Cambridge University Press Fall 2023 Highlights

Fall 2023 Highlights

THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE TROUBLES, 1966–1975

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UK publication September 2023

US publication September 2023

168 pages

9781009340373 Hardback

£12.99 | $15.95 USD | $17.95 CAD

At a glance

• Sir Stanley Wells is a foremost writer and authority on Shakespeare

• The question of what Shakespeare was actually like – what really made him tick – is one of the great mysteries of modern Shakespearean scholarship, now addressed head-on

• This short, brilliantly accessible book addresses fundamental but challenging issues of identity and biography, and puts forward fresh, engaging and provocative interpretations

• Can be read and enjoyed with anyone with the slightest interest in Shakespeare and his immense literary legacy of sonnets and plays

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

Stanley Wells

Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging study wrestles with fundamental debates concerning Shakespeare’s personality and life. The mysteries of how Shakespeare lived, whom and how he loved, how he worked, how he produced some of the greatest and most abidingly popular works in the history of world literature and drama, have fascinated readers for centuries. This concise, crystalline book conjures illuminating insights to reveal Shakespeare as he was. Wells brings the writer and dramatist alive, in all his fascinating humanity, for readers of today.

Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, is Honorary President at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. His many successful books include Shakespeare: For All Time (2002), Looking for Sex in Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare & Co. (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010) and Great Shakespeare Actors (2015). He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (with Sarah Stanton, Cambridge University Press, 2002), The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (with Margreta de Grazia, Cambridge University Press, 2010), The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography (with Paul Edmondson, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (also with Paul Edmondson, Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is also the General Editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of Shakespeare.

Advance praise

‘It is, I think, incontestable to claim that no single person in history has done more for the study and appreciation of Shakespeare than Stanley Wells.’

Stephen Fry

‘Stanley Wells illuminates and entertains – brilliant!’

Kenneth Branagh

‘In his tenth decade Wells has lost none of his curiosity or his eagerness to share his intimate knowledge.’

Harriet Walter

Hijacked

How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

Elizabeth Anderson

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the 1% at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today’s neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the 1%. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

Elizabeth Anderson is the Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (1995), The Imperative of Integration (2010), and Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It) (2017). She is a MacArthur Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, The New Yorker described her as “a champion of the view that equality and freedom are mutually dependent […] Anderson may be the philosopher best suited to this awkward moment in American life”.

Advance praise

‘Hijacked is an important and fascinating book that tells the spellbinding story of the struggle between conservatives and progressives over the Protestant work ethic. Nobody matches Anderson’s distinctive combination of historical, political, and philosophical insight.’

Stephen Darwall, author of Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant

9781009275439

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Shows how the dominant way of thinking about work and socioeconomic policies, neoliberalism, is rooted in centuries of distorted thinking about the work ethic

• Makes the history of political economy accessible to readers without specialized training in philosophy or economics

• Challenges the conventional Cold War historiography of political economy by exposing fissures within liberal thought and continuities between liberalism and the Marxist tradition

UK publication September 2023

US publication September 2023

244 pages

9781009299749 Paperback

£12.99 | $16.95 USD | $18.95 CAD

At a glance

• Provides recommendations for building resilience based on the latest scientific developments, including new discoveries in the field of human resilience

• Includes actional steps which readers can take to improve their lives, particularly in challenging times

• Brings together personal narratives from a diverse range of individuals helping readers feel they can overcome their own obstacles by following the 10 resilience factors outlined

Resilience

The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges

Steven Southwick, Dennis S. Charney and Jonathan M. DePierro

Life presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond. In this important book, three experts in trauma and resilience answer key questions such as: ‘What helps people adapt to life’s most challenging situations?’ ‘How can you build up your own resilience?’ and ‘What do we know about the science of resilience?’ Combining cutting-edge scientific research with the personal experiences of individuals who have survived some of the most traumatic events imaginable, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a practical resource that can be used time and time again. The experts describe ten key resilience factors, including facing fear, optimism, and role models, through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. Each resilience factor will help anyone to adapt and grow from stressful life events and will bring hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.

Steven Southwick, MD, was Glenn H. Greenberg Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, PTSD, and Resilience at Yale University Medical School and Medical Director Emeritus of the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for PTSD of the US Department of Veterans Affairs. His own resilience while fighting advanced prostate cancer for five years was an inspiration to his friends, colleagues, and family. He passed away on April 20, 2022, and this book, which he worked on through his final weeks, is dedicated to his life and legacy.

Dennis S. Charney, MD, is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System. He has over 600 publications to his name, including books, chapters, and academic articles.

Jonathan M. DePierro, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth. Dr. DePierro, a clinical psychologist, is an expert in psychological resilience and the treatment of trauma-related mental health conditions.

Advance praise

‘...the complete...science and knowledge of not just survival in times of suffering and tragedy but learning to thrive and find higher purpose.’

Deepak Chopra, M.D., New York Times bestselling author

Uncivil War

The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975

Huw Bennett

When Operation Banner was launched in 1969, civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent phase of the Troubles but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict. Huw Bennett shows how the army’s ambivalent response to loyalist violence undermined the prospects for peace and heightened Catholic distrust in the state. British strategy consistently underestimated community defence as a reason for people joining or supporting the IRA, whilst senior commanders allowed the army to turn in on itself, hardening soldiers to the suffering of ordinary people. By 1975, military strategists considered the conflict unresolvable: the army could not convince Catholics or Protestants that it was there to protect them and settled instead for an unending war.

Huw Bennett teaches International Relations at Cardiff University. He is the author of Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (2012).

Advance praise

‘This deeply researched and lucid book provides new and sometimes challenging perspectives on a vital topic: it deserves to be widely read.’

Helen Parr, author of Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

UNCIVIL WAR

THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE TROUBLES, 1966–1975

UK publication October 2023

US publication October 2023

9781107136380 Hardback

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Major new account of the Troubles drawing on extensive new evidence including government and regimental records as well as contemporary politicians, civil servants, journalists, paramilitaries and human rights activists

• Uncovers the interactions between the British Army, the IRA and loyalist paramilitary groups, shedding new light on British decision-making, the nature of the violence and why the conflict lasted so long

• Shows how military strategy succeeded in suppressing the level of violence but only by making the conflict more geographically dispersed, more sectarian in character, and by radicalising the participants to the point where endless war seemed inevitable

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

216 x 138 x 19mm (HxWxD)

0.430kg 250 pages

9781009276849 Hardback

£18.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance

• Challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance

• Details the complex lives of enslaved women through case studies that span the colonial through the antebellum era

• Delves into each case study to illustrate the shared plight across time

• Illuminates how enslaved women were highly organized and responded consistently and powerfully to acts of injustice

• Contests much of the literature on slavery by detailing graphic violence committed by black women toward white enslavers

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge

Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

Nikki M. Taylor

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.

Nikki M. Taylor is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Howard University. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American History. She is the author of three previous books, including Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (2016) and America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark (2013).

Advance praise

‘Brooding Over Bloody Revenge is a brilliant tour-de-force. This powerful set of case studies create a prism for illuminating African American women’s intellectual arc, their lived experience as enslaved bodies, and their powerful response to slavery’s lash and legacy. Nikki Taylor’s voice offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.’

Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

‘...a cogent reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the gendered experience of American slavery.’

Publishers Weekly

Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

Aurelian Craiutu

Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labelled ‘moderates’ for fear of losing elections. Why Not Moderation? challenges this conventional image and shows that moderation is a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides. Through a series of imaginary letters between a passionate moderate and two young radicals, the book outlines the distinctive political vision undergirding moderation and makes a case for why we need this virtue today in America. Drawing on clearly written and compelling sources, Craiutu offers an opportunity to rethink moderation and participate in the important public debate on what kind of society we want to live in. His book reminds us that we cannot afford to bargain away the liberal civilization and open society we have inherited from our forefathers.

Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His publications include Liberalism under Siege (2003), A Virtue for Courageous Minds (2012), and Faces of Moderation (2017). Professor Craiutu has also written book reviews and essays for non-academic publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, and The Daily Beast

Advance praise

‘For far too long, “moderate” has been a label used in political discourse as a term of derision, meant to imply weakness and lack of conviction, which is nonsense. Thank you Aurelian Craiutu for producing an overdue, well-researched, witty and robust defense of the ideas of those of us – a plurality – who aren’t represented by those partisan extremists with outsized influence.’

Michael Smerconish, SiriusXM and CNN host

‘What could be more radical in our polarized era than a spirited defense of political and intellectual moderation? In this bold and eloquently written book, Aurelian Craiutu engages the most potent arguments of the anti-liberal Left and Right, all the while at once making the case for a more moderate approach and enacting it right before our eyes. Whether you’re tempted by the extremes or looking to maintain your equilibrium through the ideological turbulence of our times, the book is invaluable.’

Damon Linker, author of “Eyes on the Right” on Substack

UK publication October 2023

US publication October 2023

260 pages

9781108494953 Hardback

£18.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance

• Explains the political vision of moderation as well as its spirit and style and describes moderation as a radical and complex virtue for courageous minds

• Explains how moderation transcends the conventional distinctions between Left and Right, liberalism and conservatism, while creatively combining tropes from each

• Written in a form of a dialogue and letters addressed to two young radicals from the Left and the Right, the book explains how it is possible to be a “radical moderate” in an age of extremes and high polarization

9781009172530

£25.00 | $27.95 USD | $31.95 CAD

At a glance

• Expands on the notion that we are still living in LBJ’s America

• Provokes readers to consider the ways in which mid-century American liberalism and the controversies of the 1960s resonate in the 2020s

• Brings together top historians of the 1960s to create an accessible overview of LBJ’s America

• Marks the fiftieth anniversary of LBJ’s death by reconsidering his life, impact and legacies

• Differs from other recent biographies of LBJ by emphasizing the impact of his policymaking and legislative initiatives

LBJ’s America

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

Edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove

In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ’s America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments—protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration—as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ’s America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.

Mark Atwood Lawrence is an award-winning historian who has taught for two decades at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. His books include The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, which won the highest book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian for ABC News and author of five books on the presidency, including most recently Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He is a former director of the LBJ Presidential Library and now serves as President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.

Contributors

Mark Atwood Lawrence, Mark K. Updegrove, Marc J. Selverstone, Julian E. Zelizer, Nicole Hemmer, Peniel E. Joseph, Geraldo Cadava, Joshua Zeitz, Laura Kalman, Madeline Y. Hsu, Fredrik Logevall, Francis J. Gavin, Sheyda Jahanbani, Melody C. Barnes

Advance praise

‘LBJ’s America provides an essential understanding of the profound impact Lyndon Johnson has had on our country. This superb collection of essays by a remarkable array of authors is seamlessly curated by Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove. Taken together, the wide-ranging essays provide a distinctive and multi-dimensional portrait of one of the most fascinating and consequential presidents in American history.’

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Enough Because

We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

Linda O. Eckert

Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. Still more horrifying is that this disease, which has killed millions, is nearly 100% preventable. It’s no secret that healthcare is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs. But women’s health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention, Dr. Linda Eckert takes her years of experience and weaves it together with the voices of the courageous women who use their own experience of cervical cancer to advocate for change. This heartbreaking yet hopeful book takes us through the world of cervical cancer with the latest research, personal stories and actionable outcomes. Society flourishes when women have access to safe and affordable healthcare. Together we can make this need a reality and eliminate the world’s most preventable cancer.

Linda O. Eckert is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington and an internationally recognized expert in immunizations and cervical cancer prevention. For over thirty years, Dr. Eckert has worked at Seattle’s Harborview Hospital, treating people from all around the world. Frequently in the spotlight for her expertise in HPV vaccinations and cervical cancer screenings, Dr. Eckert is passionate in her drive to eliminate this deadly disease.

9781009412650

• Written by Dr. Linda Eckert, an expert in gynecology, immunization and cervical cancer, the book is grounded in her decades of experience working with women around the world. Information is evidencebased but accessible as she explores the reasons for such a persistently high death toll and the barriers to changing it

• Stories told by survivors or patients’ families paint a picture of the impact this deadly disease has on women and their communities. These powerful tales are both heartbreaking in their portrayal of loss, as well as passionate and optimistic in their advocacy for change

• An outline of what steps need to be taken to improve access to safe and affordable healthcare for everyone with a cervix, as well as the societal benefits of doing so, this is a practical call to action. Shows readers myriad ways they can help in their own communities

ANDREW STAUFFER

A Life in Ten Letters Byron

Byron A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew Stauffer

9781009200165 Hardback

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets

• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life, and his continuing importance, studded as it is with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form

• Immersive: affords to its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as one of his correspondents

• Ground-breaking: draws on the most recent research to reveal Byron as a modern figure with great relevance to our era, while also emphasizing the historical specifics of his own

• Distinguished: the author is one of the foremost Byron scholars writing in English

• Timely: released to coincide with the bicentennial of Byron’s death

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice—as if we are personally receiving a fresh letter from the iconic poet—followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that the missive touches upon. This gripping volume traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.

Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the inaugural recipient of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association in 2021 He is the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023).

Born in Blood Violence and the Making of America

Scott Gac

Born in Blood investigates one of history’s most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. This book offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Native Americans, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

Scott Gac is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Trinity College and the author of Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform

SCOTT GAC

Born in Blood

Violence and the Making of America

UK publication January 2024

US publication January 2024

9781316511886 Hardback

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Presents American violence as the product of political and social structure

• Provides historical context for understanding the recent spate of police killings and the violence and White self-determination behind antigovernment action in America

• Helps readers understand how many forms of violence in the American past persist to this day

• Centers the experiences and choices of oppressed civilian populations throughout American history

UK publication May 2023

US publication July 2023

475 pages

9781108971454 Paperback

£16.99 | $19.95 USD | $NA CAD

At a glance

• Debunks our fantasies about Regency England and presents a compelling, gritty alternative

• Uses exceptionally rich source material to present sympathetic portraits of the would-be terrorists

• Gives a voice to the impoverished, disenfranchised, and cruelly exploited London underclass

Conspiracy on Cato Street

A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

Vic Gatrell

On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre the whole British cabinet at its monthly dinner. The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It ended in betrayal, arrest, and trial, and with five conspirators publicly hanged and decapitated for treason. Their failure proved the state’s physical strength, and ended hopes of revolution for a century. Vic Gatrell explores this dramatic yet neglected event in unprecedented detail through spy reports, trial interrogations, letters, speeches, songs, maps, and images. Attending to the ‘real lives’ and habitats of the men, women, and children involved, he throws fresh light on the troubled and tragic world of Regency Britain, and on one of the most compelling and poignant episodes in British history.

Vic Gatrell is a professorial Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, who has taught for most of his career in the Cambridge Faculty of History. His previous books include The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People (1997) which was awarded the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society; City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (2009) which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize; and The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age (2013) which was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

Reviews for the hardback

A Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year

‘Gatrell asks all the right questions of his subject, and his answers are sound and illuminating.’

David Keymer, Library Journal, starred review

‘an engrossing study.’

Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times

‘Gatrell writes passionately as a radical historian championing the underdog and castigating inequality.’

William Anthony Hay, The Wall Street Journal

‘... the richest account of the Cato Street conspiracy ever written.’

Marcus Nevitt, The Spectator

WHY THE BIBLE BEGAN

Why the Bible Began

An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Jacob L. Wright

Why did no other ancient society produce a text remotely like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have produced a text so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable. For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged during Babylonian exile after the shattering destruction of Jerusalem, it marks not victory but total humiliation and the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible turned to the golden ages of the past, reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible is a resonant blueprint for the inspiring creation of a nation. As a response to catastrophe, it offers a powerful message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds. Wright’s Bible is thus a social, political, and even economic roadmap – one that enabled a small and obscure community located on the periphery of leading civilizations and empires, not just to come back from the brink, but ultimately to shape the world’s destiny. The Bible speaks ultimately of being a united, yet diverse people, and its pages present a manual of pragmatic survival strategies in response to societal collapse.

Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His first book, Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (2004), won the 2008 Templeton prize for a first book in the field of religion. He is also the author of David, King of Israel and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which won The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research. His most recent book is War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Advance praise

‘In this profoundly insightful book Wright demonstrates how ancient Israel and Judah developed the resources to construct a resilient nationhood not in spite of but, paradoxically, because of the experience of military defeat, economic devastation, and diaspora. No other kingdom of the ancient Near East was able to do so. Today, as so many communities, peoples and nations face similar critical threats to their existence, Wright’s book provides a fascinating and incisively argued case study of how one people drew upon its cultural resources not simply to survive but to generate a vibrantly creative intellectual and spiritual tradition.’

Carol A. Newsom, C. H. Candler Professor Emerita of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Emory University

UK publication August 2023

US publication October 2023

300 Pages 9781108490931 Hardback

£26.99 | $34.99 USD | $39.99 CAD

At a glance

• Compellingly conveys why we are still reading the Bible two millenia after it was written

• Interrogates why no other ancient society – Babylon, Assyria, and Rome – produced any comparable text

• Conveys a story of triumph over defeat and explains how the scribes who wrote the Bible inspired the creation of a nation

Jacob L. Wright

DAVID STERLING BROWN

Shakespeare’s White Others

Shakespeare’s White Others

David Sterling Brown

UK publication September 2023

US publication November 2023

9781009384162 Hardback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Bold and original: focuses on racial whiteness to promote antiracism, providing readers with new techniques to critically examine whiteness both in their reading practices and in their everyday lives

• Timely and current: offers a passionate deconstruction of the malign and formative uses in Shakespeare of privileged notions of race and how this reaffirms antiBlackness

• Rich and interdisciplinary: strong appeal to readers in drama, race studies, critical whiteness studies, media studies, Black feminism, history of ideas, politics and the social sciences

• Authoritative and exciting: demonstrates how readers can create synergy among the personal, critical and experiential to produce what the author conceives of as ‘productive discomfort’. This major new book is an important statement to the field

Examining the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’ – this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare’s plays, arguing that the white ‘other’ was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan era – and also one to which Shakespeare was himself a crucial contributor. In exploring Shakespeare’s determinative role and strategic investment in identity politics (while drawing powerfully on his own life experiences, including adolescence), the author argues that even as Shakespearean theatrical texts functioned as engines of white identity formation, they expose the illusion of white racial solidarity. This essential contribution to Shakespeare studies, critical whiteness studies and critical race studies is an authoritative, urgent dismantling of dramatized racial profiling.

David Sterling Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of the Curatorial Team for The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society fellowship and the Shakespeare Association of America’s Publics Award. Additionally, he is an Executive Board member of the Race Before Race conference series and he serves as dramaturg for the Untitled Othello Project, an ensemble that is reconceptualising how theatre practitioners engage with Shakespeare’s work. His research, teaching and public speaking interests include African-American literature, drama, mental health, gender, performance, sexuality and the family. Learn more at www.DavidSterlingBrown.com.

Advance praise

‘With Shakespeare’s White Others, David Sterling Brown engages racial whiteness and provokes interdisciplinary dialogue through his rhetorically accessible ‘criticalpersonal-experiential’ style. The book’s unexpected final words, documenting Brown’s own racial profiling experience, anticipate the depths of this brilliantly bold Shakespearean discourse that seamlessly blends genres while reimagining the scholarly monograph mode.’

Claudia Rankine

Between God and Hitler

Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany

Doris L. Bergen

During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped normalize extreme violence and legitimate its perpetrators. Military chaplains played a key role in propagating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany’s victims and transformed the aggressors into noble figures who suffered but triumphed over their foes. Between God and Hitler is the first book to examine Protestant and Catholic military chaplains in Germany from Hitler’s rise to power, to defeat, collapse, and Allied occupation. Drawing on a wide array of sources – chaplains’ letters and memoirs, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture – this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.

Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II and comparatively in other cases of extreme violence.  Her publications include War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, now going into its fourth edition, with translations into Polish and Ukrainian. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has taught in Canada, the US, Germany, Poland, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

Advance praise

‘Doris Bergen’s eagerly-awaited magnum opus draws on searing testimony of Holocaust survivors and the banal homilies of German military chaplains to show us what it meant to preach Christian virtue to the soldiers waging their war of annihilation in the Soviet Union. Far from opening up a fault line between notions of ‘just war’ and genocide, sermons and spiritual guidance were an essential part of mobilizing Germans and the military chaplains were proud of their service to the very end. This is an extraordinary work. Bergen leads us through some of the most challenging moral issues raised by the Holocaust and she is the most historically and morally enriching of guides.’

Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45

UK publication June 2023

US publication August 2023

334 Pages 9781108487702 Hardback £30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Draws on extensive, original research in German military, political, and church archives plus Jewish sources

• Foregrounds individual stories of many kinds of people in every chapter

• Helps to explain how the Holocaust was possible and how Christians became killers

UK publication May 2023

US publication July 2023

240 Pages

9781316512852 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Advances debates concerning the intersection of history and memory

• Centres the importance of childhood recollections in the construction of identity and selfhood

• Offers a unique, vivid and personal account of historical events in Iran

An Iranian Childhood

Rethinking History and Memory

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi was born and raised in southern Iran in the 1950s and 1960s. During this time, his homeland was changed beyond recognition, from the 1953 coup d’état to the 1963 political protests and the beginning of the Marxist rebellions against the Shah in 1971. In this vibrant, unique and personal study, Dabashi recounts his experience of this defining period in modern Iranian history, deftly blending the personal with the political, the ordinary with the extraordinary. Lyrically written, he combines vivid childhood memories with careful reflection to explore the intersection of history and memory. The book draws upon a rich tapestry of themes and sources, including art, literature, and folklore. In doing so, Dabashi asserts the power and place of the knowing postcolonial subject. Redrawing the limits of modern literary historiography, he asks what it means to be a Muslim and an Iranian, and, indeed, what it is that forms the humanity of a person.

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books and scholarly essays on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of arts. His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages and he has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities.

Advance praise

‘In a prose both intimate and critical, Dabashi creates a language - dare I say the language - for Iranians to articulate their collective experiences. Yet in his indelible textual mosaic, organically interweaving Rumi with Ricoeur, Bollywood with Hollywood via a personal and intellectual history, he communes with all his readers, no matter their origins’

Atefeh Akbari, Barnard College

Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World

Claire Jean Kim

Where do Asian Americans fit into the US racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of George Floyd and the surge in antiAsian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic raise these questions with new urgency. Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is a groundbreaking study that will shake up scholarly and popular thinking on these matters. Theoretically innovative and based on rigorous historical research, this provocative book tells us we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy—and the articulation of the two forces—in order to understand US racial dynamics. The construction of Asian Americans as not-white but above all not-Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define racial politics in the U.S. in the twenty-first century.

Claire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Ms. Magazine. Her two previous books, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict and Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age, have both won best book awards from the American Political Science Association. Kim has been a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

At a glance

• Provides an original theoretical approach to understanding the positioning of Asian Americans in the US racial order

• Provides a reconceptualization of Asian American history in relation to structural anti-Blackness

• Provides an original theoretical approach to racial positionality that can be used to understand other groups as well, including Latinx people

• Argues that anti-Blackness plays an even more important role than white supremacy in structuring racial dynamics in the US

• Explains why Asian Americans fare as they do and the role they play in US racial politics

UK publication June 2023

US publication September 2023

217 pages

9781009359474 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• An authoritative, highly engaging account of a mystery which will appeal to all those intrigued and baffled by the story of the missing Vikings of Greenland

• Strong appeal to all those interested in medieval history and accounts of exploration

• Offers deep insights into the consequences of colonization while also placing its exciting narrative in the wider context of literary and reception history as well as popular culture

• Author is an acknowledged authority on the literature and culture of Scandinavian exploration

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland

In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy

Robert Rix

For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished, and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.

