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Africa since Decolonization
The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent
Martin Welz
An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.
January 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-108-46556-4 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 P
A History of the African Diaspora
Second edition
Michael A. Gomez
Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
October 2019 228 x 152 mm 312pp 30 b/w illus. 8 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-71243-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 X
The Past of the Present Second edition
Frederick Cooper
A history of decolonisation and independence, this text helps students understand how Africa’s global position has emerged since 1940.
New Approaches to African History, 13 July 2019 228 x 152 mm 336pp 41 b/w illus. 4 maps PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-72789-1 Paperback £22.99 / US$28.99 X
The History of a Continent
Third edition
John Iliffe
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations. African Studies, 137 July 2017 234 x 156 mm 414pp 15 maps PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-316-64812-4 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99 X
Volume 1: Colonial Contexts and Everyday Experiences, c.1850–1946
Nancy J. Jacobs
Nancy J. Jacobs assembles varied and non-traditional primary source accounts of both public and private life in Africa under European imperialism.
September 2014 228 x 152 mm 336pp 38 b/w illus. 8 maps PB, HB, EB
978-1-107-67925-2 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99 X
HISTORY
The United States since 1945
Salim Yaqub
In vivid, engaging prose, this book illuminates modern US history as a story of ceaseless change, struggle, conflict, and renewal.
November 2022 246 x 189 mm c.450pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-72188-2 Paperback
£29.99 / US$39.99 X
Elena K. Abbott
The fascinating story of how free African Americans and runaway slaves crossed international borders to fight for freedom and racial justice.
April 2021 228 x 152 mm 336pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-108-79845-7 Paperback
£22.99 / US$29.99 P
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HISTORY
Fifth edition
Stuart Macintyre
Macintyre revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia’s past and its relationship to the present.
Cambridge Concise Histories
December 2020 216 x 138 mm c.420pp 48 b/w illus. 6 maps
PB, EB, HE
978-1-108-72848-5 Paperback
£19.99 / US$24.95 G
HISTORY
& IRISH
Rory Naismith
Deconstructs the early history of Britain, illustrating a transformative era with wide-ranging sources and an accessible narrative.
Cambridge History of Britain, 1 July 2021 247 x 174 mm 490pp
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-44025-7 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 X
David Crouch
This introductory textbook offers a fully integrated perspective of medieval Britain, from 1000 to 1500.
Cambridge History of Britain, 2 April 2017 247 x 174 mm 388pp 19 b/w illus. 6 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-0-521-14967-9 Paperback £23.99 / US$31.99 X
John Miller
A wide-ranging survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain, offering a fully integrated four-nation perspective.
Cambridge History of Britain, 3 April 2017 247 x 174 mm 490pp 43 b/w illus. 6 maps 2 tables PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-107-65013-8 Paperback £23.99 / US$31.99 X
James Vernon
An introductory textbook charting a global history of modern Britain from 1750 to the present.
Cambridge History of Britain, 4 April 2017 247 x 174 mm 588pp 84 b/w illus. 14 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-68600-7 Paperback £23.99 / US$31.99 X
A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present
Pat Thane
A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.
August 2018 228 x 152 mm 502pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-61250-1 Paperback £23.99 / US$32.99 X
Edited by Keith Wrightson
The first overview of early modern English social history since the 1980s, bringing together the leading authorities in the field.
A Social History of England
February 2017 228 x 152 mm 432pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-107-61459-8 Paperback £22.99 / US$30.99 X
Edited by Eugenio
Mary E. Daly F. BiaginiThis is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective.
April 2017 247 x 174 mm 648pp
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-107-47940-1 Paperback £25.99 / US$34.99 X
CARIBBEAN HISTORY
Second edition
B. W. Higman
A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.
Cambridge Concise Histories
May 2021 216 x 138 mm 476pp
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-70368-0 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99 X
From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
Second edition
Charles Holcombe
The second edition of Charles Holcombe’s acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.
April 2017 253 x 177 mm 492pp
56 b/w illus. 22 maps
Third edition
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Lively, up-to-date, and highly visual, this book is a must for anyone interested in the history of Chinese culture and society.
August 2022 253 x 203 mm 400pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-00-915144-3 Paperback
Toby Lincoln
The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.
