Academic New Books July-September 2023

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Help students build the skills for success in their studies and beyond with their own personalised learning pathway.

Comprising 12 modules covering crucial topics such as writing, critical thinking and time management, Skills for Study helps students to strengthen their academic skills and develop the skills required by employers.

Find out more and try some free sample activities at www.skillsforstudy.com

The ultimate resource for referencing and avoiding plagiarism!

Cite Them Right Online comprises a 1-hour interactive eLearning tutorial which covers the importance of referencing, how to write citations and build references. Students can then use the reference generator to produce accurate references in 7 different referencing styles for more than 300 sources.

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An online resource bringing together a wealth of content designed to help social work students develop the knowledge, skills and con dence to succeed on their course and placements.

The toolkit explores ve key areas that re ect the training and practice of social workers:

• Communication Skills

• Professionalism in Practice

• Ethics, Values and Diversity

• Assessment and Intervention

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• Lifecourse Perspectives

Builds students’ con dence and skills in Engineering Mathematics by offering endless practice options, all with worked solutions, and content from Stroud’s bestselling textbook.

Maths Engine comprises content from Engineering Mathematics, unlimited practice questions, instant feedback and worked examples all of which will support students as they boost their knowledge and skills, allowing them to perform at their best.

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POCKET STUDY SKILLS

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.

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Urban Inequality Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg

Owen Crankshaw, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Based on new evidence that challenges existing theories of urban inequality, Crankshaw argues that the changing pattern of earnings and occupational inequality in Johannesburg is better described by the professionalism of employment alongside high-levels of chronic unemployment.

Crankshaw posits that the post-apartheid period is characterised by a completely new division of labour that has caused new forms of racial inequality. That racial inequality in the post-apartheid period is not the result of the persistence of apartheid-era causes, but is the result of new causes that have interacted with the historical effects of apartheid to produce new patterns of racial inequality.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 232 pages

PB 9781786998958 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781786998941

ePub 9781786998910 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781786998934 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Politics and Society in Urban Africa Zed Books

War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment Lessons from Sierra Leone

Edited by Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic University, USA & Fredline A.

M’Cormack-Hale, Seton Hall University, USA

From 1991-2002, Sierra Leone has endured a protracted and brutal civil conflict. The post-war period has seen a slow and painful process of rebuilding. Yet while there have been positive advancements in gender and development, Sierra Leone has singularly failed to translate the accomplishments of women’s involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment. Written by Sierra Leonean and Africanist scholars/experts from a broad range of disciplines, this unique volume analyses the historical and contextual factors influencing women’s political, economic and social development in the country.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781786996947 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781786996930

ePub 9781786996954 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781786996961 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books

BLOOMSBURY AND ZED BOOKS

Zed Books is an imprint of Bloomsbury, acquired in 2020. Founded in London in 1977 it has long been recognised as a leading radical publisher – giving a platform to marginalised voices globally.

Zed has built a flagship list of scholarship from and about Africa, and is now focussing the principles of its founding mission on publishing work solely in African Studies, from the best international writers in the field - and particularly from Africa itself.

Indian Philosophy An Introduction

Jeffery D. Long, Elizabeth Town College, USA

This book, drawing upon some of the latest research in the field, traces the history of the Indian philosophical tradition from ancient times to the present, outlining the views and major thinkers of such schools of thought as Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, and many more. Jeffery D. Long treats each system, however, not simply as an historical artifact, but as a living reality with important insights to offer our world today.

UK November 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781784536466 • £21.99 • HB 9781784536459 • £65.00

ePub 9781350324824 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350324817 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Manga, Murder and Mystery

The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost

Generation

Mimi Okabe, University of Alberta, Canada

Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in three commercially successful Manga series published between the 1990s and early 2000s - Kanari Yo¯zaburo¯ and Seimaru Amagi’s Kindaichi Sho¯nen no Jikenbo, Aoyama Go¯sho¯’s Meitantei Konan, and Ohba Tsugumi’s Death Note. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade'.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 256 pages

HB 9781350325098 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350325104 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350325111 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art

Edited by Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham, UK, Diyi Mergenthaler, University of Zurich, Switzerland & Jamie J. Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art in a transnational context from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 20 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North America.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350333512

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 October 2023 • US October 2023 • 256 pages • 24 bw illus

HB 9781350330641 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350330658 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350330665 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future

Averting a New Cold War

Thomas Parks, Independent Scholar By strengthening partnerships with other powers such as Japan, Australia, and India, and deepening inclusive regionalism through ASEAN, South East Asia will be able to shape its own future. Southeast Asia’s Multi-Polar Future argues that it is possible to preserve Southeast Asia as an open, independent region, because the geopolitical dynamics are changing. Despite new superpower pressures, the region is moving towards a multi-polar, rules-based order.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9781350270787 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350270794

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350270800 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• 50 colour

• 224 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350333529

ePdf 9781350333536

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities • Bloomsbury Academic

ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORIES

9781350105348

“A great read.”

- British Archaeology

9781472530875

“This outstanding book has no equal.”

- Bryn Mawr Classical Review

www.bloomsbury.com/archaeological-histories

9781472529374

“An engaging read that is simultaneously wideranging and focused.”

- Current World Archaeology

9781472524195

“A timely and succint introduction.”

- Times Literary Supplement

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Leah Himmelhoch, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9781350154902

• £34.99 / $47.95

• HB 9781350154896 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781350154919 • £31.49 / $43.19

ePdf 9781350154926 • £31.49 / $43.19

Series: Greek Texts • Bloomsbury Academic

Future Fame in the Iliad Epic Time and Homeric Studies

Yukai Li, Carleton University, Canada

When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song. This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of kleos and the interposition of a gap of time between event and meaning produces widespread effects, not only for the thought and psyche of the heroes, but also for the nature of poetry and scholarship in the Homeric tradition.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350239203 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350239197

ePub 9781350239227 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350239210 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis Reading through Pandemic Times

Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA

What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 296 pages

PB 9781350348127 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350348110 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350348141 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350348134 £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid With Introduction and Critical Essays

Edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox’s customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the ‘essential and dominant characteristics’ that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgil’s political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350118287 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350118300 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350118294 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Tacitus’ Wonders

Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome

Edited by James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany & Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective.

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

PB 9781350241732

• 296 pages

• £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350241725

ePub 9781350241756

• £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781350241749 £58.50 / $79.64

Bloomsbury Academic

Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies

An Ontological Exploration

Olaf Almqvist, University College Dublin, Ireland

Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod’s Theogony; the Orphic Derveni Theogony; and Protagoras’ creation myth in Plato’s eponymous dialogue. Olaf Almqvist argues that they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human, how the world is composed, and humanity’s place within it. Engaging closely with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions – analogism, pantheism, and naturalism – in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in very different attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350221949

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350221840

ePub 9781350221888

ePdf 9781350221864

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Classical Literature and Society

• Bloomsbury Academic

Plautus: Mostellaria

George Fredric Franko, Hollins University, USA

Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. This is the first book to offer an in-depth study of the play in its literary and historical contexts, and aims to help readers appraise the script as both cultural document and performed comedy. In Mostellaria’s farce, sleek simplicity replaces complexity as Plautus aggrandizes his comic hero by stripping plot to the minimum and leaving Tranio to operate alone with no resources other than his quick wit. The enduring appeal of the genre is explored in a chapter on the play's reception, which reveals modernity’s continuing fascination with farce and shifting engagement with Roman culture.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 176 pages

PB 9781350205383 • £22.99 / $30.95

Previously published in HB 9781350188419

ePub 9781350188433 £63.00 / $86.39

ePdf 9781350188426 £63.00 / $86.39

Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions • Bloomsbury Academic

Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

Edited by Stephen Hodkinson, University of Nottingham, UK & Chrysanthi Gallou, University of Nottingham, UK

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbours from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period.

UK October 2022 300 pages

HB 9781910589830 • £80.00

Classical Press of Wales World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Ptolemy I Soter

Themes and Issues

Edward M. Anson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror’s death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt’s incorporation into the Roman Empire. This book is not a standard biography, but rather an examination of the major issues surrounding his reign, the major controversies and questions surrounding Ptolemy's career and legacy. Each chapter includes a discussion of the major academic positions on each issue and an evaluation of the primary historical and archaeological evidence.

Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues brings new clarity to the history of one of the chief architects of the Hellenistic Age.

UK

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda Politics, Imagery and Drama

Sofia Frade, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how the hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the hero and the city's ideology, examining how this particular play fits within the space of the polis and its political ideology. By looking at the play's larger contexts – literary, civic, political, religious and ideological – new readings are offered to the most problematic elements of the play, including the question of its unity, the nature of the hero's madness and the role of the gods.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 176 pages

HB 9781472505590 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781472510433 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781472511157 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens

Hoplite Transitions

Owen Rees, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions both from the perspective of the hoplite as a member of an oikos and as a member of the army, effectively mapping his experience as he moves between his domestic and military duties and allowing us to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 264 pages • 18 bw illus

PB 9781350188747 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350188648

ePub 9781350188662 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350188655 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

A Thousand Miles up the Nile

Amelia B. Edwards

A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever. Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, would inspire generations to take up her cause to support and promote Egyptian cultural heritage. This modern reprint is accompanied by a new introduction by Carl Graves (the Egypt Exploration Society) and Anna Garnett (The Petrie Museum, UCL) reflecting on Amelia’s life and its legacy in Egyptology today.

UK November 2022

PB 9780856982514

• 59 colour and 41 bw illus

• 650 pages

• £29.50

Egypt Exploration Society

World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

A Late Antique Poetics?

The Jeweled Style Revisited

Edited by Joshua Hartman, Bowdoin College, USA & Helen Kaufmann, Independent Scholar

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts’s monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 320 pages • 4 bw illus

HB 9781350346406 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350346420 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350346413 £81.00 / $110.69

Series: sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception Bloomsbury Academic

Trees in Ancient Rome

Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Andrew Fox, University of Nottingham, UK

Offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year’s later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome’s green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 208 pages • 13 bw illus

HB 9781350237803 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350237827 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350237810 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Ancient Environments Bloomsbury Academic

IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts

Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Potsdam University, Germany & Martin Lindner, University of Göttingen, Germany

Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts

Its Reception in Spain and America

Edited by Mirella Romero Recio, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

This volume examines the influence that Pompeii and Herculaneum had on the visual and performing arts in Spain and countries across South America. Covering topics from architecture, painting, decorative arts to theatre, dance and photography, the reader will gain insight into the reception of classical antiquity through the analysis of the close cultural ties between both sides of the Atlantic. ‘The Reception and Influence of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Spain and America’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PGC2018-093509-B-I00 Ministry of Science and Innovation/AEI/ERDF/EU).

UK July 2023 US July 2023 256 pages 29 bw illus

HB 9781350277885 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350277908 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350277892 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts • Bloomsbury

Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization

Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve

Edited by Lisa Maurice & Tovi Bibring, both Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Chapters explore the role of gender in GrecoRoman and Judaeo-Christian creation myths and their reception traditions. Focusing on Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve, the volume examines how variations on their stories reflect the concerns of the societies producing them and offers a comparative overview of the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths and their enduring relevance in the modern world.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350212862

Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity

The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination

Marco Benoît Carbone, University College London, UK

Straddling the line between reality and myth, the Strait of Messina conjures images of ancient Greece, picturesque South Italy, and the mythical Scylla and Charybdis. From this geographical springboard, Marco Benoît Carbone traces the reflections of antiquity in modern-day popular culture centred on the Strait, exploring how the real village of Scilla has become a place-myth in contemporary imagination and media—a chronotope, elsewhere in space and time, defined chiefly by its literary aura.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781350194656 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350118188

ePub 9781350118201 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350118195 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts • Bloomsbury

Academic

The Classics in South America

Five Case Studies

Germán Campos Muñoz, Appalachian State University, USA

This volume examines the long and complex Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the classics has played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the ongoing history of self definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, coins, letters, photographs, and monuments.

• 264 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350212824

ePub 9781350212848

ePdf 9781350212831

• 12 bw illus

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 272 pages

PB 9781350195042 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350170254

• 4 bw illus

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

• Bloomsbury Academic

ePub 9781350170278 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350170261

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

• Bloomsbury Academic

Student Editions

Emilia

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Edited by Elizabeth Schafer

Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Bassano (1569 - 1645) - poet, teacher and feminist - is a fascinating subject for this speculative history. In presenting her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm presents the story of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history. Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary & notes by Professor Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 184 pages

PB 9781350200258 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350200272 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350200265 • £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Alison Walls

Offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1959 classic about ageing movie star and her ambitious companion. This new edition includes an introduction by Alison Walls, that explores the play's production history; political, cultural and social context; Williams's dramatic style and use of language, as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic debates that surround it. An essential edition of anyone studying the play or Williams's work more widely.

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350238022 • £9.99

ePub 9781350238046 • £8.99

ePdf 9781350238039 • £8.99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Anthony Neilson

Edited by anna six, University of Warwick, UK

This Student Edition of Neilson's magical and moving play,The Wonderful World of Dissocia, features an introduction and notes by anna six. It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition. It also includes an interview with the playwright.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 128 pages

PB 9781350200975 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350200999 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350200982 £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Student Editions

• Methuen Drama

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Benjamin Hudson, Rollins

College, USA

The commentary in this Student Edition delves into contemporary productions of the play, as well as probing major themes, including illness and mortality; white supremacy; mendacity and 'fake news'; alcoholism and addiction; as well as sexuality, womanhood and mid-century masculinity. It looks at context, including the cultural, social and political landscape of the Mississippi Delta and St. Louis; the first-hand witnessing of Black life in the South; homosexuality and outsider sympathy; and American conservatism and the 1950s family. It offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1955 play and is ideal for teachers, lecturers and students.

UK August 2023 • 168 pages

PB 9781350237988 • £9.99

ePub 9781350238008 • £8.99

ePdf 9781350237995 • £8.99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Daniel Ciba, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA

This revised Student Edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and through the lens of Queer Identity. It also discusses recent notable productions and adaptations of the play from across the world.

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350108981 £8.99

ePub 9781350108998 £8.09

ePdf 9781350109001 £8.09

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Best of Enemies

James Graham

Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

1968 – a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal. Little do they know they’re about to open up a new frontier in American politics, and transform television news forever…

An electric new play by James Graham (Quiz, Labour of Love), directed by Jeremy Herrin, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon.

UK November 2022 US February 2023 112 pages

PB 9781350381261 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350381278

ePdf 9781350381285

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK, Chris Megson, Matthew Nichols, Head of Drama, Manchester Grammar, UK & Sara Freeman

Conversations After Sex and Trade

Mark O'Halloran

Multiple award-winning Mark O’Halloran is one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers. Two plays spanning 12 years of work come together in one published edition to coincide with the New York premiere in January 2023.

Both Conversations after Sex and Trade speak to our vulnerability and innate need to communication and connection in an isolated world.

UK January 2023 US March 2023 136 pages

PB 9781350398511 £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350398535 £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781350398528

• £10.79 / $14.84

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Cornelia Street

Simon Stephens & Mark Eitzel

In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have. His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the village. It is out of place and out of time and running out of luck.

A new musical by Tony Award-winner Simon Stephens and acclaimed singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350401464 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350401488 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350401471 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Elephant

Anoushka Lucas

A piano came through the sky and landed in Lylah’s council flat, just for her. As she pours over the keys and sound floods into all the rooms, Lylah falls in love.

Part gig, part piano lesson, part journey through Empire – Elephant is a powerful new play from Anoushka Lucas.

UK October 2022

• US December 2022

PB 9781350381704

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350381711

ePdf 9781350381728

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 64 pages

Graceland

Ava Wong Davies

Nina meets Gabriel at an old friend’s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn’t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn’t. Or maybe it never was. Graceland is a new one-woman play from Ava Wong Davies, complicated in its depiction of love and harm in the familial and romantic relationships of protagonist Nina, a twenty-something British-Chinese woman living in London.

UK February 2023

• US March 2023 • 72 pages

PB 9781350409279 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350409293

• £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350409286 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

HAKAWATIS

Women of the Arabian Nights

Hannah Khalil

A tyrant revenges his wife’s infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day. Years later, only five brides-in-waiting remain...

This fearless new play examines the unifying power of storytelling as ancient tales are reclaimed, rewritten and reimagined by Globe Resident Writer, Hannah Khalil.

UK December 2022

PB 9781350381568

• US January 2023

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350381575 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350381582 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 80 pages

If These Wigs Could Talk & Haunted

Tara Flynn & Panti Bliss

Two new hilarious confessional plays from giants of Irish comedy and politics exploring lives in contemporary Ireland.

If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and making a show of herself, taking this moment to question what her purpose and place in the world is now. What happens when you hit the floor and lose all of your marbles? Ask Tara Flynn in Haunted: a fame-adjacent actor turned advocate for the campaign to Repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment

UK November 2022 • US December 2022 • 96 pages

PB 9781350383142 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350383166 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350383159 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

In the Net

Misha Levkov

Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London to unite their community. But not everyone’s convinced. Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian refugee staying with the family, finds herself caught in a tangle of immigration red tape. With time running out, drought spreading, and the authorities closing in, the net becomes their arena in the pursuit of justice, joy and safety. Misha Levkov’s stunning debut interweaves its characters as delicately as the web they weave on stage. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Jermyn Street Theatre, January 2023.

UK January 2023

• US February 2023 • 104 pages

PB 9781350386594 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350386617 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350386600 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Pick N Mix

Kat Rose-Martin

When Olivia, Kim and Alisha all take a fancy to the same local lad, friendships and families are torn apart. Lies are told, secrets are spilled and their lives are about to change forever. Pick N Mix is a coming of age story of sisterhood, Sex Ed and sanitary pads. A humorous and touching debut play from writer Kat Rose-Martin exploring female friendships, sexuality, and teen pregnancy for three working-class girls in Bradford.

UK November 2022

PB 9781350381940

• US December 2022

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350381964

ePdf 9781350381957

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 88 pages

Sound of the Underground

Travis Alabanza & Debbie Hannan

Out to the electric night, where the base line jumps in the backstreet light and the beat goes round and round. Legends of the London Queer club scene come out from under the gutter. Expect punk, profanity and a fierce fight about workers’ rights written by Travis Alabanza and co-created and directed by Debbie Hannan. Sound of the Underground spotlights London’s iconic underground club culture and questions what it means to get your money’s worth when it comes to art. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court, London, in January 2023.

UK January 2023 US March 2023 96 pages

PB 9781350406230 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350406254

ePdf 9781350406247

Series: Modern Plays

World English

Iphigenia in Splott

Gary Owen

Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it.

Gary Owen’s critically acclaimed and powerful monodrama inspired by the Greek myth won the Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015.

UK September 2022 US November 2022 88 pages

PB 9781350372610 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350372627 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350372634 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Ruckus

Jenna Fincken

A loving relationship can be anything but. In this one-woman thriller, Ruckus explores coercive control, an issue not widely recognised - yet its side effects kill up to three women every week in the UK. Each moment of the play, seen through 28-yearold school teacher Lou's eyes, has been inspired by real women and real stories. Acclaimed by critics and audiences, Ruckus was the 1st Finalist for the Popcorn New Writing Award 2022, shortlisted for The Filipa Bragança Award, and winner of a Lustrum Award during its original run at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2022.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 64 pages

PB 9781350380172 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350380189 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350380196 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Dry House

Eugene O'Hare

Three Irish woman. Booze, family, bravery. A timely metaphor for Irish political situation, while also suggesting the possibility of hope at the end of years of appalling self-destruction.

An uncompromising new Irish play from acclaimed writer and director Eugene O'Hare.

UK March 2023 • US May 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350406520 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350406544 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350406537 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

• Methuen Drama

The New Musketeers

Dannie Harris, Matthew Howell, Jack Michael Stacey & Sean Turner

The World’s Greatest Swordsmen… are not in this play. A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers… sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters and an important mission to complete. The New Musketeers features brilliant original music written by Dannie Harris, with terrible sword fighting and a hilarious cast of characters. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in December 2022.

UK December 2022

• US January 2023 • 120 pages

PB 9781350386150 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350386174 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350386167 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Trouble in Butetown

Diana Nneka Atuona

In her illegal boarding house in Butetown, Cardiff, Gwyneth Mbanefo toils tirelessly to keep afloat.

It’s a port town during the war; home to souls from every corner of the globe. When Nate, an African American GI, escapes his barracks and discovers this new world without segregation, can he find safe harbour? And with danger on every corner, who can he trust? A pressing new play from the Alfred Fagon award-winning playwright, Diana Nneka Atuona.

UK February 2023

PB 9781350386235

• US March 2023 • 128 pages

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350386259

• £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350386242 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Wanderers

Anna Ziegler

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews; Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities. On the surface, the lives of these two couples couldn’t be more different... but are they?

Anna Ziegler’s funny, insightful, and mysterious new drama explores the hidden connections between seemingly disparate people, drawing audiences into an intriguing puzzle and a deeply sympathetic look at modern love.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350398559 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350398573 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350398566 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Bubble

Kieran Hurley

What happens when a male lecturer calls a female student a slut? A provocative, dynamic and original play by award-winning writer Kieran Hurley, set entirely on Facebook and written in both text and emojis.

Originally commissioned and developed as a stage play as part of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s MA Classical and Contemporary Text Programme with support from the Playwrights’ Studio, this play was streamed by 195,000 people online and watched in 32 countries.

UK December 2022

PB 9781350398382

• US January 2023

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350398405

• £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350398399 £9.89 / $13.49

• 48 pages

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

Moonset

Maryam Hamidi

Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning. Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and the sharp edge of womanhood, she gathers her friends and begins meddling in witchcraft to search for answers. Shadows are lurking, ready to swallow those she loves most in the world. As friendships fray, fire crackles and blood bubbles, the group unravel the bonds that unite and the secrets that surround them. Maryam Hamidi's Moonset is a blazing, coming-of-age tale filled with love, rage and self-discovery, as four young women search for the power they were promised.

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350405196 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350405219 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350405202 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts

Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona V; Redemption

David Watson, Andy Day, Sonia Hale & James Meteyard

Edited by The Big House

A celebration of the last decade of work and play by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature. This collection is perfect for students and young people looking for performance materials, or for plays that are centered around underrepresented POVs.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

• 368 pages

PB 9781350359741 • £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350359758 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350359765 • £22.49 / $31.04

Methuen Drama

World English

A spotlight on plays and drama

Research findings show:

In 2019 assessments, 0% of English Literature students answered a question on a play by a Global Majority writer

In 2022 assessments, 90% of drama

set texts available at GCSE English

Literature and 96% at A Level are written by white playwrights

By 2025, GCSE and A Level English

Literature students in England and Wales will have the option to choose from 10 new modern plays by writers of colour

Change is coming. Be part of it.

Download the research report and find out more at Bloomsbury.com/ LitinColour

We’re supporting representative and inclusive drama experiences within the English curriculum

Arthur Miller Plays 4

The Golden Years; The Man Who Had All the Luck; I Can't Remember Anything;

Clara

Arthur Miller

This fourth anthology of Arthur Miller's work features two of his early plays: The Golden Years, a historical tragedy about Montezuma's destruction at the hands of Cortez, and The Man Who Had All the Luck, a fable about human freedom and individual responsibility. It also features two of his later, shorter plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, which were first presented on a double bill as Danger! Memory and highlight the dangers of remembering the past.

UK February 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350335301 • £19.99

ePub 9781350335318 • £17.99

ePdf 9781350335325 • £17.99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Arthur Miller Plays 6

Broken Glass; Mr Peters' Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture

Arthur Miller

This final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of works by Arthur Miller, features one of his most acclaimed pieces: the semi-autobiographical Broken Glass (1994) which "balances private lives with public morality ... it is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion." (Daily Telegraph).

This volume also contains two of Miller's final works: the cerebral Mr Peters' Connections (1998), which journeys through the suspended consciousness of an aging pilot, and Resurrection Blues (2002), a black comedy set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics and the predatory nature of a media-saturated culture.

UK February 2023 • 312 pages

PB 9781350354425 £19.99

ePub 9781350354432 £17.99

ePdf 9781350354449 • £17.99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Anna Ziegler Plays Two

The Great Moment; Another Way Home; The Wanderers; Actually

Anna Ziegler

"[Her] dialogue bristles with smart, eloquent talk … Ms. Ziegler’s quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable." – The New York Times

This second play collection from one of America's most successful theatre writers brings together four plays that offer differing perspectives on family and the human condition. Each play has enjoyed successful productions in cities across America, cementing Ziegler's position as one of the world's most exciting contemporary dramatists.

UK March 2023

• US March 2023

PB 9781350349681

Arthur Miller Plays 5

The Last Yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins

Arthur Miller

This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early 1990s: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), which The Guardian called "a fine and moving play ... Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values"; and The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), which explores themes of bigamy and betrayal, described as "searching, scorching, harsh but compassionate" (The Sunday Times). This volume also contains Almost Everybody Wins, the original version of the screenplay Arthur Miller wrote for Karel Reisz's film, 'Everybody Wins'.

UK February 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350354395 • £19.99

ePub 9781350354401 • £17.99

ePdf 9781350354418 £17.99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

My White Best Friend

Volume 2: North

Based on the original concept by playwright

Rachel De-Lahay and commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of 20 personal letters, monologues and writings by BIPOC writers from across the North of England. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don’t dare say – even to those closest to us. Contributors include: Yusra Warsama, Malika Booker and Jamal Gerald.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 224 pages

PB 9781350352032 • £15.99 / $21.95

ePub 9781350352056 • £14.39 / $20.24

ePdf 9781350352049 £14.39 / $20.24

Methuen Drama

World English

Radio Plays

The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England

• 224 pages

• £19.99 / $24.95

ePub 9781350349698

ePdf 9781350349704

Methuen Drama

World English

• £17.99 / $24.29

• £17.99 / $24.29

Caryl Phillips

Edited by Bénédicte Ledent, University of Liège, Belgium

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author, he is best known for his fiction, his essays and his stage plays. What is less commonly known is that he also wrote radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016. Previously hidden away in Phillips’s archives, housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, this anthology is the first time they have been collected in one edition.

UK January 2023 US February 2023 344 pages 5 bw illus

PB 9781350300057

• £24.99 / $34.95

• HB 9781350300064 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350300095 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350300071 • £22.49 / $31.04

Methuen Drama

World English

Writing for Stage and Screen

Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience

Sherry Kramer, Bennington College, USA

In this structured look at the way audience members progress through a work in real time, Sherry Kramer helps writers and artists discover how to make work that will mean more to their audiences. By using examples drawn from plays, film, and streaming series, this study makes its concepts accessible to a range of artists who work in what Kramer terms 'timebound art.' The book also features exercises, developed with MFA writers in The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, which provide entrance points to help artists consider and create their work.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus

PB 9781350338265 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350338272 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350338289 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350338296 • £17.99 / $24.29

Series: Introductions to Theatre Methuen Drama

Sites of Transformation

Applied and Socially Engaged Scenography in Rural Landscapes

Louise Ann Wilson, Theatre maker, UK

In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as an applied art form with transformative and therapeutic outcomes. It includes reflections on walking, autobiographical and landscape performance and art practices from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s to present day. Case studies include Fissure (2011), Ghost Bird (2012), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016), Dorothy's Room (2018) and Women’s Walks to Remember (20182019). Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 248 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9781350282759 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350104440

ePub 9781350104457 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350104464 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy

Edited by Harry Robert Wilson & Will Daddario

The first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars across the world. The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of 'neutral dramaturgies' and cover the breadth of Barthes's work from his essay 'The Death of the Author' (1967), Mythologies (1972), Camera Lucida (1981) and A Lover's Discourse (1990) to his most recently published lecture courses.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus.

HB 9781350330849 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350330856 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350330863 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Thinking Through Theatre Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Ethics

Edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, University of Victoria, Canada & Monica Prendergast, University of Victoria, Canada

This book considers what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants. While Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice, Part Two presents a range of international case studies that explore how the theories and issues are worked out in a variety of diverse practices. These case studies include projects in Australia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Canada and involve participants of many ages, from children to seniors.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350288706 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350161320

ePub 9781350161337 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350161344 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama

Staging the End of the World Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis

Brian Kulick, Columbia University, USA

This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. It examines a wide range of plays, from Euripides and Bhasa, to medieval mystery cycles, through Shakespeare, Pushkin, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, to Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, and Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Through analyzing these alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis.

UK January 2023

• US January 2023

PB 9781350309951

• £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350309920

• 280 pages

• HB 9781350309913

• £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350309937 £17.99 / $24.29

Methuen Drama

• £65.00 / $90.00

Livecasting in Twenty-FirstCentury British Theatre

NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement

Heidi Lucja Liedke, University of KoblenzLandau, Germany

Taking a fresh approach to the study of live theatre broadcasting, this book focuses on NT Live a decade after its launch. It embeds livecasting in its historical context, assesses its position in contemporary discourse, both in a pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards its future. Navigating between an interdisciplinary range of 20th- and 21st-century theorists from the fields of cultural studies, theatre studies and performance philosophy, it combines analyses of recent NT Live shows including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019), Antony and Cleopatra (2018) and Small Island (2019), with auto-ethnographic accounts and insights from practitioners.

UK July 2023

HB 9781350340961 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350340978 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350340985 • £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

Critical Companions

The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker

Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, Amy Muse guides readers through her critically acclaimed plays and other work. She illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing. Through close discussions of her plays, this book immerses readers in Baker’s attunement to everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by interviews and engaging essays by three scholars, this is a companionable guide that deepens the reader’s knowledge and appreciation of Baker’s dramatic invention.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781350319974

Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

Edited by Ann C. Hall, University of Louisville, USA & Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, USA Ghosts haunt the stages of world drama, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the essays collected here examine their representation, dramatic function and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Contributors consider their appearance in works by Aeschylus, early modern dramatists, in traditional Japanese theatre, through to the work of 21st-century dramatists.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus

HB 9781350371699 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350371705 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350371712 • £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

Clive Barker and His Legacy Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games

Edited by Paul Fryer, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK & Nesta Jones, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK

UK September 2023 US September 2023 240 pages 8 bw

PB 9781350296169 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350128477

ePub 9781350128491 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350128484 • £67.50 / $91.79

Methuen Drama

The Theatre of Paula Vogel Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

Lee Brewer Jones, Georgia State University, USA This volume examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and a professor, analyzing texts and early reviews of her major plays—including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive and The Baltimore Waltz—before turning attention to Vogel's influence upon other major playwrights, such as Sarah Ruhl and Lynn Nottage. Enriched by essays from Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse and an interview with Lynn Nottage, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9781350251717 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350251724 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350251731

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critical Companions

• Methuen Drama

• 232 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350319981

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350319998 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critical Companions Methuen Drama

Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway, Ireland & Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA

Affair of the Heart

British Theatre from 1992 to 2020

Michael Billington

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 344 pages

PB 9781350367258 • £16.99 / $22.95

Previously published in HB 9781350214774

ePub 9781350214798 £27.00 / $37.79

ePdf 9781350214781 £27.00 / $37.79

Methuen Drama

World English

Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond

Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies

Claire Gleitman, Ithaca College, USA

Examining the figure of the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller’s most celebrated plays, this study focuses on the gender dynamics of this figure and traces how he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama from the 1950s to the present day. It takes in the work of Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and Sam Shepard, through to the plays of Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350272972 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271111

ePub 9781350272989 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350272996 • £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

Modernists and the Theatre

The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

James Moran, University of Nottingham, UK

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Drawing on archive material and neglected documents, James Moran reveals how these figures interacted with theatre through playwriting, engaging in philosophical debates and participating in performances. Moran uncovers how the playhouse became a space where highmodernists could explore a tension that fascinated them, and which motivated much of their wider thinking and literary work.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350282438 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350145498

ePub 9781350145504 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350145511 • £67.50 / $91.79

Methuen Drama

Romantic Comedy

Trevor R. Griffiths, London

A historical and critical exploration of one of the most durable genres of stage comedy from its beginnings to the present, centring on the British tradition. Through a series of case studies including Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, the book explores and analyses the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed in the theatre from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present and charts the ways in which the form has been shaped by changing social norms.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 184 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350183414 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350183377

ePub 9781350183384 • £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781350183391 • £58.50 / $79.64

Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA & Anja Hartl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Performing the Queer Past Public Possessions

Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

How do contemporary theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the queer past? This book explores how the queer past is invoked via strategies of channeling and haunting, working through and out, recollection and replay, commodification and reproduction, occupation and commemoration, intermedial recontextualisation and dissemination. It focuses on an eclectic range of case studies – including Artangel, Dickie Beau, Jeremy O. Harris, Karen Finley, Milo Rau, Rachel Mars, Split Britches and Travis Alabanza – and practices that encompass digital theatre, experimental performance, installation, live art and site-specific interventions.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 17 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781350297968

ePub 9781350297975

ePdf 9781350297982

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

• Methuen Drama

Performing Left Populism Performance, Politics and the People

Edited by Théo Aiolfi, CY Cergy Paris University, France & Goran Petrovic Lotina, University of Warwick, UK

This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance. Exploring the populist roots of a number of performances, the contributors to this study analyze the potentials and limits of the new forms of left populism. Combining performance studies and political theory, it demonstrates how various performance practices give rise to populism, and offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which performance can be viewed politically. This vital study expands the debate about left populism towards more radical strategies of mobilization, collectivism and democratic politics.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350347045

• 224 pages • 5 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350347052

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350347069 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances Methuen Drama

Topics in Musical Theatre

Hip-Hop in Musical Theatre

Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA

Offering insightful briefs on musical theatre productions that contain aesthetic, musical and embodied references to the global phenomenon of Hip-hop culture, this volume takes the reader through a virtual tour of hip-hop’ s influence on American musical theatre. From early traces of hip-hop’s rap scene in musicals such as Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope (1973) and Broadway smash hits such as The Wiz (1978) to international juggernauts like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (2015), this introductory book decodes the sights and sounds of hip-hop culture within the sociocultural context in which the musicals are produced.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 96 pages

PB 9781350247963 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350247987 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350247970 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

Race in American Musical Theatre

Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota, USA

Designed as a concise and contemporary introduction to the topic of racial representation in American musical theatre production, engaging students and general readers with questions regarding how race has affected both the development and the continued popularity of American musical theatre production. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties that Black, Indigenous, and other theatre artists of color continue to face in commercial musical theatre production as well as the ways that they have challenged white dominance over the American musical stage.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350248212

• 120 pages

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350248236

ePdf 9781350248229

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre Methuen Drama

Doing the Time Warp Strange Temporalities and Musical Theatre

Sarah Taylor Ellis

Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance – sites of aesthetic difference in the musical – can ‘warp’ time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different ways of being in the world.

Through analysing musicals of stage and screen – ranging from Rent to Ragtime, Glee to Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music – Sarah Taylor Ellis investigates how alienated subjects find moments of coherence and connection in musical theatre’s imaginaries of song and dance.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350333192 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350151703

ePub 9781350151710

ePdf 9781350151727

Methuen Drama

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre

Ryan Donovan, The New School, USA

This book introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in musicals challenges heteronormativity but sometimes simultaneously reinforces it. This volume encompasses queerness beyond simply the familiar narrative of gay men’s over-representation in musical theatre. Readers are introduced to the history of queerness in musicals as well as queer methods of how to study musicals. Four case studies are organized around historical contexts, textual narratives, staging and production, and reception.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 136 pages

PB 9781350247628 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350247642 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350247635 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

Out For Blood

A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical

Chris Adams

Featuring over 50 interviews with original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this ‘horror of a Broadway musical’ lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350320536 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350320543 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350320567 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350320550 • £19.79 / $26.99

Methuen Drama

Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

Legacy of the Silk Road

Laurel Victoria Gray, George Washington University, USA

The first comprehensive work in English on the 3 major regional styles of Uzbek women’s danceFerghana, Khiva and Bukhara - and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys their remarkable development from earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to their hidden life under Islam; and from liberation under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women’s dance.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 176 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350249479 • £16.99 / $22.95

• HB 9781350249516 • £50.00 / $68.00

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePub 9781350249493

ePdf 9781350249486

• £15.29 / $21.59

• £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Dance in the 21st Century • Bloomsbury Academic

Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK & Emilio Méndez

The Improv Illusionist Using Object Work, Environment and Physicality in Performance

David Raitt, Freelance practitioner

A practical improv manual that dives deep into object work, environment and physicality in character and performance in relation to improvisation. It asks why these skills are important, why bad habits develop over time, how to fix those bad habits and how to be more physical on stage. The book features over 50 exercises to help improvisers develop their skills through solo and group work.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350326378 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350326385 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350326392 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350326408 • £16.19 / $22.94

Methuen Drama

Speaking Shakespeare

Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK

Combining clear, practical and textual work with a thorough analysis of scene and speeches from a range of Shakespeare's plays, this is an essential and inspiring guide for anyone working with Shakespeare today.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 464 pages

PB 9781350161658 £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350161672 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350161665 • £22.49 / $31.04

Methuen Drama

The Need for Words Voice and the Text

Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK

"Patsy is a gifted voice and speech coach. In The Need for Words she provides practical and imaginative means for getting to the heart of the text and making the necessity for the language to be strongly felt by audiences. I recommend it to anyone who needs to use words with clarity and passion." - Trevor Nunn

Patsy Rodenburg's landmark work focuses on the language of power, spoken in the worlds of politicians and company directors. Language exercises provide readers with access to this new research, allowing them to master the language that drives the modern world.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9781350290112 • £22.99 / $30.95

ePub 9781350290129 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350290136 £20.69 / $28.34

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Bloomsbury Academic

Performer Training for Actors and Athletes

Frank Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the limits of performance? How do they relate to the world around and prepare for the task ahead? From traditional and physical actors to runners, boxers and other sports practitioners, this is a book about performers: their bodies, trainings and experiences. It interrogates what it means to prepare and train as a performer in the early C21st. Offering a refreshing perspective on training in the cross-lighting of aesthetic and athletic processes, it focuses on the learning, mastery and creative adaptation of technique in performance.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350347304 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350347311 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350347328 £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

World English

Collaborative Embodied Performance Ecologies of Skill

Edited

by Kath Bicknell, Macquarie University, Australia & John Sutton, Macquarie University, Australia

This book brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Short chapters fall into thematic clusters exploring complex ecologies of skill, collaborative learning and the microstructure of embodied coordination, followed by commentaries from leading scholars in performance studies and cognitive science. The case studies equip performance makers, students and researchers with theoretical, methodological and practical inspiration to delve deeper into their own embodied practices and critical thinking.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350197756

• 264 pages • 10 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350197695

ePub 9781350197701

ePdf 9781350197718

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Edited by Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle, Australia

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields within Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. It largely centres on the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed. Ancient comedic performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class.

UK November 2022

• US November 2022 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350000711 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187580

ePdf 9781350187597

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Andrew McConnell Stott, University of Southern California, USA

Drawing together scholars with a range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy. It argues that it was shaped by cultural transformations including the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, commentaries on the nature of comedy, and the development of printed jestbooks. It satirized a rapidly-changing world and explored questions of gender, authority, identity, and commerce, amongst others. This volume argues that the period saw a complex and contested mix of texts, performances, and concepts, providing a deep tradition that abides to this day.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 256 pages • 46 bw illus

HB 9781350000735 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187702 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350187719 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Matthew Kaiser, University of California, Merced, USA

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theatre studies, this volume explores aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions to comedy between 1800 and 1920 in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life.

• US November 2022

UK November 2022

HB 9781350000759

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187801 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350187795 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages

Edited by Martha Bayless, University of Oregon, USA

This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges. It analyses most of the literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 232 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350000728 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187610 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350187634 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia, USA

This volume highlights comedy in England with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape.

UK November 2022

• US November 2022 • 272 pages • 48 bw illus

HB 9781350000742 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187740 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350187726 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age

Edited by Louise Peacock, De Montfort University, UK

The period covered by this volume was marked by an explosion of comic forms and creativity across a range of media. It covers a range of examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film, television comedy, live comedy, and comedy on social media. It considers its role in entertainment and in provoking consideration of a range of social and political topics. Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theatre, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age.

• 272 pages • 43 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages • 14 bw illus

HB 9781350000766 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350187856 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350187832 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The RSC Shakespeare is an imprint of Bloomsbury, available via www.bloomsbury.com and through the Bloomsbury Academic sales team. RSC Shakespeare titles are not available in North America.

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality

Jennie M. Votava, Allegheny College, USA

Linking early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory, this study examines how the adapted Shakespearean history play provides a site for constructing race as it intersects with other identity categories, such as gender, sexuality, class, disability, ethnicity and nation. It considers two 21st-century adaptations of the Henriad that intentionally engage contemporary identity politics through crossracial casting – the BBC miniseries, The Hollow Crown and Lennix, Quinn, and Thompson’s all-Black Henry IV conflation, the film H4, before reassessing the cultural implications of history adaptations with non-traditional casting practices from the 1990s - including My Private Idaho and Richard III.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350326644 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350326651 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350326668 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

Adapting Macbeth A Cultural History

William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA

Analyzing adaptations and tropes of interpretation of Macbeth since its first performance, this book argues that the centuries-long habit of ‘correcting’ Macbeth to fit a period’s political and aesthetic assumptions both misrepresents and domesticates the play’s strangeness, hybridity, and logical difficulties. The widearray of adaptations and appropriations considered range across elite and popular culture divides: from Sir William Davenant’s adaptation for the Restoration stage (1663–4), an early 18th century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi's Macbeth, through to 20th and 21st century adaptations for stage and screen, besides contemporary novelizations, comic books, young adult literature and commercial products.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350288546 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350181397

ePub 9781350181403 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350181410 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

The Changeling: The State of Play

Edited

by

Peter

Kirwan, Mary Baldwin University, USA & Duncan Salkeld, University of Chichester, UK

This is the first collection of essays specifically focused on Arden of Faversham. It explores the ways this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached by scholars and theatre-makers, and also looks forward to its role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

HB 9781350270176

• 240 pages • 10 bw illus

• £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350270183 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350270190 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern German Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew

Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen in

William Shakespeare

Translation

Edited by Lukas Erne, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Florence Hazrat, University of Sheffield, UK & Maria Shmygol, University of Leeds, UK

This book is a translation of German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. The introductions place these versions in the German context, and offer insights into what we can learn about the original texts from these translations.

