I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT AFFAIRS
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Who is Hillary Clinton? by Richard Kreitner
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Brexit by Denis MacShane
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Journalism in an Age of Terror by John Lloyd
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What Next? by Peter Wilding
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The Origins of Isis by Simon Mabon & Stephen Royle
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Unmasked by Laurence Cockcroft
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Drones and Terrorism by Nicholas Grossman
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MIDDLE EAST
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Aleppo by Philip Mansel
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Irregular War by Paul Rogers
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Generation M by Shelina Janmohamed
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Under the Shadow by Kaya Genรง
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Qatar by Allen J. Fromherz
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The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay
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HISTORY & RELIGION
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The Winchester by Laura Trevelyan
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Gotham Rising by Jules Stewart
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The Napoleonic Mediterranean by Michael Broers
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The Making of England by Mark Atherton
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The Modern History of the Balkans by Thanos Veremis
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A Short History of the Russian Revolution by Geoffrey Swain
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The Kingdom of Women by Choo Wai Hong
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Young Lothar by Larry Orbach & Vivian Orbach-Smith
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A Short History of the Celts by Alex Woolf
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A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate
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A Short History of the Mongols by George Lane
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A Short History of Medieval Christianity by G. R. Evans
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A Short History of the Phoenicians by Mark Woolmer
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A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt by Robert Morkot
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Religion in the Roman World by Juliette Harrisoson
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Babushka’s Journey by Marcel Krueger
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Radical Prophet by Christopher Rowland
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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire by Baki Tezcan
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BIOGRAPHIES
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Reagan by Iwan Morgan
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Evita by Jill Hedges
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Forever Stardust by Will Brooker
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Zhou Enlai by Michael Dillon
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Growing Up with the Impressionists by Jane Roberts
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TRAVEL
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Venice by Marie-José Gransard
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Berlin by Paul Sullivan & Marcel Krueger
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Scotland by Garry MacKenzie
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Andalucia by Andrew & Suzanne Edwards
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By the Olive Groves by Grazia Ietto Gillies
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MEDIA & CULTURE
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Sofia Coppola by Fiona Handyside
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Tweenhood by Melanie Kennedy
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Delft Blue to Denim Blue by Anneke Smelik
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Dancing with the Doctor by Lorna Jowett
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Folk Fashion by Amy Twigger Holroyd
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You Win or You Die by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
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Behind the Scenes at the Ballet Russes by Michael Meylac
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Hitchcock and the Spy Film by James Chapman
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Who is Hillary Clinton? Two Decades of Answers From the Left RICHARD KREITNER (ED), INTRODUCTION BY KATHA POLLITT
MARCH 16 384 PAGES APPROX. 120,000 WORDS POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS /CURRENT AFFAIRS RIGHTS SOLD: KOREA
Author Richard Kreitner is Special Assistant to the Publisher at The Nation. Katha Pollit is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, has contributed to The Nation magazine for several decades. Her most recent book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014).
‘She’s a radical feminist. She’s just a wife. She’s Emma Goldman in a pantsuit. She’s a corporate sellout. She’s a liberal. She’s conservative. She’ll move all women forward. Yeah, right: The only woman she cares about is herself.’ from Katha Pollitt’s introduction
Description Who is Hillary Clinton really? Her identity as a feminist, as a wife, as a woman, as a liberal and as a potential President of the United States has been debated and contested for more than 20 years. Chief amongst these debates, The Nation has, over the years, examined her from every angle from First Lady in 1993, to New York Senator in 2000 to Democratic Presidential hopeful today. This book is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation’s coverage of Clinton’s career, it’s a rigorous and painstaking study of one of our most enigmatic public figures. It is a history of our time, and a must-read for the 2016 election season, providing perspective on the woman who could become the first female President of the United States. Contributors include David Corn, Erica Jong, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Tomasky, William Greider, Ari Berman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chris Hayes, Jessica Valenti, Richard Kim, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Michelle Goldberg, and many more.
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Brexit How Britain Left Europe DENIS MACSHANE
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SEPTEMBER 16 288 PAGES APPROX. 90,000 WORDS POLITICS / EUROPEAN STUDIES / CURRENT AFFAIRS RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Denis MacShane was a Labour MP serving in Tony Blair's government as Minister for Europe. He was first elected as MP for Rotherham in 1994 and served until his resignation in 2012. MacShane studied at Oxford and London Universities and has four chil dre n. He i s a promine nt commentator on European issues.
Featuring exclusive new post-referendum analysis MacShane explains the reasons behind the success of the Leave campaign Written with access to government insiders and first-hand perspectives
‘A shrewd analysis of the forces shaping the British debate on the EU. The description of how eurosceptic press works is alarming. The book is full of trenchant arguments and telling anecdotes’ Charles Grant, Centre for European Reform ‘This is an important study of the forces in Britain that could if they are not countered lead Britain out of the EU which would be bad for Britain and for Europe’ Pascal Lamy, former Director, World Trade Organisation
Description HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane’s bestselling history of the UK’s relationship with Europe, the former Europe Minister reveals the full story behind Britain’s historic EU Referendum decision. Denis MacShane was the only senior Remainer to have called the EU Referendum result correctly and his book provides the essential context to the new political and economic landscape of Brexit Britain.
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Journalism in an Age of Terror Covering and Uncovering the Secret State
JOHN LLOYD Key selling points
OCTOBER 16 288 PAGES 7 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 100,000 WORDS CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS / BUSINESS / JOURNALISM RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author John Lloyd is Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism as well as a contributing editor at the Financial Times (FT), a columnist for Reuters.com, and for La Repubblica of Rome. For the Reuters Institute, he is co-author of Reporting the EU (with Cristina Marconi) and Journalism and PR (with Laura Toogood).
Exposé of journalism and intelligence Written by prominent FT journalist John Lloyd Considered analysis in light of Snowden/NSA revelations
Description ‘The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups have prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation permitting collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyse, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the intelligence services and the news media. It provides the answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far have the Snowden/ NSA revelations damaged the activities of the secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public?
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What Next? Britain’s Future in Europe PETER WILDING
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New perspective on post-referendum Britain Offers pointers as to Britain’s future global role A new vision for Britain’s European future
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‘Peter Wilding’s provocative take on Britain’s complex relationship with the EU includes some profound historical analysis, especially on the European philosophies of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. He reminds us that both were, at least some of the time, passionately engaged Prime Ministers. Inspired by those two greats, Wilding sets out a patriotic and positive agenda for Britain to lead in Europe.’ Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform
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Peter Wilding is the Founder and Chair of the think tank British Influence. He has worked in European affairs for over twenty years, including practicing and lecturing as a solicitor in EU law. He has previously been Head of Media for the Conservative Party in the European Parliament, Director of CabinetDN, a Brussels public affairs consultancy, and Europe Director for BSkyB.
In 2016 forty years of uncertainty over Britain’s place in Europe ended with a decisive vote for Brexit in the EU referendum. What role will Britain now play in Europe and, indeed, the world? What will happen next? Peter Wilding offers an arresting answer, plotting out a new course for Britain’s troubled relationship with Europe. He channels the pride Britain draws from its heritage through the prejudice Britain has historically had against Europe, and proposes a new popular-based platform for British influence in Europe: ‘smart power’. His book will provide valuable new perspectives on the debate about what Britain does next after the Brexit vote.
OCTOBER 16 176 PAGES APPROX. 40,000 WORDS BRITISH & EUROPEAN POLITICS / EUROPEAN STUDIES
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The Origins of ISIS The Collapse of nations and Revolution on the Middle East SIMON MABON & STEPHEN ROYLE Key selling points
NOVEMBER 16 256 PAGES 2 MAPS APPROX. 75,000 WORDS CURRENT AFFAIRS / MIDDLE EAST / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Simon Mabon is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East. Stephen Royle is a Research Fellow at the Richardson Institute, Lancaster University. He holds a PhD from Lancaster University.
