Frankfurt Rights Guide 2018

I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Contents Current Affairs, International Relations, Politics The World According to Xi by Kerry Brown Triple Axis by Dina Esfandiary & Ariane Tabatabai Dark Shadows by Joanna Lillis Europe and the Refugee Crisis by Frances Trix The Crisis of Globalization by Patrick Diamond Cold Rush by Martin Breum The Putin Phenomenon by Richard Sakwa America in Afghanistan by Sharifullah Dorani America and Islam by Lawrence Pintak

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Asia & the Middle East Fragile Nation, Shattered Land by James A. Reilly The Passion by Patrick Keddie Kemalism by N. Clayer, F. Giorni, E. Szurek Secret Nation by Avedis Hadjian Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon by Mohamed Hafeda Foreign Aid in the Middle East by Beata Paragi Civil Society in Algeria by Jessica Ayesha Northey Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture by Jacob Høigilt Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World by T. Sabry, J. Khalil Iran After the Mongols by Sussan Babaie The Idea of Iran Series Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire by Eric Covey The Great Betrayal by David L. Phillips The Kurds in a Changing Middle East by F.A. Jabar, R. Mansour Women and Equality in Iran by Leila Alikarami Veiling in Fashion by Anna-Maria Almila Folktales of Palestine by Farah Aboubakr The Women’s Movement in Pakistan by Ayesha Khan Terrorism in Pakistan by N. Elahi

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History Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay Citadel of the Saxons by Rory Naismith Reviving Cicero in Drama by Gesine Manuwald Understanding Classics Series A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate A Short History of the American Civil War by Paul C. Anderson Short History Series The Phoney Victory by Peter Hitchens

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Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy by Isabelle Richet The Exit Visa by Sheila Rosenberg Love and Life in Nazi Prague by M. Bader, K. Ottevanger, J. Lanicek The Hidden War in Argentina by Panagiotis Dimitrakis A History of the Hungarian Constitution by F. Horcher, T. Lorman Singapore by Michael D. Barr

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Travel, Biography & Literature Teffi by Edythe Haber In Search of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy The Man Who Wasn’t There by Richard Bradford Dark Star by Alan Strachan Conan Doyle’s Wide World by Andrew Lycett Barcelona by Mike Gonzalez Madrid by Jules Stewart Iceland by Marcel Krueger Literary Guides

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Popular Culture, Media & Visual Culture Unimaginable by Graham Ward Girls Like This, Boys Like That by Victoria Cann Tweenhood by Melanie Kennedy Wonder Woman by Joan Ormrod Once Upon a Time Lord by Joanne Turney Brand New Art From China by Barbara Pollack Censoring Art by R. Kennedy, R. Coutler Fashion Crimes by Joanne Turney Images of Sex Work in Early 20th Century America by Mollie Le Vecque Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition by K.K. Woofter, L. Jowett The Origins of the Film Star System by Andrew Shail Ageing Femininity on Screen by Niall Richardson

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The World According to Xi Everything You Need to Know About the New China Kerry Brown

March 2018 160 pages Approx. 40,000 words => Current Affairs, IR, China Rights Sold: Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden Kerry Brown is the Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London and Associate for Chinese Affairs at Chatham House. With 30 years experience of life in China, he has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing.

He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Diplomat and Foreign Affairs, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets. He is the bestselling author of China’s World, CEO China and The New Emperors.

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What the world’s most powerful man thinks about you

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Author is one of the few western academics who has met and worked with the leadership in China, and he speaks and reads fluent Mandarin

China is now the most powerful country on earth - its manufacturing underpins the world’s economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is now to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades.

Last month Xi Jinping became part of the constitution – an honour not seen since Chairman Mao, the founder of Modern China. This means he will rule China for decades, and what he does and what he thinks will shape all our futures.

Here, in an accessible and readable style, China expert Kerry Brown guides us through The World According to Xi: his plans to make China the most powerful country on earth, to eradicate poverty and even solve climate change. We find out his belief system, what he really thinks about the communist China he leads, and how far he is willing to go to defend it.

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CEO, China The Rise of Xi Jinping Rights sold: Korea

China’s World What does China Want?

Rights sold: Korea

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Triple Axis Iran's Relations with Russia and China Dina Esfandiary & Ariane Tabatabai

July 2018 272 pages Approx. 70,000 words => International Relations & Politics World Rights Ariane Tabatabai is the director of curriculum and assistant teaching professor of security studies in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a senior associate in the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

She has written for International Security and The Journal of Strategic Studies, as well as in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.

Dina Esfandiary is a CSSS Fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College London and an Adjunct Fellow in the Middle East Program at the CSIS. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post and International Affairs. She is the co-author of Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging.

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Emergence of the new superpowers

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Vital for understanding contemporary security challenges

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Essential overview of the new international order

The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states and their governments each consider the relative decline of Western economic hegemony as an opportunity. Yet cooperation between them remains fragmentary. The end of Western sanctions and the Iranian nuclear deal; the Syrian conflict; new institutions in Central and East Asia: in all these areas and beyond, the potential for unity or divergence is striking. In this new and comprehensive study, Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary address the substance of this ‘triple axis’ in the realms of energy, trade, and military security. In particular they scrutinise Iran-Russia and the often overlooked field of Iran-China relations. Their argument – that interactions between the three will shape the world stage for decades to come – will be of interest to anyone looking to understand the contemporary international security puzzle.

Dark Shadows Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan Joanna Lillis

October 2018 280 pages Approx. 87,000 words => Current Affairs, Central Asia World Rights

Joanna Lillis is a freelance journalist based in Kazakhstan. She writes regularly on the country for The Atlantic, The Guardian (for whom she is their de facto Central Asia correspondent), The Diplomat, EurasiaNet, Politico and The National. She previously worked for nearly four years for the BBC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is considered one of the best journalists working on the ground in Central Asia today.

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A new approach to a hidden world, which looks at the reality of life there.

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Covers a crucial paradigm shift in Central Asia

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China's strategy in Central Asia will make understanding this country a must

Money is flooding into Kazakhstan. The country is home to vast gas and oil deposits, and its staggering level of international investment is increasing year by year. And yet, Kazakhstan effectively looks and feels like a Cold War state. Its president for the last 26 years, Nazarbayev, is a ruthless dictator who believes in telepathy (visitors to national monuments can place their hands on a golden handprint and send him telepathic messages) and recently constructed a 56metre glass pyramid in which 100 Kazakhstani religious leaders will meet to discuss the future of the world.

This book teases out the strange and fascinating conditions of present-day Kazakhstan – a state haunted by disappearances, buried Uranium mines, corruption, and gangsterdom at the highest levels of power. Joanna Lillis is a compelling storyteller and a shrewd social critic; her study evokes a country simultaneously lost in its complex past and poised to move into the foreground of world affairs.

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Europe and the Refugee Crisis Local Responses to Migrants Frances Trix

November 2018 312 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Politics & International Relations World Rights

Frances Trix is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Indiana University and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Middle East. She has been the recipient of a number of distinguished grants and was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Istanbul, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Albanian American National Association. In the winter of 2015–16, she spent time working in refugee transit camps on the Macedonian border and is the author of numerous books, including Urban Muslim Migrants in Istanbul with I.B.Tauris.

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Based on extensive interviews and firsthand experience

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The first volume to focus on the ways that refugees have been welcomed by local communities across Europe

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Shows positive examples, where the media has focused on the negatives

Since 2014, more than 60 million people have been displaced from their homes across the Middle East and Africa. The European Refugee Crisis, as it has come to be known, is now the largest such crisis since the aftermath of World War II. How have local communities reacted to the influx of asylum seekers?

And what can we learn from their responses?

Frances Trix here offers a wide-ranging ethnographical and anthropological study of local, individual responses to refugees, from Macedonia to Germany.

Based on extensive interviews and field work in Europe, Trix focuses for the first time on the ways that refugees have been welcomed – or not, as the case may be – by various individuals and communities. Her work ranges from Macedonians who established an NGO and lobbied to allow the refugees to use the train, to the police charged with border management; from a German organic food store owner who by her actions set the positive tone in her village, a retired IT manager who coordinates refugee volunteers for his entire town, to the district work organisation director who deems refugees unsuitable for multiple reasons.

This book is essential reading for all those working on the refugee crisis and the prospects – both local and global – for the future.

The Crisis of Globalization Democracy, Capitalism and Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Patrick Diamond (Ed)

November 2018 304 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Politics, Economics, International Studies World Rights Patrick Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of Policy Network. His publications include Endgame for the Centre Left? The Retreat of Social Democracy across Europe; Can Labour Win? The Hard Road to Power; The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister; Progressive Politics After the Crash (with Olaf Cramme and Michael McTernan) and After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme).

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Range of contributors from academia, policy-making world and leading thinktanks

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Key question for understanding recent political and economic developments

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Crucial contribution to key issue in current political and economic affairs

In recent years, the effects of economic globalization and technological change in driving dissatisfaction with established political systems has led to the rise of new forms of political populism that seek to exploit the economic and political polarisation and resentment created by globalization. This shift in politics was evident in the decision by UK voters to leave the European Union in June 2016, the November 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, as well as the rise of populist movements on left and right throughout much of Europe. To many voters, the economy appears to be broken and politics is failing. Parties of the left and centre-left have struggled to forge a convincing response to this new phase of globalization in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. This book examines the challenges that the new era of globalization poses for centre-left parties across the world. It brings together leading thinkers and experts from across the world to debate the structural causes and political consequences of this new wave of globalization.