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 Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350262430

• 472 pages • 10 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350094758

ePub 9781350094765

ePdf 9781350094772

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £0.00 / $0.00

The Arden Shakespeare

Edited by Gordon McMullan,

King's

College London, UK & Kelly Stage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

This collection of 13 original essays on Middleton and Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary: each represents an aspect of the state of the art in criticism of early modern drama and together they address central issues, notably tragedy, gender, and violence.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 288 pages

PB 9781350288430 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350174382

ePub 9781350174399 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350235915 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare

Global Shakespeare Inverted

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

Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

National Revival and Interwar Politics, 1870 – 1940

Edited by Nely Keinänen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries explores how translations and productions of Shakespeare were key to the independence movements of Finland, Norway and Iceland. The second part explores how the role of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries was partly transformed in the 1920s and 1930s as a new social system emerged, and then as the rise of fascism meant that European politics cast a long shadow on the Nordic countries and substantially affected the reception of Shakespeare.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 272 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350251250 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350251267 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350251274 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume

'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance

Ella Hawkins, University of Birmingham, UK

This book scrutinizes the popular practice of costuming Shakespeare’s plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean dress. It considers why this traditional approach to design appeals to contemporary directors, designers and audiences, and how it has shaped the meaning of Shakespeare’s works.

Ella Hawkins examines the minutiae of modern design as well as the widespread cultural movements that have produced our modern relationship with the period of Shakespeare’s lifetime.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 288 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350234451 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350234420

ePub 9781350234437 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350234444 £72.00 / $98.54

The Arden Shakespeare

Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Nely Keinänen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, the authors open up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard’s re-working of King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge’s performances in Stockholm, it intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like ‘rhizome’, which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of ‘centre’ versus ‘periphery’.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

• 344 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350201019 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350200869

ePub 9781350200876 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350200883 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics

Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love’s Martyr'

Don Rodrigues, Old Dominion University, USA

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, “The Phoenix and Turtle”, published in Robert Chester’s enigmatic collection of verse, Love’s Martyr (1601)? Don Rodrigues critiques and revises traditional computational attribution studies by integrating the insights of queer theory to a study of Love's Martyr in which he presents, most radically, data that supports the once-outlandish theory that Shakespeare may have had a significant hand in editing works signed by Chester. It articulates 'queer analytics' – an approach to literary analysis that joins the non-normative close reading of queer theory to the distant attention of computational literary studies.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 296 pages 8 bw illus

PB 9781350288690 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350178823

ePub 9781350178830 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350178847 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages

Edited by Nicoleta Cinpoes, University of Worcester, UK, Florence March, University

Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France & Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, Coventry

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare’s presence at European festivals and to examine the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, while considering the impact festivals have on the production and circulation of staged Shakespeare. This collection offers the most authoritative and informed accounts of a wide range of festivals hosted in 14 countries, including the Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia), the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (Poland), Shake-Nice! (France) and the Almago Festival (Spain).

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350283244

• 8 bw illus

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350140165

ePub 9781350140172

• £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350140189 £67.50 / $91.79

The Arden Shakespeare

Business and Society

A Critical Introduction

Edited by Kean Birch, Richard Wellen, Sonya Scott & Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, all York University, Canada

Written in clear and accessible terms, this one-ofa-kind textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society, from an historical analysis of the spread of capitalism to the regulation, ethics and exclusionary implications of business in contemporary society. This second edition includes new material and chapters that explore how global crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency have exposed tensions within and among national business systems. It also addresses the need for new ways of holding business accountable in the era of digital platforms.

2 new tailored editions of Re ective Teaching in Schools

A top team of authors from UCL’s Institute of Education provide expert advice to support both the trainee and the practising professional, in two new volumes dedicated speci cally to the primary or secondary setting.

With even more case studies, research summaries and re ective activities, these are the books teachers can trust to guide their career.

“A cornerstone of preparation for teaching excellence.”

– Becky Francis, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, UK

Critical Childhood Studies

Global Perspectives

Kay Tisdall, Deborah Fry, Kristina Konstantoni, Marlies Kustatscher, Catherine Maternowska & Laura Weiner, all University of Edinburgh, UK & John Davis, University of Strathclyde, UK

This textbook introduces key ideas in childhood studies, from agency and intersectionality to children’s rights. The book covers up to 18 years of age and combines concepts from seminal texts with challenging, critical views and alternatives, stimulating students to develop their own analysis. Suitable for practitioners and those from other disciplines too, pedagogy includes guiding questions and challenge tasks, and a new companion website features quizzes and videos from the authors, students and academics.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350163201

• US September 2023

• £26.99 / $36.95

ePub 9781350163232

ePdf 9781350163225

Bloomsbury Academic

• 256 pages

• 20 bw illus

• HB 9781350163218

• £24.29 / $33.74

• £24.29 / $33.74

• £80.00 / $110.00

Feminist New Materialism, Girlhood, and the School Ball

Toni Ingram, Auckland University of Technology, Australia

Employing a feminist new materialist approach, Toni Ingram reveals the ways in which the school ball (or prom) can be understood as an assemblage of ‘things’: material objects, practices, ideas and imaginings which contribute to the process of becoming a school ball-girl. She explores how entangled human and more-than-human relations produce what we come to understand as the school ball-girl. Building on the social theory of Barad, Bennett, Best, Deleuze and Guattari, this book offers a new perspective on girls, sexuality, gender, posthumanism and childhood while also exploring the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking educational practices and the human subject.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 208 pages • 10 b/w illus

HB 9781350165724 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350165748 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350165731 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Care-Based Methodologies

Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools

Edited by Veena Vasudevan, University of Pittsburgh School of Education, USA, Nora Gross, Boston College, USA, Pavithra Nagarajan, City University of New York (CUNY), USA & Katherine Clonan-Roy, Cleveland State University, USA

The book presents a rationale for care as a critical methodological component of school-based qualitative and ethnographic research in schools in the United States, particularly with youth from nondominant communities. It includes new research from scholars who work in a range of school contexts: traditional public schools, private schools, charter schools, and alternative schools, primarily, but not exclusively, in urban contexts. These schools serve various populations of children and youth from African American and Latinx communities, immigrant communities, including those for whom English is a second language, and students with disabilities.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 280 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350215634 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350215597

ePub 9781350215610 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350215603 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Teacher Toolkit Guide to Questioning

Ross Morrison McGill, @TeacherToolkit, UK

Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach. and Teacher Toolkit, explores how teachers can use questioning to identify gaps in knowledge, improve recall and encourage pupils to analyse, evaluate and actively engage in learning. By simplifying the theory and offering original ideas proven to have an impact in the classroom, The Teacher Toolkit Guide to Questioning provides teachers with an invaluable resource to refine this key element of their practice. Highly illustrated and supported by infographics, charts and diagrams, this book also includes ready-touse templates and worked examples.

UK September 2023

PB 9781472989383

Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom

The updated guide to teaching happiness and positive mental health

Adrian Bethune

In this second edition of his award-winning book Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom, experienced teacher and advisor on children's wellbeing, Adrian Bethune, explains the latest evidence and research from the psychology of happiness, and makes it accessible and applicable for every primary classroom. This timely edition recognises the need for more guidance in schools following pupils’ rising levels of stress, anxiety and depression due to the pandemic, and it includes new chapters on nature and digital wellbeing.

UK July 2023

• 256 pages

PB 9781801992121 • £20.00

ePub 9781801992138 • £18.00

ePdf 9781801992152 • £18.00

Bloomsbury Education

Remote Learning and Distance Education

A Reference Handbook

William H. Pruden III, Ravenscroft School, USA

This one-stop reference resource provides an authoritative introduction to remote learning and distance education, a form of schooling that burst into the national consciousness with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but which remains poorly understood in many ways.

US September 2023

• UK September 2023 •224 pages

HB 9781440879487 •£49.00 / $63.00

Series: Contemporary World Issues • ABC-CLIO

• 128 pages

• £12.99

ePub 9781472989376

ePdf 9781472989369

Bloomsbury Education

• £11.69 / $16.19

• £11.69 / $16.19

Computer Science Education Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School

Edited by Sue Sentance, King’s College London, UK, Erik Barendsen, The Open University, the Netherlands and Radboud University, The Netherlands, Nicol R. Howard, University of Redlands, USA & Carsten Schulte, University of Paderborn, Germany

This new edition offers the most up-to-date coverage available on computer science education. The second edition features a new focus on equity and inclusion, and includes new sections on machine learning and data-driven (epistemic) programming and the learning of programming, including design, pedagogy and misconceptions. Chapter outlines, synopses and key points support the reader, while explanations of key concepts, real-life examples and reflective points keep the theory grounded in classroom practice. The book is accompanied by a companion website.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

PB 9781350296909 £26.99 / $36.95

• 336 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350296916 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350296930 £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350296923 £24.29 / $33.74

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 2023 • US May 2023 • 464 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350238411 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350238435 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350238428 £117.00 / $159.29

Bloomsbury Academic

The Place of Ethics in Science Education

Implications for Practice

Amanda McCrory & Michael J. Reiss, both IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK

Written for science educators based in schools and elsewhere, the authors make no assumptions that the reader has any knowledge of ethics beyond the background understandings of morality that virtually all of us have. Empowered with the knowledge shared in this book, readers will feel confident about the place that ethics has in science education. The authors provide a rich array of examples as to how science education, both in school and out of school, and for all ages, can be enhanced through including teaching about ethics.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350255142 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350255135 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350255166 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350255159 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

Succeeding as a History Teacher

Emily Folorunsho

A must-have guide to teaching history for new and experienced secondary teachers, Succeeding as a History Teacher offers a wealth of practical advice and ideas for delivering effective history lessons, developing a coherent and diverse curriculum, building subject knowledge and becoming a head of department.

Packed full of real-life examples, invaluable advice and top tips for making every history lesson count, this book shows how history teachers can integrate research-informed practices into the unique discipline of history at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.

UK June 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781801992213 • £16.99

ePub 9781801992220 • £15.29

ePdf 9781801992190 • £15.29

Bloomsbury Education

International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality

International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum

Epistemic Quality across School Subjects

Edited by Brian Hudson, Karlstad University, Sweden, and University of Sussex, UK& Niklas

Gericke, Christina Olin-Scheller & Martin Stolare, all Karlstad University, Sweden

Drawing on the idea of powerful knowledge, this book interrogates the epistemic quality of education in schools, in terms of what students are expected to know, make sense of and be able to do through the curriculum. In doing so the authors acknowledge the significance of transformation processes through which specialized knowledge, developed in subject disciplines, is reshaped and represented in educational environments.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350225084

• 30 bw illus

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350167094

ePub 9781350167117 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350167100

Bloomsbury Academic

• £81.00 / $110.69

Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice

Edited by Brian Hudson, Karlstad University, Sweden, and University of Sussex, UK & Niklas Gericke, Christina Olin-Scheller & Martin Stolare, all Karlstad University, Sweden

Drawing together an international author team from Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK, this book examines how we might democratize and open up access to ‘knowledge of the powerful’ for all. Based on a range of national studies by the Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education network (KOSS), funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-22), the chapters explore teachers’ powerful professional knowledge and the implications this has for innovation in teacher education, policy and practice in educational settings.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350226784

• 272 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350178403

ePub 9781350178427

ePdf 9781350178410

• 29 bw illus

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Reinventing Teacher Education

• Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic

Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching

Michael Thomas, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Mark Peterson, Kyoto University, Japan & Mark Warschauer

Task-Based English Language Learning in the Digital Age Perspectives from Secondary Education

Valentina Morgana, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

This book illustrates the developments of taskbased language teaching (TBLT) approaches in relation to the evolution of digital technologies. It highlights how technology-mediated TBLT principles can support English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning and contribute to understanding new classroom dynamics. The author discusses the integration of tasks and technologies from a secondary education perspective and looks at how the EFL secondary classroom has been re-conceptualised as a social place whose boundaries go far behind the traditional school settings. This book provides theoretical approaches and classroom implementation practices by presenting four case studies on the different L2 skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking).

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350288010 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350288034 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350288027 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching • Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education

Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice

Edited by Derek Hird, Lancaster University, UK

Informed by interdisciplinary theories, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Language Education focuses on practical discussions of case studies in areas directly relevant to the classroom contexts of modern languages educators. The volume transforms modern language educators and the modern language profession by putting the politics of language teaching at the centre of its analysis. With case studies covering 11 languages across 13 countries and regions the contributors cover a wide range of theories, including critical discourse analysis, activist pedagogies, culturally sustaining pedagogy, linguistic justice and translanguaging.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350298767 • £28.99 / $39.95

• HB 9781350298774 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350298798 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350298781 £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers • Bloomsbury Academic

What Makes Writing Academic Rethinking Theory for Practice

Julia Molinari, Independent Scholar, UK

This open access book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised stylistic, linguistic or syntactic forms. Using a critical realist lens, it re-imagines academic writings as 21st-century open systems that change according to affordances perceived by writers. The book proposes that academic writings be re-imagined as multimodal artefacts that harness a wider range of epistemic affordances.

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

UK September 2023

PB 9781350243965

Teaching Languages with Screen Media

Pedagogical Reflections

Edited by Carmen Herrero & Marta F. Suarez, both Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Illustrating how screen media can be used to support foreign language (L2) teaching and learning, this book provides new approaches to practice and research. Across four sections, the book focusses on film and broadcast media, in-depth case studies, translation and screen media and interactive media. With particular attention to teaching and learning Spanish, French, German, and English as a Foreign Language, this book draws on a range of interdisciplinary theories and approaches to present innovative insights into this new field of inquiry.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 272 pages • 11 bw illus.

HB 9781350216198 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350216211 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350216204 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching • Bloomsbury Academic

Literacies, Power and Identities in Figured Worlds in Malawi

Ahmmardouh Mjaya, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Malawi

This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi. It highlights the significance of exploring power and identity in literacy studies. Employing the concept of ‘figured worlds’ to study literacy as a social practice, the book focuses on understanding power relationships and identity in literacy practices. Using notions such as agency, artefact, resistance, shame and positioning, the book demonstrates the potential of the concept of figured worlds to address some of the questions raised within the New Literacy Studies.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 184 pages • 17 bw illus

PB 9781350296176 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350144811

ePub 9781350144842 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350144835 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education

Edited by tavis d. jules, Loyola University

Chicago, USA, Robin Shields, University of Bath, UK & Matthew A. M. Thomas, University of Sydney, Australia

Surveying the central theories in comparative and international education (CIE), each chapter of this book includes an overview of the theory including its history and development, references to examples where the theory has been applied in CIE research and practice, and suggestions for further reading. Written by leading scholars from the USA, the UK, China, Canada, Germany, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden this is a must-have reference work for those studying CIE.

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350243927

ePub 9781350243941 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350243934

Bloomsbury Academic

• 2 bw illus

• 224 pages

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350245129

• 512 pages

• £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350078758

ePub 9781350078772

ePdf 9781350078765

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £126.00 / $171.44

• £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

Freire and Children's Literature

Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USA & Jodene Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USA

Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children’s literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency. The authors show how critical pedagogy and culturally responsive instruction can create meaningful ways for parents, teachers, and community leaders to engage with children's and young adult literature. Unique and theoretically grounded, the book presents many opportunities to weave the ideas of Freire into the fabric of K-12 schooling.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 144 pages

PB 9781350292246 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350292239 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350292260 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350292253 • £13.49 / $18.89

Series: Freire in Focus • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion

Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice

Sustainable Futures for People and the Planet

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

Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this 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 will provide a conceptual framework of Global education and learning and the role it can play in addressing these social and environmental challenges. Freirean perspectives will be at the core of the book, both in terms of Freire’s pedagogy of hope and his idea of environmental justice, coupled with the idea of global social justice.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350326262 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350326286 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350326279 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

Edited by Jo

Fraser-Pearce, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College

London, UK & James W. Fraser, New York University, USA

This handbook provides the first truly global scan of contemporary issues and debates around the world regarding the relationship(s) between state schools and religion. Organized around specific contested issues — from whether or not religious literacy should be among the goals of school education, to appropriate and inappropriate religious attire in schools, to long term battles about evolution, sexuality, and race, to public funding — Fraser-Pearce and Fraser carefully curate chapters by leading experts exploring these matters and others in a diverse range of national settings. By providing a truly global scan, this volume offers a refreshingly new international perspective.

UK September 2023

HB 9781350297265

• US September 2023

• £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350297289 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350297272 • £117.00 / $159.29

• 384 pages

• 25 bw illus

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Reinventing the Family in Uncertain Times

Education, Policy and Social Justice

Knowing from the Inside Cross-Disciplinary Experiments with Matters of Pedagogy

Edited

by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

We know the world from the inside of our being in it. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, art, architecture and education, this book addresses what knowing from the inside means for practices of teaching and learning. If knowledge grows from our relations with people, places and materials, then how can there be such a thing as a curriculum? What forms could it take? And what could it mean to place such disciplines as anthropology, art and architecture at its heart? In addressing these questions, the book’s 14 contributors challenge mainstream thinking and experiment with radically alternative approaches to education.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 272 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9781350217188 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350217140

ePub 9781350217164 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350217157 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Alternative & Education • Bloomsbury Academic

A Revolution Betrayed How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System

UK September 2023

HB 9781350287105

Edited

by Marie-Pierre Moreau, Catherine Lee & Cynthia Okpokiri

Written by scholars based in Argentina, Ghana, Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the USA the chapters question what ‘counts’ as a family in contemporary times and considers how the discourses of power which operate in institutional and geographical contexts impact how families are recognized and valued. The book includes analysis of non-traditional and nonheteronormative families such as single-parent families, childless families, families with animal companions, LGBTQ families, families across the Global South, mixed heritage families and families of friends.

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350287129

ePdf 9781350287112

Bloomsbury Academic

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

• 240 pages • 10 bw illus

Peter Hitchens, Journalist and Commentator, UK Peter Hitchens looks carefully at the involvement of politics and politicians in contemporary British education and points out the fundamental errors which have resulted in anxiety for parents all over the country.

The cost of private secondary education is around £50,000 a year and the best comprehensive schools are oversubscribed, leading to parents spending thousands on private tutoring and fee-paying prep schools to get their children into academically excellent schools. Peter Hitchens argues that in trying to bring about an egalitarian educational system, politicians have created a system that is the exact opposite. An in-depth look at the British education system and what will happen if things don’t change radically.

UK September 2023

HB 9781399400084

• US January 2024

• £20.00 / $28.00

ePub 9781399400039

ePdf 9781399400046

• 224 pages

• £14.00 / $20.24

• £14.00 / $20.24

Bloomsbury Continuum

Changing Higher Education in East Asia

Edited by Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK & Xin Xu, University of Oxford, UK

This book explores the dynamics of the rapid expansion of the higher education sector in East Asia, looking at the tensions around internationalisation, indigenisation, westernisation, and globalisation, based on original perspectives and robust evidence. It brings together experts from the UK, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong SAR, and Australia. It covers key issues around internationalisation and globalisation, such as global public/common good, world-class universities, global/world citizenship education, the internationalisation of humanities and social sciences, the governance of science, regional cooperation, and students and academics’ mobility.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 304 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9781350216280 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350216242

ePub 9781350216266 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350216259 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research Bloomsbury Academic

Dominant Discourses in Higher Education

Critical Perspectives, Cartographies and Practice

Ian M. Kinchin, University of Surrey, UK & Karen Gravett, University of Surrey, UK

From the moment academics enter higher education, they are met with binaries such as teaching vs. research, quantitative vs. qualitative research, and constructivists vs. positivists. This book explores how discourses shape higher education and provides a novel approach that can potentially disrupt these dichotomies. It offers a fresh perspective which maps multiple issues and provides a consolidated overview of the field, which will be useful for researchers in higher education studies, as well as for lecturers in any higher education institution to better understand their context, their students and their practice.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 208 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350229778 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350180291

ePub 9781350180307 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350180284 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Value of English in Global Mobility and Higher Education

An Investigation of Higher Education in Cyprus

Manuela Vida-Mannl, TU Dortmund University, Germany

This book offers a unique insight into the dynamics of the English language in higher education in Cyprus through the lens of universities situated on both sides of its geopolitical division. It takes an original perspective on 'value' in the context of the sociolinguistics and political economy of English as a global language and as an apparent commodified entity. The problematic issues of value as they apply to language are dealt with from Marxist and Bourdieusean perspectives. The book also offers a helpful critique of the claims of alternative paradigms of English expansion, such as ELF, and their shortcomings in respect of the concept of value.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 248 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350231153 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350230958

ePub 9781350230972 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350230965 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Critical Perspectives on Language, Mobility and International Education • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Culture and Identity from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood

Perceptions and Implications

Edited by Ruth Wills, Liverpool Hope University, UK, Marian de Souza, Federation University, Australia, Jennifer Mata-McMahon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, Mukhlis Abu Bakar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Cornelia Roux, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

The contributors explore the impact that globalization and pluralism are having on the way most children and adolescents grow into early adulthood. They look at the influences of media and technology that can be felt within the living spaces of their homes, competing with the religious and cultural influences of family and community, and consider the ways many children and adolescents have developed multiple and virtual identities which help them to respond to different circumstances and contexts. They discuss the ways that many children find themselves in a perpetual state of shifting identities without ever being firmly grounded in one, potentially leading to tension and confusion particularly when there is conflict between one identity and another, resulting in increased anxiety and diminished self-esteem. This book explores how parents, educators and social and health workers have a raised awareness of the issues generated by plural identities and the overpowering human need to belong so that they can address associated issues and nurture a sense of wholeness in children and adolescents as they grow into early adulthood.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350244283

• US September 2023

• £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350157101

ePub 9781350157163

ePdf 9781350157170

• 448 pages

• £126.00 / $171.44

• £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

• 4 bw illus

Philosophical Foundations of Education

Edited by Winston C. Thompson, Ohio State University, USA

This first volume in the Educational Foundations series introduces philosophy as a foundational discipline of education. Revealing the values, premises, arguments, and conclusions that inform contemporary philosophical discussions of education, this book equips its readers with the conceptual and analytical resources necessary to engage with and make meaningful contributions to that grand discourse for years to come.

For ease of reference each book in the Educational Foundations collection covers the same set of key topics: Delineating the Field, What is Education For?, Curriculum, Schools and Education Systems, Learning and Development, Teaching and Teacher Education, Assessment, and Inclusive education. Attention is paid to how educational foundations speak to social justice concerns such as gender and racial equality.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 200 pages

HB 9781350170889 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350170896 £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350170872 £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Sociological Foundations of Education

Edited by Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini & Laura Engel

The third volume in the Educational Foundations series introduces sociology as a foundational discipline of education. Sociologists study education in its broadest sense – as a central structuring mechanism in shaping societies, occurring within families, communities and provided by institutions. The purposes of formal education are contested and these contestations influence broader power relations locally, nationally and globally. Sociologists disaggregate processes within education to examine empirically and theoretically the various levels at which they operate. This allows them to describe and make sense of the ways that relations of inequality are developed, reproduced or unsettled and how these shape individual and group experiences and outcomes.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023

• 216 pages

HB 9781350171039 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350171046 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350171022 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Historical Foundations of Education

Edited

by Theodore Michael Christou

This second volume in the Educational Foundations series considers history as a foundational discipline in education. It shows how history is a means for exploring what it means to be human by considering those stories, sources, forces, and contexts that shape the way we construct narratives. Studying history is one means of uncovering why institutions, beliefs, policies, and practices are as they are. Educational structures are, like all things, mutable. History empowers the individual to be an actor in this process of change and to act judiciously.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 216 pages

HB 9781350170926 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350170940 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350170933 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Economic Foundations of Education

Edited by

Álvaro Choi

This fifth volume in the Educational Foundations series introduces economics as a foundational discipline in education. It provides economists and non-economists with an accessible grounding in the key concepts and recent developments in the field. The book deals with such themes as human capital theory and its alternatives, the monetary and non-monetary benefits of education, the education production function, equity in education, and the evaluation of education policies. Students, researchers and policymakers will find an entry point into the way economists think about educational questions and will deepen their understanding of the field today.

UK March 2023

• US March 2023

• 216 pages

HB 9781350171213 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350171237 £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350171220 £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Policy Foundations of Education

Edited by

Andrew Wilkins, University of East London, UK

This fourth volume in the Educational Foundations series introduces the histories and traditions that have inspired innovation in thinking and writing about policy making and policy worlds in the field of education. Through a focus on post-positivist epistemologies and anti-foundationalist philosophies, the book documents some of the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the education sub-field of ‘policy sociology’, also known as ‘sociology of education policy’ or ‘critical policy sociology’. The result is a comprehensive text and navigational tool for studying the application and merit of poststructuralist and social constructivist approaches to education policy scholarship.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 200 pages

HB 9781350171121 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350171145 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350171138 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Legal Foundations of Education

Edited

by J.C. Blokhuis

In this sixth volume of the Educational Foundations series, scholars and practitioners introduce education law as a field of practice and scholarly inquiry within the legal foundations of education which is concerned primarily with the constitutional rights of students, teachers and other personnel in schools. The legal foundations of education include the laws and policies through which particular states establish and maintain public school systems; require parents and guardians to enrol the children in their care in approved educational programs; mandate that particular subjects be taught in particular ways by persons with particular credentials; regulate teacher certification standards and teacher employment; and ensure school safety, effectiveness, and efficiency.

UK March 2023 US March 2023 200 pages

HB 9781350171268 £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781350171282

ePdf 9781350171275

Bloomsbury Academic

• £108.00 / $147.14

• £108.00 / $147.14

Deweyan Transactionalism in Education

Beyond Self-action and Inter-action

Edited by Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA, Johan Öhman, Örebro University, Sweden & Leif Östman, Uppsala University, Sweden

Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey’s concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the sociocultural dimension of education, and educational research. The contributors show how the concept helps us to see beyond an array of false dualisms, such as mind versus body, self versus society, as well as an array of binaries, such as inside-outside and male-female.

• 27 bw illus

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 272 pages

PB 9781350233355 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350233317

ePub 9781350233331 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350233324 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Raymond Williams and Education

History, Culture, Democracy

Ian Menter, University of Oxford, UK

This is the first book to focus entirely on Raymond Williams' contribution to education, exploring how his writing and thought have helped us to understand education in Britain and also provide analytical tools that have helped to shape educational studies in the USA and internationally. Ian Menter draws on Williams' several novels alongside his seminal contributions to cultural theory Menter also examines how Williams' life shaped his understanding of education including his early involvement in adult education as well as his deeply ambivalent relationship with the academy. The book includes a foreword by Michael Apple.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 224 pages

PB 9781350226821 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350185395

ePub 9781350185418 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350185401 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Women and Education

Global Lives in Focus

Erin Kenny, Missouri State University, USA

This volume captures how women's education is shaped by the lived context of women and girls around the world, focusing on the cultural construction of gender, political economy, religion, and history.

UK January 2024 • January 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9781440865480 •£50.00 / $65.00

Series: Women and Society around the World • ABC-CLIO

Ignatian Pedagogy for Public Schools

Character

Formation for Urban Youth in New York City

Benjamin J. Brenkert, Saint John’s University, USA

This book shows how the pedagogical philosophy of Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola can be used and applied in public school settings in the USA and around the world. Based on new research carried out in New York City Department of Education Schools, the author argues for universal character formation programs based on already existing programs at Jesuit-sponsored schools. Based on the theory of Ignatius of Loyola and the work of thinkers such as Paulo Freire, Mahatma Gandhi, Elisabeth Johnson and Martin Luther King, Brenkert presents a theological-philosophical framework for creating a ‘beloved community’ free from oppression, poverty and hate.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350339019 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350339033 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350339026 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Learning to Succeed in Science

Stories of South Asian Women in Britain

Saima Salehjee, University of Glasgow, UK & Mike Watts, Brunel University London, UK

This book offers a positive and compelling exploration of how south Asian women can be encouraged to study science further and to consider STEM as a career. Drawing together both intersectional and personal perspectives, the book celebrates south Asian culture, sharing the stories of these individuals, their multifaceted identities, aspirations and successes. The chapters build on the authors' previous work in science education, developing models of science identity (Sci-ID) and women’s engagement with the study of science and their aspirations for a science-based career.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350232150 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350232174 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350232167 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Gender and Education • Bloomsbury Academic

It's a Wonderful Life

Michael Newton, Leiden University, Netherlands

Michael Newton's study of Frank Capra's muchloved 1946 classic of despair and redemption investigates the source of the film's extraordinary power and its long-lasting impact. He begins by introducing the key figures in the movie’s production - notably director Capra and star James Stewart - and traces the making of the film, and then provides a brief synopsis of the film, considering its aesthetic processes and procedures, touching on all those things that make it such an astonishing film. Newton's careful analysis explores all those aspects of the film that are fundamental to our understanding of it, particularly the way in which the film brings tragedy and comedy together.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781839023484 • £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781839023491 • £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781839023507 £10.79 / $14.84

Point Blank

Eric G. Wilson, Wake Forest University, USA

This compelling study of Point Blank (1967) examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that director John Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank'. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 112 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025761 • £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781839025754 • £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781839025730 • £10.79 / $14.84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

• 136 pages • 60 bw illus

Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

The Deer Hunter

Brad Prager, University of Missouri, USA

Brad Prager's study of Michael Cimino's 1978 movie

The Deer Hunter considers the film's significance as a Vietnam war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, Prager examines the film’s problematic blurring of the lines between fact and fiction. He considers how the formal elements of the film were influenced by the western and neo-realist films of directors such as John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Luchino Visconti, and others, and explores how Cimino’s employment of realist conventions were used to bolster many of the problematic elements in his depictions of war and race.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 120 pages 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025419 £11.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781839025426 £10.79 / $14.84

ePdf 9781839025433 • £10.79 / $14.84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

John Akomfrah

James Harvey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

John Akomfrah is one of the most important figures in British art and Black British filmmaking, and this is the first scholarly book to engage with his work comprehensively. James Harvey provides a sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017).

UK September 2023

PB 9781839023217

• US September 2023

• 256 pages • 30 bw illus

• £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781839023224 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781839023231 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781839023248 • £20.69 / $28.34

British Film Institute

Black Boys

The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London, UK

Black Boys is the first dedicated analysis that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the Black urban film genre for filmmakers, broadcasters and audiences in the contemporary British mediascape. Clive Nwonka draws on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, while also looking at the historical context. He examines a range of key films such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy to provide a strong textual analysis, including discussions of architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music.

UK September 2023

PB 9798765105849

• US September 2023

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781501352836

• 39 bw illus

• 320 pages

• HB 9781501352829

• £26.46 / $31.45

ePdf 9781501352843 £26.46 / $31.45

Bloomsbury Academic

Global Exploitation Cinemas

• £90.00 / $120.00

The Story of Victorian Film

Bryony Dixon, British Film Institute, UK

Lavishly illustrated with material from the BFI's unique archive, this book tells the fascinating story of Victorian film, from the earliest non-fiction footage of delicate spider webs and rolling waves to imaginative fiction films that give us a glimpse into the Victorians' inner worlds. As well as focusing in on key films from the era, BFI curator Bryony Dixon outlines the invention, business, aesthetics and impact of this new medium from 1895 to 1901.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 192 pages • 100 colour illus

PB 9781911239611 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781911239628 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781911239635 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781911239642 • £20.69 / $28.34

Series: British Screen Stories • British Film Institute

The British Trauma Film

Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War

Adam Plummer, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The British Trauma Film examines the central position that psychoanalysis occupies in British cinema in the years after the Second World War using critical theory, ordered around the psychoanalytic concepts of trauma and anxiety, sexual difference, and object relations theory. While the book defines psychoanalysis as a normative force – as historical, as well as a narative, a cultural, and an ideological discourse - it also demonstrates that this is countered by a subversive discursive force immanent to the films themselves.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 55 bw illus

HB 9798765100479 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765100486 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765100493 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University, UK & Johnny Walker, Northumbria University, UK

Adult Themes

British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s

Edited by Anne Etienne, University College Cork, Ireland, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK & Christopher Weedman, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as ‘the long 1960s’. Contributors to this collection take us to swinging parties, on youthful crime sprees, into local council meetings, on police raids of cinemas, and around Soho strip clubs and introduce us to mass murderers, lesbian vampires, apoplectic protestors, eroticised middle-aged women, and rebellious working-class men to examine both the workings and negotiations of British film censorship, the limits of artistic expression, and a wider culture of X certificate cinema.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501375279

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501375286

ePdf 9781501375262

• 15 bw illus

• 264 pages

Mario Bava

The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur

Leon Hunt, Brunel University, UK

This book is framed by the question of how to approach a controversial figure like the"Master of Italian Horror" Mario Bava, but also uses his films to broaden our understanding of key issues in film studies. What issues do his films raise for authorship? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes seen to have pioneered? This book seeks both to be a study of Bava’s films but also to use them to explore broader issues in film studies.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501390852

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501356544

ePub 9781501356537 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501356520 £90.15 / $108.00

• 240 pages • 15 bw illus

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas

• Bloomsbury Academic

Death in the Desert

The Complete Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Howard Hughes

UK September 2023

and white illustrations

HB 9781784537746

I.B. Tauris

• US September 2023

• £25.00 / $35.00

• 400 pages

• 45 black

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze

Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought

Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough, University of Lincoln, UK

This book analyses three Japanese horror films— Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001)—from the horror “boom” period of the late 1990s and early 2000s using a Deleuzian perspective. In the past, Japanese horror films have been understood through theories of national, transnational and world cinema and through genre theories and psychoanalysis. Whilst proving very fruitful, this text argues that these understandings of Japanese horror cinema can be developed and extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501375026

• 45 bw illus

• 264 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501368295

ePub 9781501368301

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368318 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood

A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds

Evdokia Stefanopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood examines 21st-century American films to provide a more precise definition for the genre, situated in the social semiotics and historical context. Using the semiotic square theory outlined by Algirdas J. Greimas, this book proposes a new taxonomy and definition of the contemporary American science fiction film. The articulation of the semiotic analysis with the exo-semiotic research points to the pivotal role of the science fiction film in both the preservation and transformation of contemporary Hollywood.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781501380235

• 24 bw illus

• 250 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501380228

ePdf 9781501380211

Bloomsbury Academic

City Limits

Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

Stephanie Schwerter, Université Polytechnique

Hauts-de-France, France

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds. Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities. Following a comparative approach, the book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin. Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, Schweter explores the three cities’ internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501380426

• 50 bw illus

• 312 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501380457

ePub 9781501380440

ePdf 9781501380433

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97.59 / $117.00

• £97.59 / $117.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Cinema Memories

A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain

Melvyn Stokes, University College London, UK, Matthew Jones, De Montfort University, UK & Emma Pett, University of York, UK

Drawing on first-hand memories from over 1000 cinema-goers, Cinema Memories reveals what it was like to watch films in British cinemas in the 1960s. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to its audiences.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781839025297

• £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9781911239895

ePub 9781911239918 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781911239888 • £76.50 / $103.94

British Film Institute

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

Walled Life

Concrete, Cinema, Art

Jenny Stümer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices. The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime. The book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible as projective surfaces that negotiate the interaction of psychological barriers with political structures through cinema, art, and, of course, the wall itself.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501380402

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501380365

ePub 9781501380372 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501380389

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• 272 pages

The History of World Literatures on Film

Greg M. Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA & Bob Hasenfratz, University of Connecticut, USA

The History of German Literature on Film

Christiane Schönfeld, University of Limerick, Ireland

Detailing the comprehensive and multi-layered story of adaptations of German literature on film between 1896-2010, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerge from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history. The History of German Literature on Film includes an online comprehensive chronology of film adaptations spanning the history of the cinema, allowing students to follow the main trunk of analysis and to quickly contextualize adaptations in film history, providing opportunities for independent research.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 576 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781628923766 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781628923759 • £130.68 / $157.50

ePdf 9781628923742 • £130.68 / $157.50

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Resisting James Bond

Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

Edited by Christoph Lindner, University College

London, UK & Lisa Funnell, Mohawk College, Canada

While popular with critics and fans, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films relay troublesome messages about identity and power. Resisting James Bond explores how these films - ranging from 2006's Casino Royale to 2021's No Time to Die - constructs and mobilizes conditions of power, privilege, and social injustice. Engaging with issues of racism, national/ethnic sovereignty, sexual violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigration, corporate capitalism, and more, this is a transdisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501388309

The History of Russian Literature on Film

David Gillespie, University of Bath, UK & Marina Korneeva, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia

Unlike most previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors, texts, or literary periods, David Gillespie considers the multiple functions of filmed Russian literature as a cinematic subject in its own right—one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In this first and only comprehensive study of cinema’s various engagements of Russian literature focusing on the large period 1895-2015, The History of Russian Literature on Film highlights the ways these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 80 bw illus

HB 9781501316883 £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781501316906 • £112.48 / $135.00

ePdf 9781501316890 • £112.48 / $135.00

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Screening Solidarity

Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas

Helga Druxes, Williams College, USA, Alexandar Mihailovic, Brown University and Hofstra University, USA & Patricia Anne Simpson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Screening Solidarity devotes its attention to the transnational history of networks of solidarity as represented in cinema across European borders. The directors and writers discussed imagine progressive alternatives under rogue capitalist conditions. They re-examine understandings of a new social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state that Western neoliberalism sought to deny or erode, as a means to achieve and protect solidarity across different groups. With its focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema.

• 208 pages • 28 bw illus

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781501388279

ePdf 9781501388286

Bloomsbury Academic

• HB 9781501388262

• £22.32 / $26.95

• £22.32 / $26.95

• £65.00 / $90.00

Remembering Annie Hall

Edited by Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK & Ana María Sánchez-Arce, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Since its release, Annie Hall has been a key film for Woody Allen’s career and the history of romantic comedy more generally. This collection brings a new ethical and philosophical perspective to bear on Allen’s work quite different from previous generations of scholars. While exploring the film’s continuing influence on contemporary cinema, the book’s contributors engage explicitly and implicitly with ongoing debates about Allen’s cinematic output following the renewed accusations against Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 2014 and 2018. The book includes debates about the limits of auteur theory and the role of the spectator.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501358494

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501358487

ePdf 9781501358470

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

• 20 bw illus

• 264 pages

UK May 2023

• US May 2023

HB 9798765101414

• 256 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765101445 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765101438 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Filmmakers on Film Global Perspectives

Edited by André Rui Graça, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, Manuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal & Eduardo Baggio, Unespar - Paraná State University, Brazil

Filmmakers on Film bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers’ thoughts and reflections on their own artwork. Bringing together a curated selection of essays from contributors across the globe, this book reinvigorates film theory by approaching it from the perspective of the filmmakers themselves. Utilising invaluable primary sources such as interviews, books, texts and manifestos alongside a theoretical reading of the ‘filmmaker’ as a concept, this book brings new breadth to the understanding of film.

UK September 2023

HB 9781839024870

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781839024887

ePdf 9781839024894

British Film Institute

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 256 pages • 0 illus

Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond

Edited by Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada & Julia A. Empey, University of Cambridge, UK

This collection places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation as mediated through contemporary science fiction film and media from the 1980s to the present. Both posthumanism and feminism aim to counter or dismantle a masculinist, patriarchist Enlightenment Humanism and the productive dialogue between these seemingly disparate schools of thought has only intensified in recent science fiction film and media. The original analyses presented pay close attention to audiovisual style, including game mechanics, facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501398407

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501398414

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501398421 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 288 pages • 48 bw illus

Hollywood Online Internet Movie Marketing Before and After The Blair Witch Project

Ian London, Independent Scholar, UK

By examining the strategic role of websites in blockbuster marketing, the involvement of filmmakers in their production, and the commercial value of these sites by the six major studios, Hollywood Online demonstrates that movie websites were best understood as advertising for the ancillary markets of home entertainment and not as drivers for box-office ticket sales. Combining industry history, detailed textual analysis and interviews with practitioners in the US, Ian London shows how websites became crucial elements in the Hollywood industry’s goal to establish the internet as a viable film delivery system, one that directly returned revenues to the studios themselves.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781501337758 • £96.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501337765 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501337772 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

World Cinema

Lúcia Nagib & Julian Ross, Leiden University, Netherlands

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence

Douglas Mulliken, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence is the first book to explore the function of violence within the films of the Argentinian screenwriter-director.

Douglas Mulliken contends that, through his representation of objective violence, Pablo Trapero has emerged as a distinctly political filmmaker. By focusing on several previously understudied elements of Trapero’s films, Mulliken highlights the ways in which the director’s work represents present-day concerns about social inequalities and injustice in neoliberal Argentina on-screen.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350290150

Robert Pippin and Film Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism

Dominic Lash, University of Bristol, UK

Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge. He also explores the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and to maintaining close contact at all times with the details of the films in question. In so doing, Lash brings Pippin's work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates both within film studies and beyond, including those concerning the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and political consciousness.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 22 bw illus

PB 9781350290167 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350182899

ePub 9781350182912 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350182905 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Film Thinks • Bloomsbury Academic

An Atonal Cinema Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine

Robert G. White, Kingston, University of London, UK

An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images. Drawing on the literature of Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi, and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín; this book examines recent responses by Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Elia Suleiman, Kamal Aljafari and Annemarie Jacir.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 208 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781501385018 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781501385001 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501384998 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Film Archipelago Islands in Latin American Cinema

Edited by Antonio Gómez, Tulane University, USA & Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Durham University, UK

The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates through a series of rigorous and nuanced analyses to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

• 264 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350163386

ePub 9781350163409

ePdf 9781350163393

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

• 29 bw illus

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350281752

• 360 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 30 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350157965

ePub 9781350157989

ePdf 9781350157972

Series: World Cinema

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• Bloomsbury Academic

Film Theory / Hollywood /

World Cinema

Anime A History

Jonathan Clements, Author/Scriptwriter, UK

This comprehensive, critically-acclaimed history traces the production and reception history of anime, from a handful of hobbyists in the early 20th century to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and up to the present day, with anime established as a global medium. This new edition has been revised and updated throughout, with full colour illustrations and new chapters addressing the rising economic power of otaku subcultures, the development of anime in China, and the transformation of distribution and exhibition accompanying the dominance of Netflix and other globalised streaming platforms.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 416 pages 100 colour illus

PB 9781839025129 £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781839026706 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781839025136 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781839025143 • £26.09 / $36.44

British Film Institute

World All Languages (except Russian)

Esfir Shub

Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Ilana Shub Sharp, Independent Scholar, Australia

Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the Soviet film industry. She was, in fact, the first woman both to write critical texts on cinema and then practically apply these theorisations in her own films. Her syncretism of cinema theory and praxis inspired her to ask questions regarding both the nature of nonfiction film, such as the problem of authenticity and reality, and the function of the artist in society. This book demonstrates Shub’s position not only as a significant filmmaker and recognised member of the early Soviet avant-garde but also as a key figure in global cinema history and as a pioneer of the theory and practice of documentary filmmaking.

