316518892 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009003957
Journey to Indo-América APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945 Geneviève Dorais | Université du Québec à Montréal
In Journey to Indo-América, GenevieÌve Dorais examines how and why the anti-imperialist project of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) took root outside of Peru as well as how APRA’s struggle for political survival in Peru shaped its transnational consciousness. • The first book to examine how and why the anti-imperialist project of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) took root outside of Peru • Underscores the transnational dimensions that underpinned the growth of this major populist movement • Emphasizes how local dynamics shape global connections and collaborations Cambridge Latin American Studies 257pp 8. 2021 9781108838047 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937030
Afro-Latin America 282pp 4. 2021 9781108481908 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108680356
Nationalizing Nature Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the BrazilArgentina Border Frederico Freitas | North Carolina State University
Nationalizing Nature demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservation’s crucial role in the territorial growth of the region. In the process, a distinct national park model – combining the preservation of nature and settler colonization – is highlighted. • The first in-depth study of conservation policy in twentieth-century Brazil and Argentina in English • Explores the use of national parks in Latin America as tools to attract migrants to sparsely populated frontiers and borderlands • Focuses on the often overlooked tri-country borderland between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Cambridge Latin American Studies 315pp 3. 2021 9781108844833 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108953733
Palm Oil Diaspora Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia’s Dendê Coast Case Watkins | James Madison University, Virginia
Engaging disciplines from across the sciences and humanities, this book bridges literature on Black geographies, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, political ecology, and decolonial theory and praxis to analyze the cultural, ecological, and economic relationships that link and shape societies and environments. • Traces the histories and geographies of palm oil from prehistoric times to the present • Connects Afro-Brazilian knowledge and cultural landscapes with ecological-commercial exchange in the Atlantic World • Demonstrates how race and power shape environments, communities, and their relationships Afro-Latin America 320pp 5. 2021 9781108478823 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108778893
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Patchwork Freedoms
The Last Abolition
Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations Adriana Chira | Emory University, Atlanta
The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888 Angela Alonso | Universidade de São Paulo
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Long before calls for national independence and emancipation in 1868, they wore down the institution of slavery through litigation and selfpurchase. A rich, much-needed examination of Cuban history. • One of the first in-depth studies of the popular and legal culture of Santiago de Cuba in the English language • Expands and enriches current debates on the history of slavery, emancipation, and the law in Cuba’s long nineteenth century • Contributes to the understanding of politics in Black peasantries in the Age of Emancipation
This new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery narrative, placing Brazil within the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism, uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work. The Last Abolition is a major contribution to scholarship on the ending of slavery in Brazil. • Uncovers the important role Brazil played in global abolitionist activism throughout the nineteenth century • Reveals the personalities and perspectives of key Brazilian and AfroBrazilian anti-slavery activists • Places Brazil within the broader context of comparative abolitionism
Afro-Latin America 320pp 3. 2022 9781108499545 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 3. 2022 9781108730808 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108583596
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution Collective Action in the African Diaspora Crystal Nicole Eddins | University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution. • A new perspective on the origins of the Haitian Revolution • Explores the history of Black mobilization and self-determination • Based on runaway advertisement data, a previously under examined source Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora 329pp 11. 2021 9781108843720 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108919890
The Boundaries of Freedom Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil Brodwyn Fischer | University of Chicago
This book brings together key scholars writing on Brazilian slavery and abolition, emphasizing the profound impact it had on the social, political, and institutional history of modern Brazil. For the first time, English-language readers can access in one place arguments that have transformed the historiography of Brazilian slavery. • Brings the latest Brazilian scholarship into debates about the nature of slavery and freedom in the Afro-Atlantic • Introduces English-language readers, for the first time in one volume, to the arguments that have shaped Brazilian scholarship on slavery and abolition in the last 20 years • Sheds light on slavery’s profound impact on the social, political, and institutional history of modern Brazil Afro-Latin America 329pp 1. 2022 9781108831536 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108917537
Afro-Latin America 420pp 10. 2021 9781108421133 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 10. 2021 9781108431477 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108367394
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Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán Wolfgang Gabbert | Leibniz Universität Hannover