Dawn of a New Order Geopolitics and the Clash of Ideologies Rights sold: Estonia, Hungary 7

Cold Rush The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North Martin Breum

June 2018 288 pages Approx. 82,000 words => Current Affairs, Arctic, Politics Rights Sold: US&C

Martin Breum is a journalist and renowned Arctic expert. His first book ‘When the Ice Disappears’ was awarded the Danish Authors Association's award for the best non-fiction work in 2014. He is lead correspondent for the prestigious Arctic Journal and a journalist for the Danish Broadcasting Association. His writing on the Polar region has been published in the New York Times amongst others.

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International Politics in the Arctic Contested Borders, Natural Resources and Russian Foreign Policy 8 World Rights

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The Arctic is going to become a key issue in global politics

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Thrillingly written, this should receive good review courage

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Author the world expert on this story

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole – sending submarines and ice-breakers - the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil. What is quietly unfolding in the polar north is a ‘great game’ for territory and for resources, all against the biggest backdrop of all: the destruction of the Arctic caused by climate change.

And then last year things took a strange turn. The Kingdom of Denmark, through its colonial claim on Greenland, declared ownership of the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic. Its claims on a territory larger than Scandinavia overlap over 500 sq. km with Russia’s, who have planted a flag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole.

Investigative journalist Martin Breum has been at the front-line for a decade, and brings this secret story to life. He reports on researchers discovering Russian submarines beneath the ice, spy plane pilots flying over environmental research boats and uncovers the stories of the inhabitants of sleepy Greenland who are waking up to their new place in the universe – between the great aggressive military powers of the world. Thrillingly written, Cold Rush reveals a secret world in which the future of our planet is being decided.

The Putin Phenomenon Revealing the Real Face of Modern Russia Richard Sakwa

May 2019 400 pages Approx. 140,000 words => Politics, Current Affairs World Rights Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests are Russian domestic and international politics, European international relations and comparative democratization. His recent books include Putin Redux, Putin and the Oligarch, and Frontline Ukraine.

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Frontline Ukraine Crisis in the Borderlands Rights sold: CHN, FI, HU, RU, SE

Putin and the Oligarch The KhodorkovskyYukos Affair Rights sold: FI

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Covers recent events and places the whole Putin phenomenon in context

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Not a detailed autobiography: explores aspect of Putin phenomenon through historical origin , comparisons with earlier periods of Russian and Soviet history and cross-national studies

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Emphasis on foreign policy

What is the key to Putin’s success? Arguably, Russia’s President has become one of the outstanding political leaders of the twenty-first century. But he is also one of the most divisive. Abroad, there are sharply contrasting – and critical – perspectives on his role in Russian and international politics. His assertion of what he perceives to be Russia’s interests as a great power and his critique of the western-dominated international system have brought him into conflict with the Atlantic powers. At the same time, Putin is at the centre of emerging alternative forces, including the Eurasian Economic Union, the BRICS grouping of states and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Yet, despite international criticism, in domestic affairs Putin remains enormously popular. He has overseen an unprecedented rise in living standards and national income, and has enjoyed a run of favourable opinion polls. In this study, acclaimed Russia expert Richard Sakwa provides a nuanced perspective on The Putin Phenomenon, uncovering Putin’s personal and political development during his time in power. It is essential reading for those seeking an understanding of modern Russia.

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America in Afghanistan Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Trump Sharifullah Dorani

November 2018 356 pages Approx. 108,000 words => Middle East, History World Rights

Sharif Dorani completed his PhD on the War in Afghanistan at Durham University. He has lived and worked in Afghanistan and lectures on the history of US policy in the region.

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Covers Bush to Trump, with evidence from policymakers in Washington

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New insight into the ongoing Afghanistan war

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New sources published in English for the first time

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the 20th Century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Middle East. Yet policymakers in the West often seem to forget the lessons learned from previous administrations, whose interventions have contributed to the instability in the region. Here, Sharif Dorani focuses on the process of decisionmaking, looking at which factors influenced American policy-makers in the build-up to the second Afghan War, and how reactions on the ground in Afghanistan have influenced events since then. America in Afghanistan is a new, full history of US foreign policy toward Afghanistan from President George W. Bush’s administration and the ‘war on terror’, to President Barack Obama’s drone strikes. Dorani is fluent in Pashto and Dari and uses unique and unseen Afghan source-work, published here for the first time, to understand the people in Afghanistan itself. To that end the author also assesses the work of the advisors who influenced Presidents Kharzai and Ghani. This will be an essential book for those interested in the future of the region, and those who seek to understand its recent past.

America and Islam Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Rise of Donald Trump Lawrence Pintak

May 2019 288 pages Approx. 96,000 words => International Relations & Politics, Trade World Rights Lawrence Pintak is an award-winning journalist and scholar who has written about America’s complex relationship with Islam since 1980. He was the founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (2009-2016) and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for “outstanding service to the profession of journalism” around the world. A former CBS News Middle East correspondent with a PhD in Islamic Studies, Pintak been called the foremost chronicler of the interaction between Arab and Western media. His work appears in a variety of international press and he is frequently interviewed by NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera English, BBC and news organizations around the world.

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What is America’s problem with Islam?

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Timely – this is a major current issue

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Author is well-connected and wellrespected

Donald Trump’s first term as the 49th President of the United States of America has shocked the world. His attitudes towards Islam became a key point of contention on the campaign trail, and in power Trump has continued his war of rhetoric and policy – even though so-called ‘Muslim Ban’ was eventually struck down by courts. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak unpicks America’s relationship with Islam since its foundation. Casting Donald Trump as a symptom of decades of misunderstanding and demonization of the Islamic world, as well as a cause of future tensions, Pintak shows how and why America’s relationship with the world’s largest religion has been so fractious, damaging and self-defeating.

Featuring unique interviews with victims and perpetrators of Trump’s policies, as well as analysis of social media’s role in inflaming debate, America and Islam seeks to provide a complete guide to the biggest problem faced by modern day America – from suicide bombs to fiery soundbites – and sketches out a future based on co-operation and the reassertion of democratic values

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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land The Modern History of Syria James A. Reilly

September 2018 288 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Middle East, History Rights Sold: US&C James A. Reilly is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and specialises in the social history of Syrian cities. He travelled widely in Syria between 1974 and 2010, living there on two separate occasions, and is the author of A Small Town in Syria and The Ottoman Cities of the Lebanon (I.B.Tauris).

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Destroying a Nation The Civil war in Syria Rights Sold: Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Spain

Aleppo The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City Rights Sold: Italy, Turkey

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The first history of Syria to begin in the Ottoman period

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Offers a deep historical context for understanding the forces that bind Syrians together as well as those that drive them apart

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A new perspective on the roots of modern instability

The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen?

How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan’s rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years?

Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and corrupt dictatorship and eventual disintegration in the twentyfirst. Across a diverse cast of individuals, rich and poor, James Reilly explores these fractious and formative periods of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, and the ways that these contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the Assad family; and to a civil war which produced the so-called Islamic State.

Reilly demonstrates the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political factors that bind Syrians together, as well as those that have torn them apart.

Based on primary sources, recent historiography in English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years’ experience living and working in the region, this is the essential book for understanding modern Syria and the Middle East.

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The Passion Football and the History of Modern Turkey Patrick Keddie

April 2018 322 pages Approx. 106,500 words => Turkey, History World Rights

Patrick Keddie is a journalist and essayist based in Istanbul. A reporter for Al Jazeera, his writing has also appeared in VICE, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, The LA Review of Books, Middle East Eye and The Sunday Herald among others.

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Funny, touching and beautifully observed

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The first book to bring the colourful world of Turkish football to a Western audience

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New insight into a crucial Middle Eastern nation

Turkey is a nation obsessed with football. From the glowing red and blue flares which cover the pitch with multi-coloured smoke and often brings play to a halt, to the ‘conductors’ - ultras who lead the ‘walls of sound’ at matches, Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this most political of countries, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been something more.

From the fan groups accused of attempting to assassinate the president, to the World-Cup players fighting corruption, football in Turkey encompasses politics, anger and resistance Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through the world’s most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where simit sellers compete with water cannons for the attentions of the fans, to the deserts of Anatolia, where Islamic teams show their devotion through soccer. He meets gay referees facing death threats, women fighting for the right to wear shorts on the pitch and Kurdish teams playing for their human rights. In doing so he lifts the lid on a new side to the story of modern Turkey. The Passion also tells the story of the biggest recent scandal in European football, the fixing of the Turkish first division, and sketches the scandal’s murky connections to the country’s leadership.

Kemalism Transnational Politics in the Post Ottoman World Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giorni, Emmanuel Szurek

September 2018 356 pages Approx. 112,000 words => Turkey, Ottoman Studies Rights Sold: Turkey Nathalie Clayer is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. She is also a historian of religion and nationalism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman eras and the author of many book chapters and articles in English and in French.

Fabio Giomi completed his PhD in Islamic history at the University of Bologna and is the author of A Brief History of Islam in the Balkans published in Italian.

Emmanuel Szurek is Associate Professor at the EHESS, Paris. His research focuses on the educational and ideological elaboration of “modern Turkish” by transnational linguistics and orientalism, and the implementation of linguistic policies in Interwar Turkey. He has published Turcs et Français. Une histoire culturelle 1860-1960 and Transturkology. A Transnational History of Turkish Studies (with Marie Bossaert).

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Ottoman Balkans a key area of historical study

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A new angle and original thesis which will be a must have in this area

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Fully supported by the EHESS in Paris – one of the world’s leading research bodies

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, came to power in 1923 with a radical and wide-ranging programme of reforms, known collectively as Kemalism. This philosophy – which included adopting a western alphabet and securing a secular state apparatus - has since the early 1930s, when the Turkish state endeavoured to impose a monolithic definition of the term, been connected to the development of the personality cult of Mustafa Kemal himself.