• 46 bw illus

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 344 pages

PB 9781501376481 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501376511

ePub 9781501376504 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501376498 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Thinking Media

Anthropologies of Entanglements

Media and Modes of Existence

Edited by Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell & Tim Othold, all Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It aims to foster an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 320 pages 57 bw illus

HB 9781501375149 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781501375132 £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501375125

• £97.59 / $117.00

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Semiotics for Screenwriters Break Down Your Favorite Movies, Then Write Your Own

Michael Tierno, East Carolina University, USA

Semiotics for Screenwriters takes budding screenwriters on a unique journey through 25 classic films that shows the hidden universal language of plot character and theme at work in them. This method reveals the mechanics of cinema story, then shows the reader how to apply this knowledge to their own screenwriting. Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology. In this book screenwriters learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting their own screenplays.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 352 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781501390999 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501391002 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501390982 • £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501390975 • £22.32 / $26.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Materializing Digital Futures

Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

Edited by Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia & Jordan Beth Vincent, Deakin University, Australia

The advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self. Materialising Digital Futures considers how the former techniques of connection to community (traditional health, education, cultural and leisure activities) are reconfigured through this changing landscape of digital media visibility, data agglomerations and personal engagement with an empirical digital self.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 352 pages • 12 illus

PB 9781501388088 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501361258

ePub 9781501361265 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501361272 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Imperfections

Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures

Edited by Caleb Kelly, University of New South Wales, Australia & Jakko Kemper & Ellen Rutten, both University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies. With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect.

The ebook editions of this book are available on www. bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organization.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 344 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781501380310 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501380341

ePub 9781501380334 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781501380327 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Patricia Pisters

Media and Everyday Life Second Edition

Tim Markham, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

This innovative introduction to media studies challenges conventional accounts of what media do to people – focusing instead on what people do with media. This 2nd edition incorporates recent developments, including new social media platforms, new technologies and the spread of algorithms. It investigates the environmental impact of digital media and its hidden infrastructures, as well as our engagement with social issues and movements. Media and Everyday Life offers an accessible overview for students of media, communication and cultural studies looking to explore how modernday media practices impact everyday life, making this the essential companion to introductory media studies courses.

UK December 2022 US December 2022 336 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350348509 £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350348516 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350348523 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350348530 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

Hideo Kojima

Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University, Japan

This book explores the influential work of Hideo Kojima, creator of cinematic titles such as the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid franchise, which has moved over 50 million units globally, Death Stranding, and Snatcher Drawing on archives of interviews in English and Japanese with Kojima and his team, as well as academic discourses of social/political games and cinematic narrative/world-building, this book examines Kojima’s “progressive game design” as it applies to four key areas: socially-relevant narratives, cinematic aesthetics, thematicallyconnected systems, and reflexive spaces.

UK September 2023

PB 9798765101698

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 January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9781501387487 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501387470 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501387463 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels

Mark Kretzschmar, University of Wyoming, USA & Sara Raffel, University of Central Florida, USA Visual novels, a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have increased in popularity among Western audiences in recent years. Arranged in three segments, this book identifies how and why this modest mode of storytelling penetrated the wider gaming industry and even inspired blockbuster series like Metal Gear Solid Whether a long-standing fan of the genre or a newcomer looking for a fresh experience, this book provides an accessible and criticallyengaging overview of a genre that’s rich in storytelling yet often overlooked by Western audiences.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus

• US September 2023

• £19.99 / $27.95

ePub 9798765101650

• 256 pages • 30 bw illus

• HB 9798765101681

• £21.50 / $25.15

ePdf 9798765101667 £21.50 / $25.15

• £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Influential Video Game Designers Bloomsbury Academic

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader Communities, Cultures and Play

HB 9781501368646 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501368639 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368622 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Unstable Aesthetics

Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding

Edited

by Mark R. Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501384097

• 512 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 21 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781501347252

ePub 9781501347269

ePdf 9781501347276

• £127.37 / $153.00

• £127.37 / $153.00

Series: Play Beyond the Computer

• Bloomsbury Academic

Eddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USA

Eddie Lohmeyer investigates historical episodes of art modding practices—the alteration of a game system’s existing code or hardware to generate abstract spaces—situated around a recent archaeology of the game engine: software for rendering two and three-dimensional gameworlds. The artists highlighted throughout this book—Cory Arcangel, Krista Hoefle, and Brent Watanabe, among others—were attracted to the architectures of engines because they allowed them to explore vital relationships among abstraction, technology, and the body. Through key moments in game engine history, Lohmeyer formulates a phenomenology of video games focusing on the liminal spaces of interaction among system and body.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501374708

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501364907

ePub 9781501364891

ePdf 9781501364884

Bloomsbury Academic

• £93.46 / $112.50

• £93.46 / $112.50

• 68 bw illus

• 216 pages

The Television Genre Book

Edited by Glen Creeber, Aberystwyth University, UK

The Television Genre Book introduces the concept of 'genre' and then addresses the main televisual genres. This new edition is illustrated in colour throughout with international case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre. New chapters cover horror, the political thriller, Nordic noir, sadcom, historical documentaries, reality dating shows and consumption in the age of streaming. New case studies include Stranger Things, Killing Eve, The Crown, Chernobyl, Black Mirror and Fleabag.

UK November 2023

PB 9781839022081

• US November 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781839022104

ePdf 9781839022098

British Film Institute

• 480 pages • 51 colour illus, 14 bw illus

• HB 9781839022074

• £26.09 / $36.44

• £26.09 / $36.44

Art vs. TV

• £90.00 / $120.00

Show and Biz

The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)

Edited by María Blanco, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain & Alberto Mingardi, IULM University, Milan, Italy

This collection carries out an extensive study on the perception of the core institutions and cultural determinants of a market economy (private property, the contract regime, the private corporation, et cetera) in contemporary TV series, identifying recurring elements and trends in interpretation. It presents the most successful TV series (2000-2020) from an entrepreneurial perspective, allowing the reader to approach every chapter as a case study. A wide range of business and entrepreneur archetypes is covered throughout the book’s chapters, from the successful smalltown businessman to the revolutionary leader in a climate disaster dystopia.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501393778 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501393785 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501393808 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television

Francesco Spampinato, University of Bologna, Italy

While highlighting the prevailing role of television in Western societies, Art vs. TV maps and condenses a comprehensive history of the relationships of art and television. With a particular focus on the link between reality and representation, Francesco Spampinato analyzes video art works, installations, performances, interventions and television programs made by contemporary artists as forms of resistance to and appropriation and parody of mainstream television. These works and phenomena elicit a tension between art and television, exposing an incongruence; an impossibility not only to converge but at the very least to open up a dialogical exchange.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 368 pages • 105 bw illus

PB 9781501370540 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501370571

ePub 9781501370564 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501370557 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades Martin Cooper, University of Huddersfield, UK

Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Novelists including Agatha Christie and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair. Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own. Martin Cooper uses these movies, TV shows, songs, novels and more to explore the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural expression.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781501388231 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501360442

ePub 9781501360435 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501360428 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

A Philosophy of Recipes

Making, Experiencing, and Valuing

Edited by Andrea Borghini, University of Milan, Italy & Patrik Engisch, University of Luzern, Switzerland

This book addresses the nature and identity of recipes as well as their relationship to territory, producers, and consumers. It evaluates how recipes have changed over time; the constitutive relationships that characterize recipes, between territory, producers, consumers, places and spaces of production; and the values and norms guiding the naming, production and consumption of recipes, scrutinizing the cultural appropriation of recipes. A Philosophy of Recipes also looks at how to stake authority in claiming a recipe, and the interplay between aesthetics and ethics in recipe making.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 296 pages

PB 9781350270336 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350145917

ePub 9781350145931 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350145924 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Bigfoot to Mothman

A Global Encyclopedia of Legendary Beasts and Monsters

Margo DeMello, Carroll College, USA

This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids – those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society – including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mothman.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 384 pages

HB 9781440877254 • £83.00/ $107.00

ABC-CLIO

Mexico City

Geography, History, and Culture

James D. Huck Jr, Tulane University, USA

This volume provides a clear and concise exploration of Mexico City, one of the world's most populous urban centers, with coverage on such topics as politics, crime, the environment, and city life.

Food Cultures of China

Recipes, Customs, and Issues

Qian Guo, San Francisco State University, USA

This volume explores the rich and varied culinary traditions of China, enabling readers to better understand Chinese history and culture through food.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 232 pages

HB 9781440877827 • £54.00 / $70.00

Series: The Global Kitchen • Greenwood

Europe

An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society

Edited by Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of NY, USA

This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in Europe. Each country receives a chapter encompassing such topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, standard of living, cuisine, gender roles, relationships, dress, music, visual arts, and architecture.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 1,201 pages • 94 illus

HB 9781440855443 £180.00 /$233.00

ABC-CLIO

Geographers

Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 39

Edited by Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford, UK & André Reyes Novaes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UK November 2023

• US November 2023

HB 9781440869013 • £54.00 / $69.00

• 256 pages

Series: Contemporary World Cities • ABC-CLIO

Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. For the first time, the series celebrates the contribution of one geographer – Hugh Clout – to telling geography’s stories. Clout examines the lives and contributions of major and minor individuals and draws from used literary works, reviews in the scholarly and other press, obituaries in newspapers and geographical publications, funeral orations and papers in a large number of archives.

UK May 2023

• US May 2023

• 264 pages

PB 9781350367357 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350203419

ePub 9781350203488 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350203471 £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Geographers • Bloomsbury Academic

Byzantium and the Crusades

Jonathan Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Jonathan Harris’s classic text chronologically surveys Byzantine history in the time of the Crusades. The book reveals the attitudes of the Byzantine ruling elites towards the Crusades and their ultimate inability to adapt to the challenges this presented. Incorporating recent scholarship, this 3rd edition has 25 further images, as well as additional maps and genealogical tables. This new edition also comes with two significant additions to the text: Appendices that translate and analyse key primary sources and secondary texts.

UK January 2023 • 328 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350199774

• £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350199767 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350199798 • £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350199781 • £24.29 / $33.74

Bloomsbury Academic

Conquered The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England

Eleanor Parker, University of Oxford, UK

What happened to the Anglo-Saxon children the Battle of Hastings left behind? From sagas and saints’ lives to chronicles and romances, Conquered draws on a wide range of medieval sources to offer a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the stories of those young men and women whose lives were completely uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. In doing so, this book shines a muchneeded spotlight on the role this lost generation played in shaping the country that England was to become.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350383401 • £12.99 / $17.95

Previously published in HB 9781788314503

ePub 9781350287068 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350287075 • £18.00 / $25.64

Bloomsbury Academic

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 September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781350242883 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350242906 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350242890 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies

• 272 pages • 20 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England

Social Discomfort in the Literature of the Middle Ages

David Watt, University of Manitoba, Canada

Examining laughter and awkwardness in latemedieval English literature, David Watt shows how the social discomfort depicted and engendered by writers as diverse as Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory is a feature rather than a flaw. In exploring this, Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England reveals how and why these texts generate awkwardness and questions and in turn contemplates what it meant to live together in an awkward age.

UK September 2023

HB 9781788314305

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350146853

ePdf 9781350146860

• 288 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

The History of the United States

A. Glenn Crothers, University of Louisville, USA

This latest addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series explores the history of a nation close to home: the United States.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 344 pages

HB 9781440864872 • £54.00 / $70.00

Series: The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations • Greenwood

Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the Present Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Edited by Kristine Ashton Gunnell

A collection of historical and contemporary writing by women on how race, class, religion, citizenship, marital status, and sexual identity have influenced women's lives in the United States for more than 200 years.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 208 pages • 16 illus

HB 9781440872464 £89.00 / $115.00

Series: Voices of an Era Greenwood

U.S. Presidents during Wartime A History of Leadership

Sean N. Kalic & Ethan S. Rafuse, both U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, USA

From the American Revolution to the war in Afghanistan, the United States has had no shortage of conflicts on both domestic and world stages. All provide insight into the values of the presidents who led the nation through them.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 532 pages 42 illus

HB 9781440865985 •£83.00 / $107.00

ABC-CLIO

Martin Luther King, Jr. A Life in American History

Jamie J. Wilson, Salem State University, USA

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life in American History covers King's life, achievements, and challenges, placing his contributions within the context of American history.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 272 pages

HB 9781440864001 £54.00 / $69.00

Series: Black History Lives • ABC-CLIO

The Civil Rights Movement Facts and Fictions

David G. Holmes, Pepperdine University, USA

This book explores various historical misconceptions related to the civil rights movement, with each chapter discussing how a particular misconception developed and spread and what we now believe to be the truth behind the myth.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 248 pages

HB 9781440871320 • £50.00 / $65.00

Series: Historical Facts and Fictions • ABC-CLIO

Corruption and Scandal in American Sports Causes and Consequences

Edited by Jimmy Sanderson, Texas Tech University, USA

Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work provides an authoritative guide to the most infamous and influential of these controversies and scandals.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 408 pages 40 illus

HB 9781440878374 £83.00 / $107.00

ABC-CLIO

UK September 2023

Conspiracy Theories A Reference Handbook

Jeffrey B. Webb, Huntington University, USA

Provides a comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal.

• US September 2023

HB 9781440877704 • £50.00 / $65.00

• 368 pages

Series: Contemporary World Issues • ABC-CLIO

John Thomas Scopes A Biography

Randy Moore, University of Minnesota, USA

This is the first comprehensive, annotated biography of John Scopes, the famed defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial. This biography uses new, never-before-published sources, photographs, and stories from untapped sources-John Scopes's family and friends.

Advertising in America

A Reference Handbook

Danielle Sarver Coombs, Kent State University, USA

This authoritative one-stop resource provides a rich overview of the evolution and present state of advertising, as well as the multitude of connected issues-data collection, privacy, consumerism, technology, and others-regarding advertising and its pervasive role in American life.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 368 pages

HB 9781440877667 • £50.00 / $65.00

Series: Contemporary World Issues • ABC-CLIO

The American Revolution

1774–83

Daniel Marston

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 224 pages • 36 illus

HB 9781440880544 £50.00 / $65.00

Witnessing Stalin’s Justice

The United States and the Moscow Show Trials

Kelly J. Evans, Eastern Washington University, USA & Jeanie M. Welch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

This book provides an overview and analysis of contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and their impact on US-Soviet relations. Using eyewitness accounts by American diplomats and foreign correspondents for the American press as well as official US government sources, it documents the trials and highlights the wildly different reactions from liberals, radicals, intellectuals and the mainstream media. It shows how fractures of opinion ran through every level of society and divided political groups, especially between the American Communist party and other left-wing organisations.

UK September 2023

HB 9781350338180

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350338203

ePdf 9781350338197

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 256 pages

• 10 bw illus

In this short history, illustrated with full-colour maps and images, Daniel Marston challenges the popular view of the Revolution as a united political uprising of the American colonies, and as a guerilla campaign against the inflexible British military establishment.This 2023 edition includes updates to the text and new images throughout. This is an accessible illustrated introduction for the student and enthusiast alike.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 144 pages • Full colour throughout

PB 9781472857392 • £12.99 / $20.00

ePub 9781472857422 • £10.39 / $14.84

ePdf 9781472857439

• £10.39 / $14.84

Series: Essential Histories • Osprey Publishing

Praeger

The Nobel Family

Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

Bengt Jangfeldt

Translated by Harry D. Watson

This collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how their business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as Europe’s economic and entrepreneurial development in the long 19th century. Now famous for the prize which bears their name, the Nobels were the Swedish founders of the Russian oil industry whose huge wealth was swept away during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Throughout a time of immense change in Russia and across Europe, the Nobels' story stands out as one of both brilliance and resilience, with family firmly at its heart.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 480 pages • 88 bw illus and 10 colour illus

HB 9781350348912 • £25.00 / $35.00

ePub 9781350348936 • £22.50 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350348929 • £22.50 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Soviet Gulag History and Memory

Jeffrey S. Hardy, Brigham Young University, USA

This book provides a vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union’s infamous penal system, from 1917 through to the end of the Soviet Union and the contested memory of the Gulag that exists today.

Jeffrey S. Hardy addresses both the intentions of administrators and the experience of inmates, as well as briefly discussing the main scholarly debates surrounding these issues, in the first concise history of the Gulag in the English language.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350128187

• US September 2023

• £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350128217

• 10 bw illus

• 160 pages

• HB 9781350128194

• £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350128200 £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Russian Shorts Bloomsbury Academic

• £45.00 / $61.00

Stalinism at War

The Soviet Union in World War II

Mark Edele, University of Melbourne, Australia

Stalinism at War is the definitive history of the Soviet Union in World War Two. In this book Mark Edele, a leading scholar of Soviet history, integrates the social and cultural histories of war with highlevel politics and in doing so unites the political, military and economic history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and all-encompassing account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350383463 • £14.99 / $19.95

Previously published in HB 9781350153516

ePub 9781350153523 • £22.50 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350153530 £22.50 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia

The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941 Children's Tragedy

Boris B. Gorshkov, Kennesaw State University, USA

The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941, Boris B. Gorshkov investigates the causes of this prolonged homelessness and starvation, the conditions faced by huge numbers of children, and the state’s unsuccessful efforts to solve these horrendous issues.

UK September 2023

HB 9781350098671

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350098695

• 224 pages • 11 bw illus

'Economy' in European History Words, Contexts and Change over Time

by Sari Nauman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Edited

& Helle Vogt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This open access book looks at how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a new loanword ‘private’ came into the Nordic languages. It had very little to do with the way we define the word today. Still, the introduction of it contributed to an emerging discourse that clearly distinguished between the public – usually identified with the state – and its opposite and this is explored in depth in this volume. The text includes ten case studies analysed by leading Swedish and Danish researchers in the fields of history, law, archaeology, and theology. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350224933

• 264 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 22 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350224896

ePub 9781350224919

ePdf 9781350224902

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe

• Bloomsbury Academic

Luigi Alonzi, University of Palermo, Italy

Prompted by the ‘linguistic turn’ of the late 20th century, historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume builds on such scholarship by providing a new history of the term ‘economy’ from the late middle ages to to the 18th century. In doing so, this book shines much-needed light on an important challenge that many historians repeatedly face – the fact that words may change over time – and as such will be a vital resource for all scholars of early modern and European economic history.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages

PB 9781350276765 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350273337

ePub 9781350273351 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350273344 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship

Edited by Nuno Domingos, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Elsa Peralta, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s Portugal. Using an interdisciplinary agenda, with contributions from experts in the fields of history, anthropology, literature, and sociology, the several case studies included in the volume look at commemorative practices that feed on imperial mythologies, old colonial and racial classifications that condition citizenship rights, and post-imperial modes of culture consumption.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 304 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350289772 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350289802 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350289796

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

The Personality of Paris

Landscape and Society in the LongNineteenth Century

Alan R. H. Baker, University of Cambridge, UK

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris?

To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to the beginning of the Great War. It considers the role of immigration in the making of Parisians. It examines the making of its distinctive landscape through the construction of monuments and architectural icons, its massive re-modelling by Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann, its five world exhibitions, its emphasis on food, fashion and leisure, and the ways in which Parisians sought rural release from urban pressure.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 248 pages 66 bw illus; 14 colour images in 8pp plates

PB 9781350252639 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350252646

ePub 9781350252660 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350252653 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Beginnings of Provençal Cuisine

Food, Cooking and Eating in 18thcentury Provence

Barbara Santich, University of Adelaide, Australia

This book explores the development and evolution of Provençal cuisine, relying on a range of hitherto unexplored primary resources ranging from household accounts and manuscript recipes to local newspapers and gardening manuals to focus on the actuality of the 18th-century Provençal table. Taking wider historical contexts into consideration, and linking the coming-of-age of Provençal cuisine to post-Revolutionary culture, it offers a new understanding of the development and evolution of regional cuisines.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350329942 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350329966 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350329959 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

Europe’s Welfare Traditions

Since 1500, Volume 1

1500-1700

Thomas McStay Adams, Independent Scholar, USA

This two-volume study traces the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium, and Germany. It shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermining autonomy (the work activation dilemma); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 296 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350276208 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350276222 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350276215 £85.50 / $116.09

Bloomsbury Academic

Europe’s Welfare Traditions

Since 1500,

1700-2000

Volume 2

Thomas McStay Adams, Independent Scholar, USA

This two-volume study traces the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium, and Germany. It shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermining autonomy (the work activation dilemma); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

HB 9781350276246

• £95.00 / $130.00

• 464 pages • 5 bw illus

ePub 9781350276260 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350276253 £85.50 / $116.09

Bloomsbury Academic

19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture

Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867

Edited by Ferenc Hörcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Beginning with an overview of 19th-century Hungary in a European context, this book explores the fundamental characteristics of the country’s political system and its geopolitical background at this time. The contributors reflect on the stories of some of the most influential voices, as well as their networks, impacts and legacies. Through this, the book offers novel insights into how Western political culture was perceived and adapted in a country long considered by many to belong to the European periphery.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

HB 9781350202917

• 288 pages • 10 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350202931

ePdf 9781350202924

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elliot Short, Independent Scholar, UK

This sophisticated study assesses Yugoslav efforts to build a multi-ethnic military during the socialist period, charts the developments of the armies that fought in the war, and offers a detailed account of the post-war international initiatives that led to the creation of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources, here Elliot Short provides the first analysis of the armed forces during times of peace-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 272 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9781350191013 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350190931

ePub 9781350190955 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350190948 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Red Orchestra

The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler - Revised Edition

Anne Nelson

For years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was distorted by Cold War politics. A much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start, staying in Germany to resist Nazism and help its victims. The book illuminates this critical movement made up of academics, theatre people, and factory workers; Protestants, Catholics and Jews; around 150 Germans from all walks of life. This revised edition includes a new introduction which explores elements of the Red Orchestra’s experience that resonate with our times and historiographic updates throughout the book.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350322387

• US September 2023

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350322417

• 448 pages • 22 bw illus

• HB 9781350322394

• £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350322400 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Technology in Modern German History

1800 to the Present

Karsten Uhl, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Technology in Modern German History explores various forms of technology in 200 years of German history. With sophisticated nuance, Karsten Uhl examines the role technology played in transforming Germany’s culture, society and politics during the 19th and 20th centuries and explains how technology has been fundamental in shaping modern Germany.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages 22 bw illus

PB 9781350289949 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350053205

ePub 9781350053229 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350053212 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Nazi Camp Near Danzig

Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof

Ruth Schwertfeger, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, USA

Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof, where 120,000 people were interned and at least 65,000 perished. A Nazi Camp near Danzig offers an overview of Stutthof’s history. It also explores Danzig’s significance in promoting the cult of German nationalism which led to Stutthof’s establishment and which shaped its subsequent development in 1942 into a Concentration Camp, with the full resources of the Nazi Reich.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 272 pages 18 bw illus

PB 9781350274044 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350274037

ePub 9781350274068 • £76.50 / $103.94

• £75.00 / $100.00

Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond Compromised Identities?

Edited by Mary Fulbrook, Stephanie Bird & Stefanie Rauch, all University College London,

UK & Bastiaan Willems, Lancaster University, UK

This book analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on selfunderstandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and later – a topic that remains highly relevant today. Case studies highlight patterns of complicity and involvement in perpetration, and analyse how people’s stories evolve under changing circumstances and through social interaction, using varying strategies of justification, denial and rationalisation. Each chapter also considers the ways in which contemporary responses and scholarly practices may be affected by engagement with perpetrator representations.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 336 pages

HB 9781350327771 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350327795 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350327788

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350274051 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine

First-Person History in Times of Crisis

Omer Bartov, Brown University, USA

This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder. He goes on to critically examine how legal discourse has served to both uncover and deny individual and national complicity. Bartov outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, draws on the author’s own personal trajectory to consider links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and in the aftermath of the establishment of the state of Israel.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 320 pages

PB 9781350332317 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350332324 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350332348 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350332331 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

The Last Witches of England A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition

John Callow, University of Suffolk, UK

In this book, John Callow explores the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches and the transformation of their demise from canker to regret in public consciousness. In this, the first complete history of the case of the Bideford Witches, Callow uncovers a forgotten female history and reveals the changing attitudes towards men and women and witchcraft over time.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350387126 • £12.99 / $17.95

Previously published in HB 9781788314398

ePub 9781350196148 • £22.50 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350196131 • £22.50 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

• 352 pages

The Invention of the English Landscape

c. 1700-1939

Peter Borsay, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth & Rosemary Sweet, University of Leicester, UK

The Invention of the English Landscape examines portrayals of the English landscape to reveal how it was reconfigured as a widely enjoyed cultural and leisure resource over time. In considering the reasons for this transformation - such as the rise of consumer culture, the media, industrial and transport revolutions, Romanticism, and the Gothic revival - Peter Borsay reveals the development of a powerful bond between landscape and natural identity, against the backdrop of social and political change from the early modern period to the start of the Second World War.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 304 pages

HB 9781350031678 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350031661 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350031654 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson

Angela V. John

Called ‘the king of Correspondents’, Henry W. Nevinson (1856-1941) captured the political zeitgeist in his newspaper journalism and books about conflicts across the globe. He provided astute, first-hand observations on events such as war between Greece and Turkey, the Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa, the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Gallipoli tragedy in the First World War. This book offers detailed analysis of his perspectives, whether on the Middle East, the Balkans, Russia or the United States, and shows how they can illuminate many of the conflicts which still resonate today.

UK February 2023

PB 9781350382060

• US February 2023

• £24.99 / $34.95

• 264 pages

Previously published in HB 9781845110819

ePub 9780755628568

• £40.00 / $55.34

ePdf 9780857717832 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

The Mass-Observation Critical Series

The Marquess of Londonderry Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland, Revised Edition

N.C. Fleming, University of Worcester, UK

This updated edition of The Marquess of Londonderry draws extensively from private Londonderry family papers and state papers, as well as existing secondary literature, to provide an illuminating biography of Londonderry. This book has been updated with additional primary source research to reveal details about Londonderry House, Londonderry’s travels and his radical rightwing beliefs as well as his infamous anti-Semitism. The Marquess of Londonderry examines Londonderry’s disastrous diplomatic visits during the war, which seriously damaged his credibility at home, alongside his achievements in the Royal Air force to provide a comprehensive biography of the Marquess.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

PB 9781350351554 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 304 pages

Previously published in HB 9781850437260

ePdf 9780857714619 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Jennifer J. Purcell, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA & Benjamin Jones, University of East Anglia, UK

Mass Observers Making Meaning

Religion, Spirituality and Atheism in Late 20th-Century Britain

James Hinton, University of Warwick, UK

Using a fascinating wealth of Mass Observation volunteer writings, Mass Observers Making Meaning immerses us in what the big existential questions meant for people in late 20th-century Britain. The book captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and disbelief to be found in the country during the period, whilst considering the swift decline of the Christian churches since the 1960s, the growth of atheism, and the flourishing of alternative spiritualities in the process.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350274532

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350274495

ePub 9781350274518 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350274501 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series

• 208 pages

• Bloomsbury Academic

The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain

Kimberly Mair, University of Lethbridge, Canada

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350282094

• 6 bw illus

• 248 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350106918

ePub 9781350106932

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350106925 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Social and Cultural History

Lucy Noakes, University of Essex, UK, Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK & Sasha Handley, University of Manchester, UK

The Welfare State Generation Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945

Eve Worth, University of Oxford, UK.

Re-conceptualising the causes of social mobility in post-war Britain, exploring a new understanding of work and an updated periodisation of welfare state development, The Welfare State Generation offers a new approach to the history of class and gender, arguing that we need to move beyond the focus on women’s emotions and personal identity, to consider their experiences and relationships with the state as employer, educator and provider.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages • 5 b/w illus

PB 9781350192102 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350192065

ePub 9781350192089 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350192072 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

War and the British Gender and National Identity, 1939-91

Revised Edition

Lucy Noakes, University of Essex, UK

Now with a revised introduction and foreword by Penny Summerfield, War and the British provides an incisive analysis of public and private ideas of national identity in times of war and how they were shaped by gender. By meticulously combing records held in the Mass Observation Archive, Lucy Noakes crafts a groundbreaking deconstruction of World War II memory tests, arguing that the construction of a British national identity had a built-in gender distinction. The result is a valuable addition to scholarly debates, which will be of interest to students and scholars studying the intersection of gender and war in Britain.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

• 288 pages

PB 9781350350915 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781860643064

ePub 9780755632466 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9780755632473 • £99.00 / $134.99

Series: Social and Cultural History Today • Bloomsbury Academic

Sonic Histories of Occupation

Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context

Edited by Russell Skelchy, The University of Nottingham, UK & Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK

Highlighting case studies in Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe, this open access book employs a range of theoretical approaches to examine histories of imperialism and the auditory legacies they created, and contribute to a wider dialogue about the relationship between sound and imperial projects across political and temporal boundaries.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-NCND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350228115

Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship

A New Social History

Tanya Evans, Macquarie University, Australia

As part of the broader project of public history this book argues how we can use the practice and impact of family history to explore the humanistic potential of historical research and learning outside academia. It responds to the need to pay careful attention to the practice and meanings of family history around the world for scholars and practitioners – diverse communities both consuming and producing historical knowledge but not often in conversation with each other.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 232 pages • 23 bw illus

PB 9781350212077 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350212060

ePub 9781350212107 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350212114 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

In the Service of Empire Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony

Fae Dussart, University of Sussex, UK

In the Service of Empire sheds light on the previously ignored history and impact of domestic service in empires around the world. Delving into private accounts, newspapers and official court records, Dussart provides an important and long overdue examination of the master/servant relationship. Analysing themes of power, gender, status and hierarchy within an imperial framework, this work discusses the wider implications of domestic service in empire.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350242609 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350121164

ePub 9781350121188 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350121171 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Empire’s Other Histories Bloomsbury Academic

Thugs and Dacoits

Volume VI: The Imperial Archives-From Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India

Edited by Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India

This volume is a part of the six volumes that throws light on the process of colonisation, its contexts, and provides a glimpse into the mind of the colonisers. It documents how the practice of thuggee was viewed by the British before: as if it symbolized everything that was wrong with the social order in India, covering the Imperial campaign against thugs and demonstrates the surveil-and-exterminate movement against thugs as an instance of imperial expansion.

UK October 2022 US January 2023 512 pages

HB 9789394701915 • £85.00 / $115.00

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 20 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350228085

ePub 9781350228108

ePdf 9781350228092

Bloomsbury Academic

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9789394701977 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

Spatial Histories of Occupation Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia

Edited by David Baillargeon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA & Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and were shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’.

The eBook editions of this book are available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 264 pages • 23 bw illus

PB 9781350252684 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350252608

ePub 9781350252622 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350252615 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Perspectives in South Asian History

The Economic History of India

Historiographical Issues and Perspectives - Essays in Honour of Professor Ranabir Chakravarti

Edited by R Mahalakshmi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India & Suchandra Ghosh, University of Hyderabad, India

This volume seeks to draw attention to this vast and unexplored terrain in the economic history of early India, by bringing together essays on a new and rich historiography. They cover material culture and provide insights into how early Indians lived, the activities they were engaged in, and how they organised their production activities within and outside domestic spaces. Further the volume brings new insights on hierarchy of settlement types, nature of exchange, and the significance of a nodal site in exchange networks. Maritime history as well as the understanding of trade in its varied forms and manifestations are covered.

UK April 2023 US April 2023 360 pages

HB 9789354351488 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789354351563 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356401884 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia

Aesthetics, Networks and Connected Histories

Edited

by Sanjukta Sunderason & Lotte Hoek

This book explores aesthetic forms of the left to negotiate the political frontiers of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the contributors study art, film and literature to illuminate interconnections across regions and countries, and discuss the shifting political contours of the region during the latter half of the 20th century.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 312 pages • 21 bw illus

PB 9781350230088 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350179172

ePub 9781350179196 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350179189

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History Bloomsbury Academic

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal

The Jute Industry and Indian Labour

1870s-1930s

Anna Sailer, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led to a rupture in worker’s relations at the workplace and beyond.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 312 pages 13 bw illus

PB 9781350233560 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350233539

ePub 9781350233553

ePdf 9781350233546

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History

• Bloomsbury Academic

Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India

Edited by Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan, USA & Manu Goswami, New York University, USA

This volume reconsiders India’s 20th century through a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th-century India.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350239807 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350239777

ePub 9781350239791 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350239784 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History Bloomsbury Academic

Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan, USA, Shabnum Tejani, SOAS, University of London, UK & Janaki Nair

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Christopher Gerteis, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Transwar Asia

Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920-1960

Edited by Reto Hofmann, University of Western Australia, Australia & Max Ward, Middlebury College, USA

This volume uses the term 'transwar' as a lens to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to 1960s. Recent scholarship challenges the pre and post-war divide in the national histories of Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war. Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar or colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350281127

• 240 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350182813

ePub 9781350182837

ePdf 9781350182820

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

A History of Economic Thought in Japan 1600 - 1945

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Waseda University, Japan & Sumiyo Ishii, Daito Bunka University, Japan

Translated by Ayuko Tanaka & Tadashi Anno

This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan, offering both a detailed study of economic thought from 1600 to 1945 and a nuanced analysis of Western and Asian perspectives on Japanese economic history.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350198692 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350150133

ePub 9781350150157 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350150140 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Stories from the Second Basement

Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan

Haruki Murakami has said that he started writing novels as a means of self-therapy; this book explores Murakami’s fourteen published novels as an evolving therapeutic project. It starts by looking into the biographical factors behind this therapeutic project, beginning with Murakami’s estrangement from his father and the death of a former girlfriend. Jonathan Dil argues that these two ‘traumas’ in Murakami’s life are essential for understanding why he writes, before going on to successfully reason that Murakami’s fiction has transcended these proximate motivations to deal with the theme of therapy on a much broader, cultural level.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350270589

New Approaches to International History

Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Soldiers in Peace-making

The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800-present

Edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Frédéric Dessberg, Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, France & Thomas Vaisset, Havre Normandy university, France

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book explores that question, examining how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the process of peace-making. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, analysing subjects ranging from UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the role military men and women have played in the aftermath of war.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350345010 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350345034 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350345027 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Approaches to International History • Bloomsbury Academic

Activism Across Borders since 1870

Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe

Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, UK

From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that these global efforts are not just a recent phenomenon, and that as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross them. Showing how individuals, groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for political and social change, and exploring how national or ideological boundaries have impacted their efforts, it traces activists and movements from 1870 to the 21st century.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 352 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9781350262799 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350262805 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350262812 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350262829 • £22.49 / $31.04

Series: New Approaches to International History • Bloomsbury Academic

Militarization and the American Century War, the United States and the World since 1941

David Fitzgerald, University College Cork, Ireland

Taking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940. Exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war has shaped and affected the United States during ‘The American Century’, Fitzgerald demonstrates how militarization has shaped relations between the US and the rest of the world.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 272 pages 13 bw illus

• 272 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350270541

ePub 9781350270565

ePdf 9781350270558

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

• Bloomsbury Academic

PB 9781350229976 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350102224

ePub 9781350102248 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350102231 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Approaches to International History • Bloomsbury Academic

The Human Rights Breakthrough of the 1970s

The European Community and International Relations

Edited by Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento, Italy, Umberto Tulli, University of Trento, Italy & Ilaria Zamburlini, University of Udine, Italy

Examining the role of human rights in EC activities in Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, The Human Rights Breakthrough of the 1970s seeks to verify whether a specifically European approach to human rights existed, and asks whether there was a distinctive ‘European voice’ in the human rights surge of the 1970s.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350210677 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350203129

ePub 9781350203143 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350203136 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Personal Politics in the Postwar World

Western Diplomacy Behind the Scenes

Susanna Erlandsson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Unravelling the mechanisms of daily diplomacy in the mid-20th century, this book follows one Dutch diplomatic couple, the van Kleffens, on their postings between 1940 and 1960 to offer a new perspective on how non-officials and private politics shaped the postwar world.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 232 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350289178 • £27.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350150744

ePub 9781350150768 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350150751 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

‘Preparing for Power’

The Revolutionary Communist Party and its Curious Afterlives, 1976-2020

Jack Hepworth, University of Oxford, UK

This book employs a history of ideas approach connecting the RCP’s origins in the late 1970s with its cadres’ subsequent activism to the present day. Engaging twenty-five life-history interviews with former RCP members, alongside vast primary research, the book elucidates the story of a network which has been the subject of much journalistic attention and several polemics, but little detailed research.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350242371 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350242395 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350242388 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

Simon Topping, Plymouth University, UK

Northern Ireland, The United States and the Second World War analyses the various responses to the American military presence in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, and its legacy in the years immediately thereafter. Topping offers the first monographlength political history of United States involvement in Northern Ireland. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this largely overlooked aspect of the war, and the history of Northern Ireland more generally, and is essential for students and scholars of Irish and American history, the Second World War, and political and diplomatic history.

• 23 bw illus

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 328 pages

PB 9781350257719 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350037595

ePub 9781350037601 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350037618

Bloomsbury Academic

The Naval Government of Newfoundland in the French Wars

1793-1815

John Morrow, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Exploring the professional and political ideas of Newfoundland naval governors during the French Wars, this book traces the evolution of the Naval Governorship and administration of the region. With a diversifying economy and growing demography amidst the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the governors of Newfoundland faced a unique set of challenges. Morrow provides a comprehensive account of their responses to the perceived needs of those they governed - both settler and indigenous - and reveals the professional attitudes and attributes they brought to bear on their civil and military responsibilities.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

• 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350383173 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350383197 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350383180 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Medieval Age

Edited

by Paul Cartledge, Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK & Carol Atack, University of Oxford, UK

This volume explores democracy in antiquity through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis.

It surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies, examining the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considering how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own.

UK December 2022

HB 9781350042728

• US December 2022

• £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350284333

ePdf 9781350284548

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

• 280 pages • 47 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance

Edited by Virginia Cox, New York University, USA & Joanne Paul, University of Sussex, UK

This volume explores democracy in the Renaissance through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty, liberty, and the “common good”; the relation of state and household; religion and political obligation; gender and citizenship; ethnicity, diversity, and nationalism; democratic crises and civil resistance; international relations; and the development of news culture. It makes a pressing case for a fresh understanding of modern democracy’s deep roots.

UK December 2022 US December 2022 288 pages 30 bw illus

HB 9781350042810 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350273283 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272835 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Tom Brooking, University of Otago, New Zealand & Todd M. Thompson, Biola University, USA

This volume explores democracy in the nineteenth century through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis. Arguing that this period was the formative century in the modern history of democracy, it surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world.

• US December 2022

UK December 2022

HB 9781350042896

• £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350272750

• £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272767 £67.50 / $91.79

• 288 pages

• 50 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by David Napolitano, University of Cambridge, UK & Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America, USA

This volume explores democracy in the Middle Ages through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the common good; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the scalability of democracy beyond the limits of a single city. It argues that the Middle Ages deserve to be included in the history of democracy and highlights a variety of ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that played a significant role in that history.

UK December 2022

• US December 2022 • 280 pages • 41 bw illus

HB 9781350042759 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350272811 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272828 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Michael Mosher, University of Tulsa, USA & Anna Plassart, The Open University, UK

This volume explores democracy in the European Enlightenment through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the transformations of sovereignty. It surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages • 50 bw illus

HB 9781350042834 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350272859 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272842 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age

Edited by Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge, Cambridge & Gary Gerstle

This volume explores democracy in the 20th century through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and democratic politics beyond the polis. Arguing that the history of democracy in the 20th century is paradoxical, it examines the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022

HB 9781350042919

• £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350277373 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272866 £67.50 / $91.79

• 288 pages • 50 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

Edited by Beate Dignas, University of Oxford, UK

This first volume in the illustrated 6-volume Cultural History of Memory explores peace in the period from 800 BC to 500 AD. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. The set as a whole covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the classical era.

UK September 2022

• US September 2022 • 224 pages • 50 BW Illus

HB 9781474273374 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli, University of Verona, Italy & Marek Tamm, Tallinn University, Estonia

This third volume in the illustrated 6-volume Cultural History of Memory explores memory in the period from 1450 to 1700 AD. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. The set as a whole covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Renaissance.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages • 50 BW Illus

HB 9781474273411 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Susan A. Crane & Peter Fritzsche

This fifth volume in the illustrated 6-volume Cultural History of Memory explores memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. The set as a whole covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.

A Cultural History of Memory in Nineteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’.

UK September 2022

HB 9781474273503

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

Edited by Gerald Schwedler

This second volume in the illustrated 6-volume Cultural History of Memory explores memory in the years 500-1450. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Medieval era.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 232 pages • 37 bw illus

HB 9781474273381 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century

Edited

by Patrick H. Hutton

This fourth volume in the illustrated 6-volume Cultural History of Memory explores memory in the 1700s. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in this era.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 208 pages • 50 BW Illus

HB 9781474273480 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century

Edited

by Stefan Berger, Ruhr University

Bochum, Germany & Bill Niven, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham

This sixth volume in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory explores memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory since 1900.

UK September 2022

HB 9781474273527

• US September 2022

• £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• 240 pages

• 50 BW Illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

• US September 2022

• £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• 47 bw illus

• 240 pages

• Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity

Edited by Joanne Berry & Andrew WallaceHadrill, University of Cambridge, UK

To attempt a history of ‘the home’ in antiquity means bringing together two separate, if closely related, fields of study. On the one hand, study of the family, both in the legal frameworks that define it as institution and the literary representations of it in daily life; on the other, archaeological study of the domestic setting, within which such relationships are played out.

Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this first volume in the illustrated Cultural History of Home collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds of leisure and work; of the worlds of public and private life; of the world of practical structures and furnishings and the world of religion.

UK September 2022

HB 9781472584229

• US September 2022

• £75.00 / $110.00

A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age

Edited by Katherine L. French

The medieval age was one of enormous change in the way people lived in their houses. Medieval people could call a grand castle, a humble thatched hut, or anything in between home, but houses were more than physical spaces. They changed according to technological developments, climatic needs, geological limitations and economic resources. They were also moral units that were themselves symbolic, economic, gendered, and social.

This volume in the illustrated Cultural History of the Home collection argues that through a house and its uses, occupants created, sustained, and understood their relationship to each other and their society.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 240 pages • 50 bw

HB 9781472584236 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

• 41 bw

• 232 pages

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance

Edited by Amanda Flather, University of Essex, UK

This volume in the illustrated Cultural History of Home collection addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 248 pages • 50 bw

HB 9781472584243 • £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire

Edited by Jane Hamlett

During the 19th century the home, as both a cultural construct and a set of lived practices, became more powerful in the Western world than ever before. The West saw an unprecedented period of imperial expansion, industrialisation and commercialization that transformed both where and how people made their homes. Scientific advances and increasing mass production also changed homes materially, bringing in domestic technologies and new goods.

This volume in the illustrated Cultural History of Home collection explores how homes and homemaking were imagined and practiced across the globe in the 19th century.

UK September 2022

HB 9781472584298

• US September 2022

• £75.00 / $110.00

• 50 bw

• 272 pages

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited

by Clive Edwards, Loughborough University, UK

During the period of the Enlightenment, the word ‘home’ could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat.

