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American History
20C American history 1
African American history ................................................................ 1
American history – 1861 - 1900 1
American history (general) ............................................................ 2
American history after 1945 2
Atlantic history ................................................................................. 3
Colonial American history 3 Early republic and antebellum history 3
British and Irish history ........................................ 4
20C history of Britain ...................................................................... 4
History of Britain – 1066 – 1450 5
History of Britain (general) ............................................................. 5
History of Britain after 1450 5 History of Britain before 1066 ....................................................... 7 Irish history 7
European history .................................................. 7
20C European history ..................................................................... 7
European history – 1000 – 1450 8 European history – 450 – 1000 9 European history after 1450 10 Russian, East European history 12
History-cross discipline ......................................13
Diplomatic, international history 13 Economic history 14 Environmental history ..................................................................16 Global history 16 Historical theory, historical method and historiography 18
History of ideas and intellectual history.....................................18
History of medicine 20 History of science (general) .........................................................21 History of science and technology 21 Military history ...............................................................................22
History-other areas
20C history (general)
African history................................................................................25 Australian history 27 East Asia history ............................................................................27
History (general) after 1500 30 History (general) before 1500 .....................................................31 History (general), world history 31 History after 1945 (general) ........................................................31
Latin American history 31 Middle East history
South Asian history 37 South-East Asia history
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American history
20C American history
Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
Talbot C. Imlay | Université Laval, Québec
Chronicles the life, work and significance of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement, revealing the importance of public political cultures and federalist frameworks. The first comprehensive study to explore Streit, this book will interest historians and students of twentieth-century US foreign relations.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 254pp Feb. 2023 9781009298988 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009299022
The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 3 1900–1945
Brooke L. Blower | Boston University
This volume covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. It will set the standard for understanding this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.
The Cambridge History of America and the World 774pp Mar. 2022 9781108419260 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297530
The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941
Volume 11
Mark V. Tushnet | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
This comprehensive study unpacks the claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937, instead concluding that US constitutional law gradually transformed throughout the 1930s. In combining doctrinal analysis with the political, economic and social contexts of the Court’s decisions, this will interest both historians and legal scholars.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1272pp
Feb. 2022 9781316515938 Hardback GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781009031141
The New Atlantic Order
The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933
Patrick O. Cohrs | Università degli Studi, Florence
The New Atlantic Order sheds new light on the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order. Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ‘world order’ of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system.
1130pp
This Is Not Who We Are
America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
Zachary Shore | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
This Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lovers of American history and those who look to the past to question the present. 348pp
Jan. 2023 9781009203449 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 27.95 eISBN 9781009203418
African American history Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
Nikki M. Taylor | Howard University, Washington DC
Using case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of enslaved women who used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. Original and compelling, this book is for general readers interested in US history and social justice. 239pp May. 2023 9781009276849 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009276818
Gruesome Looking Objects
A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
Elijah Gaddis | Auburn University, Alabama
This innovative study uses objects—made, collected, and imagined—to tell the story of the 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer in North Carolina. Utilizing material culture, memory, and landscapes, it brings important new insights to the understanding of racial violence in the American South and beyond.
Cambridge Studies on the American South 212pp Nov. 2022 9781316514023 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009082266
American history-1861-1900
NEW IN PAPERBAck Black Resettlement and the American Civil War
Sebastian N. Page | University of Oxford Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America’s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States. It synthesizes a wealth of individual, state-level, and national considerations to reorient the field and set a new standard for Atlantic history.
May. 2022 9781107117976
Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316338988
Cambridge Studies on the American South 327pp Oct. 2022 9781316506707 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2021 9781107141773 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781316493915
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Civil War Settlers
Scandinavians, citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870
Anders Bo Rasmussen | University of Southern Denmark
Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple languages, this work is a unique addition to American Civil War history for both students and scholars alike.
292pp May. 2022 9781108845564 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108980135
American history (general)
The Cambridge History of America and the World 4 Volume Hardback Set
Mark Philip Bradley | University of Chicago
The Cambridge History of America and the World offers a transformative account of American engagement in the world from 1500 to the present. The four-volume reference work represents a new scholarship informed by the transnational turn in the writing of US history and American foreign relations.
The Cambridge History of America and the World 3200pp Mar. 2022 9781108419208 4 Hardback books GBP 310 / USD 400 eISBN 9781108297417
American history after 1945
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After Saigon’s Fall
Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000
Amanda C. Demmer | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
This new history of United States policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War revises our understanding of the conflict’s aftermath. Focusing on migration programs that brought one million Vietnamese to the US, Demmer offers new insights on a topic of perennial interest.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 328pp
May. 2022 9781108726276 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.99 Apr. 2021 9781108488389 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108770354
Contesting France
Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early cold War
Susan McCall Perlman
Contesting France tells the story of how a transnational web of French sources used their exchanges with US intelligence to shape American policy towards France in the early Cold War. A much-needed addition to intelligence studies, this book will interest students and researchers of the early Cold War.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 275pp
Nov. 2022 9781316511817 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009053907
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Crack
Rock cocaine, Street capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
David Farber | University of Kansas Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling ‘rock’ cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. 302pp 11 b/w illus. Sep. 2022 9781108444064 Paperback GBP 11.99 / USD 15.95 Oct. 2019 9781108425278 Hardback GBP 20 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781108349055
Improbable Diplomats
How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-china Relations
Pete Millwood | The University of Hong Kong
Improbable Diplomats reveals the critical role of Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists in rebuilding US-China relations in the 1970s. Examining an overlooked aspect of ties between the two societies, this revisionist account of US-China rapprochement will interest historians and students of Chinese and US foreign relations.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 336pp Oct. 2022 9781108837439 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108935982
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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights
contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard | Lunds Universitet, Sweden
This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It explores how executivelegislative relations shaped attention to human rights in US foreign policy and how the issue of human rights, in turn, impacted governmental relations. Human Rights in History 324pp 7 b/w illus. Aug. 2022 9781108797184 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Apr. 2020 9781108495639 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 62.99 eISBN 9781108862455
The Attack on Higher Education
The Dissolution of the American University Ronald G. Musto
Takes a long historical perspective on the evolution of education in our culture to analyze the state of higher ed in America. Will interest university administrators, faculties in the arts and sciences, policy-makers in academia, government, foundations, and the general public seeking a handle on American politics and education. 370pp Jan. 2022 9781108471923 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108559355
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The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 4 1945 to the Present
David C. Engerman | Yale University, Connecticut
This volume examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and the challenges to that power since. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, it anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to what was increasingly called ‘the American empire.’
The Cambridge History of America and the World 810pp
Mar. 2022 9781108419277 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297554
TEXTBOOk Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord
The United States since 1945 Salim Yaqub | University of California, Santa Barbara
This book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 US history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change.
Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last seventy-seven years shaped today’s world.
450pp
Oct. 2022 9781108721882 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2022 9781108496728 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108654524
Atlantic history
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In a Sea of Empires Networks and crossings
in the Revolutionary caribbean
Jeppe Mulich | London School of Economics and Political Science
By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entangled nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Caribbean during the age of revolutions.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories 216pp
Oct. 2022 9781108747479 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jul. 2020 9781108489720 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779289
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
José Lingna Nafafé | University of Bristol
This groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the agency of Africans in the quest for abolition. The book reveals how the legal debate on abolition was begun by Africans, not Europeans. An essential new work for scholars and students interested in the abolition movement.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora 377pp Aug. 2022 9781108838238 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108974196
Colonial American history
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Puritans Behaving Badly
Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America
Monica D. Fitzgerald
Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that threatened the peace, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. These practices transformed ‘the errand into the wilderness’ as the normative Puritan became female.
191pp
Mar. 2022 9781108746199 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2020 9781108478786 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108778817
The Cambridge History of America and the World
Volume 1 1500–1820
Eliga Gould | University of New Hampshire
This volume examines how the United States emerged out of a series of commercial, colonial, and imperial encounters. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, it presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. The Cambridge History of America and the World 618pp
Mar. 2022 9781108419222 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297455
The Dreadful Word
Speech crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776
Kristin A. Olbertson
The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.
Studies in Legal History
258pp
Mar. 2022 9781009098908 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009106535
Early republic and antebellum history
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Bawdy City
commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915
Katie M. Hemphill | University of Arizona
This vivid social history of Baltimore’s prostitution trade centers women in a story of how sexual commerce and debates over its regulation shaped an American city. A critical addition to the current literature addressing women’s history, the history of gender and sexuality, and labor history in nineteenth-century America.
358pp 1 b/w illus. 3 maps
Jun. 2022 9781108733281 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2020 9781108489010 Hardback GBP 48.99 / USD 62.99 eISBN 9781108773669
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The Cambridge History of America and the World
1820–1900
Kristin Hoganson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
This volume examines how the United States became an imperial power in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world shaped the United States in this pivotal era. It places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world.
The Cambridge History of America and the World 784pp
Mar. 2022 9781108419239 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297479
NEW IN PAPERBAck The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
Ashley T. Rubin | University of Hawaii, Manoa
Using Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenthcentury prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 412pp
Nov. 2022 9781108718882 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2021 9781108484947 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108754095
British and Irish history
20C history of Britain
British Financial Diplomacy with North America 1944–1946
The Diary of Frederick Harmer and the Washington Reports of Robert Brand Volume 62
Michael F. Hopkins | University of Liverpool
This book contains the diary of Frederic Harmer, aide to John Maynard Keynes, and the reports and evaluations from Washington of Robert Brand, encompassing the British debates on how to secure US and Canadian financial assistance, the American loan talks in 1945 and the pursuit of a Canadian loan in 1946.
Camden Fifth Series 256pp Jan. 2022 9781316512357 Hardback GBP 45 / USD 80 eISBN 9781009064088
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
G. C. Peden | University of Stirling
A major new account of appeasement and the question of whether the Second World War could have been prevented. G. C. Peden provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill’s view on foreign policy, how best to deter Germany and explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the context of the 1930s.
395pp
Oct. 2022 9781009201988 Hardback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009201995
Practical Utopia
The Many Lives of Dartington Hall
Anna Neima
Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
Modern British Histories 340pp Apr. 2022 9781316517970 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049269
The Age of the Gas Mask
How British civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War
Susan R. Grayzel | Utah State University
This vivid and accessible history of the civilian gas mask from the years 1915–1945 reveals the shocking consequences of modern, total war and how ordinary civilians learned to face its terrors. It demonstrates the profound impact of new technologies of warfare on imperial Britain’s culture, politics, and society.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 288pp Aug. 2022 9781108491273 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108868068
The Life and Death of the Shopping City
Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945r
Alistair Kefford | Universiteit Leiden
This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
Modern British Histories 340pp Apr. 2022 9781108836692 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108874502
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The Quest for Security
Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898–1931
Jesse Tumblin | Boston College, Massachusetts Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovative study reveals the colonial backstory of a century that witnessed total war, resulting in new political norms that enthrone ‘national security’ as the dominating feature of contemporary politics. 314pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table
Sep. 2022 9781108712545 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2019 9781108498746 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108595742
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Untied Kingdom
A Global History of the End of Britain
Stuart Ward | University of Copenhagen
A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimately discarded as the British empire unravelled and the ‘four nations’ of the United Kingdom drew steadily apart. 550pp
Jan. 2023 9781107145993 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 35 eISBN 9781316536322
War of Words
Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War
Rachel Chin | University of Glasgow War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and transnational perspective, Rachel Chin shows how conflicts over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 were central to British, Vichy and Free French wartime policy-making. 290pp
Jul. 2022 9781009181013 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180993
History of Britain-1066-1450
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror
Benjamin Pohl | University of Bristol
This Cambridge Companion offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century. With contributions by leading international experts, it provides its readers with a wide-ranging and innovative study companion that is both authoritative and timely.
Cambridge Companions to Culture 350pp
Jun. 2022 9781108728478 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2022 9781108482974 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108628884
The Witches of St Osyth
Marion Gibson | University of Exeter
The first complete history of the neglected St Osyth witch-trial, this book tells the compelling, revelatory story of a community ripped asunder. It hauntingly reveals the lost worlds of Elizabethan villagers caught up in persecution, the magistrate who investigated their accusations of witchcraft and the writer who published their story. 256pp Nov. 2022 9781108494670 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108859608
History of Britain (general)
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Volume 31
Andrew Spicer
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world’s leading historians. This volume includes articles on British imperialism and the concept of global history, and revisits the RHS’s report on race and equality in UK History.
Royal Historical Society Transactions 126pp Jan. 2022 9781009177344 Hardback GBP 40 / USD 75 eISBN 9781009177351
History of Britain after 1450
Colonising Disability
Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914
Esme Cleall | University of Sheffield Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and ‘normalcy’.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 310pp Aug. 2022 9781108833912 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983266
Conspiracy on Cato Street
A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London
Vic Gatrell | University of Cambridge
The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this dramatic but neglected story with cinematic vividness, episodic range, and a tragic denouement that undermines our romantic fantasies about Regency England.
