Academic New Books Catalogue April-June 2025

April-June 2025

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Cover image is from The Lure of the South: Health, the Victorians and the Continent (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), page 51.

We want students to make the most of their time at university; to discover opportunities, succeed in their studies – and to enjoy the journey. Our books and resources support students in developing essential skills and empower them to achieve their goals.

FAVOURITES

For time-pushed students, the Pocket Study Skills pack a lot of advice into a little book. Each guide focuses on a single crucial aspect of study, providing step-by-step guidance, handy tips and clear advice.

Explore the full series at www.bloomsbury.com/pocketstudyskills

Cite Them Right The Essential Referencing Guide

Richard Pears, Durham University, UK & Graham Shields, Formerly University of Cumbria, UK

Renowned as the most comprehensive yet easy-touse guide to referencing text available to students and authors. Academics and teachers rely on the advice in Cite Them Right to guide their students in the skills of identifying and referencing information sources and avoiding plagiarism.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9781350477261 • £15.99 / $21.95 • HB 9781350497016 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350477681 • £14.39 / $20.24

ePdf 9781350477698 • £14.39 / $14.39

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

Studying with Dyslexia

Janet Godwin, Students Services, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Full of practical advice and visual examples, this compact resource provides dyslexic students with the tools and knowledge to work with their dyslexia. The accessible layout and engaging style supports students and enables them to take control of their studies and learn in ways that are most effective for them. It covers all the core study skills, including reading, writing and revision, and includes guidance on how to manage time effectively. The third edition includes coverage of the latest assistive technology, more on neurodiversity and co-occurring SpLDs and up-to-date guidance on applying for funding and access support through universities.

UK April 2025 • US June 2025 • 184 pages • 20 cartoons

PB 9781350444867 • £7.99 / $10.95

ePdf 9781350471191 • £7.19 / $7.19

Series: Pocket Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Student Planner 2025-2026

Stella Cottrell

Stay organised and on top of your commitments this academic year! This is the ideal lifemanagement tool for students who want to develop good habits and make the most of their time at university. Containing everything you need to organise your busy life in and out of term-time, this bestselling planner includes study skills advice, a 13-month week-to-view diary, careers advice and financial information, as well as timetables, reading lists and habit trackers.

UK May 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350531536 • £12.99

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Student Wellbeing Journal

Stella Cottrell

A 3-month guided journal which enables students to prioritise wellbeing and to take actions which help to bring about a greater sense of balance. It encourages students to make positive changes, by setting goals and forming achievable new habits and routines.

UK May 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350514973 • £14.99

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Finding

Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East

Archaeology, Empires, Nations

Edited by Guillemette Crouzet, European University Institute in Florence, Italy & Eva Miller, University College London, UK

Through a series of archaeological case studies, this book explores how the notion of the ancient Middle-Eastern past was established and contested in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The contributors draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches, such as postcolonial studies, heritage studies and international relations, covering geographic regions such as Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and Algeria.

UK March 2025 US June 2025 288 pages 29 bw illus

HB 9781350458697 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350458710 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350458703 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Narrating Heritage, Abuses and Cultural Resistance

Veysel Apaydin, University College London, UK

Narrating Heritage, Abuses and Cultural Resistance critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 41 bw illus

PB 9781350334649 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350334632

ePub 9781350334663 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350334656 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Application of GIS Technologies in the Roman Period

Spatial Analysis, Historic Modelling and

Reconstructions

Pedro Trapero Fernández, University of Cadiz, Spain

Using a selection of archaeological cases studies from the Roman period in the Mediterranean region, Pedro Trapero Fernández shows how GIS technologies can be employed in the creation of spatial models to reproduce historical realities. Each chapter focuses on a particular spatial model, such as mobility and visibility models, and discusses their limitations and potential for implementation in archaeological contexts. The result is a detailed analysis of each method, which consequently results in an accessible manual for understanding GIS technologies.

UK December 2024 US December 2024 232 pages 27 bw illus

HB 9781350433700 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350433724 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350433717 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey

From Prehistory to the Present

Edited by Robert J. Wallis, Open University, UK

Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781350267992 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350267985

ePub 9781350268012 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350268005 • £81.00 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)

Jung-Sil Lee, George Washington University, USA & Dong-Yeon Koh, Seoul National University, Korea

Including 120 full-colour images throughout, this introduction to the world of Korean art covers such as topics as:

· Historical, political and social contexts;

· Major artistic movements, from Modernist to feminist art;

· Key forms, from traditional ink painting to architecture and digital art;

· Artistic institutions, from galleries and the art market to radical collectives and alternative spaces;

· Korean American, Korean diaspora and Korean adopted artists.

UK

PB

ePub 9781350446885 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350446908 • £26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Academic

The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India

Paper Chains and Viral Phenomena

Pragya Dhital, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India explores the changing role of technology in the history of political communication in India today, from newspapers, manifestos and magazines to modern social media platforms. The book looks at the way these changing media have been used to create socio-political communities of identity by both state and non-state actors – a process that has become of urgent concern in the volatile, social-media fuelled age of populist politics.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350466661 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350466678 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350466685 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Boys Love Media in Thailand

Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture

Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, Australia

Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL’s impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 248 pages 24 bw illus

PB 9781350330689 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350330641

ePub 9781350330658 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350330665 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka

Sunil Bastian, Independent Scholar, UK

This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evolving process. The Sri Lankan state has formed under the pressure of multiple conflicts: around capitalist transition on the one hand, and the deteriorating relationship between the state and Tamil minority populations on the other. Sunil Bastian demonstrates the way these conflicts have overlapped, with international support for the introduction of neoliberal policies propping up a state engaged in armed ethnic conflict.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 200 pages

HB 9781350451827 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350451834 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350451841 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Documents of the Asian American Experience

Noriko Matsumoto, University of Vermont, USA

This curated and contextualized primary source collection examines the history of Asian Americans from precolonial times to the present day. It features more than 80 documents across 17 time periods, including newspaper articles, personal accounts, federal legislation, propaganda pieces, and more. Readers will discover the multifaceted experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Filipino Americans, among others. Essays at the beginning of each section provide an overview of the time period and the political, economic, and sociocultural factors influencing race relations at the time. Concise introductions to each document provide necessary background information about the source and its significance.

UK March 2025 US March 2025 288 pages

HB 9781440879821 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765110133 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9781440879838 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Corporations That Changed the World

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Paul Burns, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Structured seamlessly around Burns’ four pillars of entrepreneurial architecture – organizational culture, structure and controls, leadership and management and strategy and tactics – the fifth edition of this market-leading text is the go-to resource for students looking for a comprehensive overview of corporate entrepreneurship. With a range of pedagogical features including over 75 international case studies, bulleted chapter summaries, group discussion topics and end-of-chapter activities, it is the ideal resource for students determined to understand both the theoretical underpinnings and real-world practicalities of successful corporate entrepreneurship. It is the core textbook for all students studying Corporate Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship or Corporate Venturing at upper undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA level.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 608 pages

PB 9781350384071 £55.99 / $74.95 HB 9781350384088 £170.00 / $230.00

ePub 9781350384095 £50.39 / $68.84

ePdf 9781350384101 £50.39 / $50.39 Bloomsbury Academic

Starbucks

Marie A. Bussing

Since its humble beginnings at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971, Starbucks has grown to become an industry leader and household name. This book takes an in-depth look at the evolution of this dynamic and sometimes controversial corporation. It also explores how Starbucks has embraced and incorporated new technologies and innovations, as well as how the corporation has shaped and been shaped by important social causes. An unbiased look at the controversies that have surrounded Starbucks over the years, from labor issues to the contentious holiday cups, will help readers better understand these contentious topics.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9798765138366 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873881

ePub 9798216148661 • £41.51 / $51.30

ePdf 9781440873898 • £41.51 / $41.51

Series: Corporations That Changed the World • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Uber

B. Yasanthi Perera & Pia A. Albinsson

Uber is one of the most innovative companies of our time. This book provides key insights into the inner workings of the sharing economy and delivers a comprehensive overview of Uber's technological innovations, global expansion, and business model. It also discusses the company leadership and corporate culture, addresses such controversies as rider and driver safety and sexual harassment of female employees, and explores how the company is addressing these challenges.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9798765138281 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440864247

ePub 9798216158677 £41.51 / $51.30

ePdf 9781440864254 £41.51 / $41.51

Series: Corporations That Changed the World Bloomsbury Academic World English

Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

John Holton, Newcastle University, UK

Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander’s death. It reveals how ideological performances and ongoing competition among the post-Alexander elite created the reality of the long-lasting institution of Hellenistic kingship, which would last for generations and even centuries as the model for autocratic power in the ancient world. UK

ePdf

Bloomsbury

Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors

John Holton, Newcastle University, UK

Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great’s death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact raging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals.

UK

PB

ePub

ePdf

Bloomsbury Academic

The Hero Cults of Sparta Local Religion in a Greek City

Nicolette A. Pavlides, University of Edinburgh, UK

This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides explores the local idiosyncrasies of a pan-Hellenic phenomenon, which itself can help us understand the place and function of heroes in Greek religion. Although it has long been noted that hero-cult was especially popular in Sparta, there is little known about the cults, both in terms of material evidence and the historical context for their popularity. The evidence from the cult of Helen and Menelaos at the Menelaion, the worship of Agamemnon and Alexandra/Kassandra, the Dioskouroi, and others who remain anonymous to us, is viewed as a local phenomenon reflective of the developing communal and social consciousness of the polis.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 304 pages 22 bw illus

PB 9781350198081 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788313001

ePub 9781350198067 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350198050 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire

Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence

Edited by José Luís Brandão, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Cláudia Teixeira, University of Évora, Portugal & Ália Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights into how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of otherness, identity and culture.

The ebook editions of this book are available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages

PB 9781350354012 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350353985

ePub 9781350354234 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350353992 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

A Comparative Analysis

Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge, UK, Michael Nylan, University of California at Berkeley, USA & T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University, USA

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China. Approaching the historical material with a comparative perspective, Loewe examines the strengths and weaknesses, the successes and failures, which can be seen in the organisation and government of these two political systems.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350445123 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350445116 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350445147 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350445130 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257D-279C, with ‘Syrianus’

Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

Michael Share, University of Tasmania, Australia & Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania, Australia

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic commentary on Plato's Phaedrus to have survived in its entirety. The third and final volume concludes Hermias' commentary, here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a general account of good writing.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350363762 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350363793 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350363786 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle • Bloomsbury Academic

The Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy

Edited by Attila Nemeth, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary & Daniel Schmal, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary

This remarkable open-access collection of scholarly studies by internationally distinguished experts explores the intricate and multifaceted philosophical concepts of the Self as understood in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early modern period. The contributors weave together a rich tapestry of historical and comparative case studies that highlight tensions as well as connections between ancient and early modern perspectives on the Self.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 304 pages

HB 9781350380370 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350380349 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350380332 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Aristophanes: Wasps

Craig Jendza, Denison University, USA

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes’ Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. Ideal for students with no experience in Greek comedy or for researchers wanting an updated analysis of the play, this book explores Wasps in terms of Aristophanes’ particular brand of Old Comedy, its historical context, innovative stagecraft and its reception up until the present day.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 168 pages • 4 bw illus

HB 9781350344006 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350344020 • £63.00 / $86.39

ePdf 9781350344013 • £63.00 / $63.00

Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions Bloomsbury Academic

Alaudae Volume 1 (1889–1890)

The Original Latin Text of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, with English Translation and Explanatory Notes

Edited by Llewelyn Morgan & Michael Lombardi-Nash, Independent Scholar, USA

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with one of the seminal works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Many have been able to read his works in German, but not in Latin. This annotated, easy-to-read translation will satisfy scholars, educators, researchers, historians, activists and biographers hungry to learn more about the life and work of Ulrichs.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 256 pages 5 bw illus

HB 9781350334496 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350334502 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350334519 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Alaudae Volume 2 (1891–1892)

The Original Latin Text of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, with English Translation and Explanatory Notes

Edited by Llewelyn Morgan & Michael Lombardi-Nash, Independent Scholar, USA

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with one of the seminal works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Many have been able to read his works in German, but not in Latin. This annotated, easy-to-read translation will satisfy scholars, educators, researchers, historians, activists and biographers hungry to learn more about the life and work of Ulrichs.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350334830 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350334847 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350334823 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Alaudae Volume 3 (1893–1895)

The Original Latin Text of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, with English Translation and Explanatory Notes

Edited by Llewelyn Morgan & Michael Lombardi-Nash, Independent Scholar, USA

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with one of the seminal works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Many have been able to read his works in German, but not in Latin. This annotated, easy-to-read translation will satisfy scholars, educators, researchers, historians, activists and biographers hungry to learn more about the life and work of Ulrichs.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 2 bw illus

HB 9781350334977 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350334991 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350334984 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies

Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK & Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK & William M. Barton, Ludwig

Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria & Bobby Xinyue, King's College London, UK

Baroque Latinity

Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque

Edited by Jacqueline Glomski, University College London, UK, Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK & Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK

This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen scholarly understanding of this important literary phenomenon and inspire future research.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350323476 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350323438

ePub 9781350323452 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350323445 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin • Bloomsbury Academic

Ermolao Barbaro's On Celibacy 1

and 2

Edited by Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93); Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy are presented, along with Barbaro’s On the Duty of the Ambassador, in the companion piece to this first volume. Setting out the historical context that crucially conditions Barbaro’s advocacy of the celibate life in Books 1 and 2, the introduction examines how On Celibacy seeks to justify a contemplative existence that rejects the career path expected of a figure of Barbaro’s standing within the Venetian patrician class.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 216 pages

PB 9781350149427 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350149434

ePub 9781350149441 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350149458 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies • Bloomsbury

Academic

Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740

Alejandro Coroleu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (17011715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent - in verse or in prose - on both the pro-Habsburg and pro-Bourbon sides.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9781350214934 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350214897

ePub 9781350214910 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350214903 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin • Bloomsbury Academic

De persecutione Anglicana by

Robert Persons S.J.

A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation, Commentary and Introduction

Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa & Marianne Dircksen, North West University, South Africa

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons’s role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546–1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion, with rapidly revised versions bringing the narrative up to date after Campion’s execution on 1 December 1581.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350379350 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350379343

ePub 9781350379374 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350379367 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies Bloomsbury

Academic

Ermolao Barbaro's On Celibacy 3 and 4 and On the Duty of the Ambassador

Edited by Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA

This book offers the first annotated translation into English of two works of the eminent Venetian humanist, Ermolao Barbaro (1454–93). Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy seek to justify a contemplative existence at a far remove from the active life and career-path expected of a figure of Barbaro’s standing within the Venetian patriciate; Books 1 and 2 of On Celibacy are presented in the companion-piece to this second volume. The second work presented here is Barbaro’s short treatise On the Duty of the Ambassador (1488): based on Barbaro’s own practical experience as a Venetian envoy abroad, this treatise outlines the conduct expected of the dedicated career diplomat.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350398924 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350398931

ePub 9781350398955 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350398948 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2026–2028

Matthew Barr, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK, John Claughton, King Edward's School, Birmingham, UK, Benedict Gravell, Westminster School, UK, Ellice Hetherington, Charterhouse School, UK, Rowena Hewes & Stuart R. Thomson, Christ's Hospital, UK

The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination 2026–28 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level.

UK March 2025 US May 2025 512 pages

PB 9781350379633 £29.99 / $40.95

ePub 9781350379657 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350379640 • £26.99 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2027-2028

Christopher Burnand, Abingdon School, UK & Andy Mylne

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Classical Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2027 to 2028. The volume starts with an introduction to ancient Greek history and culture, which sets in context the passages for the exams and gives guidance on how to translate ancient Greek. The prescribed texts are set out in clear passages facing commentary notes, with further information on GCSE vocabulary and key terms as well as study questions. The full GCSE vocabulary is provided at the back of the book and a timeline, Who's Who, glossaries and map combine to give students a focused preparation for their exams.

UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 112 pages

PB 9781350384538 • £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9781350384552 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350384545 • £13.49 / $13.49

Bloomsbury Academic

The Spartan Scytale and Developments in Ancient and Modern Cryptography

Martine Diepenbroek, University of Bristol, UK

This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale. Challenging the view promoted by modern historians which see the scytale as a simple ‘stick’, Diepenbroek argues for its deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages 31 bw illus

PB 9781350281318 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350281325

ePub 9781350281295 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350281288 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

OCR Anthology for Latin GCSE 2027-2028

Tim Chambers, St Joseph's College, Ipswich, UK & Declan Lawell, Liverpool Blue Coat School, UK

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2027 to 2028. The volume starts with a guide to reading Latin literature at GCSE including notes on style, metre and technical terms. The prescribed texts are set out in clear passages facing commentary notes, with further information on GCSE vocabulary and key terms as well as study questions. The full GCSE vocabulary is provided at the back of the book.

UK March 2025 US May 2025 112 pages

PB 9781350424487 £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9781350424500 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350424494 • £13.49 / $13.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Cicero Pro Roscio Amerino: A Selection

Neil Treble, King Edward VI School, Stratfordupon-Avon, UK

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Roscio Amerino 5 (forsitan quaeratis…)–29 (… iugulandum vobis tradiderunt), and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 29 (quid primum …)–32 (iuguletis aut condemnetis) and 37 (occidisse patrem …)–57 (… accusare possitis), giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

UK March 2025 US May 2025 176 pages

PB 9781350384453 • £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350384477 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350384460 • £15.29 / $15.29

Bloomsbury Academic

OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Prose Authors

Katharine Radice, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK & Stuart R. Thomson, Christ's Hospital, UK

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Nepos Life of Hannibal 1–13 and the the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius Metamorphoses VI, 7–21 and Tacitus Annals XIV, 29–37 and 59 (et positu metu …)–65, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781350384491 • £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350384514 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350384507 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Verse Authors

John Godwin, Independent Scholar, UK

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tibullus I.2, I.5, II.4 and the the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Ovid's Metamorphoses VII and Lucretius' de rerum natura I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350384415 • £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350384439 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350384422 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Virgil Aeneid IV: A Selection

John Storey, Downside School, UK

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription for examinations in 2026–28 of Virgil's Aeneid Book IV, lines 1–128, 529–629, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription for examinations in 2027–28 of lines 259–396, 416–503, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 176 pages

PB 9781350383968 • £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350383982 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350383975 £15.29 / $15.29

Bloomsbury Academic

de Romanis Book 1 (2nd edition) dei et deae

Katharine Radice, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Sonya Kirk, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Angela Cheetham, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK & George Lord, Independent Scholar, UK

Now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11–16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. In Book 1, students meet the gods and heroes of the Roman world. This new edition has been revised throughout based on teacher feedback. Chapter introductions and core language sections are more accessible; you will find new boxes to offer opportunities for quick practice and enhance literacy through derivation skills; new primary sources expand your experience of the material world; revised stories support understanding of the darker side of Roman history.

UK

PB

ePub 9781350531604 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350531611 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

de Romanis Book 3 scriptores

Katharine Radice, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Angela Cheetham, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Sonya Kirk, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK & George Lord, Independent Scholar, UK

The de Romanis Latin course introduces students to both the Latin language and the cultural world of the Romans. In this third volume, students complete their journey to reading original Latin texts from some of the most famous authors the world has known. Each chapter ends with a section of original or very lightly adapted Latin texts with parallel idiomatic translations and full translation support. Uniquely of any course on the market, this volume guides students through the skills needed to read original Latin works, across different periods and genres, preparing them to study the set texts at GCSE and beyond.

UK

PB 9781350462670 • £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350462687 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350462694 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

de Romanis Book 2 (2nd edition) homines

Katharine Radice, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Angela Cheetham, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK, Sonya Kirk, Stephen Perse Foundation, UK & George Lord, Independent Scholar, UK

Now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11–16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. In Book 2, students meet the most famous historical figures of the Roman world. This new edition has been revised throughout based on teacher feedback. Chapter introductions and core language sections are more accessible; you will find new boxes to offer opportunities for quick practice and enhance literacy through derivation skills; new primary sources expand your experience of the material world; revised stories support understanding of the darker side of Roman history.

UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 42 colour and 30 bw illus

PB 9781350531635 • £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350531642 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350531659 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern. Ahuvia Kahane sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350278257 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780715636770 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781472504074 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781472504081 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities

London, Athens and Rome in the Nineteenth Century

Richard Alston, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations. Politicians and architects invested in classical styles in their efforts to break with traditions and assert new values. Classical style was employed to address questions of urbanism and nation, citizenship and belonging, and history and civilization.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 54 bw illus

HB 9781350445314 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350445338 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350445321 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception • Bloomsbury Academic

Psychiatry

Antiquity and Its Legacy

Jessica Wright, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

This volume examines modern questions around psychiatry through a historical lens, teasing apart associations with ancient medicine, philosophy and myth to demonstrate how these reflect internal contradictions and ambiguities within modern conceptions of mental illness and its treatment. By exploring a series of explanatory models and diagnoses, and mapping key connections between ancient and modern frameworks, it demonstrates how the process of exploring the connections between modern and ancient psychiatry can illuminate modern understandings of mental illness, its therapies, and its place in contemporary society and culture.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350215801 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350215818 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350215832 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350215825 £17.99 / $17.99

Series: Ancients and Moderns • Bloomsbury Academic

Kathleen Raine Classics and Consciousness

Jenny Messenger, Independent Scholar, UK

This book considers Raine’s engagement with Graeco-Roman philosophy in her poetry, scholarship, essays, and autobiographical writings. Kathleen Raine was a poet, literary scholar, and co-founder of the Temenos Academy, an educational charity dedicated to the study of world philosophies. Her interpretation of the classical past informed her persona as poet and scholar, and in both tasks she sought to reintroduce to Western society what she viewed as the lost symbolic discourse of a ‘perennial philosophy’. Her way of seeing the world, traceable from antiquity to the present day, distinguished no separation between inner self and outer world and stressed the interconnectedness of all beings.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350260542 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350260566 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350260559 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace

Crafting Non-Violent Heroism

Gabriel Ertsgaard, Kean University, USA

A practical guide to incorporating principles of peace-building and non-violence into compelling fiction, this book shows writers how they can enact non-violent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories and create worlds around mythos that champion redemptive nonviolence. With concepts applicable to writing fiction, drama, screenplays and poetry, it deconstructs the necessity for violence in popular works, explores ideas in peace studies and helps writers establish their own peace poetics. Featuring creative writing prompts and examples from film and literature including Trading Places, Selma, Frozen, A Christmas Carol, Asphalt Jungle and Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels, this is an important expansion to any writer’s toolkit when approaching storytelling.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 176 pages

PB 9781350473959 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350473942 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350473973 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350473966 • £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

Daoism and De-Centering Monolingual

Workshops

Jennifer Quist, University of Alberta, Canada

Challenging Anglophone-dominated creative writing workshops, this book explores why and how students’ multilingual backgrounds are assets rather than impediments to creativity. Taking a translingual approach to writing, it is grounded in discursive Daoism and utilizes readings of the Zhuangzi as analytical frameworks to re-imagine creative writing education and de-naturalize the authority of Euro-American literary traditions. Through translations of Chinese educators’ accounts of the history and theory of 21st-century postsecondary Creative Writing education in China, Jennifer Quist develops a methodology for examining the practices of translingual writers from China, Japan, and their diasporas. Featuring translingual writing prompts and practices for instructors and students.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 256 pages

HB 9781350510616 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350510630 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350510623 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Writing and Health Care

Creative and Critical Approaches

Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA

A practical introduction for creative writers on the uses of the arts in healthcare, this book teaches artists, patients, and health practitioners how to exercise the benefits of aesthetic thinking. Combining theoretical concepts with practical application, it explores health humanities, narrative medicine, creative therapies and transformative language arts, graphic medicine, illness narratives, “sick lit” and more to reflect on the role of creative expression in bettering the well-being of oneself and others. Foregrounding health justice and informed intersectional understandings, it enables readers to write in ways that contribute to the transformation of healthcare and generate works with positive therapeutic effects.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350417083 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350417076 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350417106 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350417090 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Approaches to Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Restaurant

Brian Duff, University of New England, USA

In the last twenty years restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural purchase. But in recent years the restaurant has faced crisis upon crisis: revelations of sexism and harassment, racism and low pay, unsafe and unfair conditions of labor, and Covid. Having taken a pandemic era break from our habits of eating out, how do we return to the table? Restaurant explores how and why we have burdened restaurant dining with both acknowledged and unacknowledged drives, desires, and anxieties. It suggests that we might discover new rewards at the restaurant if we examine these forces, and reconfigure their ties to our meals.

PB 9798765121825

£9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765121832 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765121849 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: Object Lessons Bloomsbury Academic

“Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series never misses.” — The Millions

Shakespeare’s House

A Window onto his Life and Legacy

Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life

Richard Schoch explores the appeal of Shakespeare's 'Birthplace' to visitors by examining the history of the house through time and how its changing fortunes reflect the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.

Based on original research, this book traces the history of Shakespeare’s birthplace, beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, and ending in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 200 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9781350524699

£16.99 / $22.95

Previously published in HB 9781350409354

ePub 9781350409361 • £22.50 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350409378 • £22.50 / $22.50

The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers

Modern Friends

Richard Wilson, Kingston University, UK

Edited by Roger Holdsworth, University of Oxford, UK, Robert Stagg, Texas A&M University, USA & David Thacker, University of Bolton, UK

This illuminating book demonstrates how in the 20th century Shakespeare and his plays were misappropriated by the far right to serve the purposes of proto-, present and future fascism. Richard Wilson’s extensive and rigorous research encompasses a wide variety of figures, from A. K. Chesterton, who was both editor of fascist newspaper Blackshirt and worked at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, to celebrated Shakespeareans such as G. Wilson Knight, to writers and theatre practitioners including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Edward Gordon Craig and Philip Larkin. It is a vital and timely contribution to Shakespeare scholarship.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 336 pages

HB 9781350433854 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350433861 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350433878 £72.00 / $72.00

The Arden Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

Edited by James Schiffer, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures such as Thomas De Quincey, Charles Knight, Mary Cowden Clarke, Charles Lamb, George Bernard Shaw and Caroline F. E. Spurgeon. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 496 pages

HB 9781350087057 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350452145 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350452152 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare

On Shakespeare's Sonnets

A Poets' Celebration

Edited by Hannah Crawforth, King's College London, UK & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King's College London, UK

In the years since Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche. These poems probe our relationship to their intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival. They explore what it means to write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st century. Published in association with the Royal Society of Literature, contributing poets include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, among others. This new paperback edition also includes an updated preface.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 112 pages

PB 9781350531505 £16.99 / $22.95

Previously published in HB 9781474221580

ePub 9781350531512 £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350531529 • £15.29 / $15.29

The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Compassion Emotion

Modern

and the Classics on the Early

Stage

Anne Sophie Refskou, Aarhus University, Denmark

Through close readings of key plays – Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear –the main classical sources and the drama of his contemporaries , this book argues that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, reveals a complex early modern emotion available to be solicited and manipulated as a discursive vehicle for the exclusion of others. It demonstrates how Shakespeare’s engagement with the classical literature enables his dramatization of key questions of race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals that are central to the current critical field.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350497580 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350497597 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350497603 • £72.00 / $72.00

The Arden Shakespeare

Global Shakespeare Inverted

Bi-qi Beatrice Lei & Silvia Bigliazzi, University of Verona, Italy & David Schalkwyk

Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia

The Paradox of Subjectivity

Petra Bjelica, University of Verona, Italy

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century. Approaching Dostoevsky’s engagement with Shakespeare through a focus on his novel, Demons, Petra Bjelica considers the figure of Hamlet as it connects to Russian national identity, spirituality and cultural migration. Bjelica argues that Russian Hamletism is a perfect example of how a literary phenomenon forms through a specific culture. Rather than just referencing the play, Dostoevsky’s engagement with opposing and contradictory elements of Russian Hamletism dramatize the Hamletian dilemma anew.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350450929 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350450936 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350450943 £72.00 / $72.00

Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies

Legacies, Cultures and Social Justice

Edited by Amrita Dhar, Ohio State University, USA & Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta, India

This collection provides a wide-ranging examination of the presence of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule, including continental Africa, Australasia, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and the Americas. Contributors interrogate how Shakespeare intersects with the internal and global power dynamics of postindependence nations.

The essays cover a rich range of genres ranging from theatrical performances, translations, and cinematic adaptations to classroom strategies. They address questions of race, gender, nationality, indigeneity, caste and class, and shed new light on the diverse range of contemporary Shakespeare engagements across global 'Post' Colonies.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 5 b&w illustrations

HB 9781350344143 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350344150 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350344167 • £72.00 / $72.00

Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Shakespeare and Seriality

Page, Stage, Screen

Edited by Christina Wald, University of Konstanz, Germany & Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Beginning by investigating Shakespeare as a serial writer, this open access book moves to case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations, to more modern theatrical serializations of his plays. Culminating in analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in TV series including Succession and Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare’s seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages • 11 illus

HB 9781350437265 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350437272 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350437289 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Ireland

Adaptations and Appropriations

Edited by Andrew Murphy

Considering the ways in which such Irish writers as Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats drew on Shakespearean material in producing their own work, whilst analysing Shakespearean influence in both Irish society and its theatrical landscape, essays in this collection explore the history of Irish Shakespeare through the numerous ways in which Shakespeare and his work were reconfigured and recycled into various Irish contexts. Shakespeare in Ireland shows how Shakespeare has been rendered Irish in a variety of complex ways, and is an exercise in tracking how Shakespeare becomes a fully hibernicised figure.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 256 pages 7 bw illus

HB 9781350458383 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350458390 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350458406 • £72.00 / $72.00

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Edited by Edel Semple, University College Cork, Ireland & Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick, UK

The first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life on modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare and his contemporaries in theatre, film and television. Exploring continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, it traces these developments through the 21st century. With contributions from scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines, and addressing topics including gender, nation, parody and performance, the collection presents a diverse account of Shakespearean biofiction.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350359246 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350359208

ePub 9781350359215 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350359222 • £72.00 / $72.00

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Stanislavsky

A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

Annie Tyson, RADA, UK

Shakespeare and Stanislavsky provides a guide for actors, acting students, directors and teachers who want to apply the work of influential theatre practitioner, Stanislavsky, to the process of rehearsing and workshopping Shakespeare’s play texts. Acting tutor and director, Annie Tyson, makes applying Stanislavsky’s methods to Shakespeare simple and accessible. Drawing on years of acting, directing and teaching experience at the Drama Centre London and RADA, Tyson’s guide is full of practical tips and humour. This guide also includes a series of interviews with actors and directors who explain their approach to applying Stanislavsky to Shakespeare.

UK

ePdf 9781350249769 £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Arden Performance Companions The Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage

Extra-Theatrical Forms and

Spaces

Edited by Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta, India & Jennifer Linhart Wood, George Mason University, USA

Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage is the first major work to explore and analyse popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England. This wider heterogeneous category of early modern performance included puppetry, fireworks shows, rope dancing, minstrelsy, performing animals, games, civic drama, court masques, university drama, morris dances, and ceremonial rituals, all taking place in a variety of venues. Spanning the medieval period to the late 17th century, this volume engages with questions of spatiality, gender, religion, transcontinental exchanges, and colonialism, presenting the latest research from scholars across the globe.

ePdf

Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare

Edited by Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Cristiano Ragni & Camilla Caporicci, University of Perugia, Italy

Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry. The essays in this volume tackle issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity through the poet’s use of classical sources and poetic genres such as the sonnet and epyllia. Using corpus linguistics tools, the poet’s entire body of work is further elucidated through analysing his sonnets and use of irony. Written by an international group of scholars, this collection celebrates the 450th anniversary of Bar nfield’s birth and makes his poetry essential to the study of early modern poetry.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 256 pages

HB 9781350456037 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350456044 £72.00 / $98.54 ePdf

The Arden Shakespeare

Richard III: Arden Performance Edition

William Shakespeare

Edited by Simon Russell Beale & Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors. It is edited by leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale, and director, Abigail Rokison-Woodall. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 440 pages

PB 9781350445772 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub

ePdf 9781350445758

/ $9.89

Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern Bonds of Trust

From Shakespeare to Milton

Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK, Helen Wilcox, University of Bangor, UK & Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus University, Denmark Trust and risk provide important concepts for understanding the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies. This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic. Contributors explore issues of personal, communal and credit-based trust in texts such as Paradise Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Volpone and The Winter’s Tale. Taken together the mix of texts and genres reveal new insights into early modern English literature and its socio-economic context.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages

HB 9781350462007 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350462014 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350462021 • £72.00 / $72.00

Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare

Closet Drama in Early Modern England

Women Writers and Private Performance

Edited by Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, École normale Supérieure, France & Aurélie Griffin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France

Early modern closet drama was a lively period of performance which took place through private readings and performances away from the public playhouse. This volume considers the cultural and historical parameters of those performances from a textual and dramaturgical point of view. Scholars highlight the radical choices made by playwrights who were actively seeking to create a new theatre. Studying a wide array of plays from 1560 to 1670, the book interrogates the role of women writers in the development of closet drama, early modern racialisation, translation and the circulation of particular motifs across the Channel.

UK

HB

ePub 9781350455054 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350455047 • £76.50 / $76.50

The Arden Shakespeare

ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS

Shakespeare’s major plays in a format speci cally designed for performing or directing

Modern Plays

Afterwards

Janet Moran, Playwright, Ireland

Set in the recovery ward of an abortion clinic in the UK, a young English solicitor and two Irish women in very different stages of their lives spend a disorienting night together as they wait for morning and their release from a self imposed purgatory. Revelations, arguments and silly songs take them to dawn as they look into a changed future. Janet Moran's play Afterwards explores the consequences of the culture-changing movement, Repeal the 8th, resonating internationally with the current turmoil surrounding reproductive rights in the US and worldwide.

UK September 2024 • US October 2024 • 72 pages

PB 9781350529083 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350529106 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350529090 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Brace Brace Oli Forsyth

A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall. Fight or flight. Back on the ground, survivors Ray and Sylvia struggle to reconcile their responses to this life-changing event. As cracks appear in their relationship, one closes themselves off, the other can’t focus on anything else. A gripping story of the people we become in the aftermath of catastrophe from writer Oli Forsyth.

UK October 2024 • US November 2024 • 104 pages

PB 9781350534452 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350534469 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350534476 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Breaking Amy Kidd

In this groundbreaking work, seven scenes drag us further down the stages of coercive-control: but who is manipulating and who is being manipulated? Only two characters appear - Sam and Charlie – played by an ensemble cast. When scenes are replayed in different combinations, do we interpret them differently? Does gender, age, and ethnicity, alter our perception? What does that say about how we perceive the world? How do we find solid ground to judge? Breaking is Amy Kidd's exciting debut play, commissioned by Olivier award-winning Fishamble Theatre.

UK September 2024 • US November 2024 • 128 pages

PB 9781350508132 • £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350508156 £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781350508149 £10.79 / $10.79

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Death of England The Plays

Clint Dyer & Roy Williams

Following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ extraordinary series of three state of the nation plays, Death of England, are published here in one edition. These interconnected plays are exhilarating, profoundly moving, funny but furious, and deeply theatrical. Follow Michael, Delroy, Denise and Carly as they navigate the joys and challenges of what it means to be British today. The summer 2024 West End run at @sohoplace starred Thomas Coombes (Baby Reindeer), Paapa Essiedu, (I May Destroy You, Gangs of London), Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune).

UK August 2024 • US November 2024 • 168 pages

PB 9781350525573 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350525597 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350525580 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

George Orwell's 1984

Ryan Craig

ROOM 101… BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU… SUPER STATES … THOUGHT POLICE…

On 4th April 1984, Winston Smith, comrade 6079, starts a diary. In a world where every action is painstakingly monitored and controlled, this simple act puts Winston’s life in jeopardy. A clandestine love affair with co-worker Julia further enrages the authorities, but can they truly trust each other? And what of the mysterious O’Brien? Will he help them overthrow the regime, confront them with their most terrifying fears, or worse…?

UK October 2024 • US November 2024 • 112 pages

PB 9781350543027 £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350543041 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350543034 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

How I Learned to Swim

Somebody Jones

Jamie can’t swim. Bit awkward when you’re 30. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, Jamie is taking on her biggest fear — the ocean. With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, "How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?" Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones’s searing debut How I Learned to Swim is 'funny with fear, liberating with grief' (Fringe Review) and impossible to walk away from unchanged.

UK August 2024 US September 2024 56 pages

PB 9781350524491 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350524514 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350524507 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

KENREX

Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian

A thrilling new one-person show by the Olivier Award-nominated author of Cruise, Jack Holden, based on a true crime story and featuring live music.

This edition was published to coincide with the run at Sheffield Crucible in October 2024.

UK October 2024 US December 2024 72 pages

PB 9781350512245 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePdf 9781350512269 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Mnemonic Complicité

mnemonic / ni’monik / adj. 1. assisting or intended to assist memory; 2. of memory. A body is found in the ice, and a woman is looking for her father while a man searches for his lost lover. This story is as much about origins as it is about memory, and remembering what is lost. Mnemonic asks: what is our place in the natural world? How have human relationships with the environment shaped patterns of migration? Who are we, and where do we come from? 25 years after its first staging, Complicité’s critically-acclaimed production returned to the National Theatre.

UK July 2024 • US September 2024 • 104 pages

PB 9781350525535 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350525559 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350525542 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

My English Persian Kitchen

Hannah Khalil

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story of one woman who loses everything. Remembering the tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen with live cooking on stage, she recreates the dishes of her childhood and homeland, building a new life and community around food. Written by award-winning playwright Hannah Khalil from the story by Atoosa Sepehr, My English Persian Kitchen is a life-affirming play which chronicles the journey of one woman’s quest to start again.

UK July 2024 • US September 2024 • 56 pages

PB 9781350525870 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350525894 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350525887 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Odyssey '84

Tim Price

As the strike begins miner John O’Donnell finds himself thrust into a fight for survival, taking him far from South Wales. Meanwhile, at home, his wife Penny goes on her own epic personal journey whilst striving to support her community. When they are finally reunited, they find that their very different journeys have transformed their lives forever. Set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in our recent history, Odyssey ’84 promises a spectacular theatre experience. This major new play tells of the adventures our ideals take us on.

UK October 2024 • US November 2024 • 144 pages

PB 9781350541115 • £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350541139 • £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781350541122 £10.79 / $10.79

Methuen Drama

World English

Our Country's Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Thomas Barrett, aged 17. Transported seven years for stealing one ewe sheep.

James Freeman, aged 25. Transported 14 years for assault on a sailor.

Dorothy Handland, aged 82. Stole a biscuit.

In this brand new version, Timberlake Wertenbaker revisits her Olivier award winning classic based on the extraordinary true story of Australia’s first penal colony

UK September 2024 • 112 pages

PB 9781350534919 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350534926 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350534933 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

Pins and Needles

Rob Drummond

Rob is putting science and scepticism to the test in his new play. For research, he speaks to Mary, a mother trying to make the best decisions for her family, Toby, an angry son who distrusts institutions, and Edward Jenner, the father of modern vaccinations. The more he listens, the more he struggles to keep his own subjectivity off the table, which begs the question – how do you know who to trust? Rob Drummond, whose plays are ‘utterly unpredictable’ (The Stage), explores the politics around vaccines, and the human stories behind them in Pins and Needles

UK September 2024 US October 2024 80 pages

PB 9781350535084 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350535107 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350535091 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Modern Plays

Reykjavik

Richard Bean

February 1975. In freezing weather off the coast of Iceland, the sidewinder Graham Greene ices up, heels over, and sinks in seconds, taking fifteen of her crew with her. Such are the realities of the brutal world of trawler fishing. On impulse, despised trawler-owner Donald Claxton flies to Reykjavik to see the survivors, setting in train an evening of drinking, horseplay, romance and story-telling that will change all their lives forever.

UK October 2024

• US December 2024 • 120 pages

PB 9781350544697

• £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350544703 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350544710

• £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Fifth Step

David Ireland

Thirty something Luka is new to Alcoholics Anonymous and looking for a sponsor.? James is older, has been in the programme for years, surely he’s the perfect person to shepherd the younger man through each of the twelve steps on the road to recovery. Or maybe life just isn’t that simple. In a programme that requires both of them to come to terms with their past, can Luka and James face their transgressions to find a new way of living??

UK August 2024 • US September 2024 • 104 pages

PB 9781350528970 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350528987 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350528994 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Hot Wing King Katori Hall

Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big Charles team up again as the New Wing Order, with a new attitude and a mouthwatering new wing recipe. But after an unexpected family emergency, their plans get derailed as the men navigate the meaning of love, family and staying true to yourself.

UK July 2024 • 112 pages

PB 9781350529120 • £10.99

ePub 9781350529137 • £9.89

ePdf 9781350529144 • £9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Roommate

Jen Silverman

Jen Silverman’s The Roommate shatters expectations with its witty and profound portrait of a blossoming intimacy between two women from vastly different backgrounds, as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality, and the promise of reinvention. Being bad never felt so good as it does in this riveting one-act about second acts.

UK September 2024 • US September 2024 • 120 pages

PB 9781350535459 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350535466 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350535473 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Tones

Gerel Falconer

What happens if you're not Black enough for the ends, but too Black for the rest of the world? Gerel Falconer's Tones follows the pivotal moments of lead character Jerome, AKA The Professor, and his upbringing from childhood to his departure from university. As he battles with his identity we go on a journey through the depths of Black-British culture, class, and belonging. Tones combines the gritty underground sounds of hip-hop, grime and drill with the melodrama of opera to tell the story of a treacherous path to self-discovery. The original production was presented by award-winning Wound Up Theatre.

UK August 2024 US September 2024 56 pages

PB 9781350525962 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350525986 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350525979 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

VL

Kieran Hurley & Gary McNair

Max and Stevie are just two wee guys trying to survive in an ordinary Scottish secondary school. But to survive, sometimes you need to hide. And there's no hiding when you're a VL. VL = Virgin Lips. It means you’ve never kissed a lassie, or a laddie. The longer you stay a VL, the more of a VL you become. VL is another raucous and riotous comedy from Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair, the Fringe First Award-winning writers of Square Go, about young boys trying to navigate love, romance and status in a chaotic hormonal pressure cooker.

UK August 2024 US September 2024 72 pages

PB 9781350529809 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350529823 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350529816 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Four Northwomen

Maxine Peake

In her first collection of plays, writer and BAFTAnominated actor Maxine Peake introduces four unique stories of resistance and passion based on real women. From the famous Leeds-born cyclist Beryl Burton battling through various obstacles to achieve success; to Lillian Bilocca, the 'headscarf revolutionary'; to four bold women protesting for Women Against Pit Closures, occupying a coal pit over Easter weekend in 1993; to former MP Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons. Follow these women as Peake guides you through their stories with warmth and Northern candor.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781350493001 • £22.99 / $30.95

ePub 9781350493056 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350493025 • £20.69 / $20.69

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English

Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh

Ashley Thorpe, Allan Marett, Greg Giovanni, Jannette Cheong, Deborah Brevoort & Carrie J. Preston

Edited by Richard Emmert & Ashley Thorpe

Discover Japanese culture and one of the world's oldest performance artforms in an exhilarating new way: through English language noh theatre.

With interviews, analysis, and seven playtexts that exemplify the history, diversity, and rich complexity of the dance-drama, Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre blends tradition with global perspectives.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350473140 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350473133 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350473157 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350473164 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English non-exclusive

Greek Tragedies for Contemporary Times

Three Reimagined Classical Plays

Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Katherine Soper & Sophie Ellerby

Three electrifying, fresh takes on Greek classics, adapting their stories to the modern day to address contemporary issues.

Protest, desire, free will; the central themes of Greek classics have never been more prescient. In this specially commissioned trio of plays, modern writers utilise these well-known plays and their timeless themes to speak to 21st century issues.

UK September 2024 US November 2024 216 pages

PB 9781350537118 £15.99 / $21.95 HB 9781350537125 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350537132 • £14.39 / $20.24

ePdf 9781350537156 • £14.39 / $14.39

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English

Until I Return: The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi

Ismail Khalidi

Edited by Hala Baki, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA & Michael Malek Najjar, University of Oregon, USA

Discover the complex histories and experiences of the Palestinian people through the work of Ismail Khalidi.