This book analyzes the extent and forms of violence in one of the most significant indigenous rural revolts in nineteenth-century Latin America. Combining historical, anthropological, and sociological research, it shows how violence played a role in the establishment and maintenance of order and leadership within the contending parties. • Links studies of the Caste War to the anthropology and sociology of violence and war • Draws on a variety of primary sources from the war and its indigenous and European-descended combatants • Examines both the structural features of political, society, and the economy and the situational factors that facilitated the use of violence within and between the Mayans and Yucateros
Cambridge Latin American Studies 358pp 8. 2021 9781108740654 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108491747 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108666930
Middle East history A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East Erik Skare
Using a wealth of primary sources, this book traces the history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions from its origins in the early 1980s to today, exploring its continued presence despite its more powerful sister movement Hamas. • A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions • Answers the key question of why the PIJ still exist despite the presence of its more powerful sister movement Hamas • Fills an important empirical gap in the literature on Palestinian Islamism and will interest students of Middle Eastern politics, Islamism, Palestinian history and insurgency 304pp 1. 2021 9781108845069 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108954440
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Agents of the Hidden Imam
As Night Falls
Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE Edmund Hayes | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark Avner Wishnitzer | Tel-Aviv University
Reconstructing the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics and the emergence of the first leaders of Twelver Shiʿism, this book demonstrates how they established the doctrines and institutions of Twelver Shiʿism, the dominant branch of Shiʿi Islam in the world today. • Reconstructs the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics • Provides close readings of often contradictory primary sources about the Occultation to show how the narratives of the Occultation was not simply written, but rather contested and canonised • Proposes a new and more precise chronology for the stages of development in leadership of the early Twelver community
In a world that is constantly illuminated, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating picture of nocturnal life in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire reveals how night and darkness played fundamental roles in shaping the cultural, social and political landscapes of the early modern Middle East. • Provides a fascinating and detailed picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities, as distinct from life in the daylight • Demonstrates how night and darkness have shaped social and political processes in Ottoman cities and societies • In showing the crucial role of darkness in human life, this contributes to current discussions about what it is that is lost with modern-day hyper-illumination
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 292pp 12. 2021 9781108834391 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993098
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All the Pasha’s Men Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt Khaled Fahmy | Princeton University, New Jersey
Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The book challenges traditionally held views about early nineteenth-century Egypt and the role of Mehmed Ali as the founder of modern Egypt. • Challenges the interpretation of traditional early nineteenth-century Egyptian history • Theoretically informed approach which looks at broader concepts of the nation-state and power building • Author is young but already has a reputation as one of the up and coming scholars in the field Cambridge Middle East Studies 352pp 9. 2021 9781009077965 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 11. 1997 9780521560078 Hardback GBP 89.00 / USD 115.99 eISBN 9781009082785 NEW IN PAPERBACK
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 319pp 10. 2021 9781108748292 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2020 9781108490214 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780483
388pp 7. 2021 9781108832144 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108933131
Assyrians in Modern Iraq Negotiating Political and Cultural Space Alda Benjamen | University of California, Berkeley
Examining the relationship between the Iraqi state under the Baʿth regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Benjamen looks at the role of minorities and identity in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history, based on new sources and bilingual voices for a nuanced and focused historical exploration. • Introduces new sources and bilingual voices for a nuanced and focused historical reading of Iraqi history and the Assyrian community • Based on multi-disciplinary sources including oral history, archival data and ethnographic data including images and music • Of interest to scholars and students of Middle East Studies, Iraqi Studies, Minority Studies, Religious Studies, Transnationalism, and Ethnic Studies 272pp 12. 2021 9781108838795 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108976633
Buried in the Red Dirt Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine Frances S. Hasso | Duke University, North Carolina
Bringing together a rich and vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, and interviews, this book tells a story of life, death, and reproduction, during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core. • Examines race, reproduction, birth control, illness, and death during and since the British colonial period in Palestine • Utilises a range of analog and non-traditional sources including colonial archives, literature, films, and interviews • Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core, this will interest students and scholars of Palestine and Israel, feminist and sexuality studies, histories of medicine and colonialism, and histories of reproduction in the Middle East 288pp 11. 2021 9781316513545 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072854
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Creating the Modern Iranian Woman Popular Culture between Two Revolutions Liora Hendelman-Baavur | Tel-Aviv University
