East
History
History (general), world history
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Latin American history
Middle East history
South Asian history
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American history
20C American history
America’s French Orphans
Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of France, 1914–1921
Destenay, Emmanuel | Sorbonne University
This unique study explores American support of destitute French children during and after World War I. It will interest scholars and students of World War I, humanitarianism, American society, childhood, and women’s studies.
308pp
Jun. 2024 9781009517898 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009517904
Citizen Cowboy
Will Rogers and the American People Watts, Steven | University of Missouri, Columbia Citizen Cowboy examines Will Rogers, one of twentieth-century America’s most beloved cultural figures, and how his life and work reflected broader changes that created modern America. This book is for general readers interested in the history of American culture.
477pp
Aug. 2024 9781108495936 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 34.95
eISBN 9781108856393
Divided America, Divided Korea
The US and Korea During and After the Trump Years
Fields, David P. | 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
266pp
Mar. 2024 9781009100571 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009119269
Family Matters
Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition
George, Marie-Amélie | Wake Forest University School of Law
Family Matters uncovers the decades of advocacy which reshaped same-sex sexuality in American law and society. It will speak to readers interested in queer rights, social movement advocacy, and legal studies, while further contributing to current discourse and ongoing battles over LGBTQ+ rights today.
Studies in Legal History
385pp
Hiroshima and the Historians
Debating America’s Most Controversial Decision
Pyle, Kenneth B. | University of Washington
The decision to use atomic bombs in 1945 was one of the most controversial in historical memory. In this thought-provoking analysis, Kenneth B. Pyle presents debates about this decision as a case study in the intricacy of the historian’s craft, reminding readers of the value of historians in a free society.
286pp
Jun. 2024 9781009477444 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jun. 2024 9781009477451 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009477482
The Greatest of All Time
A History of an American Obsession
Eleff, Zev | Gratz College
This book explores the phenomenon of ‘greatness’ culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about it. It is for both general readers and scholars interested in American history, cultural history, and celebrity studies.
246pp
Feb. 2025 9781009572736 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009572743
African American history
Bring Judgment Day
Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies
Bernard, Sheila Curran | University at Albany, State University of New York
This deeply researched book explores the life and music of folk legend Lead Belly within the context of the Jim Crow era. The work will appeal to a range of audiences, from Lead Belly fans and historians to readers interested in civil rights, mass incarceration, and the power of narrative.
253pp
Jul. 2024 9781009098120 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 27.95
eISBN 9781009103619
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Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
Taylor, Nikki M. | 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.
256pp
Jan. 2025 9781009276856 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 18.95
eISBN 9781009276818
Aug. 2024 9781009284400 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009284417
American history
American history - 1861 - 1900
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Civil War Settlers
Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870
Rasmussen, Anders Bo | University of Southern Denmark
Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple languages, this work is a unique addition to American Civil War history for both students and scholars alike.
373pp
Aug. 2024 9781009526456 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108980135
Dread Danger
Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War
Gordon, Lesley J. | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Dread Danger creates a fuller understanding of the soldier experience by probing accusations of cowardice, an important yet overlooked aspect of the American Civil War. Deeply researched and engagingly written, it will interest students and scholars of the Civil War era as well as general readers.
328pp
Nov. 2024 9781108729192 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Nov. 2024 9781108492287 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99
eISBN 9781108679367
The Pacific’s New Navies
An Ocean, its Wars, and the Making of US Sea Power
Jamison, Thomas M. | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
This book sheds light on the relationships between the United States’ ‘New Navy and wars in the Pacific during a period of technological flux and globalization. It will interest students and scholars of military history, oceanic history, US foreign policy, and the history of technology and innovation.
Military, War, and Society in Modern American history
310pp
Nov. 2024 9781009559744 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
Nov. 2024 9781009559737 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009559706
American history (general)
The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies
Burns, Lisa M. | Quinnipiac University
Through a collection of thematic essays, this volume sheds light on the development and evolution of the first lady institution. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in American studies, women’s and gender studies, and political history.
Cambridge Companions to History
377pp
Apr. 2025 9781009502832 Paperback GBP 22.99
Apr. 2025 9781009502795 Hardback GBP 70.00
eISBN 9781009502788
Understanding the American South
Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century Ford, Lacy K. | University of South Carolina
This book provides a deeper understanding of American history and the American South’s complicated relationship with that history. It will appeal to scholars and students of American history and the American South, as well as general readers interested in history and its relationship to the present.
Cambridge Studies on the American South
302pp
Dec. 2024 9781009522014 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Dec. 2024 9781009522021 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009522038
American history after 1945
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American
Survivors
Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Wake, Naoko | 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
Jan. 2024 9781108799904 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 19.95
eISBN 9781108892094
Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia
Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security
Chen, Kuan-Jen | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
This book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective. The first of its kind in the English language, this book is for students, military professionals, specialists in East Asian history, and readers interested in international history more generally.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
350pp
May 2024 9781009418751 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009418737
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Improbable Diplomats
How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists
Remade US-China Relations
Volume 0
Millwood, Pete | The University of Hong Kong
Improbable Diplomats reveals the critical role of Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists in rebuilding US-China relations in the 1970s. Examining an overlooked aspect of ties between the two societies, this revisionist account of US-China rapprochement will interest historians and students of Chinese and US foreign relations.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
392pp
Jul. 2024 9781108941068 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108935982
Atlantic history
Atlantic Cataclysm
Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
Eltis, David | Emory University, Atlanta
The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intraAmerican) began and ended, questioning the established narratives. A comprehensive and major work for scholars and students that should transform our assessment of the history of the Atlantic World.
442pp
Nov. 2024 9781009518970 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009518963
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Bonds of Empire
The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783
Wilson, Lee B. | Clemson University, South Carolina Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
370pp
Apr. 2024 9781108817899 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108861762
Fragile Empire
Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–1720
Roberts, Justin | Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Through deep archival research, Fragile Empire is the first book to study the rise of slavery in the British empire from a global perspective. Written in an accessible manner, this work will interest undergraduates and the broader public, as well as scholars of slavery and the Atlantic world.
Slaveries since Emancipation
0pp
Dec. 2024 9781108473187 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781108622288
Colonial American history
Fallen From Heaven
The Enduring Tradition of Europeans as Gods in the Americas
Griffiths, Nicholas
This book debunks the so-called apotheosis myth that Indigenous peoples across the Americas worshipped Europeans as gods during the early modern period. This accessible synthesis will interest students and scholars of European expansion and colonialism, Native American history, the history of myths, and shamanism.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 135
375pp
Nov. 2024 9781009549806 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009549790
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The Dreadful Word
Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776
Olbertson, Kristin A.
The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.
Studies in Legal History
337pp
Aug. 2024 9781009102865 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009106535
Early republic and antebellum history
Born in Blood
Violence and the Making of America
Gac, Scott | 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
Mar. 2024 9781316511886 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009053105
Emerson’s Civil Wars
Spirit and Society in the Age of Abolition
Sacks, Kenneth S. | Brown University, Rhode Island
This book presents a revisionist argument about Ralph Waldo Emerson, explaining how he wrestled mightily with his personal philosophy to eventually support abolitionism. Written in an accessible manner, this book is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in nineteenth-century US history and the history of political thought.
268pp
Nov. 2024 9781009504881 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009504867
The Slow Death of Slavery in
Dutch New York
A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700–1827
Douma, Michael J. | Georgetown University, Washington DC
This book provides a new interpretation of slavery in Dutch New York, revealing its extent and the efforts to block emancipation. An important study that will appeal to scholars interested in slavery and, emancipation, and as well as legal, demographic, and economic history.
298pp
Nov. 2024 9781009441377 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009441360
Three Consuls
Capitalism, Empire, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Mediterranean Community, 1776–1840
Peskin, Lawrence A. | Morgan State University
Three Consuls examines American ambitions in the Mediterranean in the generations after independence through the business and personal networks of consuls in Morocco, Italy and Spain. It will appeal to readers interested in US history, European history, North African history, and international studies.
342pp
Nov. 2024 9781009444620 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009444606
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Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
Campbell, Lyndsay | University of Calgary
This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic institutionbuilding, gender roles, slavery and other religious and social reform movements. It demonstrates how individuals shaped the law, as they navigated societal change and fought with their neighbors.
Studies in Legal History
490pp
Brotherhood of Barristers
A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940
Pepitone, Ren | New York University
Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history of the four Inns of Court between 1840–1940, exploring how these societies maintained their insularity in the face of sweeping social change.
Modern British Histories
236pp
Aug. 2024 9781009017893 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009039406
British and Irish history
20C history of Britain
Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908-1912: An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford
Volume 67
Hayton, David William
This volume presents the letters of Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin. Recording Leeper’s experiences at university and travels in Europe, the letters (1908–1912) offer a vivid picture of a continent on the eve of war and bring out the complexities of a critical period in British and European history.
Camden Fifth Series
490pp
Oct. 2024 9781009493635 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00
eISBN 9781009493611
Apr. 2024 9781009456746 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009456722
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Futures of Socialism
‘Modernisation’, the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997
Murphy, Colm | Queen Mary University of London
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
326pp
Aug. 2024 9781009278843 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009278829
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Imperial Heartland
Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947
Holland, David | University of Sheffield
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
369pp
Aug. 2024 9781009216203 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009216210
Politics of the Past
Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009
Cowan, David | University of Cambridge
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the ‘hungry thirties’. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
Modern British Histories
300pp
Apr. 2024 9781009340281 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009340304
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Practical Utopia
The Many Lives of Dartington Hall
Neima, Anna
Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality.
Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
Modern British Histories
321pp
May 2024 9781009048729 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009049269
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Thatcher’s Progress
From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town
Ortolano, Guy | New York University
Situating Britain’s new towns programme of urban development within a global context, Thatcher’s Progress revises our understanding of the welfare state. Guy Ortolano reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative politics of market liberalism.
Modern British Histories
317pp
Jul. 2024 9781108710831 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108697262
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City
Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
Kefford, Alistair | Universiteit Leiden
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Pain, Penance, and Protest
Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England
Butler, Sara M.
In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure – pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens, this book blurs the lines between law, religion, and literature to understand how it functioned within the medieval criminal justice system.
Studies in Legal History
488pp
Apr. 2024 9781009065726 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009067065
History of Britain after 1450
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Colonising Disability
Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914
Cleall, Esme | University of Sheffield
Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and ‘normalcy’. Critical Perspectives on Empire 311pp
This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
Modern British Histories
352pp
May 2024 9781108799164 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108874502
History of Britain - 1066 - 1450
Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England
Dunn, Caroline | Clemson University, South Carolina
This book presents the first scholarly treatment of medieval English ladies-in-waiting. It will appeal to specialists in medieval monarchy and women’s history, as well as literary scholars who will benefit from the historical background of women’s roles in courtly life.
328pp 10 b/w illus. 5 tables
Nov. 2024 9781009457019 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009456975
Aug. 2024 9781108987370 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108983266
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Empire of Influence
The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule Wilkinson, Callie | 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.
299pp
Feb. 2025 9781009311748 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009311717
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Empire,
Kinship and Violence
Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842
Elbourne, Elizabeth | McGill University, Montréal Draws on the linked history of three families to illustrate settler-Indigenous relationships in white settler colonies from 1770-1842. Ranging from Britain and northeastern North America to Australia and southern Africa, Elbourne sheds light on the transnational development of settler colonialism and marginalization of Indigenous peoples.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 445pp
Aug. 2024 9781108749497 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108782791
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Foreign Jack Tars
The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Caputo, Sara | University of Cambridge
The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its success. For the first time, this book explores their role in the Navy during this crucial period, challenging the very notions of ‘Britishness’ and ‘foreignness’.
Modern British Histories
309pp
Jul. 2024 9781009199810 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009199841
Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
Religious Difference and English Society, 1689–1750
Brown, Carys | University of Cambridge Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England’s unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
294pp
Lucky Valley
Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
Hall, Catherine | University College London
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 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009106399
Managing Mobility
May 2024 9781009221337 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009221375
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Gambling
in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Harris, Bob | University of Oxford English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a ‘gambling mania’. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
330pp
May 2024 9781009066228 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009067348
Inquiring into Empire
Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833
Ford, Lisa | University of New South Wales, Sydney
The first pan-imperial history of commissions of inquiry sent across the British empire between 1819 and 1833. Drawing on the commissioners’ extensive archive, this work develops a new understanding of early nineteenth-century reform as a part-genuine and part-defensive commitment to managing change on the global stage of counter revolution.
252pp
The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860
Harling, Philip | University of Miami
In the first age of mass migration (1840–1860), the British imperial state intervened to ensure a racialised global economic order in the wake of Emancipation. Managing Mobility analyzes the large-scale movement of people as labor assets across the British Empire, considering the outcomes of these significant projects of social engineering.
Modern British Histories
289pp
Dec. 2024 9781108833929 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781108983280
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Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present
Second edition
Vernon, James | University of California, Berkeley
This revised introduction to the history of modern Britain accounts for the recent, remarkable changes to Britain since the 2008 financial crisis. Extending from the 18th century to the present, Vernon gives increased prominence to themes of environmental change, global pandemics, histories of minoritised people, and shifting ideas of democracy.