With compelling characters, engaging storytelling, quick-witted humor, and unwavering political commitment, Khalidi has entertained and informed audiences in America and around the globe, providing diverse perspectives on the Palestinian experience from the British Mandate era to the challenges faced under occupation today.

Contextualising the pieces with an essay by Professor Edward Ziter (NYU Tisch, USA), an enlightening interview with the playwright conducted by the editors, production stills from landmark performances, and an annotated timeline of Khalidi's life, The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi is a comprehensive insight into both the playwright and his people.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350465466 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350465473 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350465480 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350465497 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English non-exclusive

Once Before I Go

Phillip McMahon

Edited by Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go explores the bonds of Irish queer lives across three decades in Dublin, London and Paris. This Student Edition includes commentary and notes by Fintan Walsh, which look at the play's themes of sexuality, emigration, time and relationships, as well as its style as a realistic three-part drama that draws on queer performance aesthetics. The edition includes an original interview with the playwright.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9781350523760 £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350523784 £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781350523777 £10.79 / $10.79

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Wintry Tales

Two Theatrical Adventures by Playwrights and Children aged 7-11

Rory Mullarkey & Lisette Auton

Based on the pioneering Live Tales creative writing model at Live Theatre in Newcastle, placing children’s authorship at the centre of the creative process, Wintry Tales offers a series of brilliant, alternative takes on the Christmas story, written by industry-leading playwright Rory Mullarkey and Lisette Auton, a hugely prominent disabled writer. Simple in form but deliciously rich in ideas, these explosive dramatic works can be performed by just two actors on either a packed or empty stage. It’s all about the words! And the outrageous ideas behind them…

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 120 pages

PB 9781350502048 • £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350502062 • £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781350502055 • £10.79 / $10.79

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

A Beginner’s Guide to Acting Methods

Understanding Practitioners and their Legacies

Kimberly

Shire

This accessible guide summarizes the methods of 20 practitioners by collecting the most important features of their work and framing them so that the complete novice will understand the material. Introducing us to the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, Chekhov, Copeau, Knebel, Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, Spolin, Hagen, Boal, Grotowski, Suzuki and Bogart, among many others, the book sets readers on the path to discovering the methods they want to explore in greater depth.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9781350434158 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350434165 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350434189 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350434172 • £19.79 / $19.79

Methuen Drama

World English

National Theatre Backstage Guides

Acting A Backstage Guide

Lucian Msamati

From one of the most celebrated actors of the stage and screen comes this book on the craft of acting. Lucian Msamati draws on his rich experience, particularly in the context of productions at the National Theatre, to delve into sets of challenges and possibilities that actors might face. He offers up his tips on getting started in the industry; navigating professional relationships and roles inside a rehearsal room; and running your own company and generating your own work. Peppered with interviews with other industry professionals and personal anecdotes, this will be a cherished book on any actor's bookshelf.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350379497 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350379510 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350379503 £8.99 / $8.99

Series: National Theatre Backstage Guides Methuen Drama

Research and Development in British Theatre

Tom Cantrell, University of York, UK, Katherine Graham, University of York, UK, Karen Quigley, University of York, UK & Mark Smith

The first book to explore how research and development (R&D) is used in contemporary British theatre-making, how it exists as a specific, often discrete methodology, and how you can use it in your own theatremaking. Featuring chapters by internationally recognised researchers, as well as interviews with innovative theatre-makers, it provides emerging theatre-makers with a handy guide to using R&D as part of their own practice. Contributors include artisitic director Jenny Sealey, movement directors Joseph Alford and Vicki Ikbogwe, performer Selina Thompson, designers Tom Morris and Sophie Jump, composer Lilian Henley, and writers Alex Kelly and Inua Ellams.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025

£21.59 / $21.59

Methuen Drama

Auditioning A Backstage Guide

Sam Stevenson

From a leading casting director of the stage and screen comes this book on the craft of auditioning, either for work within the theatre industry or for a place at drama school. Casting directors, the author points out, are on the side of everyone who auditions for them – they want actors to do well, to give casting directors and directors tough decisions to make. The author's insights, supported by other industry voices, help actors to understand what purpose the audition serves.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350384972 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350384996 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350384989 • £8.99 / $8.99

Series: National Theatre Backstage Guides • Methuen Drama

World English

Community-based Arts, Research and Activism in Uganda

We Are Walukuba

Edited by Jane Plastow & Katie McQuaid, University of Leeds, UK

How may the lives of individuals and a community be impacted by a durational applied theatre and arts-based project? What lessons does it provide for arts practitioners working for social change? Offering an account of a 7-year arts-based programme of community research, creative activity and activism in a Ugandan community, this book presents the voices and insights of those involved in the form of articles and creative works. Participants respond to work carried out through anthropology, theatre, film, photography, art, poetry, dance and music arguing collectively that creativity is a powerful route to self and community realization and human development.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 18 colour and 18 bw illus

HB 9781350435063 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350435070 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350435087 £76.50 / $76.50

Methuen Drama

Making Interdisciplinary Performance

Processes and Practices in Collaboration

Edited by Gianna Bouchard, University of Birmingham, UK & Adam J. Ledger

At a time when interdisciplinary practice is actively encouraged in the academy, through strategic priorities, policy and funding, this edited collection asks what it means in practical terms to engage with artists and scholars outside of our home territories. It explores contemporary working practices between performance and other disciplines, and, by focusing on these collaborations, it investigates the processes and conditions involved in the interdisciplinary and develops the notion of ‘journeying’ beyond conventional boundaries. The book includes chapters covering areas such as psychology, environment, physical cultures, the military, healthcare, festivals and communities, architecture, pedagogy and fine dining.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus

HB 9781350318526 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350318533 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350318540 • £76.50 / $76.50

Methuen Drama

Louise Lecavalier Dance, Labour, Culture

MJ Thompson, Concordia University, Canada

The first critical study of Louise Lecavalier, principal dancer with Montreal-based company La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999 and single most iconic dancer of her generation. This book looks broadly at the figure of the dancer and their contributions to dance aesthetics and cultural politics. Importantly, it focuses on the cultural work of the dancer, rather than choreographer, prioritizing the dancer's voice and shining light on the generally unseen labour of (often women) dancers in producing the historical movements of the discipline.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages • 40 bw illus

HB 9781350195202 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350195219 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350195226 £67.50 / $67.50

Methuen Drama

Reviewing the Situation

The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart

John Snelson, Royal Opera House, UK

From the lasting hits of Me and My Girl, The Dancing Years, The Boy Friend and Oliver! to the successes of Bitter Sweet, Bless the Bride and Expresso Bongo, the British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises.

This authoritative study traces what made these shows successes in the West End and how their individual qualities combine in a uniquely British interpretation of the genre.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw

PB 9781350279599 • £26.99 / $36.95

Previously published in HB 9781350279582

ePub 9781350279612 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350279605 • £72.00 / $72.00

Methuen Drama

Forms of Drama

Noh

Japanese Classical Dance-drama

Diego Pellecchia, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan & Kaoru Nakao, Osaka University, Japan

Provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, traditional Japanese dance-drama. Drawing from up-to-date, specialized scholarship in Japanese and English, it takes an accessible approach useful for a range of readers, including students and researchers of Japanese culture and performing arts, as well as theatre practitioners. After providing an overview of the art, it traces its history from its origins to the present day. It also covers the different types of plays in the repertoire, and delves into staging conventions, including movement, music, and chant, as well as costumes, masks, and stage properties.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 176 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350371446 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350371453 • £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781350371460 • £58.50 / $58.50

Series: Forms of Drama Methuen Drama

Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre History, Theory, Practice

Chan E. Park, Ohio State University, USA. This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art. Written by a scholar-practitioner of the form, this study is structured in three parts and analyzes its technical, aesthetic, and theoretical components, as well as narrating its origins, historical context and subsequent development, and its preservation and reinvention from the 20th century to today. Drawing on her ethnographic work and performance practice, Chan E. Park interweaves expert knowledge of both the textual and performative aspects of the form.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350431416 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350174887

ePub 9781350174894

£58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781350174900 £58.50 / $58.50

Series: Forms of Drama Methuen Drama

Simon Shepherd, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK

A Theatre of Powerlessness

Acts of Knowledge and the Performance of the Many

Edited by Joe Kelleher, Roehampton University, UK & Edit Kaldor, Independent scholar, the Netherlands

A Theatre of Powerlessness departs from Edit Kaldor’s Inventory of Powerlessness (2013-16), a multi-year theatre project in which hundreds of participants articulated their emergent knowledge about contemporary forms of powerlessness. It is aimed, among others, at student readers in an increasingly diversified educational context, who are learning to develop models of transformative, creative practice with which to put their own experiences of the world to work. Combining process and performance documentation of Inventory, with critical analysis of a global range of contemporary performance practices, A Theatre of Powerlessness offers practical considerations for an extended 21st century theatre aesthetic.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350233584 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350233591 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350233607 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Thinking Through Theatre Methuen Drama

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume

2

Tragedy as a Travelling Form Itineraries from Thespis to Today

Edited by Philipp Lammers, University of Konstanz, Germany, Juliane Vogel, University of Konstanz, Germany & Christina Wald, University of Konstanz, Germany

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book explores tragedy as a travelling form, asking how its formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped tragedy’s forms. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars of classics, English, German and French literature, postcolonial literature, theatre and performance studies and musicology, this book provides a multifaceted overview of travelling form processes.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Konstanz.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 304 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350466364 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350466371 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350466388 £0.00 / $0.00

Methuen Drama

From the Curious to the Quantum

Edited by Vivian Appler, University of Georgia, USA & Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA

Explores hidden aspects of the science performance and the ways theatrical performance matters to the imagination and exploration of the mysteries of the natural world. Topics covered include the mysteries of the body and mind, scientific wonders, the ethics of the science performance, observable vs. inferred phenomena, and science objects. It features creative interludes as well as interviews with a variety of figures including science-integrative playwright Lauren Gundersen (The Catastrophist, Silent Sky).

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350234307 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350234260

ePub 9781350234277 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350234284 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

Staging Decadence

Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism

Adam Alston, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Staging Decadence offers the first scholarly consideration of decadence in theatre, focusing on an international range of practitioners who embody, enact or subvert the excesses of twenty-first century capitalism. It does so by introducing and ultimately embracing decadence as a valuable take on radical theatre in beleaguered economies. What emerges is an opportunity to consider decadence as a stage upon which cultural values are forged, appropriated, contested or undermined. This book presents a diverse range of examples including work by Wunderbaum (Netherlands), Marcel·lí Antúnez (Spain), Julia Bardsley (UK), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O’Brien (UK), and jaamil olawale kosoko (USA).

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350237087 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350237049

ePub 9781350237056 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350237063 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama

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This second (Incomplete) Play List is filled with more powerful stories, fascinating characters and varieties of lived experiences so students can discover the creativity, rewards and relevance they offer.

The Play List recommends plays for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 with every play exploring a range of themes and concerns, all of which are representative of topics and issues that affect students today. With content warnings, themes and signposts to additional teaching resources, this List helps teachers to introduce any of these plays into secondary school classrooms.

Women and the Economy Family, Work and Pay

Saul D. Hoffman, University of Delaware, USA, Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College, USA & Laura Argys

An analysis of the enormous changes in women's economic lives around the world, from the family to the labour market. This book examines topics such as the effect of rising women's wages and improved labour market opportunities on marriage, the ways in which more reliable contraception has shaped women's adult lives and careers, and the forces behind the phenomenal rise in women's labour force activity.

UK February 2025 • US November 2024 • 424 pages

PB 9781350420663 • £56.99 / $76.95 • HB 9781350420694 • £170.99

ePub 9781350420687 • £51.29 / $70.19

ePdf 9781350420670 • £51.29 / $51.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilities

Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa

Ndakaitei Manase, University of South Africa, South Africa

The book focuses on students’ experiences of learning with a learning disability and examines different factors that shape students’ university engagements in South Africa. The book explores ways universities can foster opportunities that contribute to the achievement of students’ multi-dimensional achievements for their academic and general wellbeing. The book exposes inequalities in higher education that impact students with learning disabilities who often operate in inflexible educational systems, practices and standardised learning outcomes.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 176 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350351936 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350351950 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350351943 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Online Learning Futures

An Evidence Based Vision for Global Professional Collaboration on Sustainability

Eileen Kennedy, University College London, UK & Diana Laurillard, University College London, UK

To fully realise its transformative potential, this book argues the need for an evidence-based design approach. Drawing on the experiences of online learners who are professionals: educators, engineers and researchers., it demonstrates that open, online, collaborative learning experiences are not only feasible but effective for building professional community knowledge. The evidence shows how co-designed, transformative digital education can be mobilised to support professionals investigating renewable energy solutions, or medics adapting treatments to local conditions, and also scale up professional development in areas where expertise is urgently required.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350324275 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350324237

ePub 9781350324251 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350324244 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse in Higher Education

Curating a Diversity of Theory and Practice

Edited by Ian M. Kinchin, University of Surrey, UK

This book offers a reappraisal of the current state of university teaching, and re-imaginings of potential futures. It encourages an escape from accepted wisdom, liberating teaching from the bonds of reductive binary and linear thinking, and accepting the need for a plurality of theoretical perspectives. Teaching is relational and highly context dependent, and our discussion of teaching should recognise this. The performative culture pervading many campuses can dampen down large-scale innovation, leaving marginalised pockets of subversive collaboration and experimentation to operate below the corporate radar. Here the contributors give voice to some of those emerging ideas and challenge neoliberal orthodoxy.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350411470 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350411494 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350411487 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Educational Leadership:

Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary

Perspectives

Jeffrey S. Brooks, Curtin University, Australia & Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA & Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan, Chen Schechter, MOFET National Institute for Research and Development in Education, Israel & Victoria Showunmi, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK

Equity and Influence in the Funding of Schools

Critical Moments in Australian Education Policy

Matthew P. Sinclair, RMIT University, Australia

The book shows that although education policy is often thought about as an abstract process, it is a series of small critical moments that create the policy and progress implementation towards or away from equity in school funding. Sinclair offers a new theory for understanding and then impacting in real-time the policymaking process towards equity in school funding, the “critical moments theory”.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350416031 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350416055 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350416048 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Bloomsbury Academic

Leadership for Society Leading Education for Social Integration and Mobility

Rima'a Da'as, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel & Chen Schechter, MOFET National Institute for Research and Development in Education, Israel

The book explores the context and complexities leaders face in a divided society, and how these are involved in processes outside of the school. They offer a new theoretical framework of "leadership for society" with practical implications for effective leadership in complex societies. This book also develops our understanding of minority education in the reality of conflicts between the state and the minority's identity.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 160 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350337275 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350337299 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350337282 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Bloomsbury Academic

The Relational Leader Catalyzing Social Networks for Educational Change

Edited by Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan & Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA

The social systems engaged in this volume cut across a wide array of stakeholder groups representing different levels of the educational endeavor, and diverse perspectives from multiple areas and international settings. This book not only builds on previous and ongoing research and practice, but also extends to cutting edge issues and practices around the use of social networks in education across different contexts and settings with a core intent to provide a perspective on leadership and connect it with leadership practice that works at these settings for change.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 328 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350336469 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350336421

ePub 9781350336445 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350336438 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic

A Lacanian Foundation For Critical Pedagogy

In Freire More Than Freire

Alex J. Armonda, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

This open access book sets out from Paulo Freire’s claim that the problem-posing model of education works as a “kind of psychoanalysis,” and deploys a Lacanian perspective to rearticulate the theoretical and practical principles of critical pedagogy. Drawing primarily on the work of Jaques Lacan as well as Frantz Fanon, Alenka Zupancic, and Slavoj Žižek, this book offers a critical introduction to psychoanalysis in the social, political, and philosophical foundations of education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350459892 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350459915 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350459908 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Radical Politics and Education Bloomsbury Academic

Civil Society’s Education

Reflections on the Informal Roots of Learning

Christopher Winch, King's College London, UK

This book examines the relationship between the educational activities of civil society and those of the state via three case studies in: vocational education, political education and educational markets. Winch argues that the narrower educational activities of the state cannot be understood independently of those that take place in civil society which consists of institutions such as families, churches, businesses, trade unions, charities and political associations.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350513365 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350513389 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350513372 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education Bloomsbury Academic

Pedagogies of Care with OneYear-Olds

Exploring Froebelian Connections in Four Countries

Maria Cooper, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Carrey Tik-Sze Siu, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Mary Benson McMullen, Indiana University, USA, Jean Rockel, University of Auckland, New Zealand & Sacha Powell, Froebel Trust, UK

This book applies the principles of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) to infant-toddler care and education today in England, the USA, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The book contributes to critical debates on the application of Froebelian principles, including unity and connectedness, play, nature, and creativity and makes recommendations for practice in infant-toddler education and care settings in diverse cultural contexts. The authors present new research from ethnographic studies carried out in the four countries which investigate pedagogies of care with one-year olds in infant-toddler settings.

UK

HB 9781350367364 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350367388 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350367371 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Early Childhood

Edited by Jessica Prioletta, Bishop’s University, Canada, Adam Davies, University of Guelph, Canada & Kylie Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia

This Handbook surveys, challenges and advances theories, research approaches, and practices around gender and sexuality in the early years and foregrounds early childhood as a crucial site for constructions and deconstructions around gender and sexuality. It features chapters by leading academics, practitioners, and policy makers based in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the UK and the USA. It covers a range of critical theories, methods and practices including post-developmentalism, feminist, queer, and trans theories, indigeneity, race, and class, ethnography and action research, care ethics and sexual health.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781350421080 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350421103 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350421097 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood

Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, UK & Mona Sakr, Middlesex University, UK

Postdevelopmental Approaches to Play

Edited by Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, UK & Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University, UK

This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around play where the focus is on what play enables children’s bodies and brains to do and become. It includes contributions from academics and practitioners based in Australia, Canada, Finland, South Africa, the USA and the UK and explores play in the broadest sense, making space for the myriad forms that play takes for both children and adults connected to children in childhood contexts. The contributors offer alternative ways of thinking about play in childhood, including those emerging from indigenous, posthumanist, feminist new materialist, social semiotic, socio-cultural, aesthetic and multimodal approaches to childhood.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 176 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350439474 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350439504 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350439498 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Bloomsbury Academic

Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Research Observation

Edited by Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, UK

This book challenges the developmentalist paradigm that dominates research into children and childhood, focussing on observation as a research method. Written by leading scholars based in Canada, Norway, the UK, and the USA, the chapters consider observation as it is enacted in the home, nursery or classroom. Drawing on a range of theories including feminist new materialism, social semiotics, and posthumanism, the chapters cover a range of topics including reciprocal methods, photography, childhood art, and memoir.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 184 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350369771 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350369733

ePub 9781350369757 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369740 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood • Bloomsbury Academic

Postdevelopmental Approaches to Pedagogical Observation in Childhood

Edited by Mona Sakr, Middlesex University, UK, Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University, Canada & Kortney Sherbine, Utah State University, USA

This book unsettles, dismantles, and reimagines observation, proposing new postdevelopmental theories and modes of inquiry for educators. Written by leading scholars based in Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, the chapters consider observation as it is enacted in the home, nursery or classroom. Drawing on a range of theories including feminist new materialism, social semiotics, and sociocultural and multimodal approaches to early childhood the chapters cover a range of areas from early childhood art and observational literacy tools to intergenerational research, and using photography and video in observations.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350369689 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350369641

ePub 9781350369665 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369658 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood • Bloomsbury Academic

Feminist Thought in Childhood Research

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria, Canada & Jayne Osgood, Middlesex

University, UK

Transformative Motherscholarship and Art

Public Pedagogies of Childhood

Edited by Georgina Badoni, New Mexico State University, USA, Shana Cinquemani, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, Elizabeth Garber, University of Arizona, USA & Marissa McClure Sweeny, Carlow University, USA

This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother. By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350435728 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350435742 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350435735 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Pedagogical Translation for Language Teaching

Literacy-Based Strategies for Emergent Bilingual, Bilingual, and World Language Learners

Sarah Albrecht, University of HoustonDowntown, USA

This book is an essential volume for teaching language and literacy. It provides the reader with transdisciplinary theoretical grounding, an overview of translation benefits and approaches, and guidance for applying translation as a collaborative pedagogical tool in K-12 and postsecondary language-learning environments. The book presents the underlying theory of translation and literacy in language teaching, provides translation activities and connects them to literacy learning, and walks readers through the steps for implementation, modification, objective writing and assessment.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350412743 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350412750 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350412774 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350412767 • £26.09 / $26.09

Series: Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers • Bloomsbury Academic

Designing Learning with Multimodality in English Medium of Education (EME) Classrooms Across Asia

Edited by Jack Pun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong & Fei Victor Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

This book provides evidence-based and pedagogically-focused analyses of a variety of multimodal resources to scaffold learning in contexts of English-Medium Education (EME) in Asia. They explore both the latest theoretical conceptions on the design of EME, by harnessing the affordances of multimodality, as well as practical applications of multimodal pedagogies for the teaching and learning specific subjects, particularly STEM subjects. UK

Feminist New Materialism, Girlhood, and the School Ball

Toni Ingram, Auckland University of Technology, Australia

Engaging with feminist new materialism, Toni Ingram reveals the ways in which the school ball (or prom) can be understood as an assemblage of material objects, spaces, practices, ideas and imaginings which contribute to the process of becoming school ball-girl. The ball-girl is not a fixed identity or subject but is an intra-active becoming – a dynamic, shifting process where bodies, sexuality and femininities are relationally produced. (Re)conceptualising the school ball-girl as emergent phenomena provides openings for thinking about girls and this schooling practice beyond popular cultural narratives. Building on the social theory of Barad, Bennett, Best, Deleuze and Guattari, this book offers a new perspective on girls, sexuality, gender and schooling, while also exploring the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking educational practices and the human subject.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 184 pages • 10 b/w illus

PB 9781350215276 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350165724

ePub 9781350165748 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350165731 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education

Navigating Ideologies, Cultures, and Identities

Kelle L. Marshall, Pepperdine University, Canada & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Canada

This book explores the role of teachers as intercultural mediators within language immersion education programs. The authors discuss research conducted on one-way French immersion in New Brunswick, Canada, an officially bilingual province and country. Their discussion is anchored on the Douglas Fir Group framework of second language acquisition, examining the implications of ideologies for language education, curriculum and intercultural instruction. The book offers a revised model of the framework, considering educators’ potential role as intercultural mediator.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 10 b/w illus

HB 9781350186514 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350186538 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350186521 • £81.00 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Born-digital Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom

Edited by Tara McIlroy, Rikkyo University, Japan & Christian Ludwig, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

This book combines different approaches to born-digital literature across the foreign language learning curriculum. This volume focuses on innovative approaches from a wide range of educational contexts while considering the needs of learners from diverse backgrounds. Running themes across the chapters are: creativity, learner autonomy, critical reading, reader response and teacher development.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350470422 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350470446 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350470439 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change

Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia, UK & Alan Rogers, late of Universities of East Anglia and Nottingham, UK

Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines

Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies

Chris Millora, University of London, UK

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines. In its unique application of a literacy lens to the study of volunteering, the book unravels how marginalised groups, often seen as ‘thankful receivers’, (re)use texts, words and labels to (re)define their roles in shaping social change and for whose benefit. It offers powerful case studies on how global development agendas such as value-for-money, upskilling and professionalisation – through bureaucratic literacies –impact the experiences of volunteers at the grassroots level.

UK

Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social

Literacy in the Lives of WorkingClass Adults in Australia

Dominant versus Local Voices

Stephen Black, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

This book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a 40-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness.

UK

PB 9781350378117

Previously published in HB 9781350378100

ePub 9781350378131 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350378124 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education

Bedrettin Yazan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Language Teacher Agency

Navigating Complex and Diverse Educational Contexts

Edited by Leonardo Veliz, University of New England, Australia, Yvette Slaughter, University of Melbourne, Australia, Gary Bonar, Monash University, Australia & Minh Hue Nguyen, Monash University, Australia

This open access book argues that language teacher agency is not simply down to individual choice, but is also shaped by the complex sociopolitical, and educational contexts in which language teachers work. It offers practical advice on supporting language teachers to develop and enhance their agency towards social, cultural, political and linguistic practices that have an impact on their efficacy, self-reflectiveness and identity. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of New England, Australia; University of Melbourne, Australia; and Monash University, Australia.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 304 pages • 19 bw illus

HB 9781350454798 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350454835 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350454804 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury Academic

A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education

Edited by Peter I. De Costa, Michigan State University, USA & Özgehan Ustuk, Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

This volume brings together international perspectives on the sociopolitical milieu of English language education and, in particular, TESOL teacher education. The variety of foci covered in the chapters includes teacher leadership, agency, intersectionality, identity, and decolonizing language teacher education. With contributions from Mexico, Norway, Qatar, Turkey, the UK and the USA, the volume proposes a sociopolitical agenda to redefine the role of language teachers as critical agents of change and an understanding of TESOL teacher education serving that agenda.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350262881 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350262843

ePub 9781350262867 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350262850 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Education for Environmental Sustainability

An Integrated Approach to Teacher Education

Elizabeth Rushton, University of Stirling, UK

Drawing extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence, including that from Australia, Brazil, the UK and Europe, this book sets out the key ideas, concepts and approaches for education for environmental sustainability in the context of teacher education. Conceptual ideas explored in the book include sustainability, nature and justice as well as empirically grounded approaches for teacher educators including participation, co-creation and outdoor education. This book provides a researchinformed guide to enable teacher educators to further explore, reflect and implement education for environmental sustainability in their teaching and research so that teacher education is rooted in the endeavour to live justly on a finite planet.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9781350375925 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350375949 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350375932 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Reinventing Teacher Education Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education

Edited by David Gill, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Dawne Irving-Bell, Edge Hill University, UK, Matt McLain, Liverpool John Moores University, UK & David Wooff, BPP University, UK

This Handbook draws together international perspectives on contemporary praxis in technology education from philosophy to empirical research. Through carefully commissioned chapters, leading authors explore the fundamentals of technology education, curriculum and pedagogy. Chapters discuss technology education as it can be experienced by children and young people, inside and outside of the classroom, across the world, as well as the importance of technology and the history and philosophical origins of technology education. Carefully curated, this is an innovative and exciting volume for students, teachers, teacher educators, researchers, lecturers and professors in technology education.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 464 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9781350242821 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350238411

ePub 9781350238435 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350238428 • £117.00 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Educational Assessment

The Influence of Paul Black on Research, Pedagogy and Practice

Edited by Christine Harrison, King’s College London, UK, Constant Leung, King’s College London, UK & David Pepper, King’s College London, UK

This book explores the influence that Black has had across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects. The contributions are presented under three thematic sections, each of which reflects a set of shared educational concerns and values drawing on the natural and social sciences and developments in public policy. These concerns and values, with their emphasis on teacher assessment, provide a basis for a strategic, informed and coherent response to challenges in education, such as the cancellation of public examinations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350288539 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350288492

ePub 9781350288515 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350288508 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Peace and Human Rights Education

Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco, USA & Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College, USA

Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace

Teaching Strategies from around the World

Edited by Kathy Bickmore

This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the USA.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Weatherhead Canada Program.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 304 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350519718 • £90.00 / $120.00

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The Pedagogy of Radical Change

Social Movements, Resistance and Alternative Futures in Higher Education and Society

Spyros Themelis, University of East Anglia, UK

This book discusses and compares how social movements in Brazil, Chile, Greece and England are beacons of alternative politics. It focuses on the potential of these movements to radically transform higher education and society. It explores how social movements create new forms of resistance to the ubiquity of global capitalism and new forms of thinking, acting and being in the world that are not based on exploitation and profit. The book draws on empirical material collected over 12 years in conversation with key participants in social movements.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350476431 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350476455 • £81.00 / $110.69

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Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education

Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings

Edited by Marcus Otto & Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the crosssection of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopolitical settings. With chapters written by experts based in Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK and the USA, the book includes discussion of regions of conflict, post-conflict and also non-conflict societies in which a cultural hegemony has developed strategies to “integrate” groups perceived as “other”. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Georg Arnhold Program.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 228 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350452343 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Series: Peace and Human Rights Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Grassroots Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development

A Comparative Study of the USA and India

Radhika Iyengar, Columbia University, USA & Pooja Iyengar, Mahashakti Seva Kendra, India

This book showcases and compares grassroots environmental education initiatives and actions in Millburn, New Jersey in the USA, and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in India. The authors discuss a range of concepts and ideas that have a broader relevance to local and global environmental education such as global citizenship, climate activism, national and municipal policies, gender, and ecofeminism. Ultimately the book demonstrates how education can be used as a tool to promote climate change solutions and how preparing learners in schools and communities benefit societies.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350320123 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781350320086 • £81.00 / $110.69

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Education for Sustainability and Global

Citizenship

Intercultural, Ethical, and Justice-Based Approaches

Namrata Sharma, State University of New York, USA

This book questions the implications of the environmental crisis on formal, non-formal and informal education from a human rights position. The author addresses teaching about sustainability and global citizenship for social-ecological justice engaging diverse perspectives. Examples are drawn from Indigenous knowledge, various ecological worldviews and practices including the Earth Charter, the Soka Amazon Institute, and the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network promoting Earth Jurisprudence. The final section of the book offers practical solutions for planetary citizenship for educators and policy makers, including teaching and curriculum guidelines that can be used to integrate intercultural perspectives and develop a global outlook.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350414594 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350414600 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Education and Historical Justice

Redress, Reparations and Reconciliation in the Classroom

James Miles, University of Alberta, Canada & Matthew R. Keynes, University of Melbourne, Australia

Education and Historical Justice explores how global movements for historical redress and reconciliation are reshaping education and schooling. This book is the first to theorize and name the important and growing nexus between education and historical justice: historical justice education. It considers how educational policy, curriculum, pedagogy, and materials are being reformed to address goals of historical justice, redress and reparations globally, with a focus on Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the USA.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350470231 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350470255 • £81.00 / $110.69

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Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice

Sustainable Futures for People and the Planet

Edited by Douglas Bourn, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & Massimiliano Tarozzi, University of Bologna, Italy

Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown more than ever the need for a global shift in education policy and practice. This book provides a conceptual framework of global education and learning and the role it can play in addressing these social and environmental challenges. Written by scholars based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, India, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA, the book addresses a range of local and global issues from global citizenship education in Latin America to training teachers in global education.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350326309 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350326262

ePub 9781350326286 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350326279 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Advances in Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship • Bloomsbury Academic

Extreme Weather and Climate Change

A Reference Handbook

Mariangelica Groves

Do scientists expect the number and severity of extreme weather events to increase in a warming world? Which parts of the world are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change? What international efforts are being made to combat the problem? This unbiased examination of the facts around climate change trends throughout history provides readers with a foundational understanding of our current environmental moment. This coverage is supplemented with discussion of the political and cultural factors shaping policy responses to the issue, both in mitigating the impacts of climate change and adapting to changing environmental realities.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages 13 bw illus

HB 9781440879944 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765116555 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440879951 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Black Girl (La noire de...)

Vlad Dima, Syracuse University, USA

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century. Black Girl was his brilliant, blistering debut. Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world.

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Pulp Fiction

Dana Polan, New York University, UK

Dana Polan's compelling analysis sets out to uncover the style and technique of Pulp Fiction

He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the film's narrative accomplishment and complexity. Where some critics dismissed Pulp Fiction for its violence and its worship of a certain brand of cool, Polan shows how the film exemplifies new kinds of engagement with cultural and social codes, such as those around racial identity. In addition, Polan argues that the film's celebration of macho attitudes is more nuanced than might first appear.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 112 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839027598 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839027604 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839027611 £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

Wanda

Elena Gorfinkel, King's College London, UK

This new BFI Film Classic on Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda, argues the film's status as a singular work in American film history, a road movie following its dispossessed working-class heroine, played by Loden herself, as she drifts through an American landscape rarely seen on screen. Elena Gorfinkel's study traces the trajectory of Loden’s acting career before and leading up to the film, her entry into filmmaking, the film’s production, reception and circulation both in the 1970s and after, as well as the critical, industrial and feminist responses to the film and its legacies for contemporary film practice.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 104 pages 60 colour illus

PB 9781839023040 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839023057 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839023064 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

Chinatown

Michael Eaton

Michael Eaton's compelling study of Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In an absorbing account of the film's narrative development and visual style, he traces Chinatown's relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, in wider American culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film's narrative and visual impact. In his afterword to this new edition, Eaton considers Chinatown's 1990 sequel The Two Jakes and also the movie's changing fortunes in the years since its release.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 96 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839028151 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839028168 £11.69 / $16.19

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Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

Riddles of the Sphinx

Kimberly Lamm, Duke University, USA

This BFI Film Classic on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) delves into the cultural context of the film's production and reception. Positioning it as an essay film, Kimberly Lamm analyses Mulvey's and Wollen's formal experimentations, including the use of direct address and found footage; 360-degree pans and the rejection of continuity editing; the rhyming structures and poetic voice overs; and the haunted sonic landscape created by the film’s electronic score.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839026850 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839026867 • £11.69 / $16.19

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Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

100 Queer Films Since Stonewall

Chelsea McCracken, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA. & Matt Connolly, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA.

100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles. By highlighting hidden gems alongside well known classics, this book makes a valuable, accessible contribution to queer film studies. UK

BlacKkKlansman

Movies Minute by Minute

Alex Zamalin, Rutgers University, USA

This book places Spike Lee’s film, BlacKkKlansman, in dialogue with political questions that have been considered by a swathe of thinkers, including Plato, Marx, Freud, Fanon, Butler, and Davis to investigate how this film works as a text of political thought. Some questions include: what is the meaning of freedom under social constraint? How does racism and anti-Blackness structure the parameters of conversation and belonging? Is power dispersed, and, if it is, how must resistance be decentralized? What is political about speech, and how exactly does language have a performative political function? How to build solidarity and imagine political commitment?

UK February 2025 US February 2025 120 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9798765103807 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9798765103814 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765103845 £18.35 / $22.45

ePdf 9798765103838 • £18.35 / $18.35

Series: Timecodes • Bloomsbury Academic

The Jurassic Park Book

New Perspectives on the Classic 1990s Blockbuster

Edited by Matthew Melia, Kingston University, UK

To mark the film's 30th anniversary, this illustrated collection of essays interrogates the Jurassic Park phenomenon from a diverse range of critical, historical, and theoretical angles. The primary focus is on Jurassic Park itself but there is also discussion of the franchise and its numerous spin-offs.

As well as leading international scholars of film studies and history, contributors include experts in special effects, science on screen, fan studies, and palaeontology. Comprehensive, up to date, and accessible, this book appeals to students, scholars of Hollywood and contemporary culture, and the global audience of fans of the greatest of all dinosaur movies.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 360 pages • 45 bw illus

PB 9781501384837 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501384868

ePub 9781501384851 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501384844 £94.20 / $94.20

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David Lynch’s American Dreamscape

Music, Literature, Cinema

Mike Miley, Loyola University New Orleans, USA

David Lynch’s American Dreamscape expands the interpretive horizons of David Lynch’s filmography by addressing the questions: How are Lynch’s films as much a part of literary tradition as the cinematic tradition? How can his films be read as songs? This book positions his work as a compendium of popular literary and musical cultures, including David Foster Wallace and Nine Inch Nails who have successfully grafted Lynch’s cinematic sensibility onto their own projects; a site through which these texts interact with other texts; and a channel through which the subconscious of American life finds its way into full and unaltered view.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages • 57 bw illus

PB 9798765102893 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9798765102930 £90.00 / $120.00

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Abbas Kiarostami and Iranian National Cinema

Hossein Khosrowjah

Challenging prevailing auteurist readings of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, Hossein Khosrowjah firmly anchors his filmmaking within the historical context of Iranian national cinema. Through a close reading of key films, including Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Ten (2002), he explores Kiarostami’s radically anti-allegorical representational strategies. In doing so, he argues that it is his resistance to any singular national identity that sparks controversy and even hostility within Iran and exilic Iranian communities, provoking critical discourse among both scholars and the public.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781784535773 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350274372 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350274389 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Home Screens

Public Housing in Global Film &

Television

Edited by Lorrie Palmer, Towson University, Maryland, USA

This is the first book-length study of the ways in which socialized housing projects are represented on screen. International scholars of film and media, sociology, architecture, history, race, class, gender and urban planning explore documentary and fictional portrayals of the architecture of public housing, and the communities that inhabit it, from the 1950s to the present. Spanning a wide, international range of film and media texts, essays within this book examine public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, oftenstigmatized urban locations.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781350253940 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781350253964 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350253971 £76.50 / $76.50

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Neon Knight Forever

The Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Duology

Tomasz Zaglewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

This book accounts for the initial rejection of Joel Schumacher's version of Batman and explores modern attempts to rehabilitate the 'Neon Knight' as yet another acceptable idea for Batman. By uncovering the formal foundations underlying both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, the criticism it received and a kind of renaissance of Schumacher's vision in recent DC Films projects, Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series and dares to ask the most heretical question for Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually an impressive artistic achievement in big-budget superhero cinema?

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9798765100615 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9798765100578 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765100585 £79.83 / $79.83

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The Lost Decade

Altman, Coppola, Friedkin and the Hollywood Renaissance Auteur in the 1980s

Chris Horn, University of Leicester, UK

This book provides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political and industrial changes. Behind the homogenous picture of the decline of the auteur in 1980s American cinema are films and careers that merit greater attention, and this book offers a new way to perceive individual films, American film history, and the viability of sustained authorial creativity within post-studio era Hollywood.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781501394492 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781501394461 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501394478 • £87.01 / $87.01

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The Non-Professional Actor

Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond

Catherine O'Rawe, Bristol University, UK

Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors. This book provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in postwar Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 264 pages 17 bw illus

PB 9781501394393 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781501394362 • £87.01 / $108.00

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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China

Xiang Fan, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century by highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent exhibitors, internet critics, and fan translators.

A History of India’s North-East Cinema

Deconstructing the Stereotypes

Parthajit Baruah, Renaissance Junior College, India

This book depicts the journey from the first Assamese film (1935) to the present. It addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema. Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners’ or ‘outsiders' by mainland Indians. Part II discusses the socio-political and cultural shifts in the Assam region. Part III traces the journey of cinema in the other seven North-Eastern states, narrating the regions’ socio-political phenomena and the unique cultural discourses.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 336 pages • 34 bw illus

HB 9798765127667 • £90.00 / $120.00

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ePdf 9798765127681 £87.01 / $87.01

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World Cinema

Japanese Cinema and Punk Intermedial Exchanges

Mark Player, University of Reading, UK

In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player explores how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a time of crisis and change for Japan’s film industry. Analyzing key examples such as Burst City (1982), Robinson’s Garden (1987) and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), he traces the changing sociocultural position of Japan’s punk movement throughout the 1980s, from its euphoric early-80s highpoint to a growing dysphoria brought about by its co-opting and convergence by the mainstream.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 272 pages

HB 9781350378568 £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Women and Global Documentary

Practices

and Perspectives in the 21st Century

Edited by Shilyh Warren, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Old Dominion University, USA

Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to reevaluate not only the significance of women’s documentary practices and their contributions to feminist world-building, but also the state of documentary studies as it engages with political, aesthetic, and industrial developments arising as a result of an increasing numbers of women’s documentaries.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 312 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350422896 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350422902 • £75.00 / $100.00

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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Thai Cinema The Complete Guide

Edited by Mary J. Ainslie & Katarzyna Ancuta

In the first ever book devoted solely to Thai cinema, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format. Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 284 pages 19 bw integrated

PB 9781350543362 £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Cinema and the Indian National Emergency

Histories and Afterlives

Edited by Parichay Patra, IIT Jodhpur, India & Dibyakusum Ray, IIT Ropar, India

Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship. It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350371132 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Lúcia Nagib & Julian Ross, Leiden University, Netherlands

Pandemics in American Popular Culture

Depicting Disease and Confronting Contagion

James Craig Holte, East Carolina University, USA

This engaging reference book analyzes and contextualizes portrayals of epidemics and pandemics across a wide range of American media. Here, readers will discover more than 90 books, movies, television shows, video games, and other forms of media that focus on historical or fictional disease outbreaks and their devastating results. Each entry begins with a concise plot summary before delving deeper into the work’s key thematic elements and cultural impact. Across a diverse spectrum of media and varied representations of contagion, readers will also better understand the common thematic threads – human fragility and resilience, social responsibility and the search for a cure –connecting these portrayals.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781440880940 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765114377 • £72.64 / $90.00

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Sex Education School's Out for Netflix

Edited by Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK & Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK

This collection maps the origins of the Netflix series Sex Education in relation to the genre of teenage high school dramas and comedies, exploring the four-season narrative arc and analysing the principal themes and characters. It considers the aesthetics of the series and its main philosophical, ethical and political aspects. It investigates the creative process behind the ground-and-taboo-breaking series, examining it as a cultural product that is both old and new in that it relies on tried and tested generic formulae while also being responsive to new identity formations.

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Library of Gender and Popular Culture

Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK & Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK

Love Wars

Television Romantic Comedy

Mary Irwin

Love Wars is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre. Mary Irwin explores the genre’s key recurrent themes: evolving attitudes to love, relationships, sex, class and money, feminism and post-feminism, changes in the nuclear family (dramatised through contrasting romantic relationships) and shifting discourses of masculinity, situating them within the specific socio-historic and cultural context in which the series are set.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 15 b&w integrated

HB 9781784533465 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350120150 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Bloomsbury Academic

Sylvain Chomet’s Distinctive Animation

From The Triplets of Belleville to The Illusionist

Maria Katsaridou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

This open access book provides the first in-depth analysis of Sylvain Chomet's animation films and contribution to contemporary animation. It examines important elements of the artist’s life, studies and previous works, along with his influences and important collaborations. Special attention is paid to the production processes, as well as the historical and socioeconomic context in which they were created, to provide the reader with a comprehensive study of the films and to highlight their contribution to the advancement of contemporary animation.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages • 26 colour illus

PB 9781501374562 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

The Legacy of The X-Files

Edited by James Fenwick, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The X-Files, this collection examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond. The collection serves as an all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary, contemporary account of The X-Files, reflecting upon critical, historical, political, and social contexts, and featuring an in-depth and comprehensive introduction making it a vital work for researchers and students alike.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 352 pages 8 bw illus

PB 9781501387609 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781501387623 • £94.20 / $117.00

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Globalized Queerness

Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture

Helton Levy, London Metropolitan University, UK

In Globalized Queerness, Helton Levy revisits popular media characters such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood. He argues that such characters have gradually blended in the public's perception and the assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases the personal complexities of immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350292826 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

Eco-Theory and Annihilation

Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University, USA

Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and provides discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. This book offers a concise introduction to ecotheory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Alex Garland’s controversial film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s hit novel Annihilation. This book illuminates the deep history of eco-theory, maps its contemporary coordinates, and demonstrates how it can shed light on Garland’s provocative eco-sci-fi thriller.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781501376610 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501376627 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781501376603 • £14.36 / $17.95

ePdf 9781501376597 £14.36 / $14.36

Series: Film Theory in Practice Bloomsbury Academic

Film, Negation and Freedom

Capitalism and Romantic Critique

Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK

This book explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics. Using a variety of discursive fields and traditions, this book outlines a radical new interpretation of Romanticism in reference to the films of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson – cultural texts previously underexplored by academic studies, such as Mickey One, O Lucky Man! and The Missouri Breaks. This book offers an enriched and revitalised understanding of Romanticism’s relevance to both the filmic texts of the 20th century, and also the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of modern subjectivity and spectatorship

UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages

PB 9798765105542 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765105535

ePub 9798765105573 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765105566 • £87.01 / $87.01

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Make / Believe

We and They on a Digital Planet

John Hartley, University of Sydney, Australia

Hartley’s groundbreaking take on interdisciplinary humanities at planetary scale focuses an analytical lens on the world of weaponised make-believe, in fact and fiction. Make/Believe opens with an account of children’s collective activism in an era when their futures are jeopardized by our stories, then disentangles strategic stories in science, journalism, and popular culture, among zombies, aliens, class struggle, policy discourses, aircraft carriers, submarines, truth-warriors, and lifestyle journalism. The take-out message is that culture makes groups, groups make knowledge, and knowledge makes enemies.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 288 pages • 24 bw illus

HB 9798765128039 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765128060 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765128053 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Internet-ontologies-Things

Smart Objects, Hidden Problems, and Their Symmetries

Sungyong Ahn, University of Queensland, Australia

While recent post-humanist philosophies support the elevation of algorithmic objects to autonomous and sentient beings, this philosophical discourse is overlooked as well as the transformation that has happened to the materiality of our everyday lives embedded with these smart objects. Sungyong Ahn discovers the new form of economic and political power whose algorithmic governance finds its justification from our newly-cultivated paranoia about unknown computational problems. It argues how this power mobilizes various algorithmic and ontological objects—from a smartwatch to a smart building—to identify a greater number of hidden problems within the physical domains of the Internet of Things.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 208 pages

PB 9781501399282 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501399244

ePub 9781501399251 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501399268 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Invocational Media

Reconceptualising the Computer

Chris Chesher, University of Sydney, Australia

This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9798765109762 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501363627

ePub 9781501363610 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501363603 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Revolutions in Communication

Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age

Bill Kovarik, Radford University, USA

Revolutions in Communication builds on the success of the previous two editions to provide an exploration of printing, imaging, electronic and digital media history within a framework of technological change and social impacts.