Robert Rix is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is widely known for his prolific publication profile in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies. This includes areas such as politics, religion, language, nationalism, and print culture. His previous books include The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

Advance praise

‘The Vanished Settlers of Greenland embeds speculation about the fate – or survival – of the Norse medieval Greenlandic colony in a series of historical contexts, demonstrating the long and deep roots of the European imaginative fascination with the Arctic and its peoples. Moving adeptly between political and cultural history, ethnography, literary criticism and post-colonial critique, Rix’s study is indispensable to understanding Greenland’s colonial past – and its changing present.’

Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford

The Nationalist Dilemma

A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776-Present

Marvin Suesse

Nationalists think about the economy, Marvin Suesse argues, and this thinking matters once nationalists hold political power. Many nationalists seek to limit global exchange, but others prioritise economic development. The potential conflict between these two goals shapes nationalist policy making. Drawing on historical case studies from thirty countries – from the American Revolution to the rise of China – this book paints a broad panorama of economic nationalism over the past 250 years. It explains why such thinking has become influential, despite the internal contradictions and chequered record of many nationalist policy makers. At the root of economic nationalism’s appeal is its ability to capitalise upon economic inequality, both domestic and international. These inequalities are reinforced by political factors such as empire building, ethnic conflicts, and financial crises. This has given rise to powerful nationalist movements that have decisively shaped the global exchange of goods, people, and capital.

Marvin Suesse is Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in international political economy. He has published on nationalism in the post-Soviet states, regional integration in Eastern Europe, cooperatives in Imperial Germany, and state-building in sub-Saharan Africa.

Advance praise

‘America First. Getting Brexit Done. These slogans illustrate that we live an era of economic nationalism. The Nationalist Dilemma is an insightful, erudite, timely, and lucid account of the global history of this concept from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump.’

John Turner, author of Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

UK publication June 2023

US publication September 2023

434 pages 9781108831383

Hardback £30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Presents a global history of nationalist movements and their economic thought over the past 250 years

• Analyses economic nationalism using a new conceptual framework that draws on structural economic, political and social factors, including inequality, wars, financial crises and ethnic disparities

• Allows the reader to understand why economic nationalism arises and how it becomes influential

UK publication August 2023

US publication October 2023

350 Pages

At a glance

• Identifies key Islamic institutions that shaped political patterns in Middle Eastern history, giving scholars and policy makers new perspectives on the region’s political legacies

• Relates traditional Islamic economic, political, and religious institutions, including ones now defunct, to the Middle East’s current political repressiveness, demonstrating that the region lacks a short pathway to a liberal order, but also that major obstacles have already been overcome somewhat

• Focuses attention on weaknesses of civil society and illiberal apostasy and blasphemy rules as major obstacles to the emergence of organized liberal variants of Islam

Freedoms Delayed

Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East

Timur Kuran

According to diverse indices of political performance, the Middle East is the world’s least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran, author of the influential Long Divergence, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East’s lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions, both defunct and still active, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships, electoral democracies, monarchies legitimated through Islam, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam’s rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region’s prevailing record of human freedoms.

Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His publications include Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) and The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2011), each widely translated.

Modern Moral Philosophy

From Grotius to Kant

Stephen Darwall

In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially depends on theological and religious assumptions that it cannot acknowledge. Stephen Darwall’s panoramic picture starts with the seventeenthcentury thinker Grotius and tells the story continuously down to the time of Kant, exploring what was in fact a completely new way of doing ethics based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. He shows that thinkers from Grotius to Kant are profoundly united by this modern approach, and that it helped them to create a theory of natural human rights that remains of great political relevance today. He further shows that this new way of thinking provides conceptual resources that are far from exhausted, and that moral philosophy in this idiom still has a vibrant future.

Stephen Darwall teaches philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’, 1640–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and of many other publications in moral philosophy and its history, including The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006).

Advance praise

‘Modern moral philosophy emerged from its medieval and ancient ancestors through the development of new ideas about natural law. Stephen Darwall, in this masterly work, explains the development of these ideas and how they became central to the debates of the eighteenth century over the nature of morality and the sources of moral knowledge. His explanation is a powerful argument for the juridical conception of morality that took form in the work of Grotius and reached its most profound exposition in the work of Kant.’

John Deigh, University of Texas, Austin

UK publication June 2023

US publication September 2023

362 Pages 9780521860475 Hardback £30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Traces the story of modern moral philosophy and how it emerged in the seventeenth century

• Shows how modern moral philosophy enabled the creation of a theory of natural human rights

• Explores the conceptual resources which modern moral philosophy continues to offer

NAMING GOD

Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture

UK publication August 2023

US publication November 2023

256 Pages 9781108834469 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• The author is one of the most influential theologians and religious philosophers of her generation

• Soskice’s earlier book, Metaphor and Religious Language, is still regarded as a classic which redefined the field of philosophy of religion

• This new and eagerly awaited book proffers a powerful argument: that in conceptualising God in Cartesian terms we have got it wrong, and that a return to divine naming would open up fresh and beneficial understandings of God while also transforming philosophy of religion

• Will have great appeal to scholars and students in theology, philosophy and literary studies

Naming God

Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture

Janet Soskice

Generations of Christians, Janet Soskice demonstrates, once knew God and Christ by hundreds of remarkable names. These included the appellations ‘Messiah’, ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Alpha’, ‘Omega’, ‘Eternal’, ‘All-Powerful’, ‘Lamb’, ‘Lion’, ‘Goat’, ‘One’, ‘Word’, ‘Serpent’ and ‘Bridegroom’. In her much-anticipated new book, Soskice argues that contemporary understandings of divinity could be transformed by a return to a venerable analogical tradition of divine naming. These ancient titles –drawn from scripture – were chanted and sung, crafted and invoked (in polyphony and plainsong) as they were woven into the worship of the faithful. However, during the sixteenth century, Descartes moved from ‘naming’ to ‘defining’ God via a series of metaphysical attributes. This made God a thing among things: a being amongst beings. For the author, reclaiming divine naming is not only overdue. It can also re-energize the relationship between philosophy and religious tradition. This pathbreaking book shows just how rich and revolutionary such reclamation might be.

Janet Soskice is Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is presently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. Her books include Metaphor and Religious Language (1984), which is a classic work of metaphorical theology, and also the best-selling trade title Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels (2009), which vividly recounts how the Ayrshire twins Agnes and Margaret Smith made in the Sinai desert one of the most important New Testament manuscript discoveries of the nineteenth century.

Advance praise

‘Skilfully and insightfully written, this book draws on the inheritance of the author’s classic text Metaphor and Religious Language while developing that inheritance in some interesting and engaging new directions.’

Oliver Davies, King’s College London

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Raymond Hickey

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if lifeforms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly original, thought-provoking book takes us on an electrifying journey over billions of years, from the formation of galaxies and solar systems, to the appearance of planets in the habitable zones of their parent stars, and then to how biology and, ultimately, human life arose on our own planet. It delves into how our brains and our language developed, in order to explore the likelihood of communication beyond Earth and whether it would evolve along similar lines. In the process, fascinating insights from the fields of astronomy, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience and linguistics are uncovered, shedding new light on life as we know it on Earth and beyond.

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His main research interests are varieties of English, language contact, variation and change and issues in phonology. Some of his recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020) and The Handbook of Language Contact (2020).