In this volume in the illustrated Cultural History of Home collection, enlightenment homes are examined in terms of signification and meaning; the persons who inhabited them; the physical buildings and their furniture and furnishings; the work undertaken within them; the differing roles of men and women; the nature of hospitality, and the important role of religion in the home. Taken together they give a valuable overview of the manners, customs, and operation of the Enlightenment home, and the significant changes that occurred in the Enlightenment period.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 264 pages • 50 bw

HB 9781472584250 £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age

Edited by Despina Stratigakos

This final volume in the illustrated Cultural History of the Home collection, explores the place of and the cultural practices associated with the home from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of home, family, the house as a physical space, furniture, work, gender, hospitality and religion. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the home in the modern period.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 264 pages • 50 bw

HB 9781472584304

• £75.00 / $110.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Life Unseen A Story of Blindness Selina Mills

In this fascinating historical adventure, Broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture. Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight, Life Unseen takes us through a personal historical quest through the lives, stories and achievements of blind peopleas well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize and fix them. From the blind poet Homer, through the myths of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of modern times, the story of blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture.

UK July 2023 US September 2023 224 pages

HB 9781848856905 £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350349735 £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350349728 • £18.00 / $25.64

Bloomsbury Academic

History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment

Feelings and Work in Modern History

Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour

Edited by Agnes Arnold-Forster & Alison Moulds

This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meaning of both paid and unpaid labour from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Critiquing the concept of 'emotional labour', and the history of how work has made us feel, Feelings and Work in Modern History explores the changing values we have ascribed to our labour, examines the methods deployed by workplaces to manage or ‘administrate’ our emotions, and traces feelings through 19th, 20th and 21st century workplaces in Europe, Asia and South America.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350197510 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350197183

ePub 9781350197206 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350197190 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: History of Emotions • Bloomsbury Academic

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England Cure, Redemption and Rehabilitation

Alison C. Pedley, Independent Scholar, UK

Explores the experiences, treatments and regimes undergone by women who had been designated insane from 1850 to 1900 in three notorious institutions: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. Focusing particularly on patients who had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children, it shows how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes and how admission to a dedicated asylum was seen as the safest and most humane solution for the ‘madwoman’ and society as a whole.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350275324 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350275348 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350275331 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science

Edited by Lukas M. Verburgt, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands

Debating New Approaches to the History of Science offers a unique overview of the history of science and explores how it has evolved and where it might progress to next. Edited by Lukas M. Verburgt, and written by a team of established and early-career academics, each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field to provide students with an overview of the field and encourage critical thinking.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023

PB 9781350326217

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePdf 9781350326248

Bloomsbury Academic

• 336 pages • 5 bw illus

• HB 9781350326224

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £75.00 / $100.00

Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962

Louise Settle, University of Helsinki, Finland

In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probation system was used to regulate the private and emotional lives of offenders in Britain during this period, enriches our understanding of the role of the state in policing, monitoring and promoting the well-being of its citizens, and explores the nuances of probation’s dual purpose as a form of social control and as protection for the most vulnerable in society.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350233485 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350233454

ePub 9781350233478 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350233461 £76.50 / $103.94

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

Modern Historiography in the Making

The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, Roskilde University, Denmark

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an ‘age of history’. This book investigates how German historical scholarship acquired this status across the 18th and 19th centuries and offers a radical revision of the history of scholarship by focusing on practices of research and education.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350271487

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271470

ePub 9781350271500 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350271494 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• 5 bw illus

• 200 pages

Anne-Marie Kilday, Oxford Brookes University

Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones Towards a More Equitable Knowledge Production

Edited by Oscar Abedi Dunia, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi in Jharkhand, India & James B.M. Vincent

This volume brings together accounts from facilitating or 'brokering' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India, and outlines ways in which to build a more equitable way of conducting fieldwork. This book recounts first-hand the varied and crucial roles played by such researchers, meanwhile bearing witness to the insecurities and scarce resources navigated by them in order to facilitate the research of others.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 208 pages

PB 9781350265653 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350265660 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350265677 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350265684 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic World English

ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022

Article-by-Article Commentary

Edited by Richard Happ & Stephan Wilske

This book marks the fourth amendment of the Rules and Regulations since 1968. As a result, the legal framework of ICSID proceedings has been modernised, simplified and streamlined. A team of renowned practitioners and rising stars in the field of International Arbitration have analysed these updated frameworks, which include the ICSID Arbitration Rules, the Conciliation Rules, the Institution Rules as well as the Administrative and Financial Regulations, to offer practical and theoretical guidance for experienced lawyers and beginners in the field.

UK November 2022 • US December 2022

HB 9781509967384 £300.00 / $410.00

Beck/Hart/Nomos

The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence A Global Horizon in Private International Law

Horatia Muir Watt, Po Law School, France

This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of private international law, combining pragmatic and theoretical dimensions. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus on the subject.

The author, a recognised global expert, offers a truly transnational view to tackle issues such as digitalisation, identity and biotechnologies in our globalised world. All international lawyers, be they in the private or public field, should read this book.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 464 pages

HB 9781509940103 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509940110 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509940127 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law

Hart Publishing

Shareholders and Stakeholders

The Unrealised Promise of Company Law

Reform in Post-War Britain

Joanne F Sonin, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions. It examines how the post-war transformation of the shareholder body influenced relationships amongst stakeholders, impacting corporate behaviour and the legal and political efforts to govern industry and financial markets.

• 880 pages

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

Key Ideas in Commercial Law

William Day, University of Cambridge, UK

This book argues that commercial law has three main concerns:

- Agency: the extent to which multiple parties can act on behalf of a single commercial enterprise;

- Risk: both performance risk and credit risk; and - Dealings: the ability of, and limits on, parties dealing with property. In exploring this trilogy, the book provides students and scholars with a view of commercial law in its broader context and considers pervasive themes including sources for commercial law, freedom of contract and its limits, the need for certainty and predictability, and the role for obligations of good faith and fair dealing.

UK September 2023

PB 9781509944224

• US September 2023

• £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781509944231

ePdf 9781509944248

• £11.69 / $16.19

• £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Key Ideas in Law Hart Publishing

• 112 pages

The book further considers how these post-war changes contribute to the post-1979 legal treatment of shareholder and stakeholder interests, including reforms to the Companies Act. Parallels to the contemporary trends of stakeholder capitalism, corporate purpose, and corporate social responsibility are drawn.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 368 pages

HB 9781509966806 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966813 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966820 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law • Hart Publishing

The New EU Competition Law

Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the New EU Competition Law: an emerging understanding of the discipline that breaks from the consensus that emerged in the early 2000s and that leads it into uncharted territories.

The book presents the changes that the field is undergoing and illustrates them by reference to the most significant developments in the field. The analysis includes an up-to-date evaluation of the Digital Markets Act and discusses the application of EU competition law to key areas, including energy, pharma, telecommunications, and online platforms.

An invaluable resource for practitioners and advanced students alike.

• US November 2023

UK September 2023

PB 9781782259138

• £29.99 / $40.95

ePub 9781782259145

• 320 pages

• HB 9781509967100

• £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781782259152 £26.99 / $36.44

Hart Publishing

• £95.00 / $130.00

Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory

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

Judicial Avoidance

Balancing Competences in Constitutional Adjudication

Carolina Alves das Chagas, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria

This book considers the impact of judicial avoidance: What happens when courts leave parts of the merits of the case, or their whole, undecided for different reasons.

It presents examples of judicial avoidance, such as justiciability assessments and deferential approaches regarding the decision of another authority and addresses legitimacy issues involving judicial avoidance. At its core it presents answers to two key questions:

- Is it legitimate to practise judicial avoidance?

- How can judicial avoidance be practised in a legitimate way?

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781509961498 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509961504 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509961511 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

Proportionality and Facts in Constitutional Adjudication

Anne Carter, Deakin University, Australia

This book considers the relationship between proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication. It analyses where facts arise within each of the 3 stages of the structured proportionality test – suitability, necessity, and balancing – and it considers the nature of these ‘facts’ vis-à-vis the facts that arise in the course of ordinary litigation.

The rich proportionality jurisprudence from Germany, Canada, and South Africa is used to contextualise the approach of the High Court of Australia and to identify future directions for proportionality in Australia, at a critical time when the doctrine is in its formative stages.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 272 pages

PB 9781509955497 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509936984

ePub 9781509936991 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509937004 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

Administrative Law in Action Immigration Administration

Robert Thomas, University of Manchester, UK

This book analyses how administrative law works in practice through a detailed case-study and evaluation of one of the UK’s largest and most important administrative agencies, the immigration department. In doing so, the book broadens the conversation of administrative law beyond the courts to include how administrative agencies themselves make, apply, and enforce the law. Blending theoretical and empirical administrative-legal analysis, the book demonstrates why we need to pay closer attention to what government agencies actually do, how they do it, and how they are organised and held to account.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 384 pages

PB 9781509953158 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509953110

ePub 9781509953127 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509953134

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 22 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 September 2023 • US September 2023 • 672 pages

HB 9781509953844 • £150.00 / $200.00

ePub 9781509953851 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509953868 • £135.00 / $183.59

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

The Methodology of Constitutional Theory

Edited by Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Essex, UK & Stuart Lakin, University of Reading, UK

What sort of methods are best suited to understanding constitutional doctrines and practices? Should we look to lawyers and legal methods alone, or should we draw upon other disciplines? Should we study constitutions in isolation or in a comparative context?

This volume brings together constitutional experts from around the world to address these types of questions through topical events and challenges such as Brexit, administrative law reforms, and the increasing polarisations in law, politics, and constitutional scholarship.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 464 pages

PB 9781509957699

• £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509933846

ePub 9781509933853 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509933860 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory Hart Publishing

Pandemocracy in Europe Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19

Edited by Matthias C Kettemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria & Konrad Lachmayer, Sigmund Freud University, Austria

This open access book situates the impact of COVID-19, and the fight against the virus, on Europe’s democracies. The book sets the theoretical stage and answers the democratic questions engaged by health emergencies. Seven national case studies – the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland, and France – show how different states reacted to the pandemic.

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

UK July 2023 US July 2023

PB 9781509946402

448 pages

• £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509946365

• £81.00 / $110.69

ePub 9781509946372

ePdf 9781509946389

Hart Publishing

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £0.00 / $0.00

Facts in Public Law Adjudication

Edited

by Joe Tomlinson, University of York, UK & Anne Carter, Deakin University, 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 September 2023

• US September 2023 • 368 pages

HB 9781509957385 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509957392 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509957408 • £85.50 / $116.09

Hart Publishing

The Practical Guide to Public Inquiries

Isabelle Mitchell, Peter Watkin Jones & Sarah Jones, all Eversheds Sutherland (International)

LLP & Emma Ireton, Nottingham Trent University

Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience as public inquiry lawyers, working on inquiries such as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Leveson Inquiry and Grenfell Tower Inquiry, this book provides an invaluable, comprehensive guide to the public inquiry process.

With its user-friendly format of summaries, checklists, ‘top tips’ and flow charts, this book, the first practical guide to public inquiries, provides guidance from the setting up of a public inquiry through to its close. It includes information on: the appointment of the chairman and inquiry team; the choice and significance of the venue; the drawing up of inquiry procedures, protocols and rulings; the appointment and role of core participants; evidence taking; conducting and attending hearings; the role of experts and the writing and publication of the inquiry report.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023

PB 9781509968718 • £41.99 / $57.95

Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America

Edited by Johanna Fröhlich, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

This book examines the jurisprudence of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights. By looking at the reason-giving practice by courts, the volume considers how Latin American courts justify their decisions, which is the precondition for constructive criticism and improvement.

Based on original data and a region-specific methodology, the book provides a systematic analysis utilising more than 600 leading cases. It shows which interpretive methods and concepts are most favoured by Latin American courts, and which courts were the most and the least prolific in their reasoning activities.

UK August 2024 • US August 2024 • 592 pages

HB 9781509960170 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509960187 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509960194 • £108.00 / $147.14

Series: Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean • Hart Publishing World All Languages (except Spanish)

The Constitution of the Republic of Austria A Contextual Analysis

Manfred Stelzer, University of Vienna, Austria

This book shows how the Austrian Constitution has been shaped by fundamental events in Austria's modern history. It emphasises the way in which the Constitution establishes a parliamentary system, with additional presidential features, limited, in turn, by Austria's federal structure and the parliaments of 9 states. It charts the history and character of the constitution; the political structure; the legislative and executive branches of the federal government; public bodies; jurisdiction; and fundamental Rights. Offering the trademark combination of clarity of explanation and rigour of analysis that defines the series, this is an excellent guide to a fascinating constitutional structure.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781509956739 • £26.99 / $36.95

• 328 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509928347

ePub 9781509928323 • £37.79 / $51.29

ePdf 9781509928330 • £37.79 / $51.29

Hart Publishing

The New Labour Constitution Twenty Years On

Edited by Michael Gordon, University of Liverpool, UK & Adam Tucker, University of Liverpool, UK

The 20th anniversary of the election of the New Labour government in 1997 provides an ideal opportunity to assess the way in which this major programme of constitutional reform changed the nature of the UK constitution. This book brings together essays from leading academics in UK public law and politics which assess different aspects of the ‘New Labour Constitution’ 20 years on. In combination, these essays analyse the scale and significance of substantive changes, the process of constitutional reform established during this period, and the legacy of New Labour’s constitutional project.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 480 pages

PB 9781509957255 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509924646

ePub 9781509924653 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509924660 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law

Previously published in HB 9781509956692

ePub 9781509956708 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956715 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Constitutional Systems of the World Hart Publishing

Delivering Justice A Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited by Xandra Kramer, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Stefaan Voet, KU Leuven, Belgium, Lorenz Ködderitzsch, Johnson & Johnson, Belgium, Magdalena Tulibacka, Emory Law School Atlanta, Georgia, USA & Burkhard Hess, Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg

In this Liber Amicorum, leading experts and long-time friends come together to pay tribute to Christopher Hodges by exploring what can be done to deliver justice and fairness, focusing on collective redress, consumer dispute resolution, court system reform, ethical business regulation and regulatory delivery.

Throughout his academic career, Christopher Hodges worked on a variety of topics dealing with access to justice and dispute resolution. His ground-breaking research not only inspired students and colleagues, but also influenced policymakers worldwide. Delivering justice, and “making things better”, runs like a thread through his work; the same thread connects the chapters in this book.

UK October 2022

• US December 2022

• £100.00 / $135.00

HB 9781509961542

ePub 9781509961559

ePdf 9781509961566

Hart Publishing

• 344 pages

• £90.00 / $122.84

• £90.00 / $122.84

Regulating Boilerplate Resolving the Issues of Imposition and Unfairness in Standard Form Contracts

Marcus Moore, University of British Columbia, Canada

This book analyses what elements of legal regulation would best resolve the longstanding issues of imposition of terms and unfair terms in boilerplate ‘contracts of adhesion’. It adopts a ‘law in context’ methodology to offer solutions.

The methodological approach is combined with insights from global regulatory theory and cutting edge solutions such as private collectivised proceedings and remedies, streamlined adjudication, and administrative enforcement systems. It looks at models in the US, Canada, the UK, and the EU. As the use of boilerplates is set only to increase as privatisation and globalisation spread, the answers provided are much needed.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

HB 9781509951208

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509951215 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951222 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Studies in Private Law: Essays on Defences

James Goudkamp, University of Oxford, UK

Corporate Attribution in Private Law

Rachel Leow

This book offers a succinct framework for analysing and answering corporate attribution. Taking a broad private law perspective, it determines how companies are held accountable under tort law, contract law and unjust enrichment. It argues that attribution is best understood as turning on the same feature: the allocation of the company’s powers to act as human individuals. By taking this approach, it allows for a much greater and clearer understanding of attribution. Looking at the question from the broad expanse of the common law, this book will be of interest to lawyers in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

• 288 pages

Series: International Studies in the Theory of Private Law Hart Publishing

Taking Law Seriously

Essays in Honour of Peter Cane

Edited by James Goudkamp, University of Oxford, UK, Mark Lunney, King’s College London, UK & Leighton McDonald, Australian National University

This book celebrates the scholarship of Peter Cane, one of the world’s leading legal scholars of the present age. The book is comprised of essays written by admirers of Cane’s scholarship. The essays probe a wide range of issues, especially in administrative law and tort law, that have long concerned him. Consistently with the international prominence that Cane’s research has enjoyed, the contributors are drawn from across the common law world. Their essays will be of value to anyone who is interested in Cane’s unique contribution to private and public law scholarship.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 392 pages

PB 9781509956074 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509940721

ePub 9781509940738 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509940745

Hart Publishing

• £85.50 / $116.09

Questions of Liability

Essays on Tort

Donal Nolan, Worcester College, Oxford

In this collection, one of the key commentators on the modern law of tort presents his key articles, with his comment on their impact and reception. It focuses on tortious liability and the law of negligence. Taking a coherent approach, its 3 part structure looks at negligence; nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher; and tort in general. It makes a significant contribution to debates about the limits and scope of liability in tort law in the UK and other common law systems. Tort scholars and practitioners alike will find this an invaluable statement on tortious liability in the 21st century.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

HB 9781509961924

• 480 pages

• £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781509961931

ePdf 9781509961948

Hart Publishing

• £72.00 / $98.54

• £72.00 / $98.54

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages

PB 9781509941827 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509941353

ePub 9781509941360 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509941377 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Justice in Private Law

Peter Jaffey, University of Leicester, UK

This book sets out a general approach to private law, covering contract, tort and private property. Identifying certain fundamental aspects of these areas, it illustrates how this approach can provide solutions to longstanding problems. It goes on to consider the nature of theories of law in order to make clear the sort of theory suggested. Furthermore, it looks at common law legal reasoning and how it is related to the suggested approach. This provides a unique way of thinking about private law and its role in dispensing justice which will be of interest to all those in the field.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

• 256 pages

HB 9781509953882 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509953899 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509953905 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

The Province and Politics of the Economic Torts

John Murphy, University of Lancaster, UK

This book asks whether the economic torts can be considered as a unified whole. Economic torts play a key role in the development of private law. The landmark case in the field, OBG v Allan, is one of the most important decisions in the entire law of torts. Any search for unity, however, is challenging. This book shows that although some juridical connections exist between some of these torts, there is far more that separates than unites them. Offering a unique perspective, this is a landmark publication on the law of economic torts.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 320 pages

PB 9781509955480 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509927319

ePub 9781509927326 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509927333 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice

Catrina Denvir, Monash University, Australia, Jacqueline Kinghan, University of Glasgow, UK, Jessica Mant, Monash University, Australia & Daniel Newman, Cardiff University, UK

This book provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary access to justice in England and Wales. Through data collected via the Legal Aid Census 2021 and Legal Aid Student Survey 2021, the book examines the impact of austerity and related policies on those at the coalface of social justice and legal aid work. It documents the current state of the profession and the social and economic factors that make working in the profession harder than ever before. The book will stimulate debate as to the fate of access to justice and legal aid in the future.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 288 pages

HB 9781509957804 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509957811 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509957828 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

The Scope of the Enterprise Liability for ‘Joint Enterprise’ Murder and Manslaughter after Jogee

Beatrice Krebs, University of Reading

In R v Jogee the UK Supreme Court did not just abolish parasitic accessory liability, it also redrew the boundaries of murder and manslaughter in situations of multi-handed acts of escalating violence. This book considers what scope remains post-Jogee for charging parties to a crime A with murder for a death (crime B) caused by one of their associates, and when a conviction for manslaughter will be appropriate instead. In Jogee, the UK Supreme Court suggested that convictions in the paradigm cases of spontaneous group violence would be based on manslaughter by unlawful dangerous act. The book will discuss whether manslaughter by recklessness or manslaughter by gross negligence are more appropriate in some scenarios, and how the principles of accessory liability can be combined so as to ground a manslaughter conviction in the first place. One problem the law currently faces is that offence elements that were shaped in the single offender context do not invariably lend themselves to application in multi-defendant contexts, and their use in typical joint enterprise scenarios might not be as straightforward as Jogee suggests. This is where the book’s comparative analysis of German criminal law proves useful. The book explores how English law can learn from the German experience, including from mistakes that were made in Germany along the way.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781509914807

Modern Criminal Law Essays in Honour of GR Sullivan

• 320 pages

• £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781509914821 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781509914814 • £72.00 / $98.54

Hart Publishing

Edited

by A P Simester, National University of Singapore

This book brings together leading scholars from the next generation of UK criminal lawyers to celebrate the work of G R (Bob) Sullivan, Emeritus Professor at University College London, in the year of his retirement from writing Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine. The contributors examine areas in which Professor Sullivan’s own writing has been influential, ranging from general doctrines such as causation and culpability, across specific offences like theft and fraud, through defences including necessity and insanity; before turning, finally, to matters affecting the criminal process, notably challenges to the doctrine of precedent in criminal law.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 352 pages

HB 9781509956142 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509956159 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956166 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction

Extraterritoriality and Enforcement

Edited by Micheál Ó Floinn, University of Glasgow, UK, Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow, UK, Julia Hörnle, Queen Mary University of London, UK & David Ormerod KC, University College London, UK

This book, based on a series of papers presented at the 2021 WG Hart Legal Workshop, asks how the concept of jurisdiction can meet the challenges posed by transnational dimensions of criminal offences today. Part 1 looks at theoretical perspectives on criminal jurisdiction and how traditional jurisdictional concepts and understandings are being challenged, transformed, and reimagined in the era of the internet, cloud computing and social media. Part 2 homes in on the investigative powers of the state, to explore how these practical issues can inform the continuing transformation of current challenges.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 432 pages

HB 9781509954223 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509954230 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509954247 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Access to Justice in Magistrates' Courts

A Study of Defendant Marginalisation

Lucy Welsh, University of Sussex, UK

This book examines access to justice in summary criminal proceedings by considering the ability of defendants to play an active and effective role in the process.

The author argues that defendants have always been marginalised through particular features of magistrates’ court proceedings (such as courtroom layout and patterns of behaviour among the professional workgroups in court).

The study is ethnographic, based on observation conducted in four magistrates’ courts in South East England and interviews with both defence lawyers and Crown prosecutors.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

PB 9781509956777 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509937837

ePub 9781509937844 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509937851 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Hart Studies in European Criminal Law

Valsamis Mitsilegas, University of Liverpool, UK, Katalin Ligeti, University of Luxembourg & Anne Weyembergh, Université Libre de Bruxelles

The European Arrest Warrant at Twenty Coming

of Age?

Edited by Adam Lazowski, University of Westminster, UK & Valsamis Mitsilegas, University of Liverpool, UK

The European Arrest Warrant (EAW), the cornerstone of European criminal law, is twenty years old. This collection brings together the leading commentators in the field to assess its merits and successes, and to suggest improvements. Taking a holistic approach, it looks at the EAW from all the different perspectives of its operation. Discussions range from fundamental rights, to constitutional issues and questions of national diversity, and to the external dimension of the EAW. This is an important assessment of the EAW, destined to become the point of reference in the field.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 464 pages

HB 9781509961061 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509961078 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509961085 £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Hart Studies in European Criminal Law Hart Publishing

Organized Environmental Crime

Black Markets in Gold, Wildlife, and Timber

Daan van Uhm, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Developing an innovative approach to understanding how organized crime groups diversify into the illegal trade in natural resources, this book looks at the convergence between environmental crime and other serious crimes.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 360 pages • 61 illus

HB 9781440879609

Praeger

• £50.00 / $65.00

Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism

Criminal and Quasi-criminal Enforcement Mechanisms in Europe

Origins, Concepts, Future

Edited by Vanessa Franssen, University of Liège, Belgium & Christopher Harding, Aberystwyth University, UK

This book looks at the interplay between criminal and public law. The need for clarifying the concepts and the interlink between administrative and criminal enforcement is a topic attracting a lot of discussion and debate both in academia and practice. The book adds to this debate by bringing to light the substantive and procedural problems stemming from the current parallel or dual use of the different enforcement systems.

The collection draws on expertise from academia, practice and policy and their high quality analysis will appeal to both scholars and policymakers alike.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 440 pages

PB 9781509957262 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509932863

ePub 9781509932870 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509932887 £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Hart Studies in European Criminal Law Hart Publishing

Renewable Energy Law

Olivia Woolley, Durham University, UK

This is the first textbook to provide a clear understanding of law’s role in promoting the global growth of renewable energy production and consumption.

The book introduces readers to the main legal frameworks shaping the rise of renewables. Clear explanations of challenges commonly confronting renewable developments and the legal responses to them aid readers’ understanding whatever their background. The author, a leading researcher in energy and environmental law, has drawn on 10 years’ experience of developing and teaching research-led courses on renewable energy law to produce an authoritative but accessible work.

UK April 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages

PB 9781509936472 • £32.99 / $44.95 • HB 9781509967810 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509936489 • £29.69 / $40.49

ePdf 9781509936465 • £29.69 / $40.49

Hart Publishing

Civil Courts and the European Polity

Parliamentary

Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation

Giovanni Rizzoni, LUISS University of Rome, Italy

This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge. The book argues the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does this by applying the theory of parliamentary encyclopaedism. Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and decision-making. This is a truly innovative book, challenging, provocative and asking crucial questions of how parliaments work and legislate.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

HB 9781509963911

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509963928

ePdf 9781509963935

• 384 pages

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Parliamentary Democracy in Europe

• Hart Publishing

The Constitutional Role of Private Law Adjudication in Europe

Edited by Chantal Mak, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Betül Kas, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Public law has always been seen as the vehicle for driving polity building in Europe. But what role might private law play?

This collection argues that it plays a crucial one, as interactions in civil society are the bedrock of any shared identity. The book takes a 4-part approach; firstly, it explores the theoretical questions at play before moving onto a discussion of judicial activity in European private law. Next, it offers case studies to further support its position. In the final section, practitioners articulate the role that European private law judges see for themselves in building common ground.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 336 pages

HB 9781509941674

Modern Studies in European Law

The EU and the Baltic Sea Area

Edited by Allan Rosas, European Commission, Belgium & Henrik Ringbom, Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku, Finland

This book explores the role of the European Union (EU) in Baltic Sea Area (BSA) cooperation and regulation. It particularly focuses on the specific role of the Union. Questions investigated include: in what way does the Union participate in, or otherwise influence, the activities of States, international organisations and other actors involved in BSA cooperation and regulation? How has the membership of eight out of nine Baltic Sea coastal States in the EU affected cooperation in the region? Leading experts in the field, give much needed answers to these key questions.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 352 pages

HB 9781509956241 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509956258 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956265 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

The EU and its Member States’ Joint Participation in International Agreements

Edited by Nicolas Levrat, Yuliya Kaspiarovich & Christine Kaddous, all University of Geneva,

Switzerland & Ramses A Wessel, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

This edited collection scrutinises practice and situations in which the EU and its Member States jointly undertake obligations under international law, towards third states or within international organisations. Contributing to the conversation on ‘mixity’, it reframes and renews the debate on mixed agreements by exploring and comparing all types of joint participations. Each chapter is written by a team, representing another original form of ‘joint participation’ to legal scholarship.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

• 328 pages

PB 9781509945917 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509945870

ePub 9781509945887 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509945894 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

The Architecture of Fundamental Rights in the European Union

Šejla Imamovic, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Much has been written on the protection of fundamental rights in the EU and the ECHR systems from the national perspective. This book is the first to do so while also providing the European perspective.

With great analytical precision, the book sets out all the central aspects of the new EU rights landscape. Its case law analysis allows for a deep understanding of what the courts do and why. This is a welcome addition to EU fundamental rights literature.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 256 pages

PB 9781509955503 £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509940585

ePub 9781509940592 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509940608

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Modern Studies in European Law

• Hart Publishing

EU Regulations in Practice

Legislative and Judicial Approaches

Edited by Adam Lazowski, University of Westminster, UK & Alicja Sikora, Jagiellonian University, Poland

This book provides a thorough assessment of EU regulations. It also looks at their application in all twenty-seven Member States and some neighbouring countries. EU regulations are perceived as the most effective sources of EU secondary legislation. Part 1 examines these points, providing the analytical backdrop to the remaining chapters. In Parts 2 and 3 the focus moves to the reception of regulations in Member States and selected neighbouring jurisdictions. Written by leading practitioners and academics, the book offers a conceptual underpinning to the European Union’s regulatory law-making, as well as a practical exploration of their impact and application.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 688 pages

HB 9781509956593 • £150.00 / $200.00

ePub 9781509956609 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509956616 £135.00 / $183.59

Hart Publishing

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

The National Courts’ Perspectives

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

The principle of effective judicial protection (PEJP) is specifically provided for in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights Article 47. But how effective is the protection it affords? This 2nd volume of an ambitious 2-volume study explores how the national courts have interpreted the PEJP. It takes a comparative overview of the case law to assess the level of convergence/divergence of national courts’ approaches. The questionnaire methodology allows for an accurate charting of the application of national courts, divergence and the ensuing problems. It will be of interest to EU constitutional scholars and comparative lawyers.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023 • 336 pages

HB 9781509947997 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509948000 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509948017 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Investment Migration in Europe and the World Current Issues

Edited by Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen, the Netherlands & Madeleine Sumption & Martijn van den Brink, both University of Oxford, UK

This open access book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to investment migration to understand its legal, political, and conceptual implications. It documents trends in investment migration and their implications for citizenship. It then provides a legal and normative assessment of investment migration, from the perspective of both EU and international law. Finally, it presents case studies on investment migration practices from around the world.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

• 384 pages

HB 9781509955220 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509955237 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509955244 £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

The Jurisprudence of Particularism

National Identity Claims in Central Europe

Edited by Kriszta Kovács, ELTE University, Hungary

This open access book asks whether there is space for particularism in a constitutional democracy which would limit the implementation of EU law. National identity claims are a key factor in shaping our times and the ongoing evolution of the European Union. This collection focuses on the jurisprudence of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The contributors offer a new analytical scheme to evaluate the judicial invocation of identity, drawing on comparative constitutional law, theory, comparative-empirical material and normative-philosophical perspectives.

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

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781509960125 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509960132 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509960149 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe

Chiara Berneri, Open University, UK

This book examines private sponsorships as a new legal pathway for refugees to resettle in Europe. It explores the private sponsorship arrangements currently adopted around the world, analysing them within the broader context of the national legislation to which they belong and commenting on the legislation that enforces them. Crucially, the book outlines which aspects of private sponsorships work, which do not work, and which could work with some improvements. Building upon this background, the book makes suggestions on how to move forward, both at state level in Europe and EU level.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 208 pages

HB 9781509922185 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781509922192 • £54.00 / $74.24

ePdf 9781509922208 £54.00 / $74.24

Hart Publishing

The Rule of Law’s Anatomy in the EU Foundations and Protections

Edited by Allan Rosas, European Commission, Belgium, Juha Raitio, University of Helsinki, Finland & Pekka Pohjankoski, University of Helsinki, Finland

This study grapples with one of the most challenging questions facing constitutional lawyers today; namely the rule of law. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars and judges, it takes a dual approach. It opens by setting out the foundations of the rule of law, including legal certainty, democratic principles and judicial independence. It goes onto explore the protections that can be relied upon, from policy developments, to human rights sanctions, and infringement actions. This is a rapidly developing question in EU constitutional law, so this masterful collection will be welcomed by both scholars and policy-makers in the field.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781509955077 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509955084 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509955091 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969

Edited by Joanna Miles, University of Cambridge, UK, Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK & Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, UK

The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment. This collection explores the background to the Act and its legal and social influence. Bringing together scholars from law, sociology, history, demography and film, it reflects on changes to divorce law over the last half-century. It then looks at the Act itself. It explores divorce within different groups. To conclude, it reflects on the current Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill. It illuminates not only the Act but a period of societal change.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 312 pages

PB 9781509947928 £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509947881

ePub 9781509947898 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509947904 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux

Key Legal Developments in Selected Jurisdictions

The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law

Edited by Ekaterina

Aristova, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, UK & Ugljesa Grusic,

University College London, UK

What private law avenues are open to victims of human rights violations? This collection explores this question across sixteen jurisdictions in the Global South and Global North, examining mechanisms in domestic law for bringing civil claims in relation to the involvement of states, corporations and individuals in specific categories of human rights violation: (i) assault or unlawful arrest and detention of persons; (ii) environmental harm; and (iii) harmful or unfair labour conditions. This global perspective assesses the question in jurisdictions as diverse as Kenya, Switzerland, the US and the Philippines. A much needed statement on responding to human rights violations.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 400 pages

PB 9781509947638 £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9781509947591

ePub 9781509947607 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509947614

Hart Publishing

• £90.00 / $122.84

Edited by Kathryn McNeilly, Queen’s University, UK & Ben Warwick, Birmingham Law School, UK

This collection brings together a range of international contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time manifests in the theory and practice of human rights law internationally; and how specific areas of human rights can be understood via temporal analyses.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781509949991

• 256 pages

• £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509949908

ePub 9781509949915 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509949922 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective

• Hart Publishing

Horizontal Rights An Institutional Approach

Gautam Bhatia, Freie University Berlin, Germany

This book argues that contemporary constitutionalism is characterised by a ‘default vertical’ approach to constitutional rights. ‘Default verticality’ means that while horizontal constitutional rights are not unknown, their existence and application are exceptional and in need of special justification. Taking a 2-part approach, it firstly develops the theoretical and conceptual articulation of the institutional approach. The second half of the book applies it to two scenarios: the legal regulation of platform work, and of domestic relationships. Global in scope, it draws on examples from the common law world, the United States, and South Africa.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 320 pages

HB 9781509967612 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509967629 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509967636 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Commercialising Celebrity Persona

Intellectual Property Law and Practice

Emma Perot, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

This book investigates the commercialisation of celebrity persona in the UK, New York, and California. Interviews with 68 practitioners across the advertising, merchandising, film, and video game industries provide insight on the differences in approaches across jurisdictions, as well as the similarities caused by non-legal factors. Furthermore, the book addresses the developments in technology, social media, and social norms that have made collaboration attractive to maintain favour with fans.

Anyone who is interested in the multi-million dollar business of celebrities as assets will benefit from this book.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9781509966097 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966103

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966110 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Migrant Labour and the Reshaping of Employment Law

Edited by Bernard Ryan & Rebecca Zahn

This book explores the challenges posed by contemporary labour migration for employment law regimes in highly developed countries. The authors of individual chapters are leading scholars of employment law, in the United Kingdom, other European countries, Australia and Canada. One theme in the work is the effects of migration levels and patterns upon general employment law. Other chapters are concerned with the equality for migrant workers, avenues for the redress of exploitation, and the position in employment law of migrant workers without a right to work.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 400 pages

PB 9781509968329 • £44.99 / $60.95 • HB 9781509919147 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781509919154 • £40.49 / $55.34

ePdf 9781509919161 • £40.49 / $55.34

Hart Publishing

Copyright and Cartography

History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge

Isabella Alexander, University of Technology

Sydney, Australia

This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from around 1700 to the end of World War I. Taking a multidisciplinary approach and making extensive use of the archival record, the book examines how the emergence and development of copyright law affected mapmakers and the map trade, and how the application of copyright law to the field of mapmaking affected the development of copyright doctrine.

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 Australian Research Council.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 352 pages

HB 9781509958337 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509958344 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509958351 • £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

Music Borrowing and Copyright Law

A Genre-by-Genre Analysis

Edited by Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London, UK & Chen Wei Zhu, University of Birmingham, UK

This ground-breaking book examines the multifaceted dynamics between copyright law and music borrowing within a rich diversity of music genres from across the world. It evaluates how copyright laws under different generic conventions influence, or are influenced by, time-honoured creative borrowing practices.

Leading experts from around the world scrutinise a carefully selected range of musical genres; and this genre-specific analysis is preceded by a theoretical section in which musicologists and lawyers offer their insights into fundamental issues concerning music genre categorisation, copyright’s struggle with musical genres and the typology of music borrowing practice under different generic conventions.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

HB 9781509949380

• 704 pages

• £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781509949397

ePdf 9781509949403

Hart Publishing

• £126.00 / $171.44

• £126.00 / $171.44

Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists, and Other Public Procurement Tools

Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements

Serban Filipon, Integrate Investment, Romania

This book provides a strategic and pragmatic perspective towards regulation, policy, and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists, and akin tools in public procurement.

The book examines the following public procurement systems or legal instruments: the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement, the World Bank, the US federal procurement system, EU law, France, Romania, and the UK pre- and post-Brexit.

By deconstructing over 20 ‘clusters’ of tools into their key features, the book reconstructs a conceptual framework across public procurement systems and delivers essential material for increased efficiency and effectiveness in public procurement.

UK July 2023

US July 2023 304 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781509959907

ePub 9781509959914

ePdf 9781509959921

Hart Publishing

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Information Rights

A Practitioner's Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Other Information Rights

Philip Coppel KC, Cornerstone Barristers, UK

The 6th edition of the leading practitioner text on information law includes a substantially enlarged set of chapters on appeals, enforcement, and remedies, as well as covering over 250 new judgments and decisions.

Volume 1 provides a comprehensive coverage of the data protection regime, freedom of information and environmental information law, as well as other rights of access to official information such as local government legislation and the Public Records Act. There is detailed coverage of appeal and regulatory procedures. Volume 2 comprises extensive annotated statutory material, including the DPA 2018, the UK GDPR, FOIA, Tribunal rules and statutory guidance.

UK June 2023 • US August 2023 • 2404 pages

HB Pack 9781509967308 • £250.00 / $340.00

ePub 9781509967315 • £225.00 / $305.09

ePdf 9781509967322 • £225.00 / $305.09

Hart Publishing

Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 15

In Transitional Times

Edited by Hideyuki Matsumi & Paul De Hert, both Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Dara Hallinan & Diana Dimitrova, both FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany & Eleni Kosta, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

This is a new volume collecting a selection of cutting-edge papers from the 15th CPDP Conference (2022) on legal, regulatory, academic, and technological developments in privacy and data protection. This volume brings together papers that highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection in transitional times. Topics include: data protection risks in European retail banks; data protection, privacy legislation, and litigation in China; synthetic data generation as a privacy-preserving technique; effectiveness of privacy consent dialogues; individuals in data protection law; and data subject rights in the platform economy.

UK May 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9781509965908 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781509965915 • £49.50 / $67.49

ePdf 9781509965922 • £49.50 / $67.49

Series: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection • Hart Publishing

Interpreting Discrimination Law Creatively

Statutory Discrimination Law in the UK, Canada and Australia

Alice Taylor, Bond University, Australia

This book explores the judiciary's role in achieving substantive equality utilising statutory discrimination law, and tackles the problem by exploring the idea that there needs to be a 'creative' interpretation of discrimination law to achieve substantive results. The author takes a comparative approach by considering the interpretation of statutory discrimination law in the UK, Canada and Australia.

The book argues that differences in the case law are explained by the way in which the appropriate role for the courts in rights review, norm elaboration and institutional competence is conceived in each jurisdiction.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 272 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781509952922

ePub 9781509952939

ePdf 9781509952946

Hart Publishing

Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit

Edited by Edoardo Celeste, Dublin City University, Ireland, Róisín Á Costello, Dublin City University, Ireland, Edina Harbinja, Aston University, UK & Napoleon Xanthoulis, University of Southampton, UK

This book examines the evolution of UK data protection law post-Brexit and its implications from a digital sovereignty perspective. It analyses the latest legal and policy developments in this context, focusing on data protection but also exploring its intersection with other related regulatory areas, such as artificial intelligence and online safety. Renowned international experts contextualise current regulatory trends and policy proposals to understand whether a new UK model in the field of digital regulation is emerging and to what extent this will exacerbate existing tensions between the UK and the EU.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 336 pages

HB 9781509966486 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966493 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966509 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence

Algorithmic Actants, Hybrids, Crowds

Anna Beckers, Maastricht University, the Netherlands & Gunther Teubner, Goethe University, Germany

This book proposes 3 liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gap caused by AI systems. Based on information technology studies, the book first develops a threefold typology that distinguishes individual, hybrid and collective machine behaviour. A subsequent social sciences analysis specifies the sociotechnical configurations of this threefold typology and theorises their social risks when being used in social practices: actants raise the risk of digital autonomy, hybrids the risk of double contingency, crowds the risk of opaque interconnections. The book demonstrates that it is these specific risks to which the law needs to respond by developing corresponding liability rules.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781509949373 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509949335

ePub 9781509949342 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509949359 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

The Future of Unions and Worker Representation

The Digital Picket Line

Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University, Australia

This book charts the path to revitalisation for trade unions in Australia, the USA, the UK, and Italy. It examines the examples of innovation and digital campaigning that are enabling unions to build new forms of worker power – and overcome decades of declining membership wrought by neoliberalism, globalisation, and hostility from employers and the state.

This cross-national study provides a rich basis for identifying the combination of reforms, strategies and linkages required to ensure that unions can remain relevant for a new generation of digitallyactive workers.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781509956432

• 368 pages

• £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509924974

ePub 9781509924981 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509924998 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Discrimination Law Text, Cases and Materials

Aileen McColgan KC, 11KBW, UK

This textbook offers comprehensive coverage of the Equality Act 2010 and of the equality aspects of the Human Rights Act 1998 and European Convention on Human Rights. It encourages critical analysis of equality law to equip the reader with an understanding of the enduring challenges that frame equality law and contemporary responses to those challenges.

For undergraduates studying discrimination law, the book provides a one-stop shop. This book is also a key core text for any postgraduate discrimination law course and will provide those engaged in research with a solid base for further independent study.

UK April 2023 • US May 2023 • 784 pages

PB 9781849462464 £49.99 / $67.95 HB 9781509966592 £160.00 / $220.00

ePub 9781509928446 £44.99 / $60.74

ePdf 9781509928439 • £44.99 / $60.74

Hart Publishing

Law and Practical Reason

George Pavlakos, University of Glasgow, UK

New Essays on the Fish-Dworkin Debate

Edited by Thomas Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil & Margaret Martin, Western University, Canada

This book considers the seminal debate in contemporary jurisprudence between Ronald Dworkin and Stanley Fish. It looks at the exchange between Dworkin and Fish, initiated in the 1980s, and analyses the role the exchange has played in the development of contemporary theories of interpretation, legal reasoning, and the nature of law.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781509961795

• 576 pages

• £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509961801

ePdf 9781509961818

• £90.00 / $122.84

• £90.00 / $122.84

Series: Law and Practical Reason

• Hart Publishing

Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws

The Regulator and the Class Action in Australia’s Continuous Disclosure Regime

Michael Legg, University of New South Wales, Australia

This book addresses the development and ramifications of public (government regulator) and private enforcement (class actions) in Australia, drawing on original case studies and empirical analysis of securities regulation. It assesses the ramifications of intersecting public and private enforcement on each other, the achievement of the goals of enforcement, and the regulatory process.