This edition includes:

- Digital media technology, impacts and expectation updates since 2015.

- Updated and additional information, including: the US news media’s record on civil rights, Gutenberg’s printing experiments in the 1440s, the role of the 1796 invention of lithography.

- A sharper international focus.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 592 pages

PB 9798765107164 • £24.99 / $37.95 • HB 9798765107171 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765107201 • £27.93 / $34.15

ePdf 9798765107195 • £27.93 / $27.93

Bloomsbury Academic

News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy

Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory

Nicholas Richardson, University of New South Wales, Australia

This book offers a method for guiding large-scale policy and projects through the complex and changing landscape of a 24/7 news media. It focuses on three metro-style rail infrastructure case studies in Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada. Employing Actor-Network Theory, Richardson identifies the influential actors and alliances at play when policy is subjected to media discourse and proposes a framework for tracing and managing them. This framework is vital for both the successful negotiation of policy and projects in the media and to an (r)evolutionary recasting of public, expert and media actors in the development and decision-making process.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9781501387456 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501387487

ePub 9781501387470 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501387463 • £87.01 / $87.01 Bloomsbury Academic

Keiji Inafune

Mega Man, Soul Sacrifice, Yaiba: Ninja

Gaiden Z

Andrew Schartmann, New England Conservatory, USA

In this book, Andrew Schartmann explores seven core principles that permeate Inafune’s output and constitute his creative “voice.” He also draws on Inafune’s controversial persona to probe the very definition of “video game designer”—a term problematized by the Japanese cultural tendency to downplay individual creation, the collaborative aspect of game design, and the industry’s Wonka-esque obsession with secrecy.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 176 pages 22 bw illus

PB 9798765120569 • £19.99 / $27.95 • HB 9798765120576 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9798765120606 • £20.75 / $25.15

ePdf 9798765120590 • £20.75 / $20.75

Series: Influential Video Game Designers • Bloomsbury Academic

Media Bias Examining the Facts

Thomas Arndt, The College of New Jersey, USA Examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about the state, nature, and extent of media bias in American news media, including social media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other platforms. The book provides students and other readers with a clear and accurate understanding of claims of media bias (both conservative and liberal) in the United States by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding this topic--and confirming the validity of other assertions. In addition, this sourcebook examines claims and assertions about media bias in other realms of American life, from popular entertainment to social media platforms.

UK May 2025 US April 2025 240 pages

HB 9781440880353 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216183013 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440880360 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic

Feminist Fandom

Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr

Briony Hannell, The University of Sheffield, UK

Feminist Fandom is the first book of its kind to examine how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are increasingly converging within the digital context, and are subsequently opening up informal, ordinary, and everyday spaces for young people to engage with feminism. Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, bringing together feminist cultural studies, feminist theory, digital sociology, and fan studies, the book locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture, and participatory networked digital cultures.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9798765101810 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765101803

ePub 9798765101773 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765101780 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Gender Identity and Expression

Your Questions Answered

M. Killian Kinney, Pacific University, USA

This book answers young readers' questions about gender—what it is, what it isn't, and how it impacts our experiences and our interactions with others. The book’s reader-friendly, question-and-answer format anticipates readers' needs and concerns and makes it easy to find specific information quickly. Prevalent myths and misconceptions are identified and dispelled, and a collection of case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The book also includes a section on health literacy, equipping teens and young adults with practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages

HB 9781440878312 • £40.00 / $55.00

ePub 9798216172710 • £39.91 / $49.50

ePdf 9781440878329 • £39.91 / $39.91

Series: Q&A Health Guides • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Plural Feminisms

Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis

Edited by Sohini Chatterjee, The University of Western Ontario, Canada & Po-Han Lee, National Taiwan University

Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. Chapters explore how individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350332690 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350332737

ePub 9781350332720 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350332713 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Medical Tourism

Lydia Gan, University of North Carolina, USA

Medical tourism, a complex interplay of healthcare, economics, and culture, offers both opportunities and challenges for patients, providers, and nations alike. This book offers an accessible introduction to this multifaceted topic. Chapters in Part I provide readers with the background information they need to better understand and develop informed opinions about the topic. Part II delves into specific issues and controversies related to this subject, offering balanced and unbiased coverage. Part III features case studies that bring the subject to life, illustrating concepts and issues discussed in the text. A glossary and annotated directory of resources round out the volume.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9798216170341 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216170365 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9798216170358 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Health and Medical Issues Today • Bloomsbury Academic

Schizophrenia

Your Questions Answered

Romeo Vitelli, Psychologist in private practice, USA

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized mental illnesses. Discover the truth about this condition, which affects roughly 25 million people worldwide. The book’s questions cover what schizophrenia is and its common characteristics, the factors that may lead to its emergence, how schizophrenia is diagnosed and managed, and how to best support friends or loved ones living with schizophrenia. Augmenting the main text are engaging case studies accompanied by insightful analyses, a common misconceptions section that dispels popular myths about schizophrenia, a glossary, a directory of resources, and a guide to health literacy.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 144 pages

HB 9798765120323 • £40.00 / $55.00

ePub 9798765120330 • £39.91 / $49.50

ePdf 9798765120347 £39.91 / $39.91

Series: Q&A Health Guides Bloomsbury Academic

The Lure of the South Health, the Victorians and the Continent

Richard Aspin, Wellcome Collection, UK

Looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of the Post-Napoleonic European continent to relatively easy access. Examining why they went, where and how; who advised and guided them; how they lived (and sometimes died) when abroad; and their influence on the wider development of European tourism, Aspin explores the delusion of climatotherapy, a promise of a cure that somehow remained forever out of reach.

UK

ePdf 9781350444737 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present

Daniel Lomas, University of Nottingham, UK

Daniel Lomas draws from newly released archival material, Freedom of Information releases and interviews to expertly craft the first substantive examination of the impact of vetting on BAME and LGBT groups, and the legacy of the ‘bar’. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to existing scholarship.

UK

HB

ePub 9781350234895 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350234888 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Tim McInerney, Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint Denis, France.

In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Tim McInerney explains why nobility and race developed in the way they did and how the premise of each promoted a certain idea of superiority. The result is a necessary in-depth understanding of how genealogical exclusivity works as a power strategy, vital to students and scholars alike. It adopts a unique inter-disciplinary approach, taking in the fields of politics, literature, colonial studies and philosophy.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 264 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350346390 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350346369

ePub 9781350346383 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350346376 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland

Incest, Rape, Lewd and Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930

Louise Heren, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness testimonies, Louise Heren analyses who committed sexual violence against whom, where and how and, to an extent, looks to uncover the victims’ voice.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 272 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350227811 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350227774

ePub 9781350227798 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350227781 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment • Bloomsbury Academic

Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture

Monika Barget, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century avoided revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process of constitutionalisation meant that groups from the aristocracy to the church, from the army to the people at large, were brought into the system in a way that negated the obvious, serious challenges that were posed to the Empire by the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late-18th century. Barget goes on to highlight the lasting political and legal repercussions of this process.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350377141 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350377134

ePub 9781350377165 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377158 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe Bloomsbury Academic

Britain, the Albanian National Question and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1914

Daut Dauti, Independent Scholar, UK

Making use of a wide range of archival source materials – some of which are published here in English for the first time – this book explores British foreign policy towards the Albanian national movement and parallel demise of the Ottoman Empire. By looking through such a unique lens, Daut Dauti draws significant new conclusions on the relationship between Albania, Britain and the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1914.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350349575 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350349537

ePub 9781350349551 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350349544 • £76.50 / $76.50

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The Holocaust in Eastern Europe At

the Epicenter of the Final Solution

Waitman Wade Beorn, Northumbria University, UK

This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered ‘the epicentre of the final solution’.

Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe, before tracing the escalating nature of Nazi policies in the area during the Second World War. Beorn crucially reflects on the German obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there. This 2nd edition includes two important new chapters on sources, methods, and historiographical debates in the field and non-Jewish victims of the Nazi genocidal project.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 400 pages • 46 bw illus

PB 9781350387065 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350387072 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350387096 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350387089 £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust • Bloomsbury Academic

Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

Camilla Annerfeldt, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, Italy

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion – well-established in dress historical research on the early modern period – that one was supposed to dress solely according to one’s social station; as Camilla Annerfeldt explores in great depth, this notion does not always seem to have been applicable to early modern Rome because of its very constitution.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 248 pages • 48 bw illus

HB 9781350431447 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350431461 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350431454 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Austrian Identity and Modernity

Culture and Politics in the 20th Century

Edited by Elana Shapira, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of scholars, this volume explores national and nationalist identification(s) in Austria, as they were represented through culture and design, in response to the political environment in the first half of the 20th century. The book addresses the processes of evolution, conflict, destruction, and critical reassembling of interrelated Austrian cultures. Divided into four chronological parts covering the late-19th century to the post-WWII era, it serves to offer up innovative approaches to the concepts of nation and nationalism, as well as ground-breaking research on the roles played by regionalism, Europeanism, and migration played in culture, design and the shaping of Austrian identities.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 304 pages 20 colour illus and 80 bw illus

HB 9781350441934 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350441965 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350441958 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Montenegro and Serbia A Velvet Divorce?

Kenneth Morrison, De Montfort University, UK & Vesko Garcevic, Boston University, USA

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the often divergent history between Serbia and Montenegro in the tumultuous period between 1988 and 2020. Utilising both primary and secondary sources, many previously unpublished in English, this book provides a detailed examination of the bilateral relationship between Serbia and Montenegro over the last two decades and explores the historical, political and social dynamics that underpin it – covering in-depth the key historical events for the two states in the process.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350266162 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350266186 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350266179 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Munich Crisis of 1938

Political Turmoil on the Brink of the Second World War

Piotr M. Majewski, University of Warsaw, Poland

Bringing together a range of perspectives from across Europe, this book examines the Munich crisis of 1938. It reveals how the actions of the West, Nazi Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia and others influenced each other at this time, driving the world to the brink of a new war. The Munich Crisis of 1938 explores the critical political dimension to events as they unfolded, but it also offers insights into military aspects, pivotal private meetings, street riots, demonstrations, and reports in the international media to offer a rounded study of the subject.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350436589 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350436602 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350436596 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch

Essays from the Annales School, 1914-1944

Edited by Iona Singh

Translated by Iona Singh

This book brings a selection of the influential writings of Marc Bloch into the English language, largely for the very first time. This collection presents Bloch’s precise understanding of the contours of the history discipline, defined by the abuttal and transgression of its borders by other subjects. Consequently, it provides a theoretical underpinning for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary concepts via historical studies, pulling into its fold diverse themes such as customs, agriculture, economics, nutrition, technology, manners, art, fashion, and countless other topics explored by Bloch himself in the process.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350513426 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350513457 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350513440 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

British Campaigns, Travellers and Attitudes towards Spain since 1489

Mark Lawrence, University of Kent, UK

Tracing and analysing the relationship between Britain and Spain since 1489, this book compares and contrasts the two countries and sheds light on the evolution of their international connection. Mark Lawrence examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a ‘Black Legend’, while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period. In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, the book considers the 18th-century cultural exchanges that flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas and the surprising alliances of the last 200 years.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350366268 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350366220

ePub 9781350366244 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350366237 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700

From Russian to Global History

Marina B. Mogilner, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Ilya V. Gerasimov, Ab Imperio (Journal), Sergey Glebov, Smith College, USA & Alexander Semyonov, Higher School of Economics, Russia

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today’s Northern Eurasia. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this volume covers a millennium-long period in the history of the region characterized by the coexistence of several local sociopolitical arrangements. The book also shows that these powers were ultimately locked in a zero-sum game, until the uneven development of modern state institutions tilted the balance in favor of one of them – Russia.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 306 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350196803 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350196797

ePub 9781350196827 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350196810 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

Edited by Claire Shaw, University of Warwick, UK & Anna Toropova, University of Nottingham, UK

The project to create a ‘New Man’ and ‘New Woman’ initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. Playing on the different meanings of the word ‘technology’ - as practice, knowledge and artefact - this edited volume brings together scholarship from across a range of fields to shed light on the ways in which socialist regimes in the Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe sought to transform and revolutionise human capacities.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350271302 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271265

ePub 9781350271289 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350271272 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule

Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in

Comparative

Perspective

Rachel O'Sullivan, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Germany

This book examines Nazi Germany’s expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly debate on the relevance of colonialism for our understanding of the Nazi regime. However, as opposed to solely concentrating on violence to investigate whether the Holocaust can be located within wider colonial frameworks, Rachel O’Sullivan utilizes a broader approach by investigating other aspects, such as discourses and fantasies related to expansion, settlement, ‘civilising missions’ and Germanisation, which were also intrinsic to Nazi Germany’s rule in Poland.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350377233 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350377226

ePub 9781350377257 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377240 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence • Bloomsbury Academic

The Black Panthers and the Soviets A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements

Meredith L. Roman, SUNY Brockport, USA

The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both the KGB and FBI employed to destroy them. It compares Soviet activists’ exposure of the workings of the Soviet police state with the miniature, city-level surveillance police states that the Black Panthers exposed as operating across the United States and illuminates the legal tactics of counter-surveillance that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers employed as a means of restraining acts of state-sanctioned violence.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350436138 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350436152 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350436145 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy

Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism

Peter Whitewood, York St. John University, UK

This detailed study traces the history of the SovietPolish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. The Soviet leadership’s central preoccupation in the 1930s was Nazi Germany; this book convincingly argues that Bolshevik perceptions of Poland and the capitalist world in the decade before were given as much significance and were ultimately crucial to the rise of Stalinism.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350238985 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350238947

ePub 9781350238961 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350238954 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The History of the United States

A. Glenn Crothers, University of Louisville, USA

From before the time of Christopher Columbus to the presidencies of Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden, this book introduces readers to the story of the USA both at home and abroad. An addition to the popular Histories of the Modern Nations series, this book explores the complex history of the United States from the nation's precolonial origins to the present day. Readers will better understand America's diverse populations and the myriad struggles over time that many, including millions of Indigenous peoples and African Americans, have historically faced in a country where freedom and opportunity have been promised, but not always delivered, to all Americans.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781440864872 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216171799 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440864889 £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Histories of the Modern Nations Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Liberty Bell and Its Legacy

An Encyclopedia of an American Icon in U.S. History and Culture

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

This encyclopedia provides a one-stop resource for understanding the fascinating history and enduring importance of the Liberty Bell in the fabric of American culture, from the pre–Revolutionary War era to the present day. It explains key concepts, principles, and intellectual influences in the creation and display of the Liberty Bell; profiles its creators and champions; and surveys the place of the Bell and its home in Philadelphia's Independence Hall within the political and cultural lexicon of the nation. Additionally, it provides an overview of depictions of the Liberty Bell in historical and modern art, music, literature, and other cultural areas.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 384 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9798765138298 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440872907

ePub 9798216110866 • £77.43 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440872914 • £77.43 / $77.43

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution

Edited by Luís Trindade, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Rita Lucas Narra, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, Ricardo Noronha, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal & Pedro Ramos Pinto, University of Cambridge, UK

The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country’s five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world. This collection goes beyond the limits of national history to locate the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena such as the long 1960s, the Cold War, the emergence of the ‘Third World’ and post-war modernization.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350498686 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350498709 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic

The Harlem Renaissance

An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History [2 volumes]

Edited by Venetria K. Patton & Kwakiutl L. Dreher

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production. Explore the artists, writers, and important historical figures that shaped this defining moment in African American history. This two-volume A–Z encyclopedia also features overview essays, a chronology of key moments, and important primary documents to help readers understand the environment that fostered this cultural renaissance.

UK June 2025 • US April 2026 • 944 pages

HB Pack 9781440865107 • £190.00 / $260.00

ePub 9798765119228 • £187.60 / $234.00

ePdf 9781440865114 • £187.60 / $187.60

Bloomsbury Academic World English

World History through Case Studies

Historical Skills in Practice

David Eaton

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place from prehistory to the present and from across the globe –from the Kennewick Man to germ warfare, Japanese industrialization and modern-day soccer– and digs deeper, examining why historians disagree on the subject and why their debates remain relevant today. This book is the ideal companion for all students taking world history survey courses.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 384 pages

PB 9781350341739 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350341746 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350341753 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350341760 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Sacred Sites and Sacred Identities

Nalanda and its vicinity (c.600-1200)

Diwakar Kumar Singh, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India

This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the history of Nalanda and its remarkable continuity with perceptible intellectual paraphernalia for which it became famous over the period. The book attempts to understand the dynamics of a complex religious process with the focus on this monastery and its religious domain. The interpretation is largely based upon the material records generated in the course of the excavations at Nalanda.

UK May 2025 US July 2025 296 pages

HB 9789356408494 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356409712 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356407169 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic India

World English (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

The

A Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity

Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK & Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

This is the first book to address the cultural history of shoppers and shopping in antiquity. In this period, shopping shifted from being a means to an end – a method of supplementing the family diet or obtaining material goods for the household – to an experience where browsing and not purchasing became as important as buying. Recurring themes in this volume include the lives of 'ordinary' people; the relationship between gender and shopping; the contrast between Greece and Rome; the attitudes towards shopkeepers; the placing of shops in the cityscape; and the zoning of particular crafts and products.

UK June

HB 9781350026964 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278431 • £67.50 / $91.79

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Tim Reinke-Williams

This volumes presents an overview of shopping as a cultural practice between 1450 and 1650. It engages with the key debates around continuity and change in consumer behavior in the ‘long 16th century’ and the ways in which shopping became an educational and exciting act for women, men and children across the social spectrum as shops and market stalls came to be filled with an ever-wider and more sophisticated range of goods from across the globe. In this period, men and women came to understand that shopping was much more than a functional act to acquire necessities.

UK

HB 9781350026988 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278493 • £67.50 / $91.79

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution and Empire

Edited by Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

This volume traces the development of shopping as a cultural practice in the years between 1820 and 1920. New shops, new products, new standards of comfort and hygiene, and rising living standards for some meant that people, especially women, spent more time shopping. But social commentators, local and national authorities, economists, and many husbands warned of the ‘dangers’ of shopping, believing that the department store was emancipating women and destroying society in the process. This volume explores shopping in the 19th century as a social, political, economic, and cultural activity, examining how the department store came to be seen as both symbol and generator of profound change.

UK June 2024 • US June 2024 • 272 pages • 41 bw illus

HB 9781350027008 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278547 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350278530 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping in the Middle Ages

Edited by James Davis

This volume presents an overview of shopping as a cultural practice between 500 and 1450. It tracks the fragmentation of trade and commercial networks following the collapse of Roman authority and charts their slow re-emergence in the form of beach markets, emporia, seasonal fairs and periodic markets, culminating in the return of the permanent shop to towns and major urban centers in the late Middle Ages. This volume surveys our understanding of medieval retail markets, shops and shopping from a range of perspectives - spatial, material culture, literary, archaeological and economic.

UK June 2024 • US June 2024 • 256 pages • 43 bw illus

HB 9781350026971 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278462 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350278455 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Ilja Van Damme

This volumes traces the development of shopping as a cultural practice in the period between 1650 and 1820. The 'consumer revolution' of the 18th century has been much-debated among historians but the focus here is equally on the 'retail revolution': growth in material goods was accompanied by a proliferation of retail spaces and techniques bringing new fashions and imported commodities to consumers' homes. Meanwhile, urban renewal throughout Europe brought new pavements, street lighting, promenades, theatres, coffee houses, and adjacent shopping streets. As the 18th century drew to its close, ‘shopping’ had become a publicly accepted leisure pursuit, gaining its modern meaning in multiple languages

UK June 2024 US June 2024 256 pages 38 bw illus

HB 9781350026995 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278523 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350278516 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age

Edited by Vicki Howard

This volume charts the development of shopping as a cultural practice in the period from 1920 to the present. It shows how, in the 20th century, shopping became ubiquitous - embraced as liberatory by some and condemned as frivolous by others.

Business decisions and public policies fostered new, often Americanled, shopping cultures, from downtown department stores to chain stores to suburban shopping malls. The digital revolution in shopping has changed the face of cities and towns and led to the closure of many bricks-and-mortar stores but, as this volume explores, the shopper is still at the center of Western capitalist societies.

UK June 2024 US June 2024 248 pages 25 bw illus

HB 9781350027053 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350278561 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350278554 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Geography in the 21st Century

Defining Moments that Shaped Society [2 volumes]

Edited by Jayson J. Funke, Western Connecticut State University, USA, Waquar Ahmed, University of North Texas, USA, Ipsita Chatterjee & Stephen M. McCauley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Geography studies the relationship of humans and the natural environment, and these 40 essays examine those geographical events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st century. Each chapter examines how these events have transformed how people interact with the environment, from political and economic issues such as elections, market practice, and war, to cultural and social issues such as racism and gender stereotyping at work. Landscapes, regions, cities, nature, society, development -- our entire existence -- is tied up with space and geography. Geography is well-placed to provide important insights and perspectives on the complex events and issues of our time.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 0 pages

HB Pack 9781440873249 • £250.00 / $340.00

ePub 9798765118122 • £245.08 / $306.00

ePdf 9781440873256 • £245.08 / $245.08

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century

Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition

Joanna Crosby, University of East Anglia, UK

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350378513 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350378483

ePub 9781350378506 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350378490 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic

The Value of Work since the 18th Century

Custom, Conflict, Measurement and

Theory

Edited by Massimo Asta, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal & Pedro Ramos Pinto, University of Cambridge, UK

Beginning in the 18th century, at a key turning point in labour history, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day. Focusing on the cultural, intellectual, social and political implications of wages, the chapters in this collection historicise the labour market, conceiving it as a complex system of social relations which evolve through time and differ according to space. They show how the level of wages and other forms of remuneration reflect not only supply and demand, but also the nature of work relations and wider political, social and economic circumstances.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 348 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350332102 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350332072

ePub 9781350332096 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350332089 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

When Migrants Fail to Stay New Histories on Departures and Migration

Edited by Ruth Balint, University of New South Wales, Australia, Joy Damousi, Australian Catholic University, Australia & Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Catholic University, Australia. Not all migrants who arrive in a country, stay. But what leads them to move on or go home? Focussing on Australian immigration in the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how a study of subsequent post-arrival migrant departure in its multiple forms and shifting meanings can open up new perspectives in the understanding of migration and diaspora.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350351141 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350351110

ePub 9781350351134 £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History • Bloomsbury Academic

Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness

Mugdars, Masculinity and Marketing

Conor Heffernan, Ulster University, UK

This book provides a definitive account of club swinging’s popularity in the nineteenth-century, a popularity which could arguably be labelled as the world’s first ‘fitness fad’, and to explore much deeper global and domestic concerns about the ideal male or female body, about military preparation and about education. Indian clubs’ popularity speaks to the first modern transnational fitness culture – and to broader questions surrounding nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350401662 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350401624

ePub 9781350401655 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350401631 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order

Economy, Development, and Aid in Asia and Africa

Edited by Shigeru Akita, Osaka University, Japan

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order. This volume explores the role played by the oil crises in this transformation, focusing particularly on their impact in previously little-studied regions such as Asia and Africa. Exploring the intersection between the oil crises and the Third World project, their role in Asian economic development and the contrasting responses of two African countries, this collection covers new ground on the global and regional effects of the oil crises.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350413832 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350413801

ePub 9781350413825 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350413818 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

World All Languages (except Japanese)

New Directions in Medieval Studies

Andrew B.R. Elliott & Helen Young, Deakin University, Australia & Adrienne Merritt,

University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Playing the Middle Ages

Pitfalls

and Potential in Modern Games

Edited by Robert Houghton, University of Winchester, UK

The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin’s Creed. This volume addresses the many ways in which different formats and genre of games represent the period. It considers the restrictions placed on these representations by the mechanical and gameplay requirements of the medium and by audience expectations of these products and the period. It highlights innovative attempts to overcome these limitations through game design and play.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350242920 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350242883

ePub 9781350242906 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350242890 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Daily Life in Postcolonial Africa

Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA

In its exploration of the complex and ever-changing fabric of African lives after the end of colonial power, this book offers readers insight into how daily life has changed for Africans over the last 75 years and what it looks like today. The book covers various aspects of the lives of the peoples of Africa in the post-colonial era, such as domestic life, economic activities, intellectual pursuits, material culture, political power, leisure, and spiritual engagements. Ultimately, the volume provides readers a glimpse into the diverse lived experiences across this remarkable continent, as it navigates the intricacies of post-colonial existence and establishes its trajectory on the international platform.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9798765130070 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765130094 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9798765130100 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Daily Life through History • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Imperial Gallows

Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60

Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter, UK

The death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence in Britain’s African territories. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fuelled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and ‘civilization’ could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350302679 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350302648

ePub 9781350302662 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350302655 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Medievalism in Finland and Russia

Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects

Edited by Reima Välimäki, University of Turku, Finland

This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas that are crucial to understanding global medievalism but are, due to language barriers, often inaccessible to the majority of Western scholars. It reveals that while medievalisms in Finland and Russia share many features with the contemporary AngloAmerican medievalist imaginations, they also display many original characteristics due to particular political situations and indigenous medievalist traditions. They have their own meta-medievalisms, cumulative core ideas and interpretations about the medieval past that are thoroughly examined here in English for the very first time.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350232891 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350232884

ePub 9781350232914 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350232907 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Educating India

Colonialism and Indigenous Knowledge

Traditions, c. 1780-1900

Amit K. Suman, University of Delhi, India

The book centres on the historical evolution of education in the Bengal Presidency and the NorthWestern Provinces, with a particular emphasis on the roles of traditional teachers, like pandits, maulvis, and other influential figures within indigenous society. It attempts to find a relationship between indigenous knowledge traditions and the impact of colonialism by examining its pedagogy, curriculum, patronage, administration, and community participation.

UK May 2025 US July 2025 272 pages

HB 9789356408067 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356409293 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356407251 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

In-Between Empire

Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland, and Colonial Travel Writing

Raymond Patton, City University of New York, USA

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global imperial hierarchy. Leveraging this vantage point, they claimed the unique ability to represent the South to the West, constructing a Polish national identity in conversation with both imperial and anti-imperial currents, and influencing international discourse on colonialism and its legacy.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350498679 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350498648

ePub 9781350498662 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350498655 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Peace, Decolonization, and the Practice of Solidarity

Rob Skinner, University of Bristol, UK

This book shows that connected histories of decolonization and globalization are found in the everyday activities of individuals as much as they are histories of states, institutions and formal organisations. Viewing decolonization through non-state activist practices, and setting anti-colonial solidarity in the context of contemporary global peace movements, it argues that seemingly marginal histories can illuminate aspects of the end of empire that are not readily apparent in studies centered on state diplomacy and nationalist movements.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350427198 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350159761

ePub 9781350159792 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350159778 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Special Operations Executive in Malaya

World War II and the Path to

Independence

Rebecca Kenneison, University of Essex, UK

During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japaneseoccupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency. This book traces the development of SOE’s Malayan operations, and analyses the interactions between SOE and the various guerrilla groups.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 270 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350539433 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9781788313896

ePub 9781350118584 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781350118577 • £99.00 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and their Future in Challenging Times

Edited by Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Israel, Wolf Gruner, University of Southern California, USA, Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College, Israel & Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Appalachian State University, USA

Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts, including a neverbefore-published survivor interview, and addressing pertinent issues of testimony such as digital innovation, gender, and memory politics, Holocaust Testimonies takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony in the post-witness age.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages • 14 bw illus

HB 9781350237872 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350237896 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350237889 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Histories of Internationalism

Displaced Comrades

Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West

Ebony Nilsson, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Drawing on interviews, government records and surveillance dossiers from multiple contents, Displaced Comrades examines the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia. Exploring how they lived under constant suspicion and surveillance, it highlights the long-term effects of war and displacement, offering a new exploration of life as a Soviet ‘enemy alien’ in the West.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350378421 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350378391

ePub 9781350378414 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350378407 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

David Brydan, King's College, London, UK & Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Dismantling the League of Nations

The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8

Jane Mumby, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

The League of Nations, one of the world’s first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation. This book unveils the last chapter in its story, showing how complex and time-consuming the end of this ‘great experiment’ truly was. Starting with the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 - the death knell of the League - Mumby traces the closure process that followed and highlights the lingering impact of the League on international organisations today.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350376939 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350376892

ePub 9781350376922 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350376908 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic

Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-war World

Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA

Edited by Samantha K. Knapton, University of Nottingham, UK, Katherine Rossy, Royal Military College of Canada

One of the world’s first truly international humanitarian organisations, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was championed as a beacon of postwar philanthropy that sought to rehabilitate as well as provide relief. This edited volume offers the first comprehensive study of the UNRRA and seeks to identify the key successes, limitations and enduring challenges it faced in the postwar period.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages • 18 bw illus

PB 9781350422759 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350179110

ePub 9781350179134 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350179127 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic

Sally Ride

Breaking Barriers and Defying Gravity

Jackie Pérez, Independent Scholar, USA

Explore the life of the first American woman in space, from her childhood, to her accomplishments as a tennis star, and her pioneering achievements as an astronaut and science educator. This biography journeys through Sally Ride’s life while providing historical context of landmark events, movements, and women who paved the way for her success. Written for students of American and women's history, this examination of Ride's contributions places each milestone in its historical context, illuminating not only the world she lived in but also her enduring significance. A detailed chronology, curated sidebars throughout, chronological sequencing, and primary source documents make this a singular and necessary first-stop reference resource on Ride's life and work.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9781440874895 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9798765116982 • £49.49 / $61.20

ePdf 9781440874901

• £49.49 / $49.49

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition

Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial

François Soyer, University of New England, Australia

This book examines the life of Maria Duran, a woman who was who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria’s story to open a window onto the world of the experience of ‘transing’ gender, as well as the gendered attitudes and responses to the transgression of gendered norms that were adopted by churchmen, medical practitioners and ordinary lay men and women.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350377639 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350377592

ePub 9781350377615 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377608 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life

Desire, domesticity and kinship in Britain and Australia, 1945-2000

Rebecca Jennings, University College London, UK

Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns constructed by lesbians and same-sex attracted women living in Britain and Australia between 1945 and 2000. Including almost 100 original oral history interviews conducted by the author, it foregrounds women’s unique lived experiences, as they expressed desire, fell in love, and created families against the backdrop of changing cultural, legal, and medical attitudes to female same-sex desire in the late twentieth century.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350358904 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350358874

ePub 9781350358898 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358881 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

History as a Translation of the Past

Case Studies from the West

Edited by Luigi Alonzi, University of Palermo, Italy

This volume considers how the act through which historians interpret the past can be understood as one of epistemological and cognitive translation. The book convincingly argues that words, images, and historical and archaeological remains can all be considered as objects deserving the same treatment on the part of historians, whose task consists exactly in translating their past meanings into present language. History as a Translation of the Past brings together an international cast of scholars working on different periods to show how their respective approaches can help us to better understand and translate the past in the future.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages 12 bw illus

PB 9781350338258 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350338210

ePub 9781350338234 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350338227 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments

Icelandic Literacy Practices

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, University of Iceland, Iceland

This book investigates the autobiographical traditions of Iceland and what this reveals to us about egodocuments. Using the Icelandic context, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research. Magnússon also provides an insightful historiographical account of how the egodocument has been used in historical works both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world since the 19th century.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 272 pages 24 bw illus

PB 9781350413160 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350413177

ePub 9781350413191 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350413184 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Cyprus and the First World War

Edited by Hubert Faustmann, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Georgios Kazamias, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Shedding light on a forgotten aspect of Cypriot history, this book explores the involvement of Cyprus during the Great War and the impact it left on British colonial rule. It examines the political, economic, social and military aspects of the war effort. The book reflects on how Cyprus, as a British colony not in control of its own affairs, had a very specific and uncommon experience of the First World War; decisions were made elsewhere, communities were forced into a struggle that was not their own and their future status and ownership of the island was likely to be affected by the outcome.

UK

HB 9781350446977

ePub 9781350447004 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350446991 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The British Aircraft Industry during the First World War

The Dope Scandal

Tim Jenkins, Heritage Consultant & Independent Scholar, Canada

The British Aircraft Industry during the First World War: The Dope Scandal is an innovative study of warfare and manufacturing in the First World War; a story of negligence and even corruption in government. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources Tim Jenkins explores the little-known story of Tetrachlorethane and the inherent risk to those working in aircraft factories and details the criticism of government procedures in the development and manufacture of aircraft and whether failures in design were putting the lives of pilots at risk.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350297104 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350297074

ePub 9781350297098 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350297081 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Propaganda and Neutrality

Global Case Studies in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Edward Corse, University of Kent, UK & Marta García Cabrera, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Ireland, France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India and Sweden. The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, and magazines. The book also highlights the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 328 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9781350325524 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350325531

ePub 9781350325555 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350325548 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province

An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence

Rita Kesselring, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

An open access ethnographic account of the development trajectories of Solwezi, a rapidly growing copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for metal trading firms in Switzerland. Provides a valuable and compelling case study of the unequal interdependencies that global capitalism creates between towns and cities in the Global North and Global South, all of which suggests new ways of fighting for more equitable relationships.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350454309 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350454293 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350454316 • £0.00 / $0.00

Zed Books

Charity Law and Governance

Private Purpose, Public Benefit, and the Regulatory Strategy

Edited by Ross Grantham, University of Queensland, Australia & Kim D Weinert, University of Queensland, Australia

This book presents a critical, in-depth analysis of the changes taking place in the governance of charities and charity law in Australia, New Zealand, and England.

Featuring contributions from both renowned and up-and-coming international charity law scholars, this book stands out for its comprehensive coverage. Each chapter delves into the nuanced, complex issues arising from the modernisation of charity law, providing a rich, insightful exploration of the concept of 'charity' as it straddles the realms of legal theory and state-regulated practice.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781509979271 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509979288 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509979295 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law

The Financial Constitution of European Integration Follow the Money?

Edited by Ruth Weber, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

This open access book delivers a much-needed analysis of the relationship between the EU financial constitution and democracy in the multi-level system.

The economic rescue package NextGenerationEU has multiplied the EU’s financial volume and thereby raised the question of the state of European integration anew. Structured into 3 thematic parts, the book focuses on past and present developments of the fiscal structure of the EU as well as potential future outcomes.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9781509969951 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509969920

ePub 9781509969937 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509969913 • £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

European Distribution Law A Commentary

Edited by Eckhard Flohr, LADM & Michael Martinek, University of Saarbrucken, Germany

This handbook covers the entire European distribution law, i.e. the EU primary and secondary law as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the highest national courts.

The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part covers sales agency agreements, general good faith principles, competition law, unfair competition, consumer protection law, distribution law and labour law, electronic distribution, conflicts of law, alternative dispute resolution and aspects of taxation concerning distribution. The second part looks at distribution agreements in detail.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 1500 pages

HB 9781849461931 • £320.00 / $440.00

Beck/Hart/Nomos

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

John Linarelli, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Chinese and Global Financial Integration through Stock Connect

A Legal Analysis

Flora Huang, University of Derby, UK

This book explores a novel market mechanism, Stock Connect, which gives mutual market access to Chinese and international investors. This mechanism could become the new normal in future global financial integration. By examining this scheme from a regulatory perspective via a three-tiered analytical framework (investors, issuers and regulators), this book unearths the profound implications of Stock Connect to local and global financial markets and the legal impediments to its implementation.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781509949328 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509949281

ePub 9781509949298 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509949304 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation Law and Technology

Edited by Matthias Haentjens, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK & Ilya Kokorin, Leiden University, the Netherlands

This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services.

Leading experts in the fields of financial law, regulation, and technology examine the goals, rules and operation of MiCAR. The book is designed for anyone dealing with crypto-assets or considering entering the crypto space.

UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781509970407 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509970414 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509970421 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand

Hanna Wilberg, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

A concise yet scholarly introduction to the principles of administrative law in Aotearoa New Zealand that has so far been unavailable. It elucidates the structure and principles of the law in this area, identifies underlying tensions, and outlines current trends and debates. It also presents a unified account of administrative law as a whole, beyond judicial review. The principles-based guide that law students need to succeed in their academic study, it is equally helpful to judges and practitioners, and to academic and professional audiences beyond New Zealand, seeking a sophisticated understanding of the subject.

UK November 2025 • US January 2026 • 352 pages

PB 9781509930906 • £35.00 / $48.00

ePub 9781509930913 • £31.50 / $43.19

ePdf 9781509930920 • £31.50 / $31.50

Hart Publishing

Royal Law Prerogative Foundations

Robert Craig, University of Bristol, UK

This book argues that all non-statutory powers of the Crown are royal prerogative powers and asserts that the Crown does not possess or exercise any 'third source' powers, common law powers or 'Ram doctrine' style freedoms. Taking the definitions of royal prerogative powers presented by AV Dicey, Blackstone, Wade and Harris in turn the book argues that recent case law considering third source powers must be reconsidered as examples of judicial regulation of prerogative powers, including an often-overlooked prerogative power to administer the realm.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 320 pages

HB 9781509965953 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509965960 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509965977 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory

Matthias Klatt, University of Graz, Austria & Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University & Charles Barzun, University of Virginia, USA

Essays on Freedom and Proportionality

Edited by Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Essex, UK

This open access book explores the connection between proportionality and the moral concept of freedom from a variety of philosophical perspectives. It showcases novel attempts to combine proportionality and freedom that are inspired by Kant, Rawls and Bernard Williams. It also situates its central question within debates about the legitimacy of judicial power and keeps sight of the pivotal issues around the meaning of human rights that courts around the world use a proportionality analysis to resolve.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 272 pages

HB 9781509973804 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509973774 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509973781 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

Equality Before the Law

Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

Michael P Foran, University of Glasgow, UK

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an all-things-considered theory of justice.

The book argues that equality is grounded in the principle of equal moral status of all subjects of the law and that individuals be treated in accordance with the principle of equality before the law, that they not be treated in ways that would deny their equal moral standing. It explores the argument that this principle of moral equality is the fundamental normative basis of the common law constitution and essential for the rule of law.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781509964987 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509964949

ePub 9781509964956 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509964963 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory Hart Publishing

Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation – Comparative Perspectives

Volume 1: National Reports

Edited by Matthias Klatt, University of Graz, Austria

This book is part of a 2-volume set which investigates the canon of constitutionally conforming interpretation. Both volumes analyse the canon’s use in the national, supranational and international context and reflect on the issues raised.

This volume presents national reports from 19 jurisdictions, to shed light on the canon’s structural background, the conditions of its application, and its critical reception. Together with volume 2, which explores the canon’s impact beyond the national context, this book sets the stage for cross-national discourse.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 464 pages

PB 9781509976331 £74.99 / $100.00

Previously published in HB 9781509953844

ePub 9781509953851 £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509953868 • £135.00 / $135.00

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

Human Rights and Corruption in Brazil

Democracy at a Crossroads

Lucas Delgado, Brazilian Council of Justice, Brazil

This book identifies 2 polarising concepts used by Brazilian sociology to explain the formation of Brazil as a society: corruption and human rights.

The book examines the outcomes of international human rights regimes in Brazil, involving rights and policies related to: the right to food, the fight against hunger, and conditional cash transfer programs; the right to health and the public healthcare system; the right to racial equality and affirmative action in superior education; and the right to recognition and the protection of indigenous populations.

The book sheds light on how democracy evolves or recedes over time under their influence.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781509981977 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509981991 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509981984 £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Emerging Constitutionalism in South Sudan Challenges and Opportunities

Mark A W Deng, University of Melbourne, Australia

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the emerging constitutionalism in South Sudan and the challenges it faces.

It critically analyses the constitution-making processes that occurred in South Sudan between 2005 and 2011, finding that there was a failure of constitutional discourse. It goes on to analyse how the constitution is being implemented. It finds that, despite the clear division of powers and functions between the national government and the sub-national governments, what has emerged in South Sudan in the post-constitution-making period is a form of coercive centralism where the national government controls much of the political decision-making process.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509981274 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509981267 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509981250 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Facts in Public Law Adjudication

Edited by Joe Tomlinson, University of York, UK & Anne Carter, University of Adelaide, Australia

This book considers how courts engage with questions of fact in public law adjudication. It also considers whether the existing laws and practices surrounding evidence are sufficient, and how other disciplines might assist the courts.

The book reconnects the key practical issues surrounding evidence and facts with the lively academic debate on judicial review in the common law world; it therefore contributes to an emerging area of scholarly debate and also has practical implications for the conduct of litigation and government policy-making.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509957422 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509957385

ePub 9781509957392 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509957408 £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Constitutionalism in Asia

Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore & Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore & Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore

Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

Andrew Harding, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This book advocates and defends the 3-decadelong decentralisation in Southeast Asia, arguing that it has on the whole been both successful and under-studied. Looking at 4 countries (Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia), the book considers the issues of decentralised or territorial governance - a globally significant development — especially with regard to its relationship to societal pluralism, which is prevalent in Southeast Asia.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 288 pages

PB 9781509961887 £44.99 / $60.95 HB 9781509961849 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509961856 • £40.49 / $55.34

ePdf 9781509961863 • £40.49 / $40.49

Series: Constitutionalism in Asia • Hart Publishing

Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia

Edited by Wen-Chen Chang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Kelley Loper, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Mara Malagodi, University of Warwick, UK & Ruth Rubio-Marín, University of Sevilla, Spain

This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions. Leading comparative constitutional law scholars identify ‘opportunity structures’ to explain the uneven advancement of gender equality through constitutional litigation and consider a combination of variables which shape the diverging trajectories of the jurisdictions in this study. The authors also embed the relevant constitutional and legal developments in their historical, political and social contexts.

The chapters cover East Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea), South-East Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia), and South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages

PB 9781509972302 • £32.99 / $44.95

Previously published in HB 9781509941919

ePub 9781509941926 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509941933 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Constitutionalism in Asia • Hart Publishing

Questions of Accountability Prerogatives, Power and Politics

Edited by Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield, UK & Chris Monaghan, University of Worcester, UK

This book explores accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries. It asks fresh questions about accountability and its place and importance in democratic societies, and considers the issues raised by the shifting architecture of accountability.

Bringing together world-leading scholars and former politicians and public servants, the book provides the reader with the answers to the most debated issues surrounding accountability, including rarely discussed ‘pathologies of accountability’, post-human governance, and a focus on proportionality.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509964260 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509964222

ePub 9781509964239 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509964246 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Constitutional Courts, Media and Public Opinion

Angioletta Sperti, University of Pisa, Italy

This book analyses how the recent information revolution has radically changed the way courts communicate with the public. It focuses on the consequences of the communication revolution of courts both in terms of their relationship with public opinion and of the legitimacy of judicial review of legislation. The book will interest scholars in constitutional law and public comparative law, sociologists, historians, political scientists, and scholars of media law and communication studies.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781509953646 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509953608

ePub 9781509953615 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509953622 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law • Hart Publishing

Disruption, Innovation and Re-alignment in UK Consumer Law and Policy

Edited by James Devenney, University of Reading, UK & Christian Twigg-Flesner, University of Warwick, UK

This book sets out the future directions for UK consumer law and policy.