New Approaches to Asian History
May 2021 228 x 152 mm 286pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-316-64728-8 Paperback
£22.99 / US$29.99 P
Edited by Timothy Cheek
Klaus Mühlhahn
Hans van de Ven
A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.
May 2021 198 x 129 mm 302pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-108-82261-9 Paperback
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-54489-5 Paperback
£26.99 / US$35.99 X
£34.99 / US$44.99 X
£18.99 / US$24.99 G EUROPEAN HISTORY
A History of Nazi Germany
Alan E. Steinweis
An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.
New Approaches to European History, 64
January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.240pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-65284-2 Paperback
£22.99 / US$29.99 X
Third edition
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Thoroughly updated edition of a best-selling, acclaimed book, placing early modern European history in a global and environmental context.
Cambridge History of Europe
August 2022 253 x 177 mm 594pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-00-916080-3 Paperback
£29.99 / US$39.99 X
Third edition
Richard Kieckhefer
A revised and expanded edition of this fascinating interdisciplinary study of magic in the Middle Ages.
September 2021 216 x 138 mm 300pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-79689-7 Paperback
£17.99 / US$24.99 X
Michael Kwass
A bold new interpretation of ‘consumer revolution’ in 18thcentury Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.
New Approaches to European History, 63
February 2022 229 x 152 mm 262pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-0-521-13959-5 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 P
Third edition
Charles W. Ingrao
Firmly established as the leading survey on the subject, this expanded third edition incorporates twenty-five years of new, global scholarship.
New Approaches to European History, 21
August 2019 228 x 152 mm 324pp
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-71333-7 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 X
Fourth edition
Dorinda Outram
An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.
New Approaches to European History, 58
June 2019 228 x 152 mm 196pp
4 b/w illus.
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-44077-6 Paperback £21.99 / US$27.99 X
Fourth edition
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
This new edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks’s prize-winning survey features significant changes to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter.
New Approaches to European History, 41
January 2019 228 x 152 mm 390pp
24 b/w illus. 2 maps PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-73935-1 Paperback £23.99 / US$31.99 X
Third edition
Mary Fulbrook
This third edition of a muchadmired introduction to German history captures recent developments in Germany, Europe and the wider world.
Cambridge Concise Histories
January 2019 216 x 138 mm 306pp 44 b/w illus. 13 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-40708-3 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 X
Third edition
Peter Kenez
This updated third edition examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union as well as the post-Soviet period. October 2016 228 x 152 mm 388pp 25 b/w illus.
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-316-50623-3 Paperback £28.99 / US$39.99 X
Christine Caldwell Ames
A comparative history of heresy in Latin and Greek Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, spanning the fourth to the sixteenth century.
Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
April 2015 216 x 138 mm 368pp 13 b/w illus. 5 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-60701-9 Paperback
£19.99 / US$29.99 X
Third edition
Roger Chickering
This book represents the most comprehensive history of Germany during the First World War.
New Approaches to European History
July 2014 228 x 152 mm 286pp
23 b/w illus. 13 maps
PB, HB, EB
978-1-107-69152-0 Paperback
£27.99 / US$36.99 A
James R. Lehning
The only textbook to survey the major Atlantic, Asian and African empires of Europe, from 1700 through decolonization in 1945.
New Approaches to European History
August 2013 228 x 152 mm 320pp
11 b/w illus. 4 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-0-521-74171-2 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 X
Cambridge Elements in Historical Theory and Practice is a series intended for a wide range of students, scholars, and others whose interests involve engagement with the past. Topics include the theoretical, ethical, and philosophical issues involved in historical practice, the interconnections between history and other disciplines and questions of method, and the application of historical knowledge to contemporary global and social issues such as climate change, reconciliation and justice, heritage, and identity politics.
Daniel Little
Historians’ Virtues
Ian Milligan
The Theory and Philosophy of History
João Ohara
A History of Political Science
Mark Bevir
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Four Lives of the Nation
William W. Hagen
This history of German-speaking central Europe presents the different eras of German history as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality.
April 2012 234 x 156 mm 482pp 158 b/w illus. 17 maps 2 tables
PB, HB, EB
978-0-521-17521-0 Paperback
£25.99 / US$35.99 X
Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870–1960
Edited and translated by Paulina
Laura Alberto
George Reid Andrews
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black writing that is virtually unknown in the United States.