This book argues that in fact Kemalism can only be fully understood from a transnational perspective.

Each chapter examines the different ways in which national borders refracted and transformed Kemalist ideology. Across the Balkans and the Middle East Kemalism influenced the development of language and the alphabet, the life of women, the law, and everyday dress. A particular focus on the interwar period in Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Egypt reveals how, as a practical tool, Kemalism must be relocated as a global movement, whose influence is still felt today.

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Secret Nation The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian

April 2018 560 pages Approx. 260,000 words => Armenian Studies, History, Middle East, Turkey World Rights

Avedis Hadjian is a freelance journalist. He has appeared on CNN and his writing has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News and Le Monde Diplomatique, amongst many other major international news outlets, and he has written books and articles on the Caucasus in both English and Spanish. His work as a correspondent has taken him to Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, China, the Caucasus, Turkey and Latin America.

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Eyewitness account into the lives of ‘Hidden Armenians’ by someone who can communicate and speak the language

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Would interest wide Armenian diaspora (most of whom are of Western Armenian descent)

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Crossover appeal to historians of Modern Turkey and Genocide Studies

A nation within a nation that has remained secret for a century. It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be called the Armenian Genocide, those who survived in Anatolia were assimilated as Muslims, with most losing all traces of their Christian identity. Some did survive and managed during the last century to conceal their origins. Many of these survivors were orphans, adopted by Turks, only discovering their ‘true’ identity late into their adult lives. In recent years, a growing number of ‘secret Armenians’ have begun to emerge from the shadows. Spurred by the bold voices of journalists like Hrant Dink, the Armenian newspaper editor murdered in Istanbul in 2007, the pull towards freedom of speech and soulsearching are taking hold across the region. Avedis Hadjian has travelled to the towns and villages once densely populated by Armenians, recording stories of survival and discovery from those who remain in a region that is deemed unsafe for the people who once lived there. This book takes the reader to the heart of these hidden communities for the first time, unearthing their unique heritage and identity and revealing the lives of a peoples that have been trapped in a history of denial for more than a century.

Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon A Bordering Practice in the Divided City Mohamad Hafeda

November 2018 304 pages, 106 images Approx. 74,000 words => Middle East, Border & Urban Studies, Political Geography World Rights Mohamad Hafeda is Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Leeds Beckett University. He is co-founder of Febrik, a collaborative platform for art and design projects focussing on the dynamics of urban space, including refugee camps in the Middle East and marginal housing estates in London.

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Timely – reflects a move towards bordering processes in the field of border studies

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Innovative study that challenges traditional conceptions of what is meant by a border

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Richly illustrated in colour

What is a border? A physical barrier? A line on a map?

Or something less material, something manifest in people’s behaviour? In this innovative study of the sectarian–political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more than simple physical divisions, and reveals the ways in which city dwellers both experience them and subvert them in unexpected ways.

Drawing on a unique research project over a period of four years, the author explores different border activities and bordering practices in Beirut, focusing on administration, surveillance, sound, and displacement. The immateriality of the administrative procedures that control the formal borders of Beirut districts reveals the concealing effect of layers of cultural, political, administrative and historical representation.

Moving beyond the usual focus on the politics of international borders and the changing nature of border control, Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon delves into new territory inside cities to engage actively with sites of civil conflict. The result is an innovative work that challenges existing ideas about the nature of borders and provides insights, lessons and a new methodology for approaching conflict and politicalsectarian segregation in global cities.

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Foreign Aid in the Middle East In Search of Peace and Democracy Beáta Paragi

December 2018 320 pages Approx. 102,000 words => Middle East Studies World Rights

Beáta Paragi is Associate Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. She was previously a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an EU Marie Curie fellow at The Fafo Research Foundation in Norway. Her publications in English include articles in the journals Current Anthropology, Alternatives and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and a contribution to the book European Development Cooperation: In Between the Local and the Global.

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Presents an alternative interpretation of foreign aid and examines the relationship between donors and recipient countries in the Middle East

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Sheds new light on relationship between Foreign Aid and destabilization in the Middle East

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First study to present foreign aid as giftgiving in the context of the Middle East

What do we mean by ‘gifts’ in International Relations?

Can foreign aid be conceptualized as a gift? Most foreign aid transactions are unilateral and financially unreciprocated, yet donors expect to benefit from them. Previous research dealing with foreign aid has analyzed the main donor motives and interests in providing financial support. This book offers an indepth analysis of the invisible political or social ‘exchange’ taking place between recipient countries and donors when a grant agreement is signed.

Focusing on Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel - the main beneficiaries of Western foreign aid – the book uses gift theories and theories of social exchange to show how international social bonds are shaped by foreign aid and in what ways recipient countries are obliged to return the ‘gift’ they receive. Foreign aid is a means of buying ‘stability’ or ‘democracy’ in the region but Beata Paragi is interested here to understand the actual feasibility of Western assistance. Looking at the context of the Arab Spring, the book examines how aid impacts on a recipient country’s domestic political events such as war, the quest for self-determination, the struggle against occupation and the fight for dignity. An original contribution to Middle East Studies and International Relations, the research presents an alternative interpretation of foreign aid and show how external funds interact with local developments and realities.

Civil Society in Algeria Activism, Identity and the Democratic Process Jessica Ayesha Northey

September 2018 288 pages Approx. 80,000 words => Middle East Studies, North African Studies World Rights

Jessica Ayesha Northey is a Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry and a country expert for the Bertelsmann Foundation, Washington D.C. She has carried out numerous research assignments and electoral observation missions for international organisations, including the EU, the Westminster Foundation and the World Bank. She completed her PhD in Social & Political Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence.

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Explores the role of associations in promoting political reform and democratization in Algeria

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Algeria plays an increasingly important role in the stability and future peaceful relations across the Middle East and North Africa

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Contributes to debates on political reform and democratization in the Middle East and

Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and the military during the Algerian civil war of the 1990s led to huge loss of life and mass exile. The public sphere was rendered a dangerous place for over a decade. Yet in defiance of these conditions, civil society grew, with thousands of associations forming throughout the conflict. Associations were set up to protect human rights and vulnerable populations, commemorate those assassinated and promote Algerian heritage.

There are now over 93,000 associations registered across the country. Although social, economic and political turbulence continues, new networks still emerge and, since the Arab revolts of 2011, organised demonstrations increasingly take place.

Civil Society in Algeria examines these recent developments and scrutinizes the role associations play in promoting political reform and democratization in Algeria. Based on extensive fieldwork undertaken both before and after the Arab Spring, the book shows how associations challenge government policy in the public sphere and reveals the new forms of activism that are challenging the ever-powerful state.

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Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture Politics, Language and Resistance Jacob Høigilt

November 2018 288 pages, 59 images Approx. 81,200 words => Middle East Studies World Rights

Jacob Høigilt is Associate Professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Oslo. He is also Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He was previously Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies.

He has published the monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt as well as in various edited collections and journals.

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Covers key issues including how comics comment on authoritarianism, unequal gender relations, youth and politics

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Explains this cultural phenomenon of comics in the Arab World and their social and political critique

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Covers numerous countries, mainly Egypt and Lebanon but also referring to Morocco, Algeria, Kuwait

Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, sex, gender relations and youth culture. These are distributed through informal channels as well as independent bookstores and websites. Events like the annual Cairocomix festival in Egypt and the Mahmoud Kahil Award in Lebanon evidence the importance of this cultural phenomenon.

Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture focuses on the production of these comics in Egypt and Lebanon, countries at the forefront of the development of the genre for adults. Jacob Høigilt guides the reader through the emergence of independent comics, explores their social and political critique, and analyses their visual and verbal rhetoric. Analysing more than 50 illustrations, included here, he shows that Arab comics are revealing of the changing attitudes towards politics, social relations and even language. While political analysts often paint a bleak picture of the Arab world after 2011, this book suggests that art and storytelling continue to nourish a spirit of liberty and freedom despite political setbacks.

Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture provides a fresh and original insight into the politics of the Middle East and cultural expression in the Arab World.

Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World Media, Public Space and Temporality Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil (Eds)

November 2018 288 pages, 10 images Approx. 130,000 words => Middle East, Media Studies, Islamic Studies, History World Rights Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris), Editor of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (I.B. Tauris) and Co-editor of Arab Subcultures: Reflections on Theory and Practice (I.B.Tauris) Joe F. Khalil is an Associate Professor of Communication in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Khalil is a scholar on global media and an expert on Arab youth media. He has been part of both the Arab alternative and mainstream media, first as a pirate radio DJ and then as a TV executive.

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In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society. The diverse themes and locations explored include communities at borders, in rural and urban locations, Syrian drama audiences, Egyptian, Saudi and Tunisian artists and activists and historical and contemporary Arab intellectuals. This fresh empirical research and interdisciplinary analysis illuminate intricate experiences that transcend local, national and religious boundaries and expose how Arab publics combine the media and technology to create a rich experience that shapes their collective imagination and social structure. Providing a grounded orientation to key debates on time and what can be defined as public in modern Arab cultures, Sabry and Khalil address teachers, students and those concerned about the delicate structures that underpin the upheavals of the modern Arab world.

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Iran After the Mongols The Idea of Iran series Sussan Babaie (Eds)

November 2018 256 pages, 15 images Approx. 130,000 words => Middle East, History World Rights

Sussan Babaie is Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has previously taught and resesarched at Smith College, the University of Michigan and as the Allianz Visiting Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.

Her exhibitions include the guest-curated Strolling in Isfahan at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University and she is the co-editor of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B.Tauris) and the award-winning monograph, Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran.