After decades of EU-driven development, the continuous improvement of UK consumer law and policy has stalled after Brexit. This presents an opportunity for realigning UK consumer law and policy towards a consumer-centric focus and to develop innovative solutions.

The book shows how the UK could develop in response to both major and specific challenges. Topics include a historical perspective on consumer law, consumer law reform, the implications of Brexit, vulnerability, changing paradigms, challenges in the context of financial services and digital consumer law, and enforcement.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 480 pages

HB 9781509975556 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509975563 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509975570 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Consumer Rights and Protections

Examining the Facts

Nancy Hendricks, Independent Scholar, USA

How did industrialization drive the development of consumer rights and protections in the USA?

How have these laws defended consumers against business fraud, deceptive advertising, industrial pollution, and unsafe or unethical practices? Why have political opinions about consumer rights become so polarizing? This resource answers these questions and many more, surveying ways in which consumer rights and protections have evolved in response to momentous changes in business, technology, and society, and providing readers with insights into the past, present, and possible futures of consumer rights in America.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781440881305 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765116821 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440881312 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic

Residential Construction Law

The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

Philip Britton, formerly King's College London, UK, Matthew Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia, Deirdre Ní Fhloinn, Bar of Ireland & Kim Vernau, Women’s Pioneer Housing, UK

This acclaimed book is the first of its kind to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction.

The updated edition addresses two fundamental questions: what assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers, including renters) of homes that construction work will comply with applicable standards of design, safety and build quality? And what forms of redress can residents expect, when, often long after completion of construction, they discover defects?

The book addresses these central issues in a comparative context across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 800 pages

HB 9781509975884 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781509975891 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781509975907 • £99.00 / $99.00

Hart Publishing

The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe

Edited by Hans-W Micklitz, European University Institute, Italy & Christian Twigg-Flesner, University of Warwick, UK

This book analyses the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe from 4 perspectives: first, the temporal transformation; secondly, the substantive dimension; thirdly, the institutional dimension; and fourth, the procedural element.

With contributions by leading consumer law scholars from across Europe, this book is a fascinating account of how consumer law has been transformed since the turn of the millennium, often shaped by national as much as European interests.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 376 pages

PB 9781509963065 £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9781509963027

ePub 9781509963034 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509963041 • £90.00 / $90.00

Hart Publishing

Contract Law

Ewan McKendrick, University of Oxford, UK

Now in its 16th edition, Ewan McKendrick’s bestselling textbook provides a clear account of all the basic rules of contract law, including the formation of a contract, what goes into a contract and how to enforce a contract. Its numerous realworld examples, ‘Hot Topic’ discussion points and end-of-chapter summaries and exercises make it is the essential companion for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of contract law, preparing them not only to excel in their exams, but also in their professional legal careers.

UK

ePdf 9781350508231 • £33.29 / $33.29

Series: Hart Law Masters • Hart Publishing

Questions of Liability

Essays on the Law of Tort

Donal Nolan, University of Oxford, UK

In this collection, one of the key commentators on the modern law of tort presents 12 of his most important articles and book chapters. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter in which the author comments on the impact and reception of the pieces that make up the collection, and by a new essay in which he argues against strict product liability in the law of tort. A coherent and compelling exploration of topical issues in core areas of tort law, the collection is divided into 3 parts, dealing with negligence; nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher; and tort in general.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 480 pages

PB 9781509961962 £29.99 / $40.95

Previously published in HB 9781509961924

ePub 9781509961931 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509961948 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in the Law of Punitive Damages

Edited by James Goudkamp, University of Oxford, UK & Eleni Katsampouka, King's College London, UK

Punitive damages are private law’s most controversial remedy. This book traces the development of the jurisdiction from the foundational decisions of Huckle v Money and Wilkes v Wood in England, to leading modern cases such as Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd in Australia, Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co in Canada, Couch v AG (No 2) in New Zealand, PH Hydraulics and Engineering Pte Ltd v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd in Singapore and Mathias v Accor Economy Lodging, Inc and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co v Campbell in the United States.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 408 pages

PB 9781509967049 • £59.99 / $79.95

Previously published in HB 9781509967001

ePub 9781509967018 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509967025 £108.00 / $108.00

Series: Landmark Cases Hart Publishing

Hart Studies in Private Law

Cause and Consideration

Exploring the Foundations of Contract Law

Edited by Bruno Rodríguez-Rosado, University of Málaga, Spain, Rocío Caro Gándara, University of Málaga, Spain & Antonio Legerén Molina, University of A Coruña, Spain

This book provides a comprehensive study of two parallel notions of civil and common law: cause and consideration.

It does this in three ways; with historical, comparative, and functional perspectives. Aspects of cause and consideration are hotly contested by contract lawyers and this book will bring clarity by looking at the English and Continental positions. Key areas of focus include: enforceability, questions of legality and morality, contractual justice, and the correction of unjustified property displacements.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 368 pages

HB 9781509971398 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509971404 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509971411 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

The Scope and Structure of Unjust Enrichment

Duncan Sheehan, University of Leeds, UK

This ambitious book grapples with ongoing debates on the structure of unjust enrichment. It argues that while unjust enrichment has the function of reversing defective enrichments, there is scope for normative pluralism in how the law achieves this.

Drawing on comparative material from Germany, Scotland and South Africa the book argues for a legal framework which combines elements of the absence of basis and unjust factors approaches. It assesses how that structure can be mapped against the causes of action that make up unjust enrichment, and concludes with a treatment of defences.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781509942435 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509942442

ePub 9781509942459 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509942466 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Politics, Policy and Private Law

Volume

I: Tort, Property and Equity

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Amy Goymour, Janet O'Sullivan & Sarah Worthington, all of University of Cambridge, UK

This is a landmark and ambitious research project looking at private law through the policy prism undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields.

This first volume explores tort law, property law and equity, with chapters looking at the Grenfell disaster, compensation of medical injuries post COVID-19, the gig economy and co-ownership. The volumes also explore traditional private law areas, such as psychological injury and the impact of fairness and/or equality obligations. They highlight the similarities and differences across many aspects of private law, allowing for a richer analysis across all the strands of private law.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9781509961009 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509960965

ePub 9781509960972 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509960989 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law Hart Publishing

Criminal Justice in Austerity Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice

James Thornton, Nottingham Trent University, UK

This book offers a timely and detailed examination of the reality of criminal legal practice today. Drawing upon extensive anonymous interviews with criminal lawyers in England and Wales, it illuminates how financial pressures can arise within the criminal justice system and how lawyers seek to navigate them. It considers whether the criminal legal aid system really can provide those unable to afford a lawyer with access to justice and whether the Crown Prosecution Service can provide justice to victims of crime.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781509955350 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509955312

ePub 9781509955329 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509955336 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Principles of Polish Criminal Procedure

Jaroslaw Zagrodnik, Silesia University, Poland & Kazimierz Zgryzek, Silesia University, Poland

Little is available in English on the procedural aspects of the Polish criminal justice system and the tenets of its criminal process. This book addresses this gap, setting out an analysis of the founding principles, its main phases and those systemic and structural components which inform it. Taking an applied, practical approach, pre-trial, trial, post-trial, questions of evidence and remedies are all addressed. The authors, experts in the field, also explore the role of more general rule of law/standards of law questions currently impacting on the law and its interpretation. Comparative criminal lawyers will welcome this important new work.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509950812 • £59.99 / $79.95

Previously published in HB 9781509950775

ePub 9781509950782 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509950799 • £108.00 / $108.00

Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

Criminology as a Moral Science

Edited by Anthony E Bottoms, University of Cambridge, UK & Jonathan Jacobs, City University of New York, USA

This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people’s reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account. This endeavour requires input from both criminologists and philosophers, and careful dialogue between them.

The issues raised go to the heart of some currently pressing topics within criminology, notably the development of ‘evidencebased practice’, which requires some kind of stable bridge to be built between research evidence (‘facts’) and proposals for policy (‘evaluative recommendations’).

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 336 pages

PB 9781509965373 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509965328

ePub 9781509965342 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509965359 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Studies in Penal Theory and Ethics Hart Publishing

Aviation Law

Edited by Stephan Hobe, University of Köln, Germany & Moritz Heile, Goodvice, Germany

This books offers an expert guide to the aviation industry, by two of its leading commentators. Starting with history and sources, it goes on to look at the provision of international services and the specific European and German aviation market. It then explores questions of liability and security. Finally, it examines environmental considerations and suggests future trends and challenges.

UK

Beck/Hart/Nomos

World All Languages (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Europeanisation of Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The Aarhus Convention in the Balkans

Edited by Bojana Todorovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Roberto Caranta, University of Turin, Italy

This book analyses the ways in which Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention enables environmental access to justice in the Balkans, a region at the epicentre of extreme climate change events. Adopting a law-in-context approach, the chapters explore national cultures and driving forces shaping the implementation of Aarhus standards in Albania, Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, and Serbia. The book combines EU law and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights with the bottom-up Europeanisation brought about by rising environmental protests and the activism of civil society organisations in the region.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9781509979622 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509979639 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509979646 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Offshore Energy Law Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons

Edited by Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, University of Bergen, Norway, Eduardo G Pereira, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Eddy Wifa, University of Aberdeen, UK & Madeline Taylor, Macquarie University, Australia

This book examines the regulatory, environmental, financial, sociolegal, and safety aspects that shape offshore energy infrastructure projects and their operation.

Offshore Energy Law provides a functional analysis that covers the life cycle of offshore energy developments, including renewable and hydrocarbons, within the broader context of the energy crisis and energy transition debates. Written and edited by leading global offshore energy experts, the book brings together a global and sectoral comparative perspective to central offshore energy topics such as licensing, socio-legal challenges and opportunities, safety and ecological governance, and the use of marine/maritime spatial planning.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 464 pages

HB 9781509964390 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781509964406 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781509964413 • £99.00 / $99.00

Series: Global Energy Law and Policy • Hart Publishing

National Planning Policy

The NPPF and Policies for Development Management

Edited by Gregory Jones KC, Francis Taylor Building, UK

This book provides clear practical guidance and commentary on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) by reference to ministerial, planning inspectorate decisions and court judgments. Written by an expert team of specialist planning barristers from the leading planning chambers of Francis Taylor Building and led by Gregory Jones QC, it provides the essential single volume guide to signpost the reader through the new world of the NPPF.

UK

US June 2025 • 800 pages

HB 9781849464475 • £180.00 / $245.00

ePub 9781782251453 • £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9781849469159 • £162.00 / $162.00

Hart Publishing

Major Cases in Climate Law

A Critical Introduction

Thomas L Muinzer, University of Aberdeen, UK

This book introduces readers to major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change: The Heathrow Runway Case (UK); The Urgenda Case (Netherlands); The Colombian Amazon Case (Colombia); The Centre for Oil Pollution Watch Case (Nigeria); The Gloucester Resources Case (Australia); Climate Case Ireland (Ireland). The reader is taken through relevant facts, issues, law and commentary pertinent to each case, and a clear, critical and evaluative account of each ruling is provided. This introduction to important cases in the area is essential reading for those engaged with climate law and policy in educational and practical settings.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509980314 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509980307 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509980291 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Before Environmental Law

A History of a Vanishing Continent

Benjamin J Richardson, University of Tasmania, Australia

This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia’s natural environment and examines the subject’s legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the socalled modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today’s environmental laws emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century.

This book offers scholars and students of environmental law and legal history a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 384 pages

PB 9781509969067 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509969029

ePub 9781509969036 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509969043 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Volume 3

Boundaries in Context

Edited by Ying Khai Liew, University of Melbourne, Australia & Masayuki Tamaruya, Tokyo University, Japan

This collection explores the boundaries of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is uncontroversial to state that the region’s jurisdictions are diverse, reflecting a mix of histories, economies, politics, and legal systems. This collection illustrates how this diversity is reflected in trusts law. But this thematic and systematic exploration from a region-wide perspective also identifies patterns of commonality in those factors which limit the operation of trusts law, particularly as jurisdictions encounter domestic and international challenges. By charting both convergence and divergence, this study is pivotal in shaping and guiding the future development of trusts law in the region.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 400 pages

HB 9781509972951 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509972968 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509972975 • £90.00 / $90.00

Hart Publishing

European Banking Regulation

Edited by Horst Eidenmüller, University of Oxford, UK, Mathias Habersack, LudwigMaximilian-University of Munich, Germany & Lars Klöhn, Humbolt-University of Berlin, Germany

This important collection assesses the effectiveness of the complex regulatory framework put in place after the banking crisis of 2008.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509923953 • £100.00 / $135.00

Beck/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Foreign Subsidies Regulation

A Commentary

Edited by Marc Bungenberg, University of Siegen, Germany

This commentary provides a rigorous and magisterial guide to the Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Edited by a recognised expert in the field and with contributions from leading practitioners, it opens with an overview of the Regulation, its history, and relationship to other instruments. It goes on to give an extensive article-by-article examination, expanded in line with case law, to ensure its practical and applied focus. This will be the go-to-text for all practitioners in the field of competition law and specialists in state aid law.

UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 704 pages

HB 9781509970223 • £225.00 / $305.00

Beck/Hart/Nomos

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Swedish Studies in European Law

Björn Lundqvist, Stockholm University, Sweden

EU Law in the Digital Age

Edited by Maria Bergström, Uppsala University, Sweden & Valsamis Mitsilegas, University of Liverpool, UK

The fifth industrial revolution is impacting on all aspects of society. This open access collection looks at how the European Union and its legal framework is reacting, responding, and evolving to best accommodate the reality of this new environment. Experts in the field examine the questions from all aspects of EU law. This is a thoughtful collection on a question that will dominate EU law in the coming years.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 464 pages

HB 9781509981182 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509981199 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509981205 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Swedish Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Fintech Competition

Law, Policy, and Market Organisation

Edited by Konstantinos Stylianou, University of Glasgow, UK, Marios Iacovides, Uppsala University, Sweden & Björn Lundqvist, Stockholm University, Sweden

This open access book is the first to systematically explore competition policy in fintech markets. Drawing from the expertise of law scholars, economists, and social and natural scientists from the EU and the US, this edited collection explores the competitive dynamics, market organisation, and competition law application in fintech markets. It is the 17th volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Swedish Network for European Legal Studies.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 384 pages

PB 9781509963386 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509963348

ePub 9781509963355 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509963362 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Swedish Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

The EFTA Court

Developing

the EEA over Three Decades

Edited by EFTA Court, The EFTA Court, Luxembourg

The EEA Agreement extends the four freedoms (persons, goods, services and capital) to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It provides for equal conditions of competition and abolishes discrimination on grounds of nationality. The EFTA Court, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, has jurisdiction over parties to the Agreement. This jurisdiction corresponds to that of the Court of Justice of the European Union over EU Member States in matters of EEA law. This collection of essays, written by members of the Court and external experts, reviews the successes and shortcomings of the Court, its interface with EU law, and its future development.

UK August 2024 • US October 2024 • 464 pages

HB 9781509968800 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509968817 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509968824 • £108.00 / $108.00

Hart Publishing

The European Court of Justice and its Critics

Edited by Anthony Arnull, University of Birmingham, UK & Takis Tridimas, King's College London, UK

There is no doubt that the European Court of Justice has had a transformative effect on EU Law, but not without controversy. This book explores these criticisms, asking if concerns over judicial activism, unconventional interpretative methods, conflicts with national courts and over-reach are justified. Drawing on the expertise of leading commentators in their sectors, its ambitious scope explores the question from across the spectrum of EU Law. Its analysis includes the political dimension, giving the fullest understanding of the environment in which the Court and its judgments have operated. An insightful, thought-provoking study of one of the world’s most important courts.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 352 pages

HB 9781509962815

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509962822 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509962839 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

The Market Citizenship Illusion Free Movement Rights for Atypical Workers

Alice Welsh, York Law School, UK

This open access book challenges the focus in EU citizenship scholarship which looks only at the economically active. Arguing that the vague EU concept of ‘work’ allows for its restricted application in Member States, it shows how many workers and economic contributors are left out of the free movement regime. It argues that, if EU free movement rights are awarded on the basis of market credentials, more must be done to ensure an inclusive market citizenship.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9781509966608 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966615 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509966622 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Article 47 of the EU Charter and Effective Judicial Protection, Volume 2

The National Courts’ Perspectives

Edited by Matteo Bonelli, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands & Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School, UK

This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes.

In the second volume an expert team explores how the national courts have applied Article 47 and the principle of effective judicial protection. It takes a comparative overview of the case law to assess the level of convergence (or divergence) of the national courts’ approaches. The questionnaire methodology allows for an accurate charting of national courts’ application of Article 47 at the domestic level.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 312 pages

PB 9781509948031 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509947997

ePub 9781509948000 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509948017 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

The European Ombudsman Investigated

From Old Battles to New Challenges

Edited by Deirdre Curtin, European University Institute, Italy, Tanja Ehnert, EU Ombudsman, France, Anna Morandini, European University Institute, Italy & Sarah Tas, European University Institute, Italy

This open access volume traces the evolution of the European Ombudsman over its first almost three decades. It focuses on the current challenges and future perspectives of this ever-innovative EU institution. Leading voices from academia, EU institutions, civil society, and the European Ombudsman’s office, highlight developments and future potential in several salient fields. These include data infrastructure and digital platforms over environmental protection and border protection agencies to revolving doors and industry lobbying.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European University Institute.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781509975600 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509975617 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509975624 • £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

Stronger Victims’ Rights in EU Law?

Assessment and Prospects

Edited by Julia Burchett, European Law Center, Belgium & Anne Weyembergh, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

This collection looks at the protection of victims’ rights in EU law. Taking a four-part approach, it firstly focuses on the Victims’ Right Directive and the proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women. It then explores victims’ rights in the national laws of the Member States, including France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania and Ireland. Finally it analyses the main challenges in the field and the need for coherence between the different competing interests.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 480 pages

HB 9781509975358 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509975365 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509975372 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Hart Studies in European Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

Ending Impunity for International Law Violations

Palestinian Bedouins and the Risk of Forced Displacement

Edited by Alice Panepinto, Queen’s University, Belfast, Bana Abu Zuluf, National University of Ireland, UK, Ahmad Amara, NYU Tel Aviv, USA, Brendan C Browne, Trinity College Dublin, UK, Munir Nuseibah, Al-Quds University, Palestine & Triestino Mariniello, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

This open access edited collection is the first book-length academic publication on the Palestinian Bedouins at risk of forced displacement in the Central West Bank and Greater Jerusalem area. It offers the broadest possible framework to answer two main questions; firstly, what are the humanitarian vulnerabilities they face and how are they produced/constructed? And secondly, how does protracted impunity for international law violations drive humanitarian protection risks for them?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509977208 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509977215 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509977222 £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

The Effectiveness of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights

The Case of Indigenous Territorial Rights

Gabriela CB Navarro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied. This book addresses this gap by exploring the Court and its cases from both the perspective of international law and the legal protection of indigenous territories. Setting out the network of actors and institutions involved in such litigation, it examines the motivations and constraints in domestic politics affecting international orders (and by extension the impact of the Court). It provides both an important statement on the effectiveness of international tribunals and a fascinating insight into the evolution of indigenous rights.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509979066 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509979073 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509979080 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Studies in International Law Hart Publishing

Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law

Tobias Wirthle, Münster University, Germany

This book makes a new contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights. Though now widely accepted, less attention has been paid to whether it is still valid. This book asks this question, assessing the traditional differentiation in the context of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It shows that these rights converge more than diverge and this accepted difference should be abandoned. Human rights lawyers, advocates, practitioners and policy makers will find this invaluable as it brings clarification to this key question.

UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781509982479 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509982486 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509982493 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective • Hart Publishing

Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Legal and Policy Perspectives

Edited by Ilias Trispiotis, University of Leeds, UK & Craig Purshouse, University of Liverpool, UK

This book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTIQ+ ‘conversion therapy’. Few states have legislated against LGBTIQ+ ‘conversion therapy’, with many currently considering its legal ban.

Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ brings together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of ‘conversion therapy’ in different contexts.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 432 pages

PB 9781509961191 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509961153

ePub 9781509961160 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509961177 £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

Edited by Victoria Barnes, Queen's University Belfast, UK, Nora Honkala, University of Reading, UK & Sally Wheeler, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women’s academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside.

The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women’s lives.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 320 pages

PB 9781509962129 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509962082

ePub 9781509962099 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509962105 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Free Global Cities

The Future Leaders in Migration and Public Governance

Edited by Christian H Kälin, Henley & Partners, UK

This collection sets out a radical solution to the current global refugees crisis; the construction of "Free Global Cities." It draws on the experience of experts who have long grappled with the issue: intellectuals, diplomats, lawyers, and entrepreneurs. Its broad interdisciplinary scope encompasses sustainable development; human rights; economics and finance; public policy; citizenship; migration and mobility; and health care, to support the "Free Global City" model. It provides a solution-focused response to arguably the world’s most pressing issue, setting out its legal and economic ramifications. Ambitious and practical, this is a thought-provoking treatise on a sometimes seemingly intractable challenge.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 624 pages

HB 9781509976416 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509976423 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509976430 £108.00 / $108.00

Hart Publishing

A Practitioner's Guide to the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent

Paul England, Taylor Wessing, London, UK

This book provides advice on all procedural aspects of the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system.

NEW TO THE 2ND EDITION: Additional chapters on the impact of the UPC and Unitary Patent on managing licences, and on confidentiality; coverage of the latest UPC guidance; references and case notes on every significant procedural case from the UPC divisions and the Court of Appeal; and coverage of every Rule of the Rules of Procedure.

The book is written by patent experts with hands-on experience of running cases in the UPC and is a must-read for private practitioners and in-house counsel.

UK April 2025

HB

ePdf

Copyright and Patent Laws for the Age of Artificial Intelligenceship and Inventorship Revisited

Eva Janecková, University of Bristol, UK

This book responds to the need to distinguish human creations from those produced by AI. It does so by tracing human attributes of authorship and inventorship in statutory requirements for protection and ownership in European copyright and patent laws.

This book guides authorities, practitioners, and students through the main arguments of the debate concerning copyright and patents for objects entirely or partly generated by AI. It also makes original contributions to advance the ongoing academic and policy debates on AI and intellectual property law.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509976232 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509976249 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf

A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law

Paul England, Taylor Wessing, London, UK

This new edition offers a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law.

This book uniquely addresses European patent law. Each chapter enables the common ground, and differences, between approaches to be assessed. In addition to featuring completely revised content on the fast-moving subject areas of FRAND and plausibility, and updates in all other areas of patent law, the 3rd edition includes for the first time fully integrated coverage of every substantive decision of the Unified Patent Court. A must-read for anyone working in the field of European patent law.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 720 pages

HB 9781509981144 • £190.00 / $260.00

ePub 9781509981151 • £171.00 / $232.19

ePdf 9781509981168 • £171.00 / $171.00

Hart Publishing

Copyright and Anonymity in the Creative User-Generated World

Rachel Maguire, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This book explores the relationship between copyright law, online anonymity, and creative usergenerated content (CUGC).

It evaluates the co-existence of copyright law and normative systems regulating a CUGC landscape made up of artists, photographers, and writers, and makes novel recommendations for copyright reform. It takes a multi-jurisdictional approach across Anglo-American and EU legal systems; qualitative findings are drawn from creators and communities on Reddit and 4chan.

This valuable resource for researchers and students provides a distinct perspective in framing CUGC creators as copyright holders, using original empirical research and examining online anonymity as a pivotal factor influencing regulation.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages

HB 9781509982325 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509982332 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509982349 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law

Patent Injunctions Before EU Courts and the UPC

Léon Dijkman, Rotterdam University, the Netherlands

Does a European patent always entitle its holder to a permanent injunction? This open access book presents a detailed, practical, and comprehensive test to determine when injunctive relief should be limited on proportionality grounds.

The book guides readers from proportionality's normative foundations to its practical applications; it is an invaluable resource for practitioners, clerks, and scholars looking not only for the normative, empirical, and legal basis of proportionality in European patent law, but also for guidance on its real-world operation.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9781509973668 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509973620

ePub 9781509973637 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509973644 £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

EU Global Value Chain Regulation

A Practical Guide

Josephine Norris, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This practical guide enables practitioners, compliance professionals, and anyone with an interest in the international dimension of supply chains to navigate the EU’s approach to regulating global value chains.

Written by a legal practitioner working for the European Commission, the book situates the EU’s approach to global value chain regulation in the framework of broader discussions on the complex interface between international trade law, international environmental law, and the UN sustainable development goals.

Structured as a contextualised, accessible guide, the book decodes the emerging EU regulatory landscape and offers a perspective on future developments in this legal field.

UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 512 pages

HB 9781509977550 £180.00 / $245.00

ePub 9781509977567 £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9781509977574 • £162.00 / $162.00

Hart Publishing

International Trade Law and Global Data Governance

Aligning Perspectives and Practices

Neha Mishra, Graduate Institute, Switzerland

This open access book examines how international trade agreements apply to domestic regulations on cross-border data flows and proposes a multilayered framework to align international trade law with evolving norms and practices in global data governance. As the book offers a broad perspective on the significance of digital trade rules in a datafied world, it will help its readers explore fresh avenues in the future development of digital trade rules.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781509961733 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509961696

ePub 9781509961702 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509961719 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law • Hart Publishing

Reforming Public Procurement Law

Liber Amicorum in Honour of Sue Arrowsmith

Edited by Annamaria La Chimia, University of Nottingham, UK & Martin Trybus, University of Birmingham, UK

This book honours the contribution of Sue Arrowsmith as the leading scholar in the field of public procurement law. Divided into 3 main parts – the UK, the EU, and the world – it focuses on central reform themes that have characterised the evolution of public procurement law and policy in the past decades. The chapters are written by experts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe with backgrounds in academia, legal practice, and international organisations. The reader is provided with a diverse set of insights into the objectives, approaches, priorities, and future direction of public procurement reform.

UK July 2024 • US July 2024 • 368 pages

HB 9781509967971 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509967988 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509968008 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Mandatory Sustainability Requirements in EU Public Procurement Law

Reflections on a Paradigm Shift

Edited by Willem Janssen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands & Roberto Caranta, University of Turin, Italy

This book provides the first comprehensive appraisal of the shift towards mandatory green and social requirements in EU public procurement law.

The chapters include novel sectoral studies on transport, food, clothing, and construction. Chapters on Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain offer case studies of Member States that have already introduced mandatory requirements and highlight lessons learnt. This is an essential book for professionals working with public procurement law in academia and practice, and to those engaged in achieving public policy objectives in light of climate change and social injustice.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9781509963997 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509963959

ePub 9781509963966 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509963973 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Artificial Intelligence and Public Law

Brendan McGurk KC, Monckton Chambers, UK & Joe Tomlinson, University of York, UK

Government's use of algorithmic-based decisionmaking is rapidly expanding across policy areas, including immigration, social security, regulation, security, and policing. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how public law applies to the use of artificial intelligence and automation in the public sector in England and Wales.

This book is a vital guide for practitioners in both private practice and government, and for anyone navigating this quickly changing, complex, and uncertain environment.

UK

HB 9781509966707 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781509966714 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781509966721 • £126.00 / $126.00

Hart Publishing

Big Data for the Public Good

Regulating Access to Public Sector Big Data for Research and Innovation

Stergios Aidinlis, Durham University, UK

Can researchers and innovators use UK public sector data to produce knowledge that improves policy making, scrutinises government work and promotes the public interest?

This book looks at interactions between UK public sector officials and researchers/innovators to shed light on barriers to data access and use. This book is for researchers and innovators who want to understand and overcome the barriers to accessing UK public sector data. It is also for policy makers who are interested in how the public sector data can be used to improve decision-making, scrutinise government work, and promote the public interest.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509973309 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509973316 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509973323 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Information Law and Regulation • Hart Publishing

Defaming the Freedom of Religion or Belief

A Historical and Conceptual Analysis of the United Nations

Mirjam Belkis van Schaik, Open University, the Netherlands

This book examines the evolution and controversies surrounding the formulation and interpretation of the freedom of religion or belief as a universal right within the United Nations. From legal and philosophical standpoints to the political dimensions of the subject, the book navigates through the complex terrain, shedding light on challenges to the universality and nondiscriminatory implementation of this fundamental freedom. Beyond theoretical and legal debates, the study reveals how actors within the United Nations have strategically 'defamed' the freedom of religion or belief, reshaping its interpretation away from its original 1948 objectives.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509980468 • £90.00 / $120.00

EU Platform Regulation A Handbook

Edited by Björn Steinrötter, University of Potsdam, Germany, Christian Heinze, RuprechtKarls-University Heidelberg, Germany & Michael Nikolaus Denga, Martin Luther University HalleWittenberg, Germany

The European Union has introduced key legislation to regulate online platforms: the Digital Services Act (DSA); the Digital Markets Act (DMA); and the Data Governance Act (DGA). This handbook examines the content of these new legal acts systematically. Its main focus is on the DSA and DMA, with a chapter dedicated to the platform-related aspects of the DGA. Under the editorial stewardship of recognised experts in the field, leading commentators provide authoritative and rigorous guidance to the new legislative environment for the digital space.

UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 512 pages

HB 9781509959792 • £160.00 / $220.00

Beck/Hart/Nomos

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Working Yet Poor

Challenges to EU Social Citizenship

Edited by Luca Ratti, University of Luxembourg & Paul Schoukens, KU Leuven, Belgium

This open access book explores the EU regulatory framework to measure in-work poverty and reduce its impact by linking the enhancement of social rights with the full realisation of EU citizenship entitlements and values.

Following an in-depth scrutiny of the main policy options to reduce the number of working poor, this invaluable resource provides a theoretical reflection on the role of legislation and socio-fiscal welfare in contemporary labour markets.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781509966585 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509966547

ePub 9781509966554 • £0.00 / $0.00

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Hart Publishing

The Heroes of the Judicial Periphery

Court Experts, Court Clerks, and Other Actors in

the Shadows

Edited by Alan Uzelac, Zagreb University, Croatia & Stefaan Voet, KU Leuven, Belgium

This book assesses the role of the clerks, advisors and expert witnesses and other important actors on the ‘judicial periphery’ who play an important role and often determine the pace, outcome, and tone of the judicial process.

It explores the particularly complex relationship which exists between litigation and court experts. Their knowledge and expertise may be indispensable at times, but it is among the most expensive, complicated and time-consuming means of evidence. The judges adjudicate, but where experts are involved in the process, they have a decisive impact on the outcome of litigation.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 352 pages

HB 9781509980529 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509980536 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509980543 • £90.00 / $90.00

Hart Publishing

100 Years of the Infanticide Act

Legacy, Impact and Future Directions

Edited by Karen Brennan, University of Essex, UK & Emma Milne, Durham University, UK

This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world.

The collection brings together leading experts in the field to offer important insights into the history of the law, how it works today, the impact and legacy of the statute and potential futures of infanticide laws around the world.

UK April 2025

• US April 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509961689 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509961641

ePub 9781509961658 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509961665 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

The Causes of War

Volume V: 1800-1850

Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato, New Zealand

This is the fifth volume in a series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer. While contextualised in the conflicts and patterns of the period, this work, as drawn directly from the treaties and the negotiations which led up to them, shows what made both war and peace. The period covered in this volume, 1800 to 1850, brings this series into the start of the modern world.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509961986 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509912407

ePub 9781509912384 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509912377 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Law and the Unity of Practical Reasoning

Edited by Diego Dei Vecchi, University of Girona, Spain, Sebastián Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, Pablo Rapetti, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico & María Cristina Redondo, University of Genoa, Italy

This book introduces the first systematic approach to the debate on the unity or fragmentation of practical reasoning and its profound implications for legal philosophy. Bringing together some of the foremost legal philosophers from the Hispanic-Latin world, the book presents a thoughtful dialogue with the Anglo-American literature, making it of interest to scholars from both cultural traditions. Although the topic is rarely discussed explicitly and systematically, it is pivotal to ongoing debates about legal normativity, the nature of law, legal authority, and the rationale behind legal decisions.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509981571 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509981564 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509981557 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

The Promise of Legality

Critical Reflections on the Work of TRS

Allan

Edited by Geneviève Cartier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada & Mark D Walters, Queen’s University, Canada

This book assembles critical contributions on the work of T.R.S. Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years. Allan’s scholarship is powerful yet controversial, and it inspired 20 leading scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to engage with the central themes of his work. By doing so, the contributors help to make that work accessible to a new generation of scholars and students, and provide a timely framework for engaging in the most important challenges facing our democracies today.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 480 pages

HB 9781509970957 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509970964 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509970971 £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

The Alexy-Poscher Debate on Legal Principles

Robert Alexy, Kiel University, Germany & Ralf Poscher, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, Germany

Edited by Rafael Giorgio Dalla-Barba, MaxPlanck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, Germany

This collective work provides a chronological and up-to-date reconstruction of the three-round legal debate between Robert Alexy and Ralf Poscher.

The debate represents the German development of an enduring jurisprudential controversy over distinguishing legal principles from legal rules, classically addressed by HLA Hart and Ronald Dworkin.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages

HB 9781509980611 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509980604 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509980598 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing World All Languages (except German)

Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 3 Legal Reasoning

Edited by Christoph Bezemek, University of Graz, Austria, Michael Potacs, University of Vienna, Austria & Alexander Somek, University of Vienna, Austria

This third volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series focuses on one of the most fiercely contested issues in contemporary legal philosophy, the question of the importance of legal reasoning and how to properly engage with it. It approaches the underlying problem from a variety of perspectives and against the backdrop of different academic traditions, showcasing how rich contemporary reasoning about legal reasoning is.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 336 pages

PB 9781509969838 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509969821

ePub 9781509969852 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509969845 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy Hart Publishing

The EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Comparative Commentary on the AVMSD and National Implementation

Edited by Mark D Cole, University of Luxembourg & Jenny Metzdorf, University of Luxembourg

This commentary sets out, article-by-article, the original provisions contained in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive before analysing domestic transpositions. National measures are grouped in order to reveal similarities and differences and examined for compliance with the Directive. This comparative perspective contributes to the discussions on reforms of the Directive or the EU’s approach to new media services.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 1008 pages

HB 9781849467858 £200.00 / $270.00

Beck/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Free Speech Theory A Radical Restatement

Paul Wragg, University of Leeds, UK

What does free speech mean? In this book, Paul Wragg argues for a universal formulation of free speech drawn exclusively from autonomy. He demonstrates that although the right has some applicability to the horizontal plane, it is more restrictive in some contexts, and more empowering in others, than the literature presently recognises.

This innovative, rigorously researched, and comprehensive restatement of the right to free speech is both topical and important. It is an invaluable resource for policy makers, practitioners, and commentators across the globe.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509958320 £44.99 / $60.95 HB 9781509958283 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509958290 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509958306 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Medical Decision-Making with Children and Young People

Rebecca Limb, University of Southampton, UK.

This book provides a timely and much-needed critical legal review of children’s participation in healthcare that goes beyond merely documenting the extent and scope of participation, and explores the importance, definition of, and barriers to their meaningful participation.

The book explores to what extent national law and international nonbinding conventions have created a ‘right’ to participation, studies the application of national law in clinical practice asking whether the law facilitates meaningful participation, and analyses the interaction between law and quasi-legal regulations. It will be useful for academics, children’s activists, and legal and clinical practitioners.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781509959969 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509959976 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959983 £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Not What The Bus Promised

Health Governance after Brexit

Tamara Hervey, City, University of London, UK, Ivanka Antova, Mark L Flear, Queen's University Belfast, UK & Matthew Wood, University of Sheffield, UK

This book explains the impacts of Brexit on the NHS. From staffing to biomedical research, the UK’s post-Brexit agreements have serious implications for health law. Drawing conversations and interviews with over 40 health policy stakeholders, their work with Parliaments across the UK, and collaborations with key actors like the NHS Confederation, the book puts the authors’ knowledge centre frame, rather than expressing ‘objective reality’. These conversations show a great deal of faith in law and legal process among ‘ordinary people’, but the opposite from ‘insider elites’. It will be of interest to any reader who cares about the NHS.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9781509951536 £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951499

ePub 9781509951505 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951512 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Law and Health • Hart Publishing

Choice of Forum Clauses in Asia

Lemuel D Lopez, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia

This book analyses the approaches taken by Asian courts when choice of forum clauses in international commercial contracts are challenged in litigation by comparing key common law, civil law, and hybrid jurisdictions.

The book investigates the factors courts consider in resolving key choice of forum clause issues and explores the prospects for future development of the law in Asia.

It not only highlights the unique approaches used by the Asian courts, but also emphasises the differences and similarities in the approaches between the common law, civil law, and hybrid jurisdictions.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 400 pages

PB 9781509967551 • £44.99 / $60.95 • HB 9781509967513 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509967520 • £40.49 / $55.34

ePdf 9781509967537 • £40.49 / $40.49

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

Manufacturing Sovereignty

International Law, Labour Struggle, and the Making of Iraq

Ali Hammoudi, University of Singapore

This book explores the legal and labour history of Hashemite Iraq to establish the role international law played in the formation of Iraq. It traces how international law impacts on the lives of Iraqis by looking at its influence on imperial law, land law, the transnational law of oil concessions and pipeline agreements and criminal law. Its case study approach covers the production and trade of oil and the operation of railways in Baghdad and Basra. This approach shows in a very real way how international law was the force for key employment practice developments in the emerging Iraqi state.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages

HB 9781509952878 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509952885 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509952892 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law • Hart Publishing World All Languages (except Arabic)

Tax, Public Finance, and the Rule of Law

Edited by Dominic de Cogan, University of Cambridge, UK, Alexis Brassey, University of Cambridge, UK & May Hen, University of Cambridge, UK

This book offers a key point of reference for reflective and thoughtful examinations of the rule of law in tax and related disciplines.

It features a stellar cast of established and early-career researchers from a variety of jurisdictions who have entered into conversations about the nature of the rule of law; its relevance to questions about tax, welfare, distribution and public spending; and the challenges involved in applying legal standards in these fields.

The book is accessible to those new to taxation and public finance as well as to experts, and to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781509977802 • £90.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509977833 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509977826 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

The

Irish

Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16, 2021-2022

Edited by Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Maynooth University, Ireland, James Gallen, Dublin City University, Ireland & Richard Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland

This new volume covers the years 2021 and 2022, including global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit fall-out, the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, a civil war in Ethiopia, protests in Iran, and Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Reports also cover topics on human rights in Ireland, the law of the sea, the exploitation of mineral resources of celestial bodies by private enterprises and the protection of the right to food. Additionally, the book includes four book reviews covering subjects such as international economic law, colonialism and the protection of animals in armed conflict.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509984329 • £195.00 / $265.00

ePub 9781509984336 £175.50 / $237.59

ePdf 9781509984343 £175.50 / $175.50

Series: Irish Yearbook of International Law Hart Publishing

The Law, Politics and Theory of Treaty Withdrawal

Frederick Cowell, Birkbeck College, UK

This book explores how the law of treaty withdrawal operates. In particular, it focuses on withdrawal clauses within multilateral treaties. It situates these clauses within the wider context of the international rule of law. It goes on to show that for such withdrawal clauses to work, States have to behave as rational actors, averse to damaging their reputation and be willing to accept the existence of a wider rule-bound framework.

Using insights from international relations and critical legal theory this book unpacks how and why the law of withdrawal operates and the forces that threaten its operation in the future.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781509970001 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509938568

ePub 9781509938575 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509938582 £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Careers in Library and Information Services

First-Hand Accounts from Working Professionals

Edited by Priscilla K. Shontz, Lone Star CollegeMontgomery, USA

Written in a conversational, candid tone, Careers in Library and Information Services collects first-hand accounts from workers who have earned a master’s of library science degree to help new LIS graduates understand their career options. Chapters, all snapshots of a particular career, are gathered into parts: the introduction is followed by careers in public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, special libraries, and careers outside of libraries. Each chapter author describes their typical duties, shares likes and dislikes, and offers advice for those wanting a job like theirs.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 392 pages

PB 9798216185758 • £43.99 / $59.95 • HB 9798216185864 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216185765 • £43.10 / $53.95

ePdf 9798216185772 • £43.10 / $43.10

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100 Glues, Brews, and Goos

Kid-Tested Activities That Stimulate Creativity and Critical Thinking

Diana F. Marks, Pennsylvania, USA

Illustrated by Donna L. Farrell

Never run out of activity ideas again with this book of 100 kid-tested, child-centered activities. Recipes and formulas work solo or in groups and fill rainy days with hands-on activities. Adults will appreciate their connection to broad areas of learning, including STEAM and the language arts. Recipes can travel the globe and be enjoyed by people from a variety of cultures and countries. And they won’t be outgrown—there’s plenty for children to create as they progress in both age and interests.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9798216190127 £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9798216190134 £21.55 / $26.95

ePdf 9798216190141 £21.55 / $21.55

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

The Future of Language

How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate

Philip Seargeant, The Open University, UK

Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants and computer-facilitated telepathy, language and communications expert Philip Seargeant surveys the development of new digital ‘languages’, such as emojis, animated gifs and memes, and investigates how conventions of spoken and written language are being modified by new trends in communication.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350538474 • £14.99 / $19.95

Previously published in HB 9781350278851

ePub 9781350278868 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350278875 • £18.00 / $18.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Future of Syntax

Asian Perspectives in an AI Age

Jieun Kiaer, University of Oxford, UK

Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more. The book explores in particular the socio-pragmatic sensitivity and complexity within East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, offering new insights that step away from traditional approaches to formal syntax.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 232 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9781350258303 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350258266

ePub 9781350258280 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350258273 • £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Academic

New Perspectives on Language Mobility

English on German Radio

Sarah Josefine Schaefer, University of Limerick, Ireland

Putting forward the need for a new perspective on language mobility, this book explores the dynamics of language usage in times of accelerated globalisation through examining the use of English on German radio morning shows. It provides insights into how the media operate within the global flows of messages that characterise modern mediated societies and highlights the impact of the diffusion of English and increased mobility on our perceptions of language and culture.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350293243 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350293205

ePub 9781350293229 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350293212 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes • Bloomsbury Academic

Translating Human Inner Life In and Between the Arts

A Semiotic Approach to the Emotions and the Process of Translation

Edited by Malgorzata Gamrat, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

This book examines how human inner life can be translated in different arts and between the arts. It shows the arts as a tool of communication using a wide array of case studies taken from different times and cultures. The methodological perspective is multidimensional covering translation studies and semiotics studies, as well as different arts’ fields – music, literature, film, visual arts, multimedia and video games. The book combines these approaches and tools for each field in order to create a new approach that permits an examination of the process of translation in various arts connected to human inner life.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350453258 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350453272 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350453265 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Music, Dance and Translation

Edited by Helen Julia Minors, York St John University, UK

Bringing together chapters that explore theory and practice, this book questions the process and role translation has to play in the context of music and dance. Unrestricted by genre, style or cultural location, it provides a range of case studies to think critically about the sound and movement arts of music and dance using translation as a model to better understand the collaboration of these art forms. It is the second volume to explore translation in relation to music, and the first to overtly tackle this topic in terms of dance.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 216 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350371606 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350175730

ePub 9781350175754 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350175747 £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Angela Carter's Futures Representations, Adaptations and Legacies

Edited by Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK & Anna Watz

This book explores Angela Carter’s creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories. Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter’s novels, her ‘posthuman politics’, and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter’s continuing relevance into the twentyfirst century. UK

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Bloomsbury Academic

James Joyce and Cultural Genetics

The Joycean Genome

Wim Van Mierlo

As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity. It examines Joyce's oeuvre, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake

Based on evidence from his personal library and the extensive archive of reading notes, ideas, sketches and drafts, this book investigates how Joyce used, absorbed and repurposed these materials creatively in his writing.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages • 4 b/w illus

PB 9781350418936 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350169883

ePub 9781350169906 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350169890 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Literatures as World Literature

Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA

Life Writing as World Literature

Edited by Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary's College of California, USA & Ioana Luca, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

We live in the age of popular self-representation where most people produce or consume autobiographical material, whether that be as memoirs, selfies, blogs, etc. This book is the first to investigate this global phenomenon in the context of world literature, examining how life writing and world literature converge. Experts from around the globe map regional and local autobiographical traditions, exploring the dynamic interplay between local and global aesthetics and sociopolitical concerns. Case studies include prison narratives from communist regimes, Japanese diaries, multilingual Caribbean memoirs, Indian auto/biographical comics, and stories by Taiwanese domestic workers.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9798765107119 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765107133 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765107140 • £94.20 / $94.20

Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Angela Carter's Pasts Allegories and Intertextualities

Edited by Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK & Anna Watz

This book offers a fresh look at Angela Carter’s critical and intertextual engagements with the past. Examining a broad range of Carter’s work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the essays in this collection explore a stimulating selection of topics, including folk song, medieval literature, magic realism, and the occult. Frequently drawing on newly available archival material, the volume lays out the ways in which Carter wove allusions into her own narratives, creating a lively and challenging dialogue with the cultural materials of the past and present.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9781350343511 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350343535 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350343528 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

American Indian Literature

An Encyclopedia for Students

Edited by Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe, University of Oklahoma, USA

American Indian literature is a varied and vibrant collection of Indigenous artistic expression. This encyclopedia introduces readers to the key historical and contemporary figures in American Indian literature and their defining works. From the fiery sermons of Methodist minister William Apess to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful novels of Louise Erdrich, this book illustrates the indelible and influential imprint American Indians have made on the landscape of American letters.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 432 pages

HB 9781440874956 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765112717 £72.64 / $90.00

ePdf 9781440874963 £72.64 / $72.64

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Edited by Sophie Esch, Rice University, USA

Both within Latin American literary and world literary production, Central American literature is often perceived as a marginal space. This collection seeks to challenge this notion and to position and discuss Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature. Its authors discuss poems, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. They explore the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the indigenous, Black, and migrant voices.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9781501391910 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501391873

ePub 9781501391880 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501391897 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Black Surrealist

The Legend of Ted Joans

Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, USA

Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own “poem-life.” Ted Joans (19282003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work. In the over 30 books of poetry and prose he published in his lifetime, Joans makes visible links among key artistic and political movements of the 20th century that are seldom discussed together: Surrealism, the Beat movement, Pan-Africanism, and Black Power. Drawing on interviews and deep archival research, this critical literary biography explores Joans’s life as told through these relationships and through his remarkable creative output, which often explored his life and its connections to wider aesthetic and political experiences of the 20th century. UK

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The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

Transnational Trajectories

Henrike Schmidt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany & Astrid Köhler, Queen Mary University of London, UK

This innovative open access book traces a transnational trajectory of the ‘literary spa’ from its rise in the Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Spa literature – and its iconic representation in works such as Walter Scott’s St. Ronan’s Well (1823), Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler (1866) or Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain (1924) – has already attracted due scholarly attention, with a focus on distinct national literatures. Contrary to this convention, The Health Resort in Modern European Literature maps spa literature and spa reading across and between several European locations and cultures, highlighting their various intertextual links and references, including hitherto less studied texts in, for example, Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Polish, Swedish or Ukrainian, and texts by female and male authors.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).