First scholarly account of the rise of ISIS Features first-hand fieldwork from Iraq Deeply researched using previously-unseen sources
Description ‘The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider the historical and local dynamics that have shaped the emergence of the group in the past decade. In this book Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the roots, tactics and ideology of the group, exploring the interactions of the various participants involved in the formative stages of ISIS. Based on original scholarly sources and first-hand research in the region, this book provides an authoritative and closely-analysed look at the emergence of one of the defining forces of the early twenty-first century.
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Unmasked Corruption in the West
LAURENCE COCKCROFT & ANNE-CHRISTINE WEGENER Key selling points
NOVEMBER 16 288 PAGES 12 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 80,000 WORDS CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS / BUSINESS / CRIME RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Laurence Cockcroft is a Development Economist and Founder of Transparency International, the global civil society organization against corruption, and was formerly Chairman of its UK chapter. He is the author of Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World and Africa’s Way: A Journey from the Past (both I.B.Tauris).
Detailed analysis of political and corporate corruption Considers methods proposed to tackle corruption in the West Original case studies and investigation
Description How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America’s formal self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting both the corporate and political worlds. This book identifies the driving forces behind such cases, particularly the role of political finance, lobbying, the banking system and organised crime. It analyses the sectors which are particularly prone to corruption, including sport, defence and pharmaceuticals. In the course of their investigation, the authors consider why anti-corruption legislation has not been more effective and why there is an increasing discrepancy between regulation and commercial and cultural practice. Are Europe and the US genuinely serious about fighting corruption and if so what measures will be taken to roll it back?
Anne-Christine Wegener is an anticorruption consultant. She was previously a Deputy Director and Programme Manager at Transparency International UK, focussing on Defence and Security.
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Drones and Terrorism Asymmetrical Warfare and the Threat to Security
NICHOLAS GROSSMAN Key selling points
JUNE 17 356 PAGES APPROX. 85,000 WORDS DRONES / ROBOTICS / TERRORISM STUDIES RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Nicholas Grossman is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Iowa. He is an expert on robotics, drones and assymetrical warfare (i.e. insurgencies, guerrilla warfare, terrorism). He has appeared on CBS news as a terrorism expert, as well as in the Daily Iowan, and was a journalist for the online magazine inFlux.
A new angle on drone warfare A subject area which is growing Could be very influential as drone incidents increase in number and severity
Description In warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings – a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm – with large states increasingly fighting marginal terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Here, Nicholas Grossman shows how we are entering the age of the drone terrorist groups such as Hezbollah are already using them in the Middle East. Grossman will analyse the ways in which the United States, Israel and other advanced militaries use aerial drones and ground-based robots to fight non-state actors (e.g. ISIS, al Qaeda, the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) and how these groups, as well as individual terrorists, are utilizing less advanced commercially-available drones to fight powerful state opponents. Robotics has huge implications for the future of security, terrorism and international relations and this will be essential reading on the subject of terrorism and drone warfare.
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Aleppo The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City PHILIP MANSEL Key selling points
FEBRUARY 16 272 PAGES 14 BW IN 8PP PLATES, 2 MAPS APPROX. 75,000 WORDS MIDDLE EAST / HISTORY
Philip Mansel is a bestselling author and an expert on Levantine history The first trade history of Aleppo Invaluable to all those interested in the magnificent history of this now-ruined city
‘A compelling portrait of one of the Middle East’s greatest cities, by one of the finest modern historians of the Levant. Mansel’s Aleppo reminds modern readers of the loss to world heritage inflicted by Syria’s tragic civil war. An important and outstanding book.’ Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs and The Fall of the Ottomans, Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford
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‘This book will stand as a eulogy for the city.’ Anthony Sattin, Literary Review
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Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Middle East. He has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and often visited Aleppo. In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent publication is The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon (2015). Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City is his third book on cosmopolitan cities of the Middle East, after Constantinople: City of the World's Desire (1995), on Istanbul, and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), on Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut.
Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo – one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world – successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.
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Irregular War ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins PAUL ROGERS Key selling points
JUNE 16 256 PAGES APPROX. 70,000 WORDS POLITICS / MIDDLE EAST / SECURITY RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and the Global Security Consultant for the Oxford Research Group. He is a leading expert in the field of international security, arms control and political violence with over 30 years’ experience. Rogers is a regular commentator on global security issues in both national and international media, and is International Security Editor for Open Democracy. He is the author of Why We’re Losing the War on Terror, and Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century.
Hugely topical with current events in the Middle East and the rise of ISIS Paul Rogers is an expert in the field Puts ISIS into global and historical context - of interest to general readers and specialists
‘These stories have been told before - of inequality. environmental stress and the inability of the militarily powerful to mould the world in their own image. But they have never been told in the context of the ISIS challenge or with the historical and cultural perspective that Paul Rogers brings to bear. It is not just ISIS - they are only the latest manifestation. Western countries,, he says, face a series of 'revolts from the margins' and his disturbing analysis challenges all western leaders to think differently about the security of their societies. This book is not some important contribution to the international debate: rather, it is a masterly summary of a debate that we are emphatically not having, but which we certainly should.’ Michael Clarke, Former Director General, Royal United Services Institute
Description If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaida in Yemen, the chaos in Libya and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan have all shown that to be wishful thinking. Once again the West is at war in the Middle East.
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Generation M Young Muslims Changing the World SHELINA JANMOHAMED Key selling points
AUGUST 16 352 PAGES 10 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 80,000 WORDS MIDDLE EAST / ISLAMIC STUDIES / GENDER STUDIES RIGHTS SOLD: INDONESIA
First comprehensive look at how Islam and Western consumerism interact in contemporary society Highly topical debates – from Halal sex shops to wearing the hijab – and accessibly written Based on original data from extensive research undertaken by Ogilvy and Mather, and written by well-known author with big media following
‘A compelling account of today’s young Muslim consumers’ Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever ‘Unparalleled... For those within and concerned with modern Muslim communities’ Professor Reina Lewis, author of Muslim Fashion:
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Author Shelina Janmohamed is the bestselling author of Love in a Headscarf. She is an established commentator on Muslim social and religious trends, and has written for The Guardian, The National and the BBC.
What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future generations of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet ‘Generation M’. Tech-savvy and self-empowered, Generation M believe their identity encompasses both faith and modernity. Shelina Janmohamed, award-winning author and leading voice on Muslim youth, investigates this growing cultural phenomenon, at a time where understanding the mindset of young Muslims, and what drives them, is critical. Exploring fashion magazines, social networking and everyday consumer choices, Generation M shows how this dynamic section of our society is not only adapting to Western consumerism, but reclaiming it as its own. From the ‘Mipsters’ to the ‘Haloodies’, Halal internet dating to Muslim boy bands, Generation M are making their mark. It’s time to get hijabilicious!
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Under the Shadow Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey KAYA GENÇ
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SEPTEMBER 16 240 PAGES APPROX. 75,000 WORDS MIDDLE EAST / ISLAMIC STUDIES / GENDER STUDIES RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in Prospect, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, TLS and TIME Magazine, among others. His article for The LA Review of Books ‘Surviving the Black Sea’ was selected as one of the best non-fiction pieces of 2014 by The Atlantic.
