I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE Frankfurt Book Fair 2017
Contents Current Affairs, International Relations, Politics Europe Reset by Richard Youngs
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The Rage by Julia Ebner Political Manipulation & Weapons of Mass Destruction by Ben Cole Drones and Terrorism by Nicholas Grossmann America in Afghanistan by Sharif Dorani
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International Politics in the Arctic by Geir Hønneland
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China’s World by Kerry Brown Chasing the Chinese Dream by Nick Holdstock
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Turkey & the Middle East Frontline Turkey by Ezgi Basaran Destroying a Nation by Nikolaos van Dam
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Turkey: An Economic Geography by Aksel Esroy
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Blood and Martyrs by Patrick Keddie Turkish Nomad by Jayne L. Warner
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Space Science and the Arab World by Jörg Matthias Determann
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Religion & Spirituality God by Philip C. Almond Radical Prophet by Christopher Rowland
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Cyborg Theology by Scott A. Midson
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Dharma by Veena R. Howard
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The Religious Nile by Terje Oestigaard The Fatimid Caliphate by Daftary & Jiwa Faith and Ethics by M. Ali Lakhani Imam Ali by Reza Shah-Kazemi Living Islam by Ayse Saktanber The Fatimids by Shainool Jiwa
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History Young Lothar by Larry Orbach & Vivien Orbach-Smith Mischka’s War by Sheila Fitzpatrick Maverick Spy by Hamish MacGibbon Babushka’s Journey by Marcel Krueger
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The Myth of Hero and Leander by Silvia Montiglio Classical Reception and Children’s Literature by Lovatt & Hodkinson Embracing the Darkness by John Callow
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Magic as a Political Crime by Francis Young The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination by Paul B. Sturtevant Edmund by Francis Young Dragon Lords by Eleanor Parker Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay Miss Palmer’s Diary by Gillian Wagner Captain Gill’s Walking Stick by Saul Kelly Short History series
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Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial by Marcel Turner The Jazz War by Will Studdert The WRNS in Wartime by Hannah Roberts
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Croatia and the Rise of Fascism by Goran Miljan Reporting Genocide by David Patrick The Secret War for China by Panagiotis Dimitrakis Franco by Enrique Moradiellos Franco and the Condor Legion by Michael Alpert Maurice Thorez by John Bulaitis Singapore: A Modern History by Michael D. Barr
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Travel & Literature The Land Beyond by Leon McCarron Finding Eden by Robin Hanbury Tenison Pompeii by Paul Wilkinson Jane Austen’s England by Anne-Marie Edwards Riviera Dreaming by Maureen Emerson Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East by Lisa McCraken Lacy Literary Guides
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Art, Fashion, Media & Visual Culture Growing Up with the Impressionists by Jane Roberts Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes by Michael Meylac
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Marvel’s Mutants by Miles Booy Once Upon a Time Lord by Ivan Philips
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On Video Games by Soraya Murray
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Hitchcock and the Spy Film by James Chapman Godard and Sound by Albertine Fox The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Diken, Gilloch & Hammond Some Things You Should Know by Truman Locke
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Inside the Freud Museums by Joanne Morra Modern Art at the Freud Museum by Claudia Mesch The Family of Man by Hurm, Reitz & Zamir Photography Reframed by Burbridge & Pollen
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Fashion Crimes by Joanne Turney
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Europe Reset New Directions for the EU Richard Youngs
October 2017 240 pages Approx. 75,000 words World Rights => Politics, Current Affairs, European Union
Richard Youngs is Senior Fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Europe and Professor of International Relations at the University of Warwick. He was previously Director of the European think-tank FRIDE and has held positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as an EU Marie Curie fellow and as a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC. His books include The Puzzle of NonWestern Democracy; Europe in the New Middle East and Europe’s Decline and Fall: The Struggle against Global Irrelevance.
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Alternative model for European integration
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Taps into debates on the future of Europe
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Essential reading in aftermath of Brexit
A new model for a new Europe Since the economic recession of 2008, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK’s decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about the need to reform the whole model of European integration, with the aim of making the union more flexible and more accountable. In this book, Richard Youngs proposes an alternative vision of European co-operation and shows how the EU must re -invent itself if it is to survive. He argues that citizens should play a greater role in European decisionmaking, that there should be radically more flexibility in the process of integration and that Europe needs to take a new, more coherent, approach to questions of defence and security. In proposing this model for a ‘reset’ version of Europe, Youngs reinvigorates the debate around the future of Europe and puts forward a new agenda for the future of the EU.
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The Rage The Vicious Circle of Islamists & Far-Right Extremism Julia Ebner
September 2017 224 pages Approx. 85,000 words Rights sold: GER => Current Affairs, Terrorism
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First book to compare phenomena of far right and Islamist extremism
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Based on first-hand interviews with leading figures
‘Julia Ebner draws on the very latest evidence to deliver important new analysis of two seemingly opposing forms of extremism and their mutually reinforcing worldviews. The perpetrators of most terrorist and violent extremist acts committed in recent years have followed some form of radicalisation process; Ebner’s book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the circumstances in which such radicalisation can take place.’ – Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol
Essential reading to understanding the ongoing terror threat in the west Julia Ebner is a terrorism and extremism researcher based in London specialising in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation and terrorism prevention initiatives. She spent two years working for the world’s first counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, where she led research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation and gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on far-right extremism. She regularly writes for the Guardian and the Independent and gives interviews in English, German and French on the BBC, CNN, ZDF, ARD, France24, Al Jazeera, LBC and others.
The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism. This book explores the interaction between the ‘new’ far right and Islamist extremists and considers the consequences for the global terror threat. Julia Ebner argues that far right and Islamist extremist narratives – ‘The West is at war with Islam’ and ‘Muslims are at war with the West’ - complement each other perfectly, making the two extremes rhetorical allies and building a spiralling torrent of hatred - ‘The Rage’. By looking at extremist movements both online and offline, she shows how far right and Islamist extremists have succeeded in penetrating each other’s echo chambers as a result of their mutually useful messages. Based on first-hand interviews, this book introduces readers to the world of reciprocal radicalisation and the hotbeds of extremism that have developed – with potentially disastrous consequences in the UK, Europe and the US.
Political Manipulation & Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, Influence and Persuasion Ben Cole
October 2017 336 pages Approx. 140,000 words World Rights => Terrorism, International Relations
Ben Cole is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool. He specialises in the process by which individuals become radicalised into violent extremism; terrorist decision making with regard to CBRN terrorism; and real-time monitoring and analysis of conflicts and terrorist movements using online media. He worked on the development of the PVE tool and guidance, and lectures regularly on CBRN terrorism. He is the author of The Changing Face of Terrorism (IBT).
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Cutting-edge research on CBRN weapons
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Ties in to current debates on terrorist strategy
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New perspectives on ISIS, al Qaeda and other “islamist” terrorist groups
An essential analysis of al Qaeda’s CBRN weapon strategy Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11. This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda’s efforts to acquire a CBRN weapon capability, and the evolution of the al Qaeda leadership’s approach to actually using CBRN weapons, set against the context of the politicisation of the threat of CBRN terrorism in US security debates. Ben Cole explores how the inherently political nature of terrorist CBRN threats has helped to shape al Qaeda’s approach to CBRN weapons, and shows how the heightened political sensitivities surrounding the threat have enabled some governments to manipulate it in order to generate domestic and international support for controversial policies, particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He assesses the relative success of