HISTORY

January 2022 • 20 mono illus 336 pages • 234 x 156mm 2nd edition • 9781350170339 Bloomsbury Academic

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September 2021 • 288 pages 234 x 156mm • 9781350202009 Bloomsbury Academic

September 2021 • 296 pages 216 x 138mm • 9781350118102 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Debates in World History

October 2021 • 20 mono illus 304 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781474275859 Bloomsbury Academic Series: New Approaches to International History

Climate Change in Human History

Prehistory to the Present Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon

An overview of the interaction between climate and human society from prehistoric times to the present day, combining the latest findings from science and history.

This concise introduction illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies and how human activity is now leading to drastic changes to our climate. This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on the explosion of social movements, protest groups and key individuals since 2017, an improved introduction to the Anthropocene, and extra content on the basic dynamics of the climate system alongside updated historiography. With new case studies and images, it also includes a glossary of terms and further reading to aid students’ understanding of this interdisciplinary subject. Benjamin Lieberman is Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, USA. Elizabeth Gordon is Associate Professor of Geoscience at Fitchburg State University, USA.

The Power of Populism and People

Resistance and Protest in the Modern World Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Christopher Osmar

A collection of essays examining the relationship between authoritarian power and popular resistance in different national contexts during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The international contributors to this volume examine the complex relationship between people and their rulers. From the roots of populism in 19th-century Latin America to the last century of Turkish rule and the Arab Spring, the cases span five continents and 12 nations. Taken together, they reveal how different forms of popular opposition have succeeded or failed in unseating and replacing authoritarian regimes, as well as exposing the tactics and strategies used by regimes to repress resistance and create an image of popular support. Nathan Stoltzfus is Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies and Professor of History at Florida State University. Christopher Osmar is preparing his dissertation on forced labor in the end phase of Nazi Germany for a book.

Debating Anarchism

A History of Action, Ideas and Movements Mike Finn

An introduction to historical debates on anarchism and its influence in world history.

This timely book introduces readers to anarchism’s relationship to broader history, offering not simply a history of anarchism in the modern period, but a critical introduction to debates on anarchist history by a respected scholar in the field. Here, Mike Finn treads new ground by paying close attention to both women and non-western actors. Mike Finn is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Exeter, UK.

Global War, Global Catastrophe

Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames

A history of the First World War as a global crisis that incorporates coverage of both belligerents and neutrals in the war.

This book presents the First World War as a global catastrophe that forcibly reshaped the international system and, with it, the futures of all the world’s people. It offers an accessible overview of the major trajectories of the conflict, integrating the history of neutrality into the mainstream history of the First World War. This is an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies. Maartje Abbenhuis is Professor in Modern History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Ismee Tames is Professor in History at Utrecht University and Senior Researcher at NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Stalinism at War

The Soviet Union in World War II Mark Edele

An authoritative history of the Soviet Union in World War II.

Exploring the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens – Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime – Edele reveals how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949. Mark Edele is Professor and Hansen Chair in History at University of Melbourne, Australia.

Family Histories of World War II

Survivors and Descendants Edited by Róisín Healy and Gearóid Barry

A contextualised collection of accounts of people from across Europe involved in World War II, written by their descendants.

Expertly contextualised by two leading historians, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors’ experiences, from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance, to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. They draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II, concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations both at a personal and societal level. Róisín Healy is Senior Lecturer in European History at NUI Galway, Ireland. Gearóid Barry is Lecturer in European History at NUI Galway, Ireland.

Women Defying Hitler

Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus, Mordecai Paldiel and Judy Baumel-Schwartz

A collection of essays that explores and analyses various forms of women’s rescue and defiance during World War II.

This timely volume brings together leading scholars from the United States, Europe and Israel to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization within Germany and the territories it occupied under Hitler’s dictatorship. It examines the forms of women’s defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Women Defying Hitler features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of a survivor and their descendants, with attention to the differences that gender made. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies and of History at Florida State University, USA. Mordecai Paldiel is Adjunct Professor in Jewish History at Yeshiva University, USA. Judy Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Schulman School of Basic Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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December 2021 256 pages 234 x 156mm 9781784537319 I.B. Tauris Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World

In Search of the Argonauts

The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt

The first account of the myth of Jason from its first beginnings to the present day.

Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. From Pindar to J. W. Waterhouse, Apollonius of Rhodes to Ray Harryhausen, and Robert Graves to Mary Zimmerman, the Argonaut myth has inspired later interpretations as rich and diverse as the ancient versions. Helen Lovatt unravels the various strands of the tangled narrative and its numerous and fascinating afterlives in a book that will both inform and endlessly entertain all those who love classical literature and myth. Helen Lovatt is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The Last Witches of England

A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition John Callow

Uncovers the forgotten history of the Bideford Witches, the last group of women in England executed for witchcraft, and charts changing attitudes towards them over time, from revulsion to celebration.

On 29 June 1682, a magpie came tapping at the window of a Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, the family convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. They were condemned to the gallows; the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. In this, the first complete history of the case of the Bideford Witches, John Callow uncovers a forgotten female history and reveals the changing attitudes towards men and women and witchcraft over time. John Callow is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk, UK.

Roma in the Medieval Islamic World

Literacy, Culture and Migration Kristina Richardson

An eye-opening history of the medieval Middle East and Europe told through its most forgotten people.

Kristina Richardson investigates the lived experiences of the Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. She uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin, and examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities.

Kristina Richardson is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.