UK publication October 2023

US publication January 2024

400 Page s 9781009226417

Hardback

£30.00 | $27.95 USD | $31.95 CAD

At a glance

• Questions how language could evolve among beings on exoplanets

• Explores how human life and language evolved on our own planet in order to analyse the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth

• Considers the likelihood of intelligent beings existing on planetary systems beyond our Earth and considers how they might have evolved, developed societies, and built civilisations

How Plato Writes

Perspectives and Problems

How Plato Writes

Perspectives and Problems

Malcolm

Schofield

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, paradox and intertextuality. He carefully characterises the participants whom he portrays in conversation. Sometimes he composes fictive dialogues in dramatic form while at other times he does so as narratives. In this book, world-renowned scholar Malcolm Schofield illustrates the variety of the literary resources that Plato deploys to achieve his philosophical purposes. He draws key passages for discussion particularly, but not only, from Republic and the less well-known Laws, and also shows how reconstructing the original historical context of a dialogue and of its assumed readership is essential to understanding Plato’s approach. The book will open the eyes of readers of all levels of expertise to Plato’s masterly ability as a writer and how an understanding of this is crucial if we are to appreciate his philosophy.

At a glance

• Provides a distinctive focus on Plato’s versatility as a writer and thinker

• Sheds light on problematic philosophical issues in the interpretation of key passages in the dialogues

• Clearly and accessibly written for readers of all levels of expertise

Malcom Schofield is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized as one of the major scholars in the world currently working on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His first book was An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge, 1980), he coauthored with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1983), and has co-edited numerous other collaborative volumes, including in 2015 with Catherine Rowett a special Heraclitus issue of the journal Rhizomata, and with Tom Griffith a new English edition of Plato’s Laws (Cambridge, 2016). He now works mostly on Greek and Roman political philosophy. He was co-editor with Christopher Rowe of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge, 2000). The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge, 1991), Saving the City (1999), Plato: Political Philosophy (2006) and Cicero: Political Philosophy (2021) are among his major solo publications.

Advance praise

‘This is a very welcome volume by a very distinguished scholar. The topics include Plato’s epistemology and metaphysics, but most of the chapters focus on Plato’s ethics, political philosophy, and psychology. In reading the dialogues, Schofield deftly combines literary and historical analysis with analytical rigor and such breadth is rare in Plato interpretation. Any student of Plato will gain much by reading and thinking deeply about the this book.’

Chris Bobonich, Stanford University

SCENTS OF CHINA

Scents of China

A Modern History of Smell

Xuelei Huang

In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses. Drawing on unexplored archival materials, readers are introduced to the ‘smellscapes’ of China from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century via perfumes, food, body odours, public health projects, consumerism, cosmetics, travel literature, fiction and political language. This pioneering and evocative study takes the reader on a sensory journey through modern Chinese history, examining the ways in which the experience of scent and modernity have intertwined.

Xuelei Huang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She co-edited the volume Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture (2022), and authored the book Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938 (2014). She has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Gerda Henkel Foundation, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, among others.

UK publication September 2023

US publication December 2023

9781009207041 Hardback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• The first book-length study of smell in Chinese history

• For a broad interdisciplinary readership across history, literature, cultural and sensory studies

• Provides fresh insights on Chinese history through sensory experiences

Modern History of Smell

UNDERSTANDING

living systems

Understanding Living Systems

UK publication September 2023

US publication September 2023

182 Pages

9781009277365 Paperback

£11.99 | $14.95 USD | $16.95 CAD

At a glance

• Corrects fundamental misunderstandings about the role of genes in living systems. Organisms use genes functionally and are not controlled by them

• Explains why the gene-centric view of evolution is a mistake

• Presents a new understanding of how living systems function and evolve creatively

Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms make choices, influencing their behaviour, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvellous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us.

Raymond Noble is Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and chartered biologist, writing extensively on biological theory and philosophy, working extensively on how organisms sense their environment. He held a Rockefeller Senior Research Fellowship with a joint appointment at University College London, where he became Deputy Dean of Life Sciences and Graduate Tutor in Women’s Health.

Denis Noble is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and was honoured by the Queen for his work in science. He discovered how protein channels in cell membranes of the heart automatically generate the electrical rhythm. This work Ied him to challenge the Neo-Darwinist gene-centric theory of evolution.

Raymond Noble and Denis Noble

RAYMOND NOBLE & DENIS NOBLE

Understanding Reproduction

Giuseppe Fusco and Alessandro Minelli

Our understanding of reproduction and reproductive processes is often biased towards the behaviour of organisms most familiar to us. As such, the amazing disparity of the phenomena of reproduction and sex is often overlooked. Understanding Reproduction addresses all the main facets of this large chapter of the life sciences, including discussions of asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis, sex determination, reproductive effort, and much more. The book features an abundance of examples from across the tree of life, including animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. Written in an accessible and easy to digest style, overcoming the intimidating diversity of the technical terminology, this book will appeal to interested general readers, biologists, science educators, philosophers and medical doctors.

Giuseppe Fusco is Associate Professor of Zoology at the Department of Biology of the University of Padova. His research is in the area of evolutionary biology, with a focus on the variation produced in each generation through reproduction and development, the ‘raw material’ on which natural selection and other mechanisms of evolutionary change operate. He is editor of the volumes Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2008), From Polyphenism to Complex Metazoan Life Cycles (2010), Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, Morphology (2013), Perspectives on Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (2019) and author, with Alessandro Minelli, of The Biology of Reproduction (2019).

Alessandro Minelli was Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova until his retirement in 2011. He previously served as the Speciality Chief Editor for evolutionary developmental biology for the journal, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was previously Vice-President of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Having studied animals for the majority of his career, on retirement he decided to study plant evolutionary development. He is the author of Biological Systematics (1993), The Development of Animal Form (2003), Forms of Becoming (2009), Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution (2009), Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2018), The Biology of Reproduction (2019, with Giuseppe Fusco), and Understanding Development (2021).

UK publication October 2023

US publication October 2023

225 pages 9781009225939 Paperback

£11.99 | $14.95 USD | $16.95 CAD

At a glance

• Covers a wealth of unexpected phenomena in the domain of sex and reproduction, discussing a number of issues that have previously been overlooked

• Features examples from across the tree of life, providing arguments to go beyond the narrow popular perspectives on sex and reproduction

• Identifies issues across the amazing disparity of reproductive phenomena, which are concisely explained and illustrated by examples from all the main branches of the tree of life

GIUSEPPE FUSCO & ALESSANDRO MINELLI

MICHAEL HUNTER

Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment

Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment

The English and Scottish Experience

Michael Hunter

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a handful of such cases before 1750, and this book offers a detailed analysis of three of them. Thomas Aikenhead was executed for his atheistic opinions at Edinburgh in 1697; Tinkler Ducket was convicted of atheism by the Vice-Chancellor’s court at the University of Cambridge in 1739; whereas Archibald Pitcairne’s overtly atheist tract, Pitcairneana, though evidently compiled very early in the eighteenth century, was first published only in 2016. Drawing on these, and on the better-known apostacy of Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Rochester, Michael Hunter argues that such atheists showed real ‘assurance’ in publicly promoting their views. This contrasts with the private doubts of Christian believers, and this book demonstrates that the two phenomena are quite distinct, even though they have sometimes been wrongly conflated.

Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is well known for his publications on Robert Boyle and on the early Royal Society and its milieu. His most recent book is The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment (2020).

The Early Christians

From the Beginnings to Constantine

Hartmut Leppin, translated by Kathrin Luddecke, preface by Jan N. Bremmer

The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman world, and the shockwaves they caused among their contemporaries. Ancient Christians are closely connected to today’s world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for those who maintain a distance from Christianity. Yet, paradoxically, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for this faith as it currently stands. The distinguished historian Hartmut Leppin explores this paradox, and considers how such a small, diverse band of followers originating on the edge of the Roman Empire was able within less than three centuries to grow and become its dominant force under Emperor Constantine and his successors.

Hartmut Leppin is a Professor of Ancient History at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His research focuses on early Christianity and he has been awarded Germany’s highest science prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, as well as the Erwin Stein Prize for interdisciplinary work that is also relevant to the present. His publications have been translated into six languages.