The must-have book for understanding the new Turkey The author is one of the most hotly-anticipated writers to come out of Turkey in recent years Relevant for politico’s, journalists, historians, analysts and all those interested in the country at the faultline between the Middle East and the West
‘Kaya Genç is one of the most interesting Turkish writers to have emerged in recent years. In his essays as well as his fiction, heconverses across borders, while forging his own distinct voice and perspective and challenging dominant narratives.’ Maureen Freely, President of PEN, author of The Enlightenment and translator of Orhan Pamuk
Description Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East – caught between the West, ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly hard-line leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genç has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey’s political divide: Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas and batons to transform their country’s future, and supporters of Erdogan’s conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. He talks to artists and authors to ask whether the New Turkey is a good place to for them to live and work. Genç shows a divided society coming to terms with the 21st Century, and in doing so, gets to the heart of the compelling conflicts between history and modernity in the Middle East.
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Qatar The Rise to Power and Influence ALLEN J. FROMHERZ Key selling points
MARCH 17 224 PAGES 2 MAPS, 1BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 90,000 WORDS MIDDLE EAST STUDIES/ HISTORY RIGHTS SOLD: CHINA
Author Allen J. Fromherz is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. In 2010 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellowship to pursue research on the history of nationalism in the Middle East. He is also the author of The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire (I.B.Tauris) and Ibn Khaldun, Life and Times.
First modern history of the 'new' Qatar, essential background reading for businesses as well as students and general reader Strong interest in the Gulf and greater Middle East Based on original sources and fieldwork
Description What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the Al-Thani tribe shaped the history of modern Qatar? And how is a traditional tribal society adapting to its status as a burgeoning economic superpower? Qatar plays a crucial part in the Middle East today. With the second greatest natural gas resources in the region, Qatar's economic clout is considerable. At the same time the Qatar story is replete with paradoxes: the state hosts the Al-Jazeera media network, an influential expression of Arab nationalism and anti-Americanism, while also hosting the principal US naval base in the region. Its leaders, like Saudi Arabia’s, adhere to the Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam, yet Qatar eyes its Saudi neighbours with suspicion. It is a fervent champion of the Palestinian cause, yet welcomes the Israeli Foreign Minister to present the Jewish state’s case in its capital, Doha. With this groundbreaking modern history, Allen Fromherz presents a full portrait which analyses these paradoxes and Qatar’s growing regional influence within a broader historical context. Drawing on original sources in Arabic, English and French, as well as his own fieldwork in the Middle East, Fromherz offers a multi-faceted picture of the political, cultural, religious, social and economic make-up of modern Qatar, its significance within the GCC states and the wider region.
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The New Sultan Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey SONER CAGAPTAY Key selling points
MAY 17 352 PAGES 1 MAP APPROX. 70,000 WORDS MIDDLE EAST / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Türkiye. He has been a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog.
The must-have story of Erdogan’s rise, rule and beliefs New insight into the roots of the Middle Eastern conflict – Turkey is on the frontline Author is an internationally known specialist on Turkey with extensive media experience and multiple platforms for promotions
Description The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. The spotlight will inevitably be on Erdogan – the powerful leader of the country - whose increasingly bizarre and authoritarian regime has increased tensions enormously both within and outside the country. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent – thousands of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and three quarters of highest ranking army officers arrested.In some senses, this coup has given Erdogan the license to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a ‘strongman’. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at where Erdogan comes from in Turkish history, what he believes in, how he has cemented his rule will assess the threats he faces – from the liberal youth to the Gülen movement, the army plotters and the Kurdish question.
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The Winchester Legend of the West LAURA TREVELYAN Key selling points
A weapon with an iconic status - plenty of enthusiasts (There is even a Winchester Arms Collectors Association) Well known author (and already published with IBT)
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‘Who knew that the maker of ‘the gun that won the west’, the Winchester ’73, was a New Englander who began his career manufacturing shirts? The extraordinary life of Oliver Winchester and his company - and its rapid rise and slow and tragic fall into modern obscurity - is told gallantly and with great precision by a distant descendent, the noted BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan. From Little Bighorn to the Winchester Mystery House - it is all there, a series of American icons sturdily described by a writer who, because of her ancestry, knows the story far better than most and tells it better than all.’ Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: The Ocean of the
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Laura Trevelyan is an anchor and correspondent for the BBC, based in New York. She has worked for the BBC since 1993, reporting for many radio and television programmes. The great great great granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, the entrepreneur who founde d the Winche ster Repeating Arms Company, her interest in the subject began aged 17 when she fired a rifle adapted to shoot tennis balls at the home of her Winchester relatives. She is the author of A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World (I.B.Tauris, 2006).
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The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history. The lethal repeating rifle became the defining image of America's frontier – and was known amongst Native Americans as 'the spirit gun'. It represented both the pioneering vigour and the brutal force which conquered the West. Laura Trevelyan explores the history of, and the family behind, this renowned representation of American power. The entrepreneurial drive of Oliver Winchester led the rifle to rapidly assume legendary status not long after its release in 1866, gaining endorsements from the likes of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and President Teddy Roosevelt. This engaging history sheds light on the story and myth of an American legend.
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Gotham Rising New York in the 1930s
JULES STEWART, FORWORD BY AMOR TOWLES Key selling points
OCTOBER 16 288 PAGES 16PP BW PLATES, 1 MAP APPROX. 100,000 WORDS HISTORY / USA RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. 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 (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.
Huge appetite for books on the history of NYC Author is a master storyteller with an eye for detail Evocative history of an iconic decade in an iconic city
‘Filled with enticing details and vivid portraits of the titans who drove New York in the 1930s, Gotham Rising is a delightful romp through one of the city's most dynamic eras. Jules Stewart deftly weaves history with heroes and villains, with fascinating tales of LaGuardia, F.D.R., and Robert Moses, as well as the men who built the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.’ - Eric Schmitt, Pulitzerprize winning New York Times correspondent
Description New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today – from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich - only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city’s 400-year history. After the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for the vibrant city. Yet, in this era, New York underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of the charismatic mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. In culture, this was the age of the Harlem Renaissance championed by writers like Langston Hughes, the jazz age with the advent of Tin-Pan Alley, the Cotton Club and immortals such as Duke Ellington making his name in the Big Apple. Weaving these stories together, Jules Stewart tells the story of an iconic city in a time of change.
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The Napoleonic Mediterranean Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire MICHAEL BROERS Key selling points
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Author Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History, University of Oxford and Fellow in Modern History, lady Mrgaret Hall, Oxford. His books include The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814; The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy; Soldier of Destiny and Europe Under Napoleon (I.B. Tauris).
Leading Historian of Napolean New perspectives on Napoleon’s Mediterranean influence Geographical spread from France to Egypt New research on Napoleon’s Mediterranean empire and influence
Description The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon’s greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon’s regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The ‘Napoleonic Mediterranean’ was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however tenuously many of those shores were held. The disastrous attempt to conquer Egypt in 1798-99, and the rapid loss of Malta to the British, sealed its eastward and southern limits. None of Napoleon’s Mediterranean possessions were easily held; they were volatile societies which showed determined resistance to the new state forged by the French Revolution. In this book, acclaimed historian and biographer of Napoleon, Michael Broers looks at the similarities and differences between Napoleon’s Mediterranean imperial possessions. He considers the process of political, military and legal administration as well as the challenges faced by Napoleon’s Prefects in overcoming hostility in the local population. With chapters covering a range of imperial territories, this book is a unique and valuable addition to the historical literature on Napoleonic Europe and the process and practice of imperialism.
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The Making of England A New History of the Anglo-Saxon World MARK ATHERTON Key selling points
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Author Mark Atherton is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He is the author of There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit (I.B.Tauris, 2012, paperback 2014) and of (Teach Yourself) Complete Old English/AngloSaxon (2010).
