Mikhail Krom, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia Translated by Elizabeth Guyatt
An Introduction to Historical Comparison is the first comprehensive study of the theory and practice of comparative-historical research. Designed as a handbook for historians, this book shows scholars how to develop the skills needed to successfully employ a comparative methodology. It begins by tracing the intellectual history of comparative history writing and then examines the practice of historical comparison. The result is a clear and engaging analysis of historical thinking and a useful guide to main methodological techniques, successes, and pitfalls of comparative research. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 384 pages HB 9781350123328 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350123342 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350123335 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Reading the Postwar Future Textual Turning Points from 1944
Edited by Kirrily Freeman, Saint Mary's University, Canada & John Munro, Birmingham University, UK This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when converging and contesting visions of a new world emerged. The questions posed at that moment, about capitalism, race, gender, empire, nation and cultural modernity, gave rise to debates that defined the global politics of their era and continue to delineate our own. Highlighting the goals, agendas and priorities that emerged for artists, intellectuals and politicians in 1944, Freeman and Munro rethink the intellectual history of the 20th century and the way these texts shaped the contours of the postwar world. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350196353 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350102583 ePub 9781350102606 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350102590 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean
The Rise of Western Power A Comparative History of Western Civilization
Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois, USA In this second edition of The Rise of Western Power, Jonathan Daly retains the broad sweep of his introduction to the history of Western civilization as well as introducing new material into every chapter, enhancing the book’s global coverage and engaging with the latest historical debates. With an additional focus on China, India and the Muslim world, the result is a volume impressive in its scope and detail. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 624 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350066137 • £36.99 / $49.95 • HB 9781350066120 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781350066144 • £33.29 / $41.88 ePdf 9781350066151 • £33.29 / $41.88 Bloomsbury Academic
How the West Grew Rich
Economic Transformation of the Industrial World Nathan Rosenberg & L. E. Birdzell, Jr., Independent Scholar, USA How did the West escape from the timeless cycle of hunger and hardship into sustained economic growth and prosperity? Why did industrialization first take place in the West? Why did the West leave the rest of the world behind? Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr. re-evaluate the course of Western history from the Middle Ages to the present and in doing so add much-needed nuance to continuing debates about Western economic strength. UK December 2020 • 384 pages PB 9781350186729 • £28.99 Previously published in HB 9781850430162 Bloomsbury Academic Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market (excluding Central America/Mexico)
Sir Glyn Jones
A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century
A Proconsul in Africa
Edited by Olatunji Ojo, Brock University, St. Catherine's, Canada & Nadine Hunt, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Based on original sources and exclusive access to Sir Glyn Jones' archives, this book explores the life of the last governor of Nyasaland, Sir Glyn Jones, and examines his role in the country's transition to becoming modern-day Malawi.
This volume offers a historical perspective on slavery by focusing on the lives of enslaved people, slaving operations, and the aftermath of slavery in parts of Central, East and West Africa, the British Virgin Island and Jamaica since the 18th century. The contributors draw on a range of sources, including letters, manumission papers, commercial contracts, wills and oral histories. Encompassing themes of biography, colonialism, gender, family, religion, and war, this collection demonstrates that Africans adopted various strategies by creating and recreating their ethnic, cultural, and religious identities in order to cope with the harsh reality of enslavement.
H I S T O R Y- World History / African History
An Introduction to Historical Comparison
Colin Baker, University of Glamorgan, UK
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 376 pages PB 9781350180260 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781860644610 Bloomsbury Academic
UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 240 pages PB 9781350161283 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780761152 ePub 9780755627554 • £85.00 / $105.94 ePdf 9780755627790 • £85.00 / $105.94 Bloomsbury Academic
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