UK publication October 2023

US publication December 2023

9781316517239 Hardback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Provides a kaleidoscopic view of early Christianity, revealing the development of this new religion from multiple angles

• Privileges social, economic and political history over theology to focus on the experience of individual Christians of antiquity

• Uses a diverse range of ancient sources to let voices of the past become audible

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

350 Pages

9781009303156 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Presents discussion of central topics in Christian theology in relation to life beyond Earth that are not covered elsewhere

• Explores topics in such a way that each complements the others, so the reader emerges with a broad and connected perspective

• Applies a scholarly approachresourcing principally from the work of Thomas Aquinas – and includes detailed references

Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine

Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe

Andrew Davison

In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet – 51 Pegasi b – was located orbiting a star other than our own sun. Since then, thousands of new planets have followed, and the question of life beyond earth has become one of the principal topics in discussions between science and religion. Attention to this topic has a long history in Christian theology, but has rarely been pursued at any depth. Writing with both passion and precision, Andrew Davison brings his extensive knowledge of Christian thought to bear, drawing particularly on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, as well as his training as a scientist. No book to date better prepares the Christian community for responding to evidence of other life, if it is found. And yet, we do not need to wait for that to have happened before this book shows its worth. In thinking about planets, creatures, and ecosystems beyond our planet, Davison already reinvigorates our theology for the earth.

Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Associate Professor of Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where his work has inspired the arts and humanities programme at the ground-breaking Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe. One of the foremost scholars working between theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences, he is fellow in theology and Dean of Chapel at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His work on life elsewhere in the universe has been covered by news outlets around the world, in more than twenty languages. Davison is the author of Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics, Blessing, The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians, and Why Sacraments?

Advance praise

‘This innovative and immensely readable work is easily the best introduction currently available to the theological questions raised by the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It offers both a critical analysis of issues such as multiple incarnations and a constructive response to them, deeply rooted in the Christian tradition.’

Alister McGrath, Senior Research Fellow, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, & Emeritus Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, University of Oxford

Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires

Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform

Tracy C. Davis

This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance. Tracy C. Davis explores nineteenth-century reform campaigns through the pioneering work of a family of activists – prominent anti-slavery lecturer George Thompson, his daughter Amelia (the first female theatre and music critic for a British daily newspaper) and her husband, the political organizer Frederick Chesson. Engaging in some of the most important social struggles of the late Georgian and Victorian periods –including abolition, enfranchisement, and anti-genocide - this book reveals how two generations’ insights into performance consolidated into activist tactics that persist today. Characterised by a skilful deployment of performance theory alongside deep and wide-ranging historical knowledge, this ground-breaking work demonstrates what ‘dramaturgy’ can teach us about ‘history’.

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University. She has published books on nineteenth-century theatre, the economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, and gender and theatre. Her latest book combines these interests in a study of two generations of Victorian activists.

Advance praise

‘With her distinctive form of precision historiography, Tracy Davis has given us a vital and necessary addendum to the long history and ongoing project of abolitionism. Focusing primarily on the lives and work of three Victorians, Davis elaborates a theory of performance that situates seemingly minor forms of activism - hosting dinners and attending meetings, letter-writing campaigns, journalistic reportage, and speechifying - as fundamental to the cultivation of solidarity and to the momentum of political engagement. This is a wonderful book: meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and beautifully narrated.’

Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego

UK publication July 2023

US publication September 2023

352 pages

9781009297530 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Offers copious examples of how nineteenth-century reformers utilized dramaturgy to describe, enact, and improve political efficacy

• Takes an interdisciplinary approach and traces strategies of reform campaigns in the first transcontinental movements that are still in use today as the cornerstones of single-issue movements and even social media campaigns

• Follows the fortunes of historically neglected activists in the abolitionist, anti-genocidal, and pro-civil rights movements in Britain, the US, South Asia, and throughout the worldwide sphere of British influence and political liberalism

CASS R. SUNSTEIN

Decisions about Decisions

Practical Reason in Ordinary Life

Cass R. Sunstein

Here is the most fundamental question in human life: How do we decide how we decide? We make such decisions all the time. If you trust your doctor, you might decide to follow a simple rule for medical decisions: Do whatever your doctor suggests. If you like someone a lot, and maybe love them, but are not sure whether you want to marry them, you might do this: Live with them first. Some of these strategies are wise. They prevent error. They improve your emotional well-being. Some of these strategies are foolish. They lead you in the direction of terrible mistakes. They prevent you from learning. They might make you miserable. Drawing on and revising previously published essays, Decisions about Decisions explores how people do, and should, make decisions about decisions. It aims to see what they are, to explore how they go right, and see where they go wrong.

At a glance

• Explains how people make decisions about decisions

• Explains when people refuse to believe something, or refuse to know something, because it will made them upset or sad to believe or know it

• Explains when people should rely on algorithms, and should not rely on algorithms

• Explains a host of puzzles in ordinary life and in politics

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway. He is the author of dozens of books, including How Change Happens, #Republic, Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide, The World According to Star Wars, and the New York Times bestseller, Nudge

Gospel Thrillers Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible

Andrew S. Jacobs

What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible’s sanitized ‘orthodox’ version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible ‘says’ or what it ‘means’? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the US of its founding identity. For others, the biblical canon suppresses religious truths that could upend the status quo. Such suspicions surrounding the Bible find full expression in Gospel Thrillers: a 1960s fictional genre that endures and still commands a substantial following. These novels imagine a freshly discovered first-century gospel and a race against time to unlock its buried secrets. They also reflect the fears and desires that the Bible continues to generate. Andrew Jacobs reveals, in his authoritative examination, how this remarkable fictional archive opens a window onto disturbing biblical anxieties.

Andrew S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Editor of the Elements of Religion in Late Antiquity (published by Cambridge University Press), and the writer and coeditor of five previous books, he is in addition author of Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (2016), which in 2017 was awarded the Philip Schaff Best Book Prize from the American Society of Church History.

At a glance

• Introduces readers to a persistent but little-studied genre of fiction centered on ‘lost gospels’ and conspiracy theories

• Outlines how the Bible has become an object of conspiratorial thinking in US politics and culture since the mid20th century

• Explains how ‘discovery’ played a role in the foundations of modern biblical studies and continues to act as a constructive and disruptive force even today

THE LAST TREATY

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

9781009371087 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Shows why the First World War took so long to resolve in the Middle East

• Makes the concept of a Middle Eastern Front central to explaining the relationship between what happened in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire

• For a broad audience across British imperial history, international history and military history

The Last Treaty

Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East

Michelle Tusan

In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe’s War with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe’s dominance within the nascent international system. The protracted nature of the conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis proved devastating for the civilian populations caught in its wake and increasingly questioned old certainties about a European-led imperial order and humanitarian intervention. Its consequences would profoundly shape the post-war world.

Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her previous publications include The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide (2017), Smyrna’s Ashes (2012) and Women Making News (2006).

Advance praise

‘In her superbly researched and powerfully argued new book, Michelle Tusan brings the “Middle Eastern Front” from the periphery to the center of the history of the First World War and invites us to complicate its usual periodization. At a time when the refugee crisis and the role of international community once again take center stage, her work is an essential read for anyone interested in the legacies of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.’

Bruno Cabanes, author of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924

MICHELLE TUSAN

LAUSANNE AND THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Computing the Climate

How We Know What We Know About Climate Change

Steve M. Easterbrook

How do we know that climate change is an emergency? How did the scientific community reach this conclusion all but unanimously, and what tools did they use to do it? This book tells the story of climate models, tracing their history from nineteenth-century calculations on the effects of greenhouse gases to modern Earth system models that integrate the atmosphere, the oceans, and the land using the full resources of today’s most powerful supercomputers. Drawing on the author’s extensive visits to the world’s top climate research labs, this accessible, non-technical book shows how computer models help to build a more complete picture of Earth’s climate system. Computing the Climate is ideal for anyone who has wondered where the projections of future climate change come from – and why we should believe them.