UK February 2025 US February 2025 304 pages 15 bw illus and 15 colour illus

HB 9781350377967 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350377998 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350377981 • £0.00 / $0.00

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New Directions in German Studies

Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Intertextual Exoticism

Oceania and Colonial Loss in Early Twentieth-Century German Literature

Richard Sperber, Carthage College, USA

Richard Sperber reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces. Through analyzing the nuances between narratives that make up these exotic texts, and also by comparing German exotic literatures about Oceania with other canonized adventure texts set in European colonies, such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sperber defines a genre of transnational and intertextual postwar literature that brings new perspectives on the conditions of colonial loss.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9798765135525 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765135495 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765135501 £94.20 / $94.20

Series: New Directions in German Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film

Edited by Sophie Duvernoy, Yale University, USA, Karsten Olson, North Carolina Asheville, USA & Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA

Since 2000, much attention has been paid to the increase in social precarity in Europe and the US. Phenomena of precarization (underemployment, indebtedness, deaths of despair) tend to be causally linked to the rise of neoliberalism as a strategy of governance that redistributes risk to the already vulnerable. This volume broadens the scope beyond this narrow definition of precarity, using Germany as a national case study, to examine the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 352 pages • 49 b&w images

PB 9781501391514 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501391477

ePub 9781501391484 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501391491 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

The "German Illusion"

Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA

As of January 2021, Hélène Cixous has published at least 1116 pages of texts related to “Germany.” These texts are written, in one way or another, under the name, under the signs or influence of “Germany,” “German,” “Osnabrück,” and read together they offer a unique literary meditation on the Holocaust. The study of Cixous’s “German trope” helps us refine our understanding of an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity’s genocidal history in a new way. It sheds light on under-researched dimensions of Cixous’s publications on gender while providing insights into a major creator of our time.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 288 pages 33 b&w illustrations

PB 9798765107386 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonizing Knowledge

Looking Back, Moving Forward

Edited by Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster, UK & Sunera Thobani, The University of British Columbia, Canada

This book reflects on texts from anti-colonial thinkers of the past – J.P.S. Uberoi, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James and Andaiye, among others – to draw out earlier generations' understandings of decolonization. Contributors writing from multiple disciplines provide key insights from their thinking and examine their relevance for contemporary struggles for racial, gender and class justice. These essays straddle a range of themes from theory and practice, art and literature, gender and identity, and political economy, to address a subject that is preoccupying academia and activists in the 21st century.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages

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Literature in Late Monolingualism

Literacies for the Linguacene

David Gramling, University of British Columbia, Canada

Monolingualism is bad, literature is good — right? Though an oversimplification, many of us do tend to quickly associate monolingualism with control, nationalism, indifference, and racist violence. In contrast, literature stands as a beacon for expansive human expression and experience, across Earth’s thousands of human languages. But what if this division of things leads us to underestimate the ongoing historical and aesthetic relationship between monolingualism and literature? What if novels made in a European mould tend to be much more obliged and indebted to monolingual structures than their publishers, and even their critics, acknowledge? Instead of whistling past this inconvenience, Literature in Late Monolingualism recognizes it squarely—and details how many authors of contemporary novels do so too.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9798765113912 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9798765113929 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Reading Kafka in Prague

On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent

Veronika Tuckerová, Harvard University, USA

The first book on the reception of Kafka in Czechoslovakia offers a contextualized understanding of the writer by focusing on the period from his death through the end of Communism. Using a broad comparative framework with a focus on translation and intercultural transmission, as well as archival materials and interviews, this book shows definitively how Kafka shaped the lives and work of his Czech readers, including inner-circle Communists, scholars, artists, and disaffected emigrés. Looking at five distinct movements in the reading of Kafka's work in 20th-century Czech lands, this previously unknown story grants 21st-century readers new insights into his oeuvre.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 304 pages • 5 b&w photographs

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Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Czech)

Unfaithful

A Translator's Memoir

Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine – winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation – establishes a new way of writing about a translator’s life. Levine analyses how her openness to new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Levine fleshes out the embodied nature of translation in provocative detail, with humor and style.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages

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Series: Translated By Bloomsbury Academic

Bandwidths

Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart

Edited by David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

Critical luminaries from the fields of literary and film studies assess the methods and scope of Garrett Stewart’s career-long work across the fields of literary history and poetics, cinema and media studies. Essays analyze directly, or extrapolate from, Stewart’s evolving methodology: a “signature” analytic intensity tested in its yield on interpretive challenges from literary prose and art history through cinema theory and screen stardom. Bandwidths accompanies a companion volume, Attention Spans—Stewart’s “autobiographical,” or better, autophilosophical chronicle of method and evolution. Contributors to Bandwidths either address Stewart’s aims and achievements directly or build implicitly on them in fresh investigations of their own.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9798765112991 • £90.00 / $120.00

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The Rise of Office Literature

Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810-1900

Daniel Jenkin-Smith, Aston University, UK

Romantics, satirists, journalists, novelists, feminists, radicals, conservatives, Naturalists and Decadents: a whole slew of French and British writers from across the 19th century were obsessed with offices. A cloistered world of mind-numbing, repetitive labour, the office was also, somehow, a key component of emergent modern society – a contradiction that enthralled and confounded readers, writers and office workers alike. This book explores the changing portrayal of office life as the history of a ‘forgotten genre’, asserting that ‘office literature’ is an essential tool for understanding the interrelation of aesthetic, social, technological, and ideological change across the 19th century.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 4 b&w illustrations

HB 9798765104774 • £90.00 / $120.00

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When Criticism Goes to War Njegos, Andric and Their Detractors

Zoran Milutinovic, University College London, UK

A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Petar Petrovic Njegos and Ivo Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period and the widespread Bosniak nationalist discourse surrounding their works. This open access book interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature and asks difficult questions about the relationship between literature, history, politics and ethics: Does representing something in fiction mean endorsing it? Should fiction be used to rewrite history?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9798765133811 • £65.00 / $90.00

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The Ego Made Manifest

Max Stirner, Egoism, and

the Modern Manifesto

Wayne Bradshaw, Research Associate, James Cook University, Australia,

Though long regarded as an unimportant figure from the fringes of 19th-century German idealism, this book argues that many of the accepted truisms about Max Stirner and his reception are false, and that his contribution to modernist and avant-garde manifesto-writing traditions has been all but ignored. It documents the trajectory of Stirner’s reception from the mid-19th century to his rediscovery by readers almost 50 years later, from his popularity among manifesto writers in fin de siècle France to the birth of Italian Futurism and how, in an age of extremism, Stirner’s ideas continue to haunt the modern mind.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages

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Love and Russian Literature From Benjamin to Woolf

Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia, Canada

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira B. Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages

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Rhythm in Modern Poetry

An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies

Eva Lilja, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (emerita)

Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on modern free verse. Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter investigates the rhythms of one modern poem, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath and others, and engages each element in the broader interpretation of the poem in question.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages

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Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts • Bloomsbury Academic

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

Paul Tenngart, Lund University, Sweden

Few would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? This book argues that the prize sometimes reinforces the hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures and sometimes disturbs the established pattern of dominance. Exploring the history and impact of the prize in literature from the first award through recent controversies – Bob Dylan and #MeToo – it shows that the Nobel Prize is a performative act central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages

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Alchemies of Blood and AfroDiasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community. In thinking through conceptions of race, ethnicity, and materiality at work within both humanities research and popular culture, Nicole Simek asks how the figure of alchemy – that semi-scientific, semi-mystical search for gold and the elixir of long life – can help scholars address the epistemological and affective investments in blood, bloodlines, and genetics marking both academic and mainstream discourses.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

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The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Browning, Eliot, Wilde

Natalie Roxburgh, University of Hamburg, Germany

This book historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues that certain literary texts developed to respond to the way all interests are transformed into economic interests in this period, and the implications for aesthetics and aesthetic autonomy. Reading canonical authors, Browning, Eliot and Wilde, through disinterestedness sheds new light on literary value and the formal techniques seen as important by the end of the 19th century, just as liberal democracy took hold in Britain.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9798765134986 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Mahakavi K. V. Simon

The Milton of the East Varghese Mathai, Judson University, USA

When South Indian poet laureate (or mahakavi) K. V. Simon's 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, a poetic rendition of The Book of Genesis, appeared in the Malayalam language of the Malabar coast in 1934, reviews in The Guardian hailed the 34-year old Simon as “India’s Milton.” Like Milton, Simon was a polymath, a poet, a theologian, and an educator. Like Milton, he also wrote prose and verse with equal ease, swiftness, and gravity. This book offers a critical biography, study, and sample translations of the epic, along with Simon's hymns, didactic verse, narratives, and other writings.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages 10 bw illus

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Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

Agata Szczeszak-Brewer, Wabash College, USA

Staging a vital counter-narrative to global nationalist discourses, this book explores how 20th and 21st-century postcolonial literatures criticize hetero-normative definitions of nationhood, weaving a trans-national and trans-Atlantic network of influences despite the pronounced geopolitical and cultural differences. With wide geographical scope and a comparative approach, Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence, sexual aggression and gender-nonconforming characters in nationalist narratives from Ireland, the U.S, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa and Senegal, in the work of writers such as James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, JM Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe, David Diop.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350323339 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350323353 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350323346 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Alice Munro's Late Style

'Writing is the Final Thing'

Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University, USA Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro’s art - an art that Robert McGill has called “one of return and revision." Such an approach has been evident throughout her career but reached an apogee in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). These three last books serve as a coda to both Munro’s late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages

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Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Janet Harbord, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 144 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350345058 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350345065 • £45.00 / $61.00

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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Literature and Chronic Pain

Josie Billington

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve.

Based on unique empirical research with people who are living with chronic pain, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the value of literature and literary reading both as a discourse for understanding pain and as an intervention in its treatment.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350270251 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350270213 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Domestic Spaces, Neighbourhoods and Global Real Estate

James Peacock, Keele University, UK

The first scholarly book to focus on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India. Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350295971 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Literature and the Telephone

Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

Sarah Jackson

Taking the ‘question of literature’ as its starting point, this open access book addresses the telephone’s propensity to mediate but also to interrupt communication, as well as the ways in which it taps into some of the most urgent concerns of the modern and contemporary age, including surveillance, mobility, globalization and the ethics of answerability. In so doing, it provides a fascinating look at how the telephone has been shaping literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the present.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nottingham Trent University.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 248 pages 10 bw illus

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Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

Thinking with Embodied Estrangement

Kaisa Kortekallio, University of Helsinki, Finland

Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields - feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies - this book offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative.

UK June 2025

• US June 2025 • 232 pages

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Series: Posthumanism in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Materiality, Agency and Narrative

Danielle Mariann Dove, University of Surrey, UK

The first full-length study of neo-Victorian fiction through the lens of dress, fashion, and im/ materiality, this book traces the imaginative and narrative extensions of Victorian women’s clothing in contemporary historical fiction. Interrogating how and why material forms of dress manifest themselves through tropes of immateriality, of haunting and spectrality, Danielle Dove explores the way in which fictional renderings of 19th-century clothes permit modern-day readers a way of accessing past bodies. The book demonstrates that the uncanny agency that exudes from these articles of dress testifies to the contemporary desire to reconnect with the Victorian past.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 210 pages • 8 bw illus

PB 9781350294721 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Academic

Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Mantra Mukim, CY Cergy Paris Université, France

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett’s poetry, this book demonstrates how Beckett’s poetry reconfigures lyrical language to mark the emergence of an anti-expressive poetics. Giving an in-depth view of Beckett’s poetry beyond the usual comparisons with his prose and drama, it also offers an understanding of failure as a productive force that shapes literary form.

UK March 2025 US March 2025 272 pages

HB 9781350464186 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic

Faulkner’s Fashion

Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Christopher Rieger, Independent Scholar, USA

Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner’s fiction. This book analyzes the writer’s use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner’s novels and short stories. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 184 pages • 15-20 B&W photographs

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Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

Paul Ardoin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA & S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA & Laci Mattison, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

Edited by James Martell, Lyon College,

USA

From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade’s influence and impact in modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure. Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism presents its readers with a chance to reflect on the importance of this radical oeuvre from different perspectives. Contributors examine Sadean literature and thought through some of its main texts in a series of comparative essays not only examining Sade’s influence in French, European, and American thought, but also criticizing it in the context of some of modern philosophy’s most relevant subjects.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 384 pages

HB 9798765109151 £95.00 / $130.00

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Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Philippe Birgy, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

This edited volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian criticism, and in doing so offers a rounded and up-to-date example of the application of Bakhtinian theory to a field of research. The contributors consider the global spread of modernism and the variety of its manifestations as well as modernism’s relationship to popular culture and its collective elaboration, which are dominant concerns in Bakhtin’s thinking.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages

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Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Children’s Literatures, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene

Multidisciplinary Entanglements

Edited by Terri Doughty, Vancouver Island University, Canada, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland & Janet Grafton, Vancouver Island University, Canada

This open access book explores how children’s literature and cultures allow them to navigate environmental crises. With chapters from global researchers working in literary, cultural, childhood and education studies, it provides multidisciplinary perspectives on, and models for, how children might embrace hope over fear. It examines various forms of storytelling, learning, thinking, and teaching, asking what children can learn from each other, from intergenerational and interspecies engagement and from human and more-than-human teachers.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Wroclaw University, Poland

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350509979 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Waking to Nature with Thoreau and Benjamin

Or, Psychopolitical

Ecology

Rod Giblett, Deakin University, Australia

What do two white men born in the 19th century have to say that could be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially on waking up and critiquing anti-woke ideology on the topics of nature, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, and industrial capitalism and its technologies. As Giblett shows, Henry David Thoreau – an inspiration for William Melvin Kelley’s writing on ‘staying woke’ – and Walter Benjamin provide tools of critique for waking to sexism, racism and placism.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9798765129289 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel

Hilary Thompson, Bowdoin College, USA

Engaging contemporary Anglophone literature from the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works invoke spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings such as positive forces that present visions of the Earth as agentive and animate. Rejecting notions that these are uncanny hauntings or products of an exotic East or global South, this book builds a critical framework for analysing worldly spirits that draws upon anthropological discussions of animism, the art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals’ diverse perceptual worlds. A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles conceptualizations of Anglophone and Anthropocene literatures.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 240 pages

PB 9781350373853 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

Lisa Sainsbury, University of Roehampton, UK

British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses

Catherine Butler, Cardiff University, UK.

The first comprehensive study to explore the engagement of the Japanese with British children's literature, this considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Tom's Midnight Garden, the Harry Potter series, the imagery of Thomas the Tank Engine and the characters of Beatrix Potter, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children’s books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 232 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350511903 £21.99 / $29.95

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ePdf 9781350195486 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature Speculative Entanglements

Chloe Germaine, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Following the ‘material turn’ in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children’s fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of ‘entanglement’, which originated in twentieth-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. In doing so, it helps us to imagine an as-yetunrealised future that addresses the problems of our present.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350417274 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature Bloomsbury Academic

Fantasy A Short History

Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway University, UK

A comprehensive but concise history of fantasy literature, this book traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the genre across literature, art and media today. Pinning its evolution on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and the emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity – Adam Roberts explores the global dissemination and diversity of 21st-century fantasy in this accessible and dynamic history, covering such phenomena as Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and fantasy videogames.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 304 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic

Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage

Spying Undercover(s)

Edited by Ann Rea, University of Pittsburg at Johnstown, USA

A re-evaluation of spy fiction that sheds light on how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality in the period preceding and following WWII, this book moves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre, offering an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across the canon. Taking stock of spy fiction written by women, female protagonists written by men, and probing the representations of masculinity generated by male authors, this book analyses novels by Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Helen MacInnes, Nancy Mitford, Christopher Isherwood and Mick Herron.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic

Perspectives on Fantasy

Matthew Sangster, University of Glasgow, UK & Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow, UK & Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA

Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder

Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA & Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg, Canada

This open access book explores how and to what extent fairy tales and their modern adaptations from literature, film and television are put to work for justice in the areas ecology, kinship, disability, space and place, and gender. Guided by theorizing across fields from ecology to gender studies, it interrogates a range of international works such The Magic Fish, Paddington, Babine, The Shape of Water and The Dragon Prince

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and The University of Winnipeg, Canada.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 232 pages • 15 bw illus

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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

Power and Society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

Building a Fantasy Civilization

Edited by Justine Breton, Reims University, France

A critical deep-dive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism. Surveying the Discworld’s institutionalised power structures, it explores ideas such as language, translation, humour, crowds, community, justice and coercion in novels including Arms, Equal Rites, Carpe Jugulum, Guards! Guards!, Jingo, Night Watch, Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad and more.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 240 pages • 5 bw illus

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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion

Speculative Writing

in Colonial India

Mayurika Chakravorty, Carleton University, Canada

Focusing on colonial Indian Fantasy texts from the late 19th to early 20th century, this book explores the origins, motivations, nature and role of speculative writing around the period of Indian independence. It examines the works of authors Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay, Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and Sukumar Ray to show how their writing offered commentaries on the colonial situation whilst grappling with questions surrounding science, progress, the environment, ethics and morality. Focusing on key works influenced by European, Persian, classical Sanskrit and local folk traditions, we see how speculative writers challenged the dominant literary tropes of both colonial and revivalist classicism.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History

William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK

William S. Allen sets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of history in Western thought reveals new ways of thinking about history and historically. This book traces how Adorno's reconsideration of history through his readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement are distinct from formulations offered by other thinkers. More than any of them though, Adorno's aesthetics has introduced an alternative thought, which, Allen shows, has been modified and extended in the work of Peter Weiss and other contemporary thinkers.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic

Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

Reconsidering

Colonial Modernity

Ashokan Nambiar C., Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

The book provides a new historical account for the emergence of the early Malayalam novel—which enables a reconceptualisation of colonial modernity—by placing it in the context of the larger print culture of late nineteenth-century Kerala. It offers new ways to understand the widely prevalent notion of ‘Kerala navodhanam’ (Kerala renaissance), understood conceptually as ‘modernity’. It aims to change conceptions about the early novels and the formation of modernity in Kerala and shows new ways to look at contemporary social, political and cultural issues.

UK January 2025 • US March 2025 • 172 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Redemptive Hybridism in PostPostmodern Writing

Tasha Haines, Independent Scholar, New Zealand

Tasha Haines investigates and defines Redemptive Hybridism in post-postmodern writing – a paradigmatic shift characterized by possibility.

In textual production of the 21st century, Haines argues, postmodern elitism gives way to the reparative blending of high-low forms and genre collaborations. Combining an innovative investigation with auto-theoretical strategies, Haines offers new interpretations of texts belonging to ‘the modernisms continuum’ – from Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond. She responds to the hybrid-and-creative theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Hassan and others, arriving at a new way of viewing works that exemplify the liminal space of possibility, self-expression and genre blending.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 168 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic

Posthumanism and India A Critical Cartography

Edited by Debashish Banerji, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA, Md. Monirul Islam, Presidency University, Kolkata & Samrat Sengupta, Sammilani Mahaviyalaya, Kolkata

The editors of this volume opine that the discourse of posthumanism in India warrants urgent consideration, if we are to adequately address both national and global emergencies and look for solutions that India may be in a unique position to offer. Essays in the volume are by scholars in the area dealing with representative directions relating to posthumanism in India. These are divided into five areas of cultural relevance —internal selves and others; technology, normativity and ethics; human and animal; bodies and their discards; becoming-cosmos. Together they form the beginnings of an approach to a critical cartography of posthumanism as it pertains specifically to India.

UK January 2025 • US March 2025 • 320 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Edited by Ritwick Bhattacharjee & Srinjoyee Dutta

The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones.

UK May 2025 US July 2025 320 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Representing the New AI in Film and Television

Graham Allen, University College Cork, Cork

This book explores a phenomenon which it calls the new A.I. cinema and television, arguing that since the mid-2010s a distinctly new phase in the representation of A.I. has occurred. Discussing films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell alongside television series such as Westworld and Humans it argues that they have moved away from apocalyptic scenarios towards questions of personhood, consciousness, and social inclusion and exclusion. In doing so, it intervenes in some of today's most pressing debates, including gender representation, A.I. ethics, climate catastrophe, and the rights of artificially intelligent beings.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Bloomsbury Academic

Psychoanalytic Horizons

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Edited by Jeremy Tambling, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these have generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature’s influence from psychoanalysis.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 560 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9781350287334 £39.99 / $54.95

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Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Hilary Neroni, University of Vermont, USA & Esther Rashkin, University of Utah, USA & Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida, USA

Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition

Augustine to Milton

Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida, USA

Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L. Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Milton’s major poems. Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the “latent content” of the Fall, Rudnytsky at once respects the explanatory power of these master-myths while he interrogates their claims to universality. Rudnytsky’s synthesis of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism sheds new light on old masterpieces even as it reveals the contours of an entire corpus, and he demonstrates the potentialities of psychoanalytic approaches to literature.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages

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Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic

The Ethics of Immediacy

Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty

Jeffrey McCurry, Duquesne University, USA

Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the farreaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy. During the first half of the twentieth century, a profound transformation took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves. A newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged. With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud’s ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

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Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons Bloomsbury Academic

Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World

Edited by Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK

This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines – including archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history – to examine Iran’s political and commercial relations with the Indian Ocean world in history, Persian-speaking communities in the Indian Ocean world, Persian(ate) elements in Indian Ocean languages and literatures, Persian texts dealing with the Indian Ocean, and connections in material culture.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 376 pages

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Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I.B. Tauris

Labour History and the Economy in Iran

Workers, Entrepreneurs, and the State

Edited by Mary Yoshinari & Serhan Afacan

This book presents a multifaceted view of Iran’s economic development and the people who made it possible, from the late Qajar period to the revolution of 1979. Containing innovative scholarly research across a wide spectrum of historical viewpoints and methodologies, the book brings to light a number of new findings using a body of largely unknown research from Iranian archives. It examines economic and labour history together, covering topics such as the private sector, family business and worker histories, and events in the provinces.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages

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I.B. Tauris

The Lion and the Sun

Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran.

James M. Gustafson

This book explores this critical transitional period in Eurasian history from an environmental perspective. It argues that severe ecological challenges dating to the late 17th century, and deepening over the post-Safavid crisis of the 18th century, drove a severe decline in the demography and resource base on the Iranian plateau. This in turn gave rise to the perennially troubled Qajar period in the 19th century.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780755634842

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I.B. Tauris

Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey

Gender, State and Development

Kübra Zeynep Sariaslan, University of Cambridge, UK

This open access book offers an ethnographically grounded and feminist analysis of Turkey’s stateled development projects implemented to empower women in the Southeast Anatolia Region. The book shows that everyday barriers in Turkey’s ‘gendered regime’ still impede women’s potential and that the state’s large-scale regional development project, the ‘Southeast Anatolia Project’, is ultimately the major priority for the country and facilitates women’s structural exclusion.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages

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I.B. Tauris

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty

Malissa Taylor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Published in association with the British Institute at Ankara.

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the early modern jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages

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Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World • I.B. Tauris

Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World

Bedross Der

Matossian,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

The Agony of a People

Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide

Zabel Yesayan

Translated by Arakel Minassian

Haig Toroyan’s account of his journey from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir in modern-day southeastern Turkey) along the Euphrates River to Mesopotamia and Iran is a unique and hauntingly detailed account of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, translated into English for the first time.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 224 pages • 2 bw illus

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

Ararat in America

Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology, USA

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community navigated its identity as an ethnic minority while ‘assimilating’ to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group’s population. It explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and shows that, rather than simply acting as an impediment to Armenian unity, it played a role in keeping certain community institutions alive. He analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9780755648856 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World

Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War

An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents

Talin Suciyan

A reader of newly unearthed archival documents made by the Soviet consulate in 1940’s Turkey. These primary sources include consular correspondence, demographic information, a review of Turkish and Armenian press, and most importantly oral testimony of Armenian survivors of the 1915 genocide living in both Istanbul and the provinces sharing their stories while seeking to emigrate to Soviet Armenia. Includes a critical introduction and the original Russian language sources in an appendix.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 184 pages

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

The Armenian Women's Movement in the Late Ottoman Empire Modernity, Nationalism and Gender

Hasmik Khalapyan

This book analyses the history of the women’s movement among Ottoman Armenians. Examining debates on the role of women in the Armenian context, Armenian women’s access to education, work and marriage rights, it reveals how women were empowered by nationalist discourses and the wider movement for reform in the empire, and the ways these limited or broadened women’s activism. Drawing from a wide array of archival primary source material, it provides a comprehensive analysis of changes to the socio-economic, political, cultural status of Ottoman Armenian women from end of the Tanzimat period to the outbreak of World War I.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9780755652846 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World I.B. Tauris

Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia

Gender, Identity, and Painful Belonging

Anahid Matossian, Marine Corps University, USA

This book traces the experiences of SyrianArmenian women refugees in Armenia as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted ‘homeland’ to their socially constructed new ‘ancestral’ home. The rich ethnographic research conducted over 6 years by the author reveals how women adjusted to new lives in Armenia, supported themselves through gendered work such as embroidery production, yet mostly challenge simple identities such as ‘refugee’ or ‘repatriate’. It further reveals crucial insight into how experiences and traumatic memories of war in Syria and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reciprocally shape each other in the minds of the women interviewed.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9780755648467 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party

Politics, Ideology and Transnational History

Edited by Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Divided into sections which cover the origins, ideology, and regional history of the revolutionary Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, this book situates the history of the Hnchaks within debates around socialism, populism, and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The SDHP was not only an Armenian party but had a global Marxist outlook, and scholars in this volume bring to bear expertise in a wide range of histories and languages including Russian, Turkish, Persian and Latin American to trace the emergence and role this influential party played from their split with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the events of the Armenian genocide to the formation of the first Armenian Republic and then Soviet Armenia.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages

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Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

Tunisia Under Ben Ali A History of an Authoritarian Regime, 1987-2011

Daniel Zisenwine

Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall. Zisenwine offers an analysis of this authoritarian regime from its early days, to the attempts in the 2000s to reform economically and the societal discontent that eventually led to the 2011 protests. This book is vital for those researching the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for those interested in the anatomy of authoritarian regimes and their downfall.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781784531850 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781786726285 • £76.50 / $103.94

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I.B. Tauris

Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers

Pathways of Activism after 2013

Doha Abdelgawad

The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led to hundreds of members being imprisoned or killed after 2013. This book examines the reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood’s young members to the MB’s political failure. While much attention has been given to how young Islamists were radicalized, this book is the first to also examine and give voice to Islamists’ political disengagement. The book is based on interviews with 48 MB members aged 18 – 35. The research reveals the multiplicity of personal, societal and political factors that determine members’ very different actions, motivations and ideas.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 232 pages

HB 9780755650484 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series I.B. Tauris

Art, Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora

Intellectual and Cultural Production in Europe

Özlem Belçim Galip

This book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Using in-depth interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, Ozlem Galip examines how artistic, literary and cultural productions, incorporating the fields of film, theatre and music, are articulated within the structures of nation states, leading to the interrogation of the impact of western and local knowledge, patriarchy, the nation-state and globalisation. Galip also analyses how European policies affect the development of cultural engagement of Kurdish migrant women, and how such engagements help these women to integrate into European society.

UK September 2024 US September 2024 264 pages

HB 9780755650583 £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Kurdish Studies • I.B. Tauris

The Kakais of Iraq History, Beliefs and Culture

Maria Rita Corticelli, International University of Erbil, Iraq

Yarsans, known in Iraq as the ‘Kakais’, are a Kurdish speaking indigenous population who originated from the Zagros Mountains in today’s Northern Iraq. Persecuted throughout history, they are still under threat of disappearing. This book documents Yarsan history, religion and culture through historical research, interviews and in-depth fieldwork. It is the first book written by a member of the community, who has rare access to their sacred texts. The first-hand testimonies of dervishes and other Kakai members sheds light on this little-known community for a global readership.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 208 pages 30 b&w illus.

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I.B. Tauris

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire

Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098

Toby Bromige, City University of London, UK

This book investigates the relationship between Armenians and the Byzantine Empire, arguing that up until the eleventh century migrants of Armenian background were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, recognized fully as Romaioi (Byzantine Romans). It uses the extant sources from a number of traditions and material culture in a chronological approach to reveal issues of migration, religion, ethnic stereotypes, and cultural assimilation, bringing to life the experiences of Medieval Armenians in the Empire, including their ultimate alienation at the onset of the Turkic migration to Anatolia.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9780755642465 • £28.99 / $39.95

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I.B. Tauris

Theodore Metochites

Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium

Ioannis Polemis, University of Athens, Greece

In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Byzantine statesmen and philosopher Theodore Metochites’ oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of ‘logos’. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire’s most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 216 pages

PB 9780755651399 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: New Directions in Byzantine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan

Government and Diplomacy by Sir Henry Dobbs at the Apex of Empire

Ann Wilks

While little known today, Henry Dobbs was a key architect of the treaties that secured British India’s borders with restive Afghanistan and the Mandatory Iraq. This book brings Dobbs’s role in these events at the apex of the British Empire to light, drawing on previously untapped sources made up of Dobbs’ private records and letters and official sources to do so. Revealed are Dobbs’s interactions with other members of the colonial administration and its advisors, including Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell, combined with the personal reflections of a ‘man on the spot’ which show the contingency that attended the twilight decades of the British Empire.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 208 pages

PB 9780755651283 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9780755651306 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755651313 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Sufis in Medieval Baghdad

Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate

Atta Muhammad, Talim-ul-Islam College, Pakistan

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258, arguing that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor, revealing the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9780755647620 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755647583

ePub 9780755647606 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755647590 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East A Reappraisal

Liora Lukitz

A nuanced re-evaluation of Gertrude Bell’s legacy in the Middle East. Examining Bell’s published and unpublished correspondence, diaries, books and official documents, the book charts Bell’s evolution from an explorer and travel writer to an influential policymaker in the creation of Iraq. It reappraises Bells motivations, complicating perceptions of an Orientalist agent of the British Empire and examining the legacy of her views and actions on contemporary Iraq.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9780755655496 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755655519 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755655526 £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

The Damascus Seat of Power

Syria’s Heads of State, 1918-1946

Sami Moubayed

Here, renowned Syrian historian, Sami Moubayed, examines Syria’s first eleven heads of state who led the country between 1918 and 1946. With a chapter dedicated to each leader, Moubayed sheds light on the political culture of the time and traces the trajectory of how Syria was governed through colonialism, monarchism and federalism and republicanism. The study draws on numerous archives, political memoirs and first-hand interviews with key figures who were active between the 1930’s and 1950’s, providing a rich picture of Syrian political culture during this forgotten period.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9780755649174 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755649198

ePub 9780755649211 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755649181 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

The Banquet of the Brethren: An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics

Part 1 A Persian critical edition of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan

Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. The Ismaili missionary (da'i), and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 462), wrote Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) when he was living in his remote mountain refuge of Yumgan in Badakhshan. As well as being an important example of Ismaili theology, Khwan al-ikhwan is also a reflection of the learning of the age, including the conception of a geo-centric cosmos, Aristotelian physics, and Neoplatonic philosophy, which greatly influenced the Ismaili da'is of the Iranian lands.

UK October 2024 US December 2024 616 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9780755653911 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9780755653928 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9780755653935 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9780755653942 • £26.99 / $26.99

Series: Ismaili Texts and Translations • I.B. Tauris World English

Secular Muslim Feminism

An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas

Hind Elhinnawy, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Secular Muslim feminists are involved in challenging Islamic fundamentalism and gender inequalities from within non-religious frameworks. They emphasise the indispensable role of secularism and secular spaces to ensure equality for all. Drawing on the author’s 15 years of feminist activism, observations and conversations with founders and leaders of various organisations, this book examines secular Muslim feminists’ voices and ideas. The book is also based on their works, writings and public speeches. The author suggests that by recognising these women, and engaging with their diverse aspirations, a new path for Muslim women’s rights and Islam can be seen.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9780755649341 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780755649303 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780755649327 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780755649310 • £19.79 / $19.79

I.B. Tauris

Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks

Sharing Poetry’s

Pleasures

Edited by Heidi Pauwels & Purnima Dhawan, University of Washington, USA

Placing the earliest Urdu poets and their craft in the lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines, and courts of eighteenth century South Asia, this book reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse contexts from which it emerged. Dhawan and Pauwels re-examine the long-dominant mischaracterization of Urdu as an elite language of South Asian Muslims by analysing the poetic biographies of Vali Dakhani and his contemporaries Fa’iz, Abru and Hatim. The authors reveal how selective attention to a handful of poets and rarefied courtly texts obscured the much more diverse roots of an important vernacular tradition, thereby reconstructing a lost literary network of speakers, poets and participants in Urdu’s past.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780755650057 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755650071 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755650064 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Library of Islamic South Asia I.B. Tauris

The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers

Politics in the Caspian Provinces

Miklós Sárközy

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region. This is where religious leader, Hasan-i Sabbah, famously founded the medieval Nizari Isma’ili state. Miklos Sarkozy presents here a fresh investigation of this period through a detailed examination of the regional Caspian histories across the turbulent 10th and early 11th centuries. His analysis sheds light on how the Nizari Ismailis were able to survive and flourish through difficult times and establish themselves as a vital polity of the Muslim world.

UK October 2024 • US December 2024 • 256 pages

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ePub 9780755656691 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9780755656707 £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Ismaili Heritage • I.B. Tauris World English

Sufism and Zen in the West

The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice

Edited by Saeko Yazaki & Michael Conway

In this book, scholars analyse the ways in which Sufism and Zen were introduced to and developed in the West. The collection shows that the popularity of these religions arose not because of the substantive shared elements within the two traditions, but because their promoters in the West employed similar strategies to respond to the interests of a modern, Western audience.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages

HB 9781838602352 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781838602376 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781838602383 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate

Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature

Letizia Osti, University of Milan, Italy

Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs.

In addition to his work as observer of the court, he is perhaps best known for his poetry - which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature - historiographical insight and skill as a chess player. Letizia Osti here provides the first full-length English-language study devoted to al-Suli. In so doing, she sheds light onto broader questions, such as: How did the Abbasid court make sense of the past? What was the importance of written culture? And book collecting? What does ‘historiography’ mean in a medieval Islamic context?

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 200 pages

PB 9780755647811 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788319232

ePub 9781838600563 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781838600570 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I.B. Tauris

The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951

Ilan Pappé

This seminal text by renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, discusses one of the most significant periods in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on archival material, it presents the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the 1948 war. Pappe shows that in sharp contrast to the recollections and myths of both sides, the military events of 1948 were not decisive. The victory of the Zionist organization was determined by politicians on both sides - in the discussions and decisions of the United Nations and in the Arab League - long before a shot had been fired.

UK

SOAS Palestine Studies

Between Reality and Documentary

A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film

Shahd Abusalama

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema. In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees’ call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle.

UK

ePdf

Series:

Stolen Nation

The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees

Lena El-Malak

This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property since the 1940s. Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a lawbased approach to enforce this right and the form it should take.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 208 pages

HB 9780755652792 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755652815 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755652822 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Theatre and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Identity, Resistance and Contested Narratives

Azza Harras

This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 232 pages

HB 9781788311274 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755656547 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755656554 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Producing Palestine

The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media

Edited by Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Helga Tawil-Souri

Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – crossing genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries.

It offers sixteen ‘cases’ which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization. These cases cover a wide array of spaces of production such as poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos and many more. Producing Palestine contends that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 296 pages

PB 9780755654253 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780755654260 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780755654277 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780755654284 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I.B. Tauris

The Palestinians and East Jerusalem

Under Neoliberal Settler Colonialism

Bruno Huberman, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil

This book focuses on the contradiction between the rise of neoliberal development in East Jerusalem and the simultaneous continuity of Israeli settler colonialism. It argues that the combination of colonialism and neoliberalism allows for the ‘primitive accumulation of capital’ to occur permanently through explicitly coercive forms. Based on theoretical research, interviews, and an analysis of race and class relations in East Jerusalem, the book shows that neoliberal development is used to facilitate the reproduction of racial hierarchies and settler privileges.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9780755649051 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755649013

ePub 9780755649037 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755649020 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies I.B. Tauris

World All Languages (except Portuguese)

Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Adam Hanieh

Humour in Iran

Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature

Homa Katouzian, Oxford University, UK

Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour – in verse as well as prose –over the eleven-hundred years since the emergence of classical Persian literature. Combining Persian original texts with their English translations, it covers a range of texts and authors, from the lampoon in Ferdowsi’s great epic of the ancient kings in the tenth century, through such master satirists as Obeyd Zakani, Sa‘di, Rumi, Khayyam, Hafiz, Anvari, Sana’i, Khaqani, Suzani, Qa’ani, Yaghma, and so on. The book also includes twentieth century authors such as Iraj, Dehkhoda, Bahar, Eshqi, Aref, Hedayat, Jamalzadeh, Al-e Ahmad and more.

ePub 9780755652143 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755652136 £81.00 / $81.00

I.B. Tauris

The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment

Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East

Edited by Hala Auji, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Raphael Cormack, Columbia University, USA & Alaaeldin Mahmoud, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait

Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century’s transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely considered the moment’s concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups. This collection shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences, exploring music, visual media, theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, the ‘translocal/transnational’ cultural histories in the book also contribute to global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9780755647446 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755647408

ePub 9780755647422 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755647415 £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

The Middle East in 1958 Reimagining a Revolutionary Year

Edited by Jeffrey G. Karam, Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa. This edited volume is the first book to explore this pivotal year in its global, regional and local contexts. It draws on declassified and multilingual archives, reports, memoirs, and newspapers in thirteen country-specific chapters, shedding new light on topics such as Anglo-American competition after the Suez War, Turkey’s efforts to stand as a key pillar in the regional Cold War, the Algerian War of Independence and the collapse of the Fourth Republic in France.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 248 pages • 12 b/w illus

PB 9780755656875 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788319423

ePub 9780755606818 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780755606801 • £90.00 / $90.00

I.B. Tauris

Iran and French Orientalism

Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France

Julia Caterina Hartley, University of Warwick, UK

In an ambitious study spanning poetry, historiography, fiction, travel-writing, ballet, opera, and marionette theatre, Julia Hartley reveals the unique place that Iran held in the French literary imagination between 1829 and 1912. Iran’s history and culture remained a constant source of inspiration across different generations and artistic movements, from the ‘Oriental’ poems of Victor Hugo to those of Anna de Noailles and Théophile Gautier’s strategic citation of Persian poetry to his daughter Judith Gautier’s full-blown rewriting of a Persian epic. Writing about Iran could also serve to articulate new visions of world history and religion, as was the case in the intellectual debates that took place between Michelet, Renan, and Al-Afghani. The book shows reveals the complex literary history of representations of Iran in France.