Cambridge History of Britain
600pp
Feb. 2025 9781009470629 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009470599
Feb. 2025 9781009379670 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Feb. 2025 9781009379700 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009379717
Mungo Park’s Ghost
The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa
Kennedy, Dane | 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
Jan. 2024 9781009392983 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009392990
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Outrage in the Age of Reform
Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845
Roszman, Jay R. | University College Cork
During the pivotal 19th-century ‘decade of reform’, British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence – branded as ‘outrages’ – as well as how their decisions might influence wider imperial concerns. This book demonstrates Ireland’s profound influence on British political culture in the 1830s and beyond.
Modern British Histories
329pp
May 2024 9781009186766 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009186773
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Protecting the Empire’s Humanity
Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870
Laidlaw, Zoë | University of Melbourne
Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of midnineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in ‘protecting’ and ‘civilizing’ indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines’ Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial ‘humanitarianism’.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 388pp
Aug. 2024 9781316647240 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108164658
Protestant Bodies
Gesture in the English Reformation
Hunt, Arnold | University of Durham
What did early modern English Protestant worshippers think that they were doing when they bowed, knelt, or made the sign of the cross?
Protestant Bodies explores the history of the English Reformation through the gestures of public worship and reestablishes their central role in early modern England.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
371pp
Jan. 2025 9781108841719 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781108894746
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank
The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture
Lambert, David | University of Warwick
This book examines the place and status of the Black soldiers of the British Army’s West India Regiments from the late eighteenth century until their disbandment in 1927. Analysing their depiction in word and image, it sheds important new light on debates about race, Britishness and military service.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 262pp 15 b/w illus. 24 colour illus.
Oct. 2024 9781009464413 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009464406
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The Company’s Sword
The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858
Welsch, Christina | College of Wooster, Ohio
The Company’s Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers shaped the Company’s expansion. Tracing the institutional development of the Company’s armies alongside the rebellions that challenged its growth, Christina Welsch uncovers the militarism at the heart of colonial India.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 302pp
Aug. 2024 9781108987349 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108983112
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The Enclosure of Knowledge
Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800
Fisher, James D. | University of Exeter
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural ‘enlightenment’ and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in preindustrial Britain.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 344pp
May 2024 9781009048736 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009049283
The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–1649
Volume 68
Beale, Stewart
Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure in the English Civil War. This volume publishes the annual household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, between 1640 and 1649. Illuminating Brooke’s activities and the administration of his estates, the accounts are crucial sources for historians of 17th-century England.
Camden Fifth Series, 68 624pp
Jan. 2025 9781009601214 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00
eISBN 9781009601207
The Overseer State
Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–1916
Auerbach, Sascha | University of Nottingham
In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the ‘global labor market’ in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system’s destruction.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 382pp
Jan. 2025 9781009315791 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009315777
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The Rule of Manhood
Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660
Gianoutsos, Jamie A.
Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
438pp
Feb. 2024 9781108746243 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108778916
The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780
Law, Society, and State Formation
Tadmor, Naomi | Lancaster University
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
Feb. 2025 9781108499194 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781108595063
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The Witches of St. Osyth
Gibson, Marion | University of Exeter
The first complete history of the neglected St Osyth witch-trial, this book tells the compelling, revelatory story of a community ripped asunder. It hauntingly reveals the lost worlds of Elizabethan villagers caught up in persecution, the magistrate who investigated their accusations of witchcraft and the writer who published their story.
361pp
Sep. 2024 9781108796842 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108859608
History of Britain before 1066
Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England
Bayless, Martha | University of Oregon
This Element shows why entertainment and festivity had important functions, in ritual, in community, in assuming power, and in resistance to power of early English life. The activities are child’s play; drinking and feasting; music, dance, and performance; the pleasures of literature, festivals and celebrations; hunting and sport; and games.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World 75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009162821 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009517119 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009161107
Health and the Body in Early Medieval England
Batten, Caroline | University of Pennsylvania
This Element explores ideas about the sick and healthy body in early medieval England, proposing that Old English texts offer coherent ideas about how human bodies work and how disease operates. It offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to medical practice and writing in England before the Norman Conquest.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World 75pp
Dec. 2024 9781009246255 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Dec. 2024 9781009500203 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009246248
Recovering Old English
Dekker, Kees | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. It is done by collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World 90pp
Feb. 2024 9781009371698 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Feb. 2024 9781009478809 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009371681
The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin Volume 1450–1066
White, Carolinne | 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.
504pp
Feb. 2024 9781107186514 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781316890691
The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin 2 Volume Hardback Set
White, Carolinne | 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. 1048pp
Feb. 2024 9781316637319 Hardback GBP 180.00 / USD 235.00
eISBN 9781316890677
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The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Brady, Lindy | Edge Hill University
Taking a multilingual and comparative approach to the origin legends of early medieval Britain and Ireland in Latin and vernacular languages, this holistic study demonstrates their interconnected nature and traces their development over time, illuminating textual connections, shared themes, and the growth of these stories as a corpus.
282pp
May 2024 9781009225632 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009225601
Irish history
America in Ireland
Culture and Society, 1841–1925
Walsh, Fionnuala | University College Dublin
Exploring the influence of America on culture, society, and politics in post-Famine Ireland, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates the value of a transnational perspective. Inspired by the work of historian David P. B. Fitzpatrick (1948-2019), America in Ireland examines how reverse migration shaped Ireland’s modernisation and globalisation.
250pp
Nov. 2024 9781009376877 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009376884
Money and Irish Catholicism
An Intimate History, 1850–1921
Roddy, Sarah | Maynooth University
This innovative study explores the financial relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and its laity from about 1850, when the Church grew wealthy. Focusing on the motivations, experiences and emotions of the ordinary people who gave the money, it asserts their agency in the phenomenon of the post-Famine ‘devotional revolution’.
294pp
Apr. 2025 9781009456692 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009456685
Ulster’s Lost Counties
Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
Burke, Edward | University College Dublin
In 1920, the three Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan were excluded from Northern Ireland. This book examines the enduring loyalism within protestant communities in the “lost counties”. It traces the role of intergenerational memories of violent displacement in militant loyalist politics and paramilitarism during the recent Troubles.
358pp
Apr. 2024 9781009469289 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009469272
European history
20C European history
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Between Community and Collaboration
‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation Vastenhout, Laurien
A comparative analysis of the ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation,Laurien Vastenhout identifies the differences and similarities between Jewish representative bodies across occupied Western Europe and reveals that their histories were far more complex than has been previously recognized.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
313pp
May 2024 9781009054416 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009053532
Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology
The Role of Jesus in National Socialism Nilsson, Mikael | Independent Scholar
How did Hitler’s personal religious beliefs shape the development of National Socialism? Through close analysis of primary sources, Mikael Nilsson challenges established narratives surrounding Hitler’s relationship with Christianity, arguing that the figure of Jesus provided ideological inspiration for Hitler and the wider Nazi movement.
290pp
Jun. 2024 9781009314978 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Jun. 2024 9781009314954 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009314961
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Purposes
Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland
Waligórska, Magdalena | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Cross Purposes is the first cultural history of the cross in modern Poland, deconstructing this key symbol and exploring how it has been deployed in different political battles. Historians of Eastern Europe will find in it a compelling cultural history of Poland’s major political upheavals.
New Studies in European history
388pp
May 2024 9781009230971 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009230933
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Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany
The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation
Dack, Mikkel | 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.
327pp
Aug. 2024 9781009216357 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009216326
Foreign in Two Homelands
Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
Kahn, Michelle Lynn | University of Richmond, Virginia
Between 1961-1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany’s largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
380pp
Oct. 2024 9781009486712 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009486682
Frontiers of Empire
Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945
Nelson, Robert L. | 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.
332pp
Jan. 2024 9781009235365 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009235402
Germany through Jewish Eyes
A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Volkov, Shulamit | Tel-Aviv University
This study traces the dramatic course of German history over two hundred years – all from a Jewish perspective. Through chronologically ordered chapters, Shulamit Volkov corrects German history by applying the tale of Jewish experience. She offers us an opportunity to look at both German and German-Jewish history with fresh understanding.
246pp
Justice
and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania
Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944–1950
Ionescu, Stefan Cristian | Northwestern University, Illinois
After the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu in 1944, Jewish survivors in Romania sought to recuperate their rights and assets. This study analyzes both the attempts of the transitional government to repeal antisemitic legislation, and the later communist nationalizations that once again dispossessed Jewish communities.
New Studies in European history
304pp
Nov. 2024 9781009466875 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009466899
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Love between Enemies
Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II
Scheck, Raffael | Colby College, Maine
Based on thousands of court cases, this innovative study explores the love stories between enemy prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. It portrays an intimate picture of life in wartime Nazi Germany, from an international perspective, with a particular focus on German women’s experiences.
399pp
Feb. 2024 9781108795289 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108894821
Migration at the End of Empire
Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt
Viscomi, Joseph John | Birkbeck, University of London
How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? This innovative study presents a new framework for understanding the impact of empire and decolonisation on migrant subjects, and how conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure shaped Mediterranean history in the age of decolonisation.
Nov. 2024 9781009506489 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Nov. 2024 9781009506496 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009506465
Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Walker, Mark | Union College, New York
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler’s regime? And how did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and the postwar reaction to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the enduring impact of ‘Hitler’s bomb’.
380pp
Jul. 2024 9781009479288 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009479264
330pp
Jun. 2024 9781009473392 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009473415
Profits and Persecution
German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
Hayes, Peter | Northwestern University What role did German big business play in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust?
Profits and Persecution explores the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders instruments of the Nazi regime and then, after the war, falsifiers of the historical record until prompted to change by new commercial calculations.
224pp
Dec. 2024 9780521772884 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781139049689
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Race in Post-Fascist Italy
‘War Children’ and the Color of the Nation
Patriarca, Silvana | Fordham University, New York
Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate aftermath of WWII, this original and engaging study sheds lights on the persistence of anti-Black prejudice and ideas of race in democratic Italy, stressing the legacies of colonialist and fascist racism.
219pp
May 2024 9781108994026 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108991254
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Remaking Ukraine after World War II
The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power
Slaveski, Filip | Deakin University, Victoria
Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, this examines Soviet Ukraine’s transition from war to ‘peace’ in the long aftermath of World War II, exploring the battle for land, resources and power among collective farmers, local and central Soviet authorities in reconstructing post-war Ukraine. The consequences of this battle resonate today.
New Studies in European history
222pp
May 2024 9781108794183 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108879293
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Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Föllmer, Moritz | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Arguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
326pp
May 2024 9781108984775 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108985192
Social
Justice
in TwentiethCentury Europe
Conway, Martin | University of Oxford
Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. Using a transnational approach, this book provides the first historical account of the evolution of social justice across Europe during the twentieth century, and explores the divergent ways different groups have understood and sought to achieve social justice.
296pp
Mar. 2024 9781009370851 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009370868
Streetscapes of War and Revolution
Prague, 1914–1920
Morelon, Claire | University of Manchester
How did it feel to experience the Habsburg Empire’s fall into war and revolution? Morelon reconstructs the sights, sounds and material culture of a city in turmoil. From imperial city to nationstate capital, she traces Prague’s emerging place within the post-Versailles world order, and what this meant for its citizens.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
340pp
Jun. 2024 9781009335300 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009335331
The Quest for Individual Freedom
A Twentieth-Century European history
Föllmer, Moritz | University of Amsterdam
How did twentieth-century Europeans understand the concept of individual freedom? And how did they endeavour to achieve it? Moritz Föllmer combines cultural, social, and political history to analyse the multi-faceted nature of this quest in an era of conflict and change.
258pp
Jan. 2025 9781009482813
Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009482820
The Quislings
The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964
Seemann, Anika | Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
The Norwegian ‘treason trials’ were the most extensive post-war ‘reckoning’ with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. This study examines how the Norwegian authorities envisaged, implemented and interpreted these trials, from the first planning efforts of the early 1940s to the debates over their legacies during the 1960s.
New Studies in European history
346pp
Dec. 2024 9781009212304 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009212298
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West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963–1975
Gray, William Glenn | Purdue University, Indiana
Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of NATO, the European Community, and the global economy in the 1960s and 1970s; how it reduced Cold War tensions with the Soviet bloc; and how it renounced military status symbols such as nuclear weapons.
512pp
May 2024 9781108440752 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108341196
European history - 1000 - 1450
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559
Broomhall, Susan | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.
Elements in the Renaissance
78pp
Apr. 2024 9781009415958 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009462686 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009415972
Frankish Jerusalem
The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East
Gutgarts, Anna | University of Haifa, Israel
This book analyzes the gradual urban transformation of Jerusalem under Frankish rule. A key text for readers interested in the Crusades and the Latin East, the history of Jerusalem, and medieval cities.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
296pp 5 maps 27 tables
Feb. 2024 9781009418324 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009418348
History in Flames
The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
Bartlett, Robert | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The writings of the medieval period come down to us in manuscripts, which are highly vulnerable. This book explores cases in which large numbers of such manuscripts were rapidly destroyed by human force such as arson, shelling, or bombing, and the attempts made to enable their survival. 220pp
Aug. 2024 9781009457156 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 24.95
eISBN 9781009457187
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Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States
Hamilton, Bernard | University of Nottingham Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasteries and monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East during the Crusader period c.1050-1300.