474pp
May. 2022 9781108838481 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781108974981
Empire, Kinship and Violence
Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler colonialism, 1770-1842
Elizabeth Elbourne | McGill University, Montréal
Draws on the linked history of three families to illustrate settler-Indigenous relationships in white settler colonies from 1770-1842. Ranging from Britain and northeastern North America to Australia and southern Africa, Elbourne sheds light on the transnational development of settler colonialism and marginalization of Indigenous peoples.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 345pp Sep. 2022 9781108479226 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108782791
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England Re-Oriented
How central and South Asian Travelers
Imagined the West, 1750–1857
Humberto Garcia
Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 366pp
Nov. 2022 9781108797252 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2020 9781108495646 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862486
Foreign Jack Tars
The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Sara Caputo | University of Cambridge
The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its success. For the first time, this book explores their role in the Navy during this crucial period, challenging the very notions of ‘Britishness’ and ‘foreignness’.
Modern British Histories
320pp
Nov. 2022 9781009199797 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009199841
Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
Religious Difference and English Society, 1689–1750
Carys Brown | University of Cambridge Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England’s unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 330pp
Aug. 2022 9781009221382 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009221375
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Bob Harris | University of Oxford English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a ‘gambling mania’. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
320pp
Mar. 2022 9781316512449 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009067348
Love Spells and Lost Treasure
Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era Tabitha Stanmore | University of Exeter Love Spells and Lost Treasure innovatively explores the role of practical magic in everyday life in medieval and early modern England. Both engaging and authoritative, the book sheds fresh light on premodern society and beliefs. Packed with useful examples, it makes an important contribution to historical and magical studies alike. 320pp Dec. 2022 9781009286701 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009286695
Outrage in the Age of Reform
Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845 Jay R. Roszman | University College Cork
During the pivotal 19th-century ‘decade of reform’, British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence – branded as ‘outrages’ – as well as how their decisions might influence wider imperial concerns. This book demonstrates Ireland’s profound influence on British political culture in the 1830s and beyond.
Modern British Histories 330pp Sep. 2022 9781009186780 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009186773
Strolling Players of Empire
Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833
Kathleen Wilson | State University of New York, Stony Brook
A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenthcentury English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had worldmaking intentions and effects.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 504pp Nov. 2022 9781108479783 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108786317
The Company’s Sword
The East India company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858
Christina Welsch | College of Wooster, Ohio
The Company’s Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers shaped the Company’s expansion. Tracing the institutional development of the Company’s armies alongside the rebellions that challenged its growth, Christina Welsch uncovers the militarism at the heart of colonial India.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 300pp Aug. 2022 9781108833882 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983112
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British
The Crimean War and its Afterlife Making Modern Britain
Lara Kriegel | Indiana University
Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel illuminates the conflict and its afterlife.
She revisits time-honored heroes like Florence Nightingale and the Light Brigade, while also showcasing newer worthies like Mary Seacole to demonstrate the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.
340pp
Feb. 2022 9781108842228 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108906951
The Enclosure of Knowledge
Books, Power and Agrarian capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800
James D. Fisher | University of Exeter
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural ‘enlightenment’ and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in preindustrial Britain.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 300pp
Jul. 2022 9781316517987 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049283
History of Britain before 1066
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Lindy Brady | University College Dublin
Taking a multilingual and comparative approach to the origin legends of early medieval Britain and Ireland in Latin and vernacular languages, this holistic study demonstrates their interconnected nature and traces their development over time, illuminating textual connections, shared themes, and the growth of these stories as a corpus. 300pp
Aug. 2022 9781009225618 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009225601
Irish history
NEW IN PAPERBAck Irish Women and the Great War
Fionnuala Walsh | University College Dublin
The first full-length study to explore the impact of the Great War on the lives of women in Ireland. Fionnuala Walsh examines women’s mobilisation for the war effort, and the impact of the war on their employment opportunities, family and domestic life, social morality and politicisation.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 266pp
May. 2022 9781108811736 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
Jul. 2020 9781108491204 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867924
Land and Liberalism
Henry George and the Irish Land War
Andrew Phemister
Connecting popular attitudes and social practices with political ideas, Land and Liberalism shows how Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict and demonstrates the centrality of Henry George and the Irish Land War to the transformation of liberal thought. 256pp
Feb. 2023 9781009202893 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009202909
European history
20C European history Between Community and Collaboration
‘Jewish councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation
Laurien Vastenhout
A comparative analysis of the ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation,Laurien Vastenhout identifies the differences and similarities between Jewish representative bodies across occupied Western Europe and reveals that their histories were far more complex than has been previously recognized. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 280pp Sep. 2022 9781316511688 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009053532
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Designing Memory
The Architecture of commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present Sabina Tanović | Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures. It explores the purpose behind creating a memorial and its materialisation. The result is a distinctive contribution to the literature on history and memory, and on architecture as a space for remembering. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 287pp 52 b/w illus. Sep. 2022 9781108707824 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2019 9781108486521 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108760577
Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany
The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation Mikkel Dack | Rowan University, New Jersey
In the wake of the Second World War, the victorious Allied armies distributed twenty million political questionnaires, or Fragebögen, to anxious Germans who hoped to prove their non-Nazi status and gain employment. This grassroots history illuminates the Allied screening campaign and offers an original and comprehensive history of denazification. 350pp Mar. 2023 9781009216333 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009216326
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Poland, the United Nations War crimes commission, and the Search for Justice Michael Fleming
In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes committed during the Second World War were prosecuted. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities.
350pp
Jan. 2022 9781009098984 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106719
Postcolonial People
The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal
Christoph Kalter | Universitetet i Agder, Norway
Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with decolonization? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese returnees.
340pp May. 2022 9781108837699 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108942560
Race in Post-Fascist Italy
‘War Children’ and the Color of the Nation
Silvana Patriarca | Fordham University, New York
Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate aftermath of WWII, this original and engaging study sheds lights on the persistence of anti-Black prejudice and ideas of race in democratic Italy, stressing the legacies of colonialist and fascist racism.
300pp
Feb. 2022 9781108845908 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108991254
Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Moritz Föllmer | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Arguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.
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320pp
Feb. 2022 9781108833547 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108985192
The Atrocity of Hunger
Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and krakow Ghettos during World War II
Helene J. Sinnreich | University of Tennessee, Knoxville
During World War II, German racial policy designated Jews ‘useless eaters’, and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos as people tried to survive through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
300pp Oct. 2022 9781009100083 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009105293
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The Hunger Winter
Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945
Ingrid de Zwarte | Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the socio-political context and consequences of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944–45. Based on extensive research, she examines the causes and demographic impact of the famine and how it was confronted at different societal levels.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 328pp 45 b/w illus. 4 maps 12 tables Nov. 2022 9781009100083 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2020 9781108836807 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108872515
Trading Power
West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963–1975
William Glenn Gray | Purdue University, Indiana Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of NATO, the European Community, and the global economy in the 1960s and 1970s; how it reduced Cold War tensions with the Soviet bloc; and how it renounced military status symbols such as nuclear weapons.
475pp Nov. 2022 9781108424646 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108341196
European history-1000-1450
Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe A Thousand-Year History
Jonathan R. Lyon | University of Chicago
Challenging the standard narrative of a “medieval” Europe of feudalism and lordship being replaced by a “modern” Europe of government, bureaucracy and the state, this book argues for continuity in corrupt practices of justice and protection between 750 and 1800, focusing on the position of advocate.
375pp Sep. 2022 9781316513743 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009075961
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Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy
Thomas Kuehn | Clemson University, South Carolina
Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property was inherited, managed and shared legally and its central role in Renaissance Italy.
320pp
Mar. 2022 9781316513538 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072816
Royal Childhood and Child Kingship
Boy kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262
Emily Joan Ward | University of Edinburgh
Examining aspects of boyhood, education, family, counsel and succession, Emily Joan Ward presents how fundamental children were to systems of political authority. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, this book is for medievalists and those interested in childhood or dynastic succession.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 300pp Aug. 2022 9781108838375 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108974516
Rural Communities in Late Byzantium
Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean
Fotini Kondyli | University of Virginia
Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in the Late Byzantine period in the face of economic, political, and demographic challenges. The emphasis on communities’ social resilience contributes to a diachronic approach to crisis studies.
302pp
Mar. 2022 9781108845496 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108979825
Sources for Byzantine Art History
Volume 3 The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)
Foteini Spingou | University of Edinburgh
Presents 150 original medieval sources for Byzantine visual culture, accompanied by commentaries from over fifty leading scholars. An essential handbook for the study of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, for both students and advanced researchers of the pre-modern world.
Sources for Byzantine Art History 1718pp
Apr. 2022 9781108483056 2 Hardback books GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781009093699
The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law
Anders Winroth | Universitetet i Oslo
Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, regulating marriage, oaths, usury, just war, and of course the clergy. No one interested in the Middle Ages can afford not to understand law. Many medievalists are interested in approaching law, but explanations in non-technical language have previously been difficult to find.
638pp
Jan. 2022 9781107025042 Hardback GBP 140 / USD 180 eISBN 9781139177221
The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560
James B. Collins | Georgetown University, Washington DC How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? Offering a new perspective on the nature of political society in the French monarchy across more than two centuries, this book establishes the relationship between seemingly theoretical constructs, and the reality of everyday politics.
330pp May. 2022 9781108473309 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108593045
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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints Óscar Prieto Domínguez | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
The first book to comprehensively examine the literature of Byzantine Iconoclasm and its aftermath not as isolated phenomena, but within their own social, cultural and political contexts. Argues for the key role played by literary circles emerging both during the persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843. 556pp
Mar. 2022 9781108811828 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Feb. 2021 9781108491303 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108868129
Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234
Social Origins and Medieval Reception of canon Law
D. L. d’Avray | University College London
Bringing together ancient and medieval history, Papal Jurisprudence, c. 385-c. 1234 explains why bishops sought judgments from the papacy long before it exerted its influence through religious fear, traces the reception of those judgments to the mid-thirteenth century, and analyses the relation between the decretals c. 400 and c. 1200.
300pp
Mar. 2022 9781108473002 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108595292
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The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
The cross-cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument
Elena N. Boeck | DePaul University, Chicago
The Byzantine empire’s bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired international acclaim. This engrossing and pioneering biography demonstrates that the colossal, the exceptional, and the stationary can help us understand a global middle ages.
479pp
Aug. 2022 9781316647646 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Apr. 2021 9781107197275 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108178341
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
Sarah Bassett | Indiana University
This book describes Constantinople between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries. It discusses practical matters of urban infrastructure together with the administrative, social, and cultural institutions that gave the city life. It examines visitors’ encounters with one of the great cities of the middle ages.
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World 434pp
Mar. 2022 9781108705578 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Mar. 2022 9781108498180 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108632614
Weeds and the Carolingians
Empire, culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900
Paolo Squatriti | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity, and challenged theologians who believed God had made all vegetation good. This book presents a dynamic picture of early medieval people struggling to control their ecosystems, and their relationship with their environments.
280pp
Jun. 2022 9781316512869 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072328
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A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy
Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire
Lisa Pon | Southern Methodist University, Texas
In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the cultural biography of the town of Forlì’s miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
308pp 99 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 1 map
Jul. 2022 9781107491113 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
May. 2015 9781107098510 Hardback GBP 81.99 / USD 107 eISBN 9781316162293
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Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789
Third edition
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The third edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated, with an emphasis on the global and environmental context of European developments in the early modern period. Sections on sources and methodology give students the tools needed to study the period. This acclaimed textbook offers unmatched breadth and depth of coverage. cambridge History of Europe 594pp
Aug. 2022 9781009160803 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Aug. 2022 9781009160810 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 119.99 eISBN 9781009160797
German History Unbound
From 1750 to the Present
H. Glenn Penny | University of California, Los Angeles
What is German history? Where did it take place? And what role did Germans living outside of Central Europe play in it? This polycentric history offers a new vision that includes communities of Germans far beyond the nation-state.
280pp
Jun. 2022 9781316649916 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jun. 2022 9781316510414 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108226943
Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
Christine Kooi | Louisiana State University
Synthesizing fifty years’ worth of scholarly literature, this accessible general history of the Reformation in the Low Countries traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - in the Low Countries during the sixteenth century, against the tumultuous political backdrop of the Revolt of the Netherlands.
250pp
Jun. 2022 9781009073950 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 36.99 Jun. 2022 9781316513521 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072793
Rival Byzantiums
Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe
Diana Mishkova
A comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains – Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey – from the Enlightenment to the present day. Reveals its importance in both identity building and identity politics.
300pp
Sep. 2022 9781108499903 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108759557
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Royal Heirs
Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-century Europe
Frank Lorenz Müller | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. Royal Heirs paints a vivid picture of this late flowering. It focuses on what the heirs to the throne contributed to this phenomenon, and how monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.