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Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today’s Iran, including the area of greater Khorasan. The Persian language gained unprecedented currency over Arabic and new buildings and manuscripts were produced for princely patrons with aspirations to don the Iranian crown of kingship.

This new volume follows the complexities surrounding the cultural reinvention of Iran after the Mongol invasions, but the book is unique capturing not only the effects of Mongol rule but also the period following the collapse of Mongol-based Ilkhanid rule.

By the mid-1330s the Ilkhanate in Iran was succeeded by alternative models of authority and local Iranian dynasties. This led to the proliferation of diverse and competing cultural, religious and political practices but so far scholarship has neglected to produce an analysis of this multifaceted history in any depth.

Analysing the fourteenth century in its own right, Sussan Babaie and her fellow contributors capture the cultural complexity of an era that produced some of the most luminous masterpieces in Persian literature and the most significant new building work in Tabirz, Yazd, Herat and Shiraz.

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Birth of the Persian Empire

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Charting over 1,000 years of History, The Idea of Iran offers a significant new appraisal of one of the most fascinating, but also (at least in the West) relatively little known, of the great civilizations of antiquity. Comprising 7 substantial volumes, the series explores the empires which have shaped the culture of Iran.

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Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire US Mercenary Force in the Middle East Eric Covey

September 2018 322 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Middle East, US Foreign Policy, Ottoman History

Eric Covey completed his PhD at the University of Texas in Austin last year. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.

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We live an age of proxy warfare across the Middle East, and of mercenary armies operating across Africa and on the fringes of Europe. America’s current foreign policy, or at least its representation in the media, seems to suggest there has been a deep and lasting conflict between the Islamic East and the West.

This book seeks to trace the origins of this idea, by uncovering a new history of American mercenary ambitions in the late 18th Century through to the modern age. Eric Covey begins with a focus on the US army which fought the Ottoman Empire in the Tripolitan War of 1801 - Thomas Jefferson, refusing to pay tribute to the Barbary Coast states, went to war with the Pasha of Tripoli. But the conflict was not, as so often portrayed, centred around Christianity versus Islam. The war concerned trade agreements and customs, and various pirates, clientele states and smaller entities (such as the Kingdom of Naples) were involved. The East, as Covey shows, was then seen as a place of hope and adventure; where careers and fortunes could be made.

Covey links this early history together with the subsequent media representations of the ‘orient’ in Hollywood and popular culture, and shows how America’s earliest interactions with the Middle East and North Africa were based around trade, profiteering and clientelism.

The Great Betrayal How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East David L. Phillips

November 2018 272 pages Approx. 73,000 words => Middle East, Current Affairs, Kurdish Studies World Rights David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State. His previous publications include An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan’s Dictatorship; The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of the Middle East; From Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition; Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco and Unsilencing the Past: Track Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation. He writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs.

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Reveals the failings of America’s policies towards Kirkuk and the devastating effects of betraying an ally

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The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq. Following the discovery of oil at Baba Gurgur in the 1920s, Kirkuk became a central priority for successive Iraqi rulers. In the 1970s and 1980s plans for Kirkuk to be the capital of an autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan were decimated by the Baathist regime’s Arabization programme which saw Arabs replacing the Kurds as the significant demographic majority. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. The Great Betrayal provides a political and diplomatic history of the Kirkuk region and its international relations from the 1920s to the present day. Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen sources, it provides an accessible account of a region at the very heart of America’s foreign policy priorities in the Middle East. In September 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan held an independence referendum, intended to be a starting point on negotiations with the Iraqi Government in Baghdad on the terms of a friendly divorce. Though the US, Turkey, and Iran opposed it, the referendum passed with 93% of the vote. Rather than negotiate, Iraq's Prime Minister Heider al-Abadi issued an ultimatum and then attacked the region.

Iraq’s Kurdish population have been abandoned, once again, by their supposed allies in the US.

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The Kurds in a Changing Middle East History, Politics and Representation Faleh A. Jabar & Renad Mansour (Eds)

October 2018 288 pages Approx. 88,000 words => Middle East Studies World Rights Faleh A. Jabar was Research Fellow at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London and President of the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut. His publications in English include: The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq, Tribes and Power in the Middle East, and Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues. He wrote a number of books in Arabic as well as contributions to peer-reviewed edited collections and journals.

Renad Mansour is Research Fellow at both the Cambridge Security Initiative at the University of Cambridge and The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. He has previously been Lecturer of International Studies in the Faculty of Politics at Cambridge University and Senior Fellow at The Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies, Beirut.

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Contributions from world-leading experts on Kurdish politics

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Fills a gap in the scholarship on the impact of recent political, sociological and economic transformations on the Kurds

This book analyses the major problems, challenges and opportunities currently facing the Kurds. Of particular significance, is the new Kurdish society that is evolving in the context of a transforming Middle East. This is made of diverse communities from across the region who represent very different historical, linguistic, political, social and cultural backgrounds that are yet to be understood. This book examines the recent shifts and changes within Kurdish societies and their host countries, and argues that the Kurdish national movement requires institutional and constitutional recognition of pluralism and diversity.

Featuring contributions from world-leading experts on Kurdish politics, this timely book combines empirical case studies with cutting-edge theory to shed new light on the Kurds of the 21st century.

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Women and Equality in Iran Law, Society and Activism Leila Alikarami

October 2018 320 pages Approx. 129,000 words => Middle East Studies World Rights

Leila Alikarami holds a PhD from SOAS. She is a practicing lawyer and human rights activist who grew up in Tehran, where she completed her legal training with Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi in Tehran. Since 2001, Alikarami has focused on women’s and children’s rights and in 2009 she accepted the RAW in War (Reach All Women in War) Anna Politkovskaya Award on behalf of the women of Iran and the One Million Signatures campaign.

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The most important global instrument for ensuring women’s rights is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), yet Iran is not a party to this. Iran’s continued retention of discriminatory laws stands in stark contrast to the advances Iranian women have made in other spheres since the Revolution in 1979.

Leila Alikarami here aims to determine the extent to which the actions of women’s rights activists have led to a significant change in their legal status. She argues that while Iranian women have not yet obtained legal equality, the gender bias of the Iranian legal system has been successfully challenged and has lost its legitimacy.

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Veiling in Fashion Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities Anna-Mari Almila

November 2018 256 pages, 8 images Approx. 81,000 words => Middle East, History World Rights

Anna-Mari Almila is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Her research interests include the cultural sociology of fashion, fashion and social theory. She is co-author, with David Inglis, of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling.

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How veiling as fashion impacts on minority Muslim womens’ everyday lives

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Greater understanding is needed of veiling as fashion in the everyday lives of Muslim women in minority communities. Veiling in Fashion enters the worlds of women who wear the hijab, both as an aspect of their religious observance and as a fashion statement. It uses rich ethnographic investigation of everyday veiling practices among Muslim women in the city of Helsinki as a lens through which to reflect on and advance understanding of matters concerning Muslim dress in the contexts of international Muslim minorities.

The book provides an innovative approach to studying veiling by connecting varied realms of practice, demonstrating how domains as apparently separate as fashion, materiality, city spaces, private life, religious beliefs, and cosmopolitan social conditions are all tightly bound up together in ways that only a sensitive multi-disciplinary approach can reveal. It will appeal to scholars and students in fashion, gender, sociology of religion, material cultures, and the construction of space.

Folktales of Palestine Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling Farah Aboubakr

December 2018 320 pages Approx. 86,000 words => Middle East Studies World Rights

Farah Aboubakr is a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

She specialises in memory studies and Palestinian popular culture and has published in the peer-reviewed journal Marvels & Tales. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester.

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The first monograph to study the culture that surrounds Palestinian folktales and storytelling

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The first study to touch on female Palestinian storytellers

Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds.

Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has engendered a sense of urgency among storytellers and Palestinian folklorists. Yet there has been remarkably little academic scholarship dedicated to the tradition.

Farah Aboubakr here analyses a selection of folktales edited, compiled and translated by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana in Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989).

In addition to the folktales themselves, Muhawi and Kanaana’s collection is renowned for providing readers with extensive folkloric, historical and anthropological annotations. Here, for the first time, the folktales and the compilers’ work on them, are the subject of scholarly analysis. Synthesising various disciplines including memory studies, gender studies and social movement studies, Aboubakr uses the collection to understand the politics of storytelling and its impact on Palestinian identity. In particular, the book draws attention to the female storytellers who play an essential role in transmitting and preserving collective memory and culture. The book is an important step towards analysing a significant genre of Palestinian literature.

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The Women’s Movement in Pakistan Activism, Islam and Democracy Ayesha Khan

August 2018 304 pages Approx. 141,000 words => South Asian Studies, Gender Studies World Rights

Ayesha Khan is Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Sciences Research in Karachi. She has been a journalist in international radio, local television and for newspapers and has also worked at various NGOs. Her contributions have appeared in Feminism, Empowerment and Development, Thinking International Relations Differently and Interrogating Imperialism.

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A history of the modern women’s movement in Pakistan

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Explains the political and historical background to the women’s movement in Pakistan

The military rule of General Zia ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, had significant political repercussions for the country. Islamization policies were far more pronounced and control over women became the key marker of the state’s adherence to religious norms. Women’s rights activists mobilized as a result, campaigning to reverse oppressive policies and redefine the relationship between state, society and Islam. Their calls for a liberal democracy led them to be targeted and suppressed.

This book is a history of the modern women’s movement in Pakistan. The research is based on documents from the Women’s Action Forum archives, court judgments on relevant cases, as well as interviews with activists, lawyers and judges and analysis of newspapers and magazines.