UK

PB

Previously published in HB 9780755645596

ePub 9780755645619 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755645602 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Power and Authority in Afghanistan

Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule

Edited by Anna Larson, Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Omar Sharifi

This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography, geography and anthropology, and assess the international intervention’s influence on power and authority structures.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9780755647484 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9780755647507 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755647491 £81.00 / $81.00

I.B. Tauris

Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll

Chris Tapley, Writer, UK

This book examines Blue Bell Knoll to dive deep on the value of artistic ambiguity, the limits of language, and what we can learn about creative practice from this once-in-a-lifetime band. Throughout the 80s and 90s Cocteau Twins defined dream pop and opened the door for shoegaze. Robin Guthrie’s reverb-soaked guitar sound and production set the template for a generation, while Elizabeth Fraser’s mesmerising voice and mysterious lyricism beguiled listeners. Blue Bell Knoll was their fifth album and their first to be released on a major label in the US.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9781501390449 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501390456 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501390463 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic

Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey

Jason Pettigrew, Freelance journalist, USA

This deeply sourced book traces back the music-biz climates surrounding Ministry’s first two full-length releases before exploring the vision, methods and controversies that helped ascend LORAH to its rightful legend status. In the years following the record’s release, Ministry has been embraced by the world’s heavy metal community, thanks to the music’s continued extremity. But LORAH may be the one common title members of Nine Inch Nails, Anthrax and ZZ Top have in their collections, be it phonograph or phone. And the story behind it remains fascinating.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 144 pages

PB 9798765106839 £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765106846 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765106853 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

1970s Jazz Fusion

Matthew Reed Baker, Writer, USA

From the earliest glimmers of America’s Music going electric, traditional fans accused such legends as Miles Davis and Donald Byrd of contaminating an art form so rich in history and complex in structure with the brazen commercialism and seeming simplicity of new genres like rock, soul, and funk. The accusations of selling out were only compounded by the fact that artists like Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea sold far more records and reached more non-jazz fans in the 1970s with their fusion records than with their straight-ahead jazz records. Find out more about the musical hybrid that has become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9798765119525 • £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9798765119532 • £14.36 / $17.95

ePdf 9798765119549 • £14.36 / $14.36

Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic

John Cale's Paris 1919

Mark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

In this vivid, wide-ranging book, Mark Doyle hunts down the ghosts haunting Cale’s most enduring solo album. There is the ghost of the Velvet Underground, whose abrasive sound and ethos Cale nearly managed to exorcise. There is the ghost of Dylan Thomas, a fellow Welshman who haunts not just Paris 1919 but much of Cale’s life and art. There are the ghosts of history, of a failed peace and a cold war, and of Christmas, a surprising visitor who lends the proceedings a nostalgic, childlike air. With erudition and wit, Doyle offers new ways to listen to an old album whose mysteries will never fully be resolved.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9798765106792 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765106808 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765106815 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic

Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Elliott Simpson, Freelance writer, UK

Hailed as a “quiet masterpiece” upon release, Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself InsideOut proposed a radical new future for rock music. Released at a time when the music industry was changing dramatically thanks to the rise of online file sharing, it suggested that the only way for a band to survive was to listen to themselves. The book argues that great art does not come from suffering, but instead, steady, unglamorous work. It is an album that helped forge a new mythology for rock and roll: one not built on sex, drugs and debauchery, but instead the quiet lives of people living in peaceful suburban homes. From the nothingness of the everyday, something incredible can emerge.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9798765106679 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765106686 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765106693 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

Tropicália

Ana Leorne, Writer, France

This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, from influences to results, from context to main players, and everything in between also explores how Tropicália helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world. While post-colonialism remains a vital concept to understand the movement, the genre's conceptual core comes from a unique mix of native and foreign influences: Tropicália doesn't repudiate the international pop panorama, instead choosing to align with the era by assuming itself as its undeniable product. The genre also reveals an enthusiastic desire for propelling culture (and counterculture in particular) forward, repudiating senseless conservatisms and niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 176 pages

PB 9798765119068 • £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9798765119044 • £14.36 / $17.95

ePdf 9798765119037 • £14.36 / $14.36

Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Genre: A 33 1/3 Series

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia & Jon Dale, Independent Scholar, Australia

Crowded House's Together Alone

Barnaby Smith, Independent Scholar, Australia

Together Alone holds a special place in the hearts of Crowded House fans and remains one of Neil Finn’s boldest musical statements – and his favourite Crowded House album. Recorded amid the isolated Karekare wilderness, the album is drenched in mystery and atmosphere, with songs possessing special qualities that those on other Crowded House albums – as good as they are – do not. But why exactly are they so hypnotizing? Featuring first-hand accounts, from Finn and others, the book also explores the intense circumstances of its recording, its major players, and other factors including the influence of Maori culture.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9798765105153 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765105160 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765105177 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765105184 • £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

TISM's Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Tyler Jenke, Freelance journalist, Australia

TISM’s third full-length album was almost destined to fly under the radar. A noted sonic shift from a band whose very existence seemed based around pushing the limit and avoiding the spotlight, the record would ultimately storm the charts, be certified Gold, and go so far as to win Best Independent Release at the 1995 ARIA Awards. The group eschewed popular rock trends as they adopted their unique brand of dance music, which in turn translated to greater success. Using first-hand accounts and cultural analysis, this book charts how one of the country’s most enigmatic rock outfits managed to become one of its most noted success stories.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 152 pages

PB 9798765114094 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765114087 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765114100 £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765114117 £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

John Sangster's The Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

Bruce Johnson, University of Turku, Finland

The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books, is the most ambitious compositional oeuvre ever undertaken in Australian jazz. Its composer John Sangster's career embraced the entire historical spectrum of jazz styles from traditional to the avant-garde. One of the most complex figures in Australian music, in both temperament and musical style, nothing in the recording history of Australian jazz, and perhaps Australian music in general, matches the monumental stature of this suite, which he called his musical autobiography.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 144 pages

PB 9798765121122 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765121115 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765121139 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765121146 • £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Eyeliner's Buy Now

Michael Brown, Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand

Brimming over with fake wind-chimes, dreamy synth pads, and hyperactive slap-bass, Eyeliner’s Buy Now is an ebullient homage to the kitsch sounds of the 80s and 90s. It epitomizes a new kind of album for our times: DIY, all-digital, free, licensed as Creative Commons, and belonging to a “virtual” genre, an internet-based scene without geographic center. Drawing on the album’s production archive and interviews with Rowell, this book argues that Buy Now offers both musical pleasure and mental survival-training for an era when sincerity and irony can appear dangerously indistinguishable.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9781501394997 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501395000 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501397837 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501397820 • £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic

Taco Hemingway's Jarmark

Kamila Rymajdo, Journalist, UK

Jarmark is Taco Hemingway’s fifth album, and his most political to date, coming soon after he became the first Polish artist to be streamed a billion times on Spotify. Previously described as the voice of a generation with nothing to say, Hemingway’s political turn can be read as an intervention, not least because Jarmark was released two days before the presidential election in 2020, which had the potential to end PiS (Law and Justice)’s reign. As such, the book examines the album as a response to a crisis point in Polish society, with a country divided about its future.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 136 pages

PB 9798765103067 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765103050 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765103074 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765103081 • £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Europe Bloomsbury Academic

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Sorrow Tears and Blood

Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland, USA

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. The text explores the album in the context of a wider look at how colonialism and its aftermath impacted the social, political, and economic environment in Nigeria, and how Western imperialism continues to affect Nigerian identity and life. Reflecting on the Nigerian presidential elections of February 2023, and on the tense political climate before and after the elections, this album offers a rich sonic and lyrical landscape in which to interrogate the potency of Fela’s message for future generations.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9798765113097 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765113080 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765113103 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765113110 • £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Africa • Bloomsbury Academic

Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2

Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Business Consultant and Writer, India & Chandrashekhar Rao, Writer, India

Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2 is the story of 50 songs the songstress chose as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of over 5,000. The book covers an expanse of nearly forty years, connecting the reader to the real-life events behind the songs, going back to the times when music listening in India was limited to the radio, the 78 RPM shellac, and the occasional visit to the cinema, and later, the vinyl records, cassettes, the 30 minutes Chitrahaar on television every week, and VHS systems which were finding a place in middle-class homes.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 168 pages

PB 9798765107812 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765107805 • £60.00 / $80.00

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Series: 33 1/3 South Asia • Bloomsbury Academic

The Beatles and Black Music

Post-Colonial Theory, Musicology and Remix Culture

Richard Mills, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture had over the Beatles. The book adopts a musicological and historiographic account to demonstrate the extent to which Liverpool’s colonial history influenced the Beatles’ music. From the Beatles teenage years in the 1950s, their association with Lord Woodbine, and their love of American R&B in the mid-1960s to postcolonial British identity and the lasting effect Black music has had on the Beatles’ legacy, this book is the first to explore the Beatles from this important cultural lens.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus

HB 9781501366949 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

American Rap Scenes An Analysis of 25 Locations

Lavar Pope

American Rap Scenes examines the factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology on the origins, persistence, and legacy of rap music in 25 local music scenes. By studying how each of these micro units developed, we can better understand how each scene interacts, collaborates, and engages with the others. Across seven themed chapters, this book explores the evidence of these factors on 25 scenes through both systematic evaluation of themes and data analysis. By providing areacentered analysis of a culture many see as monolithic, Lavar Pope highlights the unique histories of rap and hip-hop music in mid-size and major cities across the country.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages

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Listen to Jazz!

Exploring a Musical Genre

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, Westfield State University, USA, and Springfield College, USA

Providing an introductory overview of jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, Listen to Jazz! explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and styles. Surveying the sounds, concepts, performances, and production of jazz, this work includes A-to-Z entries on recent jazz musicians from around the world, jazz musicians and recordings that have been marginalized, and musicians, songs, and albums that have contributed to the defining aspects of specific jazz styles. Chapters on the impact of jazz on popular culture and its legacy, as well as a bibliography, enhance the historical and analytical content of the work.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 15 bw photos

HB 9781440875519 • £55.00 / $75.00

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Series: Exploring Musical Genres • Bloomsbury Academic

Daft Punk and the Legacy Album

A Vision of Ambition

Sébastien Lebray, University of Strasbourg, France

Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia, 2013) will remain the very last Daft Punk album. Often understood as an expression of nostalgia towards the music of the 1970s-1980s, this work should not be reduced to a simple tribute to the masters of disco. Beyond their "retro" airs, their interest in old studios and their preference for analog equipment, Daft Punk invent new creative approaches in the continuity of the history of electronic music, leaving more room for humanity and collective performance. The band claims audacity and ambition in a way that is reminiscent of the spirit (more than in the style) of the 1970s progressive rock, with characteristics such as the expansion of the instrumentarium, experimentation in the recording studio, and the development of structures.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 288 pages

HB 9798765121634 £90.00 / $120.00

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Diva

Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop

Edited by Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Shara Rambarran, University of Brighton, UK, Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA & Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Female R&B and hip-hop artists have redefined contemporary popular music, and wider culture and politics, in the West – from the banlieues to the White House, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, from Bette Davis to Neneh Cherry, TLC to Aaliyah, Alicia Keys to Iggy Azalea, Beyoncé to Ariana Grande, and all points in between. The first academic book to focus on divas, this book considers areas such as trans cultures and fierceness and diva-ism, media around diva superstars, and all other cultural practices that resonate with this development.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 296 pages • 27 bw illus

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Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited by James Grande, King's College London, UK & Brian H. Murray, King's College London, UK

As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

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New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

Carol Vernallis,

Stanford University, USA & Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Holly Rogers, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Anonymous Sounds

Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s

Edited by Nessa Johnston, University of Liverpool, UK, Jamie Sexton & Elodie A. Roy, Northumbria University, UK

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s. Library music was inexpensive, off-theshelf music available to license for a small fee. It was widely used in television and film as a cheaper alternative to commissioned soundtracks. This book addresses questions about creativity, authorship and agency: How and in what conditions were library music tracks written, recorded and disseminated? Why has anonymity traditionally been such an important aspect of library music? How can we interpret the contemporary revival of library music and the phonoarchaeological practices of collectors, reissue record labels, musicians and DJs?

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 256 pages

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Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Haunted Soundtracks

Audiovisual

Cultures of

Memory, Landscape, and Sound

Edited by Kevin J. Donnelly, Staffordshire University, UK & Aimee Mollaghan, Queen's University, Belfast, UK

This collection of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape, sound and memory. The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary society. Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under consideration here.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

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Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Remediating Sound

Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music

Edited by Holly Rogers, Goldsmiths University of London, UK, Joana Freitas, NOVA FCSH, Portugal & João Francisco Porfírio

This second volume on YouTube and music scrutinizes the phenomena of remixing, mashup and remediation: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to characterise much of the platform’s audiovisual content. Observing the reciprocal flow of influence that runs between various platforms in cybermedia, this volume explores how transmedial and networked creativity has alighted on YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital sound, music and audiovisuality.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 328 pages

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Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Traveling Music Videos

Edited by Tomáš Jirsa, Palacký University, Czechia & Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark

Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries. With the onset of digital technologies and the proliferation of global video-sharing websites at the beginning of the 21st century, music video migrated from TV screens to turn instead to the internet, art galleries, concert stages, and social media. As a result, its aesthetics, technological groundings, and politics have been radically transformed.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages

PB 9781501398032 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Tomorrow on Cassette Tape Jams in the New Media Age

Benjamin Duester, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany

Until the late 2000s, audio cassettes appeared to be on the brink of extinction. While growing sales numbers for cassette tapes in Western countries since the start of the 2010s have led mass media outlets to declare a general revival of the cassettes, they have been in continuous use in niche DIY music scenes associated with genres such as punk, noise and hip hop since their introduction in the 1960s. This book explores how the cassette tape’s significance as a tool for expression and social connection perseveres in the 21st century drawing on interviews with experts in DIY music worldwide.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

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Unsilenced

Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry

Rosemary Lucy Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK, Bianca Fileborn, University of Melbourne, Australia & Catherine Strong, RMIT University, Australia

This book explores how women who have experienced gender-based violence within the music industry represent and construct this violence through their creative and public-facing outputs. Analysis of three key case studies – Kesha, Lingua Ignota, and Alice Glass - demonstrates that gender-based violence influences creative productions. The representation of this abuse is identified in the artists' music, lyrics, and visual accompaniments and the incorporation of their experiences and responses to abuse in their public personas. The authors uncover what it is about the music industry itself that might facilitate or enable such experiences and perpetuate abuse.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9798765101742 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9798765101704 • £80.00 / $110.00

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Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music

Cases from Beyond Anglo-America

Edited by Shannon Garland, University of California, Merced, USA, Pedro Belchior Nunes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal & Pedro Roxo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Can music be made “independently” in the 21st century? More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of profound shifts in music dissemination and production in the “digital era.” Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume, focused outside the Euro-American context, shows the variety of ways musicians, music workers and businesses manage the economic, media and cultural shifts intertwined with digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is “independent.”

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9798765112755 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Sound Recording in Post-War British Folk

Ideology, Discourse and Practice

Matthew Ord, Newcastle University, UK

Recording technologies shaped the sound and meaning of 20th-century folk music in Britain, constructing a sonic aesthetics of authenticity in an era of rapid technological and social transformation The sound of folk on record presented a ‘real’ sound in an age of studio artifice, asserting the value of live performance over technologically mediated consumption. Even so, the folk movement drew upon advances in recording and media technology, embracing a range of sonic practices including radio documentary, commercial studio production, and field recording. Within the revival’s technological culture, recordings (and recording) reflected and shaped the meaning of the music.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9798765107423 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Poetics of Listening

Inner Life, Social Transformation, Planetary Practices

Brandon LaBelle, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway

Poetics of Listening brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and communal wellbeing. From social inclusion to intersubjective understanding, deep attention to healing and repair, political recognition to ecological sensitivity, listening is fundamental to negotiating our most fundamental challenges. Through thoughtful examinations of listening’s role across society, Poetics of Listening convincingly shows listening to be not only important to social struggles, but a form of poetic imagination and communion.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 224 pages

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Semi-Conducting Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Nicolas Collins, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years. As both a participant and critical observer in the post-Cagean musical landscape, Nicolas Collins uses anecdotes and analysis to survey the history and aesthetics of the musical avant-garde. It follows a personal chronology of observations and experiences with music, technology, economics and culture.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages

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Literature as Sound Studies

Edited by yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, USA & Liesl Yamaguchi, UC Berkeley, USA

Sound has always played a crucial role in literature and literary study. The literary category has often hinged on the particular attention that literary works draw to their own sound, whether that sound be psychologically rehearsed, as in silent reading, or acoustically realized, as in a theatrical performance. Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions, this text brings out the ways that literary writers and commentators have used and studied sound from antiquity to the present. The authors posit literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration and an opportunity to enrich the field of sound studies.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9798765121375 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

A Sound Word Almanac

Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

An assemblage of nearly 70 practitioners and theoreticians, artists and scholars, write short and slightly longer entries on their favorite ‘sound word’ – words related to sound: onomatopoetical, mythological, practical, etc., words of personal importance to the artists and their craft, words from their memory, related to sound. This almanac has mainly collected sound words from contributors for whom English is not the first language, to contribute such a word or concept in their own mother-tongue (maybe even untranslatable) with a personal, explanatory, poetic entry, and also English-speaking artists, to contribute with nonstandard English--for example Gaelic Irish, different dialects words-words that have the potential to maybe even change our perspective on listening-musicking-thinking.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 168 pages

PB 9798765109090 £28.99 / $39.95

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Chantal Akerman

Filmmaker and Philosopher

Andreja Novakovic, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire. In particular, Akerman turns her camera on contexts that had been previously neglected, such as transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners as well as the domestic sphere, revealing their significance in structuring experience.

Andreja Novakovic looks at the role of rituals, gestures and habits in Akerman’s (auto)fictional worlds drawing on sources from Hegel to Butler, Beauvoir and Federici. Chantal Akerman is a fascinating reinterpretation of one of the most important directors of European cinema.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9781350361416 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350361423 £65.00 / $90.00

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Series: Philosophical Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

Luxury Philosophy

John Armitage, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK

Providing an original and authoritative historical guide to modern and contemporary responses to luxury, John Armitage encapsulates within this book the philosophy of major thinkers who have explored the term since the 18th century. Finding alternative modes of understanding it, and further enriching its concept, he argues that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century continental philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction or as an evil enjoyed by the idle rich gave way in the 20th century and beyond to more positive, even potentially revolutionary, continental philosophies of luxury as voluptuousity, squander, uselessness, and abundance.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350414846 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350414839 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Postcolonial Historical Materialism

The Heritage of Critical Theory

Filippo Menozzi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Through a reappraisal of the work of Bloch, Lukács, Adorno, and Benjamin, Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies. Revealing these authors’ continued relevance to urgent issues in the 21st century, Menozzi reimagines them as central to an alternative genealogy of critical theory that moves beyond “Western Marxism”. In doing so, this book challenges, more broadly, the view of critical theory as steeped in Eurocentrism, culturally conservative, and politically defeatist. Contesting this in four chapters, Menozzi inserts Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and Benjamin into key contemporary debates, from orientalism to immigration.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350410138 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350410152 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic

Jacob Taubes

Elettra Stimilli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

In the only academic monograph on Jacob Taubes, Elettra Stimilli analyses the Jewish thinker whose work has proved essential to philosophical and theological studies. Her assessment holds considerable interest for students and scholars specialising in Saint Paul’s writings, which Taubes brilliantly deconstructed to reveal their more heterodox implications. His work ushered in a new realm of political theology that is crucial to modern thinkers engaged with Pauline thought, such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou. Appealing to both postgraduate researchers and academics, Stimilli’s incisive treatment of Taubes’ writings will bring him to the attention of an even wider audience.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350104792 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350104785 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Political Theologies Bloomsbury Academic

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Incomputable Earth Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis

Edited by Antonia Majaca, Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Looking afresh at the Anthropocene, this volume investigates how the capitalist engineering of earth is not only accelerating, but is doing so in parallel with the expansion of digital technologies, including ‘artificial intelligence’. Through scholarly essays, artistic contributions, and a glossary of emerging concepts, Incomputable Earth tackles a range of urgent topics, from the racialized politics of climate change to planetary financialization. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections. com. It is funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 608 pages • 60 bw illus

HB 9781350264977 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

On the Politics of the Living Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms

Federico Testa, University of Bristol, UK

This book examines Foucault's work on the politicization of life and biopolitics through the lens of Canguilhem's notion of norms and in the context of today's global health crisis, which acts as a stark reminder that life itself is at the core of our political debates. Extracting from Canguilhem’s philosophy the conceptual tools to reinterpret Foucault’s ideas on power, Federico Testa reconceptualises normativity as a process of the creation of norms that provide tools for political and social analysis and for thinking resistance. In so doing, he uncovers new and important possibilities for biopolitical resistance.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 342 pages

HB 9781350299283 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Christianity after Christendom

Heretical Perspectives in Philosophical Theology

Martin Koci, Catholic University of Linz, Austria

What comes after the end of Christendom?

Christianity has ceased to function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian faith continues. How are we to understand Christianity in this ‘after’? Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or ‘heretical’ continental philosophers, including Jan Patocka, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo, Martin Koci boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an existential mode of being-in-the-world. As such, he introduces new perspectives on the present and future of Christianity as an embodied religious tradition.

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Philosophy of the Medium

The Age of McLuhan in Question

John Lechte, Macquarie University, Sydney

Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and technical qualities. It offers a deeper understanding of what we mean by the term ‘media’: it is that which comes ‘between’ and which facilitates the transmission of content, essentially a creator of possibilities, yet never present as such in the light of its success as a vehicle for meaning.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 240 pages

PB 9781350299221 £28.99 / $39.95

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The Philosophy of Rabbi Shalom Ber Schneersohn

Language, Gender and Mysticism

Reuven Leigh, University of Cambridge, UK

Reuven Leigh provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering philosophy of Rabbi Shalom Schneersohn. Bringing him into dialogue with key continental philosophers Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, this book reveals how Schneersohn’s views anticipated many prominent themes in 20th-century thought. Beginning by uncovering and contesting the scholarly assumptions that have excluded traditional rabbinic thinkers from contemporary philosophy, Leigh seeks to correct this through a close reading of Schneersohn’s 1898 discourses. With the disruption of traditional binary structures being the dominant theme pervading Schneersohn’s work, this volume examines Schneersohn’s forward-thinking ideas on speech, gender and the body.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350341234 £28.99 / $39.95

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For Revolt

Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation

Jussi Palmusaari, King's College London, UK

For Revolt: Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation presents an interpretation of Rancière's uncompromising view of emancipation, drawing on its invariably rational and Kantianmoralist basis. Tracing a logic of abstract or empty space in all of Rancière's work, it contrasts the prevailing tendencies to emphasise Rancière's sensitivity to evolving historical forms and changing regimes of sensibility. Through a critical discussion of Rancière in relation to other contemporary accounts of revolt and resistance, the book addresses the present predicament of emancipatory politics, its emphasis on the actualities of here and now and its difficulties to envisage programmatic realisations of radically alternative futures.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350277137 • £28.99 / $39.95

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The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi

A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis

Alice Gibson, Kingston University, UK

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of poet-philosopher, Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy of nature offer a means for understanding and taking responsibility for the environmental crisis. Through examination of his entire oeuvre, from the Zibaldone to his later poems, this book disrupts the common image of Leopardi as a pessimistic, nihilist poet. Bringing his thought into dialogue with contemporary ecological theorists such as Donna Haraway and Timothy Morton, Gibson instead uncovers how Leopardi advances the ethics we need today to reframe our relationship with nature.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350298637 • £28.99 / $39.95

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The Power of Distraction

Diversion and Reverie from Montaigne to Proust

Alessandra Aloisi, University of Oxford, UK

From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better.

But Alessandra Aloisi argues that we are missing the point. Drawing on a broad range of European philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an expression of human imperfection, but as a creative, subversive, and aesthetic capability. Aloisi demonstrates not only the serendipity of distraction through creative case studies, from Manet to Black Mirror, but also its political value, as distraction provides what Bergson called a ‘slight revolt’ from the codes and behaviours that society dictates.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350342989 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art

Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood

Keren Moscovitch, School of Visual Arts, USA and The New School, USA

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art examines practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. Using psychoanalysis and objectoriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology. She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O’Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting. Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, Moscovitch situates these artists in the emerging lineage of feminist new materialism.

UK May 2025

• US May 2025

• 264 pages

PB 9781350298224 £28.99 / $39.95

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Empowering Aesthetics

Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist

Central Europe

Denisa Tomková, Charles University, Czech Republic

The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalised communities. Drawn from conservative states in Central-Eastern Europe, these art practices range from short films to guerrilla performance art and community crafts projects. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from Slovakia, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic to show how art can provide critical support to gender, sexual and racial minority groups. Exploring the nuances of intersectional layers of these groups’ identities brings with it a wealth of insights that go beyond the Western epistemic tradition.

UK April 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9781350447226 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art • Bloomsbury Academic

Technics and Enaction

A Philosophy of Imagination

Émilien Dereclenne, Independent Researcher, France

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers a new theory of imagination linked to technical, social and embodied factors. Challenging the dominant internalist and representationalist theories, this book combines enacted, embodied, ecological, extended, embedded cognitive theories with material anthropology and the French philosophy of technics and imagination to shine a light on the role of technical and socio-material engagement in imaginative and creative processes. Engaging with both enactive and French philosophers of technics, Émilien Dereclenne showcases how French philosophers of technics can help 5E cognitive sciences achieve their own theoretical goals about imagination.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350507593 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350507616 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350507609 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind

Perspectives on Fiction and Beyond

Edited by Katerina Bantinaki, University of Crete, Greece, Efi Kyprianidou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus & Fotini Vassiliou, Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Bringing together 15 essays from a team of established and rising philosophers, this volume sheds light on how both representational and non-representational forms of art allow empathic engagement. It examines the significance of such engagement for cognition, our emotive life and our moral stance. Opening with a historical reconstruction of the origins of empathy, chapters explore our emphatic engagement with fictional characters, with the inanimate in art forms such as film, music and architecture, with the cognitive value of empathy with fiction, and finally our emphatic response to fiction in relation to our moral attitudes.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350409521 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350409545 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350409538 • £26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Academic

The Phenomenology of Paint Between Materiality and Illusion

Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia

Analyzing the different modes of appearance and application of the most ubiquitous medium in art and ritual, this book examines paint from anthropological, ethnographic, aesthetic, historical and chemical viewpoints. The result is a clearly articulated account of both the materiality and phenomenology of paint, as substance and idea. It discusses the provenance, politics and chemistry of pigments, the role of concealment and beautification as paint is applied to bodies, the stories and practices of hiding paint by artists, and efforts to isolate paint as an essential quantity, ending on the philosophical question as to whether paint is separable from colour. From bodily substances to chemical engineering, this study provides a history of ritual and representation through the “lens” of paint, the medium that reveals through covering.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350446915 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350446939 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Bloomsbury Academic

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life

Methodologies, History and

New Directions

Edited by Lisa Giombini, Roma Tre University, Italy & Adrián Kvokacka, Presov University, Slovakia

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline. Through fresh explorations of its origins, background and contemporary developments, this collection advances a new definition of everyday aesthetics and provides a cutting edge reflection on the world we inhabit today.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 240 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350331808 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry

James

D. Reid,

Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA & Rick

Anthony Furtak,

Colorado College, USA

Philosophy of Lyric Voice

The Cognitive Value of Page and Performance Poetry

Karen Simecek, Warwick University, UK

Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen Simecek argues that it is only by considering them side by side that the unique cognitive value of each can be realised. By reframing lyric poetry as a social artform, she reveals the importance of voice and embodied words to the differing epistemic rewards of engaging with contemporary poetry in both private reading and live performance. Through analysis of numerous different poems, Simecek concludes that both page poetry and performance poetry involve appreciating connections with others and realising the limits of our perspectives.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 204 pages

PB 9781350240568 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Against Progress

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

'Sublime moments from history might be remembered but that story is over, everything should be re-thought, one should begin from the zero-point.'

How do we start from a zero-point? We forget the notion of progress or things always getting better. Revolution isn't gradual progress but, rather, a repetitive movement where we start from the beginning again and again. In a whirlwind tour touching upon everything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gentrification, Mary Poppins, Einstein's theory of relativity and Taylor Swift, Žižek argues that the forward thrust of history is but an illusion.

UK October 2024 • US January 2025 • 136 pages

PB 9781350515857 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350515871 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350515864 • £8.99 / $8.99

Series: Žižek's Essays • Bloomsbury Academic

Revisions and Reconstructions in the Thought of R.G. Collingwood

From Pre-History to Economics

Peter Johnson, University of Southampton, UK

Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwood’s philosophy, Johnson presents essays on Collingwood’s distinctive account of pre-history, the relationship between his last great works The Principles of History and The New Leviathan, and his views on money in comparison to those of J.M. Keynes. Chapters also consider his assessment of Edward Gibbon as a historian and his use of biblical citation in relation to the work of Thomas Hobbes. Johnson’s insightful reflections and in-depth analysis of a range of areas in Collingwood’s thinking connect them through historical and conceptual themes relevant to contemporary debates about his philosophy.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages

HB 9781350498457 £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age

New Aesthetics and Technologies

Rachel Coventry, University of Galway, Ireland

Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger’s philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Coventry considers the possibility of great poetry in the digital age using an approach that takes us beyond conventional literary criticism, with different case studies from contemporary poetry including eco-poetry, digital poetry, and post-internet poetry. Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age asks provocative questions to progress the philosophical study of poetry, tracing new lines of thought in Heidegger studies and critical studies of contemporary poetry.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350347847 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

Felix Guattari and the Ancients

Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy

Edited by Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Canada & Carlos A. Segovia, Saint Louis University Missouri, Spain

Félix Guattari’s Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis, semiotics, the history of philosophy, and contemporary post-theatre. This volume includes the facsimile edition of the original manuscript followed by its transcription and its annotated translations into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian. Accompanying commentaries, diagrams, and studies of the text give an incredibly in-depth analysis of Guattari’s theatrical work and its significance to his wider body of thought.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781350468887 • £19.99 / $26.95 •

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ePdf 9781350468900 • £17.99 / $17.99 Bloomsbury Academic

The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies

Corporate Capitalism and Black Popular Culture

Stephen C. Ferguson II, North Carolina State University, USA

The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies provides a philosophical examination of Black popular culture for the first time. From extensive discussion of the philosophy and political economy of Hip-Hop music through to a developed exploration of the influence of the postmodernism-poststructuralist ideology on African American studies, Stephen C. Ferguson II argues how postmodernism ideology plays a seminal role in justifying the relationship between corporate capitalism and Black popular culture. Chapters cover topics such as cultural populism, capitalism and Black liberation, the philosophy of Hip-Hop music and Harold Cruse’s influence on the ‘cultural turn’ in African American studies.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350368989 • £28.99 / $39.95

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African Democracy

Impediments, Promises, and Prospects

Edited by Jonathan O. Chimakonam, University of Pretoria, South Africa and Eberhard Karls, University of Tubingen, Germany & Isaiah A. Negedu, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

This is the first comprehensive examination of the social and political consequences of democracy in Africa. Written from an African philosophical perspective, leading and emerging scholars explore the impact of democracy on the lived experience of the African people. Looking in particular at the subSahara, it reveals the influence that the failures of democracy have on fundamental needs, including allocation of primary resources, autonomy, welfare and women’s rights. This pioneering volume gives an unflinching insight into the struggles caused by democracy in Africa, whilst also, crucially, pointing to its accomplishments and the future possibilities for African nations.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 376 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350299276 • £39.99 / $54.95

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Critical Theory and the Critique of Society

Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

AI, Automation and Alienation

Edited

by Andrius Bielskis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania

With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how the forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions. The volume contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, specializing in the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory. This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will appeal to those in philosophy, politics, literary and cultural studies interested in new technologies both from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350510715 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350510722 • £55.00 / $75.00

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Schecter & Chris O’Kane, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,

The Adventures of the Commodity For a Critique of Value

Anselm Jappe, Fine Arts Academy, Italy

The Adventures of the Commodity explores critical conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour.

A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour. Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, the book highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350381186

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Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic World English

"The Unthinkable" in Ethics, History and Philosophical Anthropology

A Pragmatic-Transcendental View

Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki, Finland

Combining a pragmatist approach with a Kantian-inspired transcendental strategy, Sami Pihlström distinguishes between what is ‘unthinkable’ and what is merely ethically wrong. He demonstrates how issues concerning the unthinkable vs. the thinkable, from the ethical response to the Holocaust to philosophical considerations of monstrous characters in gothic fiction, challenge the categories we use to structure the world. The book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the fundamental ethical issues of human life.

Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism

Edited by Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor University, UK

This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School’s theory of antisemitism. Uncovering how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, this book reveals the connections between the Frankfurt School’s writing on antisemitism and other pressing societal issues, including patriarchy and racism more broadly. This volume further employs critical theory to scrutinise antisemitism in right- and leftwing politics and develops, in its critique of antisemitism, a critique of capitalism, asking: why does capitalist society seem bound to produce antisemitism? And how do we challenge it?

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9781350281417 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic

Practical Kantian Ethics A Commonsense Account of Moral Life

Donald Wilson, Kansas State University, USA By reversing the usual order of Kantian interpretation, Donald Wilson begins with Kant’s applied moral philosophy and uses this later work to offer a radically new account of his views. Through an “inner freedom” model, Wilson explains diverse threads in Kant’s moral theory informing obscure aspects of the Groundwork and presents a different and comprehensive vision of Kantian moral life. This new account transcends the narrow rational asceticism often associated with Kant’s view, embedding morality in our humanity. Focused on the integration of diverse norms and the lived experience of morality, this nuanced account is essential reading for anyone working on Kant’s moral philosophy today.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 288 pages

HB 9781350501270 £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic

Darrow

USA & Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK

Daoism and the Human Experience

David Chai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Daoist Phenomenology

A Vertical Reading

Jay Goulding, York University, Canada

Jay Goulding’s Daoist Phenomenology represents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen. Illustrating styles of reading complex texts from Europe and East Asia, Goulding moves away from horizontal reading of simple comparisons on a single plain to vertical reading as a deep dive of ideas into ancient worlds. Vertical Reading is a hermeneutic strategy that captures the depth of connection between phenomenology and Daoism, especially Heidegger and classical Daoists Laozi and Zhuangzi. His method, drawing on writing and ideas from popular culture including Jules Verne, George Lucas and Bruce Lee, promotes further intercultural dialogues between two great traditions in world philosophies.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350470477 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Daoism and the Human Experience • Bloomsbury Academic

Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva

A Radically Phenomenal View of Embodiment

Eleni Lorandou, Truro College, UK

Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of MerleauPonty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment. In an argument for the transcendence of limiting dualisms in thinking, she explores how western postmodernism and Indian classical thought can speak to one another across centuries, complementing each other in a new and constructive philosophy. Bringing the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the Recognition School of Utpaladeva into dialogue, this illuminating study turns our attention to the topics of perception, embodiment, realism, intersubjectivity, and, ultimately, the transformative implications of philosophical inquiry.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages

HB 9781350456501 £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Consciousness Mattering A Buddhist Synthesis

Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, USA

In this volume, Peter D. Hershock presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, he demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibilities for machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potential of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock advances our understanding of consciousness to invite us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350411258 £28.99 / $39.95

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Heidegger and Dao

Things, Nothingness, Freedom

Eric S. Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger's engagement with Daoism and his thinking of the thing, nothingness, and the freedom of releasement (Gelassenheit). Encompassing numerous forgotten and recently published historical sources, including Heidegger’s Daoist related reflections in his recently published lectures and notebooks, Nelson presents a critical intercultural reinterpretation of Heidegger's philosophical journey. This critical reinterpretation with and beyond Heidegger of early Daoist and classic Chinese Buddhist sources, provides a reimagining of the thing and nothingness.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350411944 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Daoism and the Human Experience • Bloomsbury Academic

Dialogue and Decolonization

Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives

Edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

By bringing together philosophers whose work on political philosophy, intellectual history and world philosophies pushes the boundaries of conventional scholarship, this collaborative collection opens up space in political philosophy for new approaches. Each contribution responds to the challenges James Tully raises for comparative political thought. Arranged around Tully’s opening chapter, contributors demonstrate the value of critical dialogue and point to the different attempts cultures make to understand their experiences. Through the use of methods from various disciplines and culture, each interlocutor exemplifies the transformative power of genuine democratic dialogue across philosophical traditions.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9781350360853 • £28.99 / $39.95

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil

Edited by Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA

Exploring Simone Weil's thought through 38 short essays, this handbook distills her complex writings into an organic whole. Placing Weil's philosophy in context, it maps her intellectual influences, including thinkers like Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Marx. It concludes with a critical consideration of the philosophical terms that tie her thinking together.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781350341623 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350341647 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350341630 £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic World English

God Is Undead

Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers

Lorenzo Chiesa, University of Newcastle, UK & Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico, USA

In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston reassess the contemporary consequences of psychoanalytic perspectives on belief and disbelief. Jointly rejecting numerous efforts past and present to render psychoanalysis compatible with faiths, spiritualisms, and religiousity, Chiesa and Johnston debate with each other about just what sort of non-belief, whether one qualified by agnostic sensibilities (Chiesa) or not (Johnston), can and should be extracted from psychoanalysis. Ultimately God is Undead raises and addresses crucial questions about whether and, if so, how human beings might eventually eschew traditional religions and their pseudo-secular permutations and formulate new ways of generating meaning.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781350516052 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350516045 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350516076 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350516069 £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (excluding Germany/Italy)

Atheism and Love in the Modern Era

Practicing Indifference

Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago, USA

A critique of religious belief which addresses the question of how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches. Taking in popular, philosophical and theological discussions of religion, Colby Dickinson argues that theism and atheism taken together can peel back the layers of abstraction, alienation, and disillusionment that always accompany our humanity in order to help us really see how it is to exist in this world. Atheism and Faith in the Modern World takes up the notion of love as a cultivation and practice of indifference—a crucial concept that unites both religion and atheism.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350475380 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350475403 £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic

Expanding Philosophy of Religion

J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA & Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, USA

Art-Making as Spiritual Practice

Rituals of Embodied Understanding

Edited by Lexi Eikelboom & David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Australia

This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual significance of art. This innovative volume turns its attention to the role of the artist, and to specific examples of art practices, putting them into conversation with particular ritual practices. By creating a web of connections that emerge across multiple disciplines and practices, a team of scholars and artist shed new light on the way art-making and ritual embody non-discursive forms of understanding.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Templeton Religious Trust.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages • 9 bw illus

HB 9781350474185 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Reimagining Philosophy of Religion

Understanding,

Commitment, and Making-Believe

Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Notre Dame, USA

By exploring how analytic philosophy of religion can broaden its horizons to combat old biases, Amber L. Griffioen makes the discipline socially and practically relevant. Divided into units on Reorientation, Reformation, and Revolution, she engages with a wide range of religious phenomena, from religious cognition and beliefs to imagination, prayer, religious experiences, mysticism and compassion. With each chapter examining one aspect of traditional analytic philosophy of religion, she provides suggestions for how the field can develop in more constructive and inclusive directions.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350328501 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350328471 £65.00 / $90.00

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Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein

Religious Diversities and Racism

Thomas D. Carroll, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Thomas C. Carroll uses Wittgenstein’s thoughts on religion and language to bring a cross-cultural perspective to philosophy of religion. Through a focus on Chinese philosophical and religious traditions and the intertwining of racism and religion in the United States, Carroll highlights two related features of Wittgenstein’s philosophy: the relevance of contextual backgrounds to interpreting ways of life and the importance of reflecting on existential purposes in philosophical inquiry. This inclusive and timely study asks us to rethink how we approach philosophy of religion.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350471559 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350471573 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

An Apostle for Atheists

Paul and the Quest for Radical Philosophy

Ole Jakob Løland, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Confronting the readings of Freud, Nietzsche and Spinoza with insights not only from the more recent philosophical readings of the letters of Paul but also from historical-critical scholarship on the Bible, this book lifts the veil over a new picture of the apostle as a figure with potential value for non-Christians and atheists.

An Apostle for Atheists leaves us with ideas that compel us to reconsider Paul’s negative reputation for secular modernity and appreciate him as a figure of a radically new politics as well as a renewed psychoanalysis.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350420106 • £28.99 / $39.95

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World All Languages (except Spanish/Norwegian)

Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World

How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures

Edited by Stephen Green, Independent Scholar, UK

In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish mesoAmerican traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different thought worlds into conversation. Crossing cultures, languages, and history, the authors’ inclusive approach liberates the tradition of metaphysics and comparative philosophy from the constraints of a Western or Eurocentric interpretation.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 432 pages

PB 9781350402492 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350402508 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350402522 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350402515 • £22.49 / $22.49 Bloomsbury Academic

Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Michael Hauser, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th century culture. Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, and answering some of the contradictions at the heart of Alain Badiou’s most influential works, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the 20th century and the ideologies that replaced them.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350437845 • £85.00 / $115.00

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By Faith Alone

The Medieval Church and Martin Luther

Lev Shestov

Translated by Stephen P. Van Trees, Independent Translator, USA

Lev Shestov’s By Faith Alone confronts Eastern and Western European conceptions of faith through Russian literature, ancient and medieval philosophy, and Christian theology. Written from 1910-1914, this first Englishlanguage translation brings together important early writings on the medieval church and Martin Luther. Shestov reconciles the Greek notion of rational truth with Biblical revelation by drawing on a wide range of sources from Plato to Saint Augustine and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to William of Ockam. By Faith Alone provides a crucial piece of the puzzle in the genesis of Shestov’s later and better-known writings on medieval philosophy.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350362352 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350362314

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ePdf 9781350362321 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology • Bloomsbury Academic

The Growing Block View

Philosophy of Time, Change, and the Open

Future

Graeme A. Forbes, University of Kent, UK Graeme A. Forbes presents a compelling argument for the Growing-Block view. He explores ontological questions central to the metaphysics of time, addressing why time does something space does not and why the past differs from the future. Forbes argues for the view that the past exists, the future doesn’t, and that the passage of time is causation bringing about events according to the laws of nature. From the armchair to philosophy of physics to the human world, he offers a comprehensive examination of these issues.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350504288 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350504301 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350504295 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics • Bloomsbury Academic

Being and Nothing

The Primordial Question of Philosophy

Lorenz B. Puntel

Translated by Alan White

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why at all is there Being and not absolutely nothing?" Considering the history of philosophy from Parmenides through to Heidegger and beyond, he charges philosophy with persistently failing to adequately confront the question of Being. In response, Puntel sets out a systematic philosophy to rival Hegel's Science of Logic and Whitehead's Process and Reality. This volume first critically analyses all of the major stages in the “forgetfulness of Being” in Western philosophy, situating a vast range of historical philosophers within Puntel's theoretical framework, Structural-Systematic Philosophy (SSP), which unites continental philosophy's comprehensiveness with the precision and linguistic rigor of the analytic tradition. The second part develops the methodical question of a systematic theory of Being. Written and translated in collaboration with the author by Alan White, this book is the third in Puntel's trilogy comprising Structure and Being (2008) and Being and God (2011).

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781350503458 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350503472 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350503465 £108.00 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Benjamin, Deleuze, and the Baroque

The Early Modern Origins of Media Theory

Noa Levin

Benjamin, Deleuze, and the Baroque argues that their media theories were informed by their respective readings of the philosophy and mathematics of G.W. Leibniz, and how the Baroque can thus be seen as the locus of modern media. Providing close critical analyses of Deluze and Benjamin’s works on cinema, which remain understudied in the English language, it explores how, in their dual roles of philosopher and cultural critic, the pair may illuminate our own age of multiple crises through the Baroque.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350414211

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Advances in Experimental Philosophy

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

Edited by Kristien Hens, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Andreas De Block, KU Leuven, Belgium

This open access collection brings together a team of renowned scholars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be. The chapters demonstrate how we can make progress by integrating a variety of methods from experimental philosophy, including experiments, sociological surveys and simulations, in order to yield meaningful results. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 352 pages • 45 bw illus

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Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

The Epistemology of Language Use

Wittgenstein and a Philosophical Pragmatics

Arley Ramos Moreno, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Edited by Cristiane Gottschalk and Paulo Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Brazil & Rafael Lopes Azize, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Arley Ramos Moreno, a pioneering Brazilian philosopher, makes an important contribution to current discussions around meaning, knowledge, and symbolism in the first English translation of his work. Connecting philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics, and phenomenology, Moreno builds on Wittgenstein's legacy. His focus is on ways of producing meaning that involve the circumstances of enunciation and applications of words.

UK February 2025

• US February 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9781350503656 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350503670 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350503663 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism

Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century

Edited by Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Martin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Shedding new light on Andrea Cesalpino, an understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin’s volume covers the diverse fields he wrote on including logic, epistemology, demonology, natural philosophy, mineralogy, botany, and medicine. By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle’s texts on his work, this book reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition • Bloomsbury Academic

Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy

Edited by Matthew Lindauer, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Introducing experimental political philosophy as a burgeoning field of inquiry, this volume brings together leading scholars using empirical methods to shed light on questions of justice and politics. Chapters cover traditional topics including distributive justice, egalitarianism, property rights, and healthcare justice, as well as the problem of misogynistic extremist movements, the public justification of immigration enforcement, and the relationship between gender norms and support for care labor organizing.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350254299 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350254251

ePub 9781350254275 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350254268 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Why Collingwood Matters

A Defence of Humanistic Understanding

Giuseppina D'Oro, Keele University, UK

R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century thought.

Giussepina D'oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but as a whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters provides a muchneeded examination of a 20th-century polymath.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350428621 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350185715

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Series: Why Philosophy Matters • Bloomsbury Academic

Justin Sytsma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & James R. Beebe, University at Buffalo, USA

Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy

The Logical Structure of Exemplarity

Thomas Raysmith, Bard College Berlin, Germany

Drawing on the work of major 18th and 19th century philosophers, Thomas Raysmith critically examines Hegel’s justification that philosophy has a history. Hegel elaborated a ‘logical structure’ associated with the fundamental nature of thought itself, permitting a history of philosophy. Raysmith presents this ‘structure of exemplarity’ as a dynamic reciprocity between universality, particularity and singularity. An engaging historical reconstruction of the shifting understanding of the fundamental nature of human thought from Kant, through Fichte and Schelling, to Hegel’s mature logic, this is a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of German idealism and the history of philosophy more broadly.