375pp
Nov. 2022 9781316512913 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009071284
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
Volume 1 Politics and Diplomacy
Michael Broers | University of Oxford
A comprehensive history of the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading scholars examine the political context that produced the wars and set them within the broader context of eighteenth century great power politics in the Age of Revolution.
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 508pp 30 b/w illus. 25 maps
Jun. 2022 9781108424370 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 145 eISBN 9781108334846
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
Volume 2 Fighting the Napoleonic Wars
Bruno Colson
Drawing on the latest research by a team of leading international scholars, Volume II explores the military history of the Napoleonic Wars. Comprehensive in its scope and reach, this volume offers a thorough and closely observed view of how the wars unfolded and how they were funded and sustained.
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 600pp 25 maps Dec. 2022 9781108417662 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 175 eISBN 9781108278096
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the Napoleonic Wars
Volume 3 Experience, Culture and Memory
Alan Forrest | University of York
In Volume III, leading scholars discuss the social and cultural history of the Napoleonic Wars. They explore the widespread impact of the wars, considering how they affected those who fought in them as well as their impact on civilians and on European culture.
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 688pp 25 maps
Jun. 2022 9781108417679 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 145 eISBN 9781108278119
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The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800
Michael Kwass | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
A bold new interpretation of the ‘consumer revolution’ in the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers purchased unprecedented quantities of clothing, household goods, and colonial products. This volume examines globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and revolution.
New Approaches to European History 262pp
Feb. 2022 9780521139595 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Feb. 2022 9780521198707 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9780511979255
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Second edition
Maarten Prak | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Dutch Republic was at the forefront of the remarkable developments which European societies underwent in the early modern era. This substantially revised edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic explores the particular set of circumstances that allowed such a small country to become a world power in the seventeenth century. 340pp Dec. 2022 9781009240567 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2022 9781009240598 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009240581
The Making of a FiscalMilitary State in PostRevolutionary France
Jerome Greenfield
Draws together economic, political and diplomatic history to explain how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. These changes lasted for the rest of the nineteenth century, and underpinned the development of the economic interventionism for which the French state became notorious. New Studies in European History 300pp Sep. 2022 9781108839679 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108884815
War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
Anastasia Stouraiti | Goldsmiths, University of London
Provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in early modern Venice, weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies to show how war and territorial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venice. Timely and thought-provoking, this book offers new perspectives on the cultural history of war in early modern Europe. 320pp Oct. 2022 9781108838443 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108974790
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A Concise History of Albania
Bernd J. Fischer
This authoritative and up-to-date single-volume history charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts, from their ancient past, through to Albania’s difficult transition from a brutal communism to an evolving democracy.
Cambridge Concise Histories 440pp
Sep. 2022 9781107662186 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Sep. 2022 9781107017733 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781139084611
A Concise History of Serbia
Dejan Djokić | Goldsmiths, University of London
This accessible and engaging single-volume history of Serbia covers the full span of history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding Serb states, institutions, and societies, while incorporating the individual experiences and perspectives of ordinary people.
Cambridge Concise Histories 542pp Dec. 2022 9781107630215 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Dec. 2022 9781107028388 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781139236140
Before the Uprising
Hungary under communism, 1949–1956
Peter Kenez | University of California, Santa Cruz
Before the Uprising examines the specific social, economic, political and intellectual characteristics of totalitarian Hungary, at the critical moment before the 1956 Revolution. Throughout the work, Peter Kenez explores what the necessary components of totalitarianism are, and shows how they were enacted in Hungary. 320pp
Aug. 2022 9781009180429 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180443
Survivors
Warsaw under Nazi Occupation
Jadwiga Biskupska
Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia’s resistance to Nazi occupation.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 320pp 4 maps
Feb. 2022 9781316515587 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026017
The Broken Years
Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921 Alexandre Sumpf | Université de Strasbourg
The Broken Years tells the forgotten history of Russia’s disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions. Using extensive archival material from national and regional archives, Alexandre Sumpf explores their treatment by the state, their battle for legal status and their right to both collective and individual health care.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 320pp Feb. 2022 9781316517741 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009047296
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The Lawful Empire
Legal change and cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia
Stefan B. Kirmse
This book combines an analysis of law with a discussion of autocratic rule over a multicultural empire. It shows that Tsarist Russia was far more ‘lawful’ than generally assumed and sheds new light on the integration of Muslims by focusing on Crimea and the ancient Tatar capital of Kazan. 355pp 3 b/w illus. 4 maps Jun. 2022 9781108730631 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.44 Dec. 2019 9781108499439 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108499439
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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 Alexander Morrison | New College, Oxford Russia’s conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule. 639pp Aug. 2022 9781107640177 Paperback GBP 35.99 / USD 54.99 Dec. 2020 9781107030305 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139343381
Tunguska
A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy
Andy Bruno | Northern Illinois University
This engaging new account of the powerful Tunguska explosion of 1908 provides a fresh look at the enigmatic disaster and the generations of researchers who have tried to understand it. Taking readers inside expeditions and investigations to explore the role of mystery in environmental history, Bruno examines the legacy of the explosion.
Studies in Environment and History 324pp Jun. 2022 9781108840910 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108887847
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American Transitional Justice Writing cold War History in Human Rights Litigation
Natalie R. Davidson | Tel-Aviv University
Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filártiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory.
Human Rights in History
218pp
Nov. 2022 9781108702553 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2020 9781108477703 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774529
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Rogue Diplomats
The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy
Seth Jacobs | Boston College, Massachusetts
Historians have long ignored America’s record of diplomatic indiscipline. Rogue Diplomats redresses that deficiency, demonstrating that titanic accomplishments such as the Louisiana Purchase resulted in great part because diplomats refused to follow instructions.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 407pp
Nov. 2022 9781107438743 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139941884
The Business of Armaments
Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855–1955
Joanna Spear | George Washington University, Washington DC
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World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830–1960
T. G. Otte | University of East Anglia
This volume throws into sharp relief the material elements of British power, such as economic, military and naval force, but also its less tangible components, such as financial and diplomatic ties. It deepens our understanding of the global nature of British power.
329pp 1 b/w illus.
Sep. 2022 9781316648322 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2019 9781107198852 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108182775
Israel’s Moment
International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949
Jeffrey Herf | University of Maryland, College Park
Israel’s Moment is a major new account of the foundation of the State of Israel from 1945 to 1949. Jeffrey Herf reveals how support for and opposition to the Jewish state in Palestine in the United States and Europe was very different from the way these positions came to be understood during the Cold War.
450pp
Feb. 2022 9781316517963 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009049221
Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
Peter Jackson | University of Glasgow
This volume brings together leading scholars to provide a new history of peacemaking after the First World War. Drawing on the latest research, it examines the place of ideas, actors, institutions, and global networks in efforts to build a new international order.
320pp
Jan. 2023 9781108830508 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108907750
This is a study of Britain’s most prominent armaments firms and of their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955. It reveals how the firms developed and utilized independent domestic strategies and foreign policies against the backdrop of imperial expansion and the two world wars.
314pp
Mar. 2023 9781009297523 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009297516
The Tricontinental Revolution
Third World Radicalism and the cold War
R. Joseph Parrott | Ohio State University
The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism.
As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used armed revolts and confrontational diplomacy to challenge the United States and the inequitable international system it supported.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 313pp
Jan. 2022 9781316519110 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009004824
Uniting Nations
Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970
Daniel Gorman | University of Waterloo, Ontario Uniting Nations is a comparative study of the personal histories and interconnected lives and careers of the Britons who entered the international service after 1945. Drawing on research from archival collections, Daniel Gorman provides a distinctive human perspective on post-war international history and transnational voluntary networks.
296pp
Jul. 2022 9781316512975 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009071499
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Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Maarten Prak | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This is the first European history of apprenticeship before the Industrial Revolution. It reveals how human capital formation - a key explanation for economic development - operated across the continent. A comparative set of cutting-edge local and national case-studies uncovers a Europeanwide system of skills education.
334pp 18 b/w illus. 6 maps 30 tables
Sep. 2022 9781108739085 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2019 9781108496926 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108690188
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Creating Global Shipping
Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820–1970
Gelina Harlaftis
Shipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. Yet, it rarely features in business or Economic history. This history of shipping in Greece, which centers on the Vagliano brothers and Aristotle Onassis, redresses this by making this invisible global business visible.
Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
399pp 46 b/w illus. 5 maps
Nov. 2022 9781108466783 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Aug. 2019 9781108475396 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126 eISBN 9781108573009
Debt, Trust, and Reputation
Extra-legal Finance in Northern India
Sebastian Schwecke
Studying the operation of credit/debt beyond the reach of state regulation, the book explores the dynamics of trust and reputation that make extra-legal markets work, their production as part of partially failing modernizing projects, and the social responses to them – as well as their impacts on everyday life in India.
Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches 384pp
Jun. 2022 9781316517260 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009043670
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Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960
Ewout Frankema | Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.
Cambridge Studies in Economic history - Second Series 319pp
Sep. 2022 9781108714297 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Dec. 2019 9781108494267 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108665001
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
Banking on the chinese Frontier, 1870-1919
Ghassan Moazzin | The University of Hong Kong
Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy and highlights the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history.
Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise 325pp
Jul. 2022 9781316517031 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009037891
Human Development and the Path to Freedom 1870 to the Present
Leandro Prados de la Escosura | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
A major new account of the evolution of human development from c.1870 to the present using measures of health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows how these measures can substitute for GDP per head as a more accurate measure of wellbeing.
New Approaches to Economic and Social History 250pp Jul. 2022 9781108708586 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2022 9781108477345 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108769655
Impunity and Capitalism
The Afterlives of European Financial crises, 1690–1830
Trevor Jackson | George Washington University, Washington DC
Impunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several international financial crises: 1709, 1720, 1793–97 and 1825. Trevor Jackson considers how these crises happened, who was responsible for stopping them, and how financial capitalism created new forms of impunity. 320pp 3 maps Sep. 2022 9781316516287 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009029605
J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism
From the Wall Street crash to World War II Martin Horn | McMaster University, Ontario
The first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism. The book sheds new light on the Wall Street Crash, relations with Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Depression and New Deal, as well as the coming of World War II.
106pp
Mar. 2022 9781108498371 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108653602
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Keynes in Action
Truth and Expediency in Public Policy
Peter Clarke | University of Cambridge
A distinctive new account of John Maynard Keyes in his historical context. Peter Clarke considers Keynes’ public policy role in terms of how his thinking informed his contribution to policy-making as well as the place of expediency in resolving issues of public policy.
230pp
Oct. 2022 9781009255011 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009255028
Money in the Dutch Republic
Everyday Practice and circuits of Exchange
Sebastian Felten | Universität Wien, Austria
Sebastian Felten examines regional and global circuits of monetary exchange in early modern Europe by analysing everyday practices in the Dutch Republic. He considers how peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists combined many types of money in their everyday lives and thus fashioned plural monetary system.
290pp
Mar. 2022 9781009098847 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106375
Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise
A century of Indo-German Business Relations
Christina Lubinski | Copenhagen Business School
An analysis of the role of nationalism in global business strategy, showing how multinationals in the twentieth century acted not just as drivers of globalization but also as sophisticated operators in a world of nations. By exploring German companies in India, Lubinski traces nationalism’s influence on business tactics and competitive strategies.
Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise 300pp
Nov. 2022 9781316511282 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049795
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History
Johan Fourie | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
An accessible and entertaining guide to global Economic history from a unique African perspective. Johan Fourie uncovers the roots of and reasons for prosperity, the march of opportunity versus the crushing boot of exploitation, and why it is the builders of society – rather than the burglars –who ultimately win out.
290pp
Aug. 2022 9781009228480 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 Aug. 2022 9781009228466 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 74.99 eISBN 9781009228503
Sovereignty without Power
Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980
Leigh A. Gardner | London School of Economics and Political Science
Sovereignty without Power provides the first quantitative and comparative Economic history of Liberia and contributes to debates in economic and political history. Liberia’s Economic history over two centuries shows the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty for independent states around the world during the age of empires.
Cambridge Studies in Economic history - Second Series 320pp Sep. 2022 9781009181105 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009181082
The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation
Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Taisu Zhang
This survey of the fiscal history of China’s last imperial dynasty explains why its ability to tax was unusually weak. It argues that the answer lies in the internal ideological worldviews of the political elite, rather than in external political or economic constraints.
Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society 250pp Sep. 2022 9781316518687 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108995955
The Reserve Bank of India
1997–2008
Tirthankar Roy | London School of Economics and Political Science
The fifth volume on the history of the Reserve Bank of India covers the years from 1997–98 to 2007–08. It is a narrative history of the Bank and also a rich resource for understanding how an emerging market central bank manages change and shapes the economy to face future challenges. 750pp Oct. 2022 9781316511329 Hardback GBP 115 / USD 150 eISBN 9781009052252
Understanding the Private–Public Divide
Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons
Avner Offer | University of Oxford
A distinctive new account why governments loom so large in market societies. Avner Offer explains how finance limits firms to short-term enterprise. For long term commitment business requires exclusive concessions and privileges. Only governments can manage uncertainty in the longterm interests of society, e.g. the challenge of climate change. 200pp Apr. 2022 9781108791663 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Apr. 2022 9781108496209 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781108866415
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Environmental history
Altered Earth
Getting the Anthropocene Right
Julia Adeney Thomas | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
In ways anyone can understand, Altered Earth presents the growing scientific consensus on the Anthropocene and the challenges that planetary transformation poses to politics, economics, history, ethics, and imagination. Finally, this landmark collection envisions the mutualistic cities that could help stabilize our newly dangerous Earth System.
300pp
Mar. 2022 9781009045537 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781316517475 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009042369
Cities in a Sunburnt Country
Water and the Making of Urban Australia
Margaret Cook | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.
Studies in Environment and History 320pp
May. 2022 9781108831581 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917698
Entangled Lives
Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle
Joy L. K. Pachuau | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Entangled Lives is a case study in Environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities. Its main objective is to foreground that history is co-created, but that its contours are locally specific. 315pp
Sep. 2022 9781009215473 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009215480
Locusts of Power
Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East
Samuel Dolbee | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today’s Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Studies in Environment and History 336pp
Jan. 2023 9781009200318 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009200301
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Adam Sundberg | Creighton University, Omaha Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
Studies in Environment and History 300pp
Jan. 2022 9781108831246 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108923750
The American Steppes
The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s
David Moon | University of York
Between the 1870s and 1930s, there were transfers of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia’s steppes to the similar environment of North America’s Great Plains. Drawing on archival research in the US, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, this book explores the unexpected Russian roots of Great Plains agriculture.
Studies in Environment and History 471pp 1 b/w illus. 6 maps 1 table Oct. 2022 9781107503205 Hardback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781316217320
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The Power of the Periphery
How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World Peder Anker | New York University
What is the source of Norway’s culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an idealised ecological microcosm. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Studies in Environment and History 301pp Oct. 2022 9781108725729 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May. 2020 9781108477567 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108763851
Global history
Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
Florian Wagner | Universität Erfurt, Germany
In 1893, colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute to take control of the world’s colonial policy. Florian Wagner argues that colonial internationalists reshaped colonialism as a transimperial governmental policy to perpetuate empires well into the twentieth century. Global and International History 434pp Feb. 2022 9781316512838 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009072229
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Convicts
A Global history
Clare Anderson | University of Leicester
A radical new global reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation and global connections across the world.
400pp
Jan. 2022 9781108814942 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Jan. 2022 9781108840729 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887496
Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet
Carl H. Nightingale | State University of New York, Buffalo
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world’s cities, revealing how they gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill.
814pp
Jun. 2022 9781108424523 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108339353
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Humanitarianism in the Modern
World
The Moral Economy of Famine Relief
Norbert Götz | Södertörns Högskola, Sweden
Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 369pp
Nov. 2022 9781108737371 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2020 9781108493529 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108655903
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Imperial Emotions
The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Jane Lydon | University of Western Australia, Perth Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed differently across cultures and times. Jane Lydon examines how emotions were used to justify, advance or contest imperialism by creating relationships between British subjects across the globe, but also by excluding specific groups.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 235pp
Sep. 2022 9781108735759 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 Oct. 2019 9781108498364 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108653589
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
Volume 1 The Pacific Ocean to 1800
Ryan Tucker Jones | University of Oregon
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a comprehensive survey from earliest times to 1800. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this volume introduces varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history.
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 800pp Dec. 2022 9781108423939 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108539272
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
Anne Perez Hattori | University of Guam
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a comprehensive survey of the latest period of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. Bringing together an international team of scholars, these essays disrupt longstanding perceptions of the Pacific as someone else’s space.
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 800pp Dec. 2022 9781316510407 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108226875
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The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set
Paul D’Arcy | Australian National University, Canberra A comprehensive study of Pacific history from initial human colonization to the present. Bringing together an international team of scholars and reflecting a wide range of cultural and disciplinary perspectives, these volumes present the interaction of the Pacific Island and Pacific Rim peoples with the Ocean and with each other.
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 1600pp Dec. 2022 9781108539227 2 Hardback books GBP 200 / USD 260 Dec. 2022 9781108539227 Hardback GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781108539210
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
Adrian Howkins | Colorado State University
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is the first comprehensive reference work to draw together the history of both the Arctic and Antarctica from earliest times to the present. This landmark collection from an international team of scholars showcases new, diverse, and exciting approaches to Arctic and Antarctic history. 650pp Nov. 2022 9781108429931 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108555654
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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia,
1600–1750
David Veevers | Queen Mary University of London
This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period.
David Veevers shows that it was the integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise.
309pp 4 maps
Mar. 2022 9781108705646 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jun. 2020 9781108483957 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108669344
Historical theory, historical method and historiography
TEXTBOOk
History and Identity
Stefan Berger | University of Manchester
This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger highlights key trends in the theory of history and how these have led to a new self-reflexivity in historical writing across traditional and emerging new fields.
270pp
Jan. 2022 9781107648845 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Jan. 2022 9781107011403 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9780511984525
History of ideas and intellectual history
Confusion in the West
Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and PostModern World Anna Rist
Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse. The book explains how what we call the ‘Original Tradition’ in Western thought has been replaced by a variety of alternative theories which are usually in unrecognized conflict with one another.
275pp
Nov. 2022 9781009218375 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009218429
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Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought
Joanne Paul | University of Sussex
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the ‘monarchy of counsel’, from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, and its relation to the discourse of sovereignty, through analysis of the relevant texts in their social and political contexts.
Ideas in Context
265pp
Sep. 2022 9781108748254 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2020 9781108490177 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108780407
Heretical Orthodoxy
Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox church Pål Kolstø | University of Oslo
Lev Tolstoi, one of the world’s most famous writers, was also a religious thinker and influential critic of the Orthodox Church. This book offers a new account of his relationship with the Church, showing how most of his main ideas drew on his Christian heritage – a radical reinterpretation of the faith he encountered in his own life.
Ideas in Context 340pp Sep. 2022 9781009260404 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009260374
History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Richard Bourke | University of Cambridge
This inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including economics, politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology, and shows how the relevance of historical approaches has changed and shifted over time.
400pp Dec. 2022 9781009231008 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2022 9781009231046 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009231053
Human Empire
Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 Ted McCormick | Concordia University, Montréal Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts. Ideas in Context 320pp Apr. 2022 9781009123266 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009128834
Liberalism after the Revolution
The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830–1880
Michalis Sotiropoulos
This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism and the ways in which it engaged in reforms in the Greek state after independence from the Ottomans challenges our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state.
Ideas in Context 300pp Dec. 2022 9781009254656 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009254700
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Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
A Global Perspective
Karine Chemla | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
The first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek. Presents these commentaries in the original languages and in translation, making the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or the languages involved.
448pp
Jun. 2022 9781108839570 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 135 eISBN 9781108884488
Plutarch’s Prism
classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800
Rebecca Kingston | University of Toronto
Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition of ‘public humanism’
Ideas in Context
400pp
Sep. 2022 9781009243483 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 135 eISBN 9781009243490
Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism
Hannah Dawson | King’s College London
Offers new histories of freedom and republicanism by reflecting on the enduring significance of Quentin Skinner’s ground-breaking Liberty Before Liberalism. The volume reveals the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical tool of enormous power, and concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself.
330pp
Feb. 2022 9781108948395 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2022 9781108844567 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108951722
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
Steven Katz | Boston University
An important and accessible new collection of original articles, written by international scholars for students and non-experts. This volume explores the history, literature, and philosophy of antisemitism, showing how antisemitism existed throughout centuries and how it reappears today all over the world in both left-wing and right-wing circles.
Cambridge Companions to Religion 536pp
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century
Warren Breckman | University of Pennsylvania
Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It covers figures such as Wollstonecraft and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, liberalism, feminism, and schools of thought such as historicism, philology and decadence. The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 522pp
Jan. 2022 9781107483767 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 Aug. 2019 9781107097759 Hardback GBP 126 / USD 168 eISBN 9781316160855
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
Volume 2 The Twentieth Century
Peter E. Gordon | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including phenomenology, existentialism, conservatism and critical movements including decolonization, structuralism and post-structuralism.
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 596pp 1 b/w illus.
Jan. 2022 9781107483804 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 Aug. 2019 9781107097759 Hardback GBP 126 / USD 168 eISBN 9781316160879
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Paperback Set
Warren Breckman | University of Pennsylvania
This two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth century to the present. It explores not only individual figures, but also the political, social, institutional and disciplinary contexts within which they developed their ideas.
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 1200pp
Jan. 2022 9781108677448 2 Paperback books GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 #N/A. #N/A #N/A Hardback GBP #N/A / USD #N/A
The Case of Ireland
commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848
James Stafford | Columbia University, New York
Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Jun. 2022 9781108494403 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108637725
Jun. 2022 9781108714525
Demonstrating Ireland’s central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions, this pathbreaking book offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history. Ideas in Context
340pp
Feb. 2022 9781316516126 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031905
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The Kingdom of Darkness
Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy
Dmitri Levitin | University of Oxford
This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the process by which speculative philosophy was gradually excluded from the European system of knowledge, not least via new genealogies of global thought.
980pp
Mar. 2022 9781108837002 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108934152
The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653
Markku Peltonen | University of Helsinki
Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
Ideas in Context 270pp
Oct. 2022 9781009212045 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009212090
The Power of Necessity
Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650
Lisa Kattenberg | University of Cambridge Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between political pragmatism and moralreligious principle, bridging the persistent gap between theory and practice in political thought.
Ideas in Context, 144 325pp
Jan. 2023 9781316513149 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009071864
Women’s International Thought: Towards a New
Canon
Patricia Owens | University of Oxford
This first anthology of women’s international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid-20th century. Encompassing a diverse and extensive collection of thinkers on a range of subjects, the volume demonstrates the centrality of women to international relations discourses. 776pp
May. 2022 9781108999762 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 May. 2022 9781316518243 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009004978
History of medicine
A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine
Susan D. Jones | University of Minnesota
Drawing on the past 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first Global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing. This book provides an important guide for students of the history of sciences and medicine and for veterinary practitioners. New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
300pp
Aug. 2022 9781108430708 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2022 9781108420631 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108354929
Contraception and Modern Ireland
A Social History, c.1922–92
Laura Kelly | University of Strathclyde
The first comprehensive history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on oral history and archival sources, Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists in this period.
350pp
Dec. 2022 9781108969772 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2022 9781108839105 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108979740
Disorder Contained
Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900
Catherine Cox | University College Dublin
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners’ experiences of mental breakdown. 320pp Mar. 2022 9781108834551 Hardback GBP 79 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993586
Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912
Michael Brown
In this innovative, engaging, and archivally rich history, Michael Brown explores the relationship between emotions and surgery in the long nineteenth century. He examines how it transforms our understanding of the history of surgery and demolishes long-standing myths and stereotypes. 300pp
Nov. 2022 9781108834841 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108877237
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Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874
Tim Lockley | University of Warwick
This book demonstrates how Britain’s black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using militarymedical literature about the West India Regiments, Lockley shows how Britain’s black soldiers were central to intellectual debates around ideas of blackness and whiteness in the Atlantic world.
221pp
Aug. 2022 9781108797139 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Apr. 2020 9781108495622 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108862417
Population Politics in the
Tropics
Demography, Health and Transimperialism in colonial Angola
Samuël Coghe | Freie Universität Berlin
Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of multilingual archival research and comparative and transimperial perspectives, Samuël Coghe argues that colonial policy was driven by a persistent, but imprecise, idea of demographic crisis.
Global Health Histories 320pp Feb. 2022 9781108837866 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108943307
Statistics and the Language of Global Health
Institutions and Experts in china, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
Yi-Tang Lin | Université de Genève Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health. Using the case study of China and Taiwan in the period 1917-1960, Yi-Tang Lin examines the efforts by universities, foundations and health organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health policy.
Global Health Histories 320pp Oct. 2022 9781108845922 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108991339
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The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam
Laurence Monnais
In this examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, Laurence Monnais argues that colonialism played a crucial part in the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines, speaking to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective drug treatments.
Global Health Histories 290pp 6 b/w illus. 3 tables
Oct. 2022 9781108466530 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Aug. 2019 9781108474665 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108567152
The Great Plague Scare of 1720
Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenthcentury Atlantic World Cindy Ermus | University of Texas, San Antonio
An innovative new study of the transnational ramifications of the 1720 Plague of Provence in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world, situated at the nexus of the History of medicine, disaster studies, and the diplomatic history of the eighteenth century.
