History - cross discipline

Paper, Performance, and the State

Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India Farhat Hasan

This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein.

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.220pp 978-1-316-51681-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Islands in the Lake

Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain Richard M. Conway

Thanks to creative uses of the environment, Xochimilco’s residents preserved their culture and society in the face of colonial disruption.

Cambridge Latin American Studies

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.337pp 978-1-316-51889-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Imperial Incarceration

Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa Michael Lobban

A rich study exploring the use of detention without trial to facilitate imperial expansion of the British African Empire.

Studies in Legal History

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.379pp 978-1-316-51912-7 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 X

HISTORY - CROSS DISCIPLINE

After the Virus

Lessons from the Past for a Better Future Hilary Cooper Simon Szreter

Reveals the deep roots of the UK’s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

August 2021 198 x 129 mm c.175pp 978-1-00-900520-3 Paperback £12.99 / US$16.95 T

History and Identity

How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice Stefan Berger

An introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice exploring how issues of identity have shaped how we write history.

November 2021 228 x 152 mm 270pp 978-1-107-01140-3 Hardback c. £55.00 / c. US$85.00 X

The NGO Moment

The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid Kevin O’Sullivan

Explores 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 postcolonial world.

Human Rights in History

November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-47730-7 Hardback c. £69.99 / c. US$89.99 P

Island Fantasia

Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan Wei-Ping Lin

An innovative ethnography and social history of the Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan.

Taiwan Studies

July 2021 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-316-51937-0 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 P

How Cities Matter

Richard Harris

This Element examines why we should care how cities matter, and what difference does it make to our daily lives.

Elements in Global Urban History

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-74926-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Real Estate and Global Urban History

Alexia Yates

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

Elements in Global Urban History

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79711-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Making Noise in the Modern Hospital

Victoria Bates

Explores the intersection between medical and sensory histories to examine the changing cacophony of the late twentieth-century hospital.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81366-2 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

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.

Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82512-2 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 Christopher S. Celenza

Connecting to issues in the humanities today, this book shows how the Italian Renaissance influenced and changed Early Modern Europe.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83340-0 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

The New Art of War

The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict Geoffrey F. Weiss

Offers a new general war theory that propels our understanding of war’s character, nature, and future into the next century.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.470pp 978-1-108-83764-4 Hardback £25.00 / US$34.99 G

Worlds Apart

A Documentary History of US–Iranian Relations, 1978–2018 Malcolm Byrne Kian Byrne

An expertly curated and annotated collection of declassified records, revealing the inner workings of US-Iran relations after 1978.

August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.283pp 978-1-108-83852-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99 P

Return to Vietnam

An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys Mia Martin Hobbs

Since the 1980s, thousands of American and Australian veterans have returned to Việt Nam. This oral history tells their story.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83266-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Convicts

A Global History Clare Anderson

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

January 2021 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-84072-9 Hardback c. £74.99 / c. US$99.99 P

The Reserve Bank of India

1997–2008

Volume 5

Tirthankar Roy

Narrative economic history of the Reserve Bank of India through the years 1997–98 to 2007–08.

October 2021 228 x 152 mm c.750pp 978-1-316-51132-9 Hardback c. £115.00 / c. US$150.00 R

Strategy and Command

Issues in Australia’s Twentieth-century Wars David Horner

Compilation of writings on the Australian military’s history of strategy and command.

Australian Army History Series

January 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-316-51237-1 Hardback £45.00 / US$59.99 G

An Army of Influence

Eighty Years of Regional Engagement Craig Stockings Peter Dennis

A thought-provoking analysis of the Australian Armyís capacity to change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

February 2022 978-1-316-51439-9 Hardback £44.99 / US$59.99 G

Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon

Patricia Owens Katharina Rietzler Kimberly Hutchings Sarah C. Dunstan

This first anthology of women’s international thought explores how women transformed international relations, from the early to mid-20th century.

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.600pp 978-1-316-51824-3 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 P

History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Callum Barrell

The first complete account of the utilitarians’ historical thought, from which emerge new interpretations of their philosophy and politics.

Ideas in Context, 136

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51907-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Debt, Trust and Reputation

Extra-legal Finance in Northern India Sebastian Schwecke

Combining history and ethnography, it traces the evolution of extra-legality in modern Indian finance and its socioeconomic ramifications.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.410pp 978-1-316-51726-0 Hardback c. £90.00 / c. US$120.00 C