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HB 9781350423763 £85.00 / $115.00

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ePdf 9781350423770 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia

The Life and Thought Behind the Tractatus

Logico-Philosophicus

Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska, Jagiellonian University, Poland.

Delving into Wittgenstein's recently-published private diaries from 1914 to 1917, Urszula IdziakSmoczynska offers unique insight into a pivotal period in Wittgenstein's life, when he completed his ground-breaking work in logic and underwent a profound spiritual transformation that left an indelible mark on his future and his philosophical evolution. This important exploration of Wittgenstein’s formative years not only sheds light on Wittgenstein's philosophical journey but highlights his role in a broader context – as one of the major intellectuals and artists who struggled in the first World War, shaping the postwar scientific and artistic landscape.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350511965 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350511989 • £76.50 / $103.94

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World All Languages (except Polish)

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff

Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship

Edited by Pamela Sue Anderson & Michele Le Doeuff

The work of Michèle Le Dœuff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be. Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple and a hierarchy of knowledge, Le Dœuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship. The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted and shows how openness and generosity can be the starting point of truly rigorous thinking.

Introduced and curated by the late philosopher, Pamela Sue Anderson, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Dœuff explores themes like contemporary feminism, joy in philosophy, memory, the significance of friendship to thinking and a key Le Dœuffian concept, the imaginary.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages • 2 colour photographs

PB 9781350269972 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350134997

ePub 9781350135017 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350135000 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Hope and the Kantian Legacy

New Contributions to the History of Optimism

Edited by Katerina Mihaylova, MLU HalleWittenberg, Germany & Anna Ezekiel, University of York, UK

Reconstructing and analysing a variety of approaches to hope in late 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, this collection explores perspectives on hope from Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Beck, Hoffbauer, Kierkegaard and others. Drawing on expertise from a diverse group of contributors, chapters consider different aspects of the concept of hope, including the rationality of hope, appropriate and inappropriate applications of hope and the function of hope in relation to religion and society. The collection constitutes a valuable resource for exploring the development of this important concept in post-Kantian German philosophy.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 328 pages

PB 9781350238787 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350238084

ePub 9781350238107 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350238091 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy Bloomsbury Academic

Deleuze and the Problem of Experience

Transcendental Empiricism

Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview. By focusing on Deleuze’s theory of the faculties, we can see how he builds a transcendental system of thought that defies the predictability of empirical experience. This new understanding of Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist not only helps to situate his work in the constellation of twentieth century French philosophers but also helps us to understand a philosopher for whom difference and heterogeneity were central to his own philosophical corpus.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350450608 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350450622 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350450615 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Psychoanalytic Sociology

A New Theory of the Social Bond

Duane Rousselle

This book offers a new theory of the social bond that accounts for recent developments in the cultural logic of capitalism and paradoxically centers the ‘singularity’. Each chapter offers a different and compelling perspective on broader phenomenons and notions of estrangement within the civilization and rogue state, the master-slave dialectic, and the status of knowledge in the era of singularities. With enriched dialogues between Lacanian, Marxist theory and theoretical sociology as well as illustrative contemporary examples, Psychoanalytic Sociology argues that our current social crises are exemplified by the way in which social groups project their own inhumanity onto others.

UK September 2024 • US September 2024 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350410183 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350410206 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350410190 • £76.50 / $76.50

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The Democrats in Turmoil

The Bitter Fights to Select a Presidential Nominee, 1896-1924

Bradley C. Nahrstadt, Independent Scholar, USA

Recounting the Democratic National Conventions in 1896, 1904, 1912, 1920, and 1924, this book details the bitter inner-party struggles that almost always led to Democratic losses in the fall. The Democrats couldn’t win an election around the turn of the 20th century—not because they couldn’t find good candidates but because of the infighting and bitter nomination battles prior to and during their national conventions. This book tells the story of the issues facing the country heading into the conventions and general elections, the background and personalities of the men who fought for the nomination, and the tumultuous rivalries among Democratic factions.

The Right Women

Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators

Edited by Malliga Och, Idaho State University, USA & Shauna L. Shames, Rutgers University, USA

With literature on conservative women in the United States still in its infancy, The Right Women fills an important gap by examining Republican women as distinct from their male Republican and Democratic female counterparts while also exploring the shifting role of Republican women in their party and in politics overall. The Right Women brings those subjects together in one volume that provides fascinating reading for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in U.S. politics.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 312 pages

PB 9798765134474 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440851629

ePub 9798216139843 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440851636 £28.73 / $28.73

Series: Gender Matters in U.S. Politics Bloomsbury Academic World English

Congress and U.S. Veterans

From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis Lindsey Cormack, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Providing a compelling look at veterans' policy, this book describes why the Republican party is considered the party for veterans despite the fact that Congressional Democrats are responsible for a greater number of policy initiatives. Drawing on thousands of e-newsletters sent from Congress to constituents, Congress and U.S. Veterans argues that the distribution of veterans across districts and the Republican Party is based on government spending, which pulls Republican legislators in opposite directions. This eye-opening book offers a history of veterans' programs, highlights legislative leaders and the most pressing policy areas for reform, identifies the issues most often discussed by members of Congress from each party, points out which congresspeople have acted on veterans' issues and which have not, and analyzes veteran population distribution and legislative policy preferences.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 312 pages

PB 9798765136034 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440858369

ePub 9798216064923 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440858376 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Conflict and Today's Congress Bloomsbury Academic

The Emerging Republican Minorities

Racial and Ethnic Realignment in the Trump Era

Udi Sommer, Tel Aviv University, Israel & Idan Franco, Northwestern University, USA

How is it possible that Donald Trump, a champion of racist and anti-immigrant policies, has only attracted more minority voters since 2016? Drawing on extensive statistical analysis, this book challenges the conventional wisdom on Black, Latino, and Asian American voters. Much like for white voters, minority-hostile positions on race, immigration, and China are critical in explaining how members of those same minority groups vote, even for candidates who prima facie should not win any of their support. Using detailed regression models and robust empirical tests, this book demonstrates how minority constituencies are more ideologically diverse than commonly thought.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9798765134153 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765134177 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765134160 • £79.83 / $79.83

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Winning the War on Poverty

Applying the Lessons of History to the Present

Brian L. Fife, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA

Winning the War on Poverty highlights the ideological differences between liberal and conservative beliefs and includes insights drawn from a well-rounded group of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, economics, and public health. Premised on the idea that only the lessons of history can help policymakers recognize that the United States has a persistent poverty problem that is much worse than it is in many other democracies, the book suggests an 18-point plan to substantively address this dilemma.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 248 pages

PB 9798765134467 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440832819

ePub 9798216165767 • £28.73 / $35.95

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Contemporary Youth Activism Advancing Social Justice in the United States

Edited by Jerusha Conner, Villanova University, USA & Sonia M. Rosen, Arcadia University, USA

At a time when youth are too often dismissed as either empowered consumers or disempowered deviants, it is vital to understand how these young people are pushing back, challenging such constructions, and advancing new possibilities for their institutions and themselves. This book examines the latest developments in the field of contemporary youth activism and documents the myriad ways in which youth activists are effecting social change, even as they experience personal change.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 448 pages

PB 9798765133613 • £17.99 / $24.95

Previously published in HB 9781440842122

ePub 9798216065814 £68.65 / $85.50

ePdf 9781440842139 • £68.65 / $68.65

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Fighting for the Progressive Center in the Age of Trump

Joseph M. Hoeffel, former US Representative, Pennsylvania, USA

A dedicated politician who has served as a congressman and state legislator defines the formidable challenge for progressives after the 2016 election—and explains how to bring back leaders focused on working in the broad center of politics in order to get things done for the people. Readers will understand how regaining ground for liberal and progressive thinkers requires winning public support, which depends on fighting to reestablish the political center with policies that are socially liberal and fiscally responsible.

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ePdf 9781440859557 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Meltdown

The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward

Larry Kirsch, IMR Health Economics, USA & Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University, USA

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in the provision of financial services, staff of financial services and consumer protection regulatory agencies, and fair lending and consumer protection advocates.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 176 pages

PB 9798765136713 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Navigating Social Security Disability Programs

A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates

James Randall Noblitt, California School of Professional Psychology, USA & Pamela Perskin Noblitt, Independent Scholar, USA

Almost all medical and mental health professionals will need to interact with Social Security at some point, but will not understand the relevance or importance of their response. This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 576 pages

PB 9798765136645 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440870019

ePub 9798216122012 • £54.28 / $67.50

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Hate Unleashed America's Cataclysmic Change

Edward W. Dunbar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it became clear that hostility, intolerance, and violence targeting minorities, immigrants, and socially progressive individuals was more prevalent in the United States than many thought. This book looks at the process by which America moved away from a progressive democratic model of governance in response to themes of economic and cultural vulnerability. It also spells out the challenge for Americans living in a time of political conservatism and unbridled hostility toward minorities, immigrants, and socially progressive individuals—and what democratic-minded people can do to take action.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 264 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9798765135921 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440858147

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Modern American Political Dynasties

A Study of Power, Family, and Political Influence

Edited by Kathleen Gronnerud, Saddleback College, USA & Scott J. Spitzer, California State University-Fullerton, USA

This collection offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on political, social, and economic issues in American society. It is the only published volume to include biographical and contextual information on major political dynasties in addition to fascinating research on high-profile personalities.

UK November 2024 US November 2024 384 pages 24 bw illus

PB 9798765136935 £28.99 / $39.95

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The Politics of Cancer Malignant Indifference

Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, Cameron University, USA

This book offers insight into the realities of science policy and the ways in which the federal government is both the source of funding for much of cancer research and often deficient in setting comprehensive and consistent anti-cancer policy. Readers will come to understand how Congress, the president, the bureaucracy, and the cancer industry all share responsibility for the current state of cancer policy confusion and consider whether pharmaceutical companies, for-profit cancer treatment hospitals, and interest groups like the American Cancer Society have a personal incentive to keep the fight alive.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 216 pages

PB 9798765136942 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440853302

ePub 9798216129868 • £47.09 / $58.50

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Declaration of Independence

America's First Founding Document in U.S. History and Culture

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature. It includes more than 200 entries examining various facets of the Declaration and its enduring impact on American law, politics, and culture.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 496 pages 34 bw illus

PB 9798765135235 £28.99 / $39.95

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Everyday Politics in Russia From Resentment to Resistance

Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University, Denmark

A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. This sheds new light on the everyday political lives of ordinary Russians and their attitudes towards the war in Ukraine, their government and their lives since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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ePub 9781350509337 • £19.79 / $26.99

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European Security

From Ukraine to Washington

Richard Rose

Explores the military and economic threats to European countries from the end of the Second World War to current challenges to the European Union and Washington from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781350471344 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350471306 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350471337 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350471320 • £19.79 / $19.79

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Russian Government and Politics

Eric Shiraev, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

This new edition covers everything students need to know about the key institutions, people, parties and policies in Russian government and politics, as well as covering political behaviour, participation and communication. Revised to offer coverage and analysis of recent events, this new edition offers discussion of the war in Ukraine and its geopolitical, economic, social and psychological consequences. It also offers critical discussion of the Russian political system and its pivot toward authoritarianism, as well as detailed discussion of social and cultural issues and their interaction with politics; to further underline the role of individual personalities and the political impact of informal political and business arrangements in Russia. With new research and statistical updates including opinion polls, expert opinions, and other sources, this is the ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Russian politics or comparative government and politics more broadly.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 368 pages

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The Wokisme Controversy

The Americanization of Debates on Identity, Race, and Gender in France

Hervé-Thomas Campangne, University of Maryland, USA

Focusing on French controversies about wokisme—a translation of the American word wokeism—this book reflects on France's ongoing transformation into a multicultural society and the divisions this change has caused. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, American debates on race, gender, and equity reverberated throughout France, which some reactionaries perceived as a new form of American cultural imperialism. Combining analysis of political, academic, and journalistic discourse with international relations approaches, this book unpacks French anti-Americanism in the context of recent debates on U.S.-style woke ideology, intersectionality, and cancel culture.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9798765132395 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765132418 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765132401 • £79.83 / $79.83

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Global Political Economy Evolution and Dynamics

Robert O'Brien, McMaster University, Canada & Marc Williams, University of New South Wales, Australia

This seventh edition offers an accessible introduction to today’s world economy, and considers traditional and critical theories of global political economy. Tracing the global economy from its early origins through each phase of a shifting world order, the book takes a non-Eurocentric approach, covering both traditional elements of the global economy (such as trade and finance) while also addressing important contemporary areas of concern, including social inequality, cryptocurrencies, populism and protectionism. Reflecting the latest empirical and scholarly developments, this new edition offers new chapters on race and health, along with an extensive companion website.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 512 pages

PB 9781350347892 £34.99 / $47.95 HB 9781350347885 £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781350347854 £31.49 / $43.19

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Globalizing Eastern Europe

Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century

Edited by Gilad Ben-Nun, University of Leipzig, Germany, Katja Castryck-Naumann & Lena Dallywater

For far too long, views of Eastern Europe as an entrenched, deprived and peripheral region have shaped common perceptions of this area of the world. Presenting important contemporary research, Globalizing Eastern Europe offers a series of refreshing arguments to counter such misconceptions. From grain production, which rose to challenge the American Midwest, to the making of modern international law, and from emancipatory educational concepts that countered Victorian doctrines to the de-nationalisation of classical music, this volume recasts Eastern Europe as a globally active region. With a contemporary focus, its contributions also provide a fresh look at current Chinese infrastructure investments in the region, at Russia’s pivotal role in climate change, and at debates regarding the uneven urban developments between core and periphery. With a view to tracking historical trajectories, and an emphasis upon agency as a driving motor in global entanglements, Eastern Europe emerges as a globally engaged region. In doing so, this volume further enriches the perennial debates regarding the region’s spatial and cultural boundaries.

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Comparative Capitalism A Global Perspective

Magnus Feldmann

The debate surrounding Varieties of Capitalism has been limited by its excessive focus on Western Europe and North America. Comparative Capitalism takes a global perspective to understand capitalist diversity, considering not only liberal and coordinated market economies but also networked, hierarchical and new market models. The book accounts for the significance of state structures, global integration and natural resources, and includes a range of case studies from across East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Offering tables, figures, and overviews of key features of each economy, this book is essential reading for students of political economy and international development.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350423107 • £32.99 / $44.95

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ePdf 9781350423077 • £29.69 / $29.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Serbia’s Balancing Act

Between Russia and the West

Vuk Vuksanovic

In a time of extreme tension between Russia and the West, this book demonstrates how Serbia, a small but strategically important Balkan country is navigating its position between clashing great powers, and how this precarious balancing act impacts Serbian domestic and foreign policy.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350400603 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350400610 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350400627 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Geopolitics in Central Europe

Superpower Competition and Regional Dynamics

Csaba Moldicz

Charts the changes in the geopolitical landscape of Central Europe over the last two decades, including the economic influence of China, diplomatic involvement of Russia, and increased US interest in the region under the Biden administration. The book also explains why the countries of Central Europe are realigning their geopolitical alliances towards the great powers as confidence in the European project and its economic benefits has waned, and what opportunities this realignment could hold.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350326767 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350326729

ePub 9781350326736 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350326743 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Nile History's Greatest River

Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, Norway

The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its ancient sources. The result is a journey through 5000 years of history and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 400 pages • 20 colour illus

PB 9781350522237 • £19.99 / $26.95

Previously published in HB 9780755616794

ePub 9780755616800 • £36.00 / $49.94

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

When Religious and Secular Interests Collide

Faith,

Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate

Scott A. Merriman, Troy University, USA

Can religion be used to legalize discrimination? This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America. Readers will gain vital historical background about this battleground topic of academic and public interest, see how the contentious issue has changed in the past, and learn about recent developments. This book accompanies primary source documents, such as excerpts of important Supreme Court decisions, with insightful analysis of how the religious exemption issue surfaced in modern American culture.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 216 pages

PB 9798765136652 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440847073

ePub 9798216164562 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440847080 • £47.09 / $47.09

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Climate Change on the Battlefield

International Military Responses to the Climate Crisis

Erin Sikorsky, Center for Climate and Security, USA

Climate Change on the Battlefield examines how climate change is reshaping modern military operations, and the role of international militaries in responding to the effects of the climate crisis. The book takes an international case study approach, looking at specific geographies such as Afghanistan and the Arctic, as well as types of military operations, including firefighting and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions. The book also explores in detail how different countries from across every continent, and international institutions, are responding to these threats while also critically assessing their emissions and contributions to the climate crisis.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350407657 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350407664 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350407671 • £19.79 / $26.99

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Series: Studies in Contemporary Warfare • Bloomsbury Academic

Epigenetics and Public Policy

The Tangled Web of Science and Politics

Shea K. Robison, Idaho State University, USA

The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. It also poses fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions of the prevailing science of genetics. When science changes, how does public policy respond? This book comprehensively considers the political implications of the emerging science of epigenetics in specific policy domains, addressing the intersections of epigenetics with cancer, obesity, the environment, and the law.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 384 pages

PB 9798765135754 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440844690

ePub 9798216080633 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440844706 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Security in 21st Century Europe

Andrew Cottey, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland

Examining recent challenges and policy dilemmas, this third edition examines the changing character of European security. It explores Europe's engagement with core thematic issues in security, including military intervention, nuclear weapons, terrorism and non-military security. The new edition is fully updated with three new chapters on migration, climate change and cybersecurity, along with coverage of recent major developments including the Syrian civil war, the Russian war on Ukraine, the rise of populism, migration crises, and the rise of China. This text is the perfect companion for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in security studies, European studies or international relations.

UK

Who Fights for Governments?

Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond

Huseyn Aliyev

Explores why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, based on research on Ukraine's response to Russian aggression in the Donbas War and the 2022 Russian invasion.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350498419 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350498433 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350498426 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Proxy Wars from a Global Perspective

Non-State Actors and Armed Conflicts

Edited by Pawel Bernat, Polish Air Force University, Poland, Cüneyt Gürer, George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, Germany & Cyprian Aleksander Kozera, University of Warsaw, Poland

Based on ten global case studies of proxy warfare, this volume reassesses how changing global and systemic factors shape the ways in which states use non-state actors as proxies in their armed conflicts. Bringing together contributions from scholars of international relations and global security studies, this book explores cases of regional and global significance including Israel and Palestine, the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, Central Asia, Syria, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Brazil and Yemen. Drawing on theory and practise, it sheds light on policy implications for how we understand and negotiate with states using proxy warfare in the future.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages

PB 9781350369320 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350369283

ePub 9781350369290 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369306 • £81.00 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Praeger Security International

Confronting the Evolving Global Security Landscape

Lessons from the Past and Present

Max G. Manwaring, U.S. Army War College, USA

By dissecting lessons from both the past and the present, this book helps civilian and military leaders, opinion makers, scholars, and interested citizens come to grips with the realities of the 21st-century global security arena. This book uses case studies to investigate the evolving nature of global security and to advocate for security concepts, policy structures, and policymaking precautions that are necessary for the United States to play more effectively in the global security arena.

UK October 2024 US October 2024 192 pages

PB 9798765135914 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440867828

ePub 9798216064886 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440867835 • £28.73 / $28.73

Series: Praeger Security International • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Emerging Security Challenges

American Jihad, Terrorism, Civil War, and Human Rights

Seung-Whan Choi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

Taking a consistent theoretical and empirical approach, this book explicates the relationships among four closely related areas of concern for national security: the growing threat of America's homegrown jihadists, the continuing rise of terrorism, the causes of gross violations of human rights, and the pervasiveness of civil war. Each chapter presents systematic, empirical evidence of security trends for more than 100 sample countries, determined using the most current statistical methods, and concludes with practical policy recommendations.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 320 pages

PB 9798765135938 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440863042

ePub 9798216078739 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440863059 £28.73 / $28.73

Series: Praeger Security International • Bloomsbury Academic World English

International Relations Theory of War

Ofer Israeli, University of Haifa, Israel

Based on an in-depth review of the leading theories in the field of international relations, International Relations Theory of War explains an innovative theory on the international system that the author applies comprehensively to a large number of case studies. The book argues that there is a unipolar system that represents a kind of innovation relative to other systemic theories. It further posits that unipolar systems will be less stable than bipolar systems and more stable than multipolar systems, providing new insights relative to other theories that argue that unipolar systems are the most stable.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 248 pages

PB 9798765136874 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440871344

ePub 9798216103936 • £61.46 / $76.50

ePdf 9781440871351 • £61.46 / $61.46

Series: Praeger Security International Bloomsbury Academic World English

Esotericism in Western Culture Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge

Wouter J. Hanegraaff

This expanded new edition of Esotericism in Western Culture brings a foundational text in the field up to date. Hanegraaff surveys key topics for which “esotericism” has become the preferred label: gnosticism and hermetism in antiquity, “occult sciences” (astrology, alchemy, magic), Renaissance hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Christian theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, and related currents up to and including the New Age. New sections include Jewish and Islamic Esotericism, global perspectives and politics, and a final chapter on The Future of Esotericism. The book has been updated throughout to reflect current scholarship and increased accessibility for non-specialists.

UK

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ePub 9781350459717 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350459700 £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China

An Imagined Paradise

Mu-chou Poo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can these traditions be compared?

In this book, Mu-chou Poo considers this question, and provides a new perspective on archaeological materials, including tomb structures and funerary texts, by addressing them in the context of universal human problems such as death, the future of the dead, and the search for happiness in life.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 176 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9780567702043 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567702005

ePub 9780567702036 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567702012 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Chinese)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University, Canada & Sarah Shectman, independent scholar, USA

Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines and interrogates the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies. Chapters look at ritual and ceremonial practices, iconographic representations, mythological and divinatory texts, personal beliefs, and piety, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality and religion as a central category of inquiry.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 496 pages

HB 9781350382015 £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350382039 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350382022 • £126.00 / $126.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

History, Cosmology and Spirits

Edited by Diana Espírito Santo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile & Ruy Blanes, Independent Scholar

How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices – religious, spiritual or otherwise – in places of both modernity and political trauma? This volume investigates how political, social, and individual temporal and historical horizons generated and/or reformulated in relation to embodied, material, and ideological/teleological contexts. It also considers how this history-making projects itself onto imagined futures or alternative historical lines and how temporal continuities and discontinuities are created.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350467637 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350467651 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350467644 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK & John Eade & Katy Soar

Metamorphosis of Buddhism in New Era China

Between

State, Culture, and Religion

Edited by David L. Wank, Sophia University, Japan, Ji Zhe, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France & Yoshiko Ashiwa, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

This study of contemporary Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China, and argues that Buddhism has entered a new era since the mid-2000s. Case studies from extended fieldwork in and beyond the People’s Republic of China take readers to Buddhist temples, nunneries, mega-expos, and study centres, exploring multiple traditions, institutions, and regions. This a much-needed contribution to the field of contemporary Buddhism.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350504561 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350504585 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350504578 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Ecstasy

Edited by Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Canada, Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Canada & Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, Canada

Providing case studies that highlight the diverse voices of people who have ecstatic religious experiences, this book brings together chapters on ecstasy, transformations of the mind and body, and interactions between the living and spirits. This book focuses on ecstatic contexts across North and South America, Africa, Japan and beyond. In each case, intersectional analysis is used to uncover the links among racial, social, and gendered political margins.

Using a wealth of research from both past and present, the authors interrogate institutional contexts of possession, intoxication and exorcism, uncovering group interactions between people and gods, saints, angels, or demons.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 320 pages • 7 bw illis

HB 9781350347014 £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350346994 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350347007 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Women and the Catholic Church Negotiating Identity and Agency

Tracy McEwan, University of Newcastle, Australia

This book develops a new methodological framework for analysing the power, participation, and identity of women in patriarchal religious institutions. It theorises the harm women experience in Catholicism as a quotidian form of gendered violence, and conceptualises and defines “everyday spiritual abuse”. The book also critically examines how women negotiate and subvert hegemonic systems of power and knowledge in Catholicism through an in-depth exploration of the lived identities and experiences of Gen X women in Australia.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages

HB 9781350424821 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350424845 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350424838 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality • Bloomsbury Academic

The Politics of Sacred Places

A View from Israel-Palestine

Nimrod Luz, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

A study of the socio-political dimensions of sacred sites in Israel-Palestine, drawing on over 20 years of in-depth ethnographic research which introduces cutting-edge theories on secularization, struggles for recognition and diversity issues.

This book focuses on contemporary sacred sites and their sociopolitical meanings for minorities within a hegemonic and a secularizing state-system. It argues that sacred places and the ample socio-religious-political practices they entail provide a space which is less scrutinized by the state and hegemonic powers within it, where alternative visions of the socio-political may be produced.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350295766 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350295728

ePub 9781350295742 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350295735 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Comics, Culture, and Religion

Faith Imagined

Edited by Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, Netherlands

How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? With the growing popularity and influence of comics and graphic novels in contemporary culture, this open access book provides a valuable addition to the discussion of the medium, focusing on religious and sociological aspects.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Faculty for Humanities and Education and the University Library at the University of Agder, Norway.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9781350321625 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350321588

ePub 9781350321601 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350321595 £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion

Amy R. Whitehead, Oxford Brookes University,

UK

Sensing Islam

Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity

Simon Stjernholm

Presents, discusses and analyses historical as well as contemporary examples of how the senses have been engaged and contested in Muslim religiosity. Combining the research fields of Islamic Studies, anthropology of Islam, material religion and sensory studies, this book covers a range of materials, including writings by Muslim religious authorities, ethnographic material, sound recordings and interviews.

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The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxies

History, Politics and Popular Culture

Edited by Alexandros Tsakos, University of Bergen, Norway & Marie von der Lippe

This open access book explores various manifestations of the Archangel Michael in history, politics and popular culture. A highly venerated figure, this book reveals how the Archangel Michael has been linked with magic and ritual power; has guided religious and secular leaders; been “branded” in order to market his blessings and protections; and has been used by groups as diverse as Christians of Adventist beliefs, politicians and New Age leaders.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Bergen.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350302693 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350302709 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350302686 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Religion and Tourism in Japan

Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems

Ian Reader, The University of Manchester, UK

In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan. He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350418875 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350418837

ePub 9781350418851 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350418844 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Devotional Visualities

Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures

Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA & Amy-Ruth Holt, independent scholar, USA

This book is the first to focus on material visualities that shape, convey and expand paths of devotional participation (bhakti) from across India, in the past and present. It argues that a central focus on visuality is both at the heart of bhakti expression, and as an academic focus, it changes our understanding of bhakti’s development and impact through analysis of material religion. This book shows that examining bhakti’s visualities is crucial for understanding its wide and enduring influence on the field of religion and beyond.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 336 pages 70 bw illus

PB 9781350214224 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350214187

ePub 9781350214200 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350214194 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

The Ministry of Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam

Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Placing Farrakhan’s life and leadership in historical context, this book traces his evolution from a fiery Black Nationalist in 1960s Harlem to a respected leader in sections of the USA and abroad, providing insights into the history of African American Islam, Black Nationalism and Islam in the West. Archives drawn on include the FBI’s files on the NOI and its leaders, Farrakhan’s writings in the Muhammad Speaks newspaper in the 1960s and early 1970s, and lectures and interviews from the late 1970s to the present day.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9781350426337 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350068506

ePub 9781350068520 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350068513 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

Teaching and Learning Religion

Engaging the Work of Eugene V. Gallagher and Patricia O’Connell Killen

Edited by Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, USA & Thomas Pearson, Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts at Eckerd College, USA

Eugene V. Gallagher and Patricia Killen have influenced a generation of religious studies professors through their Wabash Center teaching workshops. In this volume, contributors pay tribute to their influence and build on their insights in short essays focused on three perennial themes: Place, Plan and Persona. The volume contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in religious studies and higher education by analyzing Gallagher and Killen's insights, and more generally, by exploring a substantial range of perspectives on core and enduring pedagogical concepts and questions.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350278721 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350278684

ePub 9781350278707 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350278691 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Rainbow Trap

Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion

Kevin Guyan, University of Glasgow, UK

Rainbow Trap is the first book to foreground the importance of systems – and their associated documents, policies and administrative practices –as a key battleground for LGBTQ equalities in the UK.

Looking across digital and non-digital systems, Guyan investigates five industries – the police, borders, film and television, tech and global brands – and expose a hidden rule book that constructs, categorises and commodifies LGBTQ identities.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350429680 • £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350429697 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350429703 • £18.00 / $18.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Ascetics As Activists

Saffron Women of Hindu Nationalism

Koushiki Dasgupta, Vidyasagar University, India

Ascetics as Activists examines the position of the female ascetics or sadhvis within the right-wing Hindu nationalist discourse in India. Dasgupta calls attention to the role of religion in gendered identity formation and political activism of the female ascetics in reference to the project of Hindutva in contemporary India. Ignoring disciplinary divisions, this book cuts through history, politics, and gender studies to explore an authentic perspective of asceticism, activism, spirituality, and masculinity as these have been constituted in the representation of female ascetics within the Hindutva movement.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 224 pages

HB 9781350448988 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350448995 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350449008 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Transgender Identities

The Evolving Identity of Transwomen in Pakistan

Sheba Saeed, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Transgender Identities explores the complexities of transwomen identities in the context of Pakistan with an insight into the traditional and evolving transwoman, and the intersectionalities that are present within those communities. Saeed explores the historical background of the transgender community in South Asia, the cities and the communities that impact the lives of transwomen in Pakistan, and how generational differences impact their lives and identities. Through interviews with 26 khwaja saras, Saeed brings together a comparative analysis of both these communities and explores in greater depth the fluid nature of the identity of these transwomen.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780755639861 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755639885 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755639892 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Fire Dragon Feminism

Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism

Quah Ee Ling, Western Sydney University, Australia

Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in the AsiaPacific region, including the author’s own personal experiences, Fire Dragon Feminism discusses Asian migrant women employees’ encounters with colonialism, racial capitalism and white patriarchy at their workplace and in their everyday life.

Centring and consolidating decolonial, transnational, intersectional and queer feminist strategies, the author introduces 'fire dragon feminism' - a feminist strand that aims to build place-based, migrant feminist principles and ethics for Asian capitalist migrant subjects - to provide a critical intervention for understanding the specificity of a feminist ethics relevant to Asian migrant women living and working in Asia-Pacific settler and postcolonial contexts.

Quah Ee Ling tracks the historical migration trajectories of early settler Asian migrant women, reflects on her own encounters with institutional racism, and explores the display of ‘fire dragon feminism’ in Asian migrant women’s grassroots counter-resistance efforts.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350447820 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350447813 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350447837 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350447844 • £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

Black Lives Matter

A Reference Handbook

Shaonta' Allen, Simone N. Durham & Angela Jones, Stony Brook University, USA

Beginning with the infamous incidents of police brutality that spurred the creation and growth of Black Lives Matter, this book goes on to profile leading and influential activists and organizations, such as the NAACP, movement co-founder Alicia Garza, and civil rights activist and sportsman Colin Kaepernick. Readers will gain an understanding of important organizational priorities, as well as criticisms of BLM and controversies surrounding the group. A broad range of personal essays explore the persistent problems of police violence and racial discrimination in the USA.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781440879173 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216172734 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440879180 £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary World Issues Bloomsbury Academic

Teen Runaways in America

A Reference Handbook

Michele Wakin

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of teen runaways in the USA, including the demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of the problem. This work examines every aspect of the issue, from the key drivers of the phenomenon (such as estrangement from family or vulnerability to abuse) to the dangers of life as a runaway (from hunger to human trafficking) to the efforts of agencies, organizations, and advocates to reduce the number of teen runaways and provide assistance and resources to teenagers already on the street.

UK May 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781440880568 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765116517 £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440880575 £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Youth Activism

A Reference Handbook

Hava Rachel Gordon, University of Denver, USA

This resource explores the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world. It places a special focus on prominent youth activists, their organizations, and the causes to which they are determined to make change, including civil rights, environmental issues such as climate change, gender and LGBTQ+ rights, and US military actions and financial investments to which they are opposed. How has youth activism changed over the decades? What impact are young activists having on the political causes that are important to them today? This wideranging resource answers all those questions and more.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781440879883 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765116456 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440879890 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic World English

To Be or Not to Be Sociological Methodological Ways of Seeing

Dev Nath Pathak, South Asian University, Delhi, India

What does it mean to be sociological? Intellectual theatrics embedded in sociology, philosophy, and history of sciences, helmed with insights and enchantment, compel us to treat methodology as a dramatically invigorating field of perceptions and practices. This book marshals such varied materials to wishfully unsettle the gingerly settled debates to curate ruptures for further explorations. The message is that methodology is not, and shall not be, a finished product unless parochialism and progress have become synonymous in sociology in India and South Asia.

UK May 2025 US July 2025 248 pages

HB 9789356409934 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356408968 £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

T&T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts

Edited by Stephen M. Garrett, Global Scholars, USA & Imogen Adkins, Stowe School, UK

This handbook introduces readers to the cultural and political embeddedness of theology and the arts. Part I surveys different approaches to the theology-arts conversation. Part II focuses on how particular art forms bring theological issues to the surface and how theological and denominational traditions shape the making and receiving of the arts. Part III delves into key topics in the current theology-arts scene and asks how artistic and theological performance can both speak to theological and artistic knowing, and help to celebrate and interrogate embodied, lived reality.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 560 pages

HB 9780567683755 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9780567683779 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9780567683762 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: Religion and the Arts & T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

The Legacy of Hans W. Frei

Edited by George Hunsinger, Princeton

Theological Seminary, USA

This is the first volume on Frei to engage with a wide range of topics, including the centrality of biblical narrative, thoughts on Barth and Anselm, and the relationship with other contemporary notables such as Ricoeur, Lindbeck, Henry and Jüngel. It also provides an alternative Roman Catholic reading of the history of biblical heremeneutics against the one he advocates. Overall, all these consolidate and cast fresh light upon Frei’s legacy.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9780567706072 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567706034

ePub 9780567706065 • £117.00 / $159.29

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T&T Clark

T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology

Ian A. McFarland, Emory University, USA, Ivor J. Davidson & Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK & John Webster, University of St Andrews, UK

The Doctrine of God and the Crisis of Modernity

Jared Michelson, University of St Andrews, UK Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant. Charnock, Schleiermacher and Barth each offered accounts of the doctrine of God. This book offers a critical evaluation of these accounts and demonstrates how they were responding to early modern critiques of the possibility of knowing God. Indeed, this work also highlights how these critics built their arguments on faulty interpretations of classical theological tradition. In doing so, this book carves out a provocative, construct path forward for contemporary theological reflection on the doctrine of God.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9780567718952 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567718976 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark

John Webster's Vision of Moral Agency

A Study in Theological Moral Ontology

W. Jeremy Jones, Memphis City Seminary, USA

This book explores, for the first time, John Webster’s contribution to one of the most important and contested topics in Christian theology: the relationship between divine and human agency. Jones achieves this through close study of Webster texts ranging from his early, middle and late periods. It highlights that Webster’s moral ontology is not only a major theme in his thought but is among his most significant contributions to contemporary systematic and moral theology. This text will be of interest to Webster scholars and those teaching courses in late modern systematic theology and theological ethics.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780567718853 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567718884 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567718877 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark

Sin and the Vulnerability of Embodied Life

Towards a Catholic Theology of Social Sin

Charlotte Bray, University of Manchester, UK

By drawing on a diverse range of thinkers from both within and outside of the Catholic tradition, this book examines what sin is and how it shapes our lives in a fallen, yet grace-filled, world. It explores how Catholics should speak about sin and grace in a world where structural injustice holds sway causing harm and violence to both people and planet.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780567714879 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567714893 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567714886 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark

How To Do Christian Ethics

Living the Grammar of Christian Life Every Day

Edited by Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK, Nadine Hamilton, University of Regensburg, Germany & Daniel R. Patterson, St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria

Discover how pressing contemporary moral issues can be approached and discussed in a distinct and coherently theological fashion. This book displays a more direct approach that has the distinct advantage of being approachable, dramatic, and contemporary. Each chapter approaches its subject matter by demonstrating how the sources of Christian moral reasoning— Scripture and church doctrine—can be imaginatively brought to bear on contemporary moral perplexities. This mode of teaching shows in tangible ways how the Christian gospel does in fact reveal our moral world in clear and penetrating ways.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages

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ePdf 9780567717535

£22.49 / $22.49

T&T Clark

T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics

Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK & Susan F. Parsons, Editor of Studies in Christian Ethics

The Spirit of the Corporation

A Theological History

Michael T. Black, Independent Scholar

The practical consequences of the spiritual destruction of modern corporations are grave for all those touched by corporate power – employees, customers, governments, and the innumerable victims of its institutional inhumanity. This work cannot claim to have solved the ‘corporate problem’. Instead, it hopes to provide an alternative to the jargon-filled, self-justifying, and ultimately futile conceptions of the corporate institution which are used to justify its current spiritual aridity.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9780567717092 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567717115 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567717108 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

English Public Theology

A Reformation Response to the Crisis of Natural Rights

Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, University of St. Andrews, UK

Examines the public theology of the English Reformation in a fresh and compelling way, as affording elements of a comprehensive theological critique of the western tradition of natural rights. It swims against the current tide of scholarly ethical and political discussion which, outside of Anglican circles, overlooks or dismisses the moral and political theology of the English Reformation. It also plunges against the tide of influential critiques of modern social and political thought, often Aristotelian or Thomist in perspective, which view Reformation theology as a source of the modern problems rather than a resource for addressing them.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 328 pages

PB 9780567712561 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567712516

ePub 9780567712554 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780567712523 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

Beyond Male and Female? A Theological Account of Intersex Embodiment

Sam Ashton, St Paul's, Hadley Woods, UK

Are all people either male or female or does intersex embodiment push us beyond the malefemale binary? Traditionalists hold to the former, innovationists argue for the latter. This book combines insights from both camps to maintain that we may know the ‘what’ of our sexed embodiment when we work out where we fit within God’s big story of creation to consummation. It examines the breadth and depth of ancient and modern approaches to discerning the theological meaning and significance of sexed embodiment.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 288 pages

PB 9780567713186 £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Studies in Ressourcement

Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary, USA & Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Hope and History

The Communio and Concilium Alternatives

David Collits, Independent Scholar, Australia

This book will enable readers to understand contemporary divisions in Catholic theology. By examining a case study of issues in Catholic fundamental theology, Collits charts a path forward by advocating a rootedness in the Revelation of the Person of Jesus Christ. He does so by exploring metaphysics, the historyontology and nature-grace relationships, soteriology and Christology. Furthermore, in examining the hope-history debate, this book tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9780567718525 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9780567718549 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780567718532 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Ressourcement Catholic Theology and Culture • T&T Clark

Natural Law & the Secular Mythos

What Has Been Left "Unsaid" in Current Debates in Natural Law

Gregory Morgan, St Catherine Laboure Catholic Church

This book argues that natural law – when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary “secular” discourse – has failed. Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophicaltheological tradition, namely, John Finnis, Jean Porter, and John Milbank, the text will seek to illuminate the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 280 pages

HB 9780567716972 • £85.00 / $115.00

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ePdf 9780567716996 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Ressourcement Catholic Theology and Culture • T&T Clark

In Solidarity with the Earth

A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination

Edited by Hilda P. Koster, University of St Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada & Celia Deane-Drummond, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK

Engages an international consortium of theologians, sociologists, and environmental scientists on the effects of resource extraction and pollution on women’s lives, in particular the lives of poor, minoritized and Indigenous women. Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land. While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its departure from the concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’

UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages

PB 9780567706126 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567706096 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology

Daniela C. Augustine, University of Birmingham, UK & Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK

Spirit and Method Pentecostal Theology and the Pneumatological Imagination

Edwin Rodriguez-Gungor, Diocese of St. Anthony, USA

This work offers a generative and hospitable theological methodology rooted in the distinctives of pentecostal spirituality. The methodology is further enlivened by a Spirited imagination and opened toward critical, constructive, and conciliatory dialogue with the wider Christian tradition. This inter- and cross-disciplinary work is a careful yet generous, drawing together of knowledge and wisdom from different domains—historical, philosophical, and theological—in ways recognizably pentecostal and effectively missional.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9780567712059 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology T&T Clark

The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

Eschatology and the Search for Equality

Joseph Lee Dutko, Oceanside Community Church, Canada

This study critically assesses the relationship between women’s equality and eschatology in the Pentecostal movement. For over one hundred years the role of women in Pentecostalism has been debated without a firm consensus. The two competing impulses of the liberation and the exclusion of women in Pentecostal churches has been described numerous ways, including as the so-called Pentecostal “gender paradox.” By examining gender solely through an eschatological lens in history, Scripture, and praxis, Dutko argues that eschatology provides a valid critical approach in the Pentecostal gender debate because it provdes a consistent hermeneutic that authorizes the unrestricted ministry of women.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9780567713650 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology T&T Clark

Theological Metaphysics

A Pentecostal Theology of Being Ray C. Robles, Grand Canyon University and the Northern California Bible College, USA

This work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9780567713766 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567713797 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology T&T Clark

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception

Kevin O’Farrell, Joni and Friends Disability Ministry, USA

Examining Bonhoeffer's understanding of the exception as an extraordinary moment in history that disarms persons, impinging on one's understanding of politics and ethics, this book states that this leads to distinctive narrations of key concepts in Bonhoeffer’s corpus: responsibility, the free venture, simple obedience, and action beyond the law. It also offers a different portrait of Bonhoeffer to contemporary narrations.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 200 pages

PB 9780567709448 £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

The Lyric Voice in English Theology

Elizabeth S. Dodd

Elizabeth S. Dodd traces the contours of a lyric theology through the lens of English lyric tradition. She addresses the dominance of narrative and drama in contemporary theological aesthetics by drawing on recent lyric theory. Informed by the work of critics such as Jonathan Culler, Dodd explores the significance of lyric for theological discourse. Lyric is presented here as a short, musical, expressive and personal form that is also fragmentary, embodied, socially located and performative.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9780567713131 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9780567670328 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9780567670311 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology • T&T Clark

The Scandal of Pentecost A Theology of the Public Church

Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK

This work analyses the day of Pentecost in its significance for the public advent of the church following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. The primary interest of this evaluation is to identify the contributions of Pentecost to a theology of the ‘public church’ – a concept originally developed by the historian of religion Martin E. Marty. At its heart, this book proposes a public ecclesiology with the foundational argument that the day of Pentecost initiates the public witness of the Christian community indicative of its recognition as disciples of Jesus Christ.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 280 pages

PB 9780567712684 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567712653 • £76.50 / $76.50

T&T Clark

Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot

A Triadic Comparison

World Kim, Rosebrook Presbyterian Church, USA

World Kim argues that recent scholastic studies have overemphasized differences amongst various Second Temple texts and neglected the similarities between them. By employing four stages of comparison—description, juxtaposition, re-description, and rectification— Kim re-describes moral agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot, and aims to rectify the relationship between these texts.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 208 pages

HB 9780567719591 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567719621 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567719607 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark

Ecclesiastes 1-5

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary

Stuart Weeks, Durham University, UK

This new volume in the ICC on Ecclesiastes 1-5 brings together all the relevant aids to exegesislinguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this Old Testament book. Stuart D. Weeks incorporates new evidence available in the field, surveys the wealth of secondary literature and provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes as a whole.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 736 pages

PB 9780567717153 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9780567031136

ePdf 9780567693525 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: International Critical Commentary T&T Clark

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom

The Oak and the Gate Ambra Suriano

Ambra Suriano analyses the narrator’s techniques, exploring the influence of the readers’ understanding and playing with their interpretative freedom in recounting particular episodes in the Book of Genesis She argues that a synchronic analysis of the text uncovers a series of binary oppositions that characterise the narrative world of Mamre and Sodom.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780567718655 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567719706 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567718662 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies T&T Clark

Woe-Speeches within the Context of an Oracular Inquiry

Chapter 2 of Habakkuk

Michael Floyd

Michael H. Floyd explores how the woe-speeches in Habakkuk 2:6-20 are related in form and content to the message revealed to the prophet in Hab 2:1-5, defending his reading through spirited debate with other scholars who have similarly proposed a fresh take on various exegetical puzzles of Chapter 2.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 160 pages

HB 9780567717016 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567719423 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567717023 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Laura Quick, Princeton University, USA & Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA

Hebrews: A Social Identity Commentary

Matthew J. Marohl, St. Olaf College, USA

Matthew J. Marohl introduces a culturally sensitive reading of Hebrews by employing a social identity approach which allows readers to encounter a unique and powerful depiction of the faithful Jesus and a dynamic group of Christ-followers called upon to maintain their faithfulness. In the end, this social identity approach reveals a work with two strands thoroughly intertwined.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages

HB 9780567696038 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567696069 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567696045 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Social Identity Commentaries on the New Testament • T&T Clark

The Library of New Testament Studies

Chris Keith, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway

Animals in the New Testament Perspectives from Animal Studies and Ancient Contexts

Edited by Justin Strong, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway & Ruben Zimmermann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

This volume explores the ubiquity of animals and the remarkable density of animal language in the New Testament and its contemporary world. By situating the New Testament amid ancient discourses and incorporating understanding from the emerging field of Animal Studies, the contributors explore the insights that emerge when non-human animals and notions of animality take centre stage.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 304 pages

HB 9780567715821 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567715845 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567715838 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament

Edited by J. Brian Tucker, Moody Theological Seminary, USA & Aaron Kuecker, Trinity Christian College, USA

The T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary highlights the ways in which the New Testament seeks to form the social identity of the earliest Christian movement. The commentary provides helpful overviews of each New Testament text, focusing on various social dimensions and providing outlines that offer a concise picture of each text as a work of social influence. The contributors draw on the resources of social anthropology, historical sociology, and social identity theory, and build on the combination of social history and social theory in order to bring to the fore often overlooked aspects of the New Testament.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 640 pages

PB 9780567716620 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9780567667861

ePub 9780567693310 • £144.00 / $195.74

ePdf 9780567667854 • £144.00 / $144.00

T&T Clark

Reimaging the Magdalene

Feminism, Art, and the CounterReformation

Siobhán Jolley, National Gallery, UK

This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene. Through employment of Liberative Reception Criticism, which develops traditional reception theory in line with liberative hermeneutics, via the insights of intersectionality as critical theory, Siobhan Jolley provides a novel means of analysing how women, and particularly the Magdalene, are imaged in Christian tradition.