Global Health Histories 300pp
Nov. 2022 9781108489546 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784733
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The Yellow Flag
Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860
Alex Chase-Levenson | University of Pennsylvania
Alex Chase-Levenson examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system from 1780 to 1860, demonstrating how quarantine fostered early forms of European integration, laid the foundation for modern public health, and shaped Western perceptions of the ‘East’.
Global Health Histories
319pp
Oct. 2022 9781108707282 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Apr. 2020 9781108485548 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108751773
History of science (general)
Science on the Roof of the World
Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Lachlan Fleetwood | University College Dublin
When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imaginative remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and imperial order in the nineteenth century.
Science in History 294pp May. 2022 9781009123112 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009128117
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A Singular Remedy
cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820
Stefanie Gänger | Universität Heidelberg
Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, from which quinine is derived, she provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange and connections in the realm of medicine between the Atlantic empires and beyond.
Science in History 254pp Oct. 2022 9781108816335 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2020 9781108842167 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108896269
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Narrative Science
Reasoning, Representing and knowing since 1800
Mary S. Morgan | London School of Economics and Political Science
This collection is the outcome of a major European Research Council funded investigation into the role of narrative in science over the past two centuries. Drawing together a wide range of thoughtprovoking case studies, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is and reveals the importance of narrative in how it works.
400pp
Sep. 2022 9781009001991 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Sep. 2022 9781316519004 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009004329
Science for Governing Japan’s Population
Aya Homei
This major new study highlights the role of population sciences in turning Japan into a modern sovereign nation. Based on a range of local and state archives in Japan and in the United States, Aya Homei unpacks assumptions about the links between population, sovereignty, and science.
Science in History
300pp
Oct. 2022 9781009186834 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009186827
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The Politics of Chemistry
Science and Power in Twentieth-century Spain
Agustí Nieto-Galan | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentiethcentury Spain. He unveils the chemists’ positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.
Science in History 310pp
Oct. 2022 9781108712347 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Aug. 2019 9781108482431 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108687614
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The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838
Sophie Brockmann | De Montfort University, Leicester Following material practices and scientific exchanges through local and global networks, Sophie Brockmann demonstrates how interactions with landscape and environment played a key role in constructing ideas of patriotism and nation in Enlightenment Central America. 281pp
Oct. 2022 9781108431620 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Sep. 2020 9781108421232 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108367615
Underground Mathematics
craft culture and knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Thomas Morel
Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe where mining and metallurgy were of great significance. Through vivid case studies, he illustrates how geometry was used in metallic mines, from surveying to map-making, by practitioners using esoteric manuscripts. 258pp
Feb. 2023 9781009267304 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009267274
Military history
America’s Wars
Interventions, Regime change, and Insurgencies after the cold War
Thomas H. Henriksen | Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, California
The collapse of the Soviet Union inaugurated a period of unconstrained American military intervention. In America’s Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how in the post-Cold War period the United States intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes in its quest to protect democracy, human rights, and America’s interests.
Cambridge Military Histories 320pp Jan. 2022 9781009055086 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 Jan. 2022 9781316511602 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781009053242
An Army of Influence
Eighty Years of Regional Engagement
Craig Stockings | University of New South Wales, Sydney
The importance of regional cooperation is becoming more apparent as the world moves into the third decade of the 21st century. An Army of Influence is a thought-provoking analysis of the Australian Army’s capacity to change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. 352pp Apr. 2022 9781316514399 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 55.99 eISBN 9781009086929
Bodies of Work
The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation
Julie M. Powell | University College Dublin
An examination of the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies, and cultural material aimed at the rehabilitation of Allied ex-servicemen, disabled in the First World War. In this well researched study, Powell considers the gender, class, and ethnic dimensions of rehabilitation.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 280pp Oct. 2022 9781009230285 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009230292
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Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare
Daniel Whittingham | University of Birmingham
Daniel Whittingham presents the first comprehensive study of one of Britain’s most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell. His book explores the development of British military thought to shed new light on colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, the South African War, tactics, maritime strategy, and the First World War.
Cambridge Military Histories 286pp
Aug. 2022 9781108703185 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jan. 2020 9781108480079 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108628846
Dear John
Love and Loyalty in Wartime America
Susan L. Carruthers | University of Warwick
In this sweeping history, Carruthers explores the infamous ‘Dear John’ letter, providing a compelling analysis of intimate relationships from WWII to today. Written in lively and engaging prose, and incorporating vivid personal experiences, this unique study explores the challenges of keeping love alive in wartime.
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History 336pp
Jan. 2022 9781108830775 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108913867
Defeat and Division
France at War, 1939–1942
Douglas Porch | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
A definitive new account of France in World War II exploring the country’s collapse in 1940, the rise of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French, the occupation, and culminating in the November 1942 invasion of French North Africa. In Defeat and Division, Douglas Porch launches an unparalleled history of France’s wartime ordeal.
Armies of the Second World War 742pp
Aug. 2022 9781107047464 Hardback GBP 27.99 / USD 32.95 eISBN 9781107239098
Hitler’s Panzer Generals
Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt
Unguarded
David Stahel | University of New South Wales, Canberra
A comparative biographical study of four leading German panzer generals in the Second World War. Using the private wartime correspondence of Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt, Stahel sheds new light on their private lives and public personas, their leadership at the front and their culpability in Nazi criminality.
336pp 25 b/w illus. 10 maps
Mar. 2023 9781009282819 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009282802
On a Knife Edge
How Germany Lost the First World War Holger Afflerbach | University of Leeds
A fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and decision-makers, Holger Afflerbach reveals the internal power struggles in Germany and how they influenced decisively the outcome of the war. The book shows that the war could have gone the other way.
Cambridge Military Histories 566pp 40 b/w illus. 11 maps Oct. 2022 9781108832885 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108966313
Storm and Sack
British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815 Gavin Daly | University of Tasmania
The first major study of British soldiers’ violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in sieges during the Napoleonic era. Spanning three continents, Gavin Daly’s study places the British storm and sack of towns within the long-term history of siege violence and laws of war.
Cambridge Military Histories 320pp Sep. 2022 9781108836142 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108863971
Sun Tzu in the West
The Anglo-American Art of War
Peter Lorge | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
A major new revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West. Peter Lorge contends that the Western interpretation of Sun Tzu’s ideas was not based upon Chinese understandings of the text, but upon twentieth-century Western strategic ideas.
300pp Oct. 2022 9781108822466 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2022 9781108830652 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108902687
The Architecture of Confinement
Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Anoma Pieris | University of Melbourne
An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 330pp 74 b/w illus.
Feb. 2022 9781316519189 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009007191
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The British Home Front and the First World War
Hew Strachan | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. In the fullest account to-date of the home front, leading historians chart how its impact changed Britain for ever from political and economic transformation to social and domestic life.
495pp
Oct. 2022 9781009012324 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2022 9781316515495 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009025874
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy
A Story of Resistance, courage, and Solidarity in a French Village
Stephen G. Rabe | University of Texas, Dallas
The inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the invasion of Normandy.
Inspired by his own father’s experience, Stephen G. Rabe recounts how the villagers supported and saved paratroopers from marauding Nazi SS forces in the post-D-Day period.
262pp Nov. 2022 9781009206372 Hardback GBP 20 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009206389
NEW IN PAPERBAck The Other Wars
The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia
Justin Fantauzzo | Memorial University of Newfoundland
The first full-length, comparative study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers who fought in the First World War’s ‘sideshows’ in Sinai and Palestine, Macedonia, and Mesopotamia.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 257pp
Nov. 2022 9781108749091 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2019 9781108479004 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108782067
When Men Fell from the Sky
civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe
Claire Andrieu | Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
A comparative history of the treatment of fallen airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain during the Second World War. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Claire Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war ‘at home’
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 348pp 17 b/w illus. 7 maps
Jan. 2023 9781009266680 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009266659
Why America Loses Wars
Limited War and US Strategy from the korean War to the Present
Donald Stoker
How can you achieve victory in war if you don’t know your political aims or what victory means?
Donald Stoker reveals the flaws in US political thinking and strategy from the Korean War to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and lays the foundations for a better approach to the wars of tomorrow.
340pp May. 2022 9781009220866 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.95 eISBN 9781009220897
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Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered
Sarah Shortall | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory.
Human Rights in History 295pp
Nov. 2022 9781108440851 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2020 9781108424707 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108341356
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Women’s Rights and Global Socialism
Volume 30
Celia Donert
Women’s emancipation was a central but contested pillar of socialist and communist internationalism in the 20th century. This volume explores the history of transnational socialist feminisms during the Cold War from the perspective of those involved in international communist and left-revolutionary movements in Europe and the postcolonial world.
International Review of Social History Supplements 230pp Jun. 2022 9781009237345 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009237321
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African history
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Abolition in Sierra Leone
Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenthcentury West Africa
Richard Peter Anderson | University of Aberdeen
Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100,000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain’s abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this history of colonial Africa and examination of the African diaspora explores the links between emancipation, colonization, and identity formation in the Black Atlantic.
African Identities: Past and Present 307pp 3 b/w illus. 3 maps 12 tables
Mar. 2022 9781108461870 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108473545 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108562423
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Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea
A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth century
Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith | Northwestern University, Illinois
An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region’s colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos explains precolonial law and international relations, contrasting them with the violence wrought by colonisation. It brings new archival evidence to light on the history of Somalia, Djibouti and Yemen. 253pp
Aug. 2022 9781108964777 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jul. 2021 9781108845663 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108990400
Conflicts of Colonialism
The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye
Richard L. Roberts | Stanford University, California
Based on rich archival and oral histories, this book uses the life of an African clerk who became a king under French indirect rule policies to examine the contested meanings of colonialism and the rule of law during the first three decades of colonialism in the French Soudan.
African Studies 288pp
Feb. 2022 9781009098045 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009106849
Decolonizing African Knowledge
Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Toyin Falola | University of Texas, Austin
Addressing the consequences of colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative work from one of Africa’s most eminent historians uses memory, visual aesthetics and literature to consider the ‘Self’ and Yoruba Being in the context of the African decolonial project.
African Identities: Past and Present 524pp
Jul. 2022 9781316511237 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009049634
Decolonizing Heritage
Time to Repair in Senegal
Ferdinand De Jong | University of East Anglia
Senegal’s cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future. The International African Library 292pp
Mar. 2022 9781316514535 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009086189
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France’s Wars in Chad
Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
Nathaniel K. Powell | Lancaster University
The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad’s civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982, this study explores France’s counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye and its contribution to the rise to power of Hissène Habré, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators.
African Studies 383pp
Jun. 2022 9781108738620 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Dec. 2020 9781108488679 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771610
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Hunting Game
Raiding Politics in the central African Republic
Louisa Lombard | Yale University, Connecticut
The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.
The International African Library 270pp
Jun. 2022 9781108746182 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Mar. 2020 9781108478779 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108778794
Inventing an African Alphabet
Writing, Art, and kongo culture in the DRc Ramon Sarró | University of Oxford
Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.
The International African Library 332pp Feb. 2023 9781009199490 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009199476
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History-other areas
Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara
Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social change
Erin Pettigrew | New York University, Abu Dhabi
Exploring the changing role of Muslim spiritual mediators and Islamic esoteric sciences, Pettigrew outlines how invisible forces have impacted social, religious, and political structures in the Saharan West over centuries. Combining historical and anthropological methods, she offers a model for future research that takes the immaterial seriously.
African Studies 252pp
Dec. 2022 9781009224611 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009224581
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The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970
Terje Østebø | University of Florida
Discussing an armed insurgency in south-eastern Ethiopia from 1963-1970, a time when a range of liberation struggles emerged across the Horn of Africa, this in-depth study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion, interreligious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism during conflicts.
African Studies 384pp
Jun. 2022 9781108813563 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
Oct. 2020 9781108839686 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108884839
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890
Philip Gooding | McGill University, Montréal
Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdisciplinary sources and methods, he positions African peoples and environments as integral to the histories of global economies, religions, and cultures.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories 252pp
Aug. 2022 9781009100748 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009122023
Pandemic Kinship
Families, Intervention, and Social change in Botswana’s Time of AIDS
Koreen M. Reece | Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours and community, this offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana’s time of AIDS. It tackles questions relevant to scholars and practitioners of anthropology, public health, social work, and development. This title is available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The International African Library 292pp
Jun. 2022 9781009150224 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009150200
NEW IN PAPERBAck Shaping the African Savannah
From capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia
Michael Bollig
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in one of southern Africa’s most sought after exotic tourism destinations, often dubbed as ‘Arid Eden’. It demonstrates the impacts of colonialism, capitalism and creative local adaptations of environmental infrastructures in the region.
African Studies 425pp Jun. 2022 9781108726399 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Jul. 2020 9781108488488 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764025
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Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa Mauro Nobili | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Representing a significant re-examination of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history of West Africa, this study makes use of previously unpublished Arabic manuscripts to reveal the true author of the chronicle and its place in the evolution of West African civilization.