564pp 10 b/w illus.
Sep. 2024 9781108816090 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781139016230
Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy
Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
Sulovsky, Vedran | University of Cambridge
This book analyses the so-called sacralisation of the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa in the twelfth century, when the Empire’s most commonly known name became popular. Innovative and comprehensive, it will interest scholars of the Middle Ages, specifically those interested in art, political, and ideological history.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 398pp 40 b/w illus. 3 maps
May 2024 9781009203487 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009203470
Masculinity in Byzantium, c.1000–1200
Scholars, Clerics and Violence
Perisanidi, Maroula | University of Leeds
Exploring the role of learning, violence and religious status in the construction of Byzantine masculinities, this book is valuable for scholars and students of gender, posthumanism and disability in any period as well as of Byzantine and medieval history.
206pp 3 colour illus.
Nov. 2024 9781009499798 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009499781
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Medieval
Self-Coronations
The History and Symbolism of a Ritual
Aurell, Jaume | Universidad de Navarra, Spain
This original and comprehensive study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present exposes as myth the idea that Napoleon was the first to perform the act of self-coronation, vividly demonstrating that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined.
354pp
Sep. 2024 9781108794176 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108879279
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Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy
Kuehn, Thomas | Clemson University, South Carolina
Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property was inherited, managed and shared legally and its central role in Renaissance Italy.
266pp
May 2024 9781009073967 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009072816
Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France
Murphy, Neil | Northumbria University
This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. It seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s.
Elements in the Renaissance
84pp
Apr. 2024 9781009233781 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009507639 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009233798
Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204)
New Texts, New Approaches
van den Berg, Baukje | Central European University, Vienna
Explores the abundant poetic production of an especially fertile period in Byzantine literary history. Examines schools as important venues for the composition and use of verse texts, sheds new light on the relationship between poetry, patronage and power, and offers the first editions and interpretive studies of hitherto neglected works.
432pp
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The
Briennes
The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356
Perry, Guy | Middlebury College, Vermont
The Briennes were a particularly fascinating example of the far-flung international aristocracy in the ‘age of the Crusades’. This first comprehensive study of the dynasty explores not only its rise, glory and fall, but also how it helped to shape the nature of the European state system.
239pp 8 b/w illus. 7 maps
Oct. 2024 9781009467322 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009467292
Risks in Renaissance Art
Production, Purchase, and Reception
Nelson, Jonathan K. | Syracuse University, Florence
This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.
Elements in the Renaissance 106pp
Mar. 2024 9781009402538 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Mar. 2024 9781009476614 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009402514
Senses of Space in the Early Modern World
Terpstra, Nicholas | University of Toronto
This Element takes a global expansive and locally rooted approach to answering how early moderns experienced sense and space by focusing on 4 cities as its key examples: Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in the Renaissance 94pp
Mar. 2024 9781009435406 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Mar. 2024 9781009462624 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009435437
Sep. 2024 9781316647516 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108164979
The French Disease in Renaissance Italy
Representation and Experience
Henderson, John | University of London
This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints. The second theme is how the French Disease was represented visually.
Elements in the Renaissance
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009236331 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009507530 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009236317
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The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560
Collins, James B. | Georgetown University, Washington DC How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? Offering a new perspective on the nature of political society in the French monarchy across more than two centuries, this book establishes the relationship between seemingly theoretical constructs, and the reality of everyday politics.
319pp
May 2024 9781108461283 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108593045
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Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals
Wei, Ian P. | University of Bristol
Exploring the diverse ways in which theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood the differences and similarities between humans and animals, this book analyses key theological works to demonstrate how thinking about animals became a crucial tool for generating knowledge of God and the whole of creation.
236pp
Aug. 2024 9781108821728 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108907552
European history
Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium
Art, Theology, and Court Culture
Rossi, Maria Alessia | Princeton University, New Jersey
Explores the meanings and iconography of monumental paintings of Christ’s miracles in late Byzantine churches, and demonstrates that, far from the formulaic ensembles they are often mistaken to be, these painted cycles were carefully and inventively crafted by the cultural milieu at a pivotal time in the early Palaiologan era.
366pp 95 colour illus. 4 maps
Jun. 2024 9781009387620 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009387644
European history - 450 - 1000
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After Charlemagne
Carolingian Italy and its Rulers
Gantner, Clemens | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Bringing together the foremost scholars of early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers new perspectives on the politics, culture, society and economy of ninth-century Italy and paints a vivid picture of a multifaceted peninsula with complex international relations, a fascinating but neglected period of Italian history.
347pp
Aug. 2024 9781108743921 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108887762
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Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Goodson, Caroline | University of Cambridge
Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of foodgrowing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
322pp
May 2024 9781108733458 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108773966
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East and West in the Early Middle
Ages
Esders, Stefan | Freie Universität Berlin
Bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on the Merovingian world’s connections with the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Spain.
376pp
Marriage in Byzantium
Christian Liturgical Rites from Betrothal to Consummation
Radle, Gabriel | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Brings together ritual texts, visual representations, objects, and historical narratives to trace the social process of marriage formation in the pre-modern Mediterranean world. Recreates the colorful ceremonies employed and explores what they reveal about family ties, religious belief and practice, sexuality, law, and gender relations. 420pp 35 colour illus.
Jan. 2025 9781009469562 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009469548
Merovingian Worlds
Palmer, James T. | University of St Andrews, Scotland
This book offers an essential, up-to-date guide to European history c. 450–751. It will be critical reading for students taking medieval survey courses and more specialist modules on the period. It will benefit scholars and teachers by introducing the technicalities of the evidence and how to interpret it.
Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
312pp
Dec. 2024 9781108737593 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99
Dec. 2024 9781108493611 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00
eISBN 9781108656573
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Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234
Social Origins and Medieval Reception of Canon Law
d’Avray, D. L. | University College London
Bringing together ancient and medieval history, Papal Jurisprudence, c. 385-c. 1234 explains why bishops sought judgments from the papacy long before it exerted its influence through religious fear, traces the reception of those judgments to the mid-thirteenth century, and analyses the relation between the decretals c. 400 and c. 1200.
332pp
May 2024 9781108460866 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108595292
Ritual and Earthquakes in Constantinople
Liturgy, Ecology, and Empire Roosien, Mark | Yale University, Connecticut
Sep. 2024 9781009563659 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781316941072
Located on the North Anatolian Fault, Constantinople was frequently shaken by earthquakes. This book argues that ritual and theological responses to these events shaped Byzantine conceptions of God and the environment and transformed Constantinople’s self-understanding as the capital of the oikoumene and center of divine action in history.
218pp 10 colour illus.
Nov. 2024 9781009427289 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009427265
The Chora Monastery of Constantinople
Moutafov, Emmanuel S. | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Chora is one of the most celebrated churches built in Constantinople during the Byzantine era. This Element sets out the history of The Chora, presents its artwork, and considers how to interpret its construction, significance, and meaning. It offers an insight into images and words that are currently inaccessible to the general public.
Elements in the History of Constantinople
75pp
European history (general)
Berlin
Fulbrook, Mary | University College London
Through a series of ten vignettes, this engaging introduction to a fascinating city explores Berlin’s historical layers, startling transformations and contested legacies. Mary Fulbrook presents Berlin’s distinctive history as rooted in specific places and sites, examining how the city continues to be reimagined, constructed and experienced.
Ten Moments That Shaped
300pp
Nov. 2024 9781108931137 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009486804 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108946476
The Church of St. Polyeuktos at Constantinople
Stroth, Fabian | University of Freiburg
This Element discusses the Early Byzantine Church of St. Polyeuktos. One of the most magnificent, but also most peculiar architectural achievements in Byzantine Constantinople.
Elements in the History of Constantinople
90pp
Mar. 2024 9781009101325 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Mar. 2024 9781009517065 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009105729
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Weeds and the Carolingians
Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900
Squatriti, Paolo | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity, and challenged theologians who believed God had made all vegetation good. This book presents a dynamic picture of early medieval people struggling to control their ecosystems, and their relationship with their environments.
236pp
Jan. 2025 9781009160933 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 22.99
Jan. 2025 9781009160940 Hardback GBP 60.00 / USD 75.00
eISBN 9781009160957
European history after 1450
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
A Global History, c. 1750–1830
Jansen, Jan C. | The University of Tübingen
Offering a bold new vision of the age of revolutions, this global history highlights the intersection of war, empire and forced migration in a period usually identified with a quest for liberty and political participation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
316pp
May 2024 9781009069342 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009072328
Worlds
of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
Bolman, Elizabeth S. | Case Western Reserve University, Ohio Privileging culture and language over politics, this book offers an expanded understanding of what it means to study the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods, one that explicitly includes the Christian populations of the Muslimruled Middle East as well as neighbouring states like Ethiopia and Armenia.
726pp
May 2024 9781009370547 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009370578
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Protestant Empires
Globalizing the Reformations
Rublack, Ulinka | University of Cambridge Protestantism during the early modern period is predominantly presented as a European story. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, this volume advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant Reformations, demonstrating the crucial role of global interactions, placing Protestant ideas and practices in a comparative context.
Oct. 2024 9781108492096 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108684620
374pp
Mar. 2024 9781108794978 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108894449
Reformations Compared
Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe
Jefferies, Henry A. | Ulster University
Comparative essays by an international panel of historians offer fresh insights into the unfolding of the Reformation across Europe. From Saxony to the Baltic to Transylvania, each chapter draws out the variables that shaped the spread of the Reformation across comparable geographic spaces, offering new perspectives on this epochal subject.
304pp
Mar. 2024 9781009468633 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Mar. 2024 9781009468596 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009468640
European history
Remaking the World
European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy
Seigel, Jerrold | New York University
Examining Europe’s singular role in world history, both for good and ill, Jerrold Seigel analyzes the special conditions that enabled it, contrasting them with the ways life was organized in Africa, India, the Islamic world, and China.
378pp
Nov. 2024 9781009541664 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009541671
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Rival Byzantiums
Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe
Mishkova, Diana
A comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains – Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey – from the Enlightenment to the present day. Reveals its importance in both identity building and identity politics.
367pp
Jul. 2024 9781108718639 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108759557
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State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1696
Close, Christopher W. | St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
Through a comparative study of alliances in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries, Christopher W. Close offers new perspectives on how alliances in early modern Europe promoted shared sovereignty, and how this influenced the evolution of states in early modern Europe.
381pp
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The Making of a FiscalMilitary State in PostRevolutionary France
Greenfield, Jerome
Draws together economic, political and diplomatic history to explain how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. These changes lasted for the rest of the nineteenth century, and underpinned the development of the economic interventionism for which the French state became notorious.
New Studies in European history
335pp
May 2024 9781108813556 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108884815
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The Shaping of French National Identity
Narrating the Nation’s Past, 1715–1830
D’Auria, Matthew | University of East Anglia
Casts new light on the intellectual origins of the ‘official’ French nineteenth-century national narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the French past from the early eighteenth century to the Restoration, reshaping the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities.
New Studies in European history
May 2024 9781108925082 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108946827
The
German Empire, 1871–1918
Chickering, Roger | Georgetown University, Washington DC
This broad survey of imperial Germany provides rich insights into this fractious period, when furious economic growth and social change resulted in pervasive civic conflict. The German Empire, 1871–1918 explores the challenges of rapid industrialization and urban growth, both for local communities and Germany’s global relations.
636pp
Dec. 2024 9781107026742 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781139208550
487pp
Jan. 2024 9781107571846 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781316423189
Russian, East European history
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Before the Uprising
Hungary under Communism, 1949–1956
Kenez, Peter | University of California, Santa Cruz
Before the Uprising examines the specific social, economic, political and intellectual characteristics of totalitarian Hungary, at the critical moment before the 1956 Revolution. Throughout the work, Peter Kenez explores what the necessary components of totalitarianism are, and shows how they were enacted in Hungary.
289pp
Jan. 2024 9781009180436 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009180443
Domestic Service in the Soviet Union
Women’s Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor
Klots, Alissa | University of Pittsburgh
This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union. Bringing together gender and labor history, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the Bolshevik regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers’ efforts to participate in public life and reinvent themselves as equal members of society.
New Studies in European history
318pp
May 2024 9781009467209 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009467193
Fuel and Power
Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations
from Lenin to Putin
Perović, Jeronim | Universität Zürich
A very timely study of Russia’s emergence as a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. It reveals how Russian exports shaped global energy flows as well as how international trade impacted the fabric of the country’s foreign relations and, ultimately, the course of Russian history.
274pp
Jun. 2024 9781009449144 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Jun. 2024 9781009449106 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009449090
Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip
Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. | West Chester University, Pennsylvania
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs their epic journey and their encounters with a vast cast of characters in order to reveal the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations between the two countries.
354pp 35 b/w illus. 1 map
Feb. 2024 9781316518465 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009008914
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Succession to the
Throne in Early Modern Russia
The Transfer of Power 1450–1725
Bushkovitch, Paul | Yale University, Connecticut
This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar’s power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, overturns generations of scholarship to argue that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law.