The book outlines the discriminatory laws and policies that triggered domestic and international outcry, landmark cases of sexual violence that rallied women activists together and the important breakthroughs that enhanced women’s rights. At a time when the women’s movement in Pakistan is in danger of shrinking, this book highlights its historic significance and its continued relevance today.

Terrorism in Pakistan The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Challenge to Security N. Elahi

September 2018 304 pages Approx. 88,200 words => Current Affairs, Central Asia World Rights

N. Elahi is Honorary Director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at the University of the Punjab. He holds a PhD from the University of the Punjab and an MA in Intelligence and National Security from King’s College London.

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Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan has faced the threat of terrorism in different forms and shapes. Yet in recent years the threat has taken on a new dimension. After 9/11 the US campaign against Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan led to a surge in unrest and violence in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda gained a foothold in tribal regions of Pakistan via their local supporters, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), currently led by Mullah Fazlullah, who unleashed a new wave of terror across Pakistan. Since then, more than 60,000 Pakistanis have been killed as the result of TTPorchestrated insurgency and terrorist attacks and Pakistan’s society, economy and its international image have suffered at the hands of TTP and its affiliated groups. As a result of several military operations many TTP leaders have taken refuge in Afghanistan where they have joined hands with the terrorist group ISIS, the so-called Islamic State, or Daesh by its local name. Pakistan’s nascent democratic set-up, in the form of the government of Nawaz Sharif, is struggling to curb this menace. This is the first book to cover all aspects of terrorism in Pakistan and to reveal the composition, ideology, approaches and strengths of TTP and its affiliates.

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Among the Wolves of Court The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn Lauren Mackay

September 2018 312 pages, 28 images Approx. 122,000 words => History, Biography World Rights

Lauren MacKay is a historian of Tudor England. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court and a regular contributor to BBC History and All About History. She has lectured at the Tower of London, Hever Castle, Leeds Castle and the National Archives at Kew.

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Dramatic new retelling of the Anne Boleyn tale, through the stories of her father and brother

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Essential reading for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Tracy Borman

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The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne’s life—her father Thomas and brother George— are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII’s turbulent reign. Well before Anne’s coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry’s most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne's downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her and her brother their lives. A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir.

In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren Mackay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the Boleyn men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and establishes their place in Tudor history.

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Citadel of the Saxons The Rise of Early London Rory Naismith

September 2018 256 pages, 16pp plates Approx. 95,000 words => Medieval & Military History, Archaeology World Rights

A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Medieval British History at King’s College London. His earlier books include Money and Power in AngloSaxon England, which in 2013 won the Best First Book Prize of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.

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Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England World Rights

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Peter Ackroyd meets Alfred the Great: brings to life the great metropolis as it fought off the Vikings

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ties into and exploits considerable current interest in and enthusiasm for the AngloSaxons

Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fourthcentury Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city’s phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings, is still virtually unknown. Rory Naismith here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions.

Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today’s metropolis, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as bulwark against the Danes and pivotal English citadel.

Reviving Cicero in Drama From the Ancient World to the Early Modern Stage Gesine Manuwald

September 2018 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Classical Studies, Drama, Literary Studies World Rights

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London. She is the author of Roman Drama: A Reader, Roman Republican Theatre and Cicero (for the Understanding Classics series, I.B.Tauris).

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The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical writings have, over many centuries, made an inescapable impact on the history of Western culture. He impressed figures as diverse as Augustine, Jerome, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Locke, Hume, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The significant debt owed by Barack Obama to Roman oratory was apparent during both terms of his presidency. Cicero’s wide appeal means that of late he has become a popular subject also in classical reception studies. But there is a gap: no book has yet offered a history of the multiple ways in which the great orator shaped later dramatic art, especially during the early modern period. This volume is the first to discuss every instance in which Cicero has been the protagonist in a play, from Ben Jonson (1611) and Voltaire to Richard Cumberland and Henry Bliss (1847). The author places each oeuvre in the context of its first production while discussing the plot in relation to ancient sources. Her study will be read by scholars of classics and literary studies as well as historians of ideas and of the early modern age.

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Understanding Classics Understanding Classics is a specially commissioned series which aims to introduce the outstanding authors and thinkers of antiquity to a wide audience of appreciative modern readers, whether undergraduate students of classics, literature, philosophy and ancient history or generalists interested in the classical world.

Each volume – written by leading figures internationally – will examine the historical significance of the writer or writers in question; their social, political and cultural contexts; their use of language, literature and mythology; extracts from their major works; and their reception in later European literature, art, music and culture.

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A Short History of the Crimean War Short History series Trudi Tate

November 2018 256 pages, 22 images Approx. 62,300 words => History, Military History World Rights

Trudi Tate is an Affiliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has written and broadcast about Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade and is the author of Modernism, History and the First World War.

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Drawing on first-hand accounts, a new look at Britain’s nineteenth century conflict with Russia

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New perspectives on the Crimean War in the words of those who took part in it

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The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported firsthand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera.

In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

In its skilful interweaving of military, medical and social history, the book offers a fresh and intriguing look at one of the most fascinating conflicts of modern times.

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Paul Christopher Anderson is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, South Carolina. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).

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The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians. The Civil War was also one of the world’s first truly industrial conflicts, involving railroads, the telegraph, steamships and mass-manufactured weaponry. The eventual victory of the Union over the Confederacy rang the death-knell for American slavery, and set the USA on the path to becoming a truly world power. Paul Christopher Anderson shows how and why the conflict remains the nation’s defining moment, arguing that it was above all a struggle for political supremacy. Melding social, cultural and military history, the author explores iconic battles like Shiloh, Chickamauga, Antietam and Gettysburg as well as the bitterly contesting forces underlying them. He shows that while both sides began the war in order to preserve – the integrity of the American state for the Union, the integrity of a culture and value system for the Confederacy – it allowed the South to define a regional identity that has survived into modern times.

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The Phoney Victory The World War II Delusion Peter Hitchens

August 2018 256 pages Approx. 82,500 words => History, Politics, World War II Rights Sold: Poland

Peter Hitchens is a journalist and commentator. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

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New Perspectives on several World War II myths by leading columnist Peter Hitchens

Was World War II really the ‘Good War’? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the ‘Good War’. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue. He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued.

He also rejects the retroactive claim that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jewish population of Europe. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. In a provocative, but deeply-researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War II, turning on its head the myth of Britain’s role in a ‘Good War’.

Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy The Life of Marion Cave Rosselli Isabelle Richet

September 2018 256 pages Approx. 90,000 words => History, Biography, Fascism & Antifascism, Women’s Political Activism World Rights

Isabelle Richet is Professor Emeritus at Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. She received a PhD in History from the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. At Université Paris DiderotParis 7 she taught history with a specialty in American religion and social movements, and published several books and many scholarly articles in French. In recent years, her research has focused on exile and expatriation, especially on British and American expatriates in Italy.

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Major new biography of Marion Cave Rosselli, wife of Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli

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New contexts on the position of women Mussolini’s Italy & new perspectives on women and Antifascism

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Adds new dimensions to our understanding of Carlo Rosselli and his Antifascist movement

Marion Cave Rosselli is remembered as the ‘perfect companion’ of the Italian Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli, assassinated in Paris in June 1937. But little is known about the young English student fired with revolutionary enthusiasm who moved to Florence in 1919, witnessed the violent march of fascism to power and thereafter became a resolute adversary of the Mussolini dictatorship. Based on a wealth of littleused private and public archives, this biography retraces her journey from a modest home on the outskirts of London to the first underground Antifascist opposition in Italy, from the prison island of Lipari to exile in Paris and the United States. It reveals the social, cultural and existential factors which underpinned her unflinching political engagement alongside her husband. It also highlights the many challenges faced by Antifascist women within a highly patriarchal movement by bringing to life the figure of a woman who challenged the traditional division of labour within the family and struggled to carve a political role for herself. Reconstructing Marion Cave Rosselli’s experience in relation to the multiple political, social and cultural worlds she moved in, this book broadens our understanding of the Antifascist movement and offers a richly-detailed portrait of a time full of hopes, anxieties and disappointments.

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The Exit Visa A Family’s Journey Through Wartime Europe Sheila Rosenberg •

Based on extensive first-hand research

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Moving Holocaust memoir telling the story of a unique journey across wartime Europe : combines stories of the Holocaust and Kindertransport to create an extensive World War II journey

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Essential reading in the light of current interest in the experiences of refugees

January 2019 264 pages, 15 images Approx. 85,000 words => History, Holocaust, World War II World Rights

Sheila Rosenberg was a teacher of English Literature and English as a Second Language.

She received an OBE in 2011 for her contribution to ESOL teaching.

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6th September, 1942. A middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city’s Jewish population intensified.

He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss border – and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, this book sheds light on the lives of one family – caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II.

Love and Life in Nazi Prague Letters from an Occupied City Marie Bader, Edited by Kate Ottevanger & Jan Lanicek •

Unique personal account of Jewish persecution in Prague

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Deeply personal love story – plenty of human interest

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Sheds new light on daily life in occupied Prague

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Contextual introduction and background by acclaimed historian

March 2019 320 pages , 20 images Approx. 107,000 words => History, Holocaust, World War II, Jewish Studies World Rights Marie Bader (1886-1942) was born in Zebau in Bohemia and lived much of her life in Karlsbad in the Sudetenland. Following Hitler’s invasion in 1938, Marie and her two daughters moved to Prague. Marie was deported to Theresienstadt in April 1942 and died in Auschwitz.

Kate Ottevanger is the granddaughter of Marie Bader. Her son Jeremy discovered the letters in the attic of their family home in 2008 and Kate translated them from the original German.

