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European history
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.
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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
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
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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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8 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.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
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
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
European history-450-1000
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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
European history after 1450
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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 TEXTBOOk
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
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
The Cambridge History of 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 TEXTBOOk
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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Russian, East European history
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