History - cross discipline

The Humanitarians

Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975 Joy Damousi

A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 9781108833905 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C

Defeat and Division

France at War, 1939–1942 Douglas Porch

A definitive new history of the France at war from the war’s outbreak to the invasion of North Africa in late 1942.

Armies of the Second World War

July 2022 228 x 152 mm 440pp 9781107047464 Hardback £27.99 / US$32.95 T

A Concise History of Canada

Second edition

Margaret Conrad

A new edition of Margaret Conrad’s lucid account of the diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state of Canada.

Cambridge Concise Histories

May 2022 216 x 138 mm c.352pp 9781108736374 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 G

The Architecture of Confinement

Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.330pp 74 b/w illus. 9781316519189 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C HISTORY - CROSS DISCIPLINE

A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine

Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees

The first concise global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing, covering the past 400 years.

New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108430708 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P

The British Home Front and the First World War

Hew Strachan

The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.495pp 9781009012324 Paperback c. £25.99 / c. US$34.99 P

Narrative Science

Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 Mary S. Morgan Kim M. Hajek Dominic J. Berry

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009001991 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$32.99 P

The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After

Jay Winter

This Element is a user’s guide to the subject of the cultural history of war since 1914.

Elements in Modern Wars

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009114271 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Why America Loses Wars

Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present Donald Stoker

This provocative challenge to US politics and strategy maintains that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 9781009220866 Paperback £14.99 / US$19.95 T

Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom

Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History Johan Fourie

An accessible and engaging economic history of the world told through a unique African lens.

June 2022 216 x 140 mm c.290pp 9781009228480 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$29.99 P

Sovereignty without Power

Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 Leigh A. Gardner

Reinterprets Liberia’s economic history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to investigate the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty during the age of empires.

Cambridge Studies in Economic History – Second Series

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009181105 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Human Development and the Path to Freedom

1870 to the Present Leandro Prados de la Escosura

A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.

New Approaches to Economic and Social History

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781108708586 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919 Ghassan Moazzin

Explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy.

Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.310pp 9781316517031 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Understanding the Private–Public Divide

Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons Avner Offer

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society’s long-term interests.

April 2022 216 x 140 mm c.200pp 9781108791663 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 P

The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation

Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions Taisu Zhang

Surveys the fiscal history of China’s last imperial dynasty and explains why its ability to tax was unusually weak.

Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316518687 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

Volume 1: The Pacific Ocean to 1800

Ryan Tucker Jones Matt K. Matsuda

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.800pp 9781108423939 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Earthopolis

A Biography of Our Urban Planet Carl H. Nightingale

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world’s cities.

May 2022 228 x 152 mm 814pp 9781108424523 Hardback £25.00 / US$29.99 G

Cities and News

Lila Caimari

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Elements in Global Urban History

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108823807 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

2 Volume Hardback Set

Paul D’Arcy, Ryan Tucker Jones Matt K. Matsuda Anne Perez Hattori, Jane Samson

A comprehensive history of interactions of Pacific Island and Pacific Rim peoples with the Ocean and with each other.

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.1600pp 9781108539227 2 Volume Hardback Set £200.00 / US$260.00 R

Entangled Lives

Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Joy L. K. Pachuau Willem van Schendel

It is a case study in environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities.

July 2022 9781009215473 Hardback TBA / TBA

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

Anne Perez Hattori Jane Samson

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from 1800 to the present day.

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.800pp 9781316510407 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Cities in a Sunburnt Country

Water and the Making of Urban Australia Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory Ruth A. Morgan, Martin Shanahan Peter Spearritt

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Studies in Environment and History

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108831581 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Eurasian Musical Journeys

Five Tales Gabriela Currie and Lars Christensen

The circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures.

Elements in the Global Middle Ages

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108823296 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Altered Earth

Getting the Anthropocene Right Edited by Julia Adeney Thomas

This landmark essay collection explains the Anthropocene as a scientific concept and as a human dilemma, showing how it limits our future but liberates our imaginations.

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009045537 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

Human Empire

Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 Ted McCormick

Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.

Ideas in Context

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009123266 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Love in Contemporary Technoculture

Ania Malinowska

This Element explains love with technologies in ways that go beyond traditional approaches to technologically mediated bodies and emotions.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108813648 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Kingdom of Darkness

Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy Dmitri Levitin

This transformative account of early modern intellectual life culminates with new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton.

March 2022 229 x 152 mm 980pp 9781108837002 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 P

Science on the Roof of the World

Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Lachlan Fleetwood

An innovative global history of science, empire and geography explaining how the Himalaya became the highest mountains in the world.

Science in History

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.294pp 9781009123112 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World

A Global Perspective Karine Chemla Glenn W. Most

Comparative analysis of the techniques and procedures of important mathematical commentaries in five ancient cultures from China to Greece.

August 2022 244 x 170 mm c.448pp 9781108839570 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C

The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism

Edited by Steven Katz

One-volume comprehensive collection of new articles on the history, literature and philosophy of antisemitism, for students and non-experts.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

May 2022 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108714525 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P