413pp
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The Broken Years
Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921
Sumpf, Alexandre | Université de Strasbourg
The Broken Years tells the forgotten history of Russia’s disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions. Using extensive archival material from national and regional archives, Alexandre Sumpf explores their treatment by the state, their battle for legal status and their right to both collective and individual health care.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
321pp
Sep. 2024 9781009048385 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009047296
The Fate of the Soviet Bloc’s Military Alliance
Reform, Adaptation, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991
Kramer, Mark | Harvard University
The Warsaw Pact, a military alliance established by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, was a significant tool for Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Renewed for 30 years, it was disbanded six years later due to political transformation in Eastern Europe. This Element explains its final years and its demise in 1991.
Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
75pp
May 2024 9781108749688 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108783156
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Survivors
Warsaw under Nazi Occupation
Biskupska, Jadwiga
Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia’s resistance to Nazi occupation.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
343pp 4 maps
May 2024 9781009012508 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009026017
Nov. 2024 9781009557153 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009557207 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009557160
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The Soviet Myth of World War II
Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
Brunstedt, Jonathan | Texas A & M University
Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war’s memory in Russia today.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
322pp
Jul. 2024 9781108712552 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108595773
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Tunguska
A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy
Bruno, Andy | Northern Illinois University
This engaging new account of the powerful Tunguska explosion of 1908 provides a fresh look at the enigmatic disaster and the generations of researchers who have tried to understand it. Taking readers inside expeditions and investigations to explore the role of mystery in environmental history, Bruno examines the legacy of the explosion.
Studies in Environment and History
324pp
Feb. 2025 9781108744393 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108887847
Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
Dyczok, Marta | Western University
This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine’s twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It explains how the people living on its lands have their distinct history, how they shaped it, were shaped by it, and had an impact on both European and global history.
Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009365574 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009486040 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009365536
Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe
Kollmann, Nancy S. | Stanford University, California
In early modern Europe, print culture shaped and disseminated knowledge about Russia through visual means. Using case studies of specific images of Russians in a wide range of publications, Nancy Kollmann explores this vibrant world, tracking how these images were produced, copied and plagiarized across genres, countries and publishers.
342pp
Menacing Tides
Security, Piracy and Empire in the NineteenthCentury Mediterranean de Lange, Erik | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective security, legitimising the repression of piracy. Menacing Tides demonstrates how this European cooperation against shared threats remade the Mediterranean and unleashed a new form of collaborative imperialism.
346pp
Aug. 2024 9781009418683 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009418690
History - cross discipline
Diplomatic, international history
An International Anomaly
Colonial Accession to the League of Nations
Gidney, Thomas | Geneva Graduate Institute
At the founding of the League of Nations, British statesmen drafted a loophole allowing colonies to accede as member-states. Gidney explores how this loophole has shaped norms around sovereignty and its continuing legacy into today’s United Nations.
Global and International History
Apr. 2025 9781009584449 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009584432
Cold War Asia
A Visual History of Global Diplomacy
Phillips, Matthew | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK
This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.
249pp
Dec. 2024 9781009379618 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009379649
Apr. 2024 9781009364140 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009364126
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Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
Jackson, Peter | 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.
438pp
Jan. 2025 9781108827348 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108907750
To Run the World
The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
Radchenko, Sergey | Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe
What would it feel like To Run the World? Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.
768pp
May 2024 9781108477352 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 34.95
eISBN 9781108769679
Uneasy Allies
Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949
Fredman, Zach | Duke Kunshan University
Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK, and the US, the chapters in this volume reveal how grassroots engagements between Americans and Chinese during World War II shaped the development of the postwar order in Asia and continue to influence Sino-US relations today.
278pp
Dec. 2024 9781009534949 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009534970
Economic history
An Economic history of India
Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century Gupta, Bishnupriya | University of Warwick
A major new Economic history of India from the reign of Akbar to India’s post-independence integration into the global economy. Bishnupriya Gupta builds a new framework for understanding development and underdevelopment in a large colonial economy as well as of India’s postindependence economic performance through to the present day.
Cambridge Studies in Economic history - Second Series
240pp
Dec. 2024 9781108798730 Paperback GBP 26.99
Dec. 2024 9781108491624 Hardback GBP 85.00
eISBN 9781108869065
An Economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
Lains, Pedro | Universidade de Lisboa
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.
808pp
Hierarchy of Needs and the Measurement of Poverty and Standards of Living
Deutsch, Joseph | Bar-Ilan University and Ashkelon Academic College
The focus of this Element is on the idea that choice is hierarchical so that there exists an order of acquisition of durable goods and assets as real incomes increase. Two main approaches to deriving such an order are presented, the so-called Paroush approach and Item Response Theory. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Development Economics
102pp
Feb. 2024 9781009358170 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Feb. 2024 9781009485975 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009358200
Feb. 2024 9781108488327 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108770217
Before Banks
The Making of Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France
Dermineur, Elise M. | Stockholm University Elise Dermineur reconstructs the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Examining the credit instruments at ordinary people’s disposal, the role of women in credit markets and the social, legal and economic experiences of indebtedness, she uncovers lessons for today’s financial systems.
Cambridge Studies in Economic history - Second Series
300pp
Jan. 2025 9781009502641 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009502634
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Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919
Moazzin, Ghassan | The University of Hong Kong
Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy and highlights the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history. Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
354pp
Jan. 2024 9781009016940 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009037891
NEW IN PAPERBACK Impunity and Capitalism
The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830
Jackson, Trevor | George Washington University, Washington DC
Impunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several international financial crises: 1709, 1720, 1793–97 and 1825. Trevor Jackson considers how these crises happened, who was responsible for stopping them, and how financial capitalism created new forms of impunity.
322pp 3 maps
Jan. 2024 9781009014748 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009029605
Kerala, 1956 to the Present
India’s Miracle State
Roy, Tirthankar | London School of Economics and Political Science
This a systematic enquiry on the development and growth trajectories of Kerala since state formation. The book engages with the existing debates on the Kerala model with fresh arguments and perspectives. This is capable of opening up a new window of knowledge on Kerala’s disjunctures in historical and contemporary times.
Economic Histories of Indian States
180pp
Nov. 2024 9781009521659 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Nov. 2024 9781009521635 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009521628
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Marché Noir
The Economy of Survival in Second World War France
Mouré, Kenneth | 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.
325pp
Jan. 2025 9781009207690 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009207683
History - cross discipline
Maritime Metropolis
London and its Port, 1780–1914
Palmer, Sarah | University of Greenwich
Sarah Palmer’s authoritative work is the first to treat the history of London and its port as one subject. She brings together a range of material rarely considered together to demonstrate both the economic importance of international and domestic sea-borne trade and the unique urban geography it created.
Cambridge Studies in Economic history - Second Series
300pp
Nov. 2024 9781108426534 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108699365
Ruins to Riches
The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945
Stokes, Raymond G. | University of Glasgow
Between 1945 and 1960, Germany and Japan rocketed from crushing defeat to become two of the five largest economies in the world – positions they have maintained since. What accounts for this remarkable transformation? In this uniquely comparative account, Ray Stokes examines the spectacular resurgence of Deutschland AG and Japan Incorporated.
345pp
May 2024 9781316514528 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009083669
Environmental history
Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil
An Environmental history of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s–90s
Johnson, Matthew P. | Harvard University, Massachusetts
In the later twentieth century, Brazil’s right-wing military dictatorship built a spate of low carbon hydropower dams to electrify its cities and industries. The costs fell disproportionately on Indigenous communities and the environment.
Medieval Riverscapes
Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100
Arnold, Ellen F. | Ohio State University
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.
Studies in Environment and History
328pp
Mar. 2024 9781009299398 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009299381
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Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Sundberg, Adam | Creighton University, Omaha
Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
Studies in Environment and History
357pp
Johnson examines the implications across Brazil alongside global questions of politics and environmentalism.
Studies in Environment and History
330pp
Jun. 2024 9781009428699 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009428743
Hydropower Nation
Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
Ding, Xiangli | Rhode Island School of Design
China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second to none. Xiangli Ding provides a historical understanding of China’s ever-growing energy demands and how they have affected its rivers, wild species, and millions of residents.
Studies in Environment and History
296pp
Nov. 2024 9781009426565 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009426589
Aug. 2024 9781108926591 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108923750
Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance
The Human Environment
Sörlin, Sverker | KTH Royal Institute of Technology
A unique history examining the evolution of global environmental governance through the lens of one city. It explores the impact of the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment and the outsized role of Stockholm-based actors in generating knowledge and shaping institutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Studies in Environment and History
200pp
Dec. 2024 9781009177801 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009177825
The Political Ecology of Violence
Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
Pehlivan, Zozan | University of Minnesota Zozan Pehlivan’s innovative examination of slow violence in late Ottoman Kurdistan offers an alternative theoretical framework for understanding inter-communal conflict. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, Pehlivan argues that ecological and climatic fluctuations had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state and society.
Studies in Environment and History
320pp
Nov. 2024 9781009534994 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009535021
Global history
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African Activists in a Decolonising World
The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966
Volume 0
Milford, Ismay | 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.
Global and International History
314pp 5 b/w illus. 2 maps
Nov. 2024 9781009277037 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009277020
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Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
Wagner, Florian | Universität Erfurt, Germany
In 1893, colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute to take control of the world’s colonial policy. Florian Wagner argues that colonial internationalists reshaped colonialism as a transimperial governmental policy to perpetuate empires well into the twentieth century.
Global and International History
433pp
Jul. 2024 9781009069311 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 37.99
eISBN 9781009072229
Converting Rulers
Kongo, Japan, Thailand, Hawaii and Global Patterns, 1450–1850
Strathern, Alan | University of Oxford
Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders?
Building on his previous work through in-depth analysis of key turning points, Strathern deploys rich theoretical arguments to understand why warlords, chiefs and kings across the world did or did not convert to Christianity.
498pp
Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain
Beusterien, John | Texas Tech University
The Element provides a Global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages 75pp
Jan. 2025 9781009172561 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jan. 2025 9781009507455 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009172578
‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE
Binyam, Yonatan | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages
88pp
May 2024 9781009107969 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
May 2024 9781009500982 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009106115
Global Ships
Seafaring, Shipwrecks, and Boatbuilding in the Global Middle Ages
Respess, Amanda | Ohio State University-Marion Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered longdistance connections across the world’s oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Global Ships highlights essential historical context, technological case studies, and logics of seafaring around the world before the modern age.
Nov. 2024 9781108702102 Paperback GBP 37.99 / USD 49.99
Nov. 2024 9781108477161 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 190.00
eISBN 9781108569729
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
Dantas, Mariana | Ohio University
This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a Global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. Elements in Global Urban History 104pp
Apr. 2024 9781108749541 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009468060 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108782937
Elements in the Global Middle Ages
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009343398 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009494373 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009343411
Globalizing Urban Environmental history
Vitz, Matthew | University of California, San Diego
This Element, Globalizing Urban Environmental history melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of Environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban Environmental history. Elements in Global Urban History
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009400350 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009475778 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009400367
Making Cities Socialist
Zubovich, Katherine | University at Buffalo, State University of New York
This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century. Elements in Global Urban History
88pp
Apr. 2024 9781108797108 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009468077 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108850520
History - cross discipline
Mobile Manuscripts
Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Bahl, Christopher D. | Durham University
In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, locating South Asia as a key node of connection.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
350pp
Jan. 2025 9781009359726 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009359719
Our
Urban Planet in Theory and History
Nightingale, Carl | University at Buffalo
This Element uses insights from ‘deep history’ to set the stage for a ‘theory by verb’ elaborating the many paradoxes of humans’ 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities’ own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.
Elements in Global Urban History
84pp
States-in-Waiting
A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Walker, Lydia | Ohio State University
States-in-Waiting narrates how postcolonial statehood did not fulfill the aspirations of many nationalist claimants demanding independence. Foregrounding little-known regions and the networks connecting them to global politics, Lydia Walker illuminates the un-endings of decolonization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Global and International History
302pp
Jun. 2024 9781009321808 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jun. 2024 9781009494595 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009321778
Rethinking Global history
Gänger, Stefanie | Universität Heidelberg
This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field’s conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature and reflect on the implications of history going global. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
292pp
Nov. 2024 9781009444026 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Nov. 2024 9781009444040 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009444002
Selling French Sex
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations
Camiscioli, Elisa | Binghamton University, State University of New York
Selling French Sex challenges contemporary understandings of trafficking by exploring the discourses and experiences surrounding the migration of French women for work in the early-twentieth-century sex industry. It will interest students and scholars of French, immigration, women’s and gender, and world history.
306pp
May 2024 9781009305822 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009305815
Swahili Worlds in Globalism
Kusimba, Chapurukha M. | University of South Florida Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages
106pp
Jan. 2024 9781009074056 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jan. 2024 9781009495080 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009072922
The Global Legend of Prester John
Taylor, Christopher E. | Western New Mexico University
The Global Legend of Prester John delves into the enduring fascination with Prester John, an unreachable, collectively-imagined Christian priestking who figured prominently in Europe’s entrance into an interconnected global world.