First book to give Anglo-Saxon prose (as distinct from poetical) literature proper historical attention Author of the successful There and Back Again Sales to scholars and students of early medieval history and religion as well as literature
Description During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from ‘Christendom’. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.
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A Modern History of the Balkans Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe THANOS VEREMIS Key selling points
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Author Thanos Veremis is Professor of Political history at the University of Athens and also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP); Director General of the International Center for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS); President of the National Council of Education; and on the Advisory Board of the European History Quarterly. He gained his PhD at Trinity College, Oxford and has been Visiting Professor at Princeton. He is the author of many books on the Balkan region, including Greece: The Modern Sequel (with John Koliopoulos, 2002) and The Balkans (2005).
A new angle, covering an element of the modern Balkans never previously given its due weight. I.B.Tauris has a strong presence in the Balkans and in Eastern European
Description The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history – the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. Written by one of the leading historians of the region, this is a new interpretation of that history, focusing on the uses and legacies of nationalism in the Balkan region. In particular, Professor Veremis analyses the influence of the West - from the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise and collapse of Yugoslavia. Throughout the state-building process of Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria and later, Albania, the West provided legal, administrative and political prototypes to areas bedevilled by competing irredentist claims. At a time when Slovenia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Croatia have become full members of the EU, yet some orphans of the Communist past are facing domestic difficulties, A Modern History of the Balkans seeks to provide an important historical context to the current problems of nationalism and identity in the Balkans.
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A Short History of the Russian Revolution GEOFFREY SWAIN
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Author Geoffrey Swain is Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at Glasgow University. He is the author of Russia's Civil War; Trotsky; Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46; Eastern Europe since 1945 (with Nigel Swain) and Tito: A Biography (I.B.Tauris).
Huge subject of student and general interest 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the revolution Swain is a leading name and acclaimed author
Description In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Arising out of proletariat discontent with the Tsarist autocracy and Lenin’s proclaimed version of a Marxist ideology, the revolutionary period saw a complete overhaul of Russian politics and society and led directly to the ensuing civil war. The Soviet Union eventually became the world’s first communist state and the events of 1917 proved to be one of the turning-points in world history, setting in motion a chain of events which would change the entire course of the twentieth century. Geoffrey Swain provides a concise yet thorough overview of the revolution and the path to civil war. By looking, with fresh perspectives, on the causes of the revolution, as well as the international response, Swain provides a new interpretation of the events of 1917, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the revolution.
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The Kingdom of Women Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains CHOO WAI HONG Key selling points
FEBRUARY 17 240 PAGES 10 BW INTEGRATED, 20 COLOUR IN 16PP PLATES APPROX. 75,000 WORDS HISTORY / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.
The first and only book on the Mosuo tribe A truly fascinating account of one of the world's last matrilineal societies Multiple saleable elements, written beautifully, highly promotable story
Description In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none. Choo Waihong, a corporate lawyer who yearned for escape and ended up living with the Mosuo for seven years - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. She tells the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction.
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Young Lothar An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin LARRY ORBACH AND VIVIAN ORBACH-SMITH Key selling points
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A singular true story of hope amidst the darkness of Hitler’s Berlin Highly respected and unique contribution to the literature of the period Underground Berlin in WWII: completely untold story
‘This is a book to make one both smile and weep, to admire the generosity of spirit of courageous individuals and to despair of the selfish inhumanity of those who passed by on the other side. Larry Orbach’s story of survival against impossible odds opens a window into the seamy underworld of wartime Berlin and into the limitless extremes of good and evil of which our species is capable.’ Bernard Wasserstein, author of On the Eve: The Jews of
Europe before the Second World War
Larry (Lothar) Orbach (1924-2008) grew up in Berlin and assumed the identity of Gerhard Peters from 194244. He spent the last year of the war in Auschwitz and emigrated to New York in 1946. Settling in New Jersey, Larry Orbach set up a jewellery business with his wife Ruth Geier – also a refugee from Nazi Berlin. Larry’s final years in his beloved New York were full and surrounded by friends from all walks of life. Vivien Orbach-Smith, Larry Orbach’s daughter, is an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at New York University and a freelance writer.
Description Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin’s Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach’s mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach – under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters – entered Berlin’s underworld of ‘divers’. He scraped a living by hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing – fighting, literally, to stay alive. But inwardly he remained just a boy, his mother’s son, a Jew holding desperately onto his shattered humanity. In the end, he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, on the last transport, in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is, in essence, a story of hope, even happiness, in the very heart of darkness.
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A Short History of the Celts ALEX WOOLF
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Author Alex Woolf is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 (2007), winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish History Book of the Year.
Subject of immense general and student interest Prize-winning author offers fresh, unusual and original new insights on the Celts and their origins Packed with fascinating material on archaeology, origins and material culture
Description The image of the visionary Celt has captured the modern imagination. Whether it be the woad-painted pagan warrior fighting for his freedom against distant rulers (be they Roman, English or French), or the fanatical druid harrying Roman legionaries through the treacherous and mistdrenched forests of north Wales, the Celtic idea represents a proud and fierce independence. Yet there is another sort of Celtism: represented by the calligraphy and austere spirituality of the monks who illuminated the Book of Kells, or by that distinctive separateness characterizing the so-called ‘Celtic fringe’ of Britain (host to still-living Celtic languages). But as Alex Woolf shows, even these contemporary associations do the Celts less than justice. Northern and western Britain are merely the last redoubts of what was once a mighty and farflung iron-age civilization, whose settlements extended from Anatolia and the lower Danube to Ireland and Spain. Alex Woolf looks at Celtic culture in its entirety, concentrating especially on the unifying Celtic language. He traces the Celts’ development from their beginnings to their seventh-century nadir, when they ceased to be a single community. Encompassing Celtic religion, Romano-Celtic conflict and cohabitation, late antiquity, Celtic Christianity, Celtic art and the contested notion of a ‘Celtic heritage’, the author offers a fresh and illuminating history of the Celts and their legacy.
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A Short History of the Crimean War TRUDI TATE
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Author Trudi Tate is an Affliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. 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 (1998).
New perspectives on the Crimean War in the words of those who took part in it Well connected, high profile author Strong military history and general interest sale as well as undergraduate history adoptions
Description 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 first-hand 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 political 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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A Short History of the Mongols GEORGE LANE
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Author George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth -Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires.
Fantastic topic of immense general interest, here given a powerful new revisionist treatment Well published and highly regarded author—an expert in his field
Description The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organising forces of world history. His book traces the rise of the Great Khan in 1206 to the dissolution of the empire in 1368 by the Ming Dynasty. He discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes under Chinggis’ leadership; the establishment of a vigorous imperium whose Pax Mongolica held mastery over the Central Asian steppes; imaginative policies of religious pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran. Offering a bold and sympathetic understanding of Mongol history, the author shows that commercial expansion, cultural assimilation and dynamic political growth were as crucial to Mongol success as desire for conquest.
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A Short History of Medieval Christianity G. R. EVANS
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Author G. R. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University Cambridge. Her many books include Augustine on Evil; Alan of Lille; The Thought of Gregory the Great; Anselm; The Medieval Theologians; Belief: A Short History for Today (I.B.Tauris, 2006); The Church in the Early Middle Ages (I.B.Tauris, 2007), The University of Cambridge: A New History (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and The University of Oxford: A New History (I.B.Tauris, 2010, paperback 2012).