The book will appeal to practitioners, regulators and academics across jurisdictions interested in regulatory policy and enforcement, and the operation of regulators and class actions, including their interaction.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 336 pages

PB 9781509956784 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509941513

ePub 9781509941537

ePdf 9781509941520

Islam, Religious Liberty, and Constitutionalism in Europe

Edited by Mark Hill KC, Cardiff University, UK & Lina Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

This edited collection examines the challenges, faced by Muslim practice and Islamic belief within the legal and political framework of Europe.

Its 16 chapters are divided into 4 parts: (I) Constitutional challenges, (II) Religious freedom and other human rights, (III) Supranational and comparative approaches, and (IV) Securitisation and Islamophobia. These parts are preceded by an introductory chapter setting the scene and a concluding chapter seeking to draw robust conclusions and to venture some predictions for the years ahead.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 336 pages

HB 9781509966950 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509966967 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509966974 • £85.50 / $116.09

Hart Publishing

The Making of Constitutional Democracy From Creation to Application of Law

Paolo Sandro, University of Leeds, UK

This book presents a comprehensive analytical account of the distinction between creating and applying law within the context of modern constitutional democracies. It argues that the relevance of such a distinction transcends jurisprudential enquiry and is a crucial component of political theory.

The book casts new light on long-standing issues in constitutional and administrative law, such as the role of discretion in the law-making process and the scope of the separation of powers doctrine.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781509955213

• 416 pages

• £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509905225

ePub 9781509905232 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509905218 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Law and Practical Reason • Hart Publishing

Health Governance After Brexit

Law, Language and Legitimacy

Tamara Hervey & Matthew Wood, both University of Sheffield, UK & Ivanka Antova & Mark L Flear, both Queen’s University, Belfast, 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 October 2023

• US October 2023

HB 9781509951499

• 336 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509951505

ePdf 9781509951512

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Law and Health

• Hart Publishing

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Civil Justice Systems

• Hart Publishing

The International Law of the Sea

Donald R Rothwell, Australian National University, Australia & Tim Stephens, University of Sydney, Australia

This long-awaited new edition gives a contemporary account of the international law of the sea, invaluable to both student and teacher. Replicating the rigour that defined previous editions, it opens with a general overview of the subject, its foundations and guiding principles. It then explores key sectors from navigational rights, military activities at sea, marine resources and fisheries. Reflecting current preoccupations of the field, it has significantly expanded its discussion on climate change and environmental concerns, as well as the strategic role of islands. Put simply, this is a book that no serious student of the subject can be without.

UK August 2023 • US October 2023 • 768 pages

PB 9781509958382 • £49.99 / $67.95

ePub 9781509958399 • £44.99 / $60.74

ePdf 9781509958405 • £44.99 / $60.74

Hart Publishing

Liability for Transboundary Pollution at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law

Guillaume Laganière, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution. In public international law, civil liability treaties promote the implementation of minimum procedural standards in domestic tort law, implicitly relying on private international law. Yet this connection remains poorly understood. This study addresses this by exploring how domestic private international law can reflect international environmental law. It investigates civil liability and identifies preferable rules of civil jurisdiction, foreign judgments and choice of law for environmental damage, drawing on Canadian private international law and European law. Private, public and environmental lawyers will welcome this important work.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 312 pages

PB 9781509951192 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951154

ePub 9781509951161 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951178 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law Hart Publishing

From Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights

Olivier de Frouville, University Paris II, France

This book explores a democratic theory of international law. Characterised by a back-andforth between theory and practice, it explores the question from 2 perspectives: a theoretical level which reflects and criticises the categories, words and concepts through which international law is understood, and a more applied level focussing on ‘cosmopolitan building sites’ or the practical features of the law, such as the role of civil society in international organisations or reform of the UN Security Council. Though written for an academic audience, it will also be of interest to those concerned with how international governance is developing.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 296 pages

PB 9781509955510 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509938520

ePub 9781509938537 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509938544 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: French Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing World English

Studies in International Law

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 August 2023

• US August 2023

• 320 pages

HB 9781509938568 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509938575 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509938582 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Law Hart Publishing

The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council

P M Butchard, Edge Hill University

What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities?

This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security Council. In a persuasive and detailed examination of the legal framework, the author identifies options for coercive measures to be taken beyond the Council that could be used to break the deadlock, including through the General Assembly and regional organisations.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022

PB 9781509968701

• £41.99 / $57.95

• 304 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509930807

ePub 9781509930814 £37.79 / $51.29

ePdf 9781509930821 £37.79 / $51.29

Series: Studies in International Law

• Hart Publishing

Truth and Transitional Justice

Localising the International Legal Framework in Muslim Majority Legal Systems

Alice Panepinto, Queen’s University, Belfast

The Arab uprisings and new and old conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have sparked an interest in transitional justice in Muslim-majority legal systems. This book offers a critical analysis of the relocation of transitional justice from the international paradigm to the legal systems of Muslim-majority societies in light of the inherently pluralistic realities of these contexts. It also investigates synergies between international law and Islamic law. The book will provide a useful reference for scholars, practitioners and policymakers seeking to analyse and design transitional truth-seeking processes in the legal systems of Muslim-majority societies.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 280 pages

PB 9781509957187 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509921263

ePub 9781509921270 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509921287 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Law

• Hart Publishing

Jurisdiction Over Non-EU Defendants

Should the Brussels Ia Regulation be Extended?

Edited by Tobias Lutzi, University of Augsburg, Germany, Ennio Piovesani, University of Turin, Italy & Dora Zgrabljic Rotar, University of Zagreb, Croatia

This book looks at the question of extending the reach of the Brussels Ia Regulation. The Regulation, the centerpiece of the EU framework on civil procedure, is widely recognised as one of the most successful legal instruments on judicial cooperation. This examination looks at its extending to apply to defendants not domiciled in a Member State, asking whether that extension can be justified when compared to the domestic rules of each Member State. It then looks at the question from the EU perspective, the perspective of signatories to the Lugano Convention, and the wider global perspective.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 416 pages

HB 9781509958917 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509958924 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509958931 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Studies in Private International Law Hart Publishing

Studies in Private International Law - Asia

The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Cornerstones, Prospects, Outlook

Edited by Matthias Weller, Moritz Brinkmann & Nina Dethloff, all Rheinische Friedrich WilhelmsUniversität Bonn, Germany & João RibeiroBidaoui, Permanent Bureau, HCCH, The Hague, the Netherlands

This book analyses, comments and further develops on the most important instrument of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH): the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. The HCCH Convention will have a transformative effect on global judicial cooperation in civil matters. This book explores its ‘mechanics’, i.e. the legal cornerstones of the new Convention (Part I), its prospects in leading regions of the world (Part II), and offers an overview and comment on its outlook (Part III). Drawing on contributions from experts, this will become the reference work for law-makers, lawyers and scholars in the field of private international law.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 496 pages

HB 9781509959532 £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509959549 £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509959556 £108.00 / $147.14

Series: Studies in Private International Law • Hart Publishing

Choice of Law and Recognition in Asian Family Law

Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia

Edited

by Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan, Wilson Lui, University of Hong Kong & Kazuaki Nishioka, University of Zurich, Switzerland

This book outlines the general choice of law and recognition rules relating to family matters of 15 Asian jurisdictions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.

The book examines pressing questions testing Asian institutions of private international law and acting as forces for their modernisation, such as child surrogacy, child abduction, the recognition of samesex unions, the recovery of maintenance, and the regulation of intercountry adoption, and proposes ways in which their systems may be reformed.

UK August 2023 • US October 2023

• 448 pages

HB 9781509956340 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781509956357 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781509956364 • £117.00 / $159.29

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

Edited

by Kazuaki Nishioka, University of Zurich, Switzerland

This is a one-stop reference guide on the treatment of foreign law in 15 Asian states, that is, how the courts in Asia deal with the proof of foreign law in court litigation. When a foreign law governs the substantive merits of a case, who bears the burden of proving the contents of relevant foreign law? How do Asian courts ascertain, interpret, and apply a foreign law as the law governing the merits of the case?

The book examines similarities and differences and puts forward suggestions for harmonising differing approaches, especially between Asian common law and civil law states.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 432 pages

HB 9781509956555 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781509956562 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781509956579 • £117.00 / $159.29

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

Paul Beaumont, University of Stirling, UK

Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan & Paul Beaumont, University of Stirling, UK

Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12

Edited by Natalie Mrockova, Aruna Nair & Luke Rostill, all University of Oxford, UK

This book examines a diverse range of topics in property law and uses a wide range of methodological approaches to reflect on a variety of current and emerging themes and important issues that have been overlooked, offering new analysis and insights that will be valuable for property lawyers, academics, and students. The contributors are leading academics and practitioners from several common law jurisdictions, which expands the book’s focus and enhances its value to the reader.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 400 pages

HB 9781509963669 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509963676 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509963683 • £108.00 / $147.14

Series: Modern Studies in Property Law • Hart Publishing

Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 11

Edited by Peter Harris & Dominic de Cogan, both University of Cambridge, UK

This book is a continuation of the prestigious series which is drawn from the papers of the biennial Cambridge Tax Law History Conference. The authors are a rich blend of senior tax professionals from academia, the judiciary, and practice, with representatives from 9 countries.

The theme of the series continues to be investigating current tax policy debates in an historical context (lessons from history). The papers fall within 3 basic themes: (1) UK and Ireland tax, (2) international taxation, and (3) foreign tax systems.

UK September 2023

HB 9781509963263

Inheritance Matters Kinship, Property, Law

Edited by Suzanne Lenon, University of Lethbridge, Canada & Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this book demonstrates how inheritance is, and has always been, about far more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. The contributions range from exploring the intractable tensions underlying family disputes, legal arguments, and political debates about taxation, to revisiting literary plots in the past and presenting a contemporary artistic challenge of heirship. With an introduction that presents a critical mapping of the field of inheritance studies, this fascinating, imaginative, interdisciplinary collection deepens our understanding of the stakes of inheritance law.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 400 pages

HB 9781509964819 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509964826 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509964833 £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

The Power to Tax in Europe

Edited by Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Sweden & Anders Hultqvist, Karlstad University, Sweden

This open access book is the 17th volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series and reflects the series aim to explore the variety of issues and dilemmas that European law faces in specific areas of EU law and policy, as well as overarching questions of EU institutional and constitutional law. In this volume, experts explore the development of the role of Europe and European law in the field of taxation.

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 Studies Network.

• US September 2023

• £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781509963270

• £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781509963287 • £117.00 / $159.29

• 592 pages

Series: Studies in the History of Tax Law • Hart Publishing

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

HB 9781509964017

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509964024 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509964031 • £0.00 / $0.00

• 288 pages

Series: Swedish Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Creating a Person-Centered Library

Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons

Elizabeth A. Wahler, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA & Sarah C. Johnson, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, USA and Cincinatti State, USA

Creating a Person-Centered Library provides a comprehensive overview of various services, programs, and collaborations to help libraries serve high-need patrons as well as strategies for supporting staff working with these individuals.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 •224 pages

HB 9781440880834 • £54.00 / $70.00

Libraries Unlimited

New Standards-Based Lessons for the Busy Elementary School Librarian Science

Joyce Keeling, 12 Ankeny Elementary Community Schools, USA

You're a busy elementary school librarian. Chances are, you need help understanding and applying the new AASL standards in collaboration with science teachers as well as the Next Generation Science Standards. This book helps with both. UK

HB

The School Librarian’s Compass Stories and Reflections to Help You Find Your Way

Rebecca J. Morris, University of Pittsburgh, USA

By working through these cases and the accompanying learning exercises, both pre-service and practicing school librarians will strengthen their readiness, expand their perspectives, and build confidence for solving problems and making informed, thoughtful decisions in their school libraries.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

• 208 pages

HB 9781440879197 • £43.00 / $55.00

Libraries Unlimited

School Libraries and Students with Special Needs

Collaborative Models to Reach All Learners

Karla Bame Collins, Longwood University, USA

Together, librarians and specialists can create experiences to reach all learners in their buildings, including those with special needs. UK

HB

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK

With chapters devoted to central techniques, such as frequency, concordancing, collocation, and keywords, this book provides an overview of how to employ methods from corpus linguistics in order to carry out discourse analysis. Covering different procedures and concepts, it discusses corpus building and annotation, a range of corpus analysis tools, and key debates in the field.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes a new chapter on how to conduct research projects in corpus-based discourse analysis, rewritten chapters on concordancing and collocation, new case studies, coverage of major new tools and a discussion of recently developed techniques.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350083752 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 280 pages • 14 bw illus.

• HB 9781350083745 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350083769 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350083776 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Bloomsbury Discourse • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Edited by Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia, UK, Brian Paltridge, University of Sydney, Australia & Lillian Wong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

An essential one-volume reference to contemporary discourse studies, this handbook offers a rigorous and systematic overview of the field. Fully updated and revised to take account of developments over the last decade, in particular the innovations in digital communication and new media, this second edition features new chapters on the discourse of media, multimedia, social media, politeness, aging, and English as lingua franca, as well as an expanded glossary of terms.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 388 pages

PB 9781350247178 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350156081

ePub 9781350156104 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350156098

• £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds, UK

Extending the Scope of CorpusBased Translation Studies

Edited by Sylviane Granger & Marie-Aude Lefer, both University of Louvain, Belgium

With corpus-based translations studies (CBTS) growing rapidly over recent years, this book offers a timely overview of the field today, presenting fresh perspectives from leading experts in the area. Covering the latest theoretical developments, such as cognitive translatology and constrained communication, and with a strong focus on methodologies, particularly mixed-method approaches, multilingual linguistic annotation and quantitative approaches, this volume highlights the emerging interdisciplinary bridges between CBTS and other areas in linguistics. It also demonstrates the applications of these theories and methods to translation teaching practice, training and technology.

UK August 2023 US August 2023

PB 9781350280052 £28.99 / $39.95

Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain

John Regan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Providing the first investigation of collective meaning and knowledge in the British 18th century, this interdisciplinary study identifies shared communities of meaning by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis in historical corpora. Charting the forces of attraction that exist between words, detailed case studies serve to present how distant reading 18th-century corpora can tell us something new, methodologically defensible and, crucially, interesting, about the most common constructions of word meanings and epistemes in the printed British 18th century.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 272 pages 73 bw illus

• £95.00 / $130.00

HB 9781350360495

ePub 9781350360518 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350360501 • £85.50 / $116.09

Bloomsbury Academic

288 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350143258

ePub 9781350143272

ePdf 9781350143265

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

• Bloomsbury Academic

Theatre Translation Theory and Practice

Massimiliano Morini, University of Urbino, Italy

Arguing that any study of theatrical translation takes either a textual or performative approach, this book explores the history of translation theory through these lenses. Combining theory with practice, the book investigates how traditional theories of translation – from Cicero to the early 20th century – have been applied to theatrical translation. Tracing how textual views of translating for theatre gave way to full-fledged performative theories in parallel to the evolution of translation science into translation studies, this book presents a view of what theatre translation means today, both in theory and in practice.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350199255

• 176 pages • 10 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350195622

ePub 9781350195646 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350195639

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

• Bloomsbury Academic

Alma Poetry in Translation

The Flowers of Evil

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847495747 £9.99

Paris Spleen

Translated by Martin Sorrell, University of Oxford

ISBN: 9781847499035 £9.99

The Testament and Other Poems

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847498991 £9.99

All poetry books in translation are presented in duallanguage editions

Translated by acclaimed translators

Song of Roland

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847498205 £8.99

DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITIONS

Enriched with extensive notes, a critical apparatus, bibliography and an appendix

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847497949 £7.99

Translated by M. Pursglove

ISBN: 9781847498915 £8.99

Inferno: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847493408 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Purgatory: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847496119 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Paradise: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847496478 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Rime: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols and Prof. Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847494627 £10.99

THE COMPLETE POETIC WORKS BY ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

TRANSLATED BY A BOARD OF ACCLAIMED TRANSLATORS

Verse Translation by C.H. Scott and A. Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847494634 £10.99

Verse Translation by Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847492944 £10.99

Lyrics Vol I (1813–17)

ISBN: 9781847497314 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol II (1817–24)

ISBN: 9781847497321 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol III (1824–30)

ISBN: 9781847497338 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol IV ((1829-37))

ISBN: 9781847497345 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Translated by Roger Clarke

ISBN: 9781847494177 £7.99

Translated by Roger Clarke

ISBN: 9781847492968 £9.99

Translated by J.M. Ridland and P.V. Czipott

ISBN: 9781847493316 £14.99

Translated by Stuart Hood

ISBN: 9781847492951 £10.99

Air Conditioning

Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Davis

Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. Yet air conditioning isn’t for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781501377822 • £9.99 / $14.95

• 160 pages

ePub 9781501377839 £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501377846 £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

An Overview

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and encyclopedic introduction to the most important areas of contemporary theory today.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350366169

• 464 pages

• £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350366145 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350366138 • £117.00 / $159.29

Bloomsbury Academic

• 7 bw illus

Ten Lessons in Theory

A New Introduction to Theoretical Writing

Calvin Thomas, Georgia State University, USA

A literary introduction to progressive critical theory, the new edition of Ten Lessons in Theory still engages readers with the premise that 'literary theory' isn't simply academic speculation 'about' literature but fundamentally is literature, after all. The book’s ten lessons still unpack key theoretical axioms, exploring their conditions of possibility and most radical implications. The lessons still elaborate on Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, poststructuralism, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies and queer theory but, with a more urgent emphasis on Afropessimism and other developments in postcolonial Black cultural production, the second edition of Ten Lessons is an anti-racist overhaul of the first.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 368 pages

PB 9781501383946 • £24.99 / $34.95

• HB 9781501383953 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501383960 £26.46 / $31.45

ePdf 9781501383977 £26.46 / $31.45

Bloomsbury Academic

Science Fiction and Narrative Form

David Roberts & Andrew Milner, both Monash University, Australia & Peter Murphy, La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia Establishing science fiction as its own distinct narrative form, this book calls on the works of Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip K. Dick and more to demonstrate how it challenges pervasive perceptions of society presented in the conventional modern novel. Building on Georg Lukács’s criticism of the orthodox novel, this book explores theological/ontological science fiction, future history and epic science to demonstrate the genre's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the wish for a meaningful totality.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781350350748 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350350762 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350350755 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Negotiating Culture

Writings from Mizoram

Margaret L. Pachuau, Mizoram University, India

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempts to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative in Mizoram. From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between nonwestern and western cultures.

UK February 2023

HB 9789356400184

• US February 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356400191

ePdf 9789356400214

• 300 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Literature and Religious Experience

Beyond Belief and Unbelief

Edited by

Matthew J. Smith & Caleb D. Spencer

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by turning to ‘experience’ as a bridge between theory and practice. Intuitively structured, each chapter is centred on a keyword which is explored across historical periods and genres, and related to broad literary contexts.

Contributors including Terry Eagleton and Julia Reinhard Lupton examine the distinct deliverances of experience through writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 312 pages

PB 9781350194021 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350193918

ePub 9781350193932 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350193925 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Advanced Fiction

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Amy E. Weldon, Luther College, USA

A friendly and down-to-earth guide for writers with a basic handle of their craft who are looking to take their skills to the next level, with interactive prompts, exercises and suggestions for further reading. Encouraging writers to think more deeply and systematically about deploying techniques in their work, it offers them a more challenging and enriched experience of writing. Topics covered range from the psychology of writing to practical drafting and notebook-keeping methods, complex craft concepts such as world-building, and moving into the wider literary world.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 336 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350180093 £22.99 / $30.95 HB 9781350180109 £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350180123 £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350180116 £20.69 / $28.34

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Invisible Art of Literary Editing

Bryan Furuness, Butler University, USA & Sarah Layden, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA

A guide to the trade and art of editing, this demystifies the responsibilities of a literary magazine editor in their role, and to the skills necessary to read and transform submissions. Combining a exploration of an editor’s tasks with a behind-the-scenes look at manuscripts in progress, the book rounds up with a test editing section that teaches through exercises strategies and techniques for working on texts. Generous in its insight and access to practicing editors’ annotations and thoughts, the book offers an exclusive look at nonfiction, fiction and poetry pieces as they were submitted, marked-up and then published.

UK March 2023

• US March 2023 • 152 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350296480 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350296473 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350296503 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350296497 • £13.49 / $18.89

Bloomsbury Academic

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded Edition

Critical and Creative Approaches

Jeremy Scott, University of Kent, UK

In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics and linguistics can enrich the craft of creative writing. Focusing on crucial methodological issues that confront the practicing writer, this book introduces writers to key topics from stylistics, provides in-depth analysis of a wide range of writing examples and includes practical exercises to help develop creative writing skills. Thoroughly revised, this second edition more clearly lays out specialist ideas and technical terms within stylistics, and features greater focus on the creative process and more practical exercises to help writers engage with ideas in their work.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 23 bw illus

PB 9781350372955 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350372962 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350372986 • £21.59 / $29.69

ePdf 9781350372979 • £21.59 / $29.69

Series: Approaches to Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

Jack Dann, University of Queensland, Australia

A comprehensive guide to the speculative subgenre of alternate counterfactual fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. It includes: a concise conceptual overview of the field; writing advice on such points as ‘Heinleining’, creating ‘divergent points’, employing paratextual elements and ‘layering’; a line-by-line exploration of an alternative history short story; and a Q&A with the most esteemed counterfactual fiction writers working today such as Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein, who detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350351363

Intersecting Genre A Skills-based Approach to Creative Writing

Jason Olsen, Utah State University, USA

All genres and modes of writing overlap and features in one mode can inform your practice in others. Intersecting Genre holds this idea at its heart, exploring genre relationships with each chapter and focusing on the intersection between forms and what you can learn and the skills you can transfer by combining the wisdom gained from the study of them alongside. Covering fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and dramatic writing, as well as forms that don't neatly fit into any genre silos, this book uses models, critical questions, and writing practice exercises to offer a uniquely holistic method for developing writing skills.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages

PB 9781350288652 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350288645 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350288676 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350288669 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing

Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing follows Richard Sennett’s notion of "making is thinking". Reframing craft as a "material consciousness" rather than formalistic logics and techniques taught by makers that teach, this book restores the virtue of craft for artist-teachers. With research drawn from 25 interviews with artists across material and intellectual boundaries including architecture, painting, dance, music, writing, pottery, textiles, and woodworking, Ben Ristow puts these practitioners in conversation with each other to suggest that craft consciousness is foundational to developing an artistic identity and practice.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 232 pages

• 184 pages

• £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350351387

ePdf 9781350351370

Bloomsbury Academic

• 4 bw illus

• HB 9781350351356

• £15.29 / $21.59

• £15.29 / $21.59

• £50.00 / $68.00

PB 9781350290747

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350120686

ePub 9781350120709 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350120693

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Research in Creative 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 September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350259607 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350259621 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350259614 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Kate de Medeiros, Miami University, USA

A Poetic Language of Ageing

Edited by Olga V. Lehmann & Oddgeir Synnes

Bringing together international scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as cultural psychology, literary studies, theology, sociology, narrative medicine, cultural gerontology and narrative gerontology, this book explores the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of examining questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?'

UK June 2023 • US June 2023

• 232 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350256804 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350256828 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350256811 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life Bloomsbury Academic

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Edited by Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria, Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University, Germany & Matthew Sweney, Palacký University

Olomouc, Czech Republic

This open access book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer’s disease. Taking a comparative, interdisciplinary and gendered approach, it explores representations of Alzheimer’s across a wide range of cultural contexts and examines memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction.

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 ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350237483

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

Edited by Lucy Graham, University of the Western Cape, South Africa & Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee is the most comprehensive available exploration of the depth and range of the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s work.

The book covers a range of topics, including: poetry and essays to major fictional works such as Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels; Coetzee’s sources and influences interdisciplinary perspectives, including gender, race, posthuman and digital humanities perspectives; biographical and archival approaches.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 464 pages

HB 9781350152045 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350152069 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350152052 • £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Edited by Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK, Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria & Raquel Medina

This handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. It examines literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, as well as poetry and drama. It also includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Ageing Studies with examples from film and literature and brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 480 pages 40 b/w images

HB 9781350204331 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350204355 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350204348 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler

Edited by Gregory J. Hampton, Howard University, USA & Kendra R. Parker, Georgia Southern University, USA

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences, this is the most comprehensive available reference Companion to the work of the science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Afrofuturism; Cyborgs and the posthuman; Race and African American history; Gender and sexuality; Religious, Environmental and Disability Studies perspectives; New discoveries from the Butler archives.

• 224 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350230613

ePub 9781350230620 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350230606 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life • Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 312 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350375192 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350079632

ePub 9781350079656 £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781350079649 £135.00 / $183.59

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

The Trouble With Big Data

How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

A Commons Poetics

Raphael Kabo, Independent scholar

Providing fresh readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures.

Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 224 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350288553 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350288577 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350288560 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature

Narrating the War Against Animals

Dominic O'Key

Through close readings of works by W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, this book explores how contemporary authors are rethinking the relations between humans and other animals in an age of mass extinction and mass over-production. It shows how contemporary literature mediates and contests, but also reimagines, the relations between humans and other animals and makes the case that contemporary literature powerfully challenges the fiction of human exceptionalism.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350189676

• 216 pages • 4 b/w illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350189621

ePub 9781350189645 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350189638 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism

Fictions of Celebrity

Carey Mickalites

This book argues that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear McBride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a received modernist canon to claim and monetize its cultural capital in the lucrative market for literary fiction. Mickalites also shows how the corporate conditions of marketing and branding have redefined older models of literary influence and innovation.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350248601

Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Nicola Horsley, Jörg Lehmann, University of Tübingen, Germany & Mike Priddy

This open access book explores the myriad challenges that big data poses to society through the lens of culture, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Using a humanities lens, it focusses on how data intersects with language, sense-making, power, invisibility, and big data aggregation, examines the social impact of data-driven scientific practices and explores how big data is deployed interpreted.

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 Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350239661 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350239623

ePub 9781350239647 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350239630 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Bloomsbury Academic

Peripheralizing DeLillo

Surplus Populations, Capitalist Crisis, and the Novel Thomas Travers, Independent Scholar, UK

Drawing on theories that capital, rather than the bourgeoisie, is the displaced subject of the novel, Thomas Travers investigates DeLillo’s representation of fully commodified social worlds and re-evaluates Marxist accounts of the novel and its philosophy of history. The DeLillo that emerges from this study is no longer an exemplary postmodern writer, but a composer of capitalist epics, a novelist drawn to peripheral zones of accumulation, zones of social death whose surplus populations his fiction strives to re-historicise, if not re-dialecticise as subjects of history.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

PB 9781501378393 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501378430

ePub 9781501378423 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501378416 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 248 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350248564

ePub 9781350248588

ePdf 9781350248571

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Bryan Cheyette & Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species

The Hesitations of an Evolutionist

Richard G. Delisle & James Tierney

Contrary to prevailing contemporary perceptions of Charles Darwin and his work, this book reveals a more nuanced picture, presenting him as a man of his time who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas of evolution. Unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, this book claims, Darwin did his best to come up with a theory that, ultimately, constitutes a fascinating compromise between the old and the new. Rediscovering this other Darwin –and this other side of On the Origin of Species –helps us grasp the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars and their ultimate achievements.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 176 pages 13 bw illus

PB 9781350259768 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350259577

ePub 9781350259591 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350259584 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Edited by Philip Tew, Brunel University, United Kingdom & Glyn White, University of Salford, UK

Written in the shadow of the War and its immediate aftermath, British literature in the 1940s experienced a decisive change with old forms reaching their end point and new modes rising from their ashes. This book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from novels of the Blitz to the rise of new voices, including women writers, Commonwealth writers, queer writers and popular crime novelists. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, George Lamming, Daphne Du Maurier, George Orwell and Sam Selvon.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 368 pages

PB 9781350280618 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350143012

ePub 9781350143029 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350143036 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: The Decades Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Making World English Literature, Late Empire, and English Language Teaching, 1919-39

Michael G. Malouf, George Mason University, USA

Uncovering the role of literature, late imperialism, and the rise of new models of internationalism as integral to the invention of Global English, this book focuses on three key figures from the ‘Vocabulary Control Movement’ – C.K. Ogden, Harold Palmer, and Michael West.

Tracing a neglected history of English, it introduces the theory behind their respective language teaching systems – Basic English, the Palmer Method, and the New Method, and provides a postcolonial analysis of the controversial history of English for scholars across linguistics, ELT and literary studies.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350243897

Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury

The Progress of Intimacy in History

Jesse Wolfe, California State University

Stanislaus, USA

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group’s key thinkers—Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster—understood the intimacies of friends, lovers, spouses, and families as historically unfolding phenomena, this book offers a compelling account of modernism’s legacies in contemporary fiction. Exploring how many of today’s major novelists, such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Rachel Cusk, look to Bloomsbury’s thematic and formal examples when exploring intimacy, this book demonstrates the many ways in which intimacy was a guiding and persistent idea explored by writers across the 20thcentury and up to the present day.

UK July 2024 • US July 2024 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350328860 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350328822

ePub 9781350328846 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350328839 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics A Union of Contraries

Edited by Charlotte Crofts, University of West England, UK & Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England

Representing a shift in Angela Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Carter scholarship. Focusing on the lesser-known collection Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Edmund Gordon’s 2016 biography and Natsumi Ikoma’s translation of Sozo Araki’s Japanese memoirs of Carter, this text offers new insights into the author's pyrotechnic creativity, pays tribute to her incendiary imagination in a reappraisal of her work, and explores the highly constructed artifice present in her writing.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350182868

• 280 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350182721

ePub 9781350182745 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350182738 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Jane Eyre in German Lands

The Import of Romance, 1848–1918

Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the Germanspeaking territories in the late 19th and early 20th century. Engaging with scholarship on the romance novel, she presents an historical case study of the generative power and protean nature of Brontë’s new romance narrative in German translation, adaptation, and imitation as it involved multiple agents, from writers and playwrights to readers, publishers, illustrators, reviewers, editors, adaptors, and translators. Jane Eyre in German Lands unsettles the national paradigm of literary history and makes a case for a fuller and inclusive account of the German literary field.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501382390

• 296 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350243859

ePub 9781350243873

ePdf 9781350243866

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 20 bw illus

• 288 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501382352

ePub 9781501382369

ePdf 9781501382376

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Directions in German Studies

• Bloomsbury Academic

Expeditions to Kafka

Selected Essays

Stanley Corngold, Princeton University, USA

Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka’s work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche’s conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others. Even as Corngold explores Kafka’s work across different fields and tangents, he does so in vivid, readable prose, free of jargon, and with an eye to Kafka’s ongoing relevance to the concerns of his day and ours. Taken together these linked essays reveal Kafka in his astonishing many-sidedness.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 336 pages

PB 9798765100417 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9798765100424 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9798765100431 £20.67 / $24.25

ePdf 9798765100448 £20.67 / $24.25

Bloomsbury Academic

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield A Manuscript Critical Edition

Katherine Mansfield

Edited by Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process.

With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer new critical readings exploring the history of these stories. A detailed descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also included.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 416 pages

HB 9781350096653 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350096660 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350096677 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

Sue Thomas, La Trobe University, Australia

Addressing Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction and how she invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers, this book reveals afresh the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys’s experimental aesthetics. The distinctiveness of her shifting and developing experimental aesthetics over her career, this book argues, may be seen in her practices of composition, residual traces of which are located in her fiction, extant drafts and self-reflexive comment on her writing.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

PB 9781350275799 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350275751

ePub 9781350275775 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350275768 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Edited by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Véronique Pauly, University of Versailles, France

With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad’s works across Europe. Covering reviews and critical discussion, and with some attention to adaptations in other media, these chapters situate Conrad's works in their social and political context. The book also includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad’s reception throughout the continent.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350291492 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781474241083

ePub 9781474241090 £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781474241106

• £135.00 / $183.59

• 560 pages

Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

James Little, Masaryk University, Czech Republic This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translated into French by their author. Including analyses of abandoned archival precursors – the ‘Kilcool’ drafts (1963) and the ‘Petit Odéon’ Fragments (1967–1968) – the book covers a crucial period in Beckett’s playwriting career and offers a comprehensive guide to the history of the three plays, tracking their development from compositional manuscripts through to publication and performance.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 520 pages

PB 9781350269057 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350269040

Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Belgium/Luxembourg/Netherlands)

Posthumorism

The Modernist Affect of Laughter

Frances McDonald

A cogent and stylishly written analysis of the non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism, offering a bold new theory of modernism’s affects.

Presenting a series of case studies into this thoroughly modern (and modernist) gesture of laughter, with particular attention paid to its creative operation, this book explores how various stylists of posthumorist laughter—from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and Hélène Cixous—use it as a tool to unsettle and reconfigure not only the individual human, but also the shapes and forms of humanist discourse.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 192 pages 3 bw illus

PB 9781350264656 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350264618

ePub 9781350264632

ePdf 9781350264625

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Florida State University, USA, Michael F. Miller, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands & Rodrigo Martini, Salem State University, USA

Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human” to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines in today’s increasingly technological world. The contributors engage with the multiplicity of Flusser’s thought as they provide a general analysis of his work— including previously unpublished material from the Flusser archive— engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023 • 368 pages

PB 9781501386367 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501348433

ePub 9781501348440 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501348457

• £97.59 / $117.00

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

The Novel in NineteenthCentury Bengal

Becoming Readers in Colonial India

Sunayani Bhattacharya, Saint Mary’s College of California, USA

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? This book answers by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, Sunayani Bhattacharya provides a rich history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, it engages with lived experiences of colonial modernity and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781501398469 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501398476 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501398483 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures

Edited by Toral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan & Jack Webb

Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, examining published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality.

Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism ‘from below’, and provides fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 480 pages 20 bw illus

HB 9781350261754 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350261778

ePdf 9781350261761

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts

Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps

Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany

Drawing on the ‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to fill to generate narrative sequence, the author analyses the verse novel, a form prolific in the postcolonial world and among marginalized writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two areas in which verse novels show distinction: ‘planetary’ novels in which the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making; and post-national novels in Britain that shift paradigms of imagined communities. These trends in verse novels show an apprehension of living in an unpredictable and dangerous world.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages • 2 bw illus

HB 9781501399503 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501399510 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501399527 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture

Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Rutgers University, USA

This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India. Reading texts as diverse as Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Chetan Bhagat's One Night in a Call Center, Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger, it fleshes out how notions like 'free trade' and 'market value' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by those who occupy the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. It looks at how they are experienced by women differently than by men, as well as the great promise that storytellers hold out in opening up new spaces of freedom and horizons for the self.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 208 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350200814 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350200838 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350200821 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Hindi)

Kazi Nazrul Islam's Journalism

A Critique

Arka Deb, Inscript.me, India

The book aims to resituate Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899 - 1976) in the history of Indian journalism. Celebrated as the national poet of Bangladesh and fondly commemorated in India as the ‘Rebel Poet’, Nazrul is widely known for his poetry and music, although his journalistic writings best express his political philosophy and anti-colonial revolutionary sentiments. The book critically argues and establishes Nazrul’s relevance in today’s society, while offering an archive and translation of his editorials.

UK February 2023

HB 9789356400085

• US February 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356400092

ePdf 9789356400115

• 232 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

• £117.00 / $159.29

• £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works

Olga Michael, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Surveying graphic life narratives about migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, this book investigates how these works can witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and can promote social justice. A nuanced approach that looks at how the graphic form can offer a counterpoint to dehumanizing media narratives, as well as how creatives mediate the stories of those the West perceives as 'other', Michael focuses on gender, childhood and space within works from the US, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Palestine, Syria, Italy, France, the UK, Niger, South Africa, Libya and Sri Lanka.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 15 colour illus

HB 9781350329751

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350329775 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350329768

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Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic

Queer Traversals

Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories

Chris Coffman

Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, it challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in efforts to insist on the continued validity of the binary gender system.

Examining texts as diverse as films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and literary texts such as Paul takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, the book enables a queer and trans- inclusive model of theorizing subjectivity in psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies and cultural studies.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350200043 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350200005

ePub 9781350200029 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350200012 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Gender Commodity

Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA

Gender has become a commodity. Today’s economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social relation made into an alienated object. In an era of radical insecurity, people identify with objects that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. An interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape, Gender Commodity asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 200 pages

PB 9781501388064 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501388026

ePub 9781501388033

ePdf 9781501388040

Bloomsbury Academic

Perspectives on Fantasy

Matthew Sangster, University of Glasgow, UK, Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow, UK & Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA

William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird Possibilities of the Dark

Timothy S. Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA

The first comprehensive study of true Weird innovator William Hope Hodgson's work, this book digs into the stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote. It includes Hodgson’s experiments with code switching and vernacular intervention; his depictions of racial and ethnic differences; gender and sexuality; the function of space and place; the adaptation of his shipboard experiences; the influence of the sea; and his use of abysmal time. Finally, the book recovers Hodgson as the most significant figure to precede the fantastically popular but deeply controversial Lovecraft.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9781350365698 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350365711 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350365704 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature

Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction

of Theology

Taylor Driggers, University of Glasgow, UK Fantasy literature is uniquely positioned to reenvision Christian theology and articulate queer and feminist religious perspectives. Aligning fantasy with Derrida’s theories of deconstruction, Driggers demonstrates through readings of the works of C.S. Lewis, Angela Carter, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s, how fantasy can challenge cis-hetero-patriarchal theology. Engaging with the theories of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Marcella AlthausReid, and Linn Marie Tonstad, this book contends that whilst fantasy cannot save Christianity from itself, it confronts theology with its silenced others to ask how it might be imagined otherwise.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 248 pages

PB 9781350231771 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350231733

ePub 9781350231757 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350231740 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic World English

• £82.70 / $99.00

• £82.70 / $99.00

New Directions in Religion and Literature

Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK & Mark Knight

Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination

Reinventing the Word

Gregory Erickson, The Gallatin School, USA

Exploring heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses Joyce’s work, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as a prism that offers multiple perspectives on how the history of Christian heresy remains a part of how we read, write, and think about bodies, books, language, time, and literature.

Through the work of James Joyce, this book provides new ways of understanding modern literature and literary theory, showing how our modern and ‘secular’ reading practices reflect how we perceive our religious histories.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 240 pages 8 bw illus

PB 9781350212794 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350212756

ePub 9781350212770 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350212763 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Jesus in the Victorian Novel Reimagining Christ

Jessica Ann Hughes, George Fox University, USA

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Reworkings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. Hughes demonstrates how the novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward demonstrate that bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can be a form of authentic faith.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 200 pages

PB 9781350278196 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350278158

ePub 9781350278172 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350278165 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Djuna Barnes and Theology

Melancholy, Body, Theodicy

Zhao Ng

Bringing together modernism, religion and queerness, this is the first book to present Barnes’s original contribution to questions usually monopolised by philosophy and systematic theology.

Ng explores questions including: why has this theological dimension fallen away from later criticism on Barnes? How might the queerness of Barnes’s art and life be implicated in a challenge to theology? And in what way does sexuality feature in Barnes’s trinity of self-avowed commitments: ‘Beauty, art, and religion’?

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350256064

Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature

Lesa Scholl, University of Adelaide, Australia

Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain.

The author confronts the gendering that surrounds this topic by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butlereach engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 168 pages

PB 9781350256552 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350256514

ePub 9781350256538 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350256521 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton

David Parry, University of Exeter, UK

Through an examination of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers, this rhetorical study demonstrates how they deploy appeals to reason and imagination for the purposes of conversion. Examining works from a wide range of preachers and writers, from Perkins and Sibbes to Bunyan and Milton, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion. In so doing, it makes a serious contribution to the fields of literature and religion, the history of rhetoric, and the rhetorical character of theology.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 288 pages • 1 bw illus

PB 9781350280625 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350165144

ePub 9781350165168 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350165151 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature Bloomsbury Academic

Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America

Literary, Religious, and Political Quests for Textual Authority

Jeff Smith, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

In the tumultuous decades before the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. Putting religious and literary studies in conversation, Jeff Smith presents key features of the writings, careers and cultural politics of several prominent figures – such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln – as responses to these 19th-century textual challenges. He ties together key movements and projects to show what was distinctively American about them and what they reveal about the inherent limits of textual authority.