Jan Lanicek is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Jewish History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation.

Prague, 1941-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely guessed, fate. Amidst the chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Löwy. Ernst has fled to Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. Their letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie, her increasingly strained family relationships as well as the effect on the wider Jewish community whilst Heydrich, one of the key architects and executioners of the Holocaust and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, established the Theresienstadt concentration camp and began to organise the deportation of Jews. Through this deeply personal and moving account, the realities of Jewish life in Heydrich’s Prague are dramatically revealed

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The Hidden War in Argentina British and American Espionage in World War II Panagiotis Dimitrakis

December 2018 288 pages Approx. 86,500 words => History, Politics & International Relations, WWII, Espionage World Rights

Panagiotis Dimitrakis holds a doctorate in War Studies from King’s College London and is an expert on intelligence and military history. He is the author of The Secret War in Afghanistan (I.B.Tauris) and Military Intelligence in Cyprus: From the Great War to Middle East Crises (I.B.Tauris) amongst others.

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Wide appeal: WWII, Espionage and International Relations

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Based on newly declassified files and details of the operations of MI6, the Abwehr, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the FBI, as well as the OSS and the SOE

Though officially neutral until March 1945, Argentina played a key role during World War II as a base for the South American intelligence operations of the major powers. In Buenos Aires, Johannes Siegfried Becker codename ‘Sargo’ - was the man responsible for organizing most of the Nazi intelligence gathering in Latin America and the leader of ‘Operation Bolivar’, which sought to bring South America into the war on the side of the Axis powers. Much to the dismay of the talented MI6 station chief Reginald ‘Rex’ Miller, the Argentinian government appeared to be in thrall to the Abwehr’s slick operations. But when the USA entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, everything changed. The US state department pressured every South American country to join it in declaring war on Germany, and J Edgar Hoover authorized huge investments in South American intelligence operations. Argentina continued to refuse to join the conflict, triggering a US embargo that squeezed the county economically to breaking point.

Despite its stance, Argentina did supply beef to Great Britain along the Atlantic shipping lanes that were so vital in 1944. Yet Buenos Aires continued to be a hub for espionage even as the war in Europe was ending hundreds of high-ranking Nazi exiles sought refuge there. The Hidden War in Argentina reveals the stories of the spymasters, British, Americans and Germans who plotted against each other throughout the Second World War in Argentina.

A History of the Hungarian Constitution Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe Ferenc Horcher, Thomas Lorman (Eds)

December 2018 352 pages Approx. 123,000 words => History, Legal Studies, Politics & International Relations World Rights

Ferenc Hörcher is Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Aesthetics at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary. He has published widely on philosophy, intellectual history, poetry, legal theory and politics and is a also member of the editorial board of Hungarian Review.

Thomas Lorman is a teaching fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL). He is the author of CounterRevolutionary Hungary 1920–1925 and The Path to Fascism in Slovakia (I.B.Tauris). He has also published extensively in peerreviewed journals and is an editor of the journal Central Europe .

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Hungarian Constitution subject of controversy

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Wide-ranging chronological focus

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Includes primary sources translated to English for the first time

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text’s explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over centuries before its violent interruption during World War II, by German invaders, and later, by Soviet occupation.

To explore the context and validity of this claim, and the legal traditions which have informed the stormy centuries of Hungary’s constitutional development, this book brings together a group of leading historians, political scientists and legal scholars to produce a comprehensive history of Hungarian constitutional thought. Ranging in scope from an overview of Hungarian medieval jurisprudence to an assessment of the various criticisms levelled at the new Hungarian Basis Law of 2012, contributors assess the constitutions, their impacts and their legacies, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which they were drafted. The historical analysis is accompanied by a selection of original source materials, many translated here for the first time. This is the only book in English on the subject and is essential reading for all those interested in Hungary’s history, political culture and constitution.

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Singapore A Modern History Michael D. Barr

December 2019 312 pages, 27 images Approx. 117,000 words => History, Asian Studies, Economic History World Rights

Michael Barr is Associate Professor in International Relations, Flinders University, Australia. This is his fifth authored book, following Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man, Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The Tepid War, Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project (written with Z. Skrbiš), and The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence. He also co-edited Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore with C.A. Trocki and The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State with L.Z. Rahim. He was Editor-in-Chief of Asian Studies Review from 2012 to 2017.

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Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present: only history of Singapore which traces roots back to C16

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Singapore is a vital trading and economic hub

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Author is a leading expert on Singapore’s history, politics and culture

Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called ‘Singapore Story’.

Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country’s history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.

Teffi A Life of Letters and of Laughter Edythe Haber

September 2018 320 pages, 20 images Approx. 112,000 words => Literature, Biography, History World Rights

Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi and Nabokov. She wrote the introduction to Teffi’s Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, which was awarded 2017’s Pushkin House Prize ‘Special Award for Best Book in Translation’, and has been researching and enjoying Teffi’s work for more than 40 years.

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The first biography of one of Russia's most celebrated authors

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Written by the world’s foremost authority on Teffi

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Heightened interest in Teffi – spate of translations in UK and US and good coverage in media

Teffi was one of 20th century Russia’s most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people, from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin, and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her.

She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of War and Peace and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing – and enjoying comparable fame – until her death in 1952.

Teffi’s best stories effortlessly shift from light humour and satire to pathos and even tragedy – ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile. In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi to life.

Teffi’s life and works afford a unique panoramic view of the cultural world of early 20th century Russia, from the debauchery of the Silver Age to the terror and euphoria of revolution, and of interwar Russian emigration. But they also offer fresh insights into the seismic events – from the 1905 Russian Revolution and World War II to life as a refugee – that she experienced first-hand and recreated in her vivid, penetrating, moving and witty writing.

In Search of Isaiah Berlin A Literary Adventure Henry Hardy

September 2018 312 pages , 20 images Approx. 114,500 words => Literature, Biography, History Rights Sold: China

Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Isaiah Berlin’s principal editor and one of his literary trustees. He began editing Berlin’s editor in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at Wolfson). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990 and has now edited or coedited 18 of his books, as well as a fourvolume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975– 1997, co-edited with Mark Pottle) was published in 2015.

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One of the most revealing portraits of Isaiah Berlin, by the man who knew him best

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Isaiah Berlin is a major 20th century figure, with a considerable following

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Berlin’s thought is especially topical today

“What emerges most vividly from this very attractive and beautifully written book is the depth of the friendship that existed between the author and Isaiah Berlin. We are now fortunate to have a first-hand account of how their wonderful relationship began and blossomed and of the rich and permanent fruit it bore in the shape of Berlin’s scrupulously produced works.” - Johnny Lyons, How to Think Like a Fox: the central Ideas of Isaiah Berlin Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas – especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today.

But who was the man behind such influential philosophies? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin’s huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who illuminated a new way of thinking about the world, yet whose own life has for so long remained in the shadows .

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The Man Who Wasn’t There A Life of Ernest Hemingway Richard Bradford

October 2018 256 pages Approx. 126,000 words => Biography, Literature World Rights

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at University of Ulster and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 20 acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year, a biography of Alan Sillitoe, which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He regularly writes for The Spectator and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series ‘Writers in their Own Words’, talking mainly on Martin Amis and the post-1960s generation of British novelists.

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Ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer

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Bradford: established, award-winning biographer with track record

Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential nonconformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway’s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature.

They are the writer’s private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingway’s oeuvre Hemingway’s unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.

Dark Star The Untold Story of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan

October 2018 336 pages , 28 images Approx. 142,000 words => Biography, Film, Theatre World Rights

Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In the West End he has directed over twenty-five productions, and overseas he has worked in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York. He has directed such actors as Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Penelope Keith, Maureen Lipman, Dorothy Tutin and Pauline Collins; and plays by authors ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting it On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.

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Includes previously unseen sources from new archives at V&A

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Major new biography of the most iconic actress of the twentieth century

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New details on Leigh’s relationship with Laurence Olivier

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth-century. As Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously-unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work.

Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest actresses.

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Conan Doyle’s Wide World The Travels that Inspired Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett

January 2019 256 pages , 10 images Approx. 79,000 words => Travel, Memoir, Literature World Rights

Andrew Lycett is a writer and broadcaster who has written acclaimed biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. The last of these was described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'hugely enjoyable' and 'impeccably researched', while the Sunday Times dubbed it 'undoubtedly the best account of Doyle'. As a journalist, Lycett has contributed regularly to The Times, Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

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Conan Doyle has a huge following

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Reveals the unknown side of this household name

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Over 400 Sherlock Holmes societies worldwide - significant promotional opportunities

Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world’s greatest detective; he was also an intrepid traveller – and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures - which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between - are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place. Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this ground-breaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.

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Barcelona A Literary Guide for Travellers Mike Gonzalez

October 2018 288 pages , 15 images Approx. 77,000 words => Travel, Literary History World Rights

Mike Gonzalez, a historian and literary critic, is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He writes extensively on Latin America and is the author of The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth Century Poetry of Latin America, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, Tango: Sex and Rhythm of the City and A Rebel’s Guide to Marx.

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No other literary guide to Barcelona in print

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Over 2 million tourists visit Barcelona annually

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Into the heart of one of the world's most alluring cities through the imaginations of over 50 writers and artists

“Barcelona is a fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers…land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm friendship, a city unique in its location and beauty.” - Don Quixote City of outlandish cathedrals, eccentric parks, elegant plaças and atmospheric barrios, Barcelona is ‘haunted by history’, yet alive with the ghosts of those it has inspired, from Cervantes, Zafon and Montalbán, Gaudí, Miró and Dalí to Jean Genet, George Sand, Auden and Orwell. Perhaps more than any other Spanish city, Barcelona is synonymous with literature, art and creativity; it is the distilled essence of Catalonia - a region that has always marched to the beat of its own drum. Barcelona: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the reader on a dynamic journey into the imaginations of over 50 iconic writers and the heart of one of the most alluring cities in the world.