Expert perspective on the crucial and underexplored lay medieval experience Strong general appeal, as we’ll as to scholars and students Creatively explores the interface between Christendom nd the Islamic lands, shedding new light on contemporary interfaith discussion
Description What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: the abbots, priors, magnates, scholastic theologians and others who between them, and across Christendom, controlled the machinery of church and state. For G R Evans too much emphasis has been placed on a governing elite and too little on those – the great mass of the semi-literate and illiterate, and the emergent middle classes – who stood outside the innermost circles of ecclesiastical power, privilege and education. Her book finally gives proper weight to the neglected literature of demotic religion: the lives of saints; writings by those – including lay women – who had mystical experiences; and lively texts containing stories for popular edification. Ranging widely, from the fall of Rome to the ideas of the Reformation, the author addresses vital topics like the appeal of monasticism, the lure of the Crusades, the rise of the friars and the acute crisis of heresy. As Evans reveals, medieval Christianity was shaped above all by its promise of salvation or eternal perdition.
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A Short History of the Phoenicians MARK WOOLMER
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Author Mark Woolmer is Assistant Principal of Collingwood College and a Teaching Associate in Ancient History at Durham University. A leading authority on the subject, he has discussed the Phoenicians on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and is the author of Ancient Phoenicia: An Introduction (2011).
Sheds new archaeological light on the mysteries and paradoxes of Phoenician civilization and culture Wide general and specialist appeal Author is an acknowledged expert on the Phoenicians
Description The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498.
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A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt ROBERT MORKOT
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Author Robert Morkot is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter. His books include The Egyptians: An Introduction (2005), Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs (2005), The Empires of Ancient Egypt (2001), The Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s Nubian Rulers (2000) and The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (1996).
Powerful general interest Exceptionally well qualified author—leading authority Ancient Egypt: huge appeal to all kinds of readers and audiences
Description New Kingdom Egypt represented the zenith of Egyptian power and imperial prestige. Between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BCE the civilization straddling the Nile articulated its renewed self-confidence and self-assertiveness in a quest for fresh dominions in Canaan and Syria; in the colossal statues erected by Ramesses the Great at Abu Simbel; and in the lavish golden tomb treasures of the boy-king Tutankhamun. This was the age of Egypt’s most famous rulers: of Queen Hatshepsut, who sent trade delegations to the Land of Punt. Of Amenhotep III, under whose aegis Egypt reached the high noon of its artistic expression and territorial ambition. Of the heretical religious reformer Akhenaten, whose dangerous experiment in monotheism and neglect of international affairs led to threatening incursions by the rival Hittites. And of Ramesses II (‘the Great’), who fought an epic chariot battle in 1274 BCE with the Hittite king Muwatalli II at Kadesh on the Orontes, culminating in the world’s first recorded peace treaty. Exploring the principal military engagements, pharaohs and events, A Short History of Imperial Egypt is a masterful survey of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known.
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Religion in the Roman World Gods, Myth and Magic in Ancient Rome JULIETTE HARRISSON
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Author Juliette Harrisson is Lecturer in History at Newman University, Birmingham. She is the author of Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination (2013).
Up-to-date: the widest-ranging and most accessible treatment of Roman religion in print Considerable general plus interdisciplinary student appeal: classics, religion, ancient history Ideal reading for anyone interested in ancient Rome and its mythology, as well as travelers to the ancient city
Description The Romans had a persisting and voracious appetite for myth, magic and ritual. They invoked the local gods to rain down punishment on adulterers or thieves. They burned fragrant resin for the protecting deities of hearth and home. They sacrificed at temples to bring glory to the divine person of the emperor. And they conducted secret rites of initiation into cults like those devoted to Isis, Cybele, Dionysus and Mithras. Juliette Harrisson shows ancient Rome to have been a hive of religious experimentation. In her new and comprehensive survey, she takes her readers from the turmoil of the Late Republic to the high point of imperial rule (133 BC-AD 235), thereby exploring the many facets of religiosity in the Roman world. She examines, among other topics, worship of the state-sanctioned Olympian gods and the role of religion in Roman politics; the impact of ‘mystery cults’ focused on Greek, Near Eastern and Egyptian deities; attitudes towards witchcraft, superstition and the early monotheists; and evidence for ancient atheism. An epilogue discusses the rise of Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.
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Babushka's Journey The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps
MARCEL KRUEGER Key selling points
JULY 17 272 PAGES 15 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 80,000 WORDS HISTORY / TRAVEL / WWII RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Marcel Krueger is a writer and translator whose articles and essays have been published in The Daily Telegraph, Süddeutsche Zeitung, CNN Travel, the Matador Network and more, and who also works as a local Berlin expert or ‘Spotter’ for Spotted by Locals. Marcel divides his time between Berlin, Cologne and Dublin and together with Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle and a bunch of other great Irish writers Marcel also holds the world record for 'Most Authors Reading Consecutively From Their Own Books'. He is the author, with Paul Sullivan, of Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers.
Riveting and unique story from WWII, with a broad and universal appeal Marcel Krueger is a master storyteller who keeps the reader gripped from start to finish Will appeal to both history buffs and armchair travellers
Some forebear of mine was a violinist, A horseman and thief, moreover. Isn’t that where I got my wanderlust, Why my hair smells of wind and weather? Marina Tsvetaeva, Some Forebear of Mine was a Violinist
Description This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cäcilie, Cilly for short, into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has intervowen contemporary landscape and family history into an evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow-covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. In pursuit of the sights, sounds and voices both past and present along this route, the author has created both fictionalised historical narrative and contemporary travelogue covering two different journeys in the same direction. This book is both laconic stumbling through the bars of present-day Poland and the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, and at the same time the authentic retelling of a tragic yet hopeful individual fate that stands for tens of thousands of similar stories in Germany, Poland and Russia today. A rich mixture of travel writing, memoir and history, best read on the train and washed down with a vodka.
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Radical Prophet The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Strove for Heaven on Earth CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND Key selling points
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Author Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).
Christopher Rowland holds the top biblical studies Chair in the world Interdisciplinary and cross-market appeal to readers in religion, politics and history A book with an argument: strong, highly reviewable, ideas book
Description Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished. The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning. Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers. Christopher Rowland here shows that this was never the whole story. At the margins, around the edges, sometimes off the religious map, the apocalyptic flame of the New Testament continued to burn. In 1649 the Diggers occupied St George’s Hill to put the egalitarianism of Christ into practice. ‘You must break these men or they will break you’, Oliver Cromwell declared of the ‘lunaticks’. This book argues that such revolutionaries had divined the true intent of the enigma who threw over the tables of the moneychangers: to summon a new epoch – strange, iconoclastic, uncomfortable and otherworldly. It gives full weight to a remarkable strain of radical religion that simply refuses to die.
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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire BAKI TEZCAN
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Author Baki Tezcan is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (2010, paperback 2012) and of Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World (2007).
Considerable general appeal, also to travellers to Istanbul One of the most vibrant and sellable area of early modern and European history Author is one of the leading modern interpreters of the Ottoman Empire
Description At its height the Ottoman Empire embraced fifteen million people across three continents. The conduit – of people, ideas and commerce – between Europe and Asia for more than six centuries, the Ottoman imperium had by 1590 become one of the most powerful states in the world, expanding territorially and threatening Vienna in the West and wresting Baghdad from the Persians in the East. The story of its struggles against Byzantines (culminating in the shattering fall of Constantinople in 1453), Hungarians and Habsburgs is one of the defining narratives of European history. Showing why understanding the Ottomans, especially the important shared heritage of the Balkans and Anatolia, still matter, Baki Tezcan discusses the formation of the Ottoman state at the end of the thirteenth century; Ottoman genius under enlightened sultan Süleyman the Magnificent; military victories such as at Constantinople and Belgrade, and defeats on sea and land at Lepanto (1571) and Vienna. This timely survey explores government, economy, trade, religion and the arts up to the founding of modern Turkey in 1922.