Afro-Latin America
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.357pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-00-907331-8 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P
Second edition
Matthew Restall
Kris Lane
This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.
August 2018 253 x 177 mm 362pp
35 maps PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-40346-7 Paperback
£29.99 / US$40.99 X
Second edition
Ervand Abrahamian
A succinct and highly readable narrative of modern Iran from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
August 2018 228 x 152 mm 272pp 34 b/w illus. 2 maps 14 tables
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-316-64814-8 Paperback £20.99 / US$28.99 X
Douglas A. Howard
This illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution.
February 2017 247 x 174 mm 412pp 63 b/w illus. 9 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-0-521-72730-3 Paperback £28.99 / US$37.99 C
Third edition
Ira M. Lapidus
Ira Lapidus’ history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam’s worldwide diffusion.
January 2015 253 x 177 mm 1017pp 42 b/w illus. 39 maps 19 tables PB, HB, EB, HE
978-0-521-73297-0 Paperback £46.99 / US$61.99 X
Fourth edition
James L. Gelvin
The fourth edition of this awardwinning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine for students and general readers.
March 2021 228 x 152 mm 334pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-73863-7 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Second edition
Catherine B. Asher
Cynthia Talbot
Second edition of the leading textbook on India’s art, architecture, literature, religions, political and economic history, c.1200 to 1750.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-44890-1 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 X
Ishita Banerjee-Dube
This book deals with a very important phase of Indian history, covering developments from the eighteenth century to independent India.
October 2014 244 x 170 mm 519pp
PB, EB, HE 978-1-107-65972-8 Paperback £31.99 / US$43.99 X
Third edition
Barbara D. Metcalf
Thomas R. Metcalf
The third edition of the Metcalfs’ classic history of India charts developments across the last twenty years.
Cambridge Concise Histories
December 2012 228 x 152 mm 362pp 52 b/w illus. 4 maps
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-107-67218-5 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 G
Barbara Watson Andaya
Leonard Y. Andaya
Written by two expert and highly esteemed authors, this is the muchanticipated textbook on the early modern history of Southeast Asia.
February 2015 247 x 174 mm 376pp 29 b/w illus. 7 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-0-521-68193-3 Paperback £32.99 / US$43.99 X
Politics, Exchange, and Social
Life
Volume 2: Since 1500
John Coatsworth, Juan Cole
Michael P. Hanagan
Peter C. Perdue
Charles Tilly
Louise Tilly
Emphasizing global interconnectedness, Volume 2 of this undergraduate history textbook covers the early modern period through to modern times.
May 2015 279 x 216 mm 556pp 65 b/w illus. PB, HB, EB, HE 978-0-521-14519-0 Paperback £35.99 / US$53.99 X
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
A concise history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, telling the story of humans as producers and reproducers.
Cambridge Concise Histories
December 2015 216 x 138 mm 405pp 37 b/w illus. 14 maps
PB, HB, EB, CO 978-1-107-69453-8 Paperback £20.00 / US$25.99 G
Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History
Johan Fourie
An accessible and engaging economic history of the world told through a unique African lens.
August 2022 216 x 140 mm c.290pp PB, HB, EB, CO 978-1-00-922848-0 Paperback £18.99 / US$24.99 G
GLOBAL HISTORY
Politics, Exchange, and Social
Life in World History
Volume 1: To 1500
John Coatsworth, Juan Cole
Michael P. Hanagan
Peter C. Perdue
Charles Tilly
Louise Tilly
Volume 1 of this undergraduate history textbook covers the origin of hominids through to the Middle Ages.
May 2015 279 x 216 mm 437pp 45 b/w illus. PB, HB, EB, HE 978-0-521-14518-3 Paperback £35.99 / US$57.99 P
Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization
Second edition
Ivan T. Berend
A revised and updated edition of the leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance in twentieth-century Europe.
September 2016 247 x 174 mm 368pp 33 b/w illus. 46 tables PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-316-50185-6 Paperback £32.99 / US$45.99 X
1500 to the Present
Edited by Joerg Baten
An accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500, complete with case studies of key themes, individuals, processes and events.