African Studies 289pp 10 b/w illus.
Jun. 2022 9781108789820 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Mar. 2020 9781108479509 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108804295
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The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe
Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and kingmaker Blessing-Miles Tendi | University of Oxford
An essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics, and an important figure in Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party, this biography of General Solomon Mujuru is based on unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence services, police and ZANU PF elites. 349pp 12 b/w illus.
Mar. 2022 9781108460729 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108472890 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126 eISBN 9781108561600
The Madagascar Youths
British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region
Gwyn Campbell | McGill University, Montréal Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred ‘Madagascar Youths’, young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad following a treaty signed in 1820 with King Radama of Madagascar, exploring their experiences and their subsequent impact on Malagasy-British relations and the modernisation in Madagascar.
288pp
Jun. 2022 9781316511718 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009053655
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The Wealth and Poverty of African States
Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth century
Morten Jerven
A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven shows how these findings transform our understanding of African economic performance and state development across the twentieth century.
New Approaches to Economic and Social History
280pp
Jan. 2022 9781108440707 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Jan. 2022 9781108424592 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781108341080
Visions for Racial Equality
David clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-century Malawi Harri Englund | University of Cambridge
Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenthcentury Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation.
294pp
Feb. 2022 9781316514009 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009076487
Wealth, Land, and Property
in Angola
A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality
Mariana P. Candido | Emory University, Atlanta Mariana Candido explores the history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in Angola from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and particularly African women, Candido advances the push to decolonize African history.
African Studies 288pp
Sep. 2022 9781009055987 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Sep. 2022 9781316511503 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009052986
Australian history
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Empire and the Making of Native Title
Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People
Bain Attwood | Monash University, Victoria
Bain Attwood re-examines the historical treatment of indigenous peoples’ sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand, demonstrating that it was primarily the outcome of political struggles between multiple players at the metropolitan centre and the peripheries of empire, rather than the workings of abstract norms. 456pp
The Humanitarians
child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975
Joy Damousi | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to the International Year of the Child in 1979, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 340pp Aug. 2022 9781108833905 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983204
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Borderland Memories
Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao china
Martin T. Fromm
In the 1980s, a Chinese state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. These histories are the basis of this innovative study of ideology formation and political mobilization, post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation, and the recovery of borderland identities in early post-Mao China.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China 307pp
Oct. 2022 9781108469289 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2019 9781108475921 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108571784
China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy
Gordon Barrett | University of Oxford
The first comprehensive study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party’s science diplomacy. Based on a wide range of archival research, including material from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barrett provides new insights into the actors, organisations, and networks underpinning Chinese international scientific outreach in the Mao Era.
300pp
Aug. 2022 9781108844574 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108951746
China’s European Headquarters
Switzerland and china during the cold War
Ariane Knüsel | University of Fribourg
The first study to analyse the central role that Switzerland played in China’s presence in Europe in the Cold War. Using extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on the formulation and implementation of China’s foreign policy, foreign trade policy, and intelligence activities.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
300pp
Apr. 2022 9781009169462 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009169486
Aug. 2022 9781108745703
Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 Jul. 2020 9781108478298 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108776424
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China’s Grandmothers
Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First century
Diana Lary | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
China’s Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary offers a fresh way of thinking about gender, family and aging in modern Chinese social history.
250pp
Apr. 2022 9781009073622 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2022 9781316513354 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009064781
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Disability in Contemporary China
citizenship, Identity and culture
Sarah Dauncey | University of Nottingham
Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenship in China from 1949 to the present. She proposes a dynamic relationship of identity and belonging, encompassing both the perils of difference and the potential for empowerment. 245pp 4 b/w illus.
Oct. 2022 9781107544369 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
Sep. 2020 9781107118539 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316339879
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Economic Thought in Modern China
Market and consumption, c.1500–1937
Margherita Zanasi | Louisiana State University
Margherita Zanasi argues that ideas of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged in China in the late 1500s, roughly a century and half earlier than in Europe. This book is for those interested in modern Chinese history and in economic thought, theories of economic modernization and economic globalization.
253pp
Jun. 2022 9781108718714 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
May. 2020 9781108499934 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108752787
Forging Leninism in China
Mao and the Remaking of the chinese communist Party, 1927–1934
Joseph Fewsmith | Boston University
Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932, as it reshaped itself by turning the local Communist movements that introduced Marxism to the countryside, becoming more violent, more hierarchical, and more militarized in the process. 224pp
Feb. 2022 9781316513569 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009070157
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
Sabine Frühstück | University of California, Santa Barbara
This dynamic survey describes the changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities in Japanese society from the 1860s to the present day. Drawing on historical, sociological, ethnographic and visual sources, Sabine Frühstück considers the experiences of an evolving spectrum of boundary-crossing individuals and identities. New Approaches to Asian History 280pp Mar. 2022 9781108430722 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781108420655 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108354967
NEW IN PAPERBAck Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Protestant Modernity in colonial-Era korea Hyaeweol Choi | University of Iowa
Arguing that religion cannot be separated from modernity, Choi demonstrates how twentiethcentury Korea exemplifies the role global Protestant networks played in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices, instilling a sense of locality and the world, and claiming new space for women in the public sphere. 251pp
Oct. 2022 9781108720281 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jul. 2020 9781108487436 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108766838
NEW IN PAPERBAck In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire
Ming china and Eurasia
David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York
In 1368, at the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all Eurasia knew of the Mongol empire. The Ming used this to tell a story that ‘proved’ that their dynasty was the Mongols’ inevitable, legitimate successor. This study is for anyone interested in the Mongols, Chinese history, and the uses of historical memory. 386pp
Aug. 2022 9781108729338 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Nov. 2019 9781108482448 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108687645
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Japan’s Living Politics
Grassroots Action and the crises of Democracy Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Australian National University, Canberra By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa MorrisSuzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twentieth-and twenty-first-century social experiments with particular relevance in the context of today’s global crisis of democracy. 248pp
Jun. 2022 9781108748018 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
May. 2020 9781108490078 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780049
Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise
of a New East Asian Order
David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York David Robinson explores the collapse of the Mongol empire and the rise of its successors across Eurasia through the experiences of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Charting the way this East Asian ruler navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, Robinson offers a fresh perspective on a transformative period of history.
327pp Mar. 2022 9781009098960 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106672
Mao Zedong
Chongji Jin
Volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1949–1958. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.
The Cambridge China Library 600pp Oct. 2022 9781107092761 Hardback GBP 125 / USD 165 eISBN 9781316136546
Modern Erasures
Revolution, the civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of china’s Past Pierre Fuller
Modern Erasures documents the acts of epistemic violence that have accompanied China’s transformation in the modern era. In this ambitious and innovative study, Pierre Fuller sheds light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book-burning and bloodletting, during China’s Nationalist and Communist revolutions. 300pp Apr. 2022 9781316515723 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026512
Reading Medieval Ruins
Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-century Japan
Morgan Pitelka | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Drawing on rich archaeological evidence uncovered at Ichijōdani, Pitelka proposes a new understanding of late medieval Japanese society. Exploring the city’s layout, residents’ possessions, politics, war, religion, and cultural networks, he argues that provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of entrepreneurship and sophistication.
250pp
Apr. 2022 9781316513064 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009071703
Reproductive Realities
in Modern China
Birth control and Abortion, 1911–2021
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez | Missouri State University China’s One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China 320pp
Dec. 2022 9781316515310 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009019880
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A Global history
Hyunhee Park | City University of New York
The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju beverage. Tracing the history of soju from the premodern world to the twenty-first century, Hyunhee Park provides fascinating new insights into the transfer of technology, flows of trade, cross-cultural encounters, and Korea’s place in Eurasian history.
Asian Connections 297pp
Aug. 2022 9781108816113 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Feb. 2021 9781108842013 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895774
The Cambridge Economic history of China
1800 to the Present
Debin Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese Economic history, past and present, in English.
Volume II covers the period from 1800 to the present in twenty-one thematically and chronologically organized chapters, charting the development of the institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped China’s modern economy.
The Cambridge Economic history of China 864pp Feb. 2022 9781108425537 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108348485
The Cambridge Economic history of China
Volume 1 To 1800
Debin Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese Economic history, past and present, in English.
Volume I, which covers the period from 1000 BCE to 1800 CE in eighteen thematically organized chapters, introduces the main institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped the world’s largest economy in the premodern era.
The Cambridge Economic history of China 732pp
Feb. 2022 9781108425575 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108587334
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The Cambridge Economic history of China 2
Volume Hardback Set
Debin Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese Economic history, past and present. Original contributions by an international team of noted experts survey all fields of Economic history, including environment, demography, law, household, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and sociology.
The Cambridge Economic history of China
1400pp
Feb. 2022 9781107146068 2 Hardback books GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781316536360
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Third edition
Patricia Buckley Ebrey | University of Washington
This book provides an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation for general audiences and university courses alike. Written by a leading scholar and lavishly illustrated, it traces the ideas, events and individuals that have shaped Chinese culture and society.
400pp
Aug. 2022 9781009151443 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
Aug. 2022 9781009151429 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009151436
The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical
Right, 1918–1951
Nagatomi Hirayama
By shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party, Nagatomi Hirayama offers an indispensable lens through which to view the formation and transformation of the Chinese radical right in the first half of the twentieth century.
275pp
Jun. 2022 9781009098717 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009105170
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The Making of a New Rural Order in South China
Volume 2 Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700
Joseph P. McDermott | University of Cambridge
This book is written for anyone interested in Chinese history, Chinese business, banking, family structure, and local society over two crucial centuries in the making of modern China. It reveals how some Chinese families acquired and retained great wealth and power over the Chinese economy.
480pp
Oct. 2022 9781107658615 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Nov. 2013 9781107046221 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 91.99 eISBN 9781107261471
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The Making of Song Dynasty History
Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 cE
Charles Hartman | University at Albany, State University of New York
Charles Hartman undertakes a detailed revisionist analysis of the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279), deconstructing the master narratives that emerge from these sources as products of political discourse. 393pp
Oct. 2022 9781108819992 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2020 9781108834834 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108877176
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The Meiji Restoration
Japan as a Global Nation
Robert Hellyer | Wake Forest University, North Carolina
An international team of historians employ Global history in novel ways to offer new economic, social, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration, Japan’s modern revolution, and the subsequent creation of a globally-cast Japanese nation-state in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.
300pp 18 b/w illus. 4 tables Oct. 2022 9781108745475 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May. 2020 9781108478052 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775762
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The Nanyang Revolution
The comintern and chinese Networks in Southeast Asia, 1890–1957
Anna Belogurova | Freie Universität Berlin
An innovative analysis of the Malayan Communist Party in the context of the emergence of nationalism in Southeast Asia and the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern.
Based on new archival research, Belogurova provides fresh international perspectives on the history of Malaysia, Chinese communism, the Cold War, and decolonization.
277pp 8 b/w illus. 2 tables Oct. 2022 9781108458184 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Sep. 2019 9781108471657 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108635059
History (general) after 1500
The Cambridge History of Socialism
Marcel van der Linden | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Volume I describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention, and includes egalitarianism, utopian and early socialism, anarchism and syndicalism. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. A work intended for a general, educated readership and for all those interested in socialism. The Cambridge History of Socialism 685pp Nov. 2022 9781108481342 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108611022
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Marcel van der Linden | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Volume II describes the various movements and parties which wanted social change through state transformation (social democracy, labour parties, Arab socialism, Indian socialism, the New Left), covering cases across six continents. A work intended for a general, educated readership and for all those interested in socialism.
The Cambridge History of Socialism 685pp
Nov. 2022 9781108481359 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108611107
The Cambridge History of Socialism 2 Hardback Book Set
Marcel van der Linden | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
These volumes offer an up-to-date critical survey of the socialist movements that have arisen throughout the world thus far. Together, they cover anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, Labour, the New Left, and alternative socialist movements in the Global South. They will make essential reading for historians and political scientists.
The Cambridge History of Socialism 1400pp Nov. 2022 9781108611336 2 Hardback books GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from <i>c</i>.1535 to World War One Ned Blackhawk | Yale University, Connecticut
Volume II covers the early modern and modern cases of genocide and their effects on Indigenous communities across the Americas, Africa and Australia, as well as premonitions of twentiethcentury disasters. An essential reference text for those interested in the early modern period, as well humanitarianism and Indigenous Studies.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide 720pp Dec. 2022 9781108486439 Hardback GBP 130 / USD 170 eISBN 9781108765480
History (general) before 1500
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume 1 Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds
Ben Kiernan | Yale University, Connecticut
Volume I provides thematic overviews and multiple case studies illuminating the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and connections linking various cases. It will be of interest to students and historians of the prehistoric period, as well as political scientists and human rights associations.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide 694pp
Dec. 2022 9781108493536 Hardback GBP 130 / USD 170 eISBN 9781108655989
History (general), world history
A Concise History of Canada
Second edition
Margaret Conrad | University of New Brunswick
From the arrival of Indigenous peoples, through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War, and Confederation in the nineteenth century to its prosperous present, this new edition of Margaret Conrad’s history of Canada offers a lucid account of this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state.
