History Catalogue - 2024 by Cambridge University Press, Asia

2024

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CONTENTS American History

History-cross discipline

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British and Irish history

20C history of Britain

History of Britain – 1066 – 1450

History-other areas

History of Britain (general)

20C history (general)

History of Britain after 1450

African history

History of Britain before 1066

Australian history

Irish history

East Asian history

History (general) after 1500 History (general) before 1500

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History (general), world history

History after 1945 (general)

Latin American history

Middle East history

South Asian history

South-East Asian history

European history

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American history

American history 20C American history Caring for Mom and Dad Parent Dependency and American Social Policy Susan Stein-Roggenbuck | Michigan State University

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck explores the policies that target the needs of financially-dependent parents, casting a light on the experiences of adult children and their parents as they navigate the financial insecurity of aging Americans. An understudied facet of the US welfare state, this work will interest scholars across various fields.

264pp Nov. 2023 9781009203289 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009203272

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 Mar. 2023 9781009298988 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009299022

Divided America, Divided Korea The US and Korea During and After the Trump Years David P. Fields | University of Wisconsin, Madison

Bringing together leading experts on Korea and US-Korean relations, this book provides a nuanced look at the critical relationship between the US and Korea during and after the Trump years. An important study for students and scholars interested in US foreign policy and Korea.

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 290pp Dec. 2023 9781009100571 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009119269

Fascism in America Past and Present Gavriel D. Rosenfeld | Center for Jewish History, New York and Fairfield University, Connecticut

This book surveys the history of fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the present, examining the rise of right-wing groups from the interwar period to the Trump era, along with the response of antifascists. A timely contribution, Fascism in America will interest scholars and general readers alike.

The Taft Court 2 Volume Hardback Set Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 Volume 10 Robert C. Post | Yale Law School, Connecticut

This work will serve as the authoritative reference text on the Supreme Court during the period of 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. It will become a point of common reference across multiple disciplines, including history, law, and political science.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1700pp Oct. 2023 9781009336215 2 Hardback books GBP 220.00 / USD 250.00 eISBN 9781009336246

The Turn to Process American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 Kunal M. Parker | University of Miami School of Law

The Turn to Process explores how American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets changed between 1870 and 1970 from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. A fascinating work for those interested in US intellectual history and modernism.

Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 346pp Nov. 2023 9781009335232 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 Nov. 2023 9781009335225 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009335256

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 25.00 / USD 27.95 eISBN 9781009203418

Uncertain Warriors The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror David Fitzgerald | University College Cork

This book shows how the US Army – disoriented by the end of the Cold War and struggling to appease domestic culture wars – spent the 1990s suffering from an identity crisis. This unique work will interest students and scholars of contemporary American military history.

Military, War, and Society in Modern American History 316pp Oct. 2023 9781009235808 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009235822

461pp Sep. 2023 9781009337434 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Sep. 2023 9781009337410 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009337427

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American history

African American history

American history - 1861 - 1900

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Freedom’s Crescent

Advocates of Freedom

The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley John C. Rodrigue

African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles Hannah-Rose Murray | University of Edinburgh

Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery on British soil. Written with a wide audience in mind, it appeals to those who have an interest in American slavery and abolition, black activism, and the transatlantic journeys of African Americans to Britain.

Slaveries since Emancipation 387pp Jun. 2023 9781108720410 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108767057

Sweeping in scope, this book demonstrates how the Lower Mississippi Valley shaped the outcome of the Civil War and epitomized the destruction of slavery across the American South. Framed as a chronological narrative, this book will appeal to historians and general readers interested in emancipation and the Civil War.

Cambridge Studies on the American South 528pp Jan. 2023 9781108439343 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jan. 2023 9781108439343 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108539715

Nothing More than Freedom NEW IN PAPERBACK

American Slavery, American Imperialism US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914 Catherine Armstrong | Loughborough University

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery’s victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally.

Slaveries since Emancipation 297pp Jun. 2023 9781108701914 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108663908

The Failure of Abolition in American Law Giuliana Perrone | University of California, Santa Barbara

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War.

Studies in Legal History 280pp May 2023 9781009219198 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009219181

American history after 1945 NEW IN PAPERBACK

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.

250pp Jul. 2023 9781009276849 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009276818

American Survivors Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Naoko Wake | Michigan State University

Examining the little-known history of U.S. casualties of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, American Survivors brings to light the compellingly personal stories of U.S. survivors about war, illness, gender, and community in transPacific contexts.

408pp Aug. 2023 9781108799904 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 eISBN 9781108892094

Contesting France NEW IN PAPERBACK

Running from Bondage Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America Karen Cook Bell

Running from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War. Exploring who these women were and what motivated them to escape, Karen Cook Bell places their compelling stories within the broader historical narratives of slave resistance and the American Revolution.

0pp Jan. 2023 9781108926720 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.95 eISBN 9781108917551

Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War Susan McCall Perlman | National Intelligence University

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 Feb. 2023 9781316511817 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009053907

American history

LBJ’s America

Jubilee’s Experiment

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson Mark Atwood Lawrence | LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin

The British West Indies and American Abolitionism Dexter J. Gabriel | University of Connecticut, Storrs

This collection delves into Johnson’s life and presidency as well as the legacies that have shaped our society since the tumultuous 1960s. Sweeping and influential, this book is for general readers interested in the history of the US and its presidents.

A thorough examination of the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the emancipated British Caribbean colonies from the 1830s through the 1860s. An important intervention, Jubilee’s Experiment will interest scholars of transatlantic slavery and abolition.

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The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 388pp Oct. 2023 9781009172530 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009172547

The Second Cold War Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy Aaron Donaghy

In The Second Cold War, Aaron Donaghy examines the rise and fall of the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on American history, the Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, foreign policy, politics, and international relations.

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 404pp Feb. 2023 9781108947688 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108937016

Atlantic history A Concise History of Jamaica Kenneth Morgan | Brunel University

This book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way, this authoritative work will appeal to all readers interested in the Atlantic world.

Cambridge Concise Histories 304pp Oct. 2023 9781108459181 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 26.99 Oct. 2023 9781108472258 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108633765

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Friends of Freedom The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Micah Alpaugh

From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish nationalists to French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of an interconnected pattern. Friends of Freedom tells how activists worked together across nations to alter and overthrow regimes.

Slaveries since Emancipation 388pp Apr. 2023 9781108845502 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108979894

Volume 1 The Enlightenment and the British Colonies Wim Klooster | Clark University, Massachusetts

Volume I problematizes the concepts of Enlightenment and revolution, revealing how the former did not wholly cause the latter. The volume also provides a comprehensive analysis of the American Revolution, making it essential to American historians and scholars of the Atlantic World.

The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions 800pp Oct. 2023 9781108476034 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108567671

The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Volume 3 The Iberian Empires Wim Klooster | Clark University, Massachusetts

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish America and Brazil. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in the Iberian Empires.

The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions 800pp Oct. 2023 9781108475969 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108598248

The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Volume 2 France, Europe, and Haiti Wim Klooster | Clark University, Massachusetts

Volume II covers the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French and Haitian Revolutions and the changes they wrought. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in Europe.

The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions 800pp Oct. 2023 9781108475983 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108599405

512pp Sep. 2023 9781009012553 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009026116

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American history / British and Irish history

The Gift

Old Age and American Slavery

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Ana Lucia Araujo | Howard University, Washington DC

David Stefan Doddington | Cardiff University

The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture.

Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora 307pp Dec. 2023 9781108839297 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108989756

This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.

Cambridge Studies on the American South 424pp Oct. 2023 9781009123082 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009127974

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Colonial American history Law and Religion in Colonial America The Dissenting Colonies Scott Douglas Gerber | Ohio Northern University

Scott Douglas Gerber reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. An important contribution to the history of colonial America and religious liberty, this work will interest scholars of history, political science, and the law of religious freedom.

374pp Aug. 2023 9781009289054 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009289092

Slavery and Sacred Texts The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America Jordan T. Watkins | Brigham Young University, Utah

Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans’ appeal to the nations’ sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance.

Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society 398pp Mar. 2023 9781108746892 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108784344

History of native American peoples Early republic and antebellum history Born in Blood Violence and the Making of America Scott Gac | Trinity College, Connecticut

This important and timely book explains the political culture of violence that has shaped the United States from its inception. It will engage students, scholars and general readers interested in American history, African American history, and American studies.

330pp Feb. 2024 9781316511886 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009053105

Monitoring American Federalism The History of State Legislative Resistance Christian G. Fritz | University of New Mexico

Monitoring American Federalism examines the use of interposition as a constitutional tool to monitor the federal government and organize state resistance to perceived unconstitutional federal acts. This book is a much-needed addition to the study of American constitutional law and legal history.

Studies in Legal History 410pp Jan. 2023 9781009325578 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009325608

When Disease Came to This Country Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America Liza Piper | University of Alberta

A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism. Global Health Histories 365pp Aug. 2023 9781009320870 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009320924

British and Irish history 20C history of Britain NEW IN PAPERBACK

For King and Country The British Monarchy and the First World War Heather Jones | University College London

This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions that monarchism played. It is the first study to fully explore the role of the monarchy during the war and challenges assumptions that the conflict undermined the crown.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 590pp Oct. 2023 9781108454094 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108554619

British and Irish history

Futures of Socialism

Untied Kingdom

‘Modernisation’, the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997 Colm Murphy | Queen Mary University of London

A Global History of the End of Britain Stuart Ward | University of Copenhagen

Futures of Socialism overhauls the history of ‘modernisation’ and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the ‘modernisation’ of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour.

Modern British Histories 320pp Jun. 2023 9781009278812 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009278829

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 Feb. 2023 9781107145993 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 35.99 eISBN 9781316536322

mperial Heartland

History of Britain - 1066 - 1450

Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947 David Holland | University of Sheffield

Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400

Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, presenting a fresh and inspiring picture of settlement and inter-racial tolerance.