Elements in the Global Middle Ages
75pp
Jan. 2024 9781009418409 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jan. 2024 9781009418379 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009418386
Jan. 2025 9781009502009 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jan. 2025 9781009502030 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009502016
World Cities in History
Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire
Leon, Joshua K. | Iona University, New York
Leon demonstrates, in vivid detail, how world cities and urban networks have shaped life over 6,000 years. Asking what it has meant for ordinary people to live in cities transformed by global forces, he offers a fresh, accessible reading of urban history in a compelling theoretical contribution to the field.
363pp
Dec. 2024 9781009444996 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99
Dec. 2024 9781009444972 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009444958
Historical theory, historical method and historiography
Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time
Mudrovcic, María Inés | Universidad Nacional del ComahueCONICET-IPEHCS
This Element explores four meanings of ‘contemporary,’ emphasizing its designation as a historical field. It argues that disagreements about when the contemporary era begins stem from historians assuming a linear, chronological, and absolute conception of time. It enriches our understanding of the concept of the ‘present’ in the context of history.
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
74pp
May 2024 9781009048552 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
May 2024 9781009517836 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009047739
Pragmatism and Historical Representation
Grigoriev, Serge | Ithaca College
This Element aims to advance the understanding of history by focusing on the relationships between objectivity, perspective, representation, and individualizing comprehension in historical contexts. It acknowledges that no pragmatist philosopher has developed a fully developed theory of history, but their arguments and suggestions are insightful.
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
Dec. 2024 9781009055109 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Dec. 2024 9781009533577 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009053280
Teaching History in Higher Education
Ethics, Aims, Methods
Dickinson, Edward Ross | University of California, Davis
What are the challenges of teaching history? How can history instructors engage an increasingly diverse student body? And how can we help to make the teaching of history more meaningful?
Edward Ross Dickinson offers a new approach to the discipline, and demonstrates the benefits that studying history can bring.
290pp
Jan. 2025 9781009519915 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jan. 2025 9781009519922 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009519939
The History of Knowledge
Östling, Johan | Lunds Universitet, Sweden
This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. It is an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field towards studying knowledge in society and knowledge in people’s lives. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
82pp
Jan. 2024 9781009048545 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jan. 2024 9781009486903 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009047715
What Is a Classic in History?
The Making of a Historical Canon
Aurell, Jaume | University of Navarra
Why do some historical works, such as those of Herodotus or Gibbon, capture the imaginations of readers across generations? This study explores the power of these so-called ‘classics’, investigating the construction and consolidation of historical genres while innovatively examining the historiographical canon.
354pp
Feb. 2024 9781009469951 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Feb. 2024 9781009469968 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009469937
Writing the History of the African Diaspora
Falola, Toyin | University of Texas, Austin
This Element defines the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The diverse histories of Africa’s ancient-ongoing diasporas and their present circumstances are analyzed, bringing into conversation a progressively global and connected world.
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
76pp
Jun. 2024 9781009442114 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jun. 2024 9781009475686 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009442084
History of ideas and intellectual history
A Republic of Sympathy
Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy, 1785–1815
McCrudden Illert, Kathleen | European University Institute, Florence
Sophie de Grouchy was a political philosopher and activist at the centre of Revolutionary events in France between 1789 and 1815. Examining Grouchy’s intellectual collaboration and significance among her contemporaries, Kathleen McCrudden Illert demonstrates how Grouchy developed a unique political philosophy centred upon sympathy. Ideas in Context, 154
293pp
Nov. 2024 9781009482448 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009482431
Curating the Enlightenment
Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century
Keller, Vera | University of Oregon
In late seventeenth-century Europe, scholars crafted the research university as a haven for critical inquiry in defiance of political and economic pressures. Across new fields, from experimental science to archaeology and museology, academics abandoned established intellectual practices and curated the concept of the research discipline itself.
414pp
Nov. 2024 9781009506830 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009506854
History - cross discipline
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Empire of Eloquence
The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World
McManus, Stuart M. | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Ideas in Context
314pp
May 2024 9781108821735 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108909181
Enlightenment’s Reformation
Religion and Philosophy in Germany, 1750–1830
Printy, Michael | Yale University, Connecticut
Between 1750 and 1830, two key cultural achievements – the sixteenth-century Reformation and the late eighteenth-century birth of ‘German’ philosophy – became fused in public discussion.
Enlightenment’s Reformation explores how the Reformation was transformed into a narrative of progress, and why it has had such a long-standing impact.
Ideas in Context, 152
284pp
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Heretical Orthodoxy
Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church
Kolstø, Pål | University of Oslo
Lev Tolstoi, one of the world’s most famous writers, was also a religious thinker and influential critic of the Orthodox Church. This book offers a new account of his relationship with the Church, showing how most of his main ideas drew on his Christian heritage – a radical reinterpretation of the faith he encountered in his own life.
Ideas in Context
316pp
Nov. 2024 9781009494069 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009494038
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
Whitman, James Q. | Yale University, Connecticut
James Q. Whitman offers a new account of the disappearance of lawful slavery, and asks us to reconsider some of our most basic ideas about the nature of property. The book will interest students and scholars of law, the history of slavery, European colonialism and imperialism, and classics.
Studies in Legal History
462pp
Dec. 2024 9781009497534 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009497541
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
The Practice of Ideas, 1832–1900
Gallo, Fernanda | University of Cambridge Across Italy in the nineteenth century, a generation of intellectuals engaged with Hegel’s philosophy while actively participating in Italian political life. This study investigates the reception and transformation of Hegel’s political thought in nineteenth-century Italy, and explores how Hegelian ideas acquired meaning in these contexts.
Ideas in Context, 153
305pp
May 2024 9781009260411 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009260374
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Human Empire
Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800
McCormick, Ted | Concordia University, Montréal
Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
Ideas in Context
310pp
May 2024 9781009124614 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009128834
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
Palti, Elías J. | University of Buenos Aires
How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? This ambitious study reassesses the main tenets of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge from the 17th century onwards.
The Seeley Lectures
298pp
Nov. 2024 9781009494120 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009494137
May 2024 9781009461214 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
May 2024 9781009461191 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009461245
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Liberalism after the Revolution
The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830–1880
Sotiropoulos, Michalis
This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism and the ways in which it engaged in reforms in the Greek state after independence from the Ottomans challenges our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state.
Ideas in Context, 143
311pp
May 2024 9781009254687 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009254700
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Plutarch’s Prism
Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800
Kingston, Rebecca | University of Toronto
Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition of ‘public humanism’.
Ideas in Context, 142 456pp
Jan. 2024 9781009243469 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009243490
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Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
Volume 0
Nicholls, Sophie | University of Oxford
Based on fresh analysis of the political and polemical literature produced by members of the Holy League during the French wars of religion, this study scrutinises their political thought and rethinks their positioning in the wider intellectual context of the religious wars.
Ideas in Context
283pp
Sensorium
Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures
Howes, David | Concordia University and McGill University, Montréal
This Element pries the examination of the senses and perception loose from the psychology laboratory to focus on how they have been constructed and lived differently in different historical periods and across cultures. It answers many questions that run counter to our commonsense assumptions about the sensorium.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
86pp
May 2024 9781108743938 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108887786
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Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France
A Conceptual
History
Claussen, Emma | University of Cambridge
During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word ‘politique’ and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.
Ideas in Context, 134
302pp
May 2024 9781108928335 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108933582
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Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
Parasher, Tejas | University of California, Los Angeles
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.
Ideas in Context, 149 213pp
Jan. 2025 9781009305600 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305563
May 2024 9781009329682 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
May 2024 9781009517225 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009329668
The Cambridge History of Rights
Volume 4 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edelstein, Dan | Stanford University, California
This volume examines how writers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed and propagated new ideas about rights, and offers a global perspective on rights-making. A comprehensive resource for students and scholars of intellectual, social, and political history.
696pp
Nov. 2024 9781316519165 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009019521
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The Case of Ireland
Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848
Stafford, James | Columbia University, New York Demonstrating Ireland’s central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions, this pathbreaking book offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history. Ideas in Context, 138
308pp
May 2024 9781009013741 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009031905
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The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
Mahlberg, Gaby | University of Warwick
Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration. Ideas in Context
318pp
May 2024 9781108794985 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108894463
History - cross discipline
The Limits of Erudition
The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe
Twining, Timothy | KU Leuven
This panoramic account of post-Reformation biblical scholarship presents a major new history of how the Old Testament was considered and contested across Europe. Drawing upon a mass of archival research, Timothy Twining vividly recreates the practice of early modern scholarship and reestablishes the importance of Catholic intellectual culture.
Ideas in Context, 155
364pp
Dec. 2024 9781009460958 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009460965
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The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653
Peltonen, Markku | University of Helsinki
Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
Ideas in Context
273pp
Zionism
Emotions, Language and Experience
Idels, Ofer | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
This Element emphasizes the overlooked role of emotional and sensory experiences when examining the Zionist experience in the early twentieth century. This Element advocates for the significance of the history of emotions and experience as an innovative methodology with profound ethical implications for our polarized era.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
75pp
May 2024 9781009212052 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009212090
Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague
Barr, Philippa Nicole | Australian National University, Canberra
This Element demonstrates that during the 3rd global plague pandemic, disgust was a means of producing and protecting social identity rather than a form of pathogen avoidance. By presenting flexibility in the disgust response, it contributes to debates about the influence of knowledge on embodied emotion and affect.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 80pp
Apr. 2024 9781108821063 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009462105 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108908061
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Writers and Revolution
Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848
Beecher, Jonathan | University of California, Santa Cruz
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
494pp
Mar. 2025 9781009442923 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Mar. 2025 9781009517423 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009442947
History of medicine
Childhood, Pain and Emotion
A Modern British Medical History
Fernández-Fontecha, Leticia | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This innovative work explores the objectification of childhood pain in British medical discourse from the dawn of Darwinism to the advent of the welfare state. Fernández-Fontecha examines the relationship between the experience of pain and its social and medical perception, demonstrating how the child in pain came to be perceived.
263pp
Mar. 2025 9781009558730 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009558723
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Disorder Contained
Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900
Cox, Catherine | University College Dublin
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder
Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners’ experiences of mental breakdown.
315pp
May 2024 9781108829373 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108909792
Sep. 2024 9781108995191 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108993586
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Population Politics in the Tropics
Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
Coghe, Samuël | Freie Universität Berlin Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of multilingual archival research and comparative and transimperial perspectives, Samuël Coghe argues that colonial policy was driven by a persistent, but imprecise, idea of demographic crisis.
Global Health Histories
332pp
Jul. 2024 9781108932103 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108943307
History of science and technology
Agricultural Science as International Development
Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era
Curry, Helen Anne | Georgia Institute of Technology
For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book presents a compelling new look at the lasting influence of CGIAR around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
324pp
Nov. 2024 9781009434706 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Nov. 2024 9781009434669 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009434713
Applied Science
Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain’s Public Realm
Bud, Robert | Science Museum, London
Robert Bud explores the rise and fall of ‘applied science’ as a class of scientific thought and practice. UK focussed, the study has international implications. Over two centuries, lay actors and scientists interacted through politics, stories and institutions to shape a category that would eventually fade in favour of ‘technology’.
Science in History
342pp
Mar. 2024 9781009365239 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009365260
Charles Darwin
No Rebel, Great Revolutionary Ruse, Michael | Florida State University
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution continues to be controversial. Offering a ground-breaking introduction to the history and plausibility of the theory, this book shows that the theory is supportive of religion and an essential guide to approaching today’s most pressing social issues –immigrants, race, homosexuality, and the status of women.
256pp
Dec. 2024 9781009438940 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Dec. 2024 9781009438957 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009438971
Creolised Science
Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century IndoPacific
Brixius, Dorit
The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly Global history of botanical knowledge.
Science in History
276pp
Apr. 2024 9781009200448 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009200486
Darwin Mythology
Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods
Kampourakis, Kostas | Université de Genève
This concise, accessible and engaging collection debunks the myths and corrects the falsehoods surrounding one of the most famous scientific figures in history – Charles Darwin. Leading scholars examine his life and work to set the historical record straight, and to draw conclusions about the very nature of science itself.
328pp
Jun. 2024 9781009375689 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Jun. 2024 9781009375702 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009375719
Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences
Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific
Warren, Adam | University of Washington
For readers interested in the history of science, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, and studies of empire and colonialism, this volume offers a revisionist history of research encounters in the human sciences in imperial and colonial contexts in the Americas and the Pacific. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
388pp
Nov. 2024 9781009398138 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009398152
Evolution for the People
Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present
Bowler, Peter J. | Queen’s University Belfast
In a compelling new study of popular evolutionism over two centuries, Peter Bowler uses the growing interest in popular science to reinterpret how evolutionary ideas have shaped modern culture. He demonstrates how Darwinism and its rivals sought public attention via mass media, and their resulting impact on popular consciousness.
319pp
Nov. 2024 9781009448994 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Nov. 2024 9781009448970 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009449007
Monopolizing Knowledge
The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution
Ratcliff, Jessica | Cornell University, New York
In this exploration of the colonial political economy of science through the East India Company’s library and museum in Britain, Ratcliff shows how ‘Company science’ became part of the cultural fabric of Britain. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Science in History
300pp
Jan. 2025 9781009379496 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009379526
History - cross discipline
The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
Case, Stephen | Olivet Nazarene University, Illinois
John Herschel was one of the most prominent figures in Victorian science. This is the first-ever comprehensive account of his life, work and legacy.