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Reagan American Icon IWAN MORGAN
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Author Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College London. He is a Fellow of Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute and in 2014 was awarded the British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellowship. He is the author of several books on Presidential history.
Major biography by leading historian of US Continually interesting figure in modern history Strong interest in this period of foreign affairs
‘WOW! It's all here --and I mean all of it -- in Iwan Morgan's superb biography of America's fortieth president. I would never have believed how much I didn't know about a fellow Californian I first met in the spring of 1946. But when a distinguished historian with a wonderful way with words doubles as a prodigious researcher the pages are going to fly. Hey, the Gipper's back. Enjoy the ride.’ Alex Butterfield, former Deputy Assistant to President Nixon
Description Ronald Reagan is one of the most important – and arguably most successful – presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing much to bring about the late twentieth century shift to the right in American politics. In this book, Iwan Morgan presents the first thoroughly-researched biography of Reagan, based on original materials and first-hand interviews. He plots a chronological path through Reagan’s life beginning with his childhood and early years in Illinois, through his Hollywood career, his emergent Republicanism and his election as governor of California, before acceding to the presidency in 1981. In office, Morgan assesses Reagan’s economic and foreign policies, as well as his idealization of the constitution and his near-impeachment over the Iran-Contra affair.
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Evita The Life of Eva Perón JILL HEDGES
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Author Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor for Latin America at Oxford Analytica since 2001 and was formerly Editorial Manager of business information service Esmerk Argentina. She has a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool and is the author of Argentina: A Modern History.
New perspective on an iconic figure Uses first-hand interviews Ground-breaking new biography
Description Eva Perón remains Argentina’s best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Perón - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and maledominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Perón made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33. Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of ‘Evita’ and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Perón in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of ‘Evita’.
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Forever Stardust David Bowie Across the Universe WILL BROOKER Key selling points
JANUARY 17 256 PAGES APPROX. 80,000 WORDS
New way of seeing Bowie, explored in all his forms from Ziggy to Blackstar Publishing on 8th January 2017, Bowie’s 70th Birthday
‘‘This book truly has it all about David Bowie, the man who mesmerized me at my final callback for his new musical, Lazarus. Will Brooker reminds me of David in his earlier years ... this is intriguing and exciting research.' Sophia Anne Caruso, lead actor in David Bowie & Enda Walsh's Lazarus
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‘Forever Stardust combines over four decades of criticism and biography into a lucid, compelling study. It is an intelligent and nuanced look at an artist whose total achievement is only now beginning to be discovered.’ Chris O'Leary, author of Pushing Ahead of the Dame and Rebel Rebel
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Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University in London. His research into David Bowie for this book involved a year of immersion in Bowie’s styles, influences and experiences and has attracted international media attention. He is editor of ‘Cinema Journal’ and the author or editor of many books on popular culture, including Hunting the Dark Knight (I.B. Tauris), and the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars. www.foreverstardust.com
Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic ‘changes’ chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie’s ‘sameness’: his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting. To be published on Bowie’s 70th birthday, Forever Stardust looks at Bowie’s work not as a linear evolution through calendar time, to his tragic death in January 2016, but as a matrix, a dialogue, a network of ideas that echo back and forth across the five decades of his career, interacting with each other and with the surrounding culture. It explores Bowie’s creative output as a whole, tracing the repetitions and obsessions that structure his work, discovering what they tell us about Bowie in all his forms, from Ziggy Stardust to David Jones. David Bowie challenged cultural expectations from the early 1970s until his final masterpiece, Blackstar. Forever Stardust offers a new understanding of this remarkable and significant artist.
BIOGRAPHY / GENERAL BOWIE INTEREST / POPULAR CULTURE / MUSIC
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Zhou Enlai China’s Good Communist MICHAEL DILLON
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Author Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009. He is the author of China: A Modern History (I.B.Tauris).
Hugely important figure in modern China and central to China’s superpower status No other competing biography of Zhou Enlai Brand new insight into the man, using original Chinese sources
Description Urbane, enigmatic, Èminence grise, the ‘man behind the scenes’ sums up Zhou Enlai’s long and vital political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s and his close connections with both Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong. He was a major influence on Deng Xiaoping – a source, for example, of major influence on Xiaoping’s ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. Enlai was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status. An interesting, attractive and intellectual figure whom Dillon regards as ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.
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Growing Up with the Impressionists The Diary of Julie Manet
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Author Jane Roberts is an art historian who has worked for over 20 years in the international art market including Sotheby's and the Cabinet des Dessins at the Louvre, specialising in Impressionism. She now runs her own consultancy in Paris. She received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. She is also the author of Jacques-Émile Blanche.
Book with bestselling track record, now in a new translation and with new material Provides an unrivalled and truly fascinating insight into the lives of the Impressionists Jane Roberts is an expert on the Impressionists
‘An enchanting book... a delightful story with aptly chosen illustrations.’ Book of the Year, Financial Times
Description Julie Manet, the daughter of Édouard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14th November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly surprising that, with her mother giving all her encouragement, Julie would prove to be no exception to the rule. At the age of ten, Julie began writing her “memoirs” but it wasn’t until August 1893, at fourteen, that Julie began her diary in earnest: no neat leather-bound volume with lock and key but just untidy notes scribbled in old exercise books, often in pencil, the presentation as spontaneous as its contents. Her extraordinary diary – newly translated here by an expert of Impressionism, reveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in France’s cultural history seen through the youthful and precocious eyes of the youngest member of what was surely the most prominent artistic families of the time.
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Venice A Literary Guide for Travellers
MARIE-JOSÉ GRANSARD Key selling points
JANUARY 16 336 PAGES 30 INTEGRATED BW, 1 MAP APPROX. 90,000 WORDS
Venice’s literary scene is legendary The first book of its kind on this iconic city Essential reading for all travelers to Venice
‘Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.' Truman Capote
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‘A comprehensive and highly entertaining guide to the magical mysteries of Venice as seen through the eyes of the countless writers, artists, musicians, thinkers and lovers to whom it has always offered such unique inspiration.’ Anthony Holden
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Author Marie-José Gransard teaches a course, 'Venice in Literature', in Cannaregio and conducts tours of the city. She has worked with Hilary Spurling on her biography of Matisse and with Anthony Holden for his biography of Lorenzo da Ponte. She divides her time between Venice and London.
Venice, 'La Serenissima, is one of the most breathtaking cities in the world. A floating labyrinth; the world's greatest museum, frozen in time; a cultural jewel, slowly sinking into the lagoon from which it rose; tourist-trap, irresistible muse. From its earliest beginings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture, wealth and power and has acted as a crossroads for an array of religious pilgrims and refugees, diplomats, crusading armies and merchants. Later, its fabled beauty and reputation as a haven for freedom of expression seduced some of the most celebrated figures in history: artists such as Dürer, Bellini and Turner; writers Dickens, Byron, Kafka, Poe, Rousseau, Thomas Mann, Ruskin and Ezra Pound and composers Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Stravinsky. In this riveting guide to literary Venice, the author uncovers the city's myriad secrets, revealing how every floating palace, gilded church and bustling square is imbued with the lives and creations of those who were inspired by the city, which still echoes with their voices.
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Berlin A Literary Guide for Travellers
PAUL SULLIVAN & MARCEL KRUEGER Key selling points
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Author Paul Sullivan’s journalism and photography work has been published in a variety of international publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, BBC Travel and more. He runs popular Berlin website www.slowtravelberlin.com, through which he publishes Berlin-themed books and runs cultural-historical tours through the city. Marcel Krueger is a writer and translator whose articles and essays have been published in The Daily Telegraph, Süddeutsche Zeitung, CNN Travel, The Matador Network and more, and who also works as a local Berlin expert or ‘Spotter’ for Spotted by Locals.