Steve M. Easterbrook is Director of the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses on environmental decisionmaking, systems thinking, and climate literacy. He received a Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College London in 1991. In the 1990s he served as lead scientist at NASA’s Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility in West Virginia, where he worked on software verification for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. He has been a consultant for the European and Canadian Space Agencies, and a visiting scientist at many climate research labs in the US and Europe.

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

350 Pages 9781107589926

Paperback

£24.99 | $29.99 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Written in a clear, non-technical narrative style that makes climate science accessible to a wide audience

• Provides a big-picture overview, showing how various scientific discoveries link together to better our understanding of climate change

• Illustrates how key discoveries in climate science were made, linking technical work to its broader social and historical context

• Describes the author’s personal journey into understanding the people and ideas behind climate models and making his own contributions

DAVID STEFAN DODDINGTON

Old Age and American Slavery

Old Age and American Slavery

UK publication November 2023

US publication January 2024

9781009123082 Hardback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Challenges assumptions that enslaved elders had limited work expected of them and instead focuses on their continued exploitation, punishment, and abandonment

• Looks beyond static notions of white enslaver dominance, revealing how the aging process could destabilize enslavers’ claims of control

• Shows the degree to which the exploitation inherent to slavery shaped all areas of life in the American South

Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were affected by concerns with age. In examining how individuals, families, and communities felt about the aging process and dealt with elders, David Stefan Doddington emphasizes the complex social relations that developed in a slave society. In connecting old age to the arguments of Black activists, abolitionists, enslavers and their propagandists, the book reveals how representations of old age, and experiences of aging, spoke to wider struggles relating to mastery, paternalism, resistance, and survival in slavery. The book asks us to rethink longstanding narratives relating to networks of solidarity in the American South and it illuminates the violent and exploitative nature of American slavery.

David Stefan Doddington is Senior Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University. He is the author of Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

David Stefan Doddington

England’s Insular Imagining

The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

How have the English conceived of Scotland? Lorna Hutson’s book is an essential intervention in the contested narrative of British nationhood. It argues that England deployed a mythical ‘British History’ in pursuing dominion over its northern neighbour: initially through waging war, and then striving to make the very idea of Scotland vanish in new figurations of sea-sovereignty. The author explores English attempts at conquest in the 1540s, revealing how justifications of overlordship mutated into literary, legal and cartographic ploys to erase Scotland-as-kingdom. Maps, treatises and military propaganda are no less imaginative in their eradicative strategies than river poetry, chorography, allegories, epics, tragedies, history plays and masques. Hutson shows how Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Henry V and King Lear, Plowden’s theory of the king’s two bodies, Camden’s Britannia, and the race-making in Jonson’s Masque of Blackness are all implicated in England’s jurisdictional claim and refusal to acknowledge Scotland as sovereign nation.

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford. She is the author of many books including Thomas Nashe in Context, The Usurer’s Daughter, The Invention of Suspicion (which won the Roland Bainton Prize), and Circumstantial Shakespeare. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, which won the Bainton Reference Prize in 2018.

At a glance

• Explodes the myth of English indifference to Scotland in the reign of Elizabeth, offering a fresh and revisionist account of sixteenth-century England’s deep and sustained preoccupation with pushing through an ideological eradication of Scotland

• Offers historians, literary scholars and contemporary politicians a radically new perspective on the period leading up to the 1603 ‘union of the crowns’

• Reveals the essentially literary origins of the potent idea of ‘island sovereignty’ that motivated English support for Brexit

• Offers new ways of understanding the relations of English literary texts to questions of race, nation and land in early modern Britain

Lorna Hutson

SHOCKING CONTRASTS

Shocking Contrasts

Political Responses to Exogenous Supply Shocks

Ronald L. Rogowski

UK publication June 2023

US publication September 2023

225 pages

9781316510704 Hardback

£30.00 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Sheds new light on old controversies (for example, divergent responses to the Black Death of the fourteenth century) and advances analysis of future supply shocks

• Employs simple economic models making the underlying theory accessible to a broad readership while offering new insights into familiar historical events

• Covers an extensive array of historical examples from the fourteenth through the twentieth century permitting a new understanding of such phenomena as political revolutions, censorship, technological innovation, and foreign conquest

In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe’s population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type printing rapidly expanded Europe’s supply of human capital; between 1850 and 1914, Russia’s population almost tripled; and in World War I, the British blockade starved some 800,000 Germans. Each of these, Shocking Contrasts argues, amounted to an unanticipated shock, positive or negative, to the supply of a crucial factor of production, and elicited one of four main responses: factor substitution, factor movement to a different sector or region, technological innovation, or political action, sometimes extending to coercion at home or conquest abroad. This book examines parsimonious models of factor returns, relative costs, and technological innovation. It offers a framework for understanding the role of supply shocks in major political conflicts and argues that its implications extend far beyond these specific cases to any period of human history.

Ronald Rogowski is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at UCLA. He has taught at Princeton, Duke, and Minnesota. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and has held research appointments at the Center for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Harvard University. His previous books include Rational Legitimacy (1974), Commerce and Coalitions (1990), and Electoral Systems and the Balance of Producer-Consumer Power (2010; co-authored).

RONALD L. ROGOWSKI

Political Responses to Exogenous Supply Shocks

The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

David Wyn Jones

The music of the Strauss family – Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard – enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family’s true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that from Johann’s first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916, the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.

David Wyn Jones is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on music and musical life in Vienna, including biographies of Haydn (2009) and Beethoven (1998). The relationship between music and society in three different epochs is explored in Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 (2016).

At a glance

• Offers new and fascinating insights into Viennese musical life in the round, not just the Strauss family in isolation, and as such will be of interest to scholars working on nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury Vienna generally

• Incorporates much new scholarly work on the Strauss family members, mainly written in German, to bring revealing new insights to their lives, loves, work and achievements

• Rescues the Strauss family from the belittling category of composers of light music by arguing that the family’s achievements were as serious as anything done by the likes of Brahms, Mahler and Bruckneral

• Relates the family’s combined achievements to social and political changes in nineteenth-century Habsburg Vienna, and will thus have strong appeal to social as much as musical historians, as well as to historians of ideas

Graphic

ALEXA KOENIG ANDREA LAMPROS Graphic

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

240 Pages

9781108995740 Paperback

£19.99 | $24.99 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance

• Provides practical tips for minimizing the risk of psychological harm from viewing graphic and other upsetting material online

• Distils the key takeaways from the latest research on how positive engagement with social media can contribute to social justice

• Summarizes the history and impact of iconic imagery that has helped shaped activism

Today, almost anyone can upload and disseminate newsworthy content online, which has radically transformed our information ecosystem. Yet this often leaves us exposed to content produced without ethical or professional guidelines. In Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros examine this dynamic and share best practices for safely navigating our digital world. Drawing on the latest social science research, original interviews, and their experiences running the world’s first university-based digital investigations lab, Koenig and Lampros provide practical tips for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of being online. In the wake of the global pandemic, they ask: How are people processing graphic news as they spend more time online? What practices can newsrooms, social media companies, and social justice organizations put in place to protect their employees from vicarious trauma and other harms? Timely and urgent, Graphic helps us navigate the unprecedented psychological implications of the digital age.

Alexa Koenig is co-Faculty Director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. She co-founded the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and is an author of Hiding in Plain Sight (2016) and Digital Witness (2020).

Andrea Lampros is the Communications Director at the Berkeley School of Education. She is the former Associate Director at the Human Rights Center, co-founder of the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, and the Resiliency Manager of the lab.

Fascism in America

Past and Present

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward

Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated whether Trumpism should be seen as an outgrowth of American conservatism or of a darker – and potentially fascist –tradition. Fascism in America contributes to this debate by examining the activities of interwar right-wing groups like the Silver Shirts, the KKK, and the America First movement, as well as the post-war rise of Black antifascism and white vigilantism, the representation of American Nazis in popular culture, and policy options for combating right-wing extremism

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is President of the Center for Jewish History and Professor of History at Fairfield University. He is the author or editor of eight books on the Nazi era, including The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism since World War II (2019) and Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture (2014).