UK January 2025

• US January 2025 • 240 pages • 14 bw illus

HB 9780567714268

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567714299 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567714275 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark

Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor

David Anthony Basham, Ashland University, USA

David Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a “system of associated commonplaces” about the Jerusalem temple. He proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the Corinthians by calling them naos theou (“God’s temple”), he sparks a creative process of interaction between the temple and the Corinthian assembly; a process of selecting, emphasizing, and organizing information from the source domain (temple) to see the target domain (the Corinthians) in a new light.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 184 pages

HB 9780567718327 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567718358 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567718334 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Priesthood and Temple in John’s Apocalypse

Constructing the Sanctuary

Timothy B. Tse

Timothy B. Tse argues that, while John uses language drawn from the Hebrew Bible’s descriptions of YHWH’s dwelling place such as the Tabernacle and various iterations of the Temple, scholarship has overlooked the importance of his spatial transformation of that language. Tse thus uses theories relating to Relevance, Resistance Theory, Critical Space Theory, and Conceptual Metaphor, to demonstrate that a significant part of John’s apocalyptic strategy of resistance is to re-present his vision to his audience spatially, so that they can experience a divinely ordained alternative to the world in which they live.

UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 184 pages

HB 9780567716095 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567716125 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567716101 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Library of New Testament Studies

Chris Keith, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway

The Theme of Promise in the Epistle

to the

Hebrews

A Promise Remains

Daniel Stevens, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA

Daniel Stevens analyses the use of the language of divine commitment in the Epistle to the Hebrews, arguing that the author distinguishes promise from the cultic language of covenant to sketch a unique mixture of continuity and discontinuity among the people of God across time.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9780567717740 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567717771 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567717757 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Gospel of the Son of God Psalm 2 and Mark’s Narrative Christology

James M. Neumann, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

James M. Neumann proposes that there is far more at work in Mark’s portrayal of Jesus as Son of God, and what it means for Mark to depict him as such, than past scholarship has recognized. He argues that Mark presents Jesus’s life from beginning to end as the actualization of Psalm 2: a coronation hymn describing the Davidic king as God’s “son,” which was interpreted messianically in early Judaism and christologically in early Christianity. Rather than a simple title, the designation of Jesus as God’s “Son” in Mark contains and encapsulates an entire story of its own.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 256 pages

PB 9780567711526 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9780567711519 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567711496 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Reading the Way, Paul, and “The Jews” in Acts within Judaism

“Among My Own Nation”

Jason F. Moraff, The King’s University in Southlake, USA

Jason F. Moraff challenges the contention that Acts’ sharp rhetoric and portrayal of “the Jews” reflects anti-Judaism and supersessionism. He argues that, rather than constructing Christian identity in contrast to Judaism, Acts binds the Way, Paul, and “the Jews” together into a shared identity as Israel, and that together they embark on a journey of repentance with common Jewishness providing the foundation.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9780567712509 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567712479 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies T&T Clark

The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context

Conquering the World

Ahreum Kim

Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in 1 John, arguing that when the letter is read with the context of Greco-Roman culture in mind, the conflict extends beyond in-fighting within the Johannine community. She suggests that the letter’s author presents a consistent countercultural narrative due to concern about the predominant world, and proposes that the author exhorts the minority Johannine community to hold onto their belief while proclaiming that they are triumphant conquerors against the prevailing “world”.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 172 pages 7 bw illus

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Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity

Construction in Acts

Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence

Hyun Ho Park, First United Methodist Church, Santa Rosa, USA

Hyun Ho Park employs social identity to create the first thorough analysis via such methodology of Acts 21:17—23:35, which contains one of the fiercest intergroup conflicts in Acts. Park’s assessment allows his readers to rethink, reevaluate, and reimagine Jewish-Christian relations; teaches them how to respond to the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence permeating contemporary public and private spheres; and presents a new hermeneutical cycle and describes how readers may apply it to their own sociopolitical contexts.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9780567713315 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567713285 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Structure of Second Corinthians

Paul’s Theology of Ministry

Kei Hiramatsu

Hiramatsu examines the literary structure of 2 Corinthians through an inductive and integrative methodology which focuses on the meaning of a passage to the original audience and how this can inform the meaning for readers today. This study proposes that the letter consists of seven major segments that coherently develop Paul’s discourse pertaining to ministry. He discusses the theological implications that arise from a literary investigation, and argues that an inductive and integrative approach demonstrates the relevance of studying the literary structure when seeking to gain understanding of the theological implications of this Pauline letter.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9780567708885 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePdf 9780567708854 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

Edited by Uriah Y. Kim, Graduate Theological Union, USA & Seung Ai Yang, Chicago

Theological Seminary, USA

The first reference resource on how Asian Americans read and interpret the Bible, this volume also serves a valuable role in both developing and disseminating what can be termed as Asian American biblical hermeneutics. Part 1 describes six major ethnic groups that make up 85% of the Asian population and outlines the specific concerns each group has when its members read the Bible. Part 2 examines critical methods in biblical interpretation and suggests adjustments that may be helpful in Asian American interpretation. Finally, Part 3 provides 25 interpretations by Asian American biblical scholars on specific biblical texts.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 544 pages

PB 9780567716590 • £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9780567672605

ePub 9780567672629 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9780567672612 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the GrecoRoman World

Edited by Soham Al-Suadi, University of Rostock, Germany & Peter-Ben Smit, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Meals are a highly significant element in the development of Christian identity. In this handbook, the editors present chapters that situate early Christian meals in their broader context, covering such topics as the role of gender during meals, issues of monotheism and polytheism that arise from the structure of the meal, how sacrifice is understood in meal practices and the power dynamics present during the meal. The handbook is structured around the key primary resources, enabling the editors and contributors to present an analysis of the social values exhibited at meals.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 416 pages

PB 9780567716576 • £54.99 / $74.95

Previously published in HB 9780567666406

ePub 9780567669322 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9780567666413 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies

The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings

Edited by Lynn R. Huber, Elon University, North Carolina, USA & Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College, USA

This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, the selected readings reflect a wide-range of perspectives and approaches. The volume is divided into four parts each of which is introduced by the volume editors in order to situate the readings in their broader scholarly contexts. Finally, an annotated list of further readings points researchers towards further engagements with these key themes.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 392 pages

PB 9780567716781 • £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9780567677556

ePub 9780567677563 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9780567677549 £153.00 / $153.00

Series: T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World

Edited by Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University, USA & Julie Faith Parker, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, USA

A handbook to the presentation and role of children in the ancient world and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. The volume is structured in four parts. The first offers overviews of the key methodological approaches employed in the study of children in the biblical world, and the texts at hand. Following on from this three further sections examine key texts in which children or discussions of childhood are featured. These are presented along chronological lines, with sections on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, on the Intertestamental Literature, and on the New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 496 pages 4 photographs to be included

PB 9780567716583 £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9780567672575

ePub 9780567672599 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9780567672582 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

The Bible and Cultural Studies: Critical Readings

Edited by Robert Seesengood, Drew University, USA

This volume of key critical readings presents over 25 foundational pieces for researching the Bible and culture. The pieces range across literary, philosophical, political and theoretical intersections with the biblical text, with topics covered including film, sitcom, Dracula, life and death, religious tourism and serial killers. The volume includes section introductions and annotated bibliographies of further readings.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 422 pages

PB 9780567709387 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9780567677624

ePub 9780567677648 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9780567677631 • £135.00 / $135.00

Series: T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies • T&T Clark

A Case Frame Study of the Text of the Gospel of Mark

With Grammar and Lexicon of Predicators

Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA

Paul Danove presents a case frame grammar and lexicon for the Gospel of Mark, with three major goals. He first provides a step-by-step introduction to case frame analysis, incorporating various adaptations and extensions to address the needs of the study of the Greek of the New Testament. He then provides a comprehensive introduction to the most frequently observed predicator usages in the New Testament, finally combining all syntactic, semantic, lexical, and further descriptive grammatical information in a manner that guides the interpretation and translation of predicators in their grammatical contexts.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9780567714923 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567714954 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567714930 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark

Moulton's Grammar of New Testament Greek

Volume 4: Style: With a New Critical Introduction by Stanley E. Porter

James Hope Moulton, Wilbert Francis Howard, Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Nigel Turner

Volume 4 examines the diverse styles of writing exhibited by each author of the New Testament. It explores the grammatical and other linguistic features which distinguish the work of one author form that of another, attempting to isolate and identify varying techniques.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9780567717221 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9780567605382

Series: Biblical Languages: Greek T&T Clark

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament Text-Generating Resources

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Matthew Brook O'Donnell, University of Liverpool, UK

This volume examines and outlines the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to the New Testament since it was introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Porter in the 1980s. Structured in two parts, part one introduces basic concepts related to SFL, part two provides a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 320 pages

PB 9780567709899 • £34.99 / $47.95

Previously published in HB 9780567709851

ePub 9780567709882 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780567709868 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark

Moulton's Grammar of New Testament Greek

Volume 3: Syntax: With a New Critical Introduction by Stanley E. Porter

Wilbert Francis Howard, Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Nigel Turner

Volume 3 focuses on the construction of the sentence. Divided into two parts, it begins with a detailed discussion of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and pronouns, to give the reader a clear and comprehensive understanding of the individual elements making up the language. Part two concerns the complete sentence and its syntax, featuring sections on the ordinary simple sentence and its construction and on different types of sentences and their varying structures.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 480 pages

PB 9780567717238 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9780567470553

Series: Biblical Languages: Greek • T&T Clark

T&T Clark International Theological Commentary

The Pastoral Epistles (ITC)

Gerald L. Bray, Beeson Divinity School

This commentary offers verse-by-verse theological interpretation of first and second Timothy. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or not they are post-apostolic, and looking closely at how they have been understood in the life of the Church.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 616 pages

PB 9780567716613

£28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567334190

ePub 9780567689443 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780567689436 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark

Joel (ITC)

Christopher R. Seitz, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada

In this volume -- the first to be published in T&T Clark's new International Theological Commentary Series -- Christopher R. Seitz provides a theological commentary on the book of Joel. Seitz starts from a foundation of historical-critical methodology to provide an account of Joel's place and purpose within the book of the Twelve prophets as a whole. Seitz examines the theology and background of Joel, and shows how Joel's theological function can provide a major hermeneutical key to the interpretation of the wider collection.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9780567716545 • £29.99 / $40.95

Previously published in HB 9780567570734

ePub 9780567667779 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780567667755 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark

Micah (ITC)

Mark S. Gignilliat, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, USA

Gignilliat begins this volume on Micah by reflecting upon the nature of theological commentary in relation to biblical interpretation in two programmatic chapters, before situating Micah within current discussions on the book of the Twelve, focusing specifically on Micah’s relation with Jonah and Nahum. The next seven chapters are devoted to the interpretation and exegesis of the book of Micah. The commentary addresses literary issues involving the structure, grammar, and textual variants of a given passage, followed by broader theological reflections

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9780567716606 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567195128

ePub 9780567688989 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780567688996 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary T&T Clark

Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

An Introduction to AI for Architects

Neil Leach, Florida International University, USA

Fully updated to cover all the latest developments in the field—from ChatGPT and smart assistants to ground-breaking diffusion models for 3D modelling—Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on architectural practice. Highlighting current case-studies as well as near-future applications, this edition explores how AI transforms every part of the process, from the inspiration and the brief to detailed performance- and data-driven design. Written by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, this is a must-read for architects and designers wishing to stay at the forefront of AI.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages • 83 color illus

PB 9781350438743 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350438750 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350438767 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350438774 £17.99 / $17.99

Series: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence • Bloomsbury Visual Arts World All Languages (except Chinese/Italian/Portuguese/Spanish)

Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

Another Modernism

Home Economics and the Design of Domestic Space in the US, 1900-1960

Anna Myjak-Pycia, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Targeting an important gap in design history, Another Modernism sheds light on the unacknowledged contribution of home economists to 20th-century modernist design. In analysing the home economists’ conception of space, the book argues that their focus on the user’s tactility constituted an alternative model of modern architecture – a popular and largely rural modernism which focused on the specificity of the female user and her personal experience of the domestic interior. Based on little-known archival material, and with an emphasis on (mostly) female researchers and users/occupants, it will appeal to architects, design historians, and anyone interested in gender, women, and disability studies.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 256 pages • 70 bw illus

HB 9781350416383 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350416406 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350416390 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Tom Avermaete, ETH Zurich, Switzerland & Janina Gosseye, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PAGON

Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956

Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway

This book tells the story of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group’s projects, buildings, and approach. Despite its individual members achieving international recognition, PAGON has been overlooked in the history of modern architecture. This book demonstrates how PAGON’s architecture constitutes a unique continuity between late 1930s Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages • 75 bw & 33 color illus

PB 9781350352889 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350067981

ePub 9781350068001 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350067998 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Building Modern Scotland

A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947–1997

Alistair Fair, Kat Breen, Miles Glendinning & Valerie Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK, Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow, UK & Diane Watters, Historic Environment Scotland

A new history of Scotland’s postwar new towns; combining architectural, social and political history to illustrate what was planned, what was built, and how these places were experienced by the diverse communities who lived and worked in them. This open access book shows how a better understanding of the new towns’ history and value could be used to inform present-day decision-making. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 272 pages • 60 bw illus and 40 colour illus

HB 9781350401709 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350401723

ePdf 9781350401716

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

£0.00 / $0.00

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Paolo Portoghesi

Architecture between History, Politics and Media

Silvia Micheli, University of Queensland, Australia & Léa-Catherine Szacka, The University of Manchester, UK

Featuring previously-unpublished archival material, interviews by the authors and articles from professional and mainstream press, this book looks at the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023). The book presents Portoghesi in his multifaceted role of mediator, politician, historian and designer and, through his work, offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge – history, politics and media – in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages • 75 bw illus

PB 9781350408616 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350117136

ePub 9781350117150 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350117143 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Minimum Dwelling Revisited

CIAM's Practical Utopia (1928–31)

Aristotle Kallis, Keele University, UK

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist ‘minimum dwelling’, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's annals and as seminal moments in the history of interwar modernism. Serving as a corrective to the overemphasis on CIAM IV and the Athens Charter, the book is essential reading for scholars researching urban design during the interwar period.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 36 bw illus

PB 9781350346222 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350346185

ePub 9781350346208 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350346192 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and the Vernacular Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory

Edited by Paul Memmott, John Ting, Tim O’Rourke & Marcel Vellinga

This book explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization. Focusing on Australasia and Oceania, it examines the relevance of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural design, placing this against a contextual background of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects, designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 320 pages 65 bw illus

PB 9781350294318 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350294301

ePub 9781350294332 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781350294325 • £90.00 / $90.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

A Cultural History

Edited by Stacey Sloboda, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

From the Palace of Versailles to Virginia coffeehouses, and from Parisian bathhouses to the trading exchanges of the West Indies, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of themes – from technological advancements and global movements in interior designs and decorations to public and private spaces and gender and sexuality – providing the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 248 pages 62 bw illus

PB 9781350408050 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350408012

ePub 9781350408043 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350408029 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Malayan Classicism

From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular

Soon-Tzu Speechley, University of Melbourne, Australia

Presenting the first comprehensive account of Malaya’s most widespread architectural style prior to World War II, Malayan Classicism looks at how the classical architecture of the British Empire was transmitted, translated, and transformed in the hands of local builders and architects. Addressing a critical gap in the scholarship, this book charts the metamorphosis of an imperial language of power into a local vernacular style, and provides a new way of reading classical architecture in a post-colonial context that will be applicable throughout the Global South.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 60 bw illus

PB 9781350360389 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350360341

ePub 9781350360365 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350360358 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity

The

Art of Henryk Streng, 1924-1960

Piotr Slodkowski, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

Translated by Eliza Rose

This book uncovers the changing artistic landscape of Poland between the 1920s and 1950s, through the work of Jewish-Polish painter and Holocaust survivor, Henryk Streng (Marek Wlodarski) (1903-1960). Extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism, Streng’s work disrupted the established notions of 20th-century Polish art, while making the case for an internationalized history of European Modernism – as demonstrated by this book for the first time.

UK January 2025 US April 2025 272 pages 36 bw illus

HB 9781350292505 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350292529 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350292512 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism

Abstract Art at MoMA 1937-1939

Elke Seibert, Independent Scholar, France

This book illuminates an, until now, disregarded aspect of American art history: the influence of prehistoric rock paintings exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in 1937 on members of the New York School, such as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Stuart Davis, John Graham, Josef Albers, and The American Abstracts Artists group. The exhibition functioned as a catalyst for the reception of archaic art in North America, and Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism demonstrates that contemporary debates about the modernity of prehistoric art form part of the discourse on ‘Primitivism.’

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 16 colour & 28 bw illus

PB 9781350418325 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350185241

ePub 9781350185265 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350185258 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism

Art, 'Sensibility' and War

Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

This book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) as identified by Surrealists, and offers new readings of Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By analyzing Rauschenberg’s art in the context of Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and perspectives, this volume also examines the Surrealist movement within the frame of 1960s American art criticism and history.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 320 pages 15 colour & 56 bw illus

PB 9781501388705 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781501358296

ePub 9781501358289 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501358272 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Transnational Surrealism • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art

Margot Bouman, The New School, New York, USA

In the early 20th century, copying, cutting, and pasting entered Western European avant-garde art through collage and readymades, as artists used found objects to create new meaning. This book examines how these techniques have evolved in contemporary art, featuring artists like Andrea Fraser, Douglas Gordon, and Isaac Julien. It explores how they sample fragments of culture—from television to the internet—using quotation, reenactment, and replication. Discussing themes such as queer and race theory, postproduction, and gender fluidity, the book offers a fresh framework for understanding sampling as a key form in 21st-century art and visual culture.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350114562 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350196681 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350196674 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Art of Mary Linwood

Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845

Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville, USA

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood (1755-1845). Fusing art-biographical writing, material culture studies, art and cultural history, this book explores the complex and highly unorthodox life of Linwood. Showcasing every aspect of her life, ranging from her gallery guides to previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries - such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte - this book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 16 colour & 46 bw illus

PB 9781350428126 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350428089

ePub 9781350428102 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350428096 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide

Embodiment, Performance and Practice

Edited by Anna Pigott, Swansea University, UK, Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK & Ben Parry, Bath Spa University, UK

What can creativity achieve in an era of ecocide? Is it appropriate for creative and artistic practices to engage with the destruction of the biosphere? Is resistance and regeneration even possible in the face of escalating global environmental crises? Bringing together accounts of how artists and scholars are creatively responding to ecocide, this book re-evaluates the relationships between creativity, ecological crisis and political change. It highlights the growth of alternative approaches across the arts and within society, and develops an original conception of creativity as an antiecocide endeavour by using examples from conventional art settings and daily life.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages 12 bw illus

PB 9781350237230 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350237223

ePub 9781350237254 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350237247 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Contextualizing Art Markets

Kathryn Brown, Loughborough University, UK

The Art Market and the Museum Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Edited by Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK & MaryKate Cleary, Princeton University Art Museum, USA

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-19th century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it features contributions from a wide range of international specialists in the market for material culture as well as European modernism, and explores the origins and development of the modern Western art market and the global art networks that operated not only in Paris, London and New York, but in cities such as Glasgow, Vienna, Melbourne and Kansas City.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 25 colour & 40 bw illus

HB 9781350385351 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350385375 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350385368 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, c. 1860–1940

Negotiating Cultural Modernity

Edited by Silvia Davoli, Strawberry Hill House and Garden, UK & Tom Stammers, University of Durham, UK

Adopting a far wider geography than any previous study, this is the first book to consider Jewish dealers as a coherent cohort, tied together by common contexts and strategies, but also a common vulnerability. The essays in this volume presents case studies from the mid-19th to mid-20th century across six thematic subsections: the historic art trade in Paris and London; the role of Jewish dealers as mediators between East and West; cosmopolitan dealers and modernist identities; Jewish art promoters and exhibition makers; the antisemitism faced by Jewish dealers; and the migration, circulation and reinvention of Jewish dealers in the 20th century.

UK January 2025 • US April 2025 • 336 pages • 12 colour illus & 80 bw illus

HB 9781350473683 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350473713 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350473706 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Lillie P. Bliss

Collector, Advocate, and Visionary

Benefactor of the Museum of Modern Art

Irene M. Walsh, Independent, UK

The first comprehensive study of New York art patron and collector Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931), examining her influential work as an art collector, advocate, and museum founder (MoMA).

Combining archival materials, art market analysis, and the evolution of New York's museum scene, the book reconstructs Bliss's career, highlighting her influence on markets and taste. It also reevaluates MoMA's origins, demonstrating how her visionary bequest significantly contributed to the institution's growth and authority during its formative years.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 240 pages 46 bw illus

HB 9781350459731 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350459755 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350459748 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design

Charissa N. Terranova, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Meredith Tromble, San Francisco Art Institute, USA

Plants by Numbers

Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience

Edited by Jane Prophet, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan & Helen V. Pritchard, HGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

This open access book takes a queer feminist technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. Focussing on artists, feminist techno-scientists and theorists working with computation, Plants by Numbers addresses the current need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Michigan.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 43 colour and 66 bw illus

PB 9781350344969 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350343252

ePub 9781350344945 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350344938 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Sea Currents in NineteenthCentury Art, Science and Culture Commodifying the Ocean World

Edited by Kathleen Davidson, University of Sydney, Australia & Molly Duggins, National Art School, Australia

Through a combination of historical essays and unique object studies by a spectrum of scholars and curators, this book takes a closer look at the material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions of the collection and display, illustration and decoration, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna. It examines the transaction of marine objects within formal and informal networks of empire in the long-19th century, and their effect on consumers in the intersecting realms of art, science, and culture.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 336 pages • 27 colour & 53 bw illus

PB 9781350239265 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781501352782

ePub 9781501352805 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501352799 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts

Sharon Hecker, Independent Scholar, Italy

Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy Entangled Lives

Edited

by Sharon Hecker, Independent Scholar, Italy & Teresa Kittler, University of York, UK

Countering the dominant narrative in postwar Italian art history of the lone-male artistic genius, this volume spotlights the vital role creative partnerships played in postwar Italian artistic production. With contributions from international scholars across a variety of subject fields, it considers a range intimate and professional collaborations, widely informed by key contemporary issues surrounding gender and sexuality, modern Italian and queer identities, and transcultural exchange. Presenting a variety of underexplored case studies and new readings of Italian art, the volume will be an important reference point for future work in Italian Studies, Italian Art History, Italian Cultural Studies, and the Transdisciplinary Arts and Humanities.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages • 68 bw illus

HB 9781350420335 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350420359 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350420342 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Cultures and German Contexts

American Artists in Postwar Rome

Art and Cultural Exchange

Peter Benson Miller

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome following World War Two. It presents a case-study based investigation into the reciprocal relationship between American modernist artists and Italian artists, revealing how these artists perceived Rome as an alternative to New York, attracting the likes of canonical figures like Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston and Robert Rauschenberg, alongside less well-known artists, such as Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Congdon, and Claire Falkenstein, among many others. It also establishes the entangled social networks, galleries and institutions sustaining their work and providing entrée into local artistic circles.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 312 pages • 32 colour & 77 bw illus

HB 9781350446366 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350446380 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350446373 £85.50 / $85.50

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Deborah Ascher Barnstone, University of Sydney, Australia & Thomas O. Haakenson, California College of the Arts, USA

Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

Ann Murray

This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (1891–1969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany during the years 1914-36. Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix’s war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages • 54 bw illus

PB 9781350354661 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350354623

ePub 9781350354647 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350354630 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer

From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921–1938

Patrick Rössler, Universität Erfurt, Germany

This biographical account follows Austrian-born Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer, a key figure of 20thcentury avant-garde graphic design, from the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to his 1938 departure. Examining unseen documents, letters and photographs from Bayer’s estate, Patrick Rössler uncovers the ordeal experienced by this ingenious artist; he details Bayer’s struggles for freedom of expression whilst dependent on an authoritarian state’s tolerance of his survival, as well as his eventual escape from Nazi Germany facilitated by a network of friends already established at the Bauhaus, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 336 pages • 32 colour and 100 bw illus

PB 9781350229716 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350229679

ePub 9781350229693 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350229686 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Ungovernable Spaces

Community Formation and the Poetics of Resistance

Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary

This open access book presents a range of global, practice-based, case studies that conceptualise community formation in times of social and political turbulence as a process that emerges through local political activism and resistance. A truly interdisciplinary work at the intersection of visual culture, the built environment and poetics, it explores these individual acts of resistance and argues for a necessary inter-relation between politics, ethics and aesthetics. In doing so, it sets out to conceive a new poetics of ‘us’ and demonstrate how the formation of community in and through resistance, on a planetary scale, has the potential to introduce new models of social and cultural interaction.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK February 2025 US May 2025 256 pages 51 colour illus

HB 9781350409088 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350409101 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350409095 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art

Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze

Elyse Speaks

This book explores the return of handwork and process-driven practices in installation art by women during the 1990s. Guiding the reader through three key episodes, focussed on the work of Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, each case study explores how their work has advanced the legacies of feminist art and upended our relationship with everyday objects. Positioning these artists alongside over 20 other contemporary artists, such as David Hammons, Karen Kilimnik, Rikrit Tiravanija, Do Ho Suh, and El Anatsui, the book draws on previously unpublished interviews and situates their work in relation to contemporary consumerisms and institutionalized frameworks of value. Written in accessible prose, the book explores how work of contemporary women sculptors has challenged our relationship with everyday routines and environments.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 •

ePub 9781350497832 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350497788 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Curating Modern Life

Frank O’Hara, the Mid-Century Museum, and the Art of the Cold War Matthew Holman

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O’Hara undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from 1950 to his death in 1966. It traces O’Hara’s distinguished curatorial career at home and abroad, situating his work for MoMA’s International Program within the Cold War politics of the day. Bringing together readings of O’Hara’s poems and letters with a selection of illustrations, it is perfect reading for anyone interested in American art in the mid-20th century, curatorial and museum studies.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 28 bw illus

HB 9781350398597 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350398610 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350398603 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Magazines and Modern Identities

Global Cultures of the Illustrated Press, 1880–1945

Edited by Tim Satterthwaite, University of Brighton, UK & Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Magazines and Modern Identities analyses the projection of modern national identities in illustrated magazines around the world. Adopting a case study approach, each chapter introduces a particular publication, situates the magazine within its historical context and analyses how national cultures drew on, resisted and informed the ideals and visual forms of international modernism. Across 15 diverse chapters from a range of international perspectives, the volume presents new research in periodical studies alongside 100 detailed illustrations. As the first account of the illustrated popular press in a global context, this book makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of modern periodical studies by exploring contrasting attitudes towards modernity in magazines from ten different countries.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages • 8 color and 92 bw illustrations

PB 9781350278660 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350278639

ePub 9781350278653 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350278646 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Rethinking Plastics in Product Design

A Guide to Sustainable Transitions for the Environmental Emergency

Geoff Isaac, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of plastics. Tracing the historical use of plastics through to today, and combining the latest theories and methods from sustainable transition design with real-life experiences of product designers and manufacturers, Geoff Isaacs identifies environmentally friendly solutions and provides practical guidance for designers who seek to use plastics more sustainably. Chapters include case studies of over sixty chairs made from renewable plastics to explore the complexities around working with a range of materials and their suitability for applications across other consumer products. The book also features interviews with international contemporary designers including Philippe Starck, Barber Osgerby, Konstanin Grcic, Bertjan Pot and Karim Rashid to illustrate recent successful designs using renewable plastics.

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Designing for Local Communities

A guide to freelancing and empowering groups in your neighborhood Meaghan Barry

Designing For Local Communities encourages the reader to find their first clients in their local community. By working with small businesses the designer can build a freelancing portfolio, while simultaneously investing in their neighborhood. Lessons are tailored for working with these smallscale clients, with examples, interviews and exercises that will build a strong foundation for an independent design practice.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 192 pages 50 colour illustr

PB 9781350400962

ePdf 9781350400979 • £17.99 / $17.99

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Place and Parametricism

Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design

Edited by Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Gini Lee, University of Melbourne, Australia, Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia, Stanislav Roudavski, University of Melbourne, Australia & Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Can qualitative ideas of place be adequately encompassed by the quantitative methods of digital and parametric design? This wide-ranging and multi-faceted book explores how designers and architects capture the deeper qualities of place though their practice. It provides a rigorous exploration of the nature of place and its role in design in parallel with a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism. Drawing on ideas and approaches from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, chapters explore the capabilities of digital design, place-making in other creative disciplines, the linguistic articulation of place and design’s potential to strengthen its engagement with place in the future.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 46 bw illus

HB 9781350329980 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350330009

Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life

Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies

Edited by Marco C. Rozendaal, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK & William Odom, Simon Fraser University, Canada

By offering a critical assessment on the growing place of smart technology in everyday environments, this book outlines a transdisciplinary research agenda for the future of ‘smartness’ to help define, envision, and inspire future collaborative design practices. The integration of digital technologies into physical products is transforming everyday objects. Our appliances, furniture, clothing, are growing in intelligence. This collection of essays and case studies brings together perspectives from interaction design, the humanities, science and technology studies, and engineering, to map, explore and interrogate ways in which our relationships with everyday smart objects might expand and be re-imagined.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350514164 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9781350160125

ePub 9781350160132 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350160149 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing Inclusive Public Toilets

Wee the People

Jo-Anne

Bichard & Gail Ramster, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, UK

This book provides a critical overview of public toilet design in the UK and presents an urgent need to re-evaluate the accessibility of these essential spaces. Drawing on research into public services and social injustice, the authors examine the complexities around using these facilities alongside design considerations related to disability, gender and sustainability. This rigorous study explores issues of navigating and entering facilities, concerns related to cubicles, fixtures and products, in addition to the body’s needs and hygiene. This book presents an inclusive design approach to help designers, planners and managers create these spaces more effectively for every prospective user.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages • 141 colour images

PB 9781350346031 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350346048 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350346055 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350346062 • £20.69 / $20.69

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Drawing in Health and Wellbeing

Marks, Signs and Traces

Edited by Philippa Lyon, University of Brighton, UK & Curie Scott, Independent Education Consultant, UK

Drawing has an established history within medicine for learning, recording, investigating and discovery. Bringing together diverse drawing approaches in the form of research and practical projects, this book demonstrates how drawing has extended beyond the realm of medicine with relevance and value for an array of health and wellbeing settings. Chapters critically examine how drawing helps us convey and understand complex illness experiences, and supports a deeper, more holistic form of communication between patient and professional. This book presents the underlying principle that manual drawing, such as sketching, diagrams, cartoons and other forms of markmaking, has important qualities in enabling people to investigate, explain, express and alleviate suffering.

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Design Otherwise

Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region

Danah Abdulla, University of the Arts London, UK

How can we study and teach design in a way that is critical, socially engaged and relevant to place?

In this timely book, Danah Abdulla challenges us to imagine a design education and culture that moves beyond blindly borrowing Eurocentric models and frameworks. Drawing on learnings from work with design students, educators and designers in the Arab region, with a particular focus on Jordan and featuring examples from Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Abdulla creates a dialogue with those who have most at stake in education to imagine how we can develop a collaborative, contextually based and socially relevant design education.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9781350295773 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350295780 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350295797 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350295803 • £19.79 / $19.79

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Studio Properties

A field guide to design education

Elizabeth Boling, Indiana University, USA, James Benedict Brown, Umeå University, Sweden, James Corazzo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, USA, Derek Jones, Open University, UK & Nicole Lotz, Open University, UK

This open access book examines the essential properties of the studio within the complex landscape of design education as a place for experimentation and development. Brought together by a team of experts in design pedagogy, Studio Properties is both a tool for education and an inspiration for developing teaching and learning techniques in the studio setting. Motivated by the absence of a comprehensive text on studio pedagogy, this guide is aimed at both those teaching within a studio setting and those interested in the scholarship of design education.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Open University.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 360 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781350407503 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350407497 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350407527 •

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Design and Agency

Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices

Edited by John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada & Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada

Design and Agency addresses the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. Contributors expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities through practice, while also investigating design's role in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity.

UK January 2025 US January 2025 328 pages 40 bw illus

PB 9781350513013 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9781350063792

ePub 9781350063808 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350063815 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Ceramics and Globalization

Staffordshire Ceramics, Made in China

Neil Ewins, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China

Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation. He draws on a combination of sources to examine this, from the press, ceramic objects, and primary interview evidence. The book highlights issues such as 'authenticity', and discovers ramifications for UK manufacturing futures.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350514263 • £27.99 / $37.95

ePub 9781474289894 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781474289900 • £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures

Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes

Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, USA

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures gives unique insight into how and why subcultures evolve and what they mean to their members. This second edition features three new chapters on the global impact of anime, manga and cosplay, global youth subcultures in cyberspace and social media, and neofeminist and cyber feminist frameworks. It also features new fieldwork across Tokyo, New York and social media platforms, updated coverage of Euro-American perspectives in light of advancements in postcolonial theory, and new methodological sections on cyberethnography and auto ethnography.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages • 75 color illus

PB 9781350436626 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350436633 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350436657 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350436640 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Queer and Trans Fashion Brands

Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century

Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Iowa State University, USA

Queer and Trans Fashion Brands highlights the resilience, creativity, and cultural contributions of 25 fashion entrepreneurs, showing how they serve as agents of change, actively challenging heteronormative norms prevalent in the fashion industry. Kelly L. Reddy-Best draws upon an intersectional feminist framework to offer a nuanced examination of the production, distribution, regulation, and consumption of the products and media associated with these brands and their collective impact on the fashion industry.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 50 color illus

PB 9781350465879 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350465886 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350465909 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350465893 £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Canadian Fashion Economies

A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization

Mark Joseph O'Connell, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada

A rich and vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settler, and contemporary Canadian culture. Where many traditional fashion histories ignore sophisticated pre-colonial networks, First Nation innovations and techniques, and their contributions to colonial dress, O’Connell’s vivid object-based research equips readers with a framework for more nuanced and inclusive histories of Canadian fashion.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 16 bw illus

HB 9781350357365 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350357389 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350357372 £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Antigender Fashion

The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design

Judith Beyer, Formerly Massey University, New Zealand

Can gender-fluid fashion design influence the construction of contemporary masculinities and femininities – and can it be a catalyst for change? In this rich examination, Judith Beyer develops a new theoretical framework for understanding how fashion can blur and challenge gender boundaries: antigender fashion. After tracing the history of gender-blurring fashion since the 19th century, case studies of four leading contemporary fashion brands situate antigender fashion in a rich theoretical landscape – and illuminate exciting new critical directions for students and researchers.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 45 bw illus

PB 9781350466043 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350466005 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350466029 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350466012 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Dress, Body, Culture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

1960s Model Girl

Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History

Felice McDowell, London College of Fashion, UK

As the British fashion industry took off in the postwar period, the figure of the photographic fashion model rapidly came to represent a new mode of femininity: independent, successful, and fashionably dressed. 1960s Model Girl explores the wealth of life writing surrounding these glamourous ‘Model Girls’, from autobiography and memoir to advice literature. The book draws on a wealth of archival research and the writing of professional women in the field – including Jean Shrimpton, Mary Quant, and Janey Ironside – and explores these narratives through the lens of the popular culture and mass media of the late 1950s and 1960s.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages • 34 bw illus

HB 9781350076297 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350076310 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350076303 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Her World, Women and Fashion in Singapore 1974-1989

Accidental Career Girl to Working Mother of the Year

Nadya Wang, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, Singapore Between 1974 and 1989, significant changes were taking place in the lives of Singaporean women and in their local fashion industry. Nadya Wang explores how these shifts were not only reflected in but actively influenced by popular Singapore women's magazine Her World. Analyzing fragments of this publication, as well as other archival material and oral history interviews, the author advocates for a new and decentred understanding of the evolution of the Singapore woman and the Singapore fashion industry.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350465046 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350465060 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350465053 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dress Cultures

Thinking Through Fashion A

Guide to Key Theorists

Edited by Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik

A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9781350376519 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350376526 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350376533 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350376540 £17.99 / $17.99

Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation

The Everyday Textures of Feminist Activism

Katja May, Independent researcher

Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers a new approach to the interpretation of quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting that looks at it as an affective social practice, drawing on under-represented issues of race. Transnational, contemporary case studies – such as the Bangladeshi garment workers and the Social Justice Sewing Academy, alongside the famous Pussyhat Project – conceptualize needlework as routine activities invested with emotion and entangled with material and social conditions, highlighting the complexities of its political potential.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350283626 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350283589

ePub 9781350283602 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350283596 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Fashion Before Plus-Size Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry

Lauren Downing Peters, Columbia College Chicago, USA

In this historical survey, Lauren Downing Peters explores the long, fraught relationship between fashion and fat spanning the 20th century. Drawing upon a wealth of new archival materials, Fashion Before Plus-Size traces the origins of the plus-size fashion industry and reveals the conscious and unconscious biases that undergird fashion design discourse. By situating the stoutwear industry at the confluence of mass manufacturing, standardized sizing, and America’s ever-evolving relationship with health and weight, the book exposes how the earliest large-sized fashions reveal a deeply entrenched “slenderness imperative” that persists in the design and merchandizing of plus-size fashion to this day.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 224 pages • 42 bw illus

PB 9781350399372 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350172548

ePub 9781350172562 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350172555 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Islamicate Textiles

Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual

Faegheh Shirazi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Faegheh Shirazi discusses textiles’ crucial role in ceremonial, ritual, and spiritual lives in many cultures as well as their economic and political role dating back to pre-Islamic times. With five chapters arranged thematically, rather than by region or historic era, this a unique and fascinating exploration of the function of textiles in the Islamic realm as a signifier of cultural practices across a vast geographic area.

UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781350291263 • £19.99 / $26.95

Previously published in HB 9781350291232

ePub 9781350291256 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291249 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK & Elizabeth Wilson, Independent Scholar, UK

Apparel Production Terms and Processes

Janace E. Bubonia, Texas Christian University, USA

Apparel Production Terms and Processes, Third Edition defines materials and terms relating to global mass production of raw materials, design and development, garment details and component parts, sizing and fit, patternmaking tools methods and computer technology, pre-production operations, assembly, production and manufacturing, labeling regulations, testing and quality control, inspection, finishing, and packaging. Chapters follow the product from concept to completion. Each chapter opens with a brief introduction followed by terms that are listed alphabetically, terms are grouped according to subject by use or application. This edition expands the global perspective, integrates recent advances in technology, and focuses on sustainability.

UK March 2025 • US February 2025 • 424 pages • 1,110 colour illus

PB 9781501393945 • £90.00 / $125.00

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Digital Drawing for Designers A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2025

Douglas R. Seidler, Marymount University, USA AutoCAD continues to dominate the twodimensional drafting marketplace for architects and interior designers. Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2025 is designed to help this community by using visual methods to lead to understanding. Starting with the building blocks of drawing, the book progresses through architectural graphic standards, enabling students to create presentation and construction drawings that effectively communicate their design ideas. Advanced features such as annotative dimensions, annotative blocks, express tools, and linking drawings (XREFs). Instructions are illustrated using language and concepts from manual drafting, facilitating a smooth transition to the digital environment for all designers, and showing how your paper idea becomes a digital reality. Clear, concise, and above all visual, this guide gives you what you need to become a pro in AutoCAD.

UK January 2025 • US December 2024 • 280 pages • 450 bw illus

PB 9798765122686 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765122709 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765122693 • £79.83 / $79.83

Fairchild Books

Space Planning for Healthcare Design

Daejin Kim, Iowa State University, Dak Kopec, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA & Jennifer Buergermeister

Healthcare is an evolving specialty in interior design. Space Planning for Healthcare Design will examine traditional and emerging clinical health settings and focus on a holistic approach to designing a hospital experience for different users including patients, healthcare staff, and care givers through unique space planning requirements. Spread over fourteen chapters, this book discusses specific areas common to hospitals, clinics, and out-patient facilities. Each chapter will include learning objectives, key terms, discussion questions, case studies from industry examples, and memory-minute box features to test yourself on what you have just read.

UK April 2025 • US March 2025 • 320 pages • 100 bw illus

PB 9781501379734 • £69.99 / $94.95

ePub 9781501379710 • £68.65 / $85.45

ePdf 9781501379727 • £68.65 / $68.65

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Portraits of Bertrand Russell

Edited by Gülberk Koç Maclean, Mount Royal University, Canada

This indispensable resource to the life and work of Bertrand Russell contains valuable and hard-to-find portraits from more than 80 figures written between 1872 and 1970. Including writings from G. E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Lloyd George, J.M. Keynes, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and many others.

They capture the power of Russell's ideas and the reach of his thought, while his own accounts of these encounters offer a comparison of how he thought he portrayed himself to others and how he was perceived.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £350 / $475 / Aus$690 (full price £389 / US$532 / AUS$763).

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art

Edited by Chris Meigh-Andrews, Rachel Clarke & Vince Dziekan

New media art has become a global cultural phenomenon and is now the fastest growing and most challenging form of modern art. Ranging across digital art, film and video, computer graphics and animation, video games, 3D printing, computer robotics, and virtual, internet and interactive art, new media art has revolutionised the role and impact of art in our technological times. The 3 volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art presents the first authoritative reference covering all aspects of new media art.

Volume 1: History and Theory

Volume 2: Artists and Practice

Volume 3: Curation and Culture.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £725 / $985 / Aus$1425 (full price: £795 / $1080 / Aus$1565).

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Abbas

Abdelgawad, Doha

Abdulla,

Abusalama,

Ainslie,

Alaudae

Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

Alexy-Poscher Debate on Legal Principles, The

Aliyev, Huseyn

Shaonta'

Allen, William S.

Aloisi, Alessandra

Alonzi, Luigi

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Rights Executive

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