March 2016 247 x 174 mm 380pp 69 b/w illus. 19 maps 22 tables PB, EB, HE 978-1-107-50718-0 Paperback £25.99 / US$34.99 X
Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present
Second edition
Karl Gunnar Persson
Paul Sharp
The second edition of a leading textbook on European economic history, updated throughout and with new coverage of post-financial crisis Europe. New Approaches to Economic and Social History
March 2015 247 x 174 mm 285pp 36 b/w illus. 4 maps 14 tables PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-107-47938-8 Paperback £27.99 / US$40.99 X
Volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700–1870
Second edition
Edited by Roderick Floud
Jane Humphries
Paul Johnson
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain, Volume 1 (1700–1870) offers new approaches to classic issues
October 2014 247 x 174 mm 505pp 42 b/w illus. 2 maps 75 tables PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-107-63143-4 Paperback £34.99 / US$60.99 X
Volume 2: Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present Second edition
Edited by Roderick Floud
Jane Humphries
Paul Johnson
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain, Volume 2 re-examines Britain’s economic growth and decline during the twentieth century.
October 2014 247 x 174 mm 599pp 77 b/w illus. 71 tables PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-107-68673-1 Paperback £34.99 / US$61.99 X
Volume 1: 1700–1870
Stephen Broadberry
Kevin H. O’Rourke
Surveying the transition to modern economic growth since 1700, this textbook sets European economic development within a panEuropean framework.
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
June 2010 247 x 174 mm 344pp 2 maps 55 tables PB, HB, EB, CO 978-0-521-70838-8 Paperback £30.99 / US$50.99 X
Volume 2: 1870 to the Present
Stephen Broadberry
Kevin H. O’Rourke
Surveying Europe’s economic history since 1870, this textbook sets European economic development within a panEuropean framework.
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
June 2010 247 x 174 mm 484pp 3 maps 102 tables PB, HB, EB, CO 978-0-521-70839-5 Paperback £30.99 / US$50.99 X
Edited by Patricia Owens
Katharina Rietzler
The first cross-disciplinary history of women’s international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.
January 2021 229 x 152 mm c.360pp
PB, HB, EB, CO
978-1-108-79687-3 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Stefan Berger
An introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice exploring how issues of identity have shaped how we write history.
January 2022 228 x 152 mm 270pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-107-64884-5 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 X
Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present
Daniel Woolf
An incisive account of the entire history of historical writing worldwide by one of the leading intellects in the field.
January 2019 228 x 152 mm 358pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-44485-9 Paperback £23.99 / US$30.99 X
Evidence in Historical Practice
Ludmilla Jordanova
Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence.
September 2012 246 x 189 mm 263pp 54 b/w illus. 36 colour illus.
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-0-521-70906-4 Paperback £31.99 / US$49.99 X
Daniel Woolf
An illustrated survey of global historical scholarship from the ancient world to the present, for courses in theory and historiography.
February 2011 247 x 174 mm 606pp 52 b/w illus.
PB, HB
978-0-521-69908-2 Paperback £31.99 / US$44.99 X
A World History
Andrew Ede
Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
November 2019 247 x 174 mm 332pp 51 b/w illus. 4 maps 22 tables
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-44108-7 Paperback £30.99 / US$40.99 X
Second edition
Edited by Geoffrey Parker
The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare.
Cambridge Illustrated Histories
August 2021 254 x 203 mm 554pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-316-63275-8 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Second edition
Edited by Geoffrey Parker
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare.
June 2020 216 x 138 mm 608pp 20 maps PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-316-63276-5 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 G
Ofer Gal
The first textbook to cover the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution.
February 2021 247 x 174 mm 412pp
PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-316-64970-1 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
The Global Revolution
Second edition
Lawrence Sondhaus
This revised and updated interpretation of World War I highlights the revolutionary nature and legacy of the conflict of 1914–1919.
October 2020 244 x 170 mm 492pp 49 b/w illus. 14 maps PB, HB, EB, HE 978-1-108-79163-2 Paperback £29.99 / US$38.99 X
Second edition
Evan Mawdsley
A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley’s acclaimed global history of World War II.
April 2020 247 x 174 mm 410pp
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-108-79140-3 Paperback £27.99 / US$36.99 X
Second edition
William Mulligan
A second edition of the leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system.
New Approaches to European History, 52
April 2017 228 x 152 mm 268pp
7 b/w illus. 3 maps
PB, HB, EB, HE
978-1-316-61235-4 Paperback £23.99 / US$31.99 X
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