Berlin - 3rd most popular European destination after Paris and London Authors have excellent media platforms in Berlin and are fully keyed in to the Berlin scene No other literary guide to Berlin
‘A rich and learned companion for every lover of Berlin; bursting with anecdote and alive with history. A must.’ Rory MacLean, author of Berlin: Imagine a City
Description Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe’s most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From 19th century authors recording the city’s dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era and those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin’s ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse and sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world. This unique and engaging book functions as an introduction to some of the finest writing in and about the city, as well as a guide to some of its best sights and vibrant neighbourhoods. Spanning more than 200 years of local life and literature, it features German authors as diverse as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Jörg Fauser, and Christa Wolf, as well as a slew of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher and Chloe Aridjis.
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Scotland A Literary Guide for Travellers GARRY MACKENZIE Key selling points
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Author Garry MacKenzie holds a PhD in English from St Andrews, where his supervisors were the Scottish poets Robert Crawford and John Burnside. MacKenzie has also been awarded the Tom Durrheim Prize for ‘exceptional talent in the study of Scottish poetry’ and the St Leonard’s Prize Research Lectures award, through which he gave a series of public lectures based on his PhD research.
The only literary guide to Scotland on the market Broadly appealing: tourists, history buffs, armchair travellers, literary buffs Focus on Scotland especially topical and illuminating
‘Clear, concise, and companionable, the prose is engagingly readable and the learning worn with admirable lightness. Garry MacKenzie's Scotland is a delight.’ Robert Crawford, author of Scotland's Books and The
Bard: Robert Burns, the Biography
Description With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of Irvine Welsh. For Robert Burns, Scotland's iconic poet, the culture of his native country was a fertile ground for his imagination. Sir Walter Scott drew on the nation’s past, and on the stirring mountains and lochs of the Highlands, as he pioneered the historical novel. Some of the most famous early literary tourists, including James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and Dorothy and William Wordsworth, wrote captivating accounts of their travels in Scotland. This enthralling guide gets under the skin of the country through the writers who lived in or visited Scotland, as well as those who simply imagined it in their work. Famous figures sit alongside writers sometimes overlooked by literary travellers, and through their lives and words we experience the rich, fractious and passionate story of Scottish culture and discover how Scotland’s history, landscape and society are brought to life in literature.
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Andalucía A Literary Guide for Travellers
ANDREW & SUZANNE EDWARDS Key selling points
SEPTEMBER 16 304 PAGES 18 INTEGRATED BW, 1 MAP APPROX. 80,000 WORDS TRAVEL / LITERATURE / HISTORY / GUIDE RIGHTS SOLD: CHINA
Essential reading for literary buffs, armchair travelers & tourists Over 3 million people travel to Andalucía every year There is no other literary guide to Andalucía
‘As with their impeccable literary guide to Sicily – the best of its type I know - Andrew and Suzanne Edwards, in this new book, trace the lines of a double cartography. One map is real... the other is of the emotions: intimate, impossible to photograph from satellites, invisi-ble even to the meticulous eye of Google Earth. An itinerary which has to do with the stuff that dreams are made of.’ Alejandro Luque, cultural correspondent of the Correo de Andalucía and author of Palabras Mayores
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Author Andrew Edwards is a writer and the translator of two books set in Sicily by the Spanish author Alejandro Luque. Suzanne Edwards trained in linguistics and is a dyslexia specialist. They co-authored the acclaimed Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers (I.B.Tauris, 2014).
Andalucía is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Mérimée, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured the rich tapestry of Andalucian culture, from Cervantes' Seville to the Córdoba of Baroque poet Luis de Góngora and Lorca's 'hidden Andalucía'. With the advent of the Civil War, a new generation flocked to Andalucía and were inspired to write some of the Twentieth Century's most iconic works of literature, from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth. As vibrant and compelling as the region itself, Andalucía: A Literary Guide for Travellers illuminates the very soul of Spain.
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By the Olive Groves A Calabrian Childhood GRAZIA IETTO GILLIES
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Author Grazia Ietto Gillies was born in Calabria in 1939 and spent the first ten years of her life in Delianuova, a small town in the Aspromonte mountains. She moved to Rome with her family in 1950 and has lived in London since 1971. She has worked and published as an academic economist.
A unique portrait of one of Italy’s most fascinating regions Increasingly popular with tourists With over 20 authentic Calabrian recipes included throughout
‘In By the Olive Groves, Grazia Ietto Gillies has written a testament to the creative power of the Mediterranean kitchen. A daughter’s life-long appreciation for Mamma Giulia’s ingenuity and good taste lies at the heart of this story of one family’s rise from the hard mountains of Calabria to Roman post-war prosperity. Rich in characters, memories and above all, recipes, this evocative memoir is also a guide to the history and cuisine of a region.’ Catherine Davidson, author of The Priest Fainted
Description In 1939 a girl was born in the wild Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a land haunted by history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta Calabria's answer to Sicily's Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl's childhood unfolds. Her life is simple, revolving around school, friendship, family. At its heart is the kitchen where the dramas and joys of family life are played out and where her mother, Giulia, creates the food around which everything revolves. In this rich and heartfelt memoir, Grazia IettoGillies remembers her youth in Calabria, from childhood sickness and her eccentric extended family to the excitement of religious festivals, near-constant struggle with poverty and an incident with the feared 'Ndrangheta’. Now, sixty years later, she realises that Calabria has defined everything she has ever done and that she has never really left the mountains of her childhood.
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Sofia Coppola A Cinema of Girlhood FIONA HANDYSIDE
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DECEMBER 16 256 PAGES 15 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 80,000 WORDS FILM STUDIES / POST-FEMINISM & GIRLHOOD STUDIES RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Fiona Handyside is Senior Lecturer in European Film at the University of Exeter and received her PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Previous publications include International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2015) and Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Cinema (2014) and her research has appeared in a number of journals such as Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Studies in French Cinema and Screen.
Sofia Coppola is one of the most celebrated, provocative filmmakers working today Interesting, topical analysis of post-feminism and representations of girlhood in Coppola’s films
Description Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola’s films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of postfeminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies.
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Tweenhood Feminity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture MELANIE KENNEDY Key selling points
JANUARY 17 256 PAGES 10 BW INTEGRATED APPROX. 70,000 WORDS MEDIA / POPULAR CULTURE / CELEBRITY / GENDER STUDIES RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author 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.
Case studies of well known personalities such as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez A multi textual analysis including film, television and celebrities A contemporary examination of how the tween is constructed in popular culture Tween studies is an exciting, growing field and this book makes an important contribution to it
Description 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 post-feminism, 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.
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Delft Blue to Denim Blue Contemporary Dutch Fashion ANNEKE SMELIK Key selling points
JANUARY 17 400 PAGES 102 COLOUR & BW APPROX. 112,000 WORDS FASHION / GENERAL INTEREST RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture on the Katrien van Munster chair at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also project leader of the research programme, ‘Crafting Wearables; Fashionable Technology’. She is author and editor of many publications on visual culture and fashion, including Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture, And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory and, co-edited with Agnès Rocamora, of Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
The complete, contemporary, colourful companion to Dutch Fashion Beautifully designed & illustrated in full colour and black& white throughout The major contemporary designers and brands covered and illustrated
Description Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands is successful globally and shows a rich, paradoxical diversity. Delft Blue to Denim Blue maps the landscape of Dutch fashion in all its rich variety and complexity. Luxuriously illustrated in colour and black & white, The book uncovers the cultural heritage of Dutch fashion and explores the individual designers and brands, including romantic designer Jan Taminiau who creates spectacular gala gowns for Queen Maxima, Iris Van Herpen, Kichael Van Der Ham and conceptual designer duo Viktor&Rolf , as well as the many popular brands, such as G-Star jeans, Mexx, Supertrash, CoraKemperman, Vanilla, Sjaak Hullekes, and the affordable retailer, C&A. Fashion photographers like Inez Van Lamsweerde and Erwin Olaf are explored too. Delft Blue to Denim Blue also looks into the future of Dutch fashion, discussing the vanguard of wearable technology, with cybercouture designers like Pauline van Dongen and Bart Hess.