Drawing on Herschel’s published oeuvre and surviving archival material, these essays explore an extraordinary mind, asking what it meant to think scientifically in the nineteenth century.
Cambridge Companions to History
304pp
May 2024 9781009237673 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
May 2024 9781009237703 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 90.00
eISBN 9781009237727
The Observatory Experiment
Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire Naylor, Simon | University of Glasgow
In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. Using previously understudied archival material, he reconstructs these sites and the research carried out in them, in doing so treating meteorology as an experimental observatory science.
Science in History
285pp
Leaving the Fight
Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare
Lynn II, John A. | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Surrender in warfare has determined the fate of governments, states, and nations. However surrender, prisoners of war, and detainees have rarely been addressed as general phenomena in warfare. Leaving the Fight is then an essential history of the evolution of surrender from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Cambridge Military Histories
352pp
Oct. 2024 9781009207232 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009207225
Military history
Assault Brigade
The 18th Australian Infantry Brigade in World War II
Miller, Matthew
The Australian Army served in numerous theatres and campaigns throughout World War II, earning distinction and at times facing significant challenges. During the Pacific War, the infantry brigade, as an intermediate formation commanding multiple infantry battalions and numerous attached units, was key in Australian efforts to secure victory.
Australian Army History Series
296pp
Nov. 2024 9781009431811 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009431835
Balancing Strategy
Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years’ War
Brinkman, Anna | King’s College London
Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years’ War to show how neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare and how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage.
Cambridge Military Histories
300pp
Dec. 2024 9781107638044 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Dec. 2024 9781107020511 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781139104203
Making Sense of the Great War
Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front
Mayhew, Alex | London School of Economics and Political Science
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.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
390pp
Apr. 2024 9781009168755 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009168762
Moshe Dayan
The Making of a Strategist
Shamir, Eitan | Bar-Ilan University, Israel
In this major re-evaluation of Moshe Dayan’s life and career, Eitan Shamir examines one of the most influential individuals in the history of modern Israel. Eitan Shamir explores the basis and justification for Dayan’s reputation as a strategist and what made his command and leadership unique.
Cambridge Military Histories 457pp 20 b/w illus. 10 maps
May 2024 9781009425568 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009425599
Jan. 2025 9781009011730 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Jan. 2025 9781316515822 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009026697
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On a Knife Edge
How Germany Lost the First World War Afflerbach, Holger | University of Leeds
A fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and decision-makers, Holger Afflerbach reveals the internal power struggles in Germany and how they influenced decisively the outcome of the war. The book shows that the war could have gone the other way.
Cambridge Military Histories
566pp 40 b/w illus. 11 maps
Jul. 2024 9781108965866 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95
eISBN 9781108966313
Purpose and Power
US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present
Stoker, Donald | 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
Jan. 2024 9781009257275 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009257268
Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945
Between Atheism and Messianism
Houlihan, Patrick J. | Trinity College Dublin
NEW IN PAPERBACK Storm and Sack
British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815
Daly, Gavin | University of Tasmania
The first major study of British soldiers’ violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in sieges during the Napoleonic era. Spanning three continents, Gavin Daly’s study places the British storm and sack of towns within the long-term history of siege violence and laws of war.
Cambridge Military Histories
326pp
This Element describes that although modern global humanitarianism emerged during the world wars, it is often studied in a Euro-centric framework that does not engage globality. The effects of humanitarianism during the Second World War look toward the post-1945 era with not enough reflection on the pre-1945 history of humanitarianism.
Elements in Modern Wars
86pp
Jun. 2024 9781009472265 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jun. 2024 9781009472272 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009472241
Resistance and Liberation
France at War, 1942-1945
Porch, Douglas | 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.
Armies of the Second World War 832pp
Jan. 2024 9781009161145 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009161152
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Return to Vietnam
An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys
Martin Hobbs, Mia | University of Melbourne
Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Việt Nam. This oral history tells their story and explores the national narratives which shaped those return journeys. It shows how veterans returned in search of resolution, or peace, manifesting in shifting nostalgic visions of ‘Vietnam.’
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
289pp
May 2024 9781108972666 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108972987
Aug. 2024 9781108799393 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108863971
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare
Haun, Phil | 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.
Cambridge Military Histories
312pp
Jan. 2024 9781009364195 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Jan. 2024 9781009364171 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009364201
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The Architecture of Confinement
Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War Pieris, Anoma | University of Melbourne
An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 396pp 74 b/w illus.
Sep. 2024 9781009001724 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009007191
The Cambridge History of Strategy
Volume 1 From Antiquity to the American War of Independence Duyvesteyn, Isabelle | 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.
The Cambridge History of Strategy 634pp
Dec. 2024 9781108479950 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
Dec. 2024 9781009417631 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00
eISBN 9781108788090
The Cambridge History of Strategy
Volume 2 From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present Duyvesteyn, Isabelle | 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.
The Cambridge History of Strategy
608pp
Dec. 2024 9781108479929 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
Dec. 2024 9781009417631 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781108801546
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The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy
A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village
Rabe, Stephen G. | University of Texas, Dallas
The inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the invasion of Normandy. Inspired by his own father’s experience, Stephen G. Rabe recounts how the villagers supported and saved paratroopers from marauding Nazi SS forces in the post-D-Day period.
262pp
Yukikaze’s
War
The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
Walker, Brett L. | Montana State University
When World War II ended, Yukikaze was the only elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer still afloat. Tracing her journey through the treacherous ocean battlefields of the Pacific War, this unique story is told through the eyes of the crew, who saw deeprunning currents of Japanese history unfold before their eyes.
311pp
Jun. 2024 9781108837293 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781108938792
May 2024 9781009206402 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 16.95 eISBN 9781009206389
The War People
A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War
Staiano-Daniels, Lucian | The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Lucian Staiano-Daniels uses the transnational story of a single regiment to examine how ordinary soldiers, military women, and officers negotiated their lives within the chaos and uncertainty of the seventeenth century. This pathbreaking book unifies the study of war and conflict with social history.
228pp
History - other areas
20C history (general)
Populism and Fascism
de la Torre, Carlos| University of Florida
This Element compares the similarities and differences between populism and fascism, perhaps the most contested concepts in the social sciences. It is intended for a general audience, undergraduate students, and specialists. It uses simple terms to discuss theoretical, conceptual, and historical processes in a rigorous yet accessible way.
Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism
Dec. 2024 9781009428408 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009428415
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Violence in Defeat
The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 Willems, Bastiaan | University College London
Explores the diverse intra-ethnic violence that gripped the country in the months prior to Germany’s defeat, and examines the interplay between the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party to shed important new light on the roles both played in shaping German society at the end of the war.
Cambridge Military Histories
366pp
75pp
Jan. 2025 9781009528986 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Jan. 2025 9781009528993 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009528979
African history
Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army
Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race
Howard, M. T. | University of Oxford
Aug. 2024 9781108790642 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108856270
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.
African Studies
308pp
Feb. 2024 9781009348447 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009348423
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Conflicts of Colonialism
The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye
Roberts, Richard L. | Stanford University, California Based on rich archival and oral histories, this book uses the life of an African clerk who became a king under French indirect rule policies to examine the contested meanings of colonialism and the rule of law during the first three decades of colonialism in the French Soudan.
African Studies
362pp
Sep. 2024 9781009107686 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009106849
Cosmopolitan
Nationalism in Ghana
Founding Fathers, Nation-Building, and Transnational Thinkers
Owusu, Mary A. Seiwaa | Carleton University, Ottawa
This study examines how West African writerintellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and nation-building. Using cosmopolitanism as a primary theoretical tool, Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu rejects dominant narratives of anti-colonialism to demonstrate a new understanding of Ghana’s nationalist history.
294pp
Nov. 2024 9781009524667 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009524704
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Decolonizing Heritage
Time to Repair in Senegal
De Jong, Ferdinand | Freie Universität Berlin
Senegal’s cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
The International African Library, 65
309pp
Jul. 2024 9781009087865 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009086189
Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands
Conflicts, Connections, and Mobility in Central Africa
Mathys, Gillian | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara
Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change
Pettigrew, Erin | New York University, Abu Dhabi
Exploring the changing role of Muslim spiritual mediators and Islamic esoteric sciences, Pettigrew outlines how invisible forces have impacted social, religious, and political structures in the Saharan West over centuries. Combining historical and anthropological methods, she offers a model for future research that takes the immaterial seriously.
African Studies, 159 368pp
Sep. 2024 9781009224567 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009224581
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Islam in a Zongo
Muslim Lifeworlds in Asante, Ghana
Pontzen, Benedikt
Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of ‘everyday’ lived religion among Muslims in Ghana’s Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people’s lives in a zongo community.
The International African Library, 62 287pp
Jun. 2024 9781108820547 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108900706
This innovative study explores how long-term historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders.
African Studies
396pp
Apr. 2025 9781009463058 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009463041
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Inventing an African Alphabet
Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC
Sarró, Ramon | University of Oxford
Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.
The International African Library, 69 218pp
Sep. 2024 9781009199483 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009199476
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Living for the City
Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt
Larmer, Miles | University of Oxford
A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining communities, informal settlements and urban agriculture into the region’s history.
396pp
Jun. 2024 9781108972772 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108973120
Modern Rwanda
A Political History
Reyntjens, Filip | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
This study offers a newly comprehensive political history of modern Rwanda from the midnineteenth century. Filip Reyntjens addresses the precolonial and colonial periods, the postcolonial ‘Hutu’ republics, the 1990s political transition and civil war, the genocide against the Tutsi, and current post-genocide governance.
224pp
Nov. 2024 9781009284486 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99
Nov. 2024 9781009284479 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00
eISBN 9781009284493
History - other areas
Money, Value, and the State
Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa
Donovan, Kevin P. | University of Edinburgh
A deeply researched study of twentieth-century political and economic fortunes in East Africa, this will interest historians, anthropologists, development scholars, and those in adjacent disciplines. By focusing on topics such as money, banking and smuggling, this book provides new interpretations of iconic topics of interest.
African Studies, 169 381pp
Nov. 2024 9781009501330 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009501385
New Sudans
Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum Kindersley, Nicki | Cardiff University
Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, and hundreds of stories, poems, songs, jokes and photographs, this book tells the history of political ideas and projects organised by South Sudanese people displaced by war and famine in the capital Khartoum over Sudan’s second civil war from 1983–2005.
African Studies
372pp
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Privileged Precariat
White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule
van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle
A rethinking of South Africa’s recent past, this book presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, from the 1970s to present, placing this in the context of global debates on neoliberalism and identity politics.
The International African Library
357pp
Nov. 2024 9781009422376 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009422383
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Nigeria and World War II
Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict
Korieh, Chima J. | Marquette University, Wisconsin
Recounting the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people in World War II, this history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during the largest global conflict of the twentieth century draws on hitherto unexplored archival resources, challenging the perception that it was primarily a European conflict.
310pp 11 b/w illus. 2 maps 9 tables
Jun. 2024 9781108444279 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108579650
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Pandemic Kinship
Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana’s Time of AIDS
Reece, Koreen M. | Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours and community, this offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana’s time of AIDS. It tackles questions relevant to scholars and practitioners of anthropology, public health, social work, and development. This title is available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The International African Library, 67 325pp
Sep. 2024 9781009150217 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009150200
Jun. 2024 9781108927208 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108924702
Race, Taste and the Grape
South African Wine from a Global Perspective
Nugent, Paul | 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.
374pp
Mar. 2024 9781009184267 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009184274
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The Madagascar Youths
British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region
Campbell, Gwyn | McGill University, Montréal Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred ‘Madagascar Youths’, young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad following a treaty signed in 1820 with King Radama of Madagascar, exploring their experiences and their subsequent impact on Malagasy-British relations and the modernisation in Madagascar.
319pp
Sep. 2024 9781009054539 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009053655
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The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa
Apotsos, Michelle Moore | Williams College, Massachusetts Through the lens of the masjid, Michelle Apotsos examines alternative spaces and architectural landscapes of Islamic practice in contemporary Africa that highlight the unique solutions that Muslim communities are adopting in order to confront contemporary modernization and the new diverse conditions it brings.
306pp
Jun. 2024 9781108461412 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108573931
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Visions for Racial Equality
David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi
Englund, Harri | University of Cambridge
Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenthcentury Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation.
325pp
Jul. 2024 9781009077057 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009076487
East Asian history
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China’s European Headquarters
Switzerland and China during the Cold War Knüsel, Ariane | University of Fribourg
The first study to analyse the central role that Switzerland played in China’s presence in Europe in the Cold War. Using extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on the formulation and implementation of China’s foreign policy, foreign trade policy, and intelligence activities.
Forging Leninism in China
Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934
Fewsmith, Joseph | Boston University
Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932, as it reshaped itself by turning the local Communist movements that introduced Marxism to the countryside, becoming more violent, more hierarchical, and more militarized in the process.
