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An Introduction to Historical Comparison

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

A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century Edited by Olatunji Ojo, Brock University, St. Catherine's, Canada & Nadine Hunt, York University, Toronto, Canada. 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.

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)

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

Sir Glyn Jones

A Proconsul in Africa Colin Baker, University of Glamorgan, UK 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.

UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 376 pages PB 9781350180260 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781860644610 Bloomsbury Academic

Health, Healing and Illness in African History

Rebekah Lee, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Health, Healing and Illness in African History is the first comprehensive survey of the complex social, cultural and political history of Africa, seen through the prism of health, illness and healing. Organised into two parts, Rebekah Lee examines how disease and health were perceived and managed in Africa, from the pre-colonial era to the present day; whilst the second part focuses on a range of case studies. This dual focus makes the text key reading for students and scholars interested in medicine in African history.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 400 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781474254373 • £21.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781474254380 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781474254403 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781474254397 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Academic

Zambesi

David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa Lawrence Dritsas, University of Edinburgh, UK This volume offers a history of the governmentfunded British expedition to Zambesi in the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the expedition was as an aggregate of projects unified by goals, relationships, and responsibilities. Drawing on primary material such as botanical discoveries, publications and journals, Zambesi highlights the success of the Expedition and its ongoing role in modern science. Throughout, Dritsas demonstrates that imperial interests stand alongside the empirical, religious, scientific, geographical, technological, personal and institutional interests that constructed expedition practice. Previously published in HB 9781845117054 Series: Tauris Historical Geographical Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Palmerston and Africa

and Justice Roderick Braithwaite This work is based in a time when the British Empire was at its most powerful and self-confident, and Lord Palmerston was at his prime, robust and energetic enough to investigate affairs as apparently minor as that of Rio Nunez. The problem concerned two British traders - Braithwaite and Martin - whose enterprise on the Rio Nunez in West Africa had been attacked by Belgian trading rivals. Palmerston's personal handling of their complaints - in the midst of high affairs of state - is detailed in this account, based on extensive research and new material. It is a portrait of imperial power at its height.

A History of East Africa, 15921902

R.W. Beachey Covering a vital period in the history and development of East Africa this narrative history of the vast region explores the diverse cultural influences of the Arab peoples who traded with East Africa and settled there, Portuguese traders who arrived from the late 17th century onwards and the first wave of settlers from the Indian Subcontinent who arrived in the 19th century. Focusing in particular on the emergence of the slave trade and the subsequent anti-slave trade campaigns, the book is based on contemporary and little known sources.

UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 500 pages PB 9781350183599 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781850439943

UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350170780 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9780755629718 • £28.99 ePdf 9780857718082 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

Hope and Despair

English-speaking Intellectuals and South African Politics, 1896-1976 Paul B. Rich, Independent scholar, UK This book examines the role and increasing impotence of English-speaking intellectuals and liberals in South African politics from the 19th century until the Soweto crisis.

UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 224 pages PB 9781350184558 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781850434894

Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy Bloomsbury Academic

UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 370 pages PB 9781350183568 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781860641091 Bloomsbury Academic

Seeds of Trouble

Government Policy and Land Rights in Nyasaland, 1946-1964 Colin Baker, University of Glamorgan, UK This book looks at the significance for British colonial policy of land rights and land reform in Nyasaland (modern Malawi), and how the British government tried to prevent discontent among Africans living or working on European-owned private estates.

UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 223 pages PB 9781350184725 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781850436157 Bloomsbury Academic