This examination of the Iranian popular culture and women’s role within this challenges familiar western assumptions about the complexities of Iranian popular culture. Presenting a wealth of information drawn from a diverse set of sources, it situates Iranian women’s magazines within their broader economic, social, political and cultural context. • Challenges western assumptions about the role of women in Iranian society and culture • Provides a fresh interpretation of Iranian history during the 1960s and 1970s, a crucial period prior to the Iranian revolution • Offers background and insights on the political culture of print media in Iran The Global Middle East 340pp 10. 2021 9781108726931 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2019 9781108498074 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108627993
Global 1979 Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution Arang Keshavarzian | New York University
A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the 1979 Iranian revolution, offering a way to understand it not as a by-product of a globalization process, or as a singular event but as an expression of wide interconnected networks - highlighting the global processes that made the revolution possible and consequential. • Highlights global and transnational processes at play in the run up to and aftermath of the Iranian revolution • A multi-disciplinary approach, combining personal, political and social history to explain the 1979 revolution • Ideal for undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses on the Iranian revolution, the history of the Middle East and the concept of revolutions more broadly The Global Middle East 304pp 7. 2021 9781108839075 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 7. 2021 9781108969741 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108979658
In the Mirror of Persian Kings The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India Blain Auer | Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Examines how and why the image of the Persian king played such a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies, and how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim rulers. • A complete study of Perso-Islamic kingship in India, key to understanding the political and cultural history of Muslim courts in India • Examines contributions made by kings, poets, historians, political and moral philosophers in the imperial project of the sultans of the medieval period • Demonstrates how the image of the Persian king played a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies and its legacy in the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim rulers 250pp 5. 2021 9781108832311 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935876
Inventing Laziness The Culture of productivity in Late Ottoman Society Melis Hafez | Virginia Commonwealth University
A lively and original study tracing the development of ‘laziness’ as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the anxiety about productivity that generated reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans. • Traces the development of the binary between work and laziness during the last century of the Ottoman Empire • A lively and original approach to understanding emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire • Looks at a variety of issues in late Ottoman state and society, such as morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood 288pp 11. 2021 9781108427845 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108551922
Jihad in the City Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli Raphaël Lefèvre | University of Oxford
Examining a militant Islamist movement, Tawhid, which implemented an ‘Islamic Emirate’ over the Lebanese city of Tripoli in the 1980s, this study uses this turbulent backdrop to develop broader insights into the impact of ideologies and local contexts on social movements, rebel groups and terrorist organizations. • An in-depth account of the rise and fall of Tawhid, a militant Islamist group which implemented Islamic law at gunpoint in the Lebanese city of Tripoli during the 1980s • Based on interviews with militants, officers of the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, activists as well as newspaper archives and newly declassified Western intelligence files • Sheds new light on overlooked aspects of Middle Eastern politics including on the Lebanese civil war, Syrian-Palestinian relations, the struggle for Syria during the 1980s and the regional role of Iran 288pp 5. 2021 9781108426268 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 5. 2021 9781108444989 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108564816
Negotiating Empire in the Middle East Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840–1914 M. Talha Çiçek
Examining the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nomads in the Modern era, this book explores how the Ottomans integrated the Bedouin nomads into the imperial system of governance, and in turn, demonstrating how Bedouin socio-political agency played a part in the making of the modern Middle East. • Introduces the politics of negotiation as a framework for understanding Ottoman history • Reflects on multiple aspects of Ottoman governance across Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Trans-jordan since 1840 • Demonstrates how Bedouin socio-political agency played a constructive part in the making of the modern Middle East 256pp 7. 2021 9781316518083 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993852
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Nomads in the Middle East
Revealed Sciences
Beatrice Forbes Manz | Tufts University, Massachusetts
The Natural Sciences in Islam in SeventeenthCentury Morocco Justin K. Stearns
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a vivid insight into the role of nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history, and their impact on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region. • Provides a comprehensive history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century • Offers a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the Middle East over time • Examines and challenges existing perceptions and scholarship of nomads and their role in the formation of the region