224pp
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
325pp
Feb. 2025 9781009169479 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009169486
Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
Zhuang, Yijie | University College London
Holocene socioeconomic transformations in lateprehistoric China led to regional civilisations. This Element divides prehistoric China into Highlands, Lowlands, and Coastal, arguing that environmental conditions and subsistence adaptations fueled increased socioeconomic complexity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Ancient East Asia
75pp
Sep. 2024 9781009074315 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009070157
Geographies of Gender
Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan
Ishikawa, Tadashi | University of Central Florida Centering on imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule since 1895, Geographies of Gender traces perceptions and changing practices of gender across the empire. Tadashi Ishikawa demonstrates how the Japanese empire became a gendered space in public debates and judicial practices concerning family and marriage.
295pp
Nov. 2024 9781009534178 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009534215
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Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order
Nov. 2024 9781009158961 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009507424 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009158954
Exhibitionist Japan
The Spectacle of Modern Development
Lockyer, Angus
Japan has been an enthusiastic user of exhibitions for 150 years, holding over 1300 since the later nineteenth century. Lockyer explores how these events have been used as catalysts of development, arguing that the history of this enthusiasm nuances our understanding of modern Japan.
300pp
Mar. 2025 9781009544252 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009544245
Robinson, David M. | Colgate University, New York David Robinson explores the collapse of the Mongol empire and the rise of its successors across Eurasia through the experiences of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Charting the way this East Asian ruler navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, Robinson offers a fresh perspective on a transformative period of history.
316pp
Sep. 2024 9781009102032 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009106672
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Making Mao’s Steelworks
Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism Hirata, Koji | Monash University, Victoria
The history of the most significant Mao-era industrial enterprise, Anshan Iron and Steel Works, reveals the hybrid nature of China’s industrialization, shaped by both transnational and local dynamics. Through this unique lens, Hirata explores the interplay of socialism and capitalism within the Global history of late industrialization.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
331pp
Dec. 2024 9781009382267 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Dec. 2024 9781009382274 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009382281
History - other areas
Mao Zedong
Jin, Chongji
Volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1949–1958. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.
The Cambridge China Library
600pp
Dec. 2024 9781107092747 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00
eISBN 9781316136522
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Modern Erasures
Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past Fuller, Pierre
Modern Erasures documents the acts of epistemic violence that have accompanied China’s transformation in the modern era. In this ambitious and innovative study, Pierre Fuller sheds light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book-burning and bloodletting, during China’s Nationalist and Communist revolutions.
360pp
State Building in Cold War Asia
Comrades and Competitors on the SinoVietnamese Border
Yin, Qingfei | London School of Economics and Political Science
Departing from conventional studies of border confrontation and weaving together international, national, and transnational-local histories, Yin presents a new approach to Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the revolutionary states’ competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.
314pp
Jan. 2024 9781009012935 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009026512
Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
Bennett, Andrew E. | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Ancient genomics techniques are used to study East Asian population history, providing insights into past population’s cultural and linguistic dispersals. This element provides an overview of our current understanding of the population history of East Asia through ancient genomics. This title is also available as Open
Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Ancient East Asia
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009246644 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Nov. 2024 9781009517058 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009246675
Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought
Lewis, Mark Edward | Stanford University, California
This Element explores the development of selfcultivation methods in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia, analyzing textualization, systematization, and dissemination among social groups. It explores body models, vitality cultivation, disease models, and therapies, comparing them with early Western medical traditions.
Elements in Ancient East Asia
75pp
Nov. 2024 9781009426640 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009426633
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Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 CE
Hartman, Charles | 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).
466pp
Nov. 2024 9781009235594 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009235624
The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
Foster, Christopher J.
This Element encourages scholars to critically examine their relationships to their sources and reflect upon the impact of their research. The three essays in this Element present a range of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on systemic issues and the nuances of method versus ethics. Elements in Ancient East Asia
72pp
Dec. 2024 9781108972192 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Dec. 2024 9781009486897 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108975803
Apr. 2024 9781009107464 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
Apr. 2024 9781009475723 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009106771
The
Port
Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia
Hang, Xing | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
At the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia, The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), under the autonomous rule of the Chinese creole Mo clan, prospered as a free-trade emporium during the eighteenth century. Its remarkable story sheds fresh light on a transitional period in maritime East Asian history.
357pp
Nov. 2024 9781009426961 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Nov. 2024 9781009426985 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009427005
Tokyo
Siniawer, Eiko Maruko | Williams College, Massachusetts
From sleepy fishing village to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer guides readers through Tokyo’s rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric. Emphasizing the city’s human heart, she conveys a vivid sense of time, culture, and place through ten moments that have shaped its many lives.
Ten Moments That Shaped
288pp
Jan. 2025 9781108965002 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 22.99
Jan. 2025 9781108845762 Hardback GBP 60.00 / USD 75.00
eISBN 9781108990882
History (general) after 1500
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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
Jensen, Steven L. B.
This volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights from the Middle Ages to the present day. It situates this history within perennial struggles over obligation, while probing the relationship of social rights to questions of religion, race, gender, class, empire and globalisation. Human Rights in History
350pp
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume 3 Sites of Knowledge and Practice
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. | 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.
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
600pp
Feb. 2025 9781009005111 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009008686
The
Last
Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–1683
Volume 66
Childs, John | 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.
Camden Fifth Series
490pp
Jan. 2024 9781009446747 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00
eISBN 9781009446754
History (general), world history
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume 2 Systems of Thought and Belief
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. | 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.
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
448pp
May 2024 9781108842099 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781108896016
May 2024 9781108842105 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781108896030
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume 4 Modern Sexualities
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. | 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.
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
438pp
May 2024 9781108842112 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781108896078
The
Cambridge World History of Sexualities 4 Volumes Hardback Set
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities is a four-volume collection of more than eighty chapters examining sexualities across time and around the world at varying geographic and chronological scales. With contributors from more than twenty countries and across many scholarly fields, it provides a global, transdisciplinary perspective.
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities 2044pp
May 2024 9781108896184 4 Hardback books GBP 320.00 / USD 420.00
History after 1945 (general)
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971
Tudor, Margot | 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.
Human Rights in History
336pp 17 b/w illus. 6 maps
Feb. 2025 9781009264938 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009264952
History - other areas
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
Volume 1 Origins
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. | Columbia University, New York
Volume I explores when, how, and why the Vietnam War began. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
512pp
Nov. 2024 9781107105089 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781316225240
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
Volume 2 Escalation and Stalemate
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. | Columbia University, New York
Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate in the years between 1963 and 1968. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War 712pp
Nov. 2024 9781107105102 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316225264
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
Volume 3 Endings and Aftermaths
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. | Columbia University, New York Volume III examines the latter stages of the Vietnam War and its legacies long after it ended. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War 648pp
Nov. 2024 9781107105126 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316225288
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War 3 Volume Hardback Set
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. | Columbia University, New York
Split into three volumes, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War brings together leading experts to provide the most exhaustive and authoritative treatment of the conflict to date. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
1872pp
Feb. 2024 9781108498999 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 89.99
eISBN 9781108614542
Coups
d’État in Cold
War Latin America, 1964–1982
Carassai, Sebastián | Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
A detailed analysis of the wide range of coups d’état in contemporary Latin America with contributions from leading experts in the field. It will interest scholars and students of history, political violence, and human rights in the Latin American context.
291pp
Dec. 2024 9781009344838 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009344821
Feral Empire
Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World
Renton, Kathryn | University of California, Los Angeles
Feral Empire traces the spread of horses during the Spanish conquest and colonization. It will interest scholars of animal studies and early modern Latin American history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
260pp
Jun. 2024 9781316515075 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009091015
From Colonial Cuba to Madrid
Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814
Díaz, María Elena | University of California, Santa Cruz
This book examines freedom and native based rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of Afro descendant litigants in colonial Cuba. Crossing various disciplines, it will interest students and scholars of the African diaspora, AfroLatin America, slavery, the Spanish empire, legal studies, and the age of revolutions.
Nov. 2024 9781107105157 3 Hardback books GBP 320.00 / USD 400.00
eISBN 9781009335621
Latin American history
A Concise History of the Aztecs
Kellogg, Susan | 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.
Cambridge Concise Histories
396pp
Afro-Latin America
360pp
Nov. 2024 9781009494229 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Nov. 2024 9781009494199 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009494212
Global Servants of the Spanish King
Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Polo y La Borda, Adolfo | University of Nottingham
This book explores mobility and cosmopolitanism across the early modern Spanish empire, and how they impacted its governance. It will attract students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire, Global history, the Spanish empire, Latin America, and the Spanish Pacific world. Cambridge Latin American Studies, 134
362pp
Feb. 2024 9781108712941 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Dec. 2024 9781009403214 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009403207
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Hierarchies at Home
Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution
Hicks, Anasa | Florida State University
Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution, centering the quotidian work that so many Cubans – in particular black Cuban women – did to survive. A fascinating, unique work on Cuban history that challenges established narratives.
Afro-Latin America
220pp
Aug. 2024 9781009074513 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009070577
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Journey to Indo-América
APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945
Dorais, Geneviève | Université du Québec à Montréal
In Journey to Indo-América, GenevieÌve Dorais examines how and why the anti-imperialist project of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) took root outside of Peru as well as how APRA’s struggle for political survival in Peru shaped its transnational consciousness.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
281pp
Aug. 2024 9781009514484 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108937030
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Laboring for the State
Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971
Hynson, Rachel
Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state, drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 117
336pp
Apr. 2024 9781316640500 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108105330
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More than a Massacre
Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands
Cadeau, Sabine F. | University of Cambridge
This book is for readers who are interested in the history of racism, citizenship, and the legacies of slavery and empire in the Americas. Sabine F. Cadeau uses state documents and oral sources to tell the story of the carefully concealed, lesser known, twentieth-century genocide of ethnic Haitians.
Afro-Latin America
325pp
Apr. 2024 9781108931526 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108942508
Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization
Pérez Meléndez, José Juan | University of California, Davis
This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 132 428pp
Jun. 2024 9781009281843 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009281874
Plebeian Consumers
Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Otero-Cleves, Ana María | University of York
Plebeian Consumers details the key role played by Colombia’s popular consumers in altering and challenging global patterns of exchange in the nineteenth century. The book will interest historians of Latin America, as well as scholars of capitalism and the history of consumption.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 133
261pp
Dec. 2024 9781009435598 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009435550
Rio de Janeiro
McCann, Bryan | Georgetown University, Washington DC Through ten pivotal moments, Rio de Janeiro brings a sophisticated understanding of the city’s history to a broad general audience. Each moment is deeply founded in extensive research and deep knowledge of the field yet delivered in a lively and accessible style.
Ten Moments That Shaped 328pp
Apr. 2025 9781009012041 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99
Apr. 2025 9781316515440 Hardback GBP 38.99 / USD 47.99
eISBN 9781009025713
Seditious Spaces
Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors’ Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil
Childs, Greg L. | Brandeis University, Massachusetts The first book-length study of the Tailor’s Conspiracy of Bahia, Brazil, in the English language. It is for students and scholars interested in the history of slavery and freedom in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora. Afro-Latin America
263pp
Feb. 2025 9781316515594 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009026031
History - other areas
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
Ireton, Chloe L. | University College London
An intellectual history exploring how free and enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized and contested ideas about slavery and freedom. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in Atlantic history, Latin American history, the history of communication, and intellectual history.
Afro-Latin America
301pp
Dec. 2024 9781009533492 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
Dec. 2024 9781009533485 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009533461
The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective
Duve, Thomas | Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt
This volume provides an overview of Latin American law from the pre-colonial period to the present, showcasing commonalities and differences. Written by international experts, it will be the standard reference for legal scholars and historians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
560pp
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Unraveling Abolition
Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia
Pérez Morales, Edgardo | University of Southern California
This book focuses on the legal origins of the antislavery movement in Colombia, revealing how slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers called for freedom and citizenship during trials and litigation. A wholly unique study for those interested in slavery and emancipation in the Americas.
Studies in Legal History
258pp
Feb. 2024 9781316518045 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009049450
The Coming of the Kingdom
The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada
Cobo Betancourt, Juan F. | University of California, Santa Barbara
Explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during Spanish colonization. It will be useful for those interested in Latin American studies, ethnohistory, legal history, early modern history, and the history of Christianity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
324pp
Aug. 2024 9781009514415 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108917513
Middle East history
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Agents of the Hidden Imam
Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE
Hayes, Edmund | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Reconstructing the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics and the emergence of the first leaders of Twelver Shiʿism, this book demonstrates how they established the doctrines and institutions of Twelver Shiʿism, the dominant branch of Shiʿi Islam in the world today.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
265pp
Dec. 2024 9781009314053 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009314046
The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism
History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana
Whitaker, James Andrew | Troy University
This book illustrates how the Makushi people, an Indigenous society in Amazonia, use shamanic practices and frameworks to draw in outsiders and to acquire resources from them for transformational projects in the past and present. It is for scholars and students interested in Indigenous societies across the Americas.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
229pp
Jul. 2024 9781108994989 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108993098
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Assyrians in Modern Iraq
Negotiating Political and Cultural Space
Benjamen, Alda | University of California, Berkeley
Examining the relationship between the Iraqi state under the Baʿth regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Benjamen looks at the role of minorities and identity in twentiethcentury Iraqi political and cultural history, based on new sources and bilingual voices for a nuanced and focused historical exploration.
