History - cross discipline

Reproductive Realities in Modern China

Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 Sarah Mellors Rodriguez

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez explores how ordinary people navigated China’s shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era.

Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781316515310 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C

The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age

Ian Milligan

Digital technology is transforming historical scholarship. What are the implications?

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009012522 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P HISTORY - CROSS DISCIPLINE

Narrative Science

Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 Mary S. Morgan Kim M. Hajek Dominic J. Berry

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009001991 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

A History of Political Science

Mark Bevir

Denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and the discipline itself.

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009044295 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Theory and Philosophy of History

Global Variations João Ohara

The field of theory and philosophy of history deals with our many ways of relating to the past(s).

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009005159 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Confronting Evil in History

Daniel Little

Confronting Evil links honest recognition and acknowledgement of twentieth century evils to our future as a moral human culture.

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009108423 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

The British Home Front and the First World War

Edited by Hew Strachan

The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.495pp 9781009012324 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Global Medievalism in Popular Culture

An Introduction Helen Young and Kavita Mudan Finn

This Element takes a decolonial approach to popular representations of the medieval period, emphasizing interconnections and mobilities.

Elements in the Global Middle Ages

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.78pp 9781009113366 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After

Jay Winter

This Element is a user’s guide to the subject of the cultural history of war since 1914.

Elements in Modern Wars

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009114271 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Science for Governing Japan’s Population

Aya Homei

A major new study tracing historical roots of the interplay between policy, population and science in Japan from the 1860s-1950s.

Science in History

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009186834 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Entangled Lives

Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Joy L. K. Pachuau Willem van Schendel

It is a case study in environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.315pp 9781009215473 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

Confusion in the West

Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World Anna Rist John Rist

Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse.

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.275pp 9781009218375 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village Stephen G. Rabe

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

September 2022 229 x 152 mm 262pp 9781009206372 Hardback £20.00 / US$24.95 T

Bodies of Work

The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation Julie M. Powell

Examines the transnational development of rehabilitation initiatives for disabled exservicemen of the First World War.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009230285 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653

Markku Peltonen

Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism.

Ideas in Context

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.270pp 9781009212045 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Richard Bourke Quentin Skinner

Offers a collaborative exploration of the role of historical understanding in leading disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009231008 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

Plutarch’s Prism

Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800 Rebecca Kingston

Explores the reception of Plutarch in early modern French and English political thought, with a focus on the theme of public service.

Ideas in Context, 142

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009243483 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

Volume 1: The Pacific Ocean to 1800

Ryan Tucker Jones Matt K. Matsuda

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.800pp 9781108423939 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Liberalism after the Revolution

The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830–1880 Michalis Sotiropoulos

This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism complicates our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state.

Ideas in Context, 143

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009254656 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

Adrian Howkins Peder Roberts

The first comprehensive reference work drawing together the history of both the Arctic and Antarctica from earliest times to present.

November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.650pp 9781108429931 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Keynes in Action

Truth and Expediency in Public Policy Peter Clarke

Uses an accessible narrative frame to explore key issues – like truth, probability, expediency, pragmatism – in Keynes’s unique career.

October 2022 216 x 138 mm c.230pp 9781009255011 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

The Great Plague Scare of 1720

Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Cindy Ermus

A transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.

Global Health Histories

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108489546 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Heretical Orthodoxy

Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church Pål Kolstø

Offers a new account of Tolstoi’s relationship with the Orthodox Church, showing how the novelist was influenced by his Christian heritage.

Ideas in Context

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 9781009260404 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

2 Volume Hardback Set

Paul D’Arcy Ryan Tucker Jones Matt K. Matsuda Anne Perez Hattori Jane Samson

A comprehensive history of interactions of Pacific Island and Pacific Rim peoples with the Ocean and with each other.

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.1600pp 9781108539227 2 Volume Hardback Set £200.00 / US$260.00 R

Sun Tzu in the West

The Anglo-American Art of War Peter Lorge

Revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West.

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108822466 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War Holger Afflerbach

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

Cambridge Military Histories

September 2022 228 x 152 mm 566pp 40 b/w illus. 11 maps 9781108832885 Hardback £25.00 / US$29.95 T

Statistics and the Language of Global Health

Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960 Yi-Tang Lin

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

Global Health Histories

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108845922 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Contraception and Modern Ireland

A Social History, c.1922–92 Laura Kelly

The first history of contraception in twentieth-century Ireland to explore the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists.

December 2022 c.350pp 9781108969772 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912

Michael Brown

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108834841 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Modern City in Asia

Kristin Stapleton

This Element analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the ‘modern city’ were received, transformed, and contested in Asia.

Elements in Global Urban History

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108994927 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Storm and Sack

British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815 Gavin Daly

Explores British soldiers’ violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in sieges during the Napoleonic era.

Cambridge Military Histories

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108836142 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Historians’ Virtues

From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century Herman Paul

The Element explains why historians so often speak, and disagree, about the virtues (impartiality, honesty) that define a good historian.

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108994972 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

Anne Perez Hattori Jane Samson

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from 1800 to the present day.

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.800pp 9781316510407 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise

A Century of Indo-German Business Relations Christina Lubinski

Reveals how nationalism shapes global business strategy with a focus on the historical example of German firms in India.

Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781316511282 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Impunity and Capitalism

The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830 Trevor Jackson

Analyses how and why financial crises stopped being treated as crimes and started being thought of as natural disasters.

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 3 maps 9781316516287 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Debt, Trust, and Reputation

Extra-legal Finance in Northern India Sebastian Schwecke

Combining history and ethnography, it traces the evolution of extra-legality in modern Indian finance and its socioeconomic ramifications.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

June 2022 229 x 152 mm 384pp 9781316517260 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

The Reserve Bank of India

1997–2008 Tirthankar Roy

Narrative economic history of the Reserve Bank of India through the years 1997–98 to 2007–08.

October 2022 228 x 152 mm c.750pp 9781316511329 Hardback c. £115.00 / c. US$150.00 R

The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation

Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions Taisu Zhang

Surveys the fiscal history of China’s last imperial dynasty and explains why its ability to tax was unusually weak.

Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316518687 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

Uniting Nations

Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970 Daniel Gorman

A study of the personal histories and interconnected lives and careers of the Britons who worked at the United Nations after 1945.

July 2022 229 x 152 mm 296pp 9781316512975 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P