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Themes in Islamic History 250pp 10. 2021 9780521816298 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 10. 2021 9780521531634 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781139028813
Oil Crisis in Iran From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat Ervand Abrahamian | City University of New York
Provides a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in the scholarly and educational landscape of Early Modern Morocco, this study challenges previous negative depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world to demonstrate the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society in seventeenth-century Morocco. • Provides a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in the scholarly and educational landscape of Early Modern Morocco • Challenges previous depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world • Contains numerous close readings of works in the natural sciences as concrete examples demonstrating the intellectual vibrancy of the Early Modern Moroccan period Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 300pp 7. 2021 9781107065574 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107588523
Based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration, this study throws fresh light on the Iranian oil crisis which would culminate in the coup of August 1953, one of the most significant and widely studied episodes of modern Iranian history. • Based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration • Illuminates the influence of the US in internal Iranian politics long before the 1953 coup • Shows how the 1953 coup would eventually pave the way to the 1979 Iranian revolution, two of the most significant and widely studied episodes of modern Iranian history
Social Histories of Iran
Opposing the Imam
320pp 1. 2021 9781107190849 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 1. 2021 9781316641255 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108120289
220pp 6. 2021 9781108837491 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108946278
The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature Nebil Husayn | University of Miami
Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. Examining the enduring legacy of the nawasib, early Muslims who were hostile to the ascendancy of Ali and his descendants, this study reveals a period of contestation and the eventual rehabilitation of Ali’s reputation in Sunni Islam. • Offers a detailed study of the claims and arguments of Muslims opposed to the rule of the fourth caliph, Ali • Examines the previously obscured yet long processes of contestation that facilitated the rehabilitation of Ali’s reputation in Sunni Islam • Surveys a wide range of literary traditions across multiple genres to enrich our understanding of medieval Muslim scholarly debates on theology and history Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 240pp 4. 2021 9781108832816 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108966061
Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East Stephanie Cronin | University of Oxford
Focusing on subaltern social groups, including the ‘dangerous classes’ contrasted with the new bourgeois elite created by the infant Pahlavi state, this ‘history from below’ of Iran demonstrates the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the Middle East. • Directs attention to the agency and consciousness of subaltern social groups outside the existing and entrenched elites • Contributes to the developing field of a ‘history from below’ in the Middle East and North Africa • Moves beyond a national context to demonstrate the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the history of the Middle East
The Abbasid Caliphate A History Tayeb El-Hibri | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun alRashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization. • A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 • Examines the Caliphate as an empire, an institution, and its influence over Islamic culture and society • Shows how the legacy of the caliphs continues to resonate in the modern world in direct and indirect ways 360pp 4. 2021 9781107183247 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 4. 2021 9781316634394 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316869567
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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry Muhsin J. al-Musawi | Columbia University, New York
A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory to account for the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over its three-hundred-year history. • A comprehensive and multi-disciplinary study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures • Uses social science and literary theory to account for the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the book over three hundred years • Analyses a wide variety of sources including documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums, and political jargon 344pp 8. 2021 9781108474856 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108593847
The Cambridge History of the Kurds Hamit Bozarslan | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. • The definitive volume on Kurdistan and the Kurds from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century written by leading scholars in the field • Covers key issues and themes including Kurdish language, art and culture, and political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan, alongside chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, and folklore • Represents a foundational text for readers and scholar interested in Middle Eastern societies 964pp 4. 2021 9781108473354 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108623711
The Invention of the Maghreb Between Africa and the Middle East Abdelmajid Hannoum | University of Kansas
Looking at how French colonial rule invented the concept of the Maghreb, carving it out as something distinct from sub-Saharan African and the Middle East, Abdelmajid Hannoum demonstrates how this started long before the conquest of Algiers and lasted until the time of independence, and beyond, to our present. • Examines how French colonialism invented the region of the Maghreb, distinguishing it from, Africa and the Middle East • Explains how colonialism is not only a legacy of the past, but how it created the world in which we live today • An interdisciplinary study drawing on diverse forms of colonial knowledge including historiography, anthropology, cartography, literature and linguistics 328pp 6. 2021 9781108838160 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 6. 2021 9781108947763 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108937337