• 216 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 10 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350256026

ePub 9781350256040

ePdf 9781350256033

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

• Bloomsbury Academic

UK September 2023 US September 2023 288 pages 2 bw illus

• £90.00 / $120.00

HB 9781501398957

ePub 9781501398964

ePdf 9781501398971

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War

Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia, Canada

This volume frames William Faulkner's airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, the Second World War and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer into the Cold War era. Placing biographical accounts of Faulkner's time in the Royal Air Force Canada against analysis of such works as Soldiers' Pay (1926), "All the Dead Pilots" (1921), Pylon (1935) and A Fable (1954), the author outlines Faulkner's complex and ambivalent relations to the ideologies of masculine performance and martial heroism in an age dominated by industrialism and military technology.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781501376054 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501356759

ePub 9781501356766 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501356773 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Macedonio Fernández: Between Literature, Philosophy, and the Avant-Garde

Edited by Federico Fridman, University of Michigan, USA

The first book available in English that collects essays by the world’s leading scholars on Macedonio Fernández, one of Jorge Luis Borges’s most important mentors and an enigmatic thinker of the early 20th century. Macedonio's philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and experimental writing laid the foundations for Borges’s own literary matrix. Authors shine new light on Macedonio’s life and theories, providing extensive background and references, as well as English translations of his original texts. This collection seeks to serve as a catalyst for the continued discovery and rediscovery of this Argentine writer.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781501384264 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501384226

ePub 9781501384233 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501384240 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Burroughs Unbound William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing

Edited by S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA

In the 1960s and 1970s, Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers and musicians, who recontextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author’s work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who challenges common assumptions about language, authorship, and the archive in its broadest definition.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 456 pages

PB 9781501381096 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501362187

ePub 9781501362194 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501362200 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Humanism, AntiAuthoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics

Pragmatist Stories of Progress

Ulf Schulenberg, University of Bremen, Germany

The revival of humanism is a multi-layered phenomenon, and this study teases out 3 of those layers: it explains the potential of a pragmatist humanism and the contemporary significance of humanism; it argues that pragmatist humanism is a form of anti-authoritarianism; and it shows the possibility of bringing together humanism and a renewed interest in aesthetic form. Discussing a broad range of authors – from Emerson, Nietzsche, Proust and Dewey to Wittgenstein, Adorno, Jameson and Rorty – this interdisciplinary study illuminates how humanism, pragmatism and anti-authoritarianism are interlinked.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 272 pages

HB 9798765102435 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765102459 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765102466 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University, Sweden

Northern Crossings

Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery

Chatarina Edfeldt, Dalarna University, Erik Falk, Södertörn University, Andreas Hedberg, Uppsala University, Yvonne Lindqvist, Stockholm University, Cecilia Schwartz, Stockholm University & Paul Tenngart, Lund University, Sweden

This open access book uses Swedish literature and publishing to analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature, using quantitative and qualitative methods. Authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501374289

• 304 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501374241

ePub 9781501374258

ePdf 9781501374265

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Series: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures

Edited by Christina Kullberg & David Watson, Uppsala University, Sweden

This open access book presents new critical approaches in the debate on world literature by complicating and developing the notion of the vernacular. In 9 case studies, approaching texts from the long 20th century and from marginal contexts – such as the Francophone Chinese diaspora, multilingual regions in Spain and the Caribbean – the volume offers theoretical and methodological ways of putting the vernacular in practice, demonstrating how vernaculars operate within different literary, critical, cultural and political circumstances.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501374098

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501374050

ePub 9781501374067

ePdf 9781501374074

• 304 pages

• £0.00 / $0.00

• £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Adventure

An Argument for Limits

Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA

What is the meaning of ‘adventure’ as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? What stories are humans telling about wilderness, remote destinations, and the most difficult thoughts thinkable? How are adventures represented in contemporary fiction, film, and other cultural forms? What are the limits of this word, this idea? In Adventure, Christopher Schaberg takes time out of our frenetic times to reflect on these questions and on the human compulsion for adventure – and how we find it, or not.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9798765101469 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9798765101452 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765101476 £14.88 / $17.95

ePdf 9798765101483 £14.88 / $17.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Circumcision on the Couch

The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery

Jordan Osserman, University College London, UK

Male circumcision is a powerful site through which questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality and psyche have been negotiated throughout human history. In recent years, a movement of “intactivists” have fuelled debate internationally around their demand to keep penises “intact.” Whatever its medical consequences, the significance of male circumcision lies in realms beyond the purely organic and into the psychosocial and the fundamental problems therein. Jordan Osserman turns to ancient religious texts and more contemporary work by Lacan, Freud, Derrida, and Phillip Roth to analyze circumcision’s role in desire, one’s sense of belonging and entry into the symbolic order.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages

PB 9781501386381 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501368165

ePub 9781501368172 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368189 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons Bloomsbury Academic

The Strange Loops of Translation

Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of “strange loops,” from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). In this book Douglas Robinson puts Hofstadter’s strange-loops theory into dialogue with a series of definitive theories of translation, in the process showing just how cognitively and affectively complex an activity translation actually is.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

PB 9781501382468 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501382420

ePub 9781501382437

ePdf 9781501382444

Bloomsbury Academic

Authorship, Activism and Celebrity

Art and Action in Global Literature

Edited by Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna, Austria & Ruth Scobie, University of Oxford, UK

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore – through history, criticism and creative interventions – the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781501392337 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501392344 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501392351 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Geschlecht Complex Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology

Edited by Oscar Jansson, Lund University, Sweden & David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

The notion of Geschlecht – denoting gender, genre, kinship, and more – exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the transnational and transdisciplinary structures of contemporary humanities. What happens in the transference from one language, tradition, or form to another? Combining detailed case studies of “category problems” in literature, philosophy, theatre, media, cinema, and performing arts, with excerpts from canonical texts—by field-defining thinkers such as Derrida, Malabou, Nancy, and Irigaray—the volume presents “the Geschlecht complex” as a fulcrum for any interpretive endeavor, as an invaluable mode of thought for the present and inevitable complexities of theorizing in the 21st century.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 368 pages

PB 9781501381966 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501381928

ePub 9781501381935 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501381942 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Language Smugglers

Postlingual Literatures and Translation within the Canadian Context

Arianne Des Rochers, Université de Moncton, Canada

In recent years, many books of fiction and poetry published in so-called Canada, especially by queer, racialized and Indigenous writers, have challenged the structural notions of linguistic autonomy and singularity that underlie not only the formation of the nation-state, but the bulk of Western translation theory and the field of comparative literature. Language Smugglers argues that the postnational cartographies of language found in minoritized Canadian literary works force a radical redefinition of the activity of translation altogether.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501394119

• US September 2023

• £80.00 / $110.00

• 240 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePub 9781501394126

ePdf 9781501394133

• £82.70 / $99.00

• £82.70 / $99.00

Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation

• Bloomsbury Academic

40 years of publishing on the Middle East

In 2023 I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury, is celebrating 40 years of publishing radical, insightful and representative books on the Middle East and the Islamic World. Here are some of our highlights…

All I.B. Tauris books are accessible via www.bloomsbury.com, and through the Bloomsbury Academic sales team.

A History of the Tajiks Iranians of the East Richard Foltz, Concordia University, Canada

In this comprehensive and up-to-date history, spanning the Sogdian to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks. Across eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today. This revised edition includes a new chapter on the Tajiks’ situation in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan since 2018, covering the effects of the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021 and the COVID pandemic in all three countries, as well as border clashes with Kyrgyzstan.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages 16 colour illus

PB 9780755649655 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9780755649648 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9780755649679 • £23.39 / $32.39

ePdf 9780755649662 • £23.39 / $32.39

I.B. Tauris World All Languages (except French)

Love and Poetry in the Middle East

Love and Literature from Antiquity to the Present

Edited by Atef Alshaer

This book analyses love poetry in various ancient and contemporary languages of the Middle East, including Akkadian, ancient Egyptian, Classical and Modern Standard Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, including literary materials that have been discovered and highlighted for the first time. Together, the chapters reflect the discursive evolution of the theme of love, and the sensibilities, styles and techniques used to convey it. They chart the way in which poems in ancient poetry give way to complex and varied reflections of human sentiments in the medieval languages, and on to the modern period which in turn reflects the complexities and nuances of present times. A snapshot of the diverse literary languages and their relationship to the theme of love.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 272 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9780755640980 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755640942

ePub 9780755640966 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755640959 • £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India

James White, University of Oxford, UK

Examines how the movement of authors created Arabic and Persian literary communities, sometimes running in parallel and sometimes intersecting, which linked Iran, India and the Arabian Peninsula in a system of exchange. Delving into a wealth of 17th century literature, James White illuminates how human mobility made the poetry and prose of this period into an interconnected corpus, where writers used cognate forms, imagery and rhetoric to connect with one another across vast distances. The book focuses on six case studies to demonstrate that migration was multidirectional and multilingual, and connects these findings to material philology

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9780755644568 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755644582 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755644575 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature • I.B. Tauris

SOAS Palestine Studies

Series Editors: Dina Matar & Adam Hanieh, both SOAS, University of London, UK

The Folktales of Palestine

Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling

Farah Aboubakr, University of Edinburgh, UK

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9780755650996 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788314268

ePub 9781786725790 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781786735799 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Occupying Habits

Everyday Media as Warfare in IsraelPalestine

Daniel Mann, Kings College London, UK

This book explores the impact that mobile phone cameras and social media have had on Israel’s security regime. Daniel Mann shows that although visual media poses a threat to Israel’s modus operandi in the West Bank and Gaza, it is also paving the way for new modes of surveillance and control that are becoming ubiquitous. By examining photos, film and footage – and identifying the individuals that created them – the book reveals how Israel has expanded its capacity to shape the narrative of the military occupation of the Palestinian territories, and how it delegates the responsibility of image production and distribution to soldiers and civilians. Mann argues that this is a radical remodelling of its modes of governance and a reconfiguration of the stakes of political action, showing the growing function of media shaping warfare.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 192 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9780755646890 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755633906

ePub 9780755633920 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755633913 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies I.B. Tauris

Becoming Pro-Palestinian Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement

Edited by Rosemary Sayigh

Representing activists from over 40 countries, this book brings testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are proPalestinian. A chapter is dedicated to each country and contributors are asked to reveal how they ‘discovered’ Palestine, what specific forms their engagement has taken, and what their hopes are for the international solidarity movement. With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for Palestine.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 384 pages

PB 9780755692095 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780755692088 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9780755692118 • £22.49 / $31.04

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I.B. Tauris

Visual Evidence and the Gaza Flotilla Raid

Extraterritoriality and the Image

Maayan Amir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Here, Maayan Amir explores the lasting political and cultural significance of Israel's storming of Turkish activists' vessels in international waters - the Gaza 'Freedom Flotilla' incident - which resulted in the deaths of 9 participants, and the confiscation of all video recordings by the Israeli authorities. Using the concept of extraterritoriality and the work of theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas, Derek Gregory, Lisa Parks and others, she argues that the seizure of the vessels outside of state jurisdiction and the withholding of much of the video evidence of the incident exemplify the way that visual material has been weaponised in the Israeli state's ongoing domination of Gaza.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 216 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9780755646784 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755627271

ePub 9780755627295 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755627288 • £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

The Fragmentation of Palestine

Identity and Isolation since the Second Intifada

Joshua Rickard, Kumamoto University, Japan

The process of fragmentation has altered the social dynamics of Palestinian society since the second intifada. This book looks at the physical division of communities through long-term military siege, and the ways that communities have adapted to get by despite frequently changing restrictions. Joshua Rickard shows that new forms of isolation and social fragmentation, combined with the uncertainty of everyday life, have come to characterise the existential experience of being Palestinian. The book also examines the possibility for a reformation of social organisation which transcends traditional political discourses and can be seen emerging from Palestinian communities.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 184 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9780755646531

Previously published in HB 9781784535872

ePub 9780755645534

ePdf 9780755645527

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Decolonizing the Study of Palestine Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Edited by Ahmad

H. Sa'di

& Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London, UK Building on the work of Elia Zureik, this book studies the Zionist colonial project and how it has transformed the lives of Palestinians. Across 15 chapters, the book covers topics such as settler colonialism, dispossession, the separation wall, surveillance technologies, Palestinian education, decolonisation methodologies and popular resistance. The book is composed of Palestinian scholars and scholars of Palestinian heritage, allowing indigenous Palestinians to “write back”. The contributors argue that colonialism is not only a political-economic system but also a “mode of life” and consciousness, which has far reaching consequences for both the settlers and the indigenous population.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 320 pages

PB 9780755648351 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780755648344 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9780755648320 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9780755648313 • £22.49 / $31.04

I.B. Tauris

Textbooks on Israel-Palestine The Politics of Education and Knowledge in the West

Seyed Hadi Borhani, University of Tehran, Iran

In this book, Seyed Hadi Borhani has identified the most adopted textbooks on the history of the Israel/ Palestine question in order to understand how the Israel-Palestine conflict is narrated in Western academia. Based on analysis of around 40 of the most important and widely used textbooks that enjoy the highest rate of adoption in western universities, he draws conclusions about pro-Israeli bias in the West and what this can tell us about the nature of western knowledge.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 264 pages

PB 9781350233119 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350233089

ePub 9781350233102 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350233096 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Unsettling Colonialism in our Times • I.B. Tauris

The Kurds in a Changing Middle East

History, Politics and Representation

Edited by Faleh

A. Jabar & Renad Mansour

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9780755651054 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781784539917

ePub 9781786725493 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781786735492 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Kurdish Studies • I.B. Tauris

The East India Company in Persia

Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century

Peter Good, University of Kent, UK

This book explores the lived experience of the East India Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff (British and non-British) living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9780755646265 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350152274

ePub 9781350152281 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350152298 £76.50 / $103.94

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Muslims under Sikh Rule in the Nineteenth Century

Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Religious Tolerance

Robina Yasmin, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Focusing on the socio-economic, political and religious condition of Muslims under Sikh rule in the Punjab during the 19th century, this book demonstrates that Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his successors took a secular approach towards their subjects. Using various archival sources, including the Fakir Khana Family archives and the Punjab Archives, the author argues citizens had freedom to practice their religion, with equal access to employment, education and justice.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 200 pages

PB 9780755640362 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755640324

ePub 9780755640348 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755640331 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Library of Islamic South Asia • I.B. Tauris

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life

The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World

Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

This book reveals that even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge: astrobiology, or the study of life in the universe. Showing how the Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extra-terrestrial life, Jörg Matthias Determann provides a survey of Arabic, Malay, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu texts and films, to show how scientists and artists in and from Muslim-majority countries have been at the forefront of the exciting search. The book will be insightful for anyone looking to explore the science, culture and politics of the Muslim world.

UK May 2023 US May 2023 288 pages 11 bw illus

PB 9780755650361 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755601271

ePub 9780755601301

ePdf 9780755601295

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The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition

Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History to argue that Twelver Shi‘ism is better understood as a discursive tradition. At a conceptual level, this solves the basic problem of how to integrate the extraordinary diversity of Twelver Shi‘ism across time and space into a single historical category without engaging in a normative assessment of its underlying essence. Furthermore, in light of this conception of tradition, the School of Hillah stands out as a seminal period in the archive of Twelver Shi‘ism, though it has seldom been recognized as such in European-language scholarship. Insofar as it gave birth to a conversation that would prove capable of encompassing the dynamism of Twelver Shi‘ism, the School of Hillah should be considered the formative period of Twelver Shi‘i tradition.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9780755639083 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755639106 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755639090 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World I.B. Tauris

The Making of Martyrdom in Modern Twelver Shi’ism

From Protesters and Revolutionaries to Shrine Defenders

Adel Hashemi, McMaster University, Canada

What is the place of martyrdom in Twelver Shi’ism today? In this book Adel Hashemi traces the unexplored area of Shi’i discourse on martyrdom from the 1979 revolution - when the Islamic Republic’s leaders cultivated the culture of martyrdom to topple the Shah’s regime – through to the dramatic shift in understanding of martyrdom in modern times, including the reaction to the Syrian crisis, the war with ISIS and other Salafi groups in the region, and renewed commitment to the defence of shrines.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9780755647156 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755633951

ePub 9780755633975 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755633968 • £76.50 / $103.94

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New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond

Edited by Eid Mohamed, Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, Qatar & Aziz Douai, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

This book investigates the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ quests for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring” uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates, specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors systematically explore and critique these online communities and spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies, largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, among others.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780755640546

• 216 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755640508

ePub 9780755640522

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780755640515

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• £76.50 / $103.94

The Politics of Education in Turkey Islam, Neoliberalism, and Gender

Zühre Emanet

This book offers an in-depth analysis of gender inequality in action in the Turkish schooling system by examining changes in education provision and culture in the years since 2012. It is based on two school ethnographies conducted in an AKP dominated district of Istanbul where the author worked as a teacher and researcher. It asks whether the adoption of global trends in the neo-liberalization of education were co-opted by the AKP and other Islamist movements to promote their own agendas, while also considering the effects of the struggle between rival Islamist groups. Grounding its theoretical approach with empirical evidence of ideology in action, it provides an important analysis of the way in which boys and girls are socialized in Turkey's public schooling system.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 224 pages

HB 9780755636693 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755636716 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755636709 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Contemporary Turkey • I.B. Tauris

Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey

The State, Power, and Big Business

Devrim Adam Yavuz, City University of New York, USA

This book explores the factors that compelled capitalists in Turkey to adopt a more prodemocratic ideology by examining a leading Turkish business lobby (TÜSIAD) which has been pushing for democratic reform since the 1990s, despite representing some of the largest corporation owners in Turkey and having supported the state’s authoritarian tendencies in the past such as the military coup of 1980. Drawing on 70 interviews with members of TÜSIAD, the book reveals that business leaders were willing to break away from the state due to the conflict between their evolving economic needs and power with a political elite and state that were unwilling to cater to their demands. In so doing, the book provides a rich account of business-state relations in Turkey.

UK August 2024 • US August 2024 • 280 pages

PB 9780755649006 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755648962

ePub 9780755648986 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755648979 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Non-Sunni Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire State and Missionary Perceptions of the Alawis

Necati Alkan, University of Bamberg, Germany

This book traces the history of the Alawis, using Ottoman state archives and chronicles from the period to show how the Ottoman government's attitudes to them developed over the course of the 19th century, in which successive regimes sought to bring them into the Sunni mainstream fold for political, imperial and religious reasons. With increasing Western missionary interference in the empire's domains, particularly in 'defence' of its persecuted minorities, Alkan argues that Ottoman attempts to 'civilize' the Alawis continued apace from the Tanzimat period to that of the Young Turks. He compares Ottoman attitudes to Alawis against its treatment of other minorities, including Alevis, Yezidis and Iraqi Shi'a.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9780755644742

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic

Sevgi Adak, Aga Khan University, London, UK In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the high politics of the elite to the implementation of state policies, the book situates the anti-veiling campaigns as a space where the Kemalist reforms were negotiated, compromised and resisted by societal actors. Using previously unpublished archival material, Adak reveals the intricacies of the Kemalist modernisation process and provides a nuanced reading of the gender order established in the early republic by looking at the various ways women responded to the anti-veiling campaigns.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 232 pages

PB 9780755635061 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781784537920

ePub 9780755635047 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755635030 £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

Making the Modern Turkish Citizen

Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era

Özge Baykan Calafato, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Examining the relationship between photography and gender, body and space, as well as materiality and language, this book explores how the production and circulation of vernacular photographs contributed to the making of the modern Turkish citizen in the formative years of the Turkish Republic, when nation-building, secularization and modernization reforms took centre stage. Based on an extensive photographic archive, the book shows that individuals actively reproduced, circulated and negotiated the ideal citizenimage imposed by the Kemalist regime, reflecting not only stateimposed directives but also their class aspirations and other, wider social and cultural developments of the period, from Western fashion trends and movies to the increasing availability of modern consumer items.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 248 pages • 110 colour illus

PB 9780755643318 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755643271

ePub 9780755643295 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755643288 £76.50 / $103.94

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• 248 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755616848

ePub 9780755616862

ePdf 9780755616855

I.B. Tauris

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Representing Modern Istanbul Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu

Enno Maessen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

In this book, Enno Maessen explores the urban history of Beyoglu, Istanbul’s historical cosmopolitan centre via a series of case studies which use previously unexamined archival material to tell the story of its local and international institutions. From the German Teutonia club, to the influential French and British schools which educated many of Turkey’s future elite, the book charts the shifting identities of the residents of the district. These case studies reveal the effects of changing political circumstances, from the rise of nationalism to Turkey’s place in the Cold War, critically examining Beyoglu’s legacy and influence as a cosmopolitan centre.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9780755637508 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755637461

ePub 9780755637485 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755637478 £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States

Networks of Science in the Middle East

Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism. But Jorg Matthias Determann argues here that, despite official prohibition, research on biological evolution has flourished, due in large part to the development of academic and professional networks. This book traces these networks through the history of various branches of biology, including botany, conservation research, ornithology and palaeontology.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw integrated

PB 9780755650354 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781784531560

ePub 9780857729446 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9780857727411 £26.09 / $36.44

I.B. Tauris

Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey Work, Precarity, Survival

Saniye Dedeoglu, Mugla University, Turkey

Through close ethnographic study carried out over three years with nearly 1000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, this book illuminates how the increasing number of incoming Syrians results in the ‘precarisation’ of the workers – particularly women and children. Focusing on the agricultural industry, Saniye Dedeoglu examines the strategies refugees use to manage the confrontations and rivalry existing in Turkey’s agricultural sector. Dedeoglu argues that the commercialization of agricultural production and the increasing use of waged labour blooms antagonistic encounters of different ethnic, cultural and religious groups in rural Turkey.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 184 pages

PB 9780755646548 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755634484

ePub 9780755634507 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755634491 • £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

Kuwait and Al-Sabah

Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State

Rivka Azoulay, Leiden University, Netherlands

Examining the relationship between Kuwait's long-standing tribal politics and the nation's rich oil resources, Rivka Azoulay has written the new definitive political history of Kuwait. The book addresses the divided nature of the ruling local merchant class, the regional context of Kuwait's constitutional bodies, and the forces of globalisation that have forged a new balance of economic power. It is an in-depth study, offering fresh insights to the political design of the oil-rich nation and the ongoing role of tribal networks in shaping its global trajectory.

UK January 2023 US January 2023 280 pages

PB 9780755650989 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781838605056

ePub 9781838605070 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781838605063 • £26.09 / $36.44

I.B. Tauris

Madonna's Erotica

Michael Dango, Beloit College, USA

Erotica is more sentimental than sexual. At a time when sex was deadly, this sentimentality was not kitsch, but a way of sustaining a sexual culture. In this book, Michael Dango shows how Erotica marks an inflection point in multiple narratives. It is the album in which Madonna began more directly addressing her gay audience, at the same time that gay politics was transitioning from a sexual liberation framework to a rights-based framework that would ultimately culminate in same-sex marriage. To tell this story, Dango draws on his own experiences positioned between two generations of gay people—between a generation decimated by AIDS and a generation that grew up assuming they would be able to get married—as well as works of queer theory, which emerged in the academy at the same time as Madonna emerged on the music scene.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501388996 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501389009 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501389016 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic

Body Count's Body Count

Ben Apatoff, Journalist, USA

Years before movements like Black Lives Matter and Afropunk became world-changing political and cultural forces, a band of punk and metal dissidents made a record that confronted white supremacy and police brutality while shattering musical boundaries. Body Count tracks how a team of LA misfits released a musically and thematically defiant album that still sounds revolutionary today. In the 2020s, Body Count is releasing some of their most acclaimed music, playing to large audiences and even winning a Grammy. This is the story of how an underappreciated band overcame powerful adversaries to reshape America’s cultural conversation.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 176 pages

PB 9781501389078 £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501389085 £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501389092 £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

k.d. lang's Ingénue

Joanna McNaney Stein, CUNY, Kingsborough Community College, USA

As both a songwriter and performer, k.d. lang’s interpretations of love, loss, and longing on her 1992 album, Ingénue, earned her critical acclaim and lifelong fans in both the LGBTQ community and beyond. Ingénue is about her experience with unrequited love, and each track gives listeners a chance to bear witness to the artist’s vulnerability just as stardom was about to strike. Beyond k.d.’s sudden embrace by ‘90s pop culture, and the whirlwind of press that went along with coming out, she is an artist that has broken boundaries of both gender and genre.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 152 pages

PB 9781501389191 £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501389207 £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501389214 £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat

Lisa Whittington-Hill, Freelance Writer, Canada

The Go-Go’s were the first all-girl group that wrote their own music and played their own instruments to have a number one album. Their debut album Beauty and the Beat spent six weeks in the number one spot and is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time. It's a ground-breaking album, but the Go-Go’s are often overlooked when we talk about influential female musicians. The Go-Go’s were a feminist band and Beauty and the Beat a call to arms that inspired generations of women. Girls making music on their own terms didn’t start with Courtney Love or Beyonce or Billie Eilish, it started with the Go-Go’s. It started with Beauty and the Beat

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 152 pages

PB 9781501390289 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501390296 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501390302 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic

33 1/3 Europe

Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia

Lila Ellen Gray, Dickinson College, USA

The voice of Amália Rodrigues, the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal’s most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach.

Amália at the Olympia (1957), a recording of her concert at the fabled Olympia Theater in Paris in 1956, issued for multiple markets, from France to Japan, catapulted her into the international limelight. This book unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. In so doing, it examines processes which shaped the internationalization of local popular musics and the making of musical stardom in the 20th century.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501346194 • £18.00 / $22.95

• HB 9781501346200 • £64.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501346217 £17.36 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501346224 £17.36 / $20.65

Series: 33 1/3 Europe Bloomsbury Academic

Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold

John Encarnação, Western Sydney University, Australia

Featuring his signature “The Way I Made You Feel,” Ed Kuepper performs in Honey Steel’s Gold a beguiling blend of song and soundscape, blues and folk. Though often overlooked, Honey Steel’s Gold is a masterpiece of Australian rock. Released in 1991, a time when the independent sphere erupted into the mainstream with Nirvana and, in Australia, Ratcat, it helped to usher in a new era for the record industry. Through penetrating analysis of Kuepper’s music and its context, the book provides crucial insight into Australian music of the late 20th century.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501373343

33 1/3 Oceania

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia & Jon Dale, Independent Scholar, Australia

Chain's Toward the Blues

Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University, China Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam war and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Interesting times: the emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally. In this moment Chain, four regional white boys with jazz cred and blues licks recorded the classic Oz Blues single Black and Blue and its bedrock LP, Toward the Blues. Fifty years later it remains a monument in Australian rock history. Based on interviews, scholarly research and memoir this book tells the story and seeks to capture the magic of the moment. What makes an album really special, in this way?

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501390142 £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781501390135 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501390159 £17.36 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501390166 £17.36 / $20.65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Hilltop Hoods' The Calling

Dianne Rodger, University of Adelaide, Australia

The success of the hip-hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of hip-hop in Australia that launched a formerly ‘underground’ scene into the spotlight. Each chapter closely examines specific tracks from the album, unpacking their sound, structure and lyrics, providing broader discussions of the social context that shaped the production of the album. This is an engaging and informative look at the immediate and longer-term impacts of a musical release so significant that people now use it explain two distinct periods in Australian hip-hop: pre- or post-The Calling

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781501392672 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501392665 • £60.00 / $80.00

• US September 2023 • 144 pages

• £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501373350

ePub 9781501373367 • £17.36 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501373374

• £17.36 / $20.65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

• £60.00 / $80.00

Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia

Hunters & Collectors’ album Human Frailty (1986) is one of the most important Australian albums of the 1980s and '90s. In this book, the collaboration in creating Human Frailty is detailed as a pivotal moment in the group's history and the trajectory of its individual contributors. Jon Stratton studies the album's lyricsmore personal and political than later albums - and its confrontation with traditional Australian masculinity, plus the band's grappling with and positioning of their genre identity as they moved into pub rock, demonstrating how the album transcended the critical categories of its time.

UK April 2023 US April 2023 136 pages

• £16.99 / $22.95

PB 9781501397844

ePub 9781501397868

ePdf 9781501397875

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania

• £60.00 / $80.00

• HB 9781501397851

• £17.36 / $20.65

• £17.36 / $20.65

• Bloomsbury Academic

ePub 9781501392689 • £17.36 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501392696 • £17.36 / $20.65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic

The Dead C’s Clyma est mort

Darren Jorgensen, University of Western Australia, Australia

Leading a second wave of music from Dunedin, New Zealand, The Dead C were an assault against the kind of jangly pop that had made the Dunedin Sound famous during the 1980s. This book uses The Dead C and in particular their album Clyma est mort (1993) to offer insights into the way the best of rock music plays vertigo with our senses, illustrating a sonic picture of freedom and energy. It places the album into the history of independent music in New Zealand, and into an international context of independent labels posting, faxing and phoning each other.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 144 pages

PB 9781501386961 £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781501386954 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501386978

ePdf 9781501386985

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania

• £17.36 / $20.65

• £17.36 / $20.65

• Bloomsbury Academic

Fabian Holt

Diva

Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop

Edited by Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Shara Rambarran, University of Brighton, UK & Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA

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

HB 9781501368257 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501368264 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368271 • £90.15 / $108.00

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 has had over the Beatles throughout their career. The book adopts a musicological and historiographic account to demonstrate the extent to which Liverpool’s colonial history has influenced the Beatles’ music. Beginning with the grand narrative British colonial history pre-Beatles, it moves through the influence on the Beatles teenage years in the 1950s, through their association with Lord Woodbine, the Beatles love of American Rhythm and Blues in the mid-1960s, a discussion of post-colonial British identity to the lasting effect black music has for the Beatles’ legacy and still has on the solo careers of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. Tracing the history from the Slave Trade in 1795 to the nascent Mersey Beat scene in the early 1960s, this book is the first to explore the Beatles from this important cultural lens.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501366949

Rock and Roll Vs. Modern Life

Seth Kim-Cohen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Amidst the societal rubble of the Second World War, a mythical order was restored in the form of tract housing, the 9-to-5 job, and the immaculate framing of the TV screen. But by the late-1960s, the edges had begun to fray. Rock and roll liberated a generation to challenge the borders between inside and out, us and them, might and right. This book tells the story of this cultural confrontation, arguing that rock and roll was not the soundtrack of this turbulence, but its motor. Rock and roll blurred the color line, expanded the generation gap, and amplified calls for new ways of being and thinking. What emerges is a new understanding of the radical shifts in postwar culture in which rock and roll plays a decisive role as cultural critic, agent provocateur, philosopher, teacher, spirit guide, and brat.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9798765101322 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9798765101315 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9798765101308 £20.67 / $24.25

ePdf 9798765101339 £20.67 / $24.25

Bloomsbury Academic

The Beatles and Humour Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play

Edited by Katie Kapurch, Texas State University, USA, Richard Mills, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK & Matthias Heyman, Erasmus Brussels University, Belgium

The Beatles’ shared sense of humour helps explain their appeal during the 1960s and endurance in the following decades. Each member was skilled in irony, sarcasm, wordplay, and other nonsense. Their songs consistently show how the music itself is informed by comedic genres, including parody, satire, surrealism, and observational humour. The Beatles and Humour explores the band’s humour, comedy, and other forms of play in both music and non-musical discourse. Chapters situate the Beatles within the history of British arts, while also considering the diverse components and effects of their output and reception from the 1960s to today.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501379345 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501379383 £90.15 / $108.00

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501366956 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501366963 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 256 pages • 2 bw illus

Media Narratives in Popular Music

Edited by Chris Anderton & Martin James, both Southampton Solent University, UK

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501387715

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 6 images

Previously published in HB 9781501357275

ePub 9781501357282

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501357299 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781501379376 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

Edited by Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia

This is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and a contentious arena of global debate across areas of cultural trade, intellectual property, and mediacultural content. A diverse range of researchers reveals how histories of music policy development continue to inform contemporary policy and industry practice, offering insight into global debates about popular music within broader social, economic, and geopolitical contexts.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 496 pages

PB 9781501389917 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781501345326

ePub 9781501345333

ePdf 9781501345340

• £149.70 / $180.00

• £149.70 / $180.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

• Bloomsbury Academic

Popular Music Autobiography

The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s' Musicians and Their Descendants

Oliver Lovesey, University of British Columbia, Canada

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrityobsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 264 pages

PB 9781501385919 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501355837

ePub 9781501355844 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501355851 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Musical Intimacy

Construction, Connection, and Engagement

Zack Stiegler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA & Todd Campbell, Frederick Community College, USA

Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists’ recordings and performances as “intimate.” Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a massproduced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience. Through detailed analysis of popular music’s composition, performance, production, and promotion, Musical Intimacy examines how intimacy is constructed and perceived in popular music via its affective and technological affordances. From the recording studio to the concert stage, from collective experience to individual listening and perception, this book presents a working understanding of what musical intimacy is.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

HB 9781501372254

• £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781501372261

• £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501372278 £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store A Global History

• 176 pages

Music, City and the Roma under Communism

Anna G. Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Against the backdrop of a complex existence starkly affected by the Communist regime, this book engages with Romani musician Stefan Dymiter (known as Corroro) as the leader of his own street band: unwelcome in the public space by the authorities, merely tolerated by others, but admired by many passers-by and respected by his peer Romani musicians and international music stars. It emphasizes the role of Romani musicians in Krakow in shaping the soundscape of the city while also demonstrating their collective and individual strategies to adapt to the new circumstances via preferred performative techniques, repertoire, and overall lifestyle.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501380853

• 232 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501380815

ePub 9781501380822

ePdf 9781501380839

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Edited

by Gina Arnold, Evergreen State College, USA, John Dougan, Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia & Matthew Worley, University of Reading, UK

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-center the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781501384516 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501384509 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781501384523 • £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501384530 • £22.32 / $26.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited by James Grande & Brian

H. Murray, both 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 September 2023 • US September 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501376375 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781501376382

• £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501376399 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

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

David Bowie and the Art of Music Video

Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand

From the kooky original Space Oddity to the disturbingly sublime Lazarus, this book charts the course of David Bowie’s collaborative process, across five decades of music videos. Revealing Bowie’s playful energy and visionary influence, the book shows how he consistently expanded the possibilities of music video as an art form. By examining Bowie’s collaborative process, his use of performative gesture, and his integration of avant-garde art with popular music and media, the book provides a history of music video in relation to the broader field of audiovisual media and popular music.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781501335921 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781501335143 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501335150 £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501335167 £22.32 / $26.95

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 September 2023

HB 9781501389559

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 October 2023 • US October 2023 • 320 pages

HB 9781501387326 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501387333 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501387340 £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media Bloomsbury Academic

Small Venues

Precarity, Vibrancy, and Live Music

Sam Whiting, University of South Australia

This book focusses on the role of small live music venues as incubators for emerging talent and social hubs for music scene participants. Such venues are grassroots spaces of cultural labor and production that often struggle with issues of financial precarity yet are fundamental to the live music ecology of a city, acting both as platforms for emergent performers and spaces of sociality for local music scenes.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781501379888 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781501379925

• £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501379918 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

• US September 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501389566

ePdf 9781501389573

• 224 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

• Bloomsbury Academic

The Birth of Breaking

Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dancer and scholar Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian offers a detailed look into the African American beginnings of breaking in the Bronx, New York. He draws on untapped archival material, primary interviews, and descriptions of early breaking to bring this buried history to life, with a focus on the early aesthetics of the dance, the institutional settings in which hip-hop was conceived, and the movement’s impact on sociocultural conditions in New York in the 1970s. By featuring the overlooked first-hand accounts of over 50 founding b-boys and b-girls, this book shows how indebted breaking is to African American culture.

UK August 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781501394300 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781501394317 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501394324 £19.02 / $22.45

ePdf 9781501394331 £19.02 / $22.45

Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions • Bloomsbury Academic

Dance Music

A Feminist Account of Ordinary Culture

Tami Gadir, University of Oslo, Norway

Utopian dance floors are the exception, not the rule. Clubbers physically harass other clubbers based on gender and racial prejudices. Booking agents use myths about merit and masculine artistry to justify their under-booking of women, transgender, and nonbinary DJs. And DJ technology corporations contribute to an inequitable labor market by outsourcing their manufacturing to free-trade zones. Grounded in global research, this book argues that dance music—like all culture—is bound up with the realities of everyday life.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 224 pages

PB 9781501346408

• £22.99 / $27.95

• HB 9781501346415

ePub 9781501346422 • £21.50 / $25.15

ePdf 9781501346439 • £21.50 / $25.15

• £72.00 / $90.00

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic

Afrosonic Life

Mark V. Campbell

Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which sonic innovations complement and interrupt the intellectual project of modernity. Music making processes such as dub, turntablism, hip-hop dj techniques and the remix, innovate methods of expressing subjecthoods beyond the dominant language of Western “Man” and the market. These sonic innovations utilize sound as a methodology to institute a rehumanizing subjectivity in which sound dislodges the hierarchical ordering of racial schemas. Afrosonic Innovations is invested in excavating and elaborating the nuanced and novel ways of music making and sound creation found in the African diaspora.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 160 pages

PB 9781501379338 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501379291

ePub 9781501379307 £75.26 / $90.00

ePdf 9781501379314 • £75.26 / $90.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

Anil Çamci, University of Michigan, USA

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music. Structured around a cognitive investigation of electronic music on both practical and conceptual levels, this book addresses the following questions: How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive, and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated? It argues that our experience of electronic music is guided by a cognitive continuum rooted in our everyday experiences.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 216 pages • 19 bw illus and 11 tables

PB 9781501388071 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501357121

ePub 9781501357138 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501357145 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria & Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Afrobeat and the philosophy of blackism that Fela enunciated place him right beside Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, and all the others who champion a black and African mode of being in the world. This book traces the emergence of Fela on the music scene, the cultural and political backgrounds that made Afrobeat possible, and the philosophical elements that not only contributed to the formation of Fela’s blackism, but what constitutes Fela’s philosophical sensibility too.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages

PB 9781501374753 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501374715

ePub 9781501374722

ePdf 9781501374739

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Hearing Maskanda

Musical

Epistemologies in South Africa

Barbara Titus, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Through its focus on maskanda, this book provides insight into how people understand the world and themselves through aural experience and sensitivity. This focus constitutes the book’s main question: how do all those involved in maskanda (performers, audiences, producers, organizers, politicians, and researchers) foreground their aural experiences? In what ways do we musically and performatively adapt and appropriate sounding and stage material that we encounter in our lives and careers? The book examines how we use our voices, bodies and musical instruments to signify, evoke, invoke, present, produce, interpret and comment on the world in which we live.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501377808

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501377761

ePub 9781501377778

ePdf 9781501377785

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

• 280 pages

Radiophilia

Carolyn Birdsall, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

This book introduces the concept of radiophilia as a way to understand the introduction of radio and diverse responses to its new, modern sounds. In treating a diversity of responses and practices around radio, the book engages in debates about media fandom, audience participation, listening attention, sensorybodily engagement, affect, and the public’s emotions. Taking radiophilia as a transnational and dynamic cultural phenomenon across 100 years of radio, the book traces how we have come to listen to, respond to, and use radio sound, from the earliest radio transmissions and broadcast systems through to digital audio formats like podcasting today.

UK September 2023

PB 9781501374968

• US September 2023

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781501374982

ePdf 9781501374999

• 208 pages

• HB 9781501374975

• £22.32 / $26.95

• £22.32 / $26.95

Series: The Study of Sound Bloomsbury Academic

Wild Track

• £55.00 / $75.00

Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong

Seán Street, Bournemouth University, UK

Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It creates an awareness of sound through the tuned attention of the senses, learning from sound texts of the natural world that sought – and seek – to convey the intensity of the sonic moment and fleeting experience.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

HB 9781501397943 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501397950 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501397967 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Listening, Belonging, and Memory

Abigail Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, UK

Listening is giving attention to something, a sound, a story, a person. This book takes this idea of "giving attention" to argue that this process is complicated by who, where and when we listen. Using examples from community media projects, film-making, digital storytelling and creative music practice, it argues that listening might be done with age, in place, in time and as witness. With reflections on how listening may be changed by where we listen, when and who to, it argues for the importance of understanding the crucial role that listening has in contemporary media and sound cultures.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 192 pages

HB 9781501376801 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501376818 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501376825 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Body as Instrument

Performing with Gestural Systems in Live Electronic Music

Mary Mainsbridge, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

Motion tracking technology can aid creativity and inventiveness by translating rich information from subtle facial expressions and muscular activity into sonic and musical processes. Body as Instrument explores how musicians navigate these unique musical environments, appropriating and inventing new instruments and energetic forms of bodily communication. Through a series of case studies exploring current practitioners’ experiences and author-composed works, the book examines the transformational impact of motion sensors on musicians’ physical awareness and abilities, evolving musician and instrument relationships, and distinctions between audience and performer.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 232 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781501369575 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501368547

ePub 9781501368554 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368561 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Sonic Identity at the Margins

Edited

by Joanna Love & Jessie Fillerup,

both University of Richmond, USA

Sonic Identity at the Margins examines the role played by music and sound in articulating the identities of individuals and communities. 17 interdisciplinary scholars, performers, and composers study identity in real and imagined spaces. Their case studies, interviews, and personal essays explore challenging, timely topics, including the legacy of slavery, indigeneity, immigration, colonial expansion, and Confederate monument removal. Heeding recent calls to decolonize music studies, the authors revisit the hegemonic structures and privileged perspectives embedded in creating, performing, and listening to sound, and the methods used to analyze these experiences.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

PB 9781501368820

• 312 pages • 32 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501368783

ePub 9781501368790 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501368806

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

Doing Philosophy Comparatively Foundations, Problems, and Methods of Cross-Cultural Inquiry

Tim Connolly, East Stroudsburg University, USA Doing Philosophy Comparatively introduces students to the main problems, methods, and approaches of comparative philosophy, showing how to make informed cross-cultural judgments through reflection and practice. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this 2nd edition engages students further with philosophies beyond the Anglo-European tradition. It features examples of crosscultural philosophy from a wide range of non-Western traditions, a new section with focused exercises for each chapter, helping students to interact meaningfully with primary texts, updated discussion questions and suggested reading lists.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 312 pages

PB 9781350177543 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350177550 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350177574 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350177567 £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Edited by Marcello Ghilardi, University of Padova, Italy & Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau, China

For anyone interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese aesthetic tradition, this handbook is the place to start. With introductory overviews, critical reflections and contextual analysis, it covers the origins of aesthetics in early China to the role of aesthetics in philosophy today. Introducing various perspectives on traditional arts, including painting, ceramics, calligraphy, poetry, music and theatre, it explores aesthetic traditions such as martial arts, rock gardening, and ritual performance.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350253834 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350129764

ePub 9781350129788 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350129771 • £126.00 / $171.44

Comparative Philosophy and Method

Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities

Edited by Steven Burik, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Robert Smid, Curry College, USA & Ralph Weber, University of Basel, Switzerland

Addressing arguments that comparative philosophy is itself impossible, this collection challenges myopic understandings of comparative method. Featuring scholars from East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America and representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions, chapters present cuttingedge reflections on the latest work in methodology. From the beginnings among the ancient Chinese and Greeks up to present-day proposals for an Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy, every chapter serves as a viable methodological alternative for any philosophical comparativist.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 280 pages

PB 9781350297043 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350155022

ePub 9781350155046 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350155039 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy

A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology

Edited by Yong Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• 20 bw illus

• 416 pages

Series: Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Fundamentalism and Secularization

Mourad Wahba, Ain Shams University, Egypt (Emeritus)

Translated by Robert K. Beshara, Northern New Mexico College, USA

This is the first English translation of Egyptian philosopher, Mourad Wahba's classic text, Fundamentalism and Secularization, which traces the historical origins of fundamentalism and secularization as ideas and practices, in order to theorise their symbiotic relationship, and how it is impacted by global capitalism and, more recently, postmodernism. Including a new preface by translator, Robert K. Beshara, Fundamentalism and Secularism provides invaluable insights into how Middle Eastern philosophies open up new lines of thought in thinking through contemporary crises.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 176 pages

PB 9781350228726 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350228689

ePub 9781350228702

ePdf 9781350228696

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought

Academic

World English

A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging extensively with his work, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection. Including Sosa’s constructive and systematic responses to each scholar’s interpretation of his work, this volume demonstrates the value of cross-cultural dialogue, advancing the field of virtue epistemology and paving the way for further engagement between philosophical traditions.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350265813 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350265776

ePub 9781350265790 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350265783 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Fudan Studies in Encountering Chinese Philosophy Bloomsbury Academic

• Bloomsbury

Faith in Art Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction

Joseph Masheck, Hofstra University, USA

With chapters devoted to artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and El Lissitzky, Faith in Art shows how theology has been an underlying but fundamental determinant of the thinking and practice of some of the most important abstract painters, from the originators down towards the present. It contextualizes religious art within some of the historical moments of the early 20th century (including the Russian revolution and the Stalinist period) and recognizes the appeal of certain themes, such as the Passion of Christ.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages • 27 bw illus

HB 9781350216976 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350216990 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350216983 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Bloomsbury Academic

Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism On the Value of Art

Mojca Kuplen, Central European University, Austria

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of selfknowledge in order to argue that works of art have a unique cognitive value inseparable from their aesthetic value. In revisiting Kant’s account of aesthetic ideas, Kuplen demonstrates how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts and promote self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 208 pages

PB 9781350289550 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350289512 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350289536 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350289529 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

Human Beings and their Images

Imagination, Mimesis, Performativity

Christoph Wulf, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Bringing the image into dialogue with the imagination, mimesis and performativity, Christoph Wulf illuminates the historical, cultural and philosophical aspects of the relationship between images and human beings. He explores the cultural power of the image and shows how images take root in our personal and collective imaginaries to determine how we feel, how we perceive the arts, and how images stimulate our physical actions, from games and dance to rituals and gesture. As such, this book provides a complete anthropological description of the dynamics of the imagination and the imaginary.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350265172

The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments

Critical Themes

Arnold Berleant, Long Island University, USA

Across these essays Arnold Berleant demonstrates how aesthetic values and theory can be used to reappraise our social practices. He tackles issues within the built environment, everyday life and politics, breaking down the dichotomy between the natural and the human. Topics covered include the cultural aesthetics of environment, ecological aesthetics, the aesthetics of violence and the subversion of beauty. Casting new light on social understanding and practice, this collection makes a substantive contribution in identifying central human issues, guided by an understanding of aesthetic experience and appreciation as a powerful tool for social critique.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9781350349322 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350349346 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350349339 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology

Contemporary Readings

Edited by Leszek Sosnowski & Natalia Anna Michna, both Jagiellonian University, Poland

This volume explores the work of Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) with respect to his ontology, epistemology and aesthetics. Leszek Sosnowski and Natalia Anna Michna introduce a team of renowned scholars to present contemporary interpretations on Ingarden’s thought, placing his philosophy in a broader historical and cultural context. In doing so, they offer a cutting edge reflection on the relevance, refinement and depth of Ingarden’s theory. Chapters are not only retrospective, but rather set out the present and future development of philosophical thought inspired by his works.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 192 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350321502 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350321526 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350321519 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350265134

ePub 9781350265158

ePdf 9781350265141

Bloomsbury Academic

• 272 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

World All Languages (except Arabic/Chinese/German/Spanish)

Expanding Philosophy of Religion

Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, USA & J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA

Art, Desire and God Phenomenological Perspectives

Edited by Kevin G. Grove & Taylor J. Nutter, both University of Notre Dame, USA & Christopher C. Rios, Rutgers University Press, USA

Bringing together multiple phenomenological perspectives, this volume explores the significance of art as an expression of the human desire for God. Scholars first draw upon music, sculpture, film and painting to develop ways of expressing diverse philosophical and religious aspects characteristic of the aesthetic experience. The discussion then examines the mystical and the wounded aspects of embodied interface with God. The final part investigates the embodied aesthetic praxis in philosophy of religion and religious studies. With contributions elevating underrepresented voices, Art, Desire and God offers constructive phenomenological bridges across divides of disciplines, aesthetic experiences and embodied actions.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781350327153 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350327177 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion

• 240 pages • 8 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

Mirror of Obedience

The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil

Edited by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, & Philip Wilson, University of East Anglia, UK

This volume collects together Simone Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually encounter. Weil’s literary work clearly mattered to her and she was a thinker who wrote with discipline and spareness and cherished the poetic form for its power to compress language and distill meaning. In these poems and literary writings, we see her own efforts to craft poems as essential expressions of thought, bringing into view another aspect of Weil’s quest for beauty and truth.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9781350250680 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9781350250673 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350250703 £13.49 / $18.89

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World English

Philosophies of Liturgy Explorations of Embodied Religious Practice

Edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA, Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College, USA & Neal DeRoo, The King’s University, Canada

This is the first collection to acknowledge the vital role practice plays in establishing identity in religious life. Emerging and established voices across different philosophical traditions come together to consider public worship from perspectives such as trauma and social ontology, sound and silence, knowledge and hope. The purpose is not to reject what has gone before but to expand the focus of philosophy of religion. This approach widens the field and lays the groundwork for investigations into how beliefs are situated in our theological, moral, and social frameworks.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 368 pages

HB 9781350349223 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350349278 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350349247 £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

East Timor, René Girard and Neocolonial Violence Scapegoating as Australian Policy

Susan Connelly, Sister of St Joseph, Australia

Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of René Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century. She reveals Australia’s mimetic dependence on Indonesia and other nations for security and argues that Australia’s complicity in the Indonesian occupation of East Timor perpetuated the sacrifice of the Timorese people as victims, thus calling into question the traditional Australian values of egalitarianism and fairness. In doing so, this book offers a fresh perspective on Australian and Timorese relations and sheds light on the origins and operations of human violence.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 254 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350285552 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred • Bloomsbury Academic

Classical Theism and Buddhism

Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems

Tyler Dalton McNabb, University of St. Joseph, Macau & Erik Baldwin, University of Notre Dame, USA

What if a Buddhist could also be a Classical Theist?