Cambridge Concise Histories 556pp
Aug. 2022 9781108736374 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2022 9781108498463 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108682367
History after 1945 (general)
Bearing Witness
contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement
Andrea Nicholson | University of Nottingham
Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors’ voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of more effective interventions.
Slaveries since Emancipation 252pp Oct. 2022 9781316510803 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039741
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The Past Can’t Heal Us
The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights
Lea David | University College Dublin
Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that ‘proper’ remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to understand how the human rights memorialization agenda developed globally and why it often ends up strengthening nationalist sentiment and shaping social inequalities on the ground.
Human Rights in History
255pp
Jun. 2022 9781108817103 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 Jul. 2020 9781108495189 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861311
Latin American history
A History of Chile 1808–2018
Third edition
William F. Sater | California State University, Long Beach
This new edition investigates the various reasons for Chileans spurning the Pinochet Constitution in favor of another system, and covers the formation and critical events of the Lagos, Bachelet, and Piñera regimes, their relations with nearby nations, and the cultural and economic changes that have occurred within the country.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
500pp
Oct. 2022 9781009170215 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2022 9781009170208 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009170222
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Anarchists of the Caribbean countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion
Kirwin R. Shaffer | Pennsylvania State University
Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the Caribbean with Spain, the US, Mexico, South America, and Central America. He uncovers how these groups challenged local and national elites as well as US political, military, and economic expansion.
Global and International History 332pp
Jul. 2022 9781108733304 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 May. 2020 9781108489034 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108773706
Becoming Heritage
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black cultural Heritage in colombia
Maria Fernanda Escallón | University of Oregon
Becoming Heritage examines how ostensibly inclusive heritage policies created exclusion and conflict among groups within the Afro-descendant Palenquero community in Colombia. Bringing together broader discussions on race, nation and inclusion, this book is for students and scholars interested in heritage, ethnicity and politics in Latin America.
Afro-Latin America 253pp Jan. 2023 9781009180375 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180382
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Beyond Babel
Translations of Blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada
Larissa Brewer-García | University of Chicago
This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spiritual intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world.
Afro-Latin America 319pp
Jan. 2022 9781108730303 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2020 9781108493000 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632416
Black Legend
The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
Paulina L. Alberto | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multigenerational struggle for recognition and belonging, will appeal to readers interested in Black lives across the Americas, and lovers of history, music and stories.
Afro-Latin America 410pp Jan. 2022 9781108845557 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108980111
Cuban Privilege
The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America
Susan Eva Eckstein | Boston University
The first book to document the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans over other immigrants for more than half a century, highlighting the racial and political biases embedded within US immigration policy. A fascinating, topical account of interest to policy makers and scholars of Latin America.
300pp
Jun. 2022 9781108830614 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108902465
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Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World
From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765–1811 Eva Maria Mehl | University of North Carolina, Wilmington An exploration of Mexican military recruits and vagrants who were compelled by Spanish authorities to resettle in the Philippines between 1765 and 1811. Transcending the political, economic, and jurisdictional borders defined by the Spanish monarchy, Eva Maria Mehl conceives of colonial Mexico and the Spanish Philippines as historically intertwined fields of study.
324pp 2 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables Oct. 2022 9781316501993 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2016 9781107136793 Hardback GBP 92.99 / USD 122 eISBN 9781316480120
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Freedom’s Captives
Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the colombian Black Pacific
Yesenia Barragan | Rutgers University, New Jersey
A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by exploring competing struggles over disparate modes of freedom, unfreedom, and bondage in Colombia during the age of gradual emancipation. Afro-Latin America
344pp
Sep. 2022 9781108941051 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2021 9781108832328 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935890
Hierarchies at Home
Domestic Service in cuba from Abolition to Revolution
Anasa Hicks | Florida State University
Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution, centering the quotidian work that so many Cubans – in particular black Cuban women – did to survive.
A fascinating, unique work on Cuban history that challenges established narratives. Afro-Latin America 247pp
Aug. 2022 9781316513651 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009070577
More than a Massacre
Racial Violence and citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands
Sabine F. Cadeau | University of Cambridge
This book is for readers who are interested in the history of racism, citizenship, and the legacies of slavery and empire in the Americas. Sabine F. Cadeau uses state documents and oral sources to tell the story of the carefully concealed, lesser known, twentieth-century genocide of ethnic Haitians.
Afro-Latin America 260pp
Jun. 2022 9781108837682 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108942508
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Nationalizing Nature
Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the BrazilArgentina Border Frederico Freitas | North Carolina State University
Nationalizing Nature demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservation’s crucial role in the territorial growth of the region.
In the process, a distinct national park model –combining the preservation of nature and settler colonization – is highlighted.
Cambridge Latin American Studies 333pp
Jun. 2022 9781108948906 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2021 9781108844833 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108953733
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Our Time is Now
Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala
Julie Gibbings | University of Edinburgh
Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of modern politics, economics, and social norms was central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.
Cambridge Latin American Studies 426pp
Apr. 2022 9781108733489 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2020 9781108489140 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108774048
Patchwork Freedoms
Law, Slavery, and Race beyond cuba’s Plantations
Adriana Chira | Emory University, Atlanta
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, Afrodescendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation.
Long before calls for national independence and emancipation in 1868, they wore down the institution of slavery through litigation and selfpurchase. A rich, much-needed examination of Cuban history.
Afro-Latin America 320pp
Feb. 2022 9781108730808 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Feb. 2022 9781108499545 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108583596
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
collective Action in the African Diaspora Second edition
Crystal Nicole Eddins | University of North Carolina, Charlotte The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora 378pp
Apr. 2022 9781009256155 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009256148
Second-Class Daughters
Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman | University of South Florida
Second-Class Daughters examines the lives of ‘adoptive daughters’ in Brazil: the marginalized informal domestic workers who live in slave-like conditions in the homes of their adoptive families. This powerful account will interest readers invested in the colonial legacies of slavery, as it questions standard ideas about love, family and freedom.
Afro-Latin America
271pp
Mar. 2022 9781009087414 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781316514719 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009086639
Sovereign Joy
Afro-Mexican kings and Queens, 1539-1640 Miguel A. Valerio | Washington University, St Louis Sovereign Joy is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Afro-Mexican festive practices between 1539 and 1640, and the ways Afro-Mexicans were able to express their culture, subjectivities, and negotiate their social standing through performance. Afro-Latin America 282pp Jul. 2022 9781316514382 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009086905
The Boundaries of Freedom
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
Brodwyn Fischer | University of Chicago
This book brings together key scholars writing on Brazilian slavery and abolition, emphasizing the profound impact it had on the social, political, and institutional history of modern Brazil. For the first time, English-language readers can access in one place arguments that have transformed the historiography of Brazilian slavery.
Afro-Latin America
329pp
Mar. 2022 9781108831536 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 135 eISBN 9781108917537
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The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Marcela Echeverri | Yale University, Connecticut
This innovative and comprehensive volume offers a new framework to analyze Latin American independence, bringing together the most current scholarship and situating it within the broader historiography. A much-needed addition in this field, the volume will interest scholars of Latin American Studies and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. Cambridge Companions to History 401pp
A History of Modern Palestine
Third edition
Ilan Pappe | University of Exeter
Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century to the present day, features updated and expanded material on contemporary events in the region in a rich and accessible format for students and general readers. 408pp
May. 2022 9781108401449 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2022 9781108415446 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108233743
Apr. 2023 9781108729185
Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 31.99 Apr. 2023 9781108492270 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108679336
The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World Thomas Rath | University College London
This study serves as a corrective to the myths surrounding a controversial and poorly understood episode in Mexican history, demonstrating how Mexico mattered in the wider Cold War world. The first of its kind in the English language, this book will interest specialists in Latin American and US history. Cambridge Latin American Studies 264pp
Aug. 2022 9781108844482 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108951357
Voices of the Race
Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870–1960 Paulina Laura Alberto | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Essential reading for students of AfroLatin American history and Studies, the book introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black cultural and intellectual production. Afro-Latin America 357pp
Sep. 2022 9781009073318 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Sep. 2022 9781316513224 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781009063791
Middle East history
A Dynastic History of Iran
From the Qajars to the Pahlavis Mehran Kamrava | Georgetown University, Qatar
In this comprehensive survey of two hundred years of Iran’s political history, Mehran Kamrava examines the rise and fall of the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties. He explores essential questions about how and why each dynasty came to power and why they fell, looking in particular at the domestic and international forces that impacted their rule. 230pp
A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and
the city
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi
Telling the history of Tehran from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates how the city was transformed by developing discourses around spatial knowledge. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in the process of urban change.
The Global Middle East 384pp Feb. 2023 9781009188890 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009188906
Agents of the Hidden Imam
Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 cE Edmund Hayes | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Reconstructing the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics and the emergence of the first leaders of Twelver Shi ism, this book demonstrates how they established the doctrines and institutions of Twelver Shiʿism, the dominant branch of Shiʿi Islam in the world today. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 292pp Feb. 2022 9781108834391 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993098
An Iranian Childhood
Rethinking History and Memory
Hamid Dabashi | Columbia University, New York Exploring the intersection of history and memory, Hamid Dabashi offers a vibrant, unique and personal examination of Iranian childhood. Combining vivid memories with careful critical reflection, Dabashi considers what it means to be a Muslim and an Iranian, and reasserts the power and place of the knowing postcolonial subject. The Global Middle East 240pp Mar. 2023 9781316512852 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009072304
Assyrians in Modern Iraq
Negotiating Political and cultural Space
Aug. 2022 9781009224659
Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2022 9781009224642 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009224628
Alda Benjamen | University of California, Berkeley Examining the relationship between the Iraqi state under the Baʿth regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Benjamen looks at the role of minorities and identity in twentiethcentury Iraqi political and cultural history, based on new sources and bilingual voices for a nuanced and focused historical exploration. 272pp Feb. 2022 9781108838795 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108976633
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Collective Liability in Islam
The ‘Aqila and Blood Money Payments
Nurit Tsafrir | Tel-Aviv University
Offering the first close analysis of the ʿAqila, a group jointly liable for blood money payments on behalf of its members, this study traces the transformation of this important institution from pre-Islamic custom to the Shariʿa, and follows its further re-shaping through the modern period, in relation to Islamic religion, state, and society.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 189pp
Mar. 2022 9781108724289 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 30.99 Jan. 2020 9781108498647 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108654241
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Cosmopolitan Radicalism
The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties
Zeina Maasri | University of Brighton
Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in 1960s Beirut, this compelling and original study examines a critical period in Lebanon’s history, now celebrated as the ‘golden age’. It draws from uncharted archives of visual and print culture, filling a major gap in the literature on the history of the postcolonial Arab East.
The Global Middle East 343pp
Jun. 2022 9781108720830 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Aug. 2020 9781108487719 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108767736
Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy
The Making of Sunnism, from the Eighth to the Eleventh century
Ahmad Khan | American University in Cairo
Exploring the evolution of the categories of orthodoxy and heresy in medieval Islam, Ahmad Khan offers an original examination of the formation of Sunni Islam. Using an interdisciplinary lens, Khan illuminates the significant yet often neglected transformations in Islamic social, political and religious thought that took place during this period.
336pp
Dec. 2022 9781009098373 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009093033
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Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad Rural Development and Regime consolidation after 1979
Eric Lob | Florida International University
Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and development experts, this is the first study to examine the significant yet understudied organization and ministry, Reconstruction Jihad, as a key institution in the political and socioeconomic development of the Iranian Republic.
406pp 12 b/w illus. 16 tables
Jun. 2022 9781108720298 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99
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Islamic Law in Circulation
Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Mahmood Kooria
Looking at the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals in the second millennium CE, this book focuses on the Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law to explore the nuances of juridical exchanges across several centuries and vast regions.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 336pp
Mar. 2022 9781009098038 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 135 eISBN 9781009106825
Israel
A History in 100 cartoons
Colin Shindler | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Presenting a history of Israel through 100 cartoons, Colin Shindler offers an original, visually exciting and accessible way to help understand Israel’s complex past, including the Israel-Palestine conflict. Richly illustrated with an image for ever year from 1949-2020, Shindler offers new perspectives on Israel’s past, politics, and people.
288pp
Dec. 2022 9781107170131 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316756027
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic knowledge
Andrew Hammond | St Antony’s College, Oxford
Andrew Hammond offers a significant, innovative reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on three key figures, Hammond demonstrates their lasting impact on Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology, which has been neglected by previous histories. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 297pp
Nov. 2022 9781009199506 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009199544
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Leaving Zion
Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
Ori Yehudai | Ohio State University
Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspectives of governments, aid organizations, Jewish communities and the personal stories of individual migrants.