The Israel-Palestine Conflict A History Fourth edition James L. Gelvin | University of California, Los Angeles
Now in its fourth edition, this award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and balanced introduction for students and general readers, which now features new material on the Oslo Accord and the Trump presidency, alongside an expanded glossary, biographical sketches and further reading. • Both students and general readers will enjoy Gelvin’s lively conversational style, which creates an accessible introduction to the Israel-Palestine conflict • The conflict is brought to life using a range of materials including biographical sketches, eyewitness accounts, poetry, fiction, and official documentation, supporting student understanding • The fourth edition will bring readers up-to-date with additional material on the Oslo Accord and its demise, and the Trump presidency, alongside an expanded glossary and suggestions for further reading. 334pp 3. 2021 9781108488686 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 3. 2021 9781108738637 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108771634
The Making of an Alliance The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship David Tal | University of Sussex
An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides critical background on the origins and development of the ‘special’ relations between the two countries and its people, through their religion, values, and history. • Offers an interesting and accessible reevaluation of Israel’s role in the US-Israel relationship at an extremely critical time • Provides critical background on the origins and development of the ‘special’ relations between Israel and the United States, and why this exists despite the conflicts and arguments • Shows how the process that generated the special relationship was not a one-way road, but were often two-way negotiations between Washington and Jerusalem 320pp 12. 2021 9781108427197 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 12. 2021 9781108445887 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108551472
The Power of the People Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–38 Murat Metinsoy | Istanbul Üniversitesi
Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretation of the social forces which shaped modern Turkey, showing how ordinary people, in their daily actions shaped Turkey’s modernization as much as Atatürk’s strong spurt of modernization. • A new interpretation of the foundation of modern Turkey exploring the social dynamics of Turkish history and politics • Demonstrates how the ordinary people, whose daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite’s projects, shaped modern day Turkey • Offers new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey’s current backslide to conservative and Islamist politics 350pp 1. 2022 9781316515464 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009025775
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The Remaking of Republican Turkey Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire Nicholas Danforth
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Drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Nicholas L. Danforth synthesizes the political, cultural, diplomatic and intellectual history of mid-century Turkey to explore how Turkey first became a democracy and Western ally in the 1950s and why this is changing today. • Synthesizes the political, cultural, diplomatic and intellectual history of mid-century Turkey • Draws on a diverse array of published and archival sources to show the relationship between ideas, policymakers and politicians • Shows how multi-party democracy and NATO membership transformed Turkey’s foreign and domestic policy 272pp 6. 2021 9781108833240 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973779
The Sufi Saint of Jam History, Religion, and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi’i Iran Shivan Mahendrarajah | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Tunisia’s Modern Woman Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s Amy Aisen Kallander | Syracuse University, New York
Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, this book focuses on the notion of modern womanhood in order to trace the centrality of women in a wide range of issues from state-building, economic development, and intellectual life, to fashion, and romantic love. • A unique history of state feminism and women’s activism in modern Tunisia • Situates the history of modern Tunisia in relation to women and gender in the Middle East and global culture of the 1960s • Shows the relevance of women’s roles in state-building and economic development to understanding modern history, politics, and society The Global Middle East 280pp 6. 2021 9781108845045 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108961264
Understanding Insurgency Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey Francis O’Connor
Spanning 900 years of history, this book explores the genesis, florescence, degeneration, and regeneration of the ‘saint cult’ and shrine-complex of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam. Cult and shrine fell into decline under Iran’s first Shiʿi shahs, but are enjoying a renaissance under the Ayatollahs despite being an adamantly Sunni institution. • Explores how this Iranian Sunni saint community is enjoying a renaissance under the allegedly ‘sectarian’ and ‘intolerant’ Shiʿi theocracy • An interdisciplinary study, appealing to students and scholars of Islamic, Iranian, and Afghan History; Islamic Studies and Sufism, Islamic Art and Architecture • Scholars of Islamic Art and Architecture will benefit from original schematics of the shrine-complex’s components and twenty color plates
