History - other areas

HISTORY - OTHER AREAS

The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War

Graydon A. Tunstall

Definitive new history of the AustroHungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War.

Armies of the Great War

August 2021 229 x 152 mm 410pp 978-0-521-19934-6 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 P

Mao Zedong

A Biography

Volume 3: 1958–1976

Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press

Presents volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong.

The Cambridge China Library

September 2021 228 x 152 mm 600pp 978-1-107-09276-1 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R

Nomads in the Middle East

Beatrice Forbes Manz

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century.

Themes in Islamic History

October 2021 228 x 152 mm 250pp 978-0-521-81629-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99 P

The Last Abolition

The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888 Angela Alonso

A new interpretation of Brazilian anti-slavery history, placing Brazil in the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism.

Afro-Latin America

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.420pp 978-1-108-42113-3 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 P

When ‘Adjusted’ People Rebel

Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day)

Volume 29

Leyla Dakhli, Vincent Bonnecase

This volume examines social movements and unrest in the Middle East and Africa and the implementation of neoliberal economic policies.

International Review of Social History Supplements, 29

June 2021 229 x 152 mm 240pp 978-1-00-906996-0 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99 X

The Wealth and Poverty of African States

Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century Morten Jerven

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.

New Approaches to Economic and Social History

December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-42459-2 Hardback c. £59.99 / c. US$74.99 P

Mao Zedong

A Biography

Volume 2: 1949–1958

Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press

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

The Cambridge China Library

October 2021 228 x 152 mm 600pp 978-1-107-09274-7 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R

The Making of an Alliance

The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship David Tal

A critical overview and re-evaluation of the origins and development of the ‘special’ relations between Israel and the United States.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-42719-7 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P

Inventing Laziness

The Culture of productivity in Late Ottoman Society Melis Hafez

A lively and original study tracing the development of ‘laziness’ as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-42784-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa

Michelle Moore Apotsos

Examines the emergence and development of Islamic spaces in contemporary Africa that are responding to the continent’s increasingly global character.

July 2021 229 x 152 mm c.304pp 978-1-108-47334-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Making a Muslim

Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India S. Akbar Zaidi

By questioning how and when a Muslim community emerged in colonial India, the book unsettles the teleological explanation of the Partition of India and the making of Pakistan.

August 2021 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-49053-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

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

November 2021 216 x 138 mm c.352pp 978-1-108-49846-3 Hardback c. £71.99 / c. US$99.99 P

The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures

Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry Muhsin J. al-Musawi

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.344pp 978-1-108-47485-6 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Living for the City

Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt Miles Larmer

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region’s social history with knowledge production about it.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-83315-8 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War

Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Annie Tracy Samuel

An examination of how Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) view their history and their roles in the Iran-Iraq War.

May 2021 229 x 152 mm c.302pp 978-1-108-47842-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Fleeting Agencies

A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya Arunima Datta

Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.

Global South Asians

August 2021 228 x 152 mm c.200pp 978-1-108-83738-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The First Vietnam War

Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945–1956 Shawn F. McHale

A provocative new history of southern Vietnam’s transition from colonialism to independence against the backdrop of anticolonial and civil war.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83744-6 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Waiting for Swaraj

Inner Lives of Indian Revolutionaries Aparna Vaidik

This book is an exploration of the rich, variegated, and intimate history of revolution as praxis.

August 2021 228 x 152 mm c.220pp 978-1-108-83808-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Assyrians in Modern Iraq

Negotiating Political and Cultural Space Alda Benjamen

Examines the role of minorities and identity in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history through the relationship between the state and the Assyrians.

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.272pp 978-1-108-83879-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

Collective Action in the African Diaspora 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

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.329pp 978-1-108-84372-0 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 X

Acts of Aid

The Politics of Relief and Reconstruction after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Eleonor Marcussen

This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.

October 2021 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83809-2 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$105.00 C

A Concise History of Bolivia

Third edition

Herbert S. Klein

A new edition of this economic, social and political history of Bolivia from pre-conquest times to the present day.

Cambridge Concise Histories

December 2021 216 x 140 mm c.352pp 978-1-108-84482-6 Hardback c. £71.99 / c. US$99.99 P

Citizens of Everywhere

Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920–1952 Rosalind Parr

This book traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule.

Global South Asians

September 2021 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83814-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Sir Earle Page’s British War Cabinet Diary, 1941–1942

Volume 61

Kent Fedorowich Jayne Gifford

This edition presents an almost daily wartime account of Sir Earle Page’s eight-month mission to London between 1941 and 1942.

Camden Fifth Series, 61

August 2021 216 x 138 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84494-9 Hardback £45.00 / US$80.00 X

Black Legend

The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina Paulina L. Alberto

The gripping story of AfroArgentine celebrity Raúl Grigera that also tells the untold history of Black Argentina.

December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.410pp 978-1-108-84555-7 Hardback c. £25.00 / c. US$29.95 G

Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam

African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 George Roberts

Explores the intersecting politics of Cold War rivalries, African liberation, and socialist state-making in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

African Studies, 156

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-84573-1 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 X

Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia

Mark Edward Lewis

This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia wielded violence to create and display authority.

Elements in Ancient East Asia

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-97214-7 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Indentured Archipelago

Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916 Reshaad Durgahee

A historical geographical comparison of the Indo–Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.

Global South Asians

September 2021 228 x 152 mm c.285pp 978-1-316-51226-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Buried in the Red Dirt

Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine Frances S. Hasso

A vivid account of Palestinian life, death, and reproduction during and since the British colonial period in Palestine.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-316-51354-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Designing Boundaries in Early China

The Composition of Sovereign Space Garret Pagenstecher Olberding

Explores how sovereign space in early China was imagined and negotiated in the ancient world.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51369-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe

The Cold War and Decolonization,1960–1984 Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia

Examines the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of Zimbabwe diplomacy, before and after Independence.

African Studies

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-316-51179-4 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 X

The Power of the People

Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–38 Murat Metinsoy

A fresh interpretation of the foundation of modern Turkey demonstrating the crucial role of ordinary people under Atatürk in the 1920s and 30s.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-316-51546-4 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P