282pp
Jun. 2022 9781108702300 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 May. 2020 9781108478342 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108777490
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Petroleum and Progress in Iran
Oil, Development, and the cold War
Gregory Brew | Yale University, Connecticut
Using interdisciplinary techniques and a wide range of archival sources, Gregory Brew explores Iran’s thirty-year evolution into the world’s first ‘petro-state’. Placing oil at the centre of the Cold War narrative, it shows how Iran’s petrolic authoritarianism emerged from a combination of local and global forces.
261pp
Dec. 2022 9781009206341 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009206327
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Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
Urban culture in the Late Ottoman Empire Malte Fuhrmann
A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, which re-examines the European influence over the urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender and national identity, providing an alternative view of the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe.
489pp
Jun. 2022 9781108708623 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Oct. 2020 9781108477376 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769716
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Reversing the Colonial Gaze
Persian Travelers Abroad
Hamid Dabashi | Columbia University, New York
Moving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the adventures of more than a dozen Persian travelers in the nineteenth century rediscovers and reclaims the world as seen through their rich travelogues, removing the colonial borders within which their narratives had been placed.
The Global Middle East 410pp
Mar. 2022 9781108738453 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jan. 2020 9781108488129 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108768986
Sectarianism in Islam
The <EM>Umma</EM> Divided Adam R. Gaiser | Florida State University
Offering an accessible introduction to the main Muslim sects and schools, Adam R. Gaiser explores their history and development among medieval Muslims. While remaining accessible to nonspecialists, Gaiser develops a novel approach that moves away from the static definitions of sect and school that dominate the existing scholarship. Themes in Islamic History 280pp
Feb. 2023 9781009315210
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Security in the Gulf
Local Militaries before British Withdrawal Ash Rossiter
A reinterpretation of how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf before its withdrawal from the region in 1971, benefitting from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government archival documents and India Office records.
320pp
Sep. 2022 9781108726269 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jun. 2020 9781108488372 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770330
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Temporary Marriage in Iran
Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature
Claudia Yaghoobi | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institution of sigheh or temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the last two centuries.
The Global Middle East 310pp Mar. 2022 9781108738439 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108488105 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108768948
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The Making of an Alliance
The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship
David Tal | University of Sussex
An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides critical background on the origins and development of the ‘special’ relations between the two countries and its people, through their religion, values, and history. 320pp
Jan. 2022 9781108445887 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2022 9781108427197 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108551472
The Mamluk Sultanate A History
Carl F. Petry | Northwestern University, Illinois
Offering insights into the unique outlook of slave soldiers who created the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea from 1250 to 1517, this is an accessible and comprehensive survey of the realm for undergraduate students and general readers interested in pre-modern history.
304pp
May. 2022 9781108456999 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2022 9781108471046 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108557382
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South Asian history
The
Origins
of the ArabIranian Conflict
Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars Chelsi Mueller | Tel-Aviv University Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the present-day Arab-Iranian conflict in the interwar period, filling a gap in the literature on the history of Arab-Iranian relations in the Gulf and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy during Reza Shah’s rule.
290pp
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A Genealogy of Terrorism
colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea Joseph McQuade | University of Toronto Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 292pp
Jun. 2022 9781108733410
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The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Nicholas Danforth
Drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Nicholas L. Danforth synthesizes the political, cultural, diplomatic and intellectual history of mid-century Turkey to explore how Turkey first became a democracy and Western ally in the 1950s and why this is changing today. 261pp Jul. 2022 9781108978200 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2021 9781108833240 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973779
NEW IN PAPERBAck Utopia
and Civilisation in the
Peter Hill
Arab Nahda
Examining the massive social changes that reshaped the Middle East over the long nineteenth century, this study of the ‘Nahda’, a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, presents a crucial and often overlooked part of the Arab world’s encounter with global capitalist modernity.
318pp
Mar. 2022 9781108740562 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108491662 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108666602
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What is ‘Islamic’ Art?
Between Religion and Perception
Wendy M. K. Shaw | Freie Universität Berlin
Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur’an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcultural poetry, Shaw challenges the historicism, secularism, and regionalism of traditional art history with new means of perceiving Islamic painting, music, and geometric pattern.
402pp
Jun. 2022 9781108465212 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Oct. 2019 9781108474658 Hardback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99 eISBN 9781108622967
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Acts of Aid
Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake Eleonor Marcussen | Linnéuniversitetet, Sweden Acts of Aid analyses the relationship between civil society, international organisations and the colonial state in disaster relief and reconstruction and the questions it gives rise to about the impact of aid on social groups, communities and inequality.
300pp Oct. 2022 9781108838092 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108937160
Architecture of Sovereignty
Stone Bodies, colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India Gita V Pai
The book re-examines how we collectively imagine relationships between culture defined broadly and the roles of historical transformation, flux, instability, and how people ‘on the ground’ experience material realities in given historical contexts as part of their everyday life.
320pp
Nov. 2022 9781009150156 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009150163
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Boundaries of Belonging
Localities, citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan
Sarah Ansari | Royal Holloway, University of London Boundaries of Belonging explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia. Focusing on Uttar Pradesh, India and Sindh, Pakistan, and investigating citizenship’s meanings for ordinary people, Ansari and Gould suggest key commonalities and even interdependence between regions and cities of each state.
334pp 15 b/w illus. 3 maps
Oct. 2022 9781316647172 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2019 9781107196056 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108164511
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Caste, Knowledge, and Power
Ways of knowing in Twentieth century Malabar Sunandan K. N. | Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
Explores the emergence of knowledge as a measure of human in the colonial and casteist contexts in twentieth century Malabar, India. It undertakes a comparative study of two caste communities in Malabar – Asharis and Nampoothiris for their varied interactions with and intervention in the emerging colonial forms of knowledge production.
310pp
Sep. 2022 9781009273121 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009273138
Citizens of Everywhere
Indian Women, Nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1920–1952
Rosalind Parr
Citizens of Everywhere is a Global history of Indian women’s activism during the final decades of colonial rule, demonstrating their contributions to both the international women’s movement and to the Indian independence struggle.
Global South Asians 212pp Feb. 2022 9781108838146 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937290
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta
Souvik Naha | University of Glasgow
The book argues that the beliefs and attitudes generated by cricket through media and other social practices have had an immense bearing on the making of a postcolonial society. It will help scholars and students of history understand the making of postcolonial Indian society and culture from a new perspective.
320pp Sep. 2022 9781108494588 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781190
Empires of Complaints
Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793
Robert Travers | Cornell University, New York
Robert Travers explores the Mughal and Persianate context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century Bengal. By examining the interactions between colonial authorities and Indian petitioners, he shows how the British reinterpreted and reconstituted Mughal law to suit their new Indian empire.
314pp Sep. 2022 9781009123389 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009127882
Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic
Gender Politics of the Framing of the constitution
Achyut Chetan
It shows that women members of the Constituent Assembly contributed significantly to shaping the moral imagination enshrined in the Constitution of India. By showcasing the immense debt owed by several of its articles to these women it breaks new ground in the fields of modern Indian history, women’s history, and constitutional studies.
South Asia in the Social Sciences 400pp
Sep. 2022 9781108832564 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108961547
Hidden Histories of Pakistan
censorship, Literature,
in Late colonial India
and
Secular
Nationalism
Sarah Fatima Waheed | Davidson College, North Carolina
A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers deeper understanding of India and Pakistan’s complex and intertwined history through explorations of censorship, Urdu literature and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan.
320pp Jan. 2022 9781108834520 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993517
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Second edition
Catherine B. Asher | University of Minnesota
This second edition of the bestselling India before Europe covers the political developments and rich cultural life of the subcontinent from the twelfth through mid-eighteenth centuries in more depth than any other text. It explores art, architecture, material culture, literature, and religious movements, as well as trade and travel.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781108448901 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Sep. 2022 9781108428163 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108591904
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Nationalism and the Vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803–1956
Pritipuspa Mishra | University of Southampton Mishra explores the history of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, to illustrate the relationship between linguistic politics and nationalism. She considers the ways the state has dealt with multilingualism and the role of languages in the constitution of the Indian nation. This title is also available as Open Access.
259pp 7 maps
Oct. 2022 9781108443319 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108425735 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108591263
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Negotiating Mughal Law
A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires
Nandini Chatterjee | University of Exeter
In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access.
310pp
Oct. 2022 9781108736961 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Apr. 2020 9781108486033 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108623391
Paper, Performance, and the State
Social change and Political culture in Mughal India
Farhat Hasan | University of Delhi
Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.
168pp
Feb. 2022 9781316516812 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009025256
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Planning Democracy
Modern India’s Quest for Development
Nikhil Menon | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Planning Democracy is the story of India’s historic experiment to marry democracy and central planning. In this engaging and innovative account, Nikhil Menon explores how independent India embarked on a planning project to fuse Sovietinspired economic management and Western-style democracy at a time when they were considered incompatible.
285pp
Mar. 2022 9781009044585 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Mar. 2022 9781316517338 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009043892
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Revolutionary Pasts
communist Internationalism in colonial India Ali Raza | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
In this history of the communist movement in South Asia from the eve of the First World War to Independence, Ali Raza reveals the lives, dreams, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and their utopian visions of remaking the world.
296pp
Oct. 2022 9781108741491 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Apr. 2020 9781108481847 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108693875
Round Table Conference Geographies
constituting colonial India in Interwar London
Stephen Legg | University of Nottingham Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India’s constitutional future. This geographical analysis explores the imaginations, infrastructures, urban spaces and contestations of the meeting.
375pp Oct. 2022 9781009215312 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009215329
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child Marriage in India, 1891–1937
Ishita Pande | Queen’s University, Ontario
Ishita Pande’s innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India’s coming of age, examining India’s Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of ‘age’ as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.
338pp Mar. 2022 9781108747486 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jul. 2020 9781108489744 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779326
The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration
Sebastian Raj Pender | University of Oxford
In this innovative and engaging new study, Sebastian Raj Pender utilises extensive archival research from India and Britain to trace the ways in which commemorative practices have responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of the 1857 Indian uprising from the perspective of the present.
293pp May. 2022 9781316511336 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009052276
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The Frontier Complex
Geopolitics and the Making of the India-china Border, 1846–1962
Kyle J. Gardner | George Washington University, Washington DC
Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial bordermaking practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.
302pp
Jan. 2022 9781108814256 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2022 9781108840590 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886444
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Uncivil Liberalism
Labour, capital and commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought
Vikram Visana | University of Huddersfield
A Global history of ideas linking capitalism, colonialism, labour and liberalism, the book will interest historians and political theorists keen to explore how liberalism was reinvented in the Global South for a more culturally diverse age by making labour rights, rather than cultural assimilation, the lynchpin of social cohesion.
Global South Asians 275pp
Sep. 2022 9781009215541 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009215527
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Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
Kevin W. Fogg | University of Oxford
The decolonization of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, was seen by up to half of the population as a religious struggle. Utilizing a combination of oral history and archival research, Kevin W. Fogg presents a new understanding of the Indonesian revolution and of Islam as a revolutionary ideology. 271pp
Oct. 2022 9781108738170 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
Dec. 2019 9781108487870 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108768214
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Miracles and Material Life
Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya Teren Sevea
Through a close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked Malay Islamic manuscripts, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) across the Indian Ocean world and on the frontier of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Asian Connections 292pp
Oct. 2022 9781108702126 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jul. 2020 9781108477185 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108569781
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Pirates of Empire
The Indentured Archipelago
Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916
Reshaad Durgahee | University of Nottingham
A text for historians and historical geographers on a key moment in post-abolition labour history, focusing on the experiences of Indian indentured labourers in the Indo-Pacific. It analyses the spatial experiences of labourers in Mauritius and Fiji, and reveals previously unexplored intra-colonial labour movements, prompting debate on subaltern agency.
Global South Asians 294pp Feb. 2022 9781316512265 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009058094
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
A cultural History
Marieke Bloembergen
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.
Asian Connections 339pp 29 b/w illus. Oct. 2022 9781108713061 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108499026 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108614757
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World War II and Southeast Asia
Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation
Gregg Huff | University of Oxford
Gregg Huff presents the first comprehensive account of the economic and social impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia during World War II. This is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and economies of Southeast Asia before, during, and in the decades after the Pacific War. 553pp
Jun. 2022 9781107492011 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 49.99 Oct. 2020 9781107099333 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781316162934
colonisation
and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia
Stefan Eklöf Amirell
The suppression of piracy and maritime raiding was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. This comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colonial expansion, particularly from c.1850 to c.1920. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 276pp
Oct. 2022 9781108706100 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Aug. 2019 9781108484213 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108594516
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