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Tunguska

A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy Andy Bruno

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Examining the role of mystery in environmental history, this book is an intriguing new account of the enigmatic 1908 Tunguska disaster.

Studies in Environment and History

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.304pp 9781108840910 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

The Cambridge History of Socialism

Marcel van der Linden

Volume I offers a worldencompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.

The Cambridge History of Socialism

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.685pp 9781108481342 Hardback c. £120.00 / c. US$150.00 R

The Cambridge History of Socialism

Marcel van der Linden

Volume II offers a worldencompassing overview of movements and parties that wanted to promote social justice by social reform – the conquering and transforming of state power.

The Cambridge History of Socialism

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.685pp 9781108481359 Hardback c. £120.00 / c. US$150.00 R

Women’s Rights and Global Socialism

Volume 30 Part 1

Edited by Celia Donert and Christine Moll-Murata

This collection of essays explores the history of transnational socialist feminisms during the 20th century.

International Review of Social History Supplements

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.230pp 9781009237345 Paperback c. £19.99 / c. US$34.99 C

Cuban Privilege

The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America Susan Eva Eckstein

The first book to document the unique yet strategic entitlements granted to Cubans over other immigrants to the US.

January 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108830614 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

More than a Massacre

Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands Sabine F. Cadeau

A history of race, citizenship, statelessness, and genocide from the perspective of ethnic Haitians in Dominican border provinces.

Afro-Latin America

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 9781108837682 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C HISTORY - OTHER AREAS

The Cambridge History of Socialism

2 Hardback Book Set

Marcel van der Linden

A comprehensive history of anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, Labour, the New Left, and alternative trajectories in the Global South in one encompassing reconstruction.

The Cambridge History of Socialism

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.1400pp 9781108611336 2 Hardback Book Set c. £200.00 / c. US$275.00 R

The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers

The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World Thomas Rath

The story of how a massive outbreak of animal disease transformed Mexican politics, society, science, and the wider world.

Cambridge Latin American Studies

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.256pp 9781108844482 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

Hierarchies at Home

Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution Anasa Hicks

This book destabilizes racialized and gendered assumptions about labour in Cuba and challenges traditional chronologies of 20thcentury Cuban history.

Afro-Latin America

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.247pp 9781316513651 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Sovereign Joy

Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 Miguel A. Valerio

An exploration of how AfroMexicans affirmed their culture, subjectivities and colonial condition through festive culture and performance.

Afro-Latin America

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.247pp 9781316514382 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Pandemic Kinship

Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana’s Time of AIDS Koreen M. Reece

An intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana’s time of AIDS, providing unique insights into the unexpected resilience of families in a pandemic.

The International African Library, 67

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.292pp 9781009150224 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Decolonizing African Knowledge

Autoethnography and African Epistemologies Toyin Falola

Uses textual and visual materials on the ‘Self’ to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

African Identities: Past and Present

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.414pp 9781316511237 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

Collective Action in the African Diaspora

Second edition

Crystal Nicole Eddins

A new analysis of the origins of the Haitian Revolution, revealing the consciousness, solidarity, and resistance that helped it succeed.

Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.378pp 9781009256155 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 C

The Madagascar Youths

British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region Gwyn Campbell

Explores the history of the ‘Madagascar Youths’, young people trained by the British, and their impact on Malagasy-British relations.

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781316511718 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Conflicts of Colonialism

The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye Richard L. Roberts

Using the life of an African clerk who became a king under French colonial rule, this book illuminates conflicts over colonial policies and the application of competing rules of law.

African Studies

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781009098045 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

How Secular is Art?

On the Art of Art History in South Asia Tapati Guha-Thakurta Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

August 2022 9781009215275 Hardback TBA / TBA

Round Table Conference Geographies

Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London Stephen Legg

July 2022 9781009215312 Hardback TBA / TBA

The Early Modern in South Asian History

Pratyay Nath Meena Bhargava

August 2022 9781009215374 Hardback TBA / TBA

Uncivil Liberalism

Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought Vikram Visana

Global South Asians

July 2022 9781009215541 Hardback TBA / TBA

Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar Sunandan K. N.

August 2022 9781009273121 Hardback TBA / TBA

The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration

Sebastian Raj Pender

An innovative study using the commemoration of 1857 as a prism through which to explore 150 years of Indian history.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.293pp 9781316511336 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Planning Democracy

Modern India’s Quest for Development Nikhil Menon

An innovative history exploring independent India’s experiment fusing Soviet-inspired economic management with Western-style liberal democracy.

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.285pp 9781009044585 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 C

The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951

Nagatomi Hirayama

Examines the Chinese Youth Party’s pivotal role in the making and unmaking of the radical right in Republican China.

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.275pp 9781009098717 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order David M. Robinson

A new perspective on the collapse of the Mongol empire through the mid-fourteenth century experiences of King Gongmin of Goryeo.

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.327pp 9781009098960 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

China’s European Headquarters

Switzerland and China during the Cold War Ariane Knüsel

Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on China’s presence in Europe through analysis of Switzerland’s central role during the Cold War.

Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009169462 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

China’s Grandmothers

Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to TwentyFirst Century Diana Lary

A longitudinal study into the role of grandmothers in China over the years from late Qing to the twenty-first century.

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781009073622 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

Mao Zedong

Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press

Presents volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong.

The Cambridge China Library

May 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107092747 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China

Third edition

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Lively, up-to-date, and highly visual, this book is a must for anyone interested in the history of Chinese culture and society.

June 2022 253 x 203 mm c.400pp 9781009151443 Paperback c. £34.99 / c. US$44.99 X

Reading Medieval Ruins

Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan Morgan Pitelka

An innovative new study of daily life and urban society in late medieval Japan.

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316513064 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

Mark Hudson

This Element explores whether recent interdisplinary approaches to the Bronze Age in Europe can be applied to East Asia.

Elements in Ancient East Asia

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108987318 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Modern Erasures

Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past Pierre Fuller

Reveals the acts of epistemic violence behind China’s revolutionary transformation from a semi-colonized republic to Communist state over the twentieth century.

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781316515723 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Mamluk Sultanate

A History Carl F. Petry

An engaging and accessible survey of the Mamluk Sultanate which positions the realm within the development of comparative political systems from a global perspective.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.304pp 9781108456999 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

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