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War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
Anastasia Stouraiti
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This highly original work redefines the place of war and empirebuilding in the making of early modern Venice.
October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108838443 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
Jerome Greenfield
Explains how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.
New Studies in European History
September 2022 c.300pp 9781108839679 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
A Thousand-Year History Jonathan R. Lyon
Argues for continuity in corrupt practices of justice and protection between 750 and 1800 by analyzing the position of advocate.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781316513743 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P HISTORY - OTHER AREAS
Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola
A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality Mariana P. Candido
Explores the history of land dispossession, slavery, colonialism, and inequality in Angola, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
African Studies, 160
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781009055987 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 C
Between Community and Collaboration
‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation Laurien Vastenhout
A comparative study of the organisations forced upon the Jewish communities in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316511688 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Voices of the Race
Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870–1960 Edited and translated by Paulina Laura Alberto George Reid Andrews and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black writing that is virtually unknown in the United States.
Afro-Latin America
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.357pp 9781009073318 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P
Royal Heirs
Succession and the Future of Monarchy in NineteenthCentury Europe Frank Lorenz Müller
Illuminates the role played by the heirs to the throne in the survival of monarchy in nineteenthcentury Europe.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781316512913 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy
The Making of Sunnism, from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century Ahmad Khan
Offers an original account of the formation of medieval Sunnism, emphasising Islamic discourses of heresy and orthodoxy.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.336pp 9781009098373 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 Philip Gooding
The first history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa’s relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.252pp 9781009100748 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge Andrew Hammond
Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.297pp 9781009199506 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Empires of Complaints
Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793 Robert Travers
Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.314pp 9781009123389 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Round Table Conference Geographies
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London Stephen Legg
Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India’s constitutional future.
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781009215312 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Architecture of Sovereignty
Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India Gita V. Pai
Demonstrates how religious spaces are sites of contestation over sovereignty and broader debates about governance as they have been reconceived repeatedly.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009150156 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Early Modern in South Asia
Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History Meena Bhargava Pratyay Nath
This book investigates the nature of South Asia’s own form of modernity – early modernity – before the emergence of European colonialism.
September 2022 228 x 152 mm c.268pp 9781009215374 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C
A History of Chile 1808–2018
Third edition
William F. Sater Simon Collier
An updated edition of the definitive, highly regarded history of Chile in the English language.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 126
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.500pp 9781009170215 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Uncivil Liberalism
Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought Vikram Visana
Reinterprets Dadabhai Naoroji’s Indian contribution to global debates on liberalism, capitalism and labour alongside concerns of civil peace.
Global South Asians
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.275pp 9781009215541 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
A Dynastic History of Iran
From the Qajars to the Pahlavis Mehran Kamrava
Explores the political history of modern Iran, considering the myriad factors that facilitated the rise and fall of the last two dynasties.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.230pp 9781009224659 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Caste, Knowledge, and Power
Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar Sunandan K. N.
Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial–Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.310pp 9781009273121 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Israel
A History in 100 Cartoons Colin Shindler
Offers a visual and accessible history of Israel’s complex past, politics and people through 100 cartoons.
December 2022 254 x 178 mm 288pp 9781107170131 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
India before Europe
Second edition
Catherine B. Asher Cynthia Talbot
Second edition of the leading textbook on India’s art, architecture, literature, religions, political and economic history, c. 1200 to 1750.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108448901 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 X
Mao Zedong
Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press
Presents volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong.
The Cambridge China Library
October 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107092747 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R
The Cambridge History of Socialism
Marcel van der Linden
Volume I offers a worldencompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.
The Cambridge History of Socialism
November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.685pp 9781108481342 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
Mao Zedong
Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press
Presents volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong.
The Cambridge China Library
October 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107092761 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R
The Cambridge History of Socialism
Marcel van der Linden
Volume II offers a worldencompassing overview of movements and parties that wanted to promote social justice by social reform – the conquering and transforming of state power.
The Cambridge History of Socialism
November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.685pp 9781108481359 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Ned Blackhawk Ben Kiernan Benjamin Madley Rebe Taylor Ben Kiernan
Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.720pp 9781108486439 Hardback c. £130.00 / c. US$170.00 R
Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic
Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution Achyut Chetan
A work on women’s involvement to drafting of India’s Constitution, a contribution to understanding of the foundation of the republic.
South Asia in the Social Sciences, 17
September 2022 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108832564 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume 1: Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds
Ben Kiernan, T. M. Lemos Tristan S. Taylor, Ben Kiernan
Documents the general characteristics and early history of genocide, from global prehistory to ancient Mesopotamia to the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.694pp 9781108493536 Hardback c. £130.00 / c. US$170.00 R
Acts of Aid
Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake Eleonor Marcussen
This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.
October 2022 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108838092 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta
Souvik Naha
This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
September 2022 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108494588 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy
Gordon Barrett
The first extended study of Chinese engagement in international science during the Cold War.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108844574 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Cambridge History of Socialism
2 Hardback Book Set
Marcel van der Linden
A comprehensive history of anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, Labour, the New Left, and alternative trajectories in the Global South in one encompassing reconstruction.
The Cambridge History of Socialism
November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.1400pp 9781108611336 2 Hardback Book Set £200.00 / US$260.00 R
Bearing Witness
Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement Andrea Nicholson
A study of contemporary slave narratives that reveals the conditions and consequences of slavery and the importance of survivors’ stories.
Slaveries since Emancipation
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.252pp 9781316510803 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