Focusing on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), the armed group which has attracted global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting the ISIS campaign in Syria and Iraq, this study examines how, since the 1970s, the PKK obtained and maintained popular support, and the role of violence in this relationship in Turkey. • Provides an historical narrative to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), the armed group which has found global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting the push of ISIS and its involvement in Iraq and Syria • Brings together distinct literatures on Civil War, Social Movements and Rebel Governance to look at the relationship between armed groups and their supporters • Of interest to students and scholars of Kurdish and Turkish politics, and wider audiences interested in Iraq, Syria
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The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War
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Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Annie Tracy Samuel | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Acts of Aid
Provides a close look at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to understand Iran’s recent history and how the Revolutionary Guards view their own roles therein. By using the Iran-Iraq War, one of the most significant events in the Islamic Republic’s history, as a focal point, Tracy Samuel analyzes the links between war and revolution. • Provides a close look at the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), one of the most powerful and prominent but least understood organizations in Iran • Goes inside the IRGC to understand Iran’s recent history as the Revolutionary Guards understand it themselves • Demonstrates how the history of the Iran-Iraq War has immense bearing on the Islamic Republic’s present and future 302pp 10. 2021 9781108478427 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108777674
The Politics of Relief and Reconstruction after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Eleonor Marcussen | Universität Erfurt, Germany
Acts of Aid analyses the relationship between civil society, international organisations and the colonial state in disaster relief and reconstruction and the questions it gives rise to about the impact of aid on social groups, communities and inequality. • In disaster research, it holds a strong multidisciplinary appeal across the social sciences to geographers, sociologists and ethnographers interested in resilience • Deepens understanding on how society approached disaster relief and reconstruction in the increasingly politicised climate of late colonial period • Discusses ‘natural’ disaster in relation to how famine relief was organised and perceived by the colonial state and contemporary civil society organisations. How did it differ, or what were the common features and why? 300pp 11. 2021 9781108838092 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108937160
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Citizens of Everywhere
India and the World
Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920–1952 Rosalind Parr
A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000 Claude Markovits
Citizens of Everywhere is a Global history of Indian women’s activism during the final decades of colonial rule, demonstrating their contributions to both the international women’s movement and to the Indian independence struggle. • Uses transnational methodology to read transnational history, utilising archive sources found in multiple geographic locations • Emphasises Indian women’s agency in an international context, nuancing the common depiction of Indian women simply as objects of western feminism • Constructs a polycentric history of women’s activism
This pioneering history of modern India explores a multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Situating India in global context over two and a half centuries, Claude Markovits challenges dominant state-centred histories by focusing on the lived experiences of people who circulated between India and the outside world. • Situates India’s history in a global context • Provides a synthetic view of India’s global connections over a period of two and a half centuries • Challenges dominant state-centred histories by focusing on the lived experiences of people
Global South Asians 300pp 9. 2021 9781108838146 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937290
Fleeting Agencies A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya Arunima Datta | Idaho State University
In Fleeting Agencies, the author revises and decolonizes the history of transnational female plantation labour and acknowledges the agency of women workers. This is the first book to examine the history of Indian coolie women who migrated to British Malaya and contributed to the making of the Rubber Empire. • Revises a traditional understanding and definition of the term agency • Critically examines how gendered South Asian labour played a foundational role in building the modern world of global capitalism • Brings together a remarkable combination of archival sources and oral histories to present a nuanced narrative on feminist transnational labour and migration history Global South Asians 200pp 9. 2021 9781108837385 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937115
Hidden Histories of Pakistan Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India Sarah Fatima Waheed | Davidson College, North Carolina
A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers deeper understanding of India and Pakistan’s complex and intertwined history through explorations of censorship, Urdu literature and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan. • Speaks to a wide range of historians and literary scholars working on South Asia • Makes complex and multi-faceted literary traditions accessible to readers • Provides readers with an overview of colonialism and nationalism from the margins 320pp 3. 2022 9781108834520 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993517
304pp 3. 2021 9781107186750 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 3. 2021 9781316637456 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316899847
Making a Muslim Reading Publics and Contesting 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 9. 2021 9781108490535 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781152
Paper, Performance, and the State Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India Farhat Hasan | University of Delhi
Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people. • Uses a comparative and cross-cultural approach to study the political processes in early modern South Asia • Draws on insights from anthropology, literary theory, sociology, and political thought in substantiating the centrals arguments • Uses lucid prose in deconstructing complex historical concepts thus making it an interesting read for researchers and the general public alike 220pp 9. 2021 9781316516812 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009025256