Challenging existing assumptions about the incompatibility of Buddhism and Classical Theism, this book draws parallels between their metaphysical, ethical and soteriological doctrines and puts forward a synthesis of the two traditions. In doing so, it offers a bold, fresh perspective on the philosophy of religion and reinvigorates philosophical debates between Buddhism and Christianity.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350189171

• 176 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350189133

ePub 9781350189157

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Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe

Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers

Edited by Donato Verardi, University of London, UK Magic is central to Aristotle’s philosophy in this wide-ranging collection of essays that re-frame his natural philosophy. The less than clear-cut distinction between natural philosophy and magic expands the history of modern science and reveals the cultural context of early modern Europe. From late Mediaeval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle, to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350357167

• 12 bw illus

• 240 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350357181

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition • Bloomsbury Academic

Affect as Contamination

Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology

Agnieszka Wolodzko, ArtEZ University of the Arts, the Netherlands

Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko provides an innovative approach to understanding both the porous and visceral nature of our bodies and their endless interrelationships. In doing so, she uncovers new and original ways for thinking about embodiment. Using bioart projects and case studies of various ‘contaminants’ from blood and viruses (including COVID-19) to glitter and plants, this book brings urgency to the notion of affect, not only for bioart that works with risky bodies but also for understanding how to practise our bodies in the age of biotechnological manipulation and governance.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 208 pages • 24 bw illus

HB 9781350333000 £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Kierkegaard and Possibility

Edited by Erin Plunkett, University of Hertfordshire, UK

How does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat possibility as part of the real? Bringing together leading international scholars, this book is an opportunity to see Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology, ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question of our existential relationship to the possible.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781350298989

• 240 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350299009 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies

Edited by Ciara Cremin, University of Auckland, New Zealand

First volume on trans issues and studies to critically use and apply the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Moving beyond the heteropatriarchy currently dominating both progressive and regressive discourse, Ciara Cremin outlines the potential for radical departure from the status quo concerning gender identity, sex, bodies, and politics. In conversation with Deleuze and Guattari’s theories, leading trans theorists and activists contribute chapters on a broad mix of subjects including transecology, corporalities of betweenness, black transversality, toxic masculinity, and transvestism.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350193734

Against New Materialisms

Edited by Benjamin Boysen, Independent Scholar, Denmark & Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark

This is the first collection to offer comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms, including but not limited to: speculative realism, new materialism, objectoriented ontology and actor-network theory. Looking at these theories from a number of interdisciplinary angles – from ontology and phenomenology to epistemology and ecology – this volume examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with the rejection of modernity and the human subject. Bringing together international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the contributors here question the ability of this trend to provide solutions to the current global crises.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781350172876 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350172890 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350172883 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

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 September 2023

• US September 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781350298644 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350298668 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power

Deleuze via Blanchot

Eugene B. Young, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes. In explicating the relationship between these key French theorists, Eugene B. Young provides important new insights for those working in literary and cinematic studies by advancing a new definition of art as that which reverses the realities and truths of power to express obscure ideas and values beyond both our exterior and interior worlds.

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Schizoanalytic Applications

• 208 pages

• Bloomsbury Academic

UK August 2023 US August 2023 344 pages

PB 9781350272408 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350176096

ePub 9781350176119

ePdf 9781350176102

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• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine

A Critique of Truth and Values

Edited by Michael J. McNeal, University of Denver, USA

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the “eternalfeminine” and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. The contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought; his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism; his views on romantic love and marriage; and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. Providing fresh insights into these inter-related subjects, this book highlights the enduring relevance of his thought and its underappreciated potential for re-thinking the bases for and aims of feminism and other emancipatory movements.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9781350345287 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

Adorno’s Rhinoceros Art, Nature, Critique

Edited by Antonia Hofstätter, University of Warwick, UK & Daniel Steuer, Independent Scholar, Austria

Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, ‘So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros’, this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno’s texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought. By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno’s work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this ‘classical’ thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.

UK September 2023

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PB 9781350273177 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350177802

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On Political Impasse

Power, Resistance, and New Forms of Selfhood

Antonio Calcagno, King's University College, Western University, Canada

The new globalised world has produced a shift in how power works: not only is power concentrated in the hands of very few while millions become more oppressed by radical shortages and growing costs, but we also have a new category of political subjectivity in which many find themselves neither rulers nor radically oppressed. Those living the neither/nor of contemporary power live the global impasse.

For those of us stuck and compelled to wait for dominant power to break, this book uncovers possibilities in thought, imagination, and self-appropriation through oikeiosis, that is, making oneself at home in oneself, and constancy.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 224 pages

PB 9781350268517 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350268470

ePub 9781350268494

ePdf 9781350268487

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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 July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781350298187 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350298200 £76.50 / $103.94

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Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy

Edited by Jeffrey Hanson, Harvard University, USA, Brian Harding, Texas Women's University, USA & Michael R. Kelly, University of San Diego, USA

Providing theoretical and applied analyses of Michel Henry’s practical philosophy in light of his guiding idea of Life, this is the first sustained exploration of Henry’s practical thought in anglophone literature, reaffirming his centrality to contemporary continental thought. This book ranges from the tension between his methodological insistence on life as non-intentional and worldly activities to Henry’s engagement with the practical philosophy of intellectuals such as Marx, Freud, and Kandisky to topics of application such as labor, abstract art, education, political liberalism, and spiritual life.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9781350202801 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350202764

ePub 9781350202788 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350202771 • £76.50 / $103.94

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The Formation of the Modern Self Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant

Felix Ó Murchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. As the question of the self came to the forefront of philosophical concern with Modernity, beginning with an appeal to models of the self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism, before continuing to advance, this book explores its trajectory and pursues a number of themes central to the development of Early Modern selfhood, including happiness, grace, passion, faith and reason.

UK July 2023

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PB 9781350245464

• 264 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350245457

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The Posthuman Pandemic

Edited by Saul Newman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK & Tihomir Topuzovski, The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Macedonia

Global pandemics bring into sharp focus the ecological crisis, the bankruptcy of the neoliberal economic paradigm and our dependence upon political forces outside our control. In reaction to the COVID-19 crisis, this volume highlights the urgent need to rethink our anthropocentrism and develop new political models, aesthetic practices and ways of living. Central to these discussions is posthumanism: a philosophy that takes seriously the unstable ecosystems on which we depend and the precarious nature of our long-cherished notion of agency. Bringing together international philosophers, political theorists and media theorists, this volume tackles head on the posthuman challenges confronting us today.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350239104

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ePub 9781350239081 • £76.50 / $103.94

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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, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong

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 October 2023 • US October 2023 • 384 pages

HB 9781350238084 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350238107 • £117.00 / $159.29

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle

Edited by Jan-Erik Jones

For students or researchers looking to better understand Boyle’s contribution to philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle is a comprehensive and invaluable guide. By taking into account the last 30 years of scholarship and pointing towards the next 30, it presents the best of the current research on Boyle's philosophy and significance today. Explaining the connection between his moral theory and his philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology, chapters tackle Boyle’s theological and religious commitments and show why they motivate his philosophical positions and practices.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023

PB 9781350375680

Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg’s Critical Idealism Philosophy, History and Science in the Third Republic

Pietro Terzi, Paris Nanterre University, France

The critical philosophy of Léon Brunschvicg receives a fresh look in the first English-language monograph on his work. Through outlining his defence of neoKantian judgement, historical analysis and the inextricability of the natural and humanist sciences to any rigorous system of philosophy, Terzi situates Brunschvicg’s philosophy alongside his contemporary Henri Bergson, as well as the philosophers he taught and influenced, including Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. This original study reveals Brunschvicg as a philosopher who made his own fundamental contributions to 20th Century French philosophy, with wide-ranging implications for contemporary scholarship.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 352 pages

PB 9781350279575 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment

From Locke to Kant

Edited by Stefanie Buchenau, University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France & Ansgar Lyssy, LMU Munich, Germany

This volume charts the increased preoccupation with the concepts of humankind and mankind during the European Enlightenment and their reconceptualization from merely defining the ‘human species’ to implying certain moral and social ideals of humanity. Chapters investigate the crucial concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Priestley, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Herder, Samuel von Pufendorf, Hume and Kant. Together, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism, with humanity as the overarching principle of reason, morality and freedom.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 304 pages

HB 9781350142930 £85.00 / $115.00

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• 328 pages

• £39.99 / $54.95

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ePdf 9781350029378

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• £135.00 / $183.59

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The Heidegger Dictionary

Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University, USA

What does Heidegger mean by ‘Dasein’? What is Being and Time about? Answering these questions and more, Daniel O. Dahlstrom provides students with all the tools they need to better understand one of the most influential yet complex philosophers of the 20th century. Easy to use and navigate, this new edition is comprised of over 40% new material and is divided into four main parts, covering Heidegger’s life, writings, ideas and innovative terminology, and influences and critical reception. With updated features including summaries of his entire 102-volume Collected Works, this is an essential research companion for all students of Heidegger.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 416 pages

PB 9781350190351 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350190344 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350190375 • £24.29 / $33.74

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Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy Dictionaries Bloomsbury Academic

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition

Moral Arguments about Transplantation

Trevor Stammers, St. Mary's University, UK

Trevor Stammers explores the complex ethical web that constitutes the worldwide exchange of organs and tissues. Key philosophical questions concerning existence, consciousness, death and the right to life connect organ donation and transplantation to real-life case studies exploring difficulties with the 'dead donor rule' for deceased donation, organ donation euthanasia, xenotransplantation and the creation of organoids and 'organs-on-chips', alongside examples of human trafficking and systematic state murder to provide organs. Charting these examples, Stammers provides key material for debates in the philosophy of medicine and medical ethics, and moves the debate on transplant ethics in vital new directions.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350227187

Quine’s Philosophy

An Introduction

Gary Kemp, University of Glasgow, UK

In this updated introduction to Quine’s thought, Gary Kemp examines his seemingly disparate views as a unified whole and offers a valuable guide for anyone approaching Quine for the first time. Informed by current debates and updated throughout, this new edition now includes more references to commentaries, secondary literature and works by Quine and suggestions for further reading. Kemp’s introduction advances our understanding of Quine and attests to his ongoing influence in philosophy of science, logic, language, ontology and epistemology.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350342026 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350342033 £65.00 / $90.00

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Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

Edited by Dan Shaw, Late of Lock Haven University, USA, Kingsley Marshall, Falmouth University, UK & James Rocha, California State University, Fresno, USA Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon. It is a creative, sometimes shocking examination of modern society and the improbable consequences of technological progress. The episodes, typically set in an alternative present or the near future, usually have a dark and satirical twist that provokes intense questioning both of the self and society at large. Drawing upon thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault, this book uncovers how Black Mirror acts as ‘philosophical television’ questioning human morality and humanity’s vulnerability when faced with the inexorable advance of technology.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 224 pages

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350227170

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePdf 9781350227200

Bloomsbury Academic

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £65.00 / $90.00

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The Ethics of Generating Posthumans

Philosophical and Theological Reflections on Bringing New Persons into Existence

Edited by Calum MacKellar, Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, UK & Trevor Stammers, St. Mary's University, UK

Is it possible, ethically speaking, to create posthuman and transhuman persons from a religious perspective? Addressing such pressing ethical questions around post and transhuman creation, this volume considers the philosophical and theological arguments that define and stimulate contemporary debate. The collection’s interdisciplinary approach traverses the philosophical writings of Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, alongside theological considerations from the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 248 pages

PB 9781350216587 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781350216563

ePdf 9781350216556

Bloomsbury Academic World English

• £76.50 / $103.94

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Everyday Poetics Logic, Love, and Ethics

Brett Bourbon, University of Dallas, USA

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell. He argues that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone's lives. Bourbon resurrects these everyday poems to construct an anthropology of form that centers poems as events in our lives. By reclaiming arenas previously ceded to essayists and literary writers, Bourbon reveals the care and attention necessary to uncovering the intimate relationship between poems, life, reading and living.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

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• 200 pages

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry

• Bloomsbury Academic

Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge

Writings of Lewis R. Gordon

Lewis R. Gordon, University of Connecticut, USA

Edited by Rozena Maart, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa & Sayan Dey, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and York University, Canada

Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, and decolonization. Gordon’s expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness, activist thinkers, sexuality, Jimi Hendrix, Black Jewish struggle, and Ubuntu philosophy. Edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey, two decolonial thinkers from South Africa and India, this reader shifts attention away from colonial centres of power, encouraging global dialogue across students, scholars, and activists.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 384 pages

PB 9781350343771 £21.99 / $27.95 HB 9781350343764 £65.00 / $90.00

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Contextualizing Angela Davis

The Agency and Identity of an Icon

Joy James, Williams College, USA

Excavating layers of networks, activists and academics across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis’s birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a surrogate political family, James investigates context in order to better understand the agency and identity of Davis. Her chronology marks key events relevant to Davis, Black communities, and the US, all playing a part in Davis's rise in stature from UC graduate student to the UC Presidential chair some three decades later.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350368637 £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350368651 £22.49 / $31.04

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A Ch’ixi World is Possible

Essays from a Present in Crisis

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, UMSA, Bolivia

Translated by Nicolás Salazar Sutil, University of Leeds, UK

A New World is Possible (Un Mundo Ch’ixi es posible) is an illuminating manifesto by one of the founders of decolonial theory, Silvia Riveria Cusicanqui. It presents an inventive and urgent cartography of diverse worlds around which a decolonial reality can emerge. For Cusicanqui, the concept of ch’ixi is a figure with which to elaborate an argument about the mixing of cultures that come together but retain distinct aspects. This book makes vivid propositions for many contemporary debates around power, race and the decolonial and offers practicable ways to co-exist without sacrificing difference to the globalized capitalist economy and culture.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 176 pages

PB 9781350263895 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350263888 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350263918 • £13.49 / $18.89

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Series: Lines • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Why Delusions Matter

Lisa Bortolotti, University of Birmingham, UK

Delusions can be many things. They can be symptoms of mental health problems, or simply the beliefs that people cling to which are unsupported by evidence. Yet, why do people adopt delusional beliefs and why can they be so reluctant to part with them? Lisa Bortolotti explains what delusions really are and that, despite their negative reputation, they can also play a positive role, such as providing meaning to people’s experiences and strengthening their identities. In a clear and accessible style, she contributes to the growing study of philosophy and the cognitive sciences.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 176 pages

PB 9781350163294 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350163300 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350163324 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350163317 • £17.99 / $24.29

Series: Why Philosophy Matters • Bloomsbury Academic

• 432 pages

HB 9781350368620 £75.00 / $100.00

Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law

Edited by Karolina Prochownik, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany & Stefan Magen,

RuhrUniversität Bochum, Germany

Bringing together legal scholars, psychologists and philosophers, this collection explores the most recent empirical developments in legal philosophy and anticipates future research directions. Chapters address questions such as: do people share a stable set of intuitions about what the law is? What are common perceptions about causation, intentionality and culpability? To what extent can experimental research methods advance theoretical debates in legal philosophy about the nature of law? With fascinating implications for legal philosophy, ethics and moral psychology, this book sets the agenda for the emerging field of experimental jurisprudence.

UK

US June 2023

HB 9781350260160

• 288 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350260184

ePdf 9781350260177

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy Bloomsbury Academic

A Philosophy for Future Generations

The Structure and Dynamics of Transgenerationality

Tiziana Andina, University of Turin, Italy

In this study of the diachronic structure of societies, Tiziana Andina considers the never-ending passage of generations, as each new generation comes to form part of a social fabric and political model that unfolds over the course of history. This model draws attention to what can often be an overlooked problem: new generations must form social and political arrangements designed by the generations that came before them. By confronting the ethics and function of this fundamental relationship, we understand the role of the intergenerational relationship in the formation and endurance of Western democracies.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350229860

• 184 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350229822

ePub 9781350229846 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350229839 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

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 volume gives an insight into the struggles caused by democracy in Africa, whilst also pointing to its accomplishments and the future possibilities for African nations.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 384 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350299238 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350299252 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350299245 • £117.00 / $159.29

Theory in the New Humanities

Posthuman Vulnerability

An Affirmative Ethics

Christine Daigle, Brock University, Canada

A timely dethroning of the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, in this book Daigle highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of morethan-human crises. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability. This book fills a significant theoretical gap - whilst feminism has explored the affirming power of vulnerability, it's been from a very human-centric viewpoint.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 256 pages 3 bw illus

PB 9781350302884 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350302877 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350302907 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350302891 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Vibrant Death

A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning

Nina Lykke, Linköping Univesity, Sweden and Aarhus University, Denmark

Nina Lykke offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. Bringing together Deleuzian philosophy, materialism, posthumanism, poetry, and autobiographical stories, Vibrant Death explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine ”I” contemplating the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. Lykke reflects on her enactment of processes of co-becoming with the phenomenal and material traces of the deceased body, and the new assemblages with which it has merged through death’s material metamorphoses: that is, becoming-ashes through cremation and, when ashes are scattered, becoming-mixed-with-algae-sand.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 304 pages

PB 9781350187825 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350149724

ePub 9781350149748

ePdf 9781350149731

On Bernard Stiegler

Philosopher of Friendship

Edited by Jean-Luc Nancy

Bernard Stiegler invites us to question the relationship between a thinker's life and their thought. For Stiegler, they were inextricable. His life was one focused on friendship, but not friendships at a purely social level but ones that produced philosophy, politics, and existential truths. Bringing together scholars who knew Stiegler, including Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, Divya Dwivedi, and Emily Apter, this volume provides an original, and personal, insight into his life and philosophy. Each piece gives a sense of the wide range of Stiegler’s work and how it affected the praxis of the philosopher in different parts of the world.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 176 pages 20 bw illus

PB 9781350329034 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9781350329027 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350329058 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350329041 • £13.49 / $18.89

Bloomsbury Academic

From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism

Philosophies of Immanence

Edited by Christine Daigle, Brock University, Canada & Terrance H. McDonald, Brock University, Canada

Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies – including Spinoza and Nietzsche – to posthuman theory. Using up-to-date examples from film, literature, and technology, the authors investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics, and social justice.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781350262263 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350262225

ePub 9781350262249 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350262232 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and its Others

Contemporary Legacies of German Idealism

Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, USA & Robert Manzinger, University of Denver, USA

Kantian and Hegelian conceptions of freedom guide this collection of essays that engage with the linguistic turn in continental philosophy to explore contemporary interpretations of freedom. Using a broad approach to the tradition of German Idealism, this volume cultivates and demonstrates the freedom to think and engage philosophy in a critical dialogue with other fields of inquiry. Contributors engage seminal thinkers on freedom including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Debord to address the complex legacy of philosophical freedom across subjects including contemporary media, political patrimonial culture, the literary imagination, and the politics of Nelson Mandela.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781350340091 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350340114 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350340107 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Quine’s Epistemic Norms in Practice

Undogmatic Empiricism

Michael Shepanski, Charles Sturt University, Australia

In this illuminating guide to the criteria of rational theorizing, Michael Shepanski identifies, defends and applies W. V. Quine’s epistemic norms. Parts I and II set out the doctrines of this epistemology, demonstrating their potential for philosophical application. Part III is a case study in which Shepanski develops a theory of the propositional attitudes by the method of formulating inferences to behaviour. Finally, he presents critiques of popular alternative views, including foundationalism, the centrality of knowledge and Quine’s own epistemological naturalism. By reassessing Quine’s normative epistemology, Shepanski advances our understanding of Quine’s philosophy whilst providing a guide for our own theorizing.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9781350304260 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350304284 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350304277 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind

Edited by Robert Vinten, Universidade Nova, Portugal

Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ideas to the cognitive science of religion. By developing and responding to Wittgensteinian objections, chapters explore whether these remarks about psychology and religion undermine the frameworks and practices of cognitive scientists of religion. Contributions not only illuminate psychological experiments, anthropological observations and neurophysical research relevant to understanding religious phenomena, they allow cognitive scientists to either heed or clarify their position in relation to Wittgenstein’s criticisms.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781350329355 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350329379 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350329362 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Straw Man Arguments A Study in Fallacy Theory

Scott Aikin, Vanderbilt University, USA & John Casey, Northeastern Illinois University, USA

Straw Man Arguments is the first book-length study of the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While this figure is commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. A lively, provocative and thorough analysis of the topic, this book will appeal to postgraduates and researchers alike, working in a range of fields including fallacies, rhetoric, argumentation theory and informal logic.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350284708 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350065000

ePub 9781350065024 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350065017 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Knowledge, Number and Reality

Encounters with the Work of Keith Hossack

Edited by Nils Kürbis, University of Lódz, Poland, Bahram Assadian, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Jonathan Nassim, Independent Scholar, UK

This collection celebrates the work of Keith Hossack, who has made outstanding contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. Starting with a focus on our knowledge of abstract entities such as mathematical objects and the source of the necessity of mathematical truths, attention moves to the notion of necessity and its interaction with a priori knowledge. Written by a team of established philosophers and up-and-coming academics, this book represents some of the most vibrant discussions taking place in analytic philosophy today.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

PB 9781350186491 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350186439

ePub 9781350186453

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350186446 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? The Ethics of AI and the Future of Humanity

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London, UK

Delving into the narratives enveloping the development of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on "tech-giants" and the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, this book explains how and why technology aids and abets various forms of extremism, entrenches social hierarchies and discriminatory boundaries and how this will impact international security and human rights in the future.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 176 pages

PB 9781350374454 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781350374461 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350374447 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350374423 • £16.19 / $22.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Back to Black Black Radicalism for the 21st Century

Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University, UK

Back to Black lays out the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. Kehinde Andrews shows how Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency, and force.

Immensely readable and shocking, Andrews traces the true roots of this tradition in this new edition, and connects the dots to today’s struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 360 pages

PB 9780755639137 • £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9780755639144 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9780755639151 £13.49 / $18.89

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain

Richard Norton-Taylor, Journalist

How do you report on the secret world of spies?

Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of intelligence, espionage, spies and their masters in Whitehall. With a reputation inside the Whitehall establishment, and in the outside world alike, for his relentless determination to expose wrongdoing and incompetence, NortonTaylor takes a provocative look at the UK's security and intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Defence. Provocative, and rich in anecdotes, The State of Secrecy is an illuminating account of the author’s experiences investigating this secret world.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350381933

• US September 2023

• £12.99 / $17.95

Previously published in HB 9781788312189

ePub 9781838607425

ePdf 9781838607432

Bloomsbury Academic

• £31.50 / $43.19

• £31.50 / $43.19

Oil Shock

• 352 pages

Living with Precariousness

Edited by Christina Lee, Curtin University, Australia & Susan Leong, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Living with Precariousness explores the lived effects and affects of precariousness through critical dialogue surrounding states of vulnerability, instability and uncertainty that manifest in the current social, economic and political climate worldwide. A range of timely international case studies explore precarious existences – individually, collectively, structurally, as well as through space and the body. These range from the plight of refugees, to the ‘tiny house movement’ as a response to unaffordable housing; from the exploitative practices of modern slavery, to the daily vulnerabilities of living with a chronic disease.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9780755639298 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755639304 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755639311 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy

Edited by

Elisabetta Bini, Giuliano Garavini,

European University

Institute

& Federico Romero, European University Institute in Florence, Italy

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century. This book provides an analysis of the crisis and its global political and economic impact. It features contributions from a range of perspectives and approaches, which examine the origins of what was defined as an 'oil revolution' by the oil-producing countries, as well as the far-reaching effects of the 'shock' on the Cold War and decolonization, on international energy markets and the global economy.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

PB 9781350374157 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 282 pages

Previously published in HB 9781784535568

ePub 9780857729583 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9780857727558 £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

China Incorporated

The Politics of a World Where China is Number One

Kerry Brown, Lau China Institute, King's College

London, UK

Looks beyond tired clichés and inside the Chinese leadership as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West. Exploring China's transition to a dominant superpower, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China’s current situation - its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values which impact the way the West sees China, how China sees the West, and how they both see themselves.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9781350267244 • £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350267251 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350267268 • £18.00 / $25.64

Bloomsbury Academic

Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideational Challenges

Bidyut Chakrabarty

The book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a literary genius and as an innovative ideologue. It draws on the politico-ideological significance of the ideas that the poet upheld. It provides insights on re-conceptualising Tagore’s unique understanding of nationalism. The book is also an effort to see Tagore’s creative texts differently by unearthing the politico-ideological and sociocultural contexts in which they evolved and by re-assessing some of the acceptable ideas relating to them. It rescues Tagore from merely being a literary figure to one who devised an alternative mode of approaching nationalism by creatively amalgamating the Western and Eastern discourses.

UK December 2022

• US March 2023

• 280 pages

HB 9789356400139 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356400146 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356400160 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Georgia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century Challenges for a Small State

Edited by Tracey German, Kornely Kakachia & Stephen F. Jones

This volume examines the resulting geopolitical positioning of Georgia, a pivotal state and lynchpin of the region, illustrating how and why Georgia's foreign policy is 'multi-vectored', facing potential challenges from Russia, internal and external nationalisms, the possible break-up of the European project and EU support and uncertainty over the US commitment to the traditional liberal international order.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9780755645367

India's Military Strategy Countering Pakistan's Challenge

S. Kalyanaraman

The book explores the politics of the India-Pakistan conflict in order to place the study of Indian military strategy in the political sphere. It discusses three main issues that have ensured the persistence of conflict: incompatible national identities, Pakistan’s congenital quest for parity with and compulsion to challenge India, and irreconcilable positions on the Kashmir issue. It argues that India has invariably pursued limited political aims that did not threaten Pakistan’s survival or form of government or regime in power albeit containing a counter-offensive element.

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 300 pages

HB 9789356400030 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356400047 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356400061 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

The War Came To Us Life and Death in Ukraine

Christopher Miller

The inside story of Ukraine's bravery and defiance in the face of Russian aggression, from the conflict's leading journalist.

When President Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, he unleashed a terror that struck at the very heart of Europe and broke the world order that had been in place since the fall of the Soviet Union. This is a story told through the lives of Ukrainians, their fears and struggles. It is Ukraine in all its glory: vast, defiant, resilient, trying to escape the long shadow of its former imperial ruler while fighting to build a new future.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages

HB 9781399406857 £20.00 / $28.00

ePub 9781399406819 • £14.00 / $20.24

ePdf 9781399406826 • £14.00 / $20.24

Bloomsbury Continuum World English

Noncitizen Power Agency and the Politics of Migration

Tendayi Bloom, University of Birmingham, UK

In Noncitizen Power Tendayi Bloom applies her novel politics of ‘noncitizenism’ - those fighting for political recognition either from their state or from the international system as a whole - to real-world policy. Through an analysis of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (adopted in December 2018) Bloom interrogates the power of migrants and civil society in determining the outcome of, and engaging with, global migration governance. As such, this book provides an important contribution to contemporary debates about solidarity, participation, legitimacy and justice in the international system.

• 280 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788313650

ePub 9780755645343 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755645336 £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9780755600199

• 240 pages

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9780755600212

ePdf 9780755600205

Bloomsbury Academic

• 14 bw illus

• HB 9780755600182

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £65.00 / $90.00

Combined Effect Strategy and Influence How Democracies Can Defeat Authoritarians

Thomas A. Drohan, USAF Academy, USA

Offering a competitive strategy to defeat authoritarians' all-domain warfare, this book suggests a new combined effects and influence framework for democracies to employ before deterrence fails.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781440880742

• 256 pages

• £66.00 / $85.00

Series: Praeger Security International • Praeger

Campus Free Speech A Reference Handbook

Lori Cox Han, Chapman University, USA & Jerry Price, Chapman University, USA

This comprehensive one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of affairs concerning free speech issues on college campuses, including fair and impartial representations of conservative and liberal perspectives.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781440879357

• 336 pages

• £50.00 / $65.00

Series: Contemporary World Issues

• ABC-CLIO

Global Terrorism A Reference Handbook

Steven J. Childs, California State University, San Bernardino, USA

Examines the evolution of global terrorism in the United States and beyond, including the people and groups who have perpetuated the worst attacks and the people and agencies working to stop them.

US August 2023 US August 2023 360 pages

HB 9781440878251 £50.00 / $65.00

Series: Contemporary World Issues ABC-CLIO

Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party

Samuel Untermyer and the Jewish AntiNazi Boycott Campaign

Richard A. Hawkins, University of Wolverhampton, UK

In the era of the appeasement of dictators, Samuel Untermyer stands out as a champion of the human rights of not just German Jewry, but of other persecuted communities in Germany such as trade unionists, Roman Catholics and Freemasons. This is the first full biography of Untermyer, a prominent Wall Street lawyer who founded the principles on which Jewish democratic politics still stands today. The first to oppose Hitler, he organised the anti-Nazi league in the early 1930s, and proposed a unique global socialist/ capitalist worldview which still informs American politics today.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 328 pages

PB 9781350278578 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788317405

ePub 9781786726353 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781786736413 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Whiteness In Puerto Rico

Translation at a Loss

Guillermo Rebollo Gil, Ana G. Méndez University, USA

This examines the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico, using the study of American racism to inform analysis of Puerto Rican racism and the two culturally distinct, yet intrinsically linked, spaces. Taking examples from the work of Puerto Rican activists, writers and artists, Rebollo-Gil documents the ways in which whiteness shapes and informs Puerto Rican cultural producers while simultaneously being challenged by them. Cross-disciplinary in approach, Whiteness in Puerto Rico speaks to the present political moment in a country marked by austerity, disaster capitalism and protest.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9780755635504

• 192 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755635511

ePdf 9780755635528

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

The Psychology of Inequity

Social Actions and Movements

Edited by Yolanda E. Garcia, Northern Arizona University, USA, Arthur W. Blume, Washington State University Vancouver, USA & Jean Lau Chin, late of Adelphi University, USA

This volume shares innovative methods to treat inequities. Many of these utilize the strengths of culturally grounded approaches to care, including radical healing, training young people of color in civic engagement, and embracing the power of spirituality and creativity.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781440879036 £58.00 / $75.00

Copycat Crime

How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Inspire Criminal Behavior and Violence

Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Seattle University, USA

Details the new phenomena of copycat crime inspired by technology and the hyperreality fueled in some people by digital culture and video games.

• 288 pages

Series: Race and Ethnicity in Psychology Praeger

When Religion and Morals Become OCD

Understanding and Treating Scrupulosity

Leslie J. Shapiro, OCD Institute at McLean Hospital, USA

This essential resource brings recognition to scrupulosity and moral perfectionism, an often overlooked and misunderstood subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 248 pages

HB 9781440872549 •£50.00 / $65.00

Praeger

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781440864209

Praeger

Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

• 368 pages

• £50.00 / $65.00

Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont, USA, Donald Wiebe, University of Toronto, Canada, Radek Kundt, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic & Dimitris Xygalatas

A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion

“Why God Thinks Like You"

Luke Galen, Grand Valley State University, USA

An exploration of how psychological mechanisms produce intuitions, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that are misattributed as being unique outcomes of religious or spiritual influences. Written from a social psychology perspective, it proposes that religious and spiritual content represent one possible interpretation of the output of processes that also produce and govern nonreligious content.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

HB 9781350293908

• 272 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350293922 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350293915 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation Bloomsbury Academic

Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion

Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures

E. Thomas Lawson, Western Michigan University, USA

This volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories. Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of religion," Thomas Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350355873

• US September 2023 • 208 pages

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350355897

ePdf 9781350355880

• HB 9781350355866 • £65.00 / $90.00

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Edited by Christopher Partridge, University of Lancaster, UK & Marcus Moberg, Abo Akademi University, Finland

The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology and sociology. It comprises 33 updated essays, a replacement of one of the chapters (on Buddhism), and six new chapters. The Handbook continues to provide a guide to methodology, key genres, popular music subcultures, as well as an extensive updated bibliography. It remains the essential tool for anyone with an interest in popular culture generally and religion and popular music in particular.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350286979

• 512 pages

• £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350286993

ePdf 9781350286986

• £126.00 / $171.44

• £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Chloe K. Gott, Independent scholar, UK

Grounded in qualitative analysis, this book is structured around the voices and words of survivors themselves. With a strong focus on how the experience of being incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry impacted on the gendered religious selves of the women, it tracks the process of entering, working in, and leaving a laundry, explored through the lens of epistemic injustice.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 248 pages

PB 9781350254466 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350254428

ePub 9781350254442 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350254435 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

• Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures

Ben Ammi Ben Israel Black Theology, Theodicy and Judaism in the Thought of the African Hebrew Israelite Messiah

Michael T. Miller, Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Poland

This text introduces Ben Ammi, the leader and theologian of the African Hebrew Israelite community, as a systematic thinker and theologian. It examines his many books and speeches in order to provide a comprehensive introduction to his thought in the context of both African American and Jewish contemporaries and precursors. Divided into three thematic sections, History, Law, and Language, the text introduces Ben Ammi’s understanding of the nature of God, the responsibilities of the human, and the narrative of history.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages

HB 9781350295131 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350295155 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350295148 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis

Handsworth Revolutions

Robert Beckford, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Robert Beckford shows how the Black British gospel music tradition has been in crisis since it became distanced from the 'roots' of the gospel in the US that influenced it. The book develops a revolutionary gospel music genre or ‘social gospel’, in two stages. The first stage is a reshaping and retooling of the theological and theo-musicological structures of contemporary gospel music, based on a socio-political reading of Black British music production. The second stage is a practical guide, a theomusicological reflection on the production of the author’s album: Jamaican Bible Remix.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781350081734 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350081765 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350081758 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

The New Apostolic Reformation, Trump, and Evangelical Politics

The Prophecy Voter

Damon T. Berry, St. Lawrence University, USA

Damon T. Berry examines how leaders within the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a charismatically inclined Evangelical movement, claim their support for Trump came from alleged prophetic visions that compelled them to defend Trump’s candidacy. Working from primary source materials produced by leading figures among the NAR, Berry argues that this conspiratorial discourse is central to NAR support for Trump’s candidacy, presidency, and re-election effort, and that this discourse has come to shape some of the most important debates among American religious conservatives in the 21st century.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350179431

• 10 bw illus

• 224 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350179455

ePdf 9781350179448

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems

Sacred Words and Holy Realms

Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), Toyin Falola shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. The book evaluates how religious leaders engage with sacred words (both orals and texts), engendering practices that reveal the expression of religious beliefs, the impact of those beliefs, and the knowledge contained in them.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781350271982 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271944

ePub 9781350271968 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350271951 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, USA & Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University, USA

The Bloomsbury Handbook of

Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

Edited by Nicola Laneri, University of Catania, Italy & Sharon R. Steadman, SUNY Cortland, USA

An essential survey of material religion in the ancient Near East and Egypt. This volume contains 29 contributions spanning from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion, and editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious architecture; the written words; sacred images; the spirituality of animals; and the sacred role of the landscape. Illustrated with over 100 images, chapters provide insight into every element of religion and materiality, from the largest building to the smallest amulet.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 544 pages 106 bw illus

HB 9781350280816 £170.00 / $230.00

ePub 9781350280830 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9781350280823 • £153.00 / $207.89

Bloomsbury Academic

Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity

Essays in honor of Joel Carpenter

Edited by Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA & Aminta Arrington, John Brown University, USA

A multi-disciplinary contribution to the field of World Christianity, these essays in honor of Joel Carpenter’s work aim to provoke a reorientation of the hegemony of Christian thought in the North Atlantic region by providing a deeper understanding of world Christianity in the global South and East. Focusing on the themes of interconnectivity, subversion, and healing across a large geographical contextual area, the authors provide a rich overview of the field of World Christianity.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350333390

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350333413

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350333406 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Contemporary British Mosque

The Establishment of Muslim Congregations and Institutions

Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Cardiff University, UK

Details the establishment of early mosques in Britain during the era of Empire, and the more rapid growth in the years following the Second World War. AbdulAzim Ahmed answers the question of what a mosque does, and what role it has for Muslims and the wider society. The case of the Muslim congregation, a poorly understood and often overlooked dimension of religion in Britain, is detailed, and through the congregation, issues of diversity, denomination, sacredness, and society are explored. Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this volume provides new insights on key contemporary debates.