Modern British Histories 350pp Aug. 2023 9781009216197 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009216210

Lifescapes The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870–1960 Jeremy Burchardt | University of Reading

Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.

Modern British Histories 518pp May 2023 9781009199872 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009199858

The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill

Immigration, Integration and Economic Development Milan Pajic | Freie Universität Berlin

This study explores the economic contribution of immigrant textile workers from the Low Countries who settled in England in the fourteenth century. Providing historical context for contemporary debates on the free movement of people, it will appeal to scholars interested in medieval and migration history. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 368pp Nov. 2023 9781108489201 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108774215

Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England Spike Gibbs | Universität Mannheim, Germany

Drawing on untapped archival records, this book provides new insights into lord-tenant relations, state formation, social inequality, political participation and everyday life in rural societies. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 304pp 31 b/w illus. 4 maps 11 tables Jul. 2023 9781009311830 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009311847

Allen Packwood | Churchill College, Cambridge

Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill’s life and legacy in a broader context.

Cambridge Companions to History 484pp Jan. 2023 9781108794169 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2023 9781108840231 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781108879255

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin Volume 2 1066–1500 Carolinne White | University of Oxford

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.

350pp Jan. 2024 9781316637333 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Jan. 2024 9781107186576 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316890738

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British and Irish history

History of Britain (general) NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Story of Cambridge Second edition Stephanie Boyd

Cambridge is a small city on the edge of the Fens, yet it is famous throughout the world. This engaging history explains how Cambridge has grown from a small market town with an ancient University into a world centre for science, technology and artificial intelligence and a thriving modern city.

206pp May 2023 9781107428881 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 23.99 eISBN 9781139981712

Twilight of the Godlings The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings Francis Young | Independent scholar

A game-changing exploration of the ‘small gods’ of nature and everyday life in Britain from the Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. It addresses fauns and satyrs, fairies and elves, nymphs and forest sprites – shadowy deities of fate and chance – who dance their elusive way through Britain’s history.

350pp Mar. 2023 9781009330367 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009330343

History of Britain after 1450 A Nation of Petitioners Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918 Henry J. Miller | Durham University

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.

Modern British Histories 310pp Feb. 2023 9781316511701 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009053631

Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment The English and Scottish Experience Michael Hunter | Birkbeck College, University of London

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of openly-expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. This book offers a detailed analysis of three cases, and contrasts the real ‘assurance’ shown by such figures with the doubts expressed, often privately, by believers.

280pp Jul. 2023 9781009268776 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009268790

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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.

475pp May 2023 9781108971454 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.99 eISBN 9781108974981

Empire of Influence The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule Callie Wilkinson | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

An important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company’s empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.

262pp Mar. 2023 9781009311731 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009311717

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England’s Second Reformation The Battle for the Church of England 1625–1662 Anthony Milton | University of Sheffield

This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, rather than a destructive aberration, this period is integral to (and indeed the climax of) England’s post-Reformation history.

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 542pp Sep 2023 9781316647295 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 eISBN 9781108164757

Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 Simon Devereaux | University of Victoria, British Columbia This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the ‘Bloody Code’ and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England. Studies in Legal History 330pp Oct. 2023 9781009392150 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009392129

British and Irish history

Gender and Policing in Early Modern England Jonah Miller | University of Cambridge

This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 258pp Jun. 2023 9781009305143 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305174

Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547 Laura Flannigan | University of Oxford

The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tudor monarchy’s administration of justice, presenting a more holistic vision of politics and society in late medieval and early modern England.

Lucky Valley

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 342pp Oct. 2023 9781009371360 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009371346

Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism Catherine Hall | University College London

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Written in 1774, Edward Long’s History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long’s thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.

Critical Perspectives on Empire 350pp Feb. 2024 9781009098854 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009106399

Mungo Park’s Ghost The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa Dane Kennedy | George Washington University, Washington DC

The British sent two large expeditions to Africa in 1816, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. The forgotten story of their disastrous failures is a revealing case study of the hubris that spurred the exploration of Africa.

270pp 25 b/w illus. 5 maps Oct. 2023 9781009392983 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009392990

On Laudianism Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I Peter Lake | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define ‘Anglicanism’ ever since. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 654pp Sep. 2023 9781009306812 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781009306829

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Oskar Cox Jensen | University of East Anglia

Ballad-singers were central to the cultural, social and political life of Britain for three centuries. Focusing on those who plied this musical trade, and complemented by recordings of over sixty songs, this engaging study offers the first in-depth history of the London ballad-singer during the period of their heyday and decline.

298pp Mar. 2023 9781108821087 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108908108

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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.

363pp Oct. 2023 9781108820394 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108906951

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire William J. Bulman | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. This expansive history charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decisionmaking in popular assemblies, in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions.

293pp Feb. 2023 9781108829205 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108909648

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British and Irish history

The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780

Writing the World in Early Medieval England

Law, Society, and State Formation Naomi Tadmor | Lancaster University

Nicole Guenther Discenza | University of South Florida

In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. This ground-breaking book explores the far-reaching consequences of the English settlement laws for society, culture, and the state from c.1660 to 1780.

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 300pp Nov. 2023 9781108499194 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108595063

Working-Class Raj 8

Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson | University of Mississippi

Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.

Modern British Histories 250pp Nov. 2023 9781009356589 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009356565

History of Britain before 1066 Anglo-Saxon England Volume 49 Rosalind Love | University of Cambridge

Contributions to the forty-ninth volume of AngloSaxon England focus on various aspects of AngloSaxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from Anglo-Saxon wedding rites in be wifmannes beweddunge to isotopic evidence of elite diets and a reassessment of feorm. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Anglo-Saxon England 280pp Jul. 2023 9781009408899 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781009408868

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin Volume 1 450–1066 Carolinne White | University of Oxford

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450–1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.

350pp Jan. 2024 9781316637326 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Jan. 2024 9781107186514 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316890691

The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. This Element provides insights about early medieval English who were engaged deeply in a variety of modes with other parts of their world.

Elements in England in the Early Medieval World 75pp Sep. 2023 9781108932059 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781108943147

Irish history Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 Darragh Gannon | University College Dublin

From the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins, Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to British assessments of the Irish Question. Far from a ‘sideshow’ to the revolutionary events in Ireland, this study argues that the Irish Revolution was defined by political conflicts, and cultures, across the Irish Sea.

320pp Jun. 2023 9781009158275 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009158299

Land and Liberalism Henry George and the Irish Land War Andrew Phemister | Newcastle University

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 Mar. 2023 9781009202893 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009202909

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland Mary E. Daly | University College Dublin

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.

334pp May 2023 9781009314879 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 May 2023 9781009314893 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009314886

European history

European history 20C European history Between God and Hitler Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany Doris L. Bergen | University of Toronto

Protestant pastors and Catholic priests served as chaplains in Hitler’s military. What role did Christian chaplains play in Nazi crimes? Drawing on a wide array of sources this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.

334pp May 2023 9781108487702 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108767712

Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933 Adam Bisno

Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin’s grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler’s rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Publications of the German Historical Institute 236pp Oct. 2023 9781316515631 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009026154

Building Socialism The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941 Yiannis Kokosalakis | Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Provides the first detailed examination of rankand-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system, offering an empirical account of the bottom level of the apparatus of the Soviet Communist Party in its formative years.

New Studies in European History 330pp May 2023 9781009218863 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009218870

Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany The Fragebogen 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.

Feeding the Mind Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919–1933 Tomás Irish | Swansea University

In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europe’s intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continent’s democracies and preserve international peace. This groundbreaking book tells the story of the postwar rebuilding of European intellectual life.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 290pp Nov. 2023 9781009123228 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009128476

Frontiers of Empire Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945 Robert L. Nelson | University of Windsor, Ontario

Frontiers of Empire connects the settlement of the North American West with Germany’s colonization of Eastern Europe, through the fascinating biography of Max Sering, a world-famous professor who was present at every major phase in the evolution of Germany’s relationship with its eastern frontier.

335pp Feb. 2024 9781009235365 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009235402

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Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights Robert Brier

Robert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy.

Human Rights in History 285pp Mar. 2023 9781108460491 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108565233

Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms R. J. B. Bosworth | University of Oxford

What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? This vivid and engaging biographical study explores the highs and lows of a family that was at the centre of Italian politics over several generations, and traces the complex relationship between public and private life.

274pp Feb. 2023 9781009280174 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009280167

350pp Mar. 2023 9781009216333 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009216326

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European history

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The Atrocity of Hunger

Postcolonial People

Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow Ghettos during World War II Helene J. Sinnreich | University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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.

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.

379pp Oct. 2023 9781108931595 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108942560

300pp Feb. 2023 9781009100083 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009105293

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The Cambridge History of the European Union

Reinventing French Aid The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in FrenchOccupied Germany, 1945–1952 Laure Humbert | University of Manchester

Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid was influenced by French politics of national recovery and the rivalries of the Cold War. She highlights different cultures of rehabilitation in the French zone of occupied Germany, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about ‘overcoming’ poverty and warinduced injuries in the domestic context.

371pp Mar. 2023 9781108932776 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108916981

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Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe The Deluge of 1919 Eliza Ablovatski | Kenyon College, Ohio

Eliza Ablovatksi offers an innovative comparative and transnational study of revolution and counterrevolution in Central Europe in 1919. She employs the experiences of Munich and Budapest to analyze how revolutionary scripts and narratives, framed by antisemitism and gender stereotypes, shaped political events and violence.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 314pp Mar. 2023 9781108978781 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781139049535

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Saving Nature Under Socialism Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 – 1990 Julia E. Ault | University of Utah

When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. Saving Nature Under Socialism introduces readers to environmentalism in Cold War East Germany and traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe from the 1960s. New Studies in European History 276pp Mar. 2023 9781009001656 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009003810

Volume 1 European Integration Outside-In Mathieu Segers | Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Volume I considers the history of the European Union from an outside-in perspective, evaluating which outside forces shaped and guided the process of European integration. Taking an innovative, thematic approach, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of European integration.