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Sikh Nationalism
The Frontier in British India
From a Dominant Minority to an EthnoReligious Diaspora Gurharpal Singh | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century Thomas Simpson | University of Cambridge
A concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to the present, this volume uses a new methodological approach to understand the historical origins of Sikh nationalism and emphasises the importance of integrating the study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia. • Presents a new integrative methodology to the study of Sikh nationalism which is of interest to both historical and contemporary debates • Considers the history of Sikh nationalism within the context of broader discussions about language, caste and religion in colonial and postcolonial South Asia • Provides a fresh perspective on Sikh nationalism that reflects contemporary developments New Approaches to Asian History 250pp 1. 2022 9781107136540 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 1. 2022 9781316501887 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316479940
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Tea Environments and Plantation Culture Imperial Disarray in Eastern India Arnab Dey | State University of New York, Binghamton
This book showcases the history of commodity production in the British Empire and its impact on the natural and human worlds. Focused on the tea plantation economy of east India, it highlights the ecological consequences, legal workings, and labor conditions of this early form of global capital and monopoly trade. • Provides a new perspective on the local history of a global commodity • Highlights unseen aspects of labor exploitation in plantation systems and the human costs of imperial commerce • Exposes the impact of commodity production on biodiversity, ecologies, and human lives 254pp 16 b/w illus. 2 maps 5 tables 6. 2021 9781108457613 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 12. 2018 9781108471305 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108687034
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 1. 2021 9781108840590 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886444
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 1. 2021 9781108840194 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879156
Waiting for Swaraj Inner Lives of Indian Revolutionaries Aparna Vaidik
This book contributes to a lively and burgeoning field of historical scholarship on the history of revolutionaries and revolutionary organizations in the Indian subcontinent. It reimagines the revolutionaries’ self-conception and its relationship with time. Its narrative style will appeal to the specialists in the field, graduate students and general readers. • Uses an experimental narrative structure that will encourage researchers to rethink the ways of narrativizing the past • Examines the inner lives of male Indian revolutionaries that has hitherto been ignored because the scholarly focus has been on studying ‘ideology’ and the more sensational and masculinized actions that they carried out • Redefines the history of Indian revolutionism and what it meant to be a revolutionary 220pp 9. 2021 9781108838085 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937146
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 1. 2021 9781108491242 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868006
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Colonizing Animals Interspecies Empire in Myanmar Jonathan Saha | Durham University
Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. This pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 explores how animals were transformed by colonial subjugation and introduces readers to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past. • Contributes to the history of capitalism in colonial Myanmar by uncovering the processes through which animals were rendered into commodities • Appeals to scholars and students of the environmental humanities, animal history and Asian histories • Situates imperial ideologies and practices regarding animals within their interactions with Burmese ideologies and practices, including the overlooked history of animals in anticolonial thought
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The First Vietnam War Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945–1956 Shawn F. McHale | George Washington University, Washington DC
In this ambitious new analysis of the first Indochina War, Shawn McHale explores why the communistled Resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France, except in the South. Based on extensive archival research, this is the first definitive account in English exploring southern Vietnam’s transition from colonialism to independence. • The first book, in English, to focus on southern Vietnam’s transition from colonialism to independence • Based on extensive primary sources in Vietnamese and French • Makes multiple novel and provocative arguments on pacification, sovereignty, violence and decolonization 350pp 8. 2021 9781108837446 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108936002
The Indentured Archipelago Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916 Reshaad Durgahee | University of Nottingham
A text for historians and historical geographers on a key moment in postabolition labour history, focusing on the experiences of Indian indentured labourers in the Indo-Pacific. It analyses the spatial experiences of labourers in Mauritius and Fiji, and reveals previously unexplored intracolonial labour movements, prompting debate on subaltern agency. • Uses historical geographical approach to analyse Indian indentured labour • Enables the reader to contextualise wider concepts within the Indian indenture system, by viewing excerpts of individual life stories of labourers • Reveals the scale of intra-colonial movements of Indian indentured labourers which has not been analysed before, promoting debate on agency Global South Asians 285pp 9. 2021 9781316512265 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009058094
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