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Dancing with the Doctor Dimensions of Gender in the New Doctor Who LORNA JOWETT
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MARCH 17 240 PAGES APPROX. 70,000 WORDS DOCTOR WHO FANS / TV SCIENCE FICTION / TV & MEDIA STUDIES
First book to focus on gender in the Doctor Who universe Gender bias in Doctor Who is a huge controversy among Who fans and scholars Author is a Who authority and her approach to Who is game-changing
'Lorna Jowett's indispensable Dancing with the Doctor offers a fascinating look at how gender is represented on-screen in the series (and its spin-offs)....offering detailed but accessible discussion of key characters, episodes and staff, together with analysis of the series' fandom, the book will be vital to all those interested in a new perspective on the worlds of Doctor Who.' Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales, author of
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Lorna Jewett is Reader in Television S tudie s a t the Unive rsity of Northampton. She is co-author with Stacey Abbott of TV Horror: Investigating The Dark Side of the Small Screen, co-editor with Kevin Robinson and David Simmons of Time on TV: Narrative Time, Time Travel & Time Travellers in Popular Television Culture (both I.B. Tauris), and author of Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan.
Widespread conversations and criticisms continue about the ways in which Doctor Who represents gender. Dancing with the Doctor, the first book on the Doctor Who universe to take gender as its focus, examines both the successful revival of the series since 2005 and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades. She considers the showrunners, directors, producers and writers and the problems this flagship science fiction series has had in offering alternative gender models. Constructions of masculinity, the author function, and how gender intersects with the other facets of identity, race, ethnicity and age, are just some of the areas explored in this accessible and wideranging re-view of these hotly debated elements of the successful BBC franchise.
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Folk Fashion Making and Re-making Sustainable Style
AMY TWIGGER HOLROYD Key selling points
MARCH 17 256 PAGES 40 INTEGRATED BW APPROX. 70,000 WORDS FASHION / DESIGN / CRAFT RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Presents a new way of thinking about sustainable fashion for students and makers Appeals to the big revival in amateur sewing & knitting garments Expert author combines new theory with folk fashion makers’ first-hand experience
‘This book is an inspiring reminder of the wealth that making brings into our lives. From evoking the spirits of the craftspeople that came before us to creating more meaningful relationships with both the materials and our community as we go, Twigger Holroyd deftly shares what a force folk fashion can be.’ Betsy Greer, author of Craftivism: The Art of Craft and
Activism
Author Amy Twigger Holroyd is a designer, maker, writer and researcher. Through her knitwear label, Keep & Share, she has been exploring the emerging field of fashion and sustainability since 2004. Her work has been sold and exhibited worldwide and featured in many books and publications, from Vogue to Fashion Theory . She is a Senior Lecturer in Design, Culture & Context at Nottingham Trent University.
Description A dynamic resurgence in sewing and knitting is under way, with many people enjoying making and mending their own garments at home. However, stories abound of homemade clothes languishing at the back of the wardrobe. Amy Twigger Holroyd draws on ideas of fashion, culture and craft to explore makers’ lived experiences of creating and wearing homemade clothes in a society dominated by shop-bought garments. Using the innovative metaphor of fashion as common land, Folk Fashion investigates the complex relationship between making, well-being and sustainability. Twigger Holroyd combines her own experience as a designer and knitter with first-hand accounts from folk fashion makers to explore this fascinating, yet under-examined, area of contemporary fashion culture. Looking to the future, she also considers how sewers and knitters might maximise the radical potential of their activities.
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You Win or You Die The Ancient World of Game of Thrones AYELET HAIMSON LUSHKOV Key selling points
APRIL 17 272 PAGES 40 INTEGRATED BW APPROX. 80,000 WORDS TV / FANTASY / ANCIENT HISTORY & CLASSICS RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She has wide interests in Roman history, literature and reception. Her previous books are Magistracy and the Historiography in the Roman Republic (2015) and Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (co-edited with W Brockliss, P Chaudhuri and K Wasdin, 2012). She has written on Game of Thrones for The Guardian.
Essential: must-have reading for all Game of Thrones fans Authoritative: offers the nuanced perspective of an ancient historian but also a keen fan’s eyeview Original: the first book to show just how saturated Game of Thrones is in the antique/ classical world
Description If the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then antiquity is their resonant past. The Known World is haunted by the remnants of distant and powerful civilizations, without whose presence the novels of George R R Martin and the ever popular HBO show would lose much of their meaning and appeal. In this essential sequel to Carolyne Larrington’s Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov explores the echoes, from the Summer Islands to Storm’s End, of a rich antique history. She discusses, for example, the convergence of ancient Rome and the reach, scope and might of the Valyrian Freehold. She shows how the wanderings of Tyrion Lannister replay the journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas. She suggests that the War of the Five Kings resembles the War of the Four Emperors (68-69 AD). And she demonstrates just how the Wall and the Wildlings advancing on it connect with Hadrian’s bulwark against fierce tribes of Picts. This book reveals the remarkable extent to which the entire Game of Thrones universe is animated by its ancient past.
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Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes Stories from a Golden Age
MICHAEL MEYLAC, TRANSLATED BY ROSANNA KELLY Key selling points
AUGUST 17 288 PAGES 150 BW IN 3X2PP PLATES APPROX. 110,000 WORDS BALLET / HISTORY / DANCE RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD (EXCEPT RUSSIA)
Author Michael Meylac is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of editions and studies of the Oberiou poets and of studies on the Provençal troubadours. Rosanna Kelly is an author and translator, based in London.
Essential reading for all ballet fans Based on previously-unseen interviews Provides unique insights into many of the greatest names in twentieth-century dance
Description The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time enigmatic, ballet company of the twentieth century. Following the death of their founder Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the company split into two separate groups – the Ballets Russes de Colonel de Basil and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In the mid-twentieth century – during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War – the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This groundbreaking new book uncovers previously-unseen conversations with the leading protagonists of the companies, primarily with the dancers themselves, but also with choreographers, instructors and critics. Through the dancers’ own words, Michael Meylac reveals what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provides fascinating new insights into some of the most important dance events of the twentieth century – including Nureyev’s defection to the West. In doing so, he provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age – from the dancers Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova to the choreographers Leonide Massine, George Balanchine and Anton Dolin. Meylac has interviewed some of the greatest dancers of the period including Alexandra Danilova, Nina Vyroubova and the three ‘baby ballerinas’, as well as those who kept the company running behind the scenes such as Roland Petit and Pierre Lacotte.
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Hitchcock and the Spy Film JAMES CHAPMAN
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OCTOBER 17 304 PAGES 30 INTEGRATED BW APPROX. 120,000 WORDS FILM STUDIES RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD
Author James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester. His previous books for I. B. Tauris include bestsellers Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films and Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of 'Doctor Who' - A Cultural History, as well as (with Nicholas J. Cull) Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema and Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema. He is editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
First book on Hitchcock’s spy thrillers using new sources and written by Hitchcock expert Close encounters with the films including Hitch’s unmade spy thriller
Description Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock’s own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world’s most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest, Torn Curtain and his unmade film The Short Night. Chapman’s close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political and cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s to the atom spies and double agents of the post-war world.
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