UK November 2023

HB 9781350258976

Situating Josephus’ Life within Ancient Autobiography

Genre in Context

Davina Grojnowski, independent scholar, Germany

Through a methodological examination of Life – the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus – this volume explores the literary boundaries of autobiography in antiquity and illustrates Josephus’ thought-process during the composition of his writings.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 240 pages

HB 9781350320161 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350320185 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350320178 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World • Bloomsbury Academic

The History of Jews and Judaism

Facts and Fictions

Alan T. Levenson, University of Oklahoma, USA No group arguably has been the subject of more fictitious imaginings than Jewish people. This book examines historical misconceptions related to Jews, Judaism, and the facts behind the myths.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781440864087

• 248 pages

• £50.00 / $65.00

Series: Historical Facts and Fictions

• ABC-CLIO

The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory

Ancient Myths and Modern Empire

David Weiss, Kyushu University, Japan

Discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. It situates Susanoo in Japan’s cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in order to meet the religious and ideological needs of the day, continued to symbolize the margin of Japan.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 256 pages

PB 9781350271210 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271180

ePub 9781350271203 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350271197 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies

• Bloomsbury Academic

• US November 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350258990

ePdf 9781350258983

• 256 pages • 10 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Islam of the Global West

• Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

Series Editors: Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK, John Eade, University of Roehampton, London, UK & Katy Soar, University of Winchester, UK

Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland

David Garbin, University of Kent, UK

This book takes as a case study the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US to explore the making of religious spaces and transnational networks in an era of globalization. Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, David Garbin analyses the social meaning of the religious presence and territorialization for Congolese migrants. He examines how migrants have had to address the predicaments of displacement, relocation and the status of being ‘a minority within a minority’ as Francophone black African migrants in English-speaking countries.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781474283373 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781474283366 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781474283359 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Rudolf Otto and the Foundation of the History of Religions

Yoshitsugu Sawai, Tenri University, Japan

Provides an up-to-date systematic treatment of Rudolf Otto’s work, placing him in the context of comparative religion, theology, and the philosophy of religion. The book shows how Otto has ‘three faces’: the Lutheran Theologian, the Philosopher of Religion, and the Comparative Religionist. It also provides an account of Otto’s engagement with India and the centrality that Hindu theology had on his thinking.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350259478 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350259447

ePub 9781350259430 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350259454 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions

Theory and Practice

James L. Cox, University of Edinburgh, UK

Compiles James L. Cox’s most important writings on a phenomenology of indigenous religions into one volume, featuring a new introduction and conclusion by the author. Included in this collection are articles in which he defines what he means by the category ‘religion’ and how this informs his precise meaning of the classification ‘indigenous religions’. The volume demonstrates the continued relevance of the phenomenological method in the study of religions, by presenting the method as dynamic and adaptable to contemporary social contexts and as responsive to intellectual critiques of the method.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350250765

Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands

Affect and Absence

Priya Swamy, National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memorialize feelings of shame, oppression and marginalization. The book focuses on the absence of temples across the global Hindu diaspora, taking the tumultuous narrative of the Devi Dhaam community in Amsterdam Southeast as an ethnographic case study to detail over 30 years of struggle to build a Hindu temple in a neighbourhood of vibrant mosques and churches.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9781350079069 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350079083 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350079076

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

The End(s) of Religion

A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant

Eric Bain-Selbo, Indiana University Kokomo, USA

Eric Bain-Selbo argues that the study of religion has separated out the “ends” or goals of religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western culture. He argues that while there is ample evidence that institutional religion is in trouble, religion continues to meet certain fundamental human needs, showing how other institutions or forms of culture can function to serve these same needs or “ends.”

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350287761 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350045255

ePub 9781350045279 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350045262 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy

Discursive Construction of New Turkey's Identity

Filiz Coban Oran, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey

Provides a critical discussion on how different discourses of nationalism in the Turkish media construct contested concepts of New Turkey’s identity. Using a discourse-historical approach, the book argues that not only has the Muslim nationalism of The Justice and Development Party (AKP) reconstructed new Turkish foreign policy, but also new Turkish foreign policy discourse has reinforced Muslim nationalism.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350270923

• 10 bw illus

• 272 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350250727

ePub 9781350250741

ePdf 9781350250734

Theory & Method

• 192 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350270886

ePub 9781350270909

ePdf 9781350270893

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies

• Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Bloomsbury Academic

The Covid Pandemic and the World’s Religions

Challenges and Responses

Edited by George D. Chryssides, York St John University, UK & Dan Cohn-Sherbok, University of Wales, UK

Believers from a variety of faith communities assess how the Covid pandemic has affected their faith. How does your faith explain why such events occur? What changes has it necessitated?

What have we learned from it?

Two exponents of each major religion and a number of minority faiths comment on these issues, combined with a concluding essay by the editors assessing the overall impact of the pandemic on religion worldwide. Faiths explored include Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Sikh Baha’I, Jain, African Traditional Religion, Zoroastrian, Unitarian, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Science.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350349636

• 256 pages

• HB 9781350349643

• £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350349667 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350349650 • £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

• £65.00 / $90.00

Religion in the Classroom

Exploring the Issues

Jonathan M. Golden, Drew University, USA & Joseph J. McCallister, Northern Valley Regional High School, USA

An overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography make this book an indispensable resource for anyone interested in religion's place in school and in matters concerning the separation of church and state.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023

• 216 pages

HB 9781440872761 • £34.00 / $44.00

Series: Religion in Politics and Society Today • ABC-CLIO

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Your Questions Answered

Paul Quinn, Dominican University, USA

This book answers readers' most pressing questions about complementary and alternative medicine, highlighting a variety of popular modalities and exploring their history and principles, supposed benefits, and potential risks.

UK September 2023

HB 9781440879784

Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts

Anthropological Perspectives on the Sacred and Psychology in Film and Television

Louise Child, Cardiff University, UK

Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media's fascination with dreams, pagan gods and goddesses, vampires, and spirits. The book does so in the light of anthropological studies of societies in which human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. As well as drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts also uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 208 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350087101 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350087125 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350087118 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Qualitative Interviewing Research Methods

Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton & Janet Holland, London South Bank University This book is a guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice. This new edition includes: recent developments in the radical critique of interviews debate; the strategic shift to online interviewing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and discussion of the decolonization of methodology and research. The authors explore the use of new technologies and the changing landscape for qualitative interviewing as well as tackling enduring issues around asking and listening and power dynamics in research.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781350275126 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350275133 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350275140 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350275157 • £16.19 / $22.94

Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods • Bloomsbury Academic

Healthy Sleep

Your Questions Answered

John T. Peachey & Diane C. Zelman, California School of Professional Psychology, USA

We all know how important sleep is, but many of us-especially busy teens-struggle to consistently get enough high-quality sleep. This book answers young readers' questions about sleep and offers practical guidance for getting a better night's rest.

US September 2023

• US September 2023 • 144 pages

• US September 2023

• £31.00 / $40.00

• Greenwood

Series: Q&A Health Guides

• 144 pages

HB 9781440878855

• £35.00 / $45.00

Series: Q&A Health Guides • Greenwood

Sensing the Spirit Toward the Future of Religious Life

Judith A. Merkle SNDdeN, Niagara University, USA

Drawing on the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, this book examines how secular culture affects the living of the Christian discipleship today and impacts how religious congregations engage in their own renewal and future. Judith Merkle examines a renewed meaning of religious life in secular life and the gift it offers and receives from every culture in which it is embedded.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages

PB 9780567706997 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9780567707000 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9780567707017 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9780567707024 • £15.29 / $21.59

T&T Clark

Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice

Kevin Duffy, The Church of Notre Dame de France, UK

Kevin Duffy suggests that we rebalance a spiritual symbolism that has over-emphasised darkness and cloud at the expense of light and sun. He proposes a creative retrieval of the traditional title of Christ as the Sun of Justice. This book blends the personal, the social and the cosmic-ecological, speaking powerfully to a secularising era that contemporaries Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux both described as one where 'the sun does not shine'.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 192 pages

PB 9780567701756 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567700100

ePub 9780567700124 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567700117 £76.50 / $103.94

T&T Clark

Concentrated Creation Creation and Salvation in the Christology of Edward Schillebeeckx

Rhona Lewis, Rhona Lewis, Independent Scholar, UK

In this analysis of the Thomist and Irenaean sources of Edward Schillebeeckx’s creation faith, God’s absolute saving presence to humanity is found to be intrinsic to his creative action. This becomes most explicit in God’s humanity in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lewis argues that Jesus is both God’s invitation to humanity and is himself the perfect human response to God. Because of this, Jesus' followers are called to be engaged in God’s saving action, by working to remove suffering from people and to build a better world in which all may flourish.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 248 pages

HB 9780567708892 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567708939 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567708908 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx • T&T Clark

Bonhoeffer and Christology Revisiting Chalcedon

Edited by Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton & Christian Schlenker

The volume takes a fresh look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christology and brings it into a fruitful dialogue with current Christological debates. The key question this volume addresses is 'how does Bonhoeffer's thought help to re(dis)cover the doctrine of Christ's two natures and one person and understand and renew it in its significance for a modern post-metaphysical and secular world?’

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 296 pages

HB 9780567708410 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567708458 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567708427 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology

Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir & Hilda P. Koster, University of St Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada

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 September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9780567706089 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567706119 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567706096 £76.50 / $103.94

• 176 pages

Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology

• T&T Clark

Climate Change and the Symbol Deficit in the Christian Tradition Expanding Gendered Sources

Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway

Henriksen examines the potential of the Christian tradition to develop symbols that can engage peoples in committed and sustained action to prevent further climate crisis. To do so, he argues that we need to develop symbols that engage both intellectually and emotionally, and which enhance our perception of belonging in relationships with other humans, both in the present and in the future.

UK August 2023

US August 2023 280 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9780567705013

Previously published in HB 9780567704962

ePub 9780567705006

ePdf 9780567704979

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology

• T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil

Edited by Matthias Grebe & Johannes Grössl, Siegen University, Germany

The T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil provides an extensive exploration of the theology of theodicy, asking questions such as should all instances of suffering necessarily be understood as evil? Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God allow or perpetrate evil? Is God unable or unwilling to reduce human and non-human suffering on Earth? Does humanity have the capacity to exercise a moral evaluation of God’s motives and intentions?

UK August 2023 US August 2023 688 pages

HB 9780567682437 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9780567682451 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567682444 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

Proverbs: An Introduction and Study Guide

Wisdom Calls

Zoltán Schwáb

This study guide introduces students to the Book of Proverbs from the Old Testament. Zoltán Schwáb examines the book’s structure and characteristics; covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues; and considers a range of scholarly approaches including as feminist, black and disability theory.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350187863

• 144 pages

• HB 9781350187870

• £17.99 / $24.95

ePub 9781350187887

ePdf 9781350187894

• £16.19 / $22.94

• £16.19 / $22.94

Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament

• £55.00 / $75.00

• T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Food in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel

Edited by Janling Fu, Harvard University, USA, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Baylor University, USA & Carol Meyers, Duke University, USA

This handbook draws on a multitude of disciplines, regions, and time periods to provide an overview of the study of food in the ancient context of the Bible. The contributors examine not only the textual materials of the Hebrew Bible and related epigraphic works, but also engage in a wider archaeological, environmental, and historical understanding of ancient Israel as it pertains to food.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 640 pages • 39 bw illus

PB 9780567702913 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9780567679796

ePub 9780567679802 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567679819 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Laura Quick, Princeton University, USA & Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA

Unity in the Book of Isaiah

Edited by Benedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy and Hekima College, Kenya and University of Pretoria, South Africa & Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Santa Clara, USA

Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that points to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity. Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections, examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or readerorientated readings of the Book of Isaiah.

UK October 2023 US October 2023 288 pages

HB 9780567705938 £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567705945 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges

Edited by Keith Bodner, Crandall University, Canada & Benjamin J.M. Johnson, LeTourneau University, USA

How does our assessment of the characters of a story shape the way we read it? By analyzing the complex characterization in the Book of Judges, this book pays attention to an often neglected but important area of study in the Hebrew Bible. Its international group of contributors explore the implications of characterization on storytelling, situating their contributions within the context of literary studies of the Hebrew Bible, and offering multiple perspectives on the many and various characters one encounters in the Book of Judges.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 272 pages

HB 9780567700506 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567700513

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

On Femininities in the Song of Songs

and

Beyond

“The Most Beautiful Woman”

Vita Daphna Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada

Introduces new perspectives to gender and feminist studies of the Song of Songs, offering an alternative reading of the multilayered conceptualization of its feminine protagonist, “the most beautiful woman”. Vita Daphna Arbel situates this representation within the cultural-discursive contexts in which the Song partly emerged, and considers the manner in which it disrupts rigid, ahistorical notions of femininity. Finally, Arbel examines the reception and impact of these ideas on later conceptualizations of the Song of Songs' female protagonist with an heuristic examination of Mark Chagall’s Song of Songs painting cycle, Le Cantique des Cantiques

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780567700094

Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible

Erwin Panofsky and Othmar Keel in Dialogue.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Steymans, University of

Fribourg, Switzerland

Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images – while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose – can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text. The essays within this volume describe the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing imagery into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their own interpretation, including previously unpublished material from Keel.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 288 pages • 15 b&w images

HB 9780567691835 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567691842 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

Natalie Mylonas, Macquarie University, Australia

Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwh’s wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels. She shows how the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalem’s body and the city space.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages

HB 9780567706423 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567706430 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Creating Gender in the Garden

• 192 pages • 5 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567700063

ePdf 9780567700070

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

• T&T Clark

The

Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam

Barbara Deutschmann, University of Divinity, Australia

What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own 21st century gender architecture.

UK September 2023

PB 9780567704597

• US September 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567704566

ePdf 9780567704573 £76.50 / $103.94

• 288 pages

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

• T&T Clark

James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

A Gate to Heaven

Essenes, Qumran: Origins and Heirs

Etienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel Nodet proposes that Qumran was a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards. He suggests that the Essenes were scattered in rural communities across Palestine and that they would gather to commemorate the early Israelites’ entrance into the Promised Land. Nodet also suggests the Essene dead were buried at Qumran because it was deemed to be a gate to heaven. He shows the ongoing significance of the Essenes after the war in Jerusalem in 70 CE, and their influence on Christianity and later Judaism.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 224 pages

HB 9780567709714 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567709745 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709721 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark

World English

The Protevangelium of James

Critical Questions of the Text and Full Collations of the Greek Manuscripts:

Volume 2

George T. Zervos, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

George T. Zervos provides a critical investigation of the Protevangelium of James. Whereas Zervos' first volume offers a critical edition of the Greek text together with English translation and critical introduction, he now considers the wide-ranging critical questions in greater depth. Zervos has created a data driven textual commentary on the very early complete papyrus copy of the ProtJac, P.Bodm V, highlighting the idiosyncrasies of the papyrus text vis-à-vis the remainder of the Greek MS tradition. He additionally analyses the perpetuation of doctrinal misrepresentation by a number of later scribes.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780567704511

• 864 pages

• £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9780567553775

ePub 9780567322746 £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9780567023872 • £135.00 / $183.59

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek

The Samaritans

Etienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel

Nodet examines the religion of the Samaritans, showing that far from being a degraded form of Judaism, the Samaritans represented the most ancient version of Israelite religion. Nodet starts by looking at the time of the New Testament, tracing the sources back ultimately to the Persian period, where he shows how the Samaritans opposed the post-exilic restoration of a Babylonian form of religion, preferring their own more ancient practices.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 224 pages

HB 9780567709660 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567709691 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709677 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark World English

Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity

Edited by Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA & Adam Z. Wright, College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Canada

The 12 studies within explore Greco-Roman religions and superstitions and early Christianity’s engagement with them. The contributors explore the Greco-Roman heroic gods, how they faced death, and how James and John — the sons of Thunder — may well have been viewed in some circles as the equivalent of the “sons of Zeus”, There is also examination of Roman omens, and how they might have been interpreted and utilised in comparison to the omens that accompany the birth and death of Jesus.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9780567703309 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567703262

ePub 9780567703293 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567703279 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts & Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity

T&T Clark

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament TextGenerating 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 July 2023 US July 2023 368 pages

• £100.00 / $135.00

HB 9780567709851

ePub 9780567709882

ePdf 9780567709868

• £90.00 / $122.84

• £90.00 / $122.84

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek

• T&T Clark

Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament New Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

Stanley E. Porter provides descriptions of important topics in Greek linguistics such as rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and on traditional grammar, from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. This approach has been foundational to Porter’s long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek. Each chapter provides deep insights into Porter’s understanding of SFL, based upon how he positions it in relation to other linguistic models or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9780567710017 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567710048 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567710024 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

The Library of New Testament Studies

Chris Keith, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway

A Ricoeurian Analysis of Identity Formation in Philippians

Narrative, Testimony, Contestation

Scott Ying-Lam Yip, The Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong

Presents the first specialized narrative study devoted to the identity formation processes in Philippians, based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory. Scott YingLam Yip demonstrates that the “Christian identity” of the Philippian community is shaped amidst competing narratives with divergent comprehensions, and suggests that it is within an intra-Jewish contestation of testimonies that Paul updates his understanding of God and contends with a group of Jewish Christian leaders regarding the meaning of his suffering.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9780567711014 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567711045 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567711021 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Purity in the Gospel of John

Early Jewish Tradition, Christology, and Ethics

Wil Rogan, Carey Theological College, Canada Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to 20th century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus; instead, like other early Jewish writings, it employs conceptions and practices of purification as a way to make sense of life before God in the world. He suggests that the gospel uses biblical traditions of purity associated with divine revelation and Israel’s restoration, in order to narrate how God’s people are prepared for the coming of Jesus and enabled by him to have life with God.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9780567708663 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567708694 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567708670 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature

Essays in Honour of Steve Moyise

Edited by Susan Docherty, Newman University

Birmingham, UK & Steve Smith, St Mellitus College, UK

This volume defines and analyses how scripture is used within the apocalyptic genre of writing. By focusing on the Book of Revelation and the re-use of scripture, a wide body of scholars seek to illuminate the relationship between the author’s theology and his interpretations of scripture, through a close examination of key passages and themes. Subsequently the contributors aim to establish greater clarity about the hermeneutical methods and axioms employed in Revelation and other apocalyptic texts, and about the extent to which these are characteristic or constituent of the genre.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9780567695895

Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel of Matthew

Edited by Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, North Raleigh Christian Academy, USA & Charles Quarles

Inspired by the work of Richard France and his highly influential Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher, the contributors to this volume together argue for a re-examination of the defining features of Jesus as a teacher in the Gospel of Matthew. This volume suggests that, while each of the Gospel writers display Jesus leading disciples along, speaking to crowds, and confronting Jewish authorities with effective and timely teachings, an under explored element of Jesus as teacher is the distinctive elements provided by Matthew’s Gospel.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9780567697844 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567697875 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567697851 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation

Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space

Joel M. Rothman, University of Divinity, Australia

Joel Rothman considers the significance of cosmology in biblical and extra-biblical texts, and the role of the cosmic journey in many apocalyptic narratives. He posits that Revelation’s narrative likewise takes the hearer on a virtual cosmic journey, through a cosmic story-space of great theological significance. While scholarship commonly assumes a three-tiered cosmos in Revelation, Rothman argues that Revelation’s narrative operates in a four-tiered cosmos, with the hyper-heaven sitting above the sky-heaven, earth, and abyssal depths; a cosmic story-space that is recreated in the imagination of the hearers.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9780567710321 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567710352 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567710338 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies T&T Clark

The Spirit, New Creation, and Christian Identity

Towards a Pneumatological Reading of Galatians 3:1–6:17

Grant Buchanan, Alphacrucis College, Australia

Considering the importance of pneumatological themes for interpreting Paul’s argument of Galatians, Buchanan examines Jewish biblical and Second Temple extra-biblical texts that explicitly connect the Spirit to creation themes. He explores how Paul draws from Jewish traditions of creation and the Spirit and presents a fresh cosmogony in light of Christ to the Galatian church. For Buchanan, Galatians outlines an epistemological shift in how Paul sees past, present, and future reality in light of Christ and the presence of the Spirit in the lives of the believers.

• 272 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567695925

ePdf 9780567695901

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies T&T Clark

UK June 2023 US June 2023 208 pages

HB 9780567709257 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567709288 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709264

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Library of New Testament Studies

The Ties that Bind

Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts

Edited by Esther Kobel, Johannes GutenbergUniversität Mainz, Germany, Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, UK & Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College, USA

Friendship and other intimate (but not always amicable) relationships have received some attention in the greater field of research on early Judaism and Christianity, though not as much as deserved. This volume celebrates and builds upon the life-long work of Adele Reinhartz, covering the various permutations of relationships that can be found in the Gospel of John, the wider corpus of early Jewish and Christian literature, and cinematic reimaginings thereof.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages 9 bw illus

HB 9780567702586 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567702616 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567702593 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Writing With Scripture

Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark

Nathanael Vette, University of Edinburgh, UK

Nathanael Vette proposes that the Gospel of Mark, like other narrative works in the Second Temple period, uses the Jewish scriptures as a model to compose episodes and tell a new story. Vette compares Mark’s use of scripture with contemporary works like Pseudo-Philo, the Genesis Apocryphon, 1 Maccabees, Judith, and the Testament of Abraham; diverse texts which, combined, support the existence of shared compositional techniques.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 272 pages

PB 9780567704689 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567704641

ePub 9780567704672 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567704658 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies T&T Clark

1 Peter A Critical and Exegetical Commentary:

Volume 2:

Chapters

3-5

David G. Horrell, University of Exeter, UK & Travis B. Williams, Tusculum University, USA

Horrell and Williams bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological – in their ICC on 1 Peter. This second volume covers the major part of the letter from chapters 3-5, including sections on judgment and the sufferings of Christ, and the letter’s closing greetings.

UK February 2023

HB 9780567710604

Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the Apostolic Writings

Reevaluating the Status of the New Testament Writings at the End of the Second Century

Kenneth Laing, Trinity Western University, Canada

Kenneth Laing challenges the concept of Irenaeus as primary witness to the period of time in which the New Testament achieved scriptural status, calling into question some of the most basic conclusions and assumptions of New Testament canon formation scholarship. Laing proposes a new interpretation of Irenaeus’ understanding of the nature and basis of authority of the New Testament writings, based on his Christocentric theology of revelation.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9780567702067 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567701930

ePub 9780567701961 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567701947 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Matthew’s Account of the Massacre of the Innocents in Light of its Reception History

Sung J. Cho, The Institute of Biblical Culture, USA

Sung Cho addresses the seeming contradiction of Herod the Great’s massacre in Matthew 2:16-18, questioning why such a tragedy had to occur, why it was included in the good news of Jesus, and what connection it has to ancient prophecies. In creating a reception history of the Massacre of the Innocents, Cho progresses through two millennia worth of interpretation and depiction to highlight key works for discussion.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 304 pages • 17 bw illus

PB 9780567699572 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567699534

ePub 9780567699565 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567699541 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark

1 Corinthians A Commentary

E. Earle Ellis

Edited by Terry L. Wilder, Campbellsville University, USA

This volume presents the detailed commentary work of E. Earle Ellis on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, left uncompleted by his request at the time of his death. With minimal editorial intervention, Terry Wilder has collated Ellis' profound exegetical insights in the form of his completed commentary sections on 1 Corinthians, resulting in a fully comprehensive reference resource for this core New Testament text.

• US April 2023

• 856 pages

• £80.00 / $110.00

ePdf 9780567710611

• £72.00 / $98.54

Series: International Critical Commentary T&T Clark

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780567703644

• 480 pages

• £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9780567688644

ePdf 9780567688651

T&T Clark

• £126.00 / $171.44

Small Spaces

Recasting the Architecture of Empire

Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

This paradigm-breaking study recasts the history of the British empire, using small spaces, objects, and landscapes to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of the British empire in India. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination. Small Spaces shows how we need to shift our attention from the large to the small scale to truly decolonize the practices of architecture and architectural history.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 368 pages 30 colour & 68 bw illus

PB 9781350288201 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350288225 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350288249 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350288232 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Domicide

Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria

Ammar Azzouz, University of Oxford, UK

This book addresses the destruction of cities in Syria since 2011 and the displacement of Syrian people both externally and internally. It explores, through the notion of the ‘home’, how these cities can be rebuilt without causing further damage to the communities that live there. Drawing on interviews with those working in the built environment professions, but also Syrians from other backgrounds who have become ‘architects’ in their own way as they were forced to repair and rebuild their homes by themselves, Domicide offers fresh insight into the role of the architect during times of war.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350248106

Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

Tom Avermaete, ETH Zurich, Switzerland & Janina Gosseye, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

John Dalton

Subtropical Modernism and the Turn to Environment in Australian Architecture

Elizabeth Musgrave, University of Queensland, Australia

Featuring previously unpublished archival documents, this book addresses the work of Australian mid-century modern architect, artist, and activist, John Dalton (1927-2007). It argues that Dalton’s work signalled an “environmental turn” in architecture in Australia from the 1960s onward that involved the integration of environmental with cultural considerations through relational thinking, and which preceded and transcends the discipline’s fascination with theoretical paradigms such as Critical Regionalism.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 248 pages 81 bw illus

HB 9781350291515 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350291539 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291522 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Reanimating Architecture and the City

• 208 pages • 21 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350248120 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350248113 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Detailing Worlds

A Conceptual History of Architectural Detail

Eric

Bellin

What is a “detail” in architecture? The concept of detail has long played an important role in the discourse and practice of architects, but the meaning of the term has been understood in radically different ways. Detailing Worlds is the first book to examine how our contemporary understanding of architectural detail came to be. It tells the story of the evolution of a concept from the 18th century to the present day, examining five different “worlds” of practice – the academic, technician, student, engineer, and architect – to show how each of these different contexts conditioned the emergence of new understandings of detail.

UK April 2024

• US April 2024

HB 9781350204379

• 80 bw illus

• 272 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350204393

ePdf 9781350204386

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Scott Colman, Rice School of Architecture, USA Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Ludwig Hilberseimer’s legacy has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by his long-standing collaborator Ludwig Mies van der Roh, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, it is now clear that he was an important Bauhaus teacher and central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic. This book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer’s work and writings.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 352 pages • 54 bw illus

HB 9781350068025 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350068049 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350068032 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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-present). 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 August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781350117136

• 240 pages • 75 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350117150

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350117143 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The New Urban Aesthetic Digital Experiences of Urban Change

Mónica Montserrat Degen, Brunel University

London, UK & Gillian Rose, The University of Oxford, UK

A New Urban Aesthetic brings an important new angle to our understanding of digital technology in the urban domain – examining how our experiences are altered through interaction with digital devices and screens. The book presents three major new case studies – Milton Keynes, UK; Doha, Qatar; and London, UK – exploring how the visual, sensory, temporal and spatial aesthetics of everyday urban life are changing as a result of the digital. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the power of digital culture and technology to transform urban spaces and communities around the world.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 192 pages • 27 bw illus

PB 9781350283510 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781350070837

ePub 9781350070851 • £63.00 / $86.39

ePdf 9781350070844 £63.00 / $86.39

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Surrealist Sorcery Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement

Will Atkin, University of Nottingham, UK

Consisting of a wide range of dedicated case studies on France, Romania, and former Czechoslovakia, this book highlights the international dimensions of the Surrealist Movement, and the radical chains of thought that linked its artists, writers and intellectuals across the globe.

Over five chapters, and from an international perspective, Surrealist Sorcery maps out how Surrealism's enduring fascination with the occult, mysticism and magic developed into a significant branch of the movement, and why this has remained central in the surrealist project and its ongoing legacy.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

HB 9781350227484 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350227507 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350227491 • £72.00 / $98.54

Women Art Dealers Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940–1990

Edited by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Women

Art Dealers Digital Archives (co-founder), USA & Caterina Toschi

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies about the women who ran galleries from the end of World War II until 1990. The chapters tell the stories of female dealers who anticipated the current global model by working to promote art across continents and develop an international art market. From the gallerists who contributed to neoAvant-Garde research to the dealers that advanced contemporary art by establishing such artistic genres as video art, this book charts the activities of professional women, analyses their role in shaping the modern art market as we know it, and highlights research on underrepresented regions.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 272 pages • 86 bw illus

HB 9781350292451 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350292444 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350292437 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art

Scots, Spirits and Séances, 1860-1940

Michelle Foot, University of Edinburgh, UK

This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the movement’s cultural impact on Scottish Art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals, for the first time, the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. Rich archival research and in-depth discussion of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculptures show that Spiritualist art in Scotland was as important to the international movement as leading Scottish advocates of Spiritualism, such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Daniel Dunglas Home.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 304 pages 16 colour & 38 bw illus

HB 9781350405813 £90.00 / $120.00

• 240 pages • 10 colour and 80 bw illus

Series: Transnational Surrealism • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The City as Subject

Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin

Carolyn S. Loeb

This book examines three bodies of postwar and contemporary public art in Berlin and develops a conception of the city as not only shaped by its citizens but capable of connecting its inhabitants with the past. The structures in question each represent a distinctive body of public art that has emerged in the city and which is embedded within its specifically urban structure. Together they demonstrate public art's reliance on Berlin's own forms and materials as a means of visual expression, present a vision of the city which counters today’s homogenizing practices, and highlight its prevailing climate of citizen activism.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350258648

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350258600

ePub 9781350258624

ePdf 9781350258617

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 46 colour and 34 bw illus

ePub 9781350405837 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350405820 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Malevich and Interwar Modernism

Russian Art and the International of the Square

Éva Forgács, Art Center College of Design, USA

The square, a central motif in the legacy of international interwar modernism, was the most emblematic and widely known form of the international avant-garde in the interwar years. It originated from the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich who painted The Black Square on White Ground in 1915 and was then picked up by artists El Lissitzky and Theo van Doesburg. This book focuses on the square and its journey across borders to follow its significance, artistic use, and how its meaning became modified in Western Europe.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350204218

• 304 pages • 24 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350204171

ePub 9781350204195 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350204188

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £81.00 / $110.69

The Porous Museum

The Politics of Art, Rupture and Recycling in Modern Romania

Gabriela Nicolescu, University of Oxford, UK

A fascinating account of one museum's transformations under three very different 20th and 21st century political regimes: monarchist, socialist and post-socialist, addressing elements of museum practice and exhibits that were discarded and others that were retained. Nicolescu's study asserts the interdependency of politics, ethics and aesthetics, ‘porosity’, as an attribute of museums all over the world.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 256 pages • 80 bw illus

HB 9781350196636 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350196643 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350196650 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Material Culture of Art and Design

Series Editor: Michael Yonan, University of California at Davis, USA

Ceramics in the Victorian Era Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

Rachel Gotlieb, Sheridan College, Canada

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period, mining the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics’ agencies at this time.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350354845

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 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Michigan.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 288 pages • 43 colour and 66 bw illus

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Material Modernity

Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic

Edited by Deborah Ascher Barnstone, University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA

• 288 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

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The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914

Sarah Laurenson, National Museums Scotland, UK

This book challenges the tired but persistent notion that industrialization, by replacing the human hand with the machine, destroyed skilled craftsmanship by exploring the neglected but rich area of Scotland’s jewellery craft during the long 19th century. It demonstrates that industrialization was, in fact, the driving force behind a deeper engagement with hand skill and nature that is more closely associated with goldsmiths of the early modern period.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

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• 288 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

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Material Modernity explores creative innovation in the art, design, and architecture of the Weimar Republic, charting the rise of new media and re-fashioning of old. It describes how material shortages precipitated by the First World War, devastation to industrial infrastructure, and disruption of trade routes affected art, as did a spirit of experimentation that permeated interwar German culture. Experiments with old media in new techniques and inventive work in new media made Weimar famous for artistic ingenuity; this book considers the cause for such innovation.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages • 8 colour and 54 bw illus

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Modernist Diaspora

Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945

Richard D. Sonn, University of Arkansas, USA

In the years before, during and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris. As the École de Paris was the most cosmopolitan artistic movement the world had seen, the neighborhood of Montparnasse became a meeting place for diverse cultures. Now, the paintings of Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine, Delaunay-Terk and Mané-Katz, and the sculptures of Lipchitz, Zadkine, Orloff, and many others, grace the world’s museums. How did Montparnasse’s tolerant, bohemian atmosphere encourage an international style of art in an era of bellicose nationalism, racism, and antisemitism? This book examines how the clash of cultures produced genius.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 392 pages 60 colour illus

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The Material Culture of Basketry Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge

Edited by Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews, UK & Victoria Mitchell, Norwich University of the Arts, UK

This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. Contributors show how local knowledge of materials, plants and place are central to the craft. Case studies include the skill in weaverbird nest building, an engineer’s perspective on twining Peruvian grass bridges, and the local knowledge embodied in Pacific plaited patterns and knots. The book explores materials, techniques and value of craft from the point of view of artists, anthropologists and mathematicians, revealing how the structure and skill in basketwork illustrate a significant form of textile technology.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023

• 312 pages • 143 colour illus

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Narrative Thread Conversations on Fashion Collections

Mark C. O'Flaherty

With commentary by three leading scholars in the fashion world, on fashion and identity, design and memory, Mark C. O’Flaherty draws together stories of fashion ‘collectors’ whose passion for clothes developed into something significant in their lives. The result is a unique contribution about how, and why, what we wear tells us so much about our lives, as well as a fascinating, close-up investigation of a wide range of designers’ garments. With neverbefore-seen images of rare designs from their private collections, Narrative Thread offers an invaluable resource for an understanding of fashion’s past and present – and its importance in our lives.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 288 pages • 178 colour illus

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Dress Cultures

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 July 2023

• US July 2023

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The Hidden Life of Clothing Historical Perspectives on Fashion and Sustainability

Rachel Worth, Arts University Bournemouth, UK

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 216 pages • 30 bw illus

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Fashion: Seductive Play

Eugen Fink, Late of University of Freiburg, Germany

Edited by Stefano Marino, University of Bologna, Italy & Giovanni Matteucci, University of Bologna

Translated by Ian Alexander Moore & Christopher Turner

This English language edition of Fashion: Seductive Play by Eugen Fink makes his philosophical investigation into fashion available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. One of the greatest figures in the “phenomenological movement,” Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in relation to other forms of human culture, especially contemporary culture. His extraordinary lucidity and unique conceptual capacities make his work crucial to the study of the philosophy of fashion today.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 160 pages

HB 9781350200388 • £85.00 / $115.00

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World English

Silhouettes of the Soul Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity

Edited by Otto von Busch, Parsons School of Design, USA & Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida, USA

What is the relationship between the soul and the second skin - or clothing - in the making of identity and belief? How does religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance impact on the way in which we dress? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites; Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other, moving beyond traditional, social scientific and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment to approach the topics from a variety of approaches and disciplines and across regional, social and religious locations.

• 224 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

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• 42 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

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UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350285675

• 17 bw illus

• 216 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

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• Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK & Elizabeth Wilson, Independent Scholar, UK

A Guide to Fashion Sewing

Connie Amaden-Crawford, Fashion Patterns by Coni, USA

UK September 2023

• US August 2023 • 416 pages • 1200 colour illus

PB 9781501382567 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Fairchild Books

Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers

Bundle Book + Studio Access Card

Julie Cole, Harper College and Mount Mary College, USA & Sharon Czachor, Harper College-Illinois, USA

This book teaches aspiring designers the pattern drafting and sewing skills needed for excellent designs. It presents step-by-step beginning and advanced techniques, accompanied by detailed illustrations for visual learning. Each chapter covers a topic following the stitching order of a garment, including stabilizers, darts, seams, pockets, tucks and pleats, zippers, waistbands, flounces, collars, facing, and more. This book also incorporates relevant social topics like sustainability, gender neutral design, and diverse representation. Learning tools like checklists and Style I.D. diagrams teach students to understand the relationships between fabric, sewing techniques, and design and apply this knowledge to their own creations.

UK July 2023 • US May 2023 • 608 pages • 1015 colour illus

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Cosmetics Marketing Strategy and Innovation in the Beauty Industry

Lindsay Karchin, DonorsChoose, USA & Delphine Horvath, Fashion Institute of Technology, USA

What tools do you need to pursue a career in cosmetics marketing? This essential guide equips you with the knowledge you need to break into and thrive in this fast-growing and complex industry. Through industry-led exercises and case studies you'll gain valuable insights into the role of aesthetics, the importance of authentic communication, the impact of emerging technologies and cultural trends, as well as the lowdown on measuring your marketing efforts. There are are also practical, illustrated resources to help you get into the cosmetics business, as well as a breakdown of the beauty products and theory used by makeup artists and product developers.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 264 pages • 150 color illus

PB 9781350299436 • £32.99 / $44.95

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The Fashion Show Goes Live Exclusive and Mediatized Performance

Rebecca Halliday, Ryerson University, Canada

The Fashion Show Goes Live analyses the mode and impact of fashion shows’ transmission. Through experimental film, fashion shows tailored for media transmission and the use of live streaming and social media to render shows ‘immediate’ to consumers, fashion shows have become not just trend barometers but material sites that demonstrate media’s effects. Rebecca Halliday evaluates the performativity of consumer relations to such live streams and other mediatized content, demonstrating that despite democratized, international access to content, the shows themselves remain exclusive and aspirational. Through its analysis, this book challenges the notion that the mediatization of fashion shows has fostered inclusivity.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350226357

Fashion / Textiles

The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking

Nilgin Yusuf

With examples from dozens of groundbreaking international films, including QR codes linking to the films online, The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking places fashion film in its broader industry, cultural and historical context. You’ll also learn about the process of making fashion film, exploring how it works across multiple technologies, platforms and audiences. Interviews with filmmakers bring together a wealth of industry expertise on everything from storyboarding to finding an audience.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 192 pages 200 colour illus

PB 9781474242370 £28.99 / $39.95

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Skin Crafts Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art

Julia Skelly, McGill University, Canada

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin andin so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 224 pages 8 color and 24 bw illus

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• US September 2023

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• 256 pages • 14 colour and 26 bw illus

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Vernacular Architecture

Critical and Primary Sources

4-Volume Set

Edited by Howard Davis, University of Oregon, USA

A collection of essential readings in the study of vernacular architecture and the traditional building cultures of the world spanning the last 200 years.

Each volume includes a substantial contextualizing introduction, while the texts are arranged according to themes which correspond to the chronological and intellectual development of the field, reflecting the subject’s evolution from primarily rural, romantic and traditional interpretations through to thoroughly contemporary and interdisciplinary definitions of the field.

Contents:

Volume 1 - Taxonomies and Geography

Volume 2 - Social Life

Volume 3 - The Culture of Construction

Volume 4 - The Emerging Urban Vernacular

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595 / $804

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 4 vols • c.1,536 pages

HB Pack 9781474283915 £660 / $890

Series: Critical and Primary Sources Bloomsbury Academic

The Bible and Literature

5-Volume Set

Edited by Stephen Prickett, Formerly University of Glasgow, UK, and Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University, UK

The Bible and Literature is a 1.5 million-word resource that provides researchers with an authoritative overview of the impact and influence of the bible on the development of literature from the classical period to the modern day.

Each volume is edited by a leading specialist in the period, and begins with a set of introductory materials including a chapter on how the biblical text is mediated in the given period. 10 thematic essays then introduce the key thinkers, works, events and themes of the period. Extracts from primary materials are presented with specialist commentary showing how these texts interact with the bible itself.

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £675 / $909

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 5 vols • c.2,400 pages

HB Pack 9780567682062 • £750 / $1010

Christian-Muslim Relations Primary Sources 600 – 1914

3-Volume Set

Edited by David Thomas, University of Birmingham, UK

This 3-volume reference work brings together over 270 extracts from the major works left by Christians and Muslims that reflect their reciprocal knowledge and attitudes.

Texts and topics range from theological and legal treatises, scientific studies, travelogues, commercial contracts, captivity narratives, martyrologies, plays, and novels. The breadth and diversity in genres and languages presented here makes this the most comprehensive resource in the field.

Each volume is divided into the following sections of coverage:

- Volume 1 (600 – 1500): Muslim Arabic works; Christian Arabic works; Andalusian Arabic works; Syriac, Persian and other Eastern language works; Greek Works; Latin and European vernacular works

- Volume 2 (1500 – 1700): Works from North and Western Europe; Eastern Europe; Southern Europe; Middle East and North Africa; East, South and South East Asia; Africa; The Americas

- Volume 3 (1700 – 1914): Works from Africa and the Americas; Eastern Europe; Western Europe; Middle East and North Africa; East, South and South East Asia.

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £400 / $545

UK September 2023 US September 2023 3 vols c.1,288 pages

HB Pack 9781350233300 £450 / $610

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Educational Foundations

Edited by Bruce Maxwell, University of Quebec Trois-Rivières, Canada and Lauren Bialystok, University of Toronto, Canada

Comprising 48 chapters written by renowned international scholars, this is the first reference work to provide an authoritative state-of-the-field mapping of the foundational disciplines of education.

Each of the six volumes is devoted to the examination of a constituent discipline, namely: Philosophy (Vol 1), History (Vol 2), Sociology (Vol 3), Policy (Vol 4), Economics (Vol 5), and Law (Vol 6).

For ease of reference each volume covers the same set of key topics: Delineating the Field, What is Education For?, Curriculum, Schools and Education Systems, Learning and Development, Teaching and Teacher Education, Assessment, and Inclusive education. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £525 / $715

UK February 2023 · US March 2023 · 6 vols · c. 1728 pages

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Volume 1: Philosophical Foundations of Education

Edited by Winston C. Thompson, Ohio State University, USA

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 200 pages

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Volume 3: Sociological Foundations of Education

Edited by Claire Maxwell, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Miri Yemini, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Laura Engel, George Washington University, USA

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 216 pages

HB 9781350171039 · £120 / $160

Volume 5: Economic Foundations of Education

Edited by Álvaro Choi, University of Barcelona, Spain

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 216 pages

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Volume 2: Historical Foundations of Education

Edited by Theodore Michael Christou, Queen’s University, Canada

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 216 pages

HB 9781350170926 · £120 / $160

Volume 4: Policy Foundations of Education

Edited by Andrew Wilkins, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 200 pages

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Edited by J.C. Blokhuis, University of Waterloo, Canada

UK March 2023 · US March 2023 · 200 pages

HB 9781350171268 · £120 / $160

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A Cultural History of Comedy

Edited by Andrew McConnell Stott, University of Southern California, USA and Eric Weitz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed?

In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes describe various manifestations of comedy, its use in religion, theatre and literature, and its historical and philosophical significance.

Themes (and chapter titles) are: Form; Theory; Praxis; Identities; The Body; Politics and Power; Laughter; and Ethics.

2020 · 6 vols · c. 1824 pages · 250 bw illus

HB Pack · 9781350000827 · £450 / $610

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A Cultural History of Democracy

Edited by Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge, UK

How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? In a work that spans 2,500 years these fundamental questions are addressed by 66 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case materials they illustrate the physical, social and cultural contexts of democracy in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Themes (and chapter titles) are: Sovereignty; Liberty and the Rule of Law; The 'Common Good'; Economic and Social Democracy; Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation; Citizenship and Gender; Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism; Democratic Crises, Revolutions and Civil Resistance; International Relations; and Beyond the Polis.

2021 · 6 vols · c. 1824 pages · 250 bw illus

HB Pack · 9781350042933 · £440 / $610

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A Cultural History of Memory

Edited by Stefan Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and Jeffrey K. Olick, University of Virginia, USA

“Much could be said about any of the books in this landmark series, whose sum total of chapters from the world’s leading scholars will be read and referenced for generations.”

Sun News Tucson

2020 · 6 vols · c. 1672 pages · 300 bw illus

HB Pack 9781474273848 · £450 / $610

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A Cultural History of the Home

Edited by Amanda Flather, University of Essex, UK

A comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800 years, the volumes explore how different cultures and societies have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space.

2020 · 6 vols · c. 1680 pages · 300 bw illus

HB Pack 9781472584410 · £450 / $610

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Bloomsbury Collections offers excellence and originality in scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Discover our everexpanding eBook library that offers more than 10,000 titles across 22 subject areas. Bloomsbury Collections contributes innovative and forward-thinking scholarship to the global academic community. Comprised of titles from Bloomsbury as well as such prestigious imprints as The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, T & T Clark, Hart, Zed Books, and I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Collections provides rich and resourceful titles that offer the latest critical thought, incisive insight, and accessible overviews to a comprehensive collection of dynamic disciplines.

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