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Madrid A Literary Guide for Travellers Jules Stewart

October 2018 288 pages , 15 images Approx. 87,000 words => Travel, Literary History World Rights

Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. He was born in New York and worked there in various guises – including a yellow cab driver – over the years. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan’s Plains: The Story of Britain’s Afghan Wars and Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s (all published by I.B.Tauris); Crimson Snow: Britain’s First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda.

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Jules Stewart is an established authority on Madrid

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Experience Madrid through the lives and works of the city's most celebrated artists and writers

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Madrid is Spain’s most popular city

Hemingway called Madrid “the most Spanish of all cities” and the “centre of the world”; it was a place that drew him back again and again. But he wasn’t the only writer to have been inspired by this proud city which fizzes with energy and is so infused with art and literature. From the Café Gijón, favourite hang-out of Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel, and the Bar Chicote, Hemingway’s preferred watering hole and a popular haunt for bohemian Madrid during the Civil War, to the Hotel Florida where John Dos Passos and Antoine de Saint Exupéry used to stay, to the grave of Lope de Vega and the house in which Cervantes took his last breath, this unique guide takes the reader on a colourful journey that spans four centuries and brings to life the people and places that make Madrid the heart of literary Spain.

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Madrid The History World Rights

Gotham Rising New York in the 1930s World Rights

Iceland A Literary Guide for Travellers Marcel Krueger

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Icelandic literature is one of the most influential in the world, inspiring things like Scandi crime drama and Game of Thrones

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Nothing else like this on the market There is my country wrapped in calm of night steeped in steel-cold ice

February 2019 224 pages , 10 images Approx. 63,500 words => Travel, Literary History World Rights

Marcel Krueger is a writer, translator and editor. He predominantly writes works of non-fiction about places, their history and the journeys in between. He is book editor of the Elsewhere Journal and is contributing editor of Sonic Iceland. His articles and essays have been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Reykjavik Grapevine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Slow Travel Berlin and CNN Travel, amongst others. He is the author of Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps and, together with Paul Sullivan, Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers - both published by I.B. Tauris.

Iceland is an island of multiple identities, of constant flux, just like its unruly volcanic ground. As much shaped by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland’s literary heritage is one of Europe’s richest – and most ancient. Its stories have been passed down through the generations: told and retold by sheep farmers, psalm-writers, travelling reverends, independence fighters, scholars and hedonists. From the captivating Norse myths, which continue to inspire contemporary authors such as A.S. Byatt, to gripping Scandinavian crime fiction and Game of Thrones, via Jules Verne and J.R.R Tolkien, W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney, Iceland’s influence has spread far beyond its frozen shores. Peopled by Norse maidens and witches, elves and outlaws and taking the reader and traveller from Reykjavik and the Bay of Smokes to the remote Westfjords and desolate highlands, this is an enthralling portrait of the Land of Ice and Fire.

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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Kerouac Sometimes, reading about a place can be as good as being there yourself. I.B.Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers celebrate the spirit of place through the experiences of some of history’s greatest writers, artists and travellers.Travel the world through their eyes: from Hemingway’s Paris and Cervantes’ Andalucia to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Greece, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin and Ezra Pound’s Sicily.

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GREECE NEW A Literary Guide for Travellers Michael Carroll 288 PAGES

VENICE A Literary Guide for Travellers Marie-José Gransard 336 PAGES

ANDALUCIA A Literary Guide for Travellers Andrew and Suzanne Edwards 304 PAGES

SICILY A Literary Guide for Travellers Andrew and Suzanne Edwards 320 PAGES

BERLIN A Literary Guide for Travellers Paul Sullivan and Marcel Krueger 288 PAGES

TANGIER A Literary Guide for Travellers Josh Shoemake 296 PAGES

SCOTLAND A Literary Guide for Travellers Garry MacKenzie 288 PAGES

FLORENCE AND TUSCANY A Literary Guide for Travellers Ted Jones 256 PAGES

Unimaginable What We Imagine and What We Can't Graham Ward

August 2018 256 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Cultural Studies, Theology World Rights Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. A former editor of the journal Literature and Theology, he has written numerous books which explore varied topics in religion, theology, literature and literary and cultural theory. These include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology, Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (edited with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock, The Certeau Reader, True Religion, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice and Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don’t (I.B.Tauris).

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Adopts a bold, creative and innovative interdisciplinary approach to human emotion and thinking

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Graham Ward is one of the foremost theologians and public thinkers on religion in the UK

What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological.

In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain’s most exciting writers on religion here presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination.

Traversing landscapes that are both physical and emotional, palpable and intangible, the author enlists the company of fellow-travellers William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams – alongside many other creative artists – to try to get to the bottom of the true meanings of originality and memory. Drawing the while on his own rich and varied encounters with belief, he asks why it is that the imagination is so fundamental to who and what we are.

Using metaphor and story to unpeel the hidden motivations and architecture of the mind, and show what might lie beneath, Graham Ward grapples here with profound questions of ultimacy and transcendence. He reveals that, in understanding what it really means to be human, what cannot be imagined invariably means as much as what can.

Girls Like This, Boys Like That The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures Victoria Cann

June 2018 224 pages Approx. 56,000 words => Gender Studies, Popular Culture World Rights Victoria Cann is a Lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Her research is concerned with the processes through which identity is reproduced, and feminist politics more broadly. Victoria has published on the topic of gendered audiences, identity politics and the politics of representation.

She teaches courses in Media and Cultural Politics and she undertakes a range of feminist engagement work in the community.

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A unique look at male and female preferences in popular culture

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New insight into gender studies through their combination with politics of taste

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Brand new research uniting gender and taste studies to explore the pop cultural preferences of young people

What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and the work of renowned theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Victoria Cann argues that popular culture affects young people’s experiences of masculinity and femininity and forces them to navigate a social minefield in which they are pressured to display tastes deemed appropriate for their gender. Combining her own unique empirical research with a strong theoretical framework, Cann widens and links the fields of gender and taste studies to show the everyday reality of twenty-first-century youth and their apprehensions – especially those of young boys – about participating in activities, or embracing pop-cultural preferences that have traditionally only been associated with the opposite sex.

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Tweenhood Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture Melanie Kennedy

October 2018 288 pages Approx. 96,300 words => Visual Culture, Literature World Rights

Melanie Kennedy is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her research examines media representations of gendered, age-defined, classed, raced identities (in particular tweens, young female celebrities, and teenage mothers), and the popular culture that addresses these subjects.

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A contemporary examination of how the tween is constructed in popular culture

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Case studies of well known personalities such as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez

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A multi textual analysis including film, television and celebrities

A powerful female, preadolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood, Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream, pre-adolescent girls’ films, television programmes and celebrities from 2004 onwards, including A Cinderella Story, Hannah Montana and Camp Rock. Her book forges a dialogue between postfeminism, film and television, celebrity and most importantly; the figure of the tween. Kennedy examines how these media texts, which are so key to tween culture, address and construct their target audience by helping them to ‘choose’ an appropriately feminine identity. Tweenhood then, she argues, is transient and a discursive construct whose unpacking highlights the deification of celebrity and femininity within its culture.

Wonder Woman Feminism, Culture and Body Joan Ormrod

December 2018 288 pages , 59 images Approx. 98,000 words => Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Film & TV World Rights Joan Ormrod is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests are in the intertwining of culture and mass media, including body theory and superheroes, narratives, form and time in the media, fantasy and narrative, comics, gender, subcultures and audiences.

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Feminism and Popular Culture Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique World Rights

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How does Wonder Woman’s body reflect her socio-cultural contexts?

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Builds upon popularity of recent film starring Gal Gadot

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None of the previous books about Wonder Woman deal with the post Marston comics in any detail

She was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty -year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In Wonder Woman: Feminism, Culture and the Body, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine’s career and views them through the prism of the female body. Wonder Woman’s physical form, Ormrod argues, has always been an amalgamation of the feminine ideal in popular culture and wider socio-cultural debate, from Betty Grable to the 1960s ‘mod’ girl, to the Iron Maiden of the 1980s.

This book explores how Wonder Woman’s body has undergone a trajectory heavily influenced by increasing technological sophistication, globalisation and women’s changing roles and ambitions. For Ormrod then, Wonder Woman’s body is an articulation of female potential and cultural strategies to constrain her power, whilst it also reflects the changing nature of her mission from an ambassador for peace and love, to the greatest warrior in the DC transmedia universe.

Marvel’s Mutants The X-men Comics of Chris Claremont World Rights

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Once Upon A Time Lord The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who Ivan Phillips

December 2018 256 pages Approx. 102,000 words => Doctor Who Fans, Media Studies World Rights

Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on popular culture, science fiction and horror, reviewing regularly for Critical Studies in Television. He is a contributor to Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who.

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Shows how Doctor Who tells stories & uses myths

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New take on Doctor Who as hero

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Accessibly Doctor Who fan and student friendly in style & content

“We’re all stories in the end”, said the Doctor in ‘The Big Bang’. Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new Who’, Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord’s story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. The book offers an original take on this popular hero’s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has encountered across more than half a century.