290pp
Jul. 2024 9781108972345 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Dec. 2024 9781009478403 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009478397
eISBN 9781108976633
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Buried in the Red Dirt
Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Hasso, Frances S. | Duke University, North Carolina
Bringing together a rich and vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, and interviews, this book tells a story of life, death, and reproduction, during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
302pp
Feb. 2024 9781009073981 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009072854
Female Religiosity in Central Asia
Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World
Shanazarova, Aziza | Columbia University, New York
Invites readers into the complex and little-known world of female religiosity and authority in early modern Central Asia, offering a unique analysis of the story of Aghā-yi Buzurg. Intended for scholars, educators and students of Islamic studies and Central Asian history, as well as those interested in gender history and Sufism.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
196pp
May 2024 9781009386340 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009386371
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Inventing Laziness
The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society
Hafez, Melis | Virginia Commonwealth University
A lively and original study tracing the development of ‘laziness’ as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the anxiety about productivity that generated reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.
318pp
Jul. 2024 9781108448215 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108551922
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Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt
Volume 0
Kalmbach, Hilary | University of Sussex
For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood.
287pp
Late Ottoman Gaza
An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation
Ben-Bassat, Yuval | University of Haifa, Israel
Based on previously untapped sources and innovative research methodologies, this book presents a vivid account of late Ottoman Gaza. It highlights the significance of the city as a hub for people, goods, and ideas, and explores the lives of Gazans, from the traditional Muslim elites to the commoners and minority communities of Christians and Jews.
206pp
Nov. 2024 9781316518199 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781108999519
Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran
Ashraf, Assef | University of Cambridge Focusing on the formation of the Qajar empire in Iran, this book draws attention to continuities between the Safavid and Qajar periods. By situating the formation of Qajar Iran in its early nineteenth-century context, Assef Ashraf is able to highlight the overarching themes of transition and change.
362pp
Feb. 2024 9781009361552 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009361538
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Jun. 2024 9781108437592 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108526142
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Islamic Law in Circulation
Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Kooria, Mahmood
Looking at the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals in the second millennium CE, this book focuses on the Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law to explore the nuances of juridical exchanges across several centuries and vast regions.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 466pp
Jul. 2024 9781009107679 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009106825
Hayes, Edmund | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between different linguistic and religious communities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
320pp 14 b/w illus. 5 colour illus. 15 tables
Nov. 2024 9781009384261 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009384308
Nostalgia in Late Pahlavi Iran
Shakibi, Zhand | London School of Economics and Political Science
This innovative study explores the forms, expressions, and narratives of nostalgia in both popular society and the state in late Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi examines the rise and spread of nostalgia through sources ranging across mass media, literature, court proceedings and state policy, offering a new dimension to the study of the period.
409pp
Mar. 2025 9781009574310
eISBN 9781009574280
Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
History - other areas
Pahlavi Iran’s Relations with Africa
Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War
Steele, Robert | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Examining Iran’s political, cultural and economic interactions with Africa during the late Pahlavi period, this innovative book is intended for students and researchers of modern Iran and its foreign relations, as well as area studies scholars who specialise in Africa and the Middle East.
356pp
Jun. 2024 9781009473149 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009473132
The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History
Wick, Alexis | Koç University, Istanbul
This volume provides a broad introduction to Ottoman history, offering accessible assessments of its varied methods and approaches. Uniting contributions from leading researchers in disciplines including intellectual history, labor history and gender history, the collection considers prior developments and indicates paths for future research.
Cambridge Companions to History
424pp
The New Israelis
Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism
Weingrod, Alex | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
A wide-ranging ethnographic-styled study of current Israeli political-cultural processes, dilemmas, and paradoxes which provides detailed coverage of ongoing divisive conflicts, focusing on key topics such as shifting ethnic-group identities. Aimed at scholars and students of Israeli history and society, as well as the wider interested public.
326pp
Dec. 2024 9781009087889 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Dec. 2024 9781316514542 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009086202
The Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazālī
Mirsepassi, Ali | New York University
This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazālī (1058–1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée study Ghazālī’s major Persian-language text Kīmīyā-e saʿādat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazālī as a reformer of his own time.
The Global Middle East
246pp
Nov. 2024 9781009538169 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009538114
The Last Caravan
Camels, Traders and Markets in the Middle East
Pétriat, Philippe | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Analyses the history of the lesser-known interior of the Middle East where radical transformations shaped the region we know today. The book connects the history of deserts to that of the cities, and the links between the Middle East to the African Sahara and the Eurasian steppes.
291pp
Nov. 2024 9781009524520 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009524537
Dec. 2024 9781009382366 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009382311
The Pashtun Borderland
A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban
Hartung, Jan-Peter | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg, Germany
A history of the religious and socio-political developments in the Pashtun borderland of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 17th century, and how these have informed the worldview of the various Taliban organizations of present times.
418pp
Nov. 2024 9781009289276 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781009289245
The Science of Music
Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond
Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh | State University of New York, Geneseo
This book offers a detailed analysis of how the science of music was a part of a larger intellectual and sociocultural context in the medieval Islamic world. It is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of science and the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
264pp
Nov. 2024 9781009502542 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009502580
Toiling for Oil
A Social History of Petroleum in Iran
Atabaki, Touraj | International Institute of Social History
The twentieth century has been widely recognised as the ‘Oil Century’ due to the escalating importance of oil in global economics and politics. This innovative study sheds light on the lives and challenges of the Iranian workers who consistently supply oil to our markets, adding a bottom-up social and cultural narrative to petroleum history.
288pp
Jan. 2025 9781108993999 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Jan. 2025 9781108845878 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781108991186
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Tunisia’s Modern Woman
Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s
Kallander, Amy Aisen | Syracuse University, New York
Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, this book focuses on the notion of modern womanhood in order to trace the centrality of women in a wide range of issues from state-building, economic development, and intellectual life, to fashion, and romantic love.
The Global Middle East, 17
297pp
Feb. 2024 9781108959490 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108961264
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Understanding Insurgency
Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey
O’Connor, Francis
Focusing on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), the armed group which has attracted global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting the ISIS campaign in Syria and Iraq, this study examines how, since the 1970s, the PKK obtained and maintained popular support, and the role of violence in this relationship in Turkey.
296pp
Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint
Laldas and the Devotional Culture in North India
Kumar, Mukesh | Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
By focusing on the shared religious figure of Laldas/Khan, the book uncovers fascinating historical and contemporary dimensions of HinduMuslim socio-cultural interactions around his shrines. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
392pp
Jun. 2024 9781108971508 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108975087
South Asian history
An Encroaching
Sea
Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860–1950
Shankar, Devika | University of Hong Kong
Ecological instability has time and again emerged as a catalyst for risky development projects along India’s south-west coastline. In this integrative environmental, legal and political history, Devika Shankar examines the rise in port development during periods of crisis, using the example of Cochin to explore the nature of colonial sovereignty.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
300pp
Jan. 2025 9781009533683 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009533720
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Bankrolling Empire
Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India
Sheth, Sudev | 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.
377pp
Feb. 2025 9781009330220 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009330213
Nov. 2024 9781009424035 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009423991
Between Nation and ‘Community’
Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition
Gautier, Laurence | Centre de Sciences Humaines
This book examines the political role of Muslim universities in post-partition India. These institutions constituted platforms to imagine the nation as much as the Muslim community. They served as intermediaries between central state authorities and the Muslim population, and formed major centres for different strands of Muslim politics after independence.
360pp
Jul. 2024 9781009358491 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009358507
Beyond Indenture
Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora
Bates, Crispin | The University of Edinburgh, UK
Examines the viewpoints and voices of indentured Indians who exercised agency, resisted and manipulated the colonial labour system to their advantage, and went on to build new lives for themselves overseas following the expiration of their contracts. It studies the role of women and their struggles for rights, freedom and opportunities.
Global South Asians
412pp
Jul. 2024 9781009339797 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009339810
Contested Childhoods
Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala
Kannan, Divya | Shiv Nadar University, India
Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India.
320pp
Nov. 2024 9781009343343 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
eISBN 9781009343350
Democracy’s Dhamma
Buddhism in the Making of Modern India, c. 1890–1956
Surendran, Gitanjali | O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Democracy’s Dhamma is a genealogy of the engagement with Buddhism in modern India illustrating how Buddhist activists experimented through Buddhist ideas and heritage with socialism, liberalism and democracy.
South Asian Intellectual History
350pp
Nov. 2024 9781009424950 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009424974
History - other areas
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Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
Tignol, Eve | 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.
273pp
Nov. 2024 9781009297677 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009297684
Hajj across Empires
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
Choudhury, Rishad | 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.
Asian Connections
376pp 11 b/w illus. 3 maps
Feb. 2024 9781009253703 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009253673
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Hidden Histories of Pakistan
Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India
Waheed, Sarah Fatima | Davidson College, North Carolina
A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement.
In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers deeper understanding of India and Pakistan’s complex and intertwined history through explorations of censorship, Urdu literature and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan.
309pp
Aug. 2024 9781108995160 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108993517
How Secular Is Art?
On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati | 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.
444pp
Jun. 2024 9781009380478 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009215299
India in the Interim
The 1947–1951 Government
Ankit, Rakesh | Loughborough University, United Kingdom
This archival history of an interim government revisits the time from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is an episodic narrative of its work. It traces this time of transitional governance, and spotlights its principals, problems, and policies in a bird’s-eye view.
350pp
Dec. 2024 9781009525268 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009525305
Local Selfhood, Global Turns
Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century Chakrabarti, Sumit | 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.
South Asian Intellectual History
272pp
Jun. 2024 9781009339827 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009339841
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Making India Work
The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy
Tillin, Louise | King’s College London Welfare politics take centre stage in India’s electoral landscape today, yet their development have not been thoroughly examined. Louise Tillin traces the origins and evolution of India’s welfare regime, tracing continuity and change across a century of nation-building, economic change, and democratisation.
248pp
Jan. 2025 9781009464352 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Jan. 2025 9781009464390 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009464383
Remaking History
1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad Mohammad, Afsar | 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.
332pp
Jun. 2024 9781009339636 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009339612
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The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration
Pender, Sebastian Raj | University of Oxford
In this innovative and engaging new study, Sebastian Raj Pender utilises extensive archival research from India and Britain to trace the ways in which commemorative practices have responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of the 1857 Indian uprising from the perspective of the present.
268pp
Feb. 2025 9781009055505 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009052276
The Nehru Years
An International History of Indian NonAlignment
Kona Nayudu, Swapna | Yale-NUS College, Singapore
A groundbreaking study of India’s non-aligned position in the Cold War, its internationalist ambitions, mediatory diplomacy, and peacekeeping during the Nehru period. Swapna Kona Nayudu’s deep archival work examines India’s diplomatic role in four major international crises, exploring the contested yet central nature of Indian nonalignment.
320pp
Feb. 2025 9781009579087 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009579063
Trials of Sovereignty
Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857–1922
McClure, Alastair | The University of Hong Kong
Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentiethcentury India. Key chapters examine royal amnesty, codification, capital punishment, and sedition. It will benefit students and scholars interested in legal history, South Asian studies, criminology, and imperial history.
Studies in Legal History
288pp
South-East Asian history
A Maritime Vietnam
From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century Li, Tana | Australian National University, Canberra Li Tana presents a powerful new reading of Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation radically restructures how we understand the shaping of the country we now know as Vietnam.
354pp
Feb. 2024 9781009237642 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Feb. 2024 9781009237635 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009237628
Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora
Origins, Memories, and Identity
Kumar, Ashutosh | Banaras Hindu University, India
Examines the challenges faced by migrant Indian labourers who settled in the former European plantation colonies and their struggles to adapt and forge an identity in these places far from their homes.
Global South Asians
260pp
Nov. 2024 9781009553544 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009553490
Voices in Verses
Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India
Hasan, Farhat | University of Delhi
Opens up an archive of women’s verses found in the women’s biographical compendia written in the nineteenth century that draw our attention to their memories in cultural spaces. It studies the women’s voices in these texts to explore their aesthetic sensibilities, literary interventions, and representations of body, gender and love.
224pp
Jul. 2024 9781009342612 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009342605
The Third Indochina War
An International History
Ang, Cheng Guan | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Comprised of the Vietnam-Kampuchea War (19781990) and the brief Sino-Vietnamese War (1979), the Third Indochina War has received less scholarly attention than its predecessors. Bringing together a wide range of primary and secondary material, Ang Cheng Guan reassess this conflict from the perspective of the international history of the Cold War.
222pp
Nov. 2024 9781009453035 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009453066
Nov. 2024 9781009560054 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99
Nov. 2024 9781009560092 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00
eISBN 9781009560078
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Vietnam’s American War
A New History
Second edition
Asselin, Pierre | San Diego State University
This book masterfully relates the background to the US military intervention to save noncommunist South Vietnam and, fundamentally, how North Vietnam’s leaders made that intervention futile. Richly detailed, it is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, invaluable for scholars, and sure to delight general readers.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
460pp
Jun. 2024 9781009229319 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99
Jun. 2024 9781009229326 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99
eISBN 9781009229302
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