Janet Ward is an American Council on Education Fellow at Yale University, and Brammer Presidential Professor of History and Faculty Fellow for Strategic Initiatives (DFCAS) at the University of Oklahoma. Past President of the German Studies Association, she is the author or co-editor of seven books, including Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity (2014) and the forthcoming Sites of Holocaust Memory.

Contributors

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Janet Ward, Geoff Eley, Thomas Weber, Matthew Specter, Varsha Venkatasubramanian, Linda Gordon, Bradley W. Hart, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Alexander Reid Ross, Anna F. Duensing, Ousmane K. PowerGreene, Marla Stone, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Ruth Ben-Ghiat

in America

UK publication September 2023

US publication September 2023

461 Pages 9781009337434

Paperback

£26.99 | $34.99 USD | $39.95 CAD

At a glance

• Offers an accessible assessment of American fascism from a historical and contemporary perspective

• Helps contextualize the origins of present-day right-wing trends across the United States

• Presents the most cutting-edge scholarship on American fascism

GAVRIEL D. ROSENFELD JANET WARD

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

9781108412247 Paperback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

• Introduces a philosophical approach to election law and the problem of judicial authority

• Offers novel insights about the development, foundations, and impact of the Supreme Court upon American democracy

• Provides a unifying account of election law disputes on the Supreme Court

The Law of Freedom

The Supreme Court and Democracy

Jacob Eisler

The Supreme Court has been at the center of great upheavals in American democracy across the last seventy years. From the end of Jim Crow to the rise of wealth-dominated national campaigns, the Court has battled over if democracy is an egalitarian collaboration to serve the good of all citizens, or a competitive struggle by private interests. In The Law of Freedom, Jacob Eisler questions why the Court has the moral authority to shape democracy at all. Analyzing leading cases through the lens of philosophy and social science, Eisler demonstrates how the soul of election law is a battle between two philosophical understandings of democratic freedom and popular self-rule. This remarkable book reveals that the Court’s battle over democracy has shaped how Americans rule themselves, marking election law as the most dramatic judicial intervention in constitutional history.

Jacob Eisler is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton Law School where he focuses on democratic theory, election law, and corruption.

Advance praise

‘In this powerfully argued and beautifully clear work, Jacob Eisler gives us a framework for understanding a dilemma at the core of modern liberal democracy. Though the ‘counter-majoritarian difficulty’ is familiar, Eisler introduces the more troubling ‘counterpopular dilemma’: how can courts police democratic processes. Through a careful exposition of the ideals of election law in light of the principles of democracy, Eisler provides an essential guide to making courts safe for democracy. More importantly, he gives us a map for remaking a democracy that might live up to its ideals.’

Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School

The Taft Court

Making Law for a Divided Nation

Robert C. Post

The Taft Court offers the definitive history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Using untapped archival material, Robert C. Post engagingly recounts the ambivalent effort to create a modern American administrative state out of the institutional innovations of World War I. He shows how the Court sought to establish authoritative forms of constitutional interpretation despite the culture wars that enveloped prohibition and pervasive labor unrest. He explores in great detail how constitutional law responds to altered circumstances. The work provides comprehensive portraits of seminal figures such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. It describes William Howard Taft’s many judicial reforms and his profound alteration of the role of Chief Justice. A critical and timely contribution, The Taft Court sheds light on jurisprudential debates that are just as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Robert C. Post is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He served as the sixteenth Dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to 2017. He specializes in constitutional law, with particular emphasis on the First Amendment. His book For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew W. Finkin) has become the standard reference text for the meaning of academic freedom in the United States.

Advance praise

‘A stupendous scholarly achievement, and a miraculous recreation of the mind of the Court as it stood on the brink of a revolution in governance: the New Deal ... The result is a fully three-dimensional rendering of a Court whose ambivalence and uncertainties have lessons for today - perhaps most importantly, in its struggles to preserve the independence and authority of the institution itself.’ Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club

‘As public attention scrutiny questions the work and very legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court, Robert Post’s magisterial book arrives with grace and clarity, shedding welcome light on the Court of a century ago, immersed then as now in contested politics and distinctive personalities...Offering thematic and biographical insights as well as comparisons with earlier and later periods, this book makes vivid forgotten fights and decisions while showing how the Taft Court set in motion powerful practices and the majestic Courthouse itself.’

Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University

UK publication November 2023

US publication January 2024

9781009336215 Hardback

£220.00 | $250.00 USD | $280.00 CAD

At a glance

• Provides the authoritative history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930

• Helps clarify modern constitutional debates about how to interpret the Constitution

• Uses untapped archival material

UK publication July 2023

US publication October 2023

395 Pages

9781009255691 Paperback

£22.99 | $29.99 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Highlights the complexity of the medium of comics as well as the diverse possibilities of approaching the medium

• Offers readers a holistic understanding of comics that goes beyond traditional, predominantly literary approaches

• Offer original insights into comics from leading scholars in the field

The Cambridge Companion to Comics

Edited by Maaheen Ahmed

The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections: ‘Forms’ maps the most significant comics forms, including material formats and techniques. ‘Readings’ brings together a selection of tools to equip readers with a critical understanding of comics. ‘Uses’ examines the roles accorded to comics in museums, galleries, and education. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. It offers close readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production and extending across visual, literary and cultural disciplines.

Maaheen Ahmed is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where she has been awarded a European Research Council grant for her work on children and comics. She has published widely on comics, including graphic novels and periodicals.

Contributors

Simon Grennan, Matthieu Letourneux, Paul Williams, Jaqueline Berndt, Giorgio Busi Rizzi, Blair Davis, Jan Baetens, Nicolas Labarre, Shiamin Kwa, Daniel Stein, Maaheen Ahmed, Erwin Dejasse, Benoît Crucifix, Mel Gibson, Kim Munson, Jo Sutliff Sanders, Susan Kirtley

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion

Volume I: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century; Volume II: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, and Giorgio Riello

Split across two volumes, The Cambridge Global History of Fashion provides timely critical analyses of key topics and themes in the history of fashion, dress, and clothing. It foregrounds the trajectories of material and aesthetic transformation, as well as the thematic commonalities across time and space. Featuring over forty essays from experts across the field, the volumes unveil new perspectives on cultural, social, and economic change, and how these changes were expressed through fashion practice. The first volume presents a tight but comprehensive assessment of fashion from antiquity, through the early modern global era to c. 1800, engaging with colonial and imperial themes, as well as race and gender. The second volume advances the critique of ‘modernity’ from the nineteenth century through the twenty first century, providing analyses of the impact globalisation had on contemporary dress. This global perspective stands as a landmark work in the history of fashion.

Christopher Breward is Director of National Museums Scotland. He has published widely on the history of fashion and masculinity, clothing and city life and fashion’s relationship with modernity. Notable publications include The Suit: Form, Function and Style (2016), and co-edited volumes London Fashion: from Street to Catwalk (2004) and Fashion’s World Cities (2006).

Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta. She publishes widely on consumer practice, material culture, gender and trade. Notable publications include Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures, c. 1500–1820 (2018) and the co-edited volume Object Lives & Global Histories in Northern North America. Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780–1980 (2021).

Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence and Professor of Global History & Culture, University of Warwick. He publishes extensively on the history of fashion, textiles and trade between Europe and Asia. Among his books are Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013), Luxury: A Rich History (with P. McNeil, 2016) and Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present (2020).

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion

UK publication September 2023

US publication November 2023

1,100 pages

9781108752657

Hardback

£270.00 | $350.00 USD | $390.00 CAD

At a glance

• Examines the long history of fashion from antiquity to the present day

• Sheds light on contemporary theories that are integral to the understanding of fashion, including capitalist critiques, modernity, sustainability and anti-fashion

• Highlights how global forces define temporal fashion through empires, regional powers, and world communities

CHRISTOPHER BREWARD BEVERLY LEMIRE GIORGIO RIELLO

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