Dancing with the Doctor Dimensions and Gender in the Doctor Who Universe World Rights

Brand New Art From China A Generation on the Rise Barbara Pollack

June 2018 288 pages, 40 images Approx. 67,000 words => Art, China World Rights

Barbara Pollack is an award-winning journalist, art critic, and curator who is one of the world’s leading authorities on contemporary Chinese art. Pollack’s writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Departures, Artnews, Art and Auction and Art in America, among many others. She has also written several ground-breaking monographs on young Chinese artists, including the first published artist profile of Ai Weiwei for Artnews in 2005. She lectures regularly across the USA and Asia, and was the key note speaker at 2018’s Art Basel Hong Kong.

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First collection to showcase the dynamic new art coming from Chinese artists

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Including an in-depth interview with Zhang Xiaogang

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Features full-colour photos and video stills throughout

A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world – just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet. Building on the new frontiers opened up by the Chinese artists of the late 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Ai Wei Wei who came to the West and became household names, this new generation are provocative, exciting and bold. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist today? And how can we better understand their work?

Here, renowned critic Barbara Pollack presents the first book to tell the story of how these Chinese millennials, fast becoming global art superstars, negotiate their cultural heritage, and what this means for China’s impact on the future of global culture.

Many young Chinese artists have declared they are “not Chinese, but global” – this book investigates just what that means for China, the art market, and the world.

Featuring an in-depth interview with Zhang Xiaogang, probably the most well-known artist in China itself, whose sombre portraits of Chinese families during the Cultural Revolution sell for as much as $12 million at auction, alongside unparalleled access to the tastemakers of today’s art scene, Brand New Art from China is the essential guide to Chinese contemporary art today - its vision, values and aesthetics.

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Censoring Art Silencing the Artwork Roisin Kennedy and Riann Coutler

September 2018 208 pages, 35 images Approx. 65,000 words => Art History, Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies World Rights

Roisin Kennedy is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Irish Art at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the critical reception of modernist art in Ireland, the role and function of art writing post 1880, and on the position of women as artists and subjects in modernist art.

Riann Coulter is Curator/Manager at the F.E.McWilliam Gallery & Studio in County Down. She specialises in Irish and British modern and contemporary art and has over 15 years’ experience curating and cocurating exhibitions for regional and national institutions throughout Ireland.

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Despite the fact that censorship of visual art is becoming more rather than less prevalent, this is the first book on the subject

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There is wide public interest in issues of censorship and freedom of expression in all aspects of culture at the moment but particularly visual art

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Contributors include art historians, historians, curators and critics as well as artists who have been directly affected by censorship

Art has been continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the State to promote a specific political agenda or by the art market, to elevate one artist above another. Now, and in the last century, artwork that touches on ethnic, religious, sexual, national or institutional sensitivities is liable to be destroyed or hidden away, ignored or side-lined. Drawing from new research into historical and contemporary case-studies, Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork provides diverse ways of understanding the purpose and mechanisms of art censorship across distinct geopolitical and cultural contexts from Iran, Japan, and Uzbekistan to Britain, Ireland, Canada, Macedonia, Soviet Russia, and Cyprus. Its contributions uncover the impact of this silent control of the production and exhibition of art and consider how censorship has affected art practice and public perceptions of artworks.

Fashion Crimes Dressing for Deviance Joanne Turney

November 2018 240 pages Approx. 90,00 words => Fashion & Cultural Studies, Criminology, Material & Popular Culture World Rights Associate Professor at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Joanne Turney is the author of The Culture of Knitting and co-author, with Rosemary Harden, of Floral Frocks. She is also coeditor, with Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Michael Langkjær, of Images in Time.

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How fashion and the deviant outsider connect in everyday dress

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New research on street style from trench coats to hoodie to hip hop

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Interesting to criminologists as well as academic & trade fashion

In both revealing and concealing the body, fashionable clothing is an excellent communicator of a person’s identity, which in turn can assume social and moral significance in coding someone as ‘respectable’ or as an outsider; as deviant.

This book explores the relationship between fashion and criminality.

It sets out to develop from interdisciplinary perspectives, new ways of seeing everyday dress and the individual body in the public space. It focuses on specific garments and their individual or group wearers – the Hoodie and the trench-coat, knitted Norwegian Lustkoffe sweaters and low-slung trousers, branded sportswear and Hip Hop styling, the fashion model – innocuous in themselves, but which have been coded as deviant socially and in the media. Fashion Crimes questions the point at which morality as a form of social control meets criminality and demonstrates how such established dress codes and terms as ‘suitability’ or ‘glamour’ can be renegotiated through the exploration of what people wear every day in response to notions of criminality.

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Images of Sex Work in Early 20th-Century America Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits Mollie Le Veque

November 2018 272 pages (NO IMAGES) Approx. 76,500 words => History of Art, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Photography, American History World Rights

Mollie Le Veque is an associate tutor at the University of East Anglia. She received her PhD from UEA and her research interests are the interplay of images, archives and texts, fandom histories, erased urban spaces and the Storyville portraits.

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Analysis of how the Storyville Portraits humanised New Orleans’ prostitutes

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No professionally reviewed, published academic works on the Storyville Portraits or Bellocq: just essays and biographical pieces

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Enough interest in these subjects to make the project successful

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Acclaimed fictions inspired by Bellocq, including Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems Bellocq’s Ophelia (2001), Michael Ondaatje’s novel Coming Through Slaughter (1976), and Louis Malle’s film “Pretty Baby” (1978)

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn’t apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq’s depictions of Storyville’s sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans’ singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mollie Le Veque interrogates these glib readings and argues that sex work was a routine aspect of life in a modern city. She supports this theory by examining a range of cultural forms such as crime fiction, illustrations and paintings from contemporary urban centres like Paris, London and New York. In doing so, she advances the new argument that Bellocq humanised his subjects, desensationalised sex work and gave these women the dignity they were all too often denied.

Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond K.K. Woofter and Lorna Jowett •

A study of the influential works of Joss Whedon, situating his televisual and cinematic productions within the context of horror and horror scholarship

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Examines the fandom, generic tropes and themes, representation and industrial background of Joss Whedon productions in relation to the wider horror tradition

September 2018 288 pages , 23 images Approx. 113,000 words => TV & General Interest , Film Studies World Rights Kristopher Karl Woofter teaches on the American Gothic, horror and the ‘Weird tradition’ in literature, cinema and television at Dawson College, Canada, and is Associate Editor of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. He is also Editor of The Miskatonic Journal of Horror Studies and his publications include essays and chapters on Joss Whedon as well as the intersection of the Gothic and documentary in Textus, Slayage and Reading Joss Whedon.

Lorna Jowett is Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, where she teaches horror, science fiction, and television, sometimes all at once. Her most recent book is Dancing With the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the New Doctor Who Universe (I.B.Tauris): she is also author of Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, and coauthor with Stacey Abbott of TV Horror.

Although ostensibly presented as ‘light entertainment,’ the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means.

Woofter and Jowett’s collection looks at how Whedon revisits the ‘90s ‘slasher’ craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a revisionary feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on ‘cosmic dread’ and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon’s genrebased universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

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The Origins of the Film Star System Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema Andrew Shail

September 2018 336 pages Approx. 140,000 words => Film & Star Studies World Rights

Andrew Shail is Senior Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. He is the author of The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism and Back to the Future; and editor of Reading the Cinematograph, Neurology and Modernity, and Menstruation: A Cultural History. His articles have appeared in Film History, the Journal of British Cinema and Television, The Senses & Society, Body & Society, Critical Quarterly, and André Gaudreault et al’s Companion to Early Cinema. He is also the co-editor, with Joe Kember, of the journal Early Popular Visual Culture.

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A highly original book on the emergence of the western ‘star system’ in the film industry

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A revisionary social and cultural history

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Includes clear and insightful analysis on the cultural economy of stars based on new archival evidence

Film stars are central to today’s celebrity-obsessed culture. Yet, in the early decades of cinema, the industry faced disincentives to using the identities of performers for publicity. For over 12 years after the invention of the projector, the major production centres of the world made fiction films without the use of constructed star personas. Explaining then the reasons why and how film companies in North America and Europe created ‘stars,’ in the years 19091911, Andrew Shail here responds to Richard deCordova’s comprehensive and landmark account, which argued that the development of the Hollywood star system was indebted to precise collaboration between the American press and movie industry.

Assembling evidence from a multitude of unused and little-used archives, Shail reveals how this major aspect of show business actually originated in France and reassesses this key period of early cinema history to explore character-based series films.

Writing with clarity on complex new revelations, this revisionary cultural history is an invaluable addition to the study of stardom at the start of the 20 th century and a vital tool to understanding the use of star personas through time.

Ageing Femininity on Screen The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema Niall Richardson

December 2018 256 pages Approx. 80,000 words => Film Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies World Rights

Niall Richardson is Senior Lecturer and convenor of the MA in Gender and Media at the University of Sussex. He is an expert on body image in film, queer politics and the representation of gender and ageing in popular culture. His numerous publications include the co-edited collection Film and Gender and The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings (I.B. Tauris).

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Examines both British and American films

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A range of films from the 1980s to the present day

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Unpacks stereotypes that are omnipresent in popular culture

What can queer theory, media studies and feminism bring to our understanding of cinema’s Lavender Ladies? Addressing the groundswell of scholarly interest in age and its representation, Ageing Femininity on Film explores character tropes for old women in recent film. Alongside a proliferation of negative stereotypes, like the grotesque hag or the dotty old fool, this book illuminates gentility as a key alternative. Across classics of British and American cinema since the 1980s, including Driving Miss Daisy and The Queen, aging females are empowered by genteel manners. They are amateur sleuths, retired political figures, and everyday women who refuse to be ignored. Studying examples beyond the “politics of pity,” this important book unpacks the multi-faceted relationship between gentility and feminine strength.

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