The Cambridge History of the European Union 696pp Nov. 2023 9781108490405 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108780865

The Cambridge History of the European Union Volume 2 European Integration Inside-Out Mathieu Segers | Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Volume II considers the history of the European Union from an inside-out perspective, focusing on the internal developments that shaped the European integration process. Taking an innovative, thematic approach, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of European integration.

The Cambridge History of the European Union 726pp Nov. 2023 9781108478939 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108781480

The Cambridge History of the European Union 2 Volume Hardback Set Mathieu Segers | Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

This two-volume set focuses on European integration from a diachronic, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional angle to present the most comprehensive and contemporary history to date. An important resource for students and researchers interested in the European Union.

The Cambridge History of the European Union 1422pp Nov. 2023 9781009284370 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00

European history

The Origins of European Integration The Pre-History of Today’s European Union, 1937–1951 Mathieu Segers | Maastricht University

Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and contemporary history, this book explores how and why European integration came to pass, showing that the roots of today’s European Union lie deep in Europe’s past and encompass more than war and peace, or diplomacy and economics. 244pp Oct. 2023 9781009379427 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2023 9781009379410 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009379380

The People’s Dictatorship A History of Nazi Germany Alan E. Steinweis | University of Vermont

This up-to-date, succinct, and highly readable survey presents a new synthesis of the origins, development, and downfall of Nazi Germany, making accessible classic and recent research and focusing on the interplay of Nazi violence and the readiness of Germans to accommodate themselves to the new regime.

New Approaches to European History 240pp Jan. 2023 9781107652842 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2023 9781107012363 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9780511998140

The Power of Emotions A History of Germany from 1900 to the Present Ute Frevert | Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Emotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions – including anger, grief, hate, love, pride, shame and trust – Ute Frevert explores the emotional worlds of Germans to tell a very different story of the 20th century.

376pp Aug. 2023 9781009376822 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2023 9781009376839 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009376792

Vichy’s Double Bind French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War Karine Varley | University of Strathclyde

Vichy’s Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind, between the irreconcilable positions of the two Axis governments.

New Studies in European History 230pp Jul. 2023 9781009368292 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009368346

We Are All Migrants A History of Multicultural Germany Jan Plamper | University of Limerick

We Are All Migrants is the first narrative history of multicultural Germany, told through life-stories, charting the groups and waves of post-1945 migration to Germany, West and East, and showing that the story of immigration to Germany is a success story.

280pp Mar. 2023 9781009242257 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2023 9781009242295 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009242264

European history - 1000 - 1450 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries Janna Coomans | Universiteit van Amsterdam

Debunking the myth of medieval cities as apathetic in the face of filth and disease, Janna Coomans builds a new understanding of how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, with responsibilities negotiated among different groups, across areas ranging from water, food and sanitation to pigs, prostitutes and plague.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 350pp Jul. 2023 9781108927161 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108924344

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Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine Rico Franses | American University of Beirut

Argues that donor portraits in Byzantine art should instead be considered as contact portraits. Contends that the most important feature of the scenes of supplication between mortals and holy, supernatural interlocutors consists in the active role that they play within the belief systems of the supplicants. 261pp 64 b/w illus. Mar. 2023 9781108407588 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 eISBN 9781108290517

La Prinse et mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre, based on British Library MS Harley 1319, and Other Works by Jehan Creton Volume 65 Lorna A. Finlay

La Prinse et mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre by Jehan Creton (composed 1399-1402) is a valuable source for scholars of medieval history. This edition presents the complete text and a translation, along with Creton’s other known writings and quality reproductions of the miniatures that were an integral part of the writer’s original work. Camden Fifth Series 480pp Jul. 2023 9781009387248 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781009387231

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European history

Measuring in the Renaissance

The Renaissance on the Road

An Introduction Emanuele Lugli

Mobility, Migration and Cultural Exchange Rosa Salzberg | Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production, warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This Element delves into the applications of measuring, with a particular emphasis on the Italian states, and traces its wideranging cultural effects.

This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period’s dynamism, creativity, and conflict. It highlights the experiences of a wide range of mobile populations, paying particular attention to the concrete, practical dimensions of moving around at this time.

Elements in the Renaissance 75pp Aug. 2023 9781009073974 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009072830

Elements in the Renaissance 75pp Jul. 2023 9781108965668 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781108963886

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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 359pp Oct. 2023 9781108978842 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108974516

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The Byzantine Hellene The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century Dimiter Angelov | Harvard University, Massachusetts

The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling over a Byzantine state in exile after the disastrous Fourth Crusade, illuminate the transformation of the politics and culture of Byzantium and unveil little-known aspects of the medieval encounters between the Greek East and the Latin West.

493pp 30 b/w illus. 3 maps Mar. 2023 9781108727952 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108690874

The Power of Protocol Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400 – c.1600 D. L. d’Avray | University College London

How did the papacy govern European religious life without a proper bureaucracy and the normal resources of a state? The Power of Protocol explores how the demand for papal services was met and examines the genesis and structure of papal documents from the Roman empire to after the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century.

300pp Aug. 2023 9781009361118 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009361156

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Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453 Magdalena Skoblar

An international team of historians and archaeologists examines the textual sources and material evidence for trade and administration between the medieval Adriatic and Byzantium. They offer stimulating ideas concerning the entire Mediterranean and provide a better understanding of this important region before the heyday of Venice. British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity 424pp 56 colour illus. 2 maps 5 tables Mar. 2023 9781108814645 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781108886987

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Rome and the Invention of the Papacy The Liber Pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick | University of Cambridge

The remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within Western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers pioneering insights into the evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance.

The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture 289pp Mar. 2023 9781108819237 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 19.99 eISBN 9781108872584

Rome in the Ninth Century A History in Art John Osborne | Carleton University, Ottawa

Integrates the evidence for ninth-century Rome derived from standing remains and their decorations, objects in museum and library collections, contemporaneous documents, and recent archaeology in order to create an interdisciplinary space defined as ‘history in art’. A sequel to the author’s Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020).

British School at Rome Studies 348pp 56 colour illus. 2 maps Nov. 2023 9781009415378 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009415422

European history

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition

Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe

From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries Yaniv Fox | Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Stuart Carroll | University of York

The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.

325pp Sep. 2023 9781009285018 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009285025

Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe’s transition to modernity between 1500 and 1800. This book transforms our understanding of that process, exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies, the violence it engendered and the solutions that helped create modern society.

490pp Mar. 2023 9781009287326 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009287319

French Colonialism

European history (general)

From the Ancien Régime to the Present Leonard V. Smith | Oberlin College, Ohio

A Concise History of Belgium

Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. This narrative history recounts the unique origins and purposes of the French empire, through to the numberless traces that remain both in the former colonies and in today’s French Republic.

Guy Vanthemsche | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The nation-state of Belgium, born in 1830, and the polities that preceded it, have played an important role in European and even global history. This introductory history offers an accessible and rigorous overview of this small but important West-European country, from ancient times to the present.

Cambridge Concise Histories 396pp Mar. 2023 9780521127370 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2023 9780521192415 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781139018005

New Approaches to European History 250pp Jul. 2023 9781108799157 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2023 9781108836685 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781108874489

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In Fortune’s Theater

European history after 1450 Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment Joan-Pau Rubiés | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective.

358pp Mar. 2023 9781009305341 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009305372

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English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800 James E. Kelly | University of Durham

Highlighting the significance of the English convents in exile as part of, and contributors to, national and European Catholic culture, James E. Kelly situates the English Catholic experience within the wider context of the Catholic Reformation and Catholic Europe, and thus transforms our understanding of the convents.

233pp Aug. 2023 9781108810463 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108846851

Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy Nicholas Scott Baker

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures in Italian society and demonstrates important shifts in attitudes towards time, decision making about the future and risk-taking during the Renaissance.

266pp Sep. 2023 9781108826945 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108920674

Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe A Cultural History of Gambling Jared Poley | Georgia State University

Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. New Studies in European History 220pp Sep. 2023 9781009393546 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009393539

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Mercenaries of Knowledge Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics Fabien Montcher | Saint Louis University, Missouri

From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics, through the life of the Portuguese juristscholar, Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654).

350pp Aug. 2023 9781009340496 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009340458

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Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy Alison Brown | Royal Holloway, University of London

This life of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s eldest son provides a portrait of an aspiring Renaissance ruler, and explains the crisis in Italy that caused his political downfall and exile. A musician, poet, sportsman, patron of the arts and exile, Piero illuminates the Renaissance at the moment of its transition from a civic to a princely culture.

352pp Sep. 2023 9781108746571 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108783798

Red Secularism Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 Todd H. Weir | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Exploring the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history, this book reveals the educational efforts of red secularists to transmit to workers their humanisticmaterialistic worldview and their crucial role in the political struggles over religion which fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933.

336pp Nov. 2023 9781107132030 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316443736

Royal Heirs

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 758pp 25 maps Mar. 2023 9781108417662 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108278096

The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 3 Volume Hardback Set Alan Forrest | University of York

This three-volume work provides a complete history of the Napoleonic Wars from their origins in eighteenth-century diplomacy to their memory and political legacy. Written by a team of leading historians, it will be essential reading for scholars and students of international diplomacy, war and society and nineteenth-century European history.

The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 1800pp Mar. 2023 9781108226912 0 Hardback GBP 300.00 / USD 390.00 eISBN 9781108226905

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 Jan. 2023 9781009240567 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2023 9781009240598 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009240581

Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe Frank Lorenz Müller | University of St Andrews, Scotland

The Whole Economy

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.

Advocating a gender-inclusive approach, this book highlights the transformative potential of including women’s work in wider assessments of economic performance. It provides a key point of reference in debates about the character of early modern economic development as well as a lasting contribution to the gender history of early modern Europe.

375pp Jan. 2023 9781316512913 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009071284

Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe Catriona Macleod | University of Glasgow

259pp Jun. 2023 9781009359368 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jun. 2023 9781009359351 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009359344

European history / History - cross discipline

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 Jan. 2023 9781108838443 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108974790

Russian, East European history 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 Jan. 2023 9781107630215 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jan. 2023 9781107028388 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781139236140

Making National Diasporas Soviet-Era Migrations and Post-Soviet Consequences Lewis H. Siegelbaum | Michigan State University

This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of ‘their own’ Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for them and their post-Soviet host countries.

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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.

518pp Feb. 2023 9781009048712 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 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 Jun. 2023 9781108830508 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108907750

The Business of Armaments Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855–1955 Joanna Spear | George Washington University, Washington DC

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.

Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History 75pp Aug. 2023 9781009371834 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009371810

314pp Jan. 2023 9781009297523 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009297516

History - cross discipline

The Tricontinental Revolution

Diplomatic, international history

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.

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International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War Jaclyn Granick | Cardiff University

Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands. She provides insights into the origins of American Jewish philanthropy and politics and its implications for understanding modern humanitarianism as a whole.

NEW IN PAPERBACK Third World Radicalism and the Cold War R. Joseph Parrott | Ohio State University

385pp Mar. 2023 9781009364973 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009004824

418pp Oct. 2023 9781108816830 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108860697

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History - cross discipline

Economic history Marché Noir The Economy of Survival in Second World War France Kenneth Mouré | University of Alberta

Marché Noir explains how and why black markets in France became essential to ordinary consumers and to businesses to survive scarcity and German exploitation. Drawing on archival evidence and diverse records of personal experience, Kenneth Mouré explains the black market’s critical role in everyday life in Vichy France.

324pp Mar. 2023 9781009207669 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009207683

Order and Rivalry Rewriting the Rules of International Trade after the First World War Madeleine Lynch Dungy | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Order and Rivalry traces the formation and development of multilateral trade structures in the aftermath of the First World War in response to the marginalization of Europe in global markets, the use of private commerce as a tool of military power and the collapse of empires in Central and Eastern Europe.

328pp Jun. 2023 9781009308908 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009308892

The Nationalist Dilemma

An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000

A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present Marvin Suesse | Trinity College Dublin

Pedro Lains | Universidade de Lisboa

Explains how the ideas of nationalist economists and policy makers have shaped the world economy for more than two centuries. This global history shows how nationalists have built transnational networks to disseminate their creed, exploiting inequality, financial crises and ethnic divisions to form the basis for powerful political movements.

This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Written by a team of leading historians and including extensive new data, this will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development.

806pp Nov. 2023 9781108488327 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 190.00 eISBN 9781108770217

Capital Shortage

434pp May 2023 9781108831383 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108917087

The Reserve Bank of India

Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920–1960 Maanik Nath | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Volume 5, 1997–2008 Volume 5 Tirthankar Roy | London School of Economics and Political Science

A study of capital shortage and widespread poverty in colonial and postcolonial India. Connecting environmental, institutional and political economic theories to history, Maanik Nath offers new insights on why credit was scarce, and how this scarcity affected development patterns in the Global South.

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.

Imperial Borderlands

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

250pp Aug. 2023 9781009359078 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009359023

Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier Bogdan G. Popescu | John Cabot University, Rome

What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic development? The book focuses on the Habsburg frontier and provides a new framework for understanding how states force borderland dwellers to help accomplish the state’s objectives and the long-term repercussions for access to public goods.

300pp Dec. 2023 9781009365161 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009365215

750pp May 2023 9781316511329 Hardback GBP 145.00 / USD 190.00 eISBN 9781009052252

Carlo Bastasin | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Roma

Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a muchneeded, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present. They reveal the factors behind Italy’s twentieth-century growth as well as how economic decline in the last thirty years has resulted in rising levels of populism, mistrust and government instability.

211pp Aug. 2023 9781009235310 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2023 9781009235341 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009235303

History - cross discipline

The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 Oscar Sanchez-Sibony | The University of Hong Kong

Highlights the importance of the Soviet Union and the socialist world in shaping the rise of the international political economy we know today. Sanchez-Sibony documents how the Soviets succeeded in helping bring about financialization and international market practices in Europe.

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Locusts of Power Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East Samuel Dolbee | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

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.

290pp Aug. 2023 9781108834544 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108993555

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Varieties of Structural Transformation

Medieval Riverscapes

Patterns, Determinants and Consequences Kunal Sen | UNU-WIDER and University of Manchester

One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural transformation, which is the movement of workers from agriculture to manufacturing and services. This study identifies different routes to structural transformation that we see in the developing world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

75pp Sep. 2023 9781009449953 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 Sep. 2023 9781009449915 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009449939

Virtue Capitalists The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 Hannah Forsyth | Australian Catholic University, Sydney

Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding whitecollar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

317pp Aug. 2023 9781009206488 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009206471

Why Populism? Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present Paul Kenny | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

Accessibly and engagingly written, this book uses the conceptual toolkit of economics to show that populists are rational actors in search of the cheapest and fastest route to high office. As a strategy based on direct mass communication with voters, populism thrives when it is more costeffective than its alternatives.

250pp Apr. 2023 9781009275293 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009275262

Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100 Ellen F. Arnold | Universitet i Stavanger, Norway

In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints’ lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 300–1100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuries, she explores how environmental experiences were incorporated into pre-modern cultural spaces.

345pp Dec. 2023 9781009299398 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009299381

The Catch An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries Richard C. Hoffmann | York University, Toronto

By bringing human-nature interactions to the centre of medieval history, Richard C. Hoffmann provides a reassessment of European life from c. 500 to 1500 CE. This rich study deepens understanding of long and short-term changes in Europe’s human society, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems under pressures of natural and human origin.

350pp May 2023 9781108958202 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 May 2023 9781108845465 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108955898

Global history African Activists in a Decolonising World The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966 Ismay Milford | Universität Leipzig

Through the perspective of activists from East and Central Africa, Milford presents a history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she foregrounds the role of these activists in transnational networks and the limits of the solidarity projects in which they participated. 320pp 5 b/w illus. 2 maps Mar. 2023 9781009276993 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009277020

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Early Tang China and the World, 618–750 CE Shao-yun Yang | Denison University, Ohio

This Element presents a broad and revisionist analysis of early Tang China’s relations with the rest of the Eurasian world and argues that idealizing the Tang as exceptionally “cosmopolitan” limits our ability to think both critically and globally about its actions and policies as an empire.

75pp May 2023 9781009214643 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009214612

Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE Shao-yun Yang | Denison University, Ohio

This Element reassesses the standard cosmopolitanism-to-xenophobia narrative of late Tang China, presenting a more empiricallygrounded and nuanced interpretation of the Tang empire’s foreign relations after 755.

75pp May 2023 9781009397254 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009397278

Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400 Patricia Blessing | Princeton University, New Jersey

Considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners.

75pp May 2023 9781009393362 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009393379

Mooring the Global Archive A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories Martin Dusinberre | Universität Zürich

The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship’s journeys between Japan, Hawai’i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world.

300pp Aug. 2023 9781009346528 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2023 9781009346511 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009346535

Punishing Workers, Managing Labour Volume 31 Christiande Vito

This volume addresses the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, examining a variety of cases across space and time. The editors claim that the effective management of labour required the systematic differentiation of the workforce, with diversified forms of punishment not merely reflecting but creating labour distinctions. 280pp Aug. 2023 9781009421348 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009421331

Red Internationalism Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies Salar Mohandesi | Bowdoin College, Maine

Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.

354pp Feb. 2023 9781316513798 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009076128

Slavery in East Asia Don J. Wyatt | Middlebury College, Vermont

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. 75pp Jan. 2023 9781009001700 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009007009

Southeast Asian Interconnections Geography, Networks and Trade Derek Heng | Northern Arizona University

Since the late first millennium CE, Maritime Southeast Asia has been an inter-connected zone, with its societies and states maintaining economic and diplomatic relations with both China and Japan on the east, and the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East on the west.

75pp Jan. 2023 9781108827423 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781108907095

The Anticolonial Transnational Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire Erez Manela | Harvard University, Massachusetts

The first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century. Leading scholars demonstrate that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, and that their legacies fundamentally shaped the present. 332pp Aug. 2023 9781009359092 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2023 9781009359108 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009359115

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.

800pp Jan. 2023 9781108423939 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 Jan. 2023 9781108226875 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108539272

History - cross discipline

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Archaeology as History

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set

Telling Stories from a Fragmented Past Catherine J. Frieman | Australian National University, Canberra

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.

1600pp Jan. 2023 9781108539227 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781108539210

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions Adrian Howkins | University of Bristol

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.

850pp May 2023 9781108429931 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108555654

Urban Disasters Cindy Ermus | University of Texas, San Antonio

This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. This concise history looks at a series of case studies from the eighteenth century through to COVID-19. 0pp Sep. 2023 9781009001908 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009004053

Historical theory, historical method and historiography A History of Big History Ian Hesketh | University of Queensland

This Element examines the theory and practice of Big History, considers it alongside previous largescale attempts to unite human and natural history, and includes comparative discussions of the practices of chronology, universal history, and the evolutionary epic.

75pp Jun. 2023 9781009005197 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009036399

This Element aims to provide readers with a reflexive and comprehensive overview of what it is that archaeologists do. The goal is to shift the reader’s perspective of archaeology away from seeing it as a primarily data gathering field, to a clearer understanding of how archaeologists make and use the data they uncover.

75pp Aug. 2023 9781009055567 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009052412

Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project Ruth Ahnert | Queen Mary University of London and The Alan Turing Institute, London

Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. This Element describes efforts to bring together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years’ worth of digitisation projects. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 75pp Feb. 2023 9781009175555 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009175548

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining A Methodology for Digital History JoGuldi | Southern Methodist University, Texas

Text mining is the art of counting words over time. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new insights into politics, culture, and historical change that can result – and argues that, without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors.

436pp Aug. 2023 9781009262996 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2023 9781009262989 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009263016

The Fabric of Historical Time Zoltán Boldizsár Simon | Bielefeld University, Germany

This Element sketches a theory of historical time as based on a distinction between temporality and historicity. It pays special attention to the morethan-human temporalities of the Anthropocene, the technology-fueled historicities of runaway changes, and the conflicts in the fabric of historical time. 75pp Sep. 2023 9781009108331 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009103947

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History - cross discipline

History of ideas and intellectual history A Caribbean Enlightenment Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792 April G. Shelford | American University, Washington DC

Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming ‘enlightened’ meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.

350pp Sep. 2023 9781009360807 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009360821

Boredom Elena Carrera | Queen Mary University of London

This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

75pp Aug. 2023 9781009412384 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009412360

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Constituent Power A History Lucia Rubinelli | University of Cambridge

Tracing the history of constituent power over five key moments from the French Revolution onwards, Lucia Rubinelli considers the history of the idea in relation to the state and its institutions, and asks why constituent power is so often conflated with sovereignty. 278pp Mar. 2023 9781108707138 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108757119

Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism Peter R. Anstey | University of Sydney

Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book is the first integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy, one of the most significant developments of the period.

350pp Feb. 2023 9781316516461 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009030236

Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas New Methods and Computational Approaches Peterde Bolla | University of Cambridge

What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? This book explains how computational approaches to text mining can substantially increase the power of our understanding of ideas in history.

300pp Nov. 2023 9781009263580 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009263610

Hegel and the Representative Constitution Elias Buchetmann | Universität Rostock, Germany

This important volume provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel’s political thought. It also provides an accessible entry point into the Philosophy of Right and sheds new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe.

320pp Apr. 2023 9781009305969 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305983

Herder and Enlightenment Politics Eva Piirimäe | University of Tartu

By situating his evolving ideas in pan-European debates on the problems and prospects of modern European politics, this book proposes a radically new interpretation of the political thought of Johann Gottfried Herder, and shows that Herder was deeply committed to finding ways to achieve moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe.

411pp Apr. 2023 9781009263863 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009263825

Hijacked How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back Elizabeth Anderson | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today’s neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people.

384pp Sep. 2023 9781009275439 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009275422

Marketing Violence The Affective Economy of Violent Imageries in the Dutch Republic Frans-Willem Korsten | Universiteit Leiden

This Element describes the development of an affective economy of violence in the early modern Dutch Republic through the circulation of images. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

75pp Aug. 2023 9781009246460 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009246446

Memes, History and Emotional Life Katie Barclay | University of Adelaide

This Element explores the historical art meme as a key cultural form that offers insight into contemporary online emotional cultures and the ways that historical emotions enable and inform the practices of such culture.

75pp Jul. 2023 9781009073295 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009063715

History - cross discipline

Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Time, History, and Political Thought

Tejas Parasher | University of California, Los Angeles

John Robertson | University of Cambridge

Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia.

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.

The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment

History of medicine

280pp Jul. 2023 9781009305594 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305563

Martin Mulsow | University of Erfurt

330pp Jun. 2023 9781009289368 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009289399

The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant ‘moderate’ Enlightenment?

Contraception and Modern Ireland

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

350pp Feb. 2023 9781108969772 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2023 9781108839105 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108979740

413pp Jul. 2023 9781009241151 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009241168

An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 Christopher S. Celenza | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the European Enlightenment, this book touches on how people in the past changed their reading habits, and how technology changed their perception of truth. 339pp Apr. 2023 9781108970419 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108980623

The Jewish Imperial Imagination Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought Yaniv Feller | University of Florida

Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a famous Jewish thinker and the leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. This book offers the first interpretation of his religious thought as political, showing how Baeck, along with German-Jewish thought more broadly, cannot be properly understood without the imperial context.

300pp Sep. 2023 9781009321891 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009321877

The Power of Necessity Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650 Lisa Kattenberg | University of Amsterdam

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.

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.

Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge Petros Bouras-Vallianatos | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Adopts a pan-Mediterranean approach to the study of medieval medicine and pharmacology, which permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange. Of great importance to medical historians, medieval historians and scholars of Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin traditions. 448pp 17 colour illus. Nov. 2023 9781009389754 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009389792

History of science and technology Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Alexandra Roginski | Deakin University, Victoria

A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered. 300pp Jun. 2023 9781316519448 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009023665

325pp Jan. 2023 9781316513149 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009071864

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History - cross discipline

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Hitler’s Panzer Generals

Technological Internationalism and World Order

Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded David Stahel | University of New South Wales, Canberra

Waqar H. Zaidi | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

A unique study of technology and international relations, Zaidi’s book explores early attempts at the governance of aviation and atomic energy through international organizations such as the United Nations. It speaks to growing interest in the international governance of powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons. 314pp Mar. 2023 9781108819190 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108872416

The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany Visions of Chemical Modernity Peter Thompson | Michigan State University

A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War. Peter Thompson traces how the development and proliferation of chemical protective technologies like the gas mask produced new subjective relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. 320pp May 2023 9781009314824 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009314862

The Land of the Hunger Artists Science, Spectacle and Authority, c.1880–1922 Agustí Nieto-Galan | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.

300pp Dec. 2023 9781009379564 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2023 9781009379588 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009379540

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Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation Why Germany Declared War on the United States Klaus H. Schmider

In this revisionist account, Klaus H. Schmider examines German strategy, foreign policy and war production to uncover the chain of events which would incite Hitler to declare war on the United States - a move which may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but which would doom the Third Reich.

613pp Feb. 2023 9781108792547 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108870405

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 May 2023 9781009282819 Paperback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009282802

Holding Out The German Army and Operational Command in 1917 Tony Cowan

A ground-breaking study of German operational command from November 1916 to the eve of the third battle of Ypres. Tony Cowan’s detailed analysis of the German defeat of the 1917 Entente spring offensive sheds new light on how the army and Germany were able to hold out so long during the war against increasing odds.

386pp Apr. 2023 9781108830232 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108900553

Making Sense of the Great War Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front Alex Mayhew | University of Birmingham

Alex Mayhew provides new perspectives on military morale by exploring the experiences of English infantrymen in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. Drawing on approaches from anthropology, psychology, and sociology, he examines the morale and endurance of these soldiers and helps to explain how soldiers made sense of the Great War. 366pp Dec. 2023 9781009168755 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009168762

Occupied European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945 Aviel Roshwald | Georgetown University, Washington DC

The first single-authored, comparative account of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during World War II. Using eleven comparative case studies from two continents, Roshwald explores three themes: patriotism, civil wars, and anti-colonial nationalism in the context of Axis occupation.

481pp Apr. 2023 9781108790826 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Apr. 2023 9781108479790 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108786430

History - cross discipline

Purpose and Power US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present Donald Stoker | National Defense University, Washington, DC

Crossing the full span of the nation’s history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes for and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand strategies underpinning the nation’s pursuit of sovereignty, security, expansion, and democracy abroad.

586pp Nov. 2023 9781009257275 Hardback GBP 27.99 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781009257268

Resistance and Liberation France at War, 1942-1945 Douglas Porch | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its global influence. Douglas Porch charts the dynamics of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.

838pp Jan. 2024 9781009161145 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009161152

Sisters in Arms Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War Jeremy A. Crang | University of Edinburgh

During the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women’s auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces.

353pp Apr. 2023 9781107601116 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139004190

Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare Phil Haun | US Naval War College

The book examines US air power in the Vietnam War and the air wars that followed. The book introduces a new theory of tactical air power along with the operational and environmental factors that explain the effectiveness of modern air power.

300pp Dec. 2023 9781009364195 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 Dec. 2023 9781009364171 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009364201

The British Home Front and the First World War

The Cambridge History of Strategy Volume 1 From Antiquity to the American War of Independence Isabelle Duyvesteyn | Universiteit Leiden

Focusing on the period from 1800 to the present, Volume II showcases a diverse set of case studies to illustrate the practice of strategy in different places around the globe.

634pp Feb. 2024 9781108479950 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108788090

The Cambridge History of Strategy Volume 2 From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present Isabelle Duyvesteyn | Universiteit Leiden

With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, throughout the world. This volume addresses how strategy was formulated and applied, and with what tools.

608pp Feb. 2024 9781108479929 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108801546

The Last Treaty Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East Michelle Tusan | University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe’s War with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East.

348pp 15 b/w illus. 7 maps Jun. 2023 9781009371087 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009371063

Uncivil War The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975 Huw Bennett | Cardiff University

When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict.

382pp Oct. 2023 9781107136380 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781316479841

Warrior Women

Hew Strachan | University of St Andrews, Scotland

The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850–1945 Alison S. Fell | University of Liverpool

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.

This Element examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War are best understood as examples of ‘palimpsestic memory’ and of ‘travelling memory’.

495pp Mar. 2023 9781009012324 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Mar. 2023 9781316515495 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009025874

75pp May 2023 9781009069045 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781009070089

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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’

348pp 17 b/w illus. 7 maps Apr. 2023 9781009266680 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009266659

History - other areas 20C history (general) The Cambridge World History of Genocide Volume 3 Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020 Ben Kiernan | Yale University, Connecticut

Volume III documents the global history of modern and contemporary genocides, integrating the specific history of the Holocaust into those of wider genocidal acts and ideologies. A contemporary volume that will be of interest to students and historians of the twentieth century, humanitarians and political scientists.

820pp May 2023 9781108487078 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108767118

African history Arming Black Consciousness The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke | Georgia State University

Using oral and archival sources, Toivo Asheeke excavates the neglected history of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle in South Africa. Asheeke highlights the BCM’s engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism.

308pp Jun. 2023 9781009346665 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009346696

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race M. T. Howard | University of Oxford

Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army during the war of liberation (1965-1980). It enriches scholarly understandings of the motivations and loyalties of colonial troops. 332pp Dec. 2023 9781009348447 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009348423

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal Bernard Moitt | Virginia Commonwealth University

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

206pp Oct. 2023 9781009296472 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009296441

Dress Cultures in Zambia Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life Karen Tranberg Hansen | Northwestern University, Illinois

Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the latecolonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.

237pp Apr. 2023 9781009350365 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009350310

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.

332pp Feb. 2023 9781009199490 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009199476

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.

252pp Jan. 2023 9781009224611 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009224581

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Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa Race, Childhood, and Citizenship Rachel Jean-Baptiste | University of California, Davis

Drawing on multinational oral history and archival research, Rachel Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of multiracial people, or ‘métis’ in colonial French Africa. Offering a nuanced history of race-making, belonging, and rights, she shows how métis carved out varied visions of belonging in Africa, Europe, and internationally.

292pp Jun. 2023 9781108489041 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108773751

Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré | Pomona College, California

Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré shows the Soninke community’s resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of ethnic belonging. Traoré highlights the varied ways in which West Africans crafted and negotiated their identities. 452pp Oct. 2023 9781009282345 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781009282352

Plunder for Profit A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Elijah Doro | Universitetet i Agder, Norway

Examining the history of tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro outlines the impacts left on landscapes, communities and people. Drawing from environmental history and political economy, Doro illuminates debates about colonialism, conservationism and sustainability.

332pp Apr. 2023 9781009098397 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009093071

Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe The Cold War and Decolonization,1960–1984 Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia | Kent State University, Ohio

Examining the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of diplomacy, before and after Zimbabwe’s Independence in 1980, Timothy Scarnecchia offers a fresh perspective on how nationalist leaders used Cold War diplomacy to shape Zimbabwe’s decolonization process. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 368pp Mar. 2023 9781009281706 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009281683

Race, Taste and the Grape South African Wine from a Global Perspective Paul Nugent | University of Edinburgh

Offers a detailed history of Cape wine from the late nineteenth century to the present, exposing how race has shaped patterns of consumption through statistics, marketing and advertising materials. Considers how regulation of the industry arose, why it failed, and what the impact of this has been locally and globally.

368pp Dec. 2023 9781009184267 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009184274

Relative Distance Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom Leslie Fesenmyer | University of Birmingham

Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas – moral, material, and affective – facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.

Australian history The Antipodean Laboratory Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870 Anna Johnston | University of Queensland

Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

300pp Sep. 2023 9781009186902 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009186896

East Asian history China and the Philippines A Connected History, c. 1900–50 Phillip B. Guingona | Wells College, New York

This innovative study brings diverse transnational characters to life, foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, and advancing a nuanced reading of world history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

296pp Jan. 2024 9781009359245 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009359207

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Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong Geoffrey C. Gunn

With extradition a major political issue today, this examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh in colonial Hong Kong offers timely insights into rule of law and extradition issues in general. Gunn sheds new light on Ho Chi Minh, communist and anti-colonial networks and Franco–British relations. 282pp Mar. 2023 9781108978224 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108973809

232pp Jul. 2023 9781009335072 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009335096

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How to Make a Mao Suit Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 Antonia Finnane | University of Melbourne

The founding of the PRC in 1949 resulted in the transformation of clothing in China. This pioneering history of clothing production in the years 1949– 76 focuses on what clothes were made, how, and by whom. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, it offers new insights into how the land of the blue gown became the land of the Mao suit.

376pp Aug. 2023 9781009359993 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2023 9781009359955 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009360005

Middle Imperial China, 900–1350 A New History Linda Walton | Portland State University

In this highly readable and engaging survey of China’s history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries, Linda Walton presents a framework for understanding both changes and continuities. While stressing China’s Eurasian setting, she also addresses significant themes of world history, including gender, empire, the state, and religion. 484pp Aug. 2023 9781108430753 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2023 9781108420686 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108355025

Japan’s Ocean Borderlands Nature and Sovereignty Paul Kreitman | Columbia University, New York

Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman explores how the politics of conservation and sovereignty have entangled on islands from Hawai’i to the South China Sea, from the mid-nineteenth century till today.

300pp Jul. 2023 9781108489706 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108779241

Justice After Mao The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China Daniel Leese | University of Freiburg

How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of atrocities committed in its own name? This cuttingedge volume addresses the question of historical justice in post-Mao China through issues of property, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and memory. It provides a fresh perspective on Chinese history and politics, socialisms and transitional justice.

357pp Sep. 2023 9781009261296 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009261265

Mao Zedong ChongjiJin 600pp Sep. 2023 9781107092747 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00 eISBN 9781316136522

Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia A View from Excavated Texts Constance A. Cook | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canons. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

75pp Aug. 2023 9781108972208 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00 eISBN 9781108975834

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Ming China and its Allies Imperial Rule in Eurasia David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York

The book is for anyone interested in the Mongol Empire, Chinese history, and the ways politicians exploit historical memory to win legitimacy at home and abroad. David M. Robinson shows that even the world’s most powerful rulers such as the Ming emperor needed allies and were willing to pay for them.

262pp Oct. 2023 9781108733649 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108774253

Multiracial Britishness Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45 Vivian Kong | University of Bristol

Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different ‘races’ collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong’s decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth.

292pp Oct. 2023 9781009202947 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009202930

Networks of Faith and Profit Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE Yiwen Li | City University of Hong Kong

Debunks long-held assumptions regarding the lack of contact between China and Japan between 839-1403 CE, arguing that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Examination of Buddhist records, objects and images illuminates how this system worked.

245pp Jun. 2023 9781009303101 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009303132

History - other areas

Neutrality and Collaboration in South China Macau during the Second World War Helena F. S. Lopes | Cardiff University

Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpicks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau. 342pp Jun. 2023 9781009311793 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009311786

Scents of China A Modern History of Smell Xuelei Huang | University of Edinburgh

Drawing on recent developments in sensory studies, Xuelei Huang presents a pioneering cultural history of smell in China from the High Qing to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses.

309pp Aug. 2023 9781009207041 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009207065

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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.

255pp Oct. 2023 9781009069977 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 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.

320pp Jan. 2023 9781316515310 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009019880

Revolutionary Transformations The People’s Republic of China in the 1950s Anja Blanke | Freie Universität Berlin

Based on first-hand archival material, this volume brings together insightful new essays on the theme of China’s revolutionary transformation in the 1950s, calling into question existing narratives on the foundational decade of the People’s Republic of China.

304pp Apr. 2023 9781009304108 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009304146

The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China Hanchao Lu | Georgia Institute of Technology

A rich and captivating social and political history of Shanghai, one of the world’s most complex cities, under high socialism. Using the metaphor of Tai Chi, Hanchao Lu explores how people experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture that epitomizes state-society relations in a communist country.

354pp May 2023 9781009180986 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009180979

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State and Family in China Yue Du | Cornell University, New York

State and Family in China examines the intersection of politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949 through the concept of filial piety. In this ambitious study, Yue Du explores changes in family law, parent-child relationships and the changing nature of the Chinese state during this period. 311pp Oct. 2023 9781108978811 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108974479

Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 CE Charles Hartman | University at Albany, State University of New York

Charles Hartman presents a groundbreaking revisionist history of the political culture of Imperial China as dominated by a struggle between ‘technocratic’ and ‘Confucian’ views of governance. His analysis of the workings of Song governance both complements and extends his acclaimed previous work The Making of Song Dynasty History (2020). 400pp Apr. 2023 9781009235648 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781009235624

The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volume Set Michal Biran | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This is an authoritative, comprehensive history of the Mongol Empire in its full Eurasian context. It includes political, social and cultural aspects, together with detailed surveys of the available sources. It will be a key resource for scholars, students and aficionados of Mongol, Asian, world and comparative history.

1300pp Aug. 2023 9781107116481 0 Hardback, 0 Hardback GBP 255.00 / USD 315.00 eISBN 9781316337424

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The Collapse of Nationalist China How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War Parks M. Coble | University of Nebraska, Lincoln

This is a ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Nationalist China, an event which fundamentally changed the course of twentiethcentury history. Using newly available archival sources, Parks Coble reveals why, despite the financial backing of the US, Chiang Kai-shek’s government lost the civil war against the communists in 1949. 290pp Mar. 2023 9781009297615 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009297639

The Gods of the Sea 28

Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019 Fynn Holm | Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country.

240pp Aug. 2023 9781009305518 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305532

The New Cambridge History of Japan Volume 3 The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century Laura Hein | Northwestern University, Illinois

A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. Leading international scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that provide an expansive global vision of the archipelago’s history from c.1868 to the twenty-first century. 860pp Jun. 2023 9781107196131 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108164535

The New Cambridge History of Japan Volume 2 Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877 David L. Howell | Harvard University, Massachusetts

Volume II in this major new reference series brings together leading international scholars to present an expansive global vision of the latest research into Japanese history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

764pp Dec. 2023 9781108417938 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108283748

History (general) after 1500 The Cambridge History of Global Migrations Volume 2 Migrations, 1800–Present Marcelo J. Borges | Dickinson College, Pennsylvania

Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. An important contribution to understanding migration as a form of international relations, this volume will interest specialists and students of world history, law and sociology.

650pp Jun. 2023 9781108487535 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108767071

The Cambridge World History of Genocide Volume 2 Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from c.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. 720pp May 2023 9781108486439 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108765480

The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–1683 Volume 66 John Childs | University of Leeds

Governor Percy Kirke’s Out-Letter Book is a valuable source for the last days of English Tangier. It contains 152 official letters mostly dealing with the town’s decay and the Moroccan siege. This volume presents an annotated transcription of the Book along with a biographical dictionary and histories of the rival English and Moroccan armed forces. 490pp Dec. 2023 9781009446747 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781009446754

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The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 5 The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance Francis Robinson

This volume examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Contributors explore how Muslims responded to the challenges of Western conquest and domination, revealing that the social, economic, political and historical circumstances which influenced these responses have empowered Muslim societies and encouraged transformation and religious revival. 866pp Jul. 2023 9781107457065 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781139055918

History - other areas

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. 694pp May 2023 9781108493536 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108655989

History (general), world history

The Cambridge History of Global Migrations Volume 1 Migrations, 1400–1800 Cátia Antunes | Universiteit Leiden

Volume I reveals how human movement from 1400–1800 shaped the nature of human interactions before the age of modern globalization. An important contribution to the study of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume will interest specialists of migration and world history in the early modern world.

650pp Jun. 2023 9781108487542 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108767095

The Cambridge History of Global Migrations 2 Volume Hardback Set Donna Gabaccia | University of Toronto

From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 Christopher Breward | University of Edinburgh

This two-volume set offers a global perspective on migration and globalization, and on the mobile people who built economies, constructed nations and transformed cultures across time and space. An indispensable resource for researchers and students of migration and world history seeking comparative insights.

Volume I sheds light on the globalising forces that shaped the long history of fashion, and how they significantly impacted economic, social, and cultural change from antiquity up until c. 1800. An interdisciplinary volume that draws on history, art, economics and museum studies.

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion

584pp Aug. 2023 9781108495561 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781108850353

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Volume 2 Christopher Breward | University of Edinburgh

Volume II reveals the challenges of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day, highlighting how decolonisation, social change and the call for sustainability shifted fashion practice across world communities. An interdisciplinary volume that draws on work across history, art, economics and sustainability. 620pp Aug. 2023 9781108495554 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 180.00 eISBN 9781108862349

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion 2 Volume Hardback Set Christopher Breward | University of Edinburgh

This two-volume set considers fashion and its cross-cultural and multicultural connections as they developed from antiquity to the present, through colonisation, decolonisation and contemporary globalisation. A comprehensive and rich resource for students, scholars and fanatics of fashion.

1100pp Aug. 2023 9781108752657 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00

1300pp 20 b/w illus. 30 maps Jun. 2023 9781108623865 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781009334099

Volume 2 Nationalism’s Fields of Interaction Cathie Carmichael | University of East Anglia

This volume takes on the challenge of understanding nationhood and nationalism’s relationships with global phenomena such as imperialism and universalistic religions, as well as with a variety of ideologies and socio-cultural formations such as capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, cuisine, music and literature.

650pp Sep. 2023 9781108427067 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108551458

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism Volume 1 Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée Cathie Carmichael | University of East Anglia

This first volume of The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism presents a wide range of historical case studies on the culture and politics of collective identity in ancient civilizations, as well as in the world since 1500. The studies range across East and South Asia as well as Europe and the Americas.

650pp Sep. 2023 9781108427050 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108655385

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism 2 Volume Hardback Set Cathie Carmichael | University of East Anglia 0pp Sep. 2023 9781108781237 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00

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History - other areas

The Cambridge World History of Genocide 3 Volume Hardback Set Volume 0 Three volume set Ben Kiernan | Yale University, Connecticut

This three-volume set uncovers the long-term and immediate causes of genocide from prehistory to the twenty-first century, highlighting how humans have demonstrated genocidal intent over time, and how it can be prevented. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, human rights associations and students. 2234pp May 2023 9781108759731 2 Hardback books, 1 Hardback GBP 310.00 / USD 400.00

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities Volume 1 General Overviews Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics, such as the sexual body, family, sexual violence, and erotic art and literature. A critical introduction to world sexualities for students and scholars alike.

552pp Mar. 2024 9781108842082 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108895996

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities Volume 2 Systems of Thought and Belief Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Volume II focuses on systems of thought and beliefs in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary approaches. A comprehensive work for students and scholars interested in continuities and changes in world sexualities.

428pp Mar. 2024 9781108842099 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108896016

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities Volume 3 Sites of Knowledge and Practice Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups and to reveal the diversity of human sexualities around the world. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.

578pp Mar. 2024 9781108842105 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108896030

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities Volume 4 Modern Sexualities Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. A critical insight into contemporary issues on sexualities with an interdisciplinary focus.

492pp Mar. 2024 9781108842112 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108896078

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The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 6 Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800 Robert W. Hefner | Boston University

Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. With topics ranging from religious thought, Islamic law and modern politics to the arts, cinema and new media, the volume highlights the diversity and richness of Islamic civilization. 781pp Jul. 2023 9781107457119 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99 eISBN 9781139055925

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The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 1 The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries Chase F. Robinson

Leading scholars in the field survey the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, and provide a cutting-edge discussion of the sources and controversies of early Islamic history, including a survey of numismatics, archaeology and material culture. 889pp Jul. 2023 9781107456945 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781139055932

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The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 3 The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries David O. Morgan | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. The essays in this collection demonstrate that it was during this period that the Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences and Islam became a truly world religion. 755pp Jul. 2023 9781107456976 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99 eISBN 9781139056137

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The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 4 Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century Robert Irwin | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Covering various themes such as religion and law, conversion, Islam’s relationship with the natural world, governance and politics, caliphs and kings, philosophy, science, medicine, language, art, architecture, literature, music and cookery, this rich collection of essays reveals the diversity and dynamism of the societies which created this flourishing civilization. 943pp Jul. 2023 9781107457003 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781139056144

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A Tale of Two Granadas

The New Cambridge History of Islam

Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 Max Deardorff | University of Florida

Volume 2 The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries Maribel Fierro | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid

Leading scholars in the field chart the rise and fall, and the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties of the Western Islamic lands from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. The volume concludes with an in-depth analysis of state building, conversation, finance, education and the military. 897pp Jul. 2023 9781107456952 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781139056151

History after 1945 (general) Blue Helmet Bureaucrats United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971 Margot Tudor | University of Exeter

A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945–1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation.

310pp 17 b/w illus. 6 maps Apr. 2023 9781009264921 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009264952

Latin American history A Colonial Book Market Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment Agnes Gehbald | Universität Bern, Switzerland

Tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, Agnes Gehbald provides a comprehensive study of print culture in Peru in the decades before Independence. An important volume for those interested in the history of books beyond the European market.

416pp Sep. 2023 9781009360852 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009360876

A Concise History of the Aztecs

This book examines the struggle for citizenship in the New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), offering the first deep analysis of how a wave of Catholic reform resulted in opportunities for the Spanish empire’s diverse subjects. An important contribution to Latin Americanists and scholars of empire.

338pp Aug. 2023 9781009335409 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009335447

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.

253pp Apr. 2023 9781009180375 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180382

Being the Heart of the World The Pacific and the Fashioning of the Self in New Spain, 1513–1641 Nino Vallen | Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, University of California, Berkeley

Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire.

384pp Sep. 2023 9781009322072 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009322089

Brazil An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century Herbert S. Klein | Columbia University, New York

This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. A fantastic overview for students and scholars interested in the economic and social landscape of Brazil.

392pp Nov. 2023 9781009391979 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 Nov. 2023 9781009391924 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009391955

Susan Kellogg | University of Houston

This book sheds new light on the Aztec civilization by correcting common misperceptions and highlighting their language, economy, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. An innovative and accessible text for those interested in new ideas about the Aztecs.

396pp Jan. 2024 9781108712941 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2024 9781108498999 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108614542

Death in Old Mexico The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation Nicole von Germeten | Oregon State University

Death in Old Mexico details Mexico’s ‘crime of the century’ - a botched home invasion and the brutal murder of eleven people. An evocative history of crime, punishment and Spanish imperialism, this book is for those interested in true crime and the history and culture of Mexico.

240pp Mar. 2023 9781009261500 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2023 9781009261524 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009261531

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The Boundaries of Freedom

For Land and Liberty

Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil Brodwyn Fischer | University of Chicago

Black Struggles in Rural Brazil Merle L. Bowen | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

For Land and Liberty addresses black rural communities’ claims to land in Brazil. By analyzing the national quilombo (African-descent rural communities) movement to protect land rights, traditional practices, resources, and food sovereignty, Bowen offers readers new perspectives on rural movements, mobilizations, and resistance in Brazil.

270pp Jun. 2023 9781108928953 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108935968

North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970 Moe Taylor | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 240pp Jun. 2023 9781009305242 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305204

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Palm Oil Diaspora Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia’s Dendê Coast Case Watkins | James Madison University, Virginia

Engaging disciplines from across the sciences and humanities, this book bridges literature on Black geographies, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, political ecology, and decolonial theory and praxis to analyze the cultural, ecological, and economic relationships that link and shape societies and environments.

367pp Sep. 2023 9781108746236 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108778893

Policing Freedom Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Martine Jean

Policing Freedom explores the history of punishment in Brazil, intersecting with studies on the global history of punishment, which historicize the prison as existing within a continuum of punitive strategies to discipline Brazil’s racially diverse working-class. Key reading for students and scholars of the Atlantic slave trade.

288pp Aug. 2023 9781009289115 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009289146

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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.

282pp Sep. 2023 9781009078207 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009086905

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.

504pp Aug. 2023 9781009287975 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 eISBN 9781009287968

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.

401pp Mar. 2023 9781108729185 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Mar. 2023 9781108492270 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108679336

The Metamorphosis of the Amazon An Environmental History of Oil Extraction in Ecuador Maximilian Fritz Feichtner | Independent Scholar

A compelling study for readers interested in the environmental history of Latin America, this book sheds light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest and the impact oil development. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. 258pp Nov. 2023 9781009343091 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009343053

Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century Joseph M. H. Clark | University of Kentucky

An innovative book that draws on environmental, economic, social, and cultural history to define a regional space between Mexico and the Caribbean through which African diasporans defined identities and built communities. Essential reading for scholars of Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history.

344pp Jan. 2023 9781009180313 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009180337

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We, the King Creating Royal Legislation in the SixteenthCentury Spanish New World Adrian Masters | Universität Trier, Germany

We, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how its policies, racial categories, and society were created from the “bottom up”. An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism.

342pp Mar. 2023 9781009315418 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009315425

Middle East history A Social History of Modern Tehran Space, Power, and the City Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi | University of Tehran, Iran

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.

384pp Jan. 2023 9781009188890 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009188906

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.

240pp Apr. 2023 9781316512852 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009072304

Encounters with Islam

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 Apr. 2023 9781009098373 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009093033

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In the Mirror of Persian Kings The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India Blain Auer | Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Examines how and why the image of the Persian king played such a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies, and how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim rulers. 252pp Mar. 2023 9781108941044 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108935876

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.

400pp Feb. 2023 9781107170131 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316756027

Mandatory Madness

Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures Lawrence Rosen | Princeton University, New Jersey

Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine Chris Sandal-Wilson | University of Exeter

Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, Lawrence Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world that challenges existing stereotypes. Using a diverse range of illustrative case studies, Rosen draws previously unseen linkages across time, regions, and cultures.

Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a nonWestern context under British colonial rule.

256pp Sep. 2023 9781009388986 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2023 9781009389037 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009389013

288pp Jan. 2024 9781009430371 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009430395

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Negotiating Empire in the Middle East Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840–1914 M. Talha Çiçek

Examining the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nomads in the Modern era, this book explores how the Ottomans integrated the Bedouin nomads into the imperial system of governance, and in turn, demonstrating how Bedouin socio-political agency played a part in the making of the modern Middle East. 294pp Mar. 2023 9781108995382 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108993852

Revealed Sciences The Natural Sciences in Islam in SeventeenthCentury Morocco Justin K. Stearns

Provides a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in the scholarly and educational landscape of Early Modern Morocco, this study challenges previous negative depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world to demonstrate the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society in seventeenth-century Morocco.

330pp Mar. 2023 9781107638709 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781107588523

The Making of Persianate Modernity Language and Literary History between Iran and India Alexander Jabbari | University of Minnesota

Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a ‘Persianate modernity’ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persianlanguage sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures. 260pp Mar. 2023 9781009320863 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009320825

The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo A History Paul M. Love, Jr | Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

Paul M. Love, Jr. explores the history of the minority Ibadi Muslim community in Cairo from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Using a unique range of sources, Love both illuminates the events of Egyptian history and highlights the role of the Ibadis in shaping political, religious, and commercial life in Ottoman-era Cairo.

253pp Sep. 2023 9781009254281 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009254267

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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry Muhsin J. al-Musawi | Columbia University, New York

A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory to account for the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over its three-hundred-year history.

435pp Mar. 2023 9781108465557 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108593847

The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire After Genocide, 1918–1923 Ari Şekeryan | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ari Şekeryan explores the political and social life of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire during the stormy post-war years, as the empire heaved its final breaths. In doing so, he offers a broader understanding of ethnic communities’ reactions to the collapse of empires and the transformation to nation-states.

200pp Jan. 2023 9781108844017 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108921817

The Power of the People Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38 Murat Metinsoy | Istanbul Üniversitesi

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretation of the social forces which shaped modern Turkey, showing how ordinary people, in their daily actions shaped Turkey’s modernization as much as Atatürk’s strong spurt of modernization.

417pp Jul. 2023 9781009012140 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009025775

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The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Annie Tracy Samuel | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Provides a close look at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to understand Iran’s recent history and how the Revolutionary Guards view their own roles therein. By using the Iran-Iraq War, one of the most significant events in the Islamic Republic’s history, as a focal point, Tracy Samuel analyzes the links between war and revolution. 320pp Jul. 2023 9781108745789 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108777674

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When Democracy Died

Caste, Knowledge, and Power

The Middle East’s Enduring Peace of Lausanne Hans-Lukas Kieser | Universität Zürich

Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar Sunandan K. N. | Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India

In an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference concluded more than ten years of war and genocide in the late Ottoman Empire and explores the Treaty of Lausanne’s resounding impact in the Middle East. Kieser shows how the Treaty excluded minority groups and shaped modern states.

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.

South Asian history

Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta

342pp Apr. 2023 9781316516423 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009029957

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 May 2023 9781108838092 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108937160

Architecture of Sovereignty Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India Gita V. Pai | University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

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 Aug. 2023 9781009150156 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009150163

Bankrolling Empire Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India Sudev Sheth | University of Pennsylvania

Sudev Sheth presents the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the rise of its successor states as experienced directly by family entrepreneurs. Using hitherto untapped sources in multiple languages, he reveals how local persons and elites participated in the financial crisis that shook Indian society to its very foundations.

379pp Nov. 2023 9781009330268 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009330213

240pp Feb. 2023 9781009273121 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009273138

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.

302pp Feb. 2023 9781108494588 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781190

Ethical Empire? India Reformism and the Critique of Colonial Misgovernment Zak Leonard

This interdisciplinary work, which traces the formation of global reformist networks and reconceptualizes anti-colonial critique, will appeal to students of history and political science. 314pp Sep. 2023 9781009321068 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009321044

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Fleeting Agencies A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya Arunima Datta | Idaho State University

In Fleeting Agencies, the author revises and decolonizes the history of transnational female plantation labour and acknowledges the agency of women workers. This is the first book to examine the history of Indian coolie women who migrated to British Malaya and contributed to the making of the Rubber Empire.

240pp Aug. 2023 9781009415491 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108937115

Beyond Indenture Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora Crispin Bates | The University of Edinburgh, UK 0pp Sep. 2023 9781009339797 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009339810

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Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic

Imagining Childhood, Improving Children

Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution Achyut Chetan

The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India Catriona Ellis | University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

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.

Analyses state policy towards children in late colonial India, presents different views of childhood and reflects on how new ideas influenced legislation and policies for children in the spheres of education, public health and juvenile justice.

400pp Jan. 2023 9781108832564 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108961547

Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s Eve Tignol | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Irasia, Marseille

Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India. This innovative study highlights how emotions were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim identity and for political mobilisation from 1857 to the 1940s. 208pp Mar. 2023 9781009297653 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009297684

Hajj across Empires Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857 Rishad Choudhury | Oberlin College, Ohio

A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

320pp 11 b/w illus. 3 maps Sep. 2023 9781009253703 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009253673

How Secular Is Art? On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia Tapati Guha-Thakurta | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Exploring the secular credentials and religious redesignations of art, this book is anchored in a conception of a region. Fissured by partitions, state-formations and religious nationalisms, this idea of a region still stands here as a collective site for interrogating the secularity of art, its histories and its politics.

0pp Aug. 2023 9781009380478 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009215299

0pp Aug. 2023 9781009215206 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009215213

Local Selfhood, Global Turns Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century Sumit Chakrabarti | Presidency University, Kolkata

Examines the works of Akshay Kumar Datta (1820–1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism.

315pp Aug. 2023 9781009339827 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009339841

Passages through India Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 Somak Biswas | University of Warwick, UK

Analyses the phenomenon of western Indophilia, its ideological and affective composition, and its political implications in late-colonial British India. Argues that Indophile deployments around transnational projects like abolishing indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not necessarily emancipatory.

320pp Aug. 2023 9781009337984 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009337960

Provincial Democracy Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-Century South India Rama Sundari Mantena | University of Illinois, Chicago

Tracks the history of democracy as it began to establish roots at the height of anticolonial nationalism in British India through calls for self-determination, federation proposals and the demand for civil liberties which profoundly shaped democratic culture and regionalism.

300pp Aug. 2023 9781009339544 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009339520

Remaking History 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad Afsar Mohammad | University of Pennsylvania

With evidence from the oral histories of various sections and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures an intense moment in the history of the state of Hyderabad and the production its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity.

320pp Sep. 2023 9781009339636 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009339612

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Round Table Conference Geographies

The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London Stephen Legg | University of Nottingham

Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920 Kyle Jackson | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver

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 May 2023 9781009215312 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009215329

Science and Society in Modern India Deepak Kumar | Jawaharlal Nehru University

The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India and offers a useful introduction to science, society, and government interface in the Indian context.

220pp Aug. 2023 9781009350648 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2023 9781009350655 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009350617

Sovereign Anxiety Public Order and the Politics of Control in India, 1915–1955 Javed Iqbal Wani | Ambedkar University Delhi

Engages with the theme of sovereignty and law, particularly in the light of public order issues essential to any study of modern India. The enactment of extraordinary legislation is examined in the socio-political context in which it emerges. 320pp Aug. 2023 9781009337939 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009337946

Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author, Kyle Jackson presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from Indigenous perspectives of encounters with the British Empire in the early twentieth century.

300pp Sep. 2023 9781009267342 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009267359

The Political Life of Memory Birsa Munda in Contemporary India Rahul Ranjan | Oslo Metropolitan University

Focusing on Birsa Munda, the book brings a new scholarship on resource and identity politics in India. It draws attention to memorialisation as a political process that brings crucial changes in the emergent political discourse. Crucially, it offers competing political claims about the historical past of Birsa and its representation today.

320pp May 2023 9781009337908 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009337922

The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa Gender and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Rajasthan Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels | University of Washington

Through literary and art-historical analysis, Pauwels brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century. Reconstructing how Banī-t∙hanī came to be acclaimed as ‘India’s Mona Lisa,’ she conveys new insights in the history of Hindi literature, devotion, palace women, and social mobility of the enslaved.

The Early Modern in South Asia

309pp Aug. 2023 9781009201650 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009201698

Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History Meena Bhargava

The World in Words

What did South Asian modernity look like before the emergence of British colonialism? With a compelling introduction, the ten chapters in this volume recover the nature of this early modernity in philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

268pp Jan. 2023 9781009215374 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009215381

The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz | Northwestern University, Illinois

This book is a definitive academic reference on the history of travel writing in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. This interdisciplinary study approaches the genre from both historical and literary perspectives. It is written in an informed but accessible style intended for both academic and informed lay-readers.

300pp Jun. 2023 9781009340755 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009340762

Joshua Ehrlich | University of Macau

In this original and deeply researched account, Ehrlich transforms the histories of the East India Company and British India. He reveals that, for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pursuit of knowledge played a fundamental role in the Company’s politics and ideology.

280pp Jul. 2023 9781009367950 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009367967

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Visions of Greater India Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960 Yorim Spoelder | Freie Universität Berlin

Brings together three stories usually told apart: the archaeological recovery of a ‘lost’ Buddhist past on the Silk Roads, projects of colonial archaeology in Southeast Asia and the history of interwar British India. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

338pp Dec. 2023 9781009403160 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009403177

South-East Asian history A Maritime Vietnam From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century Tana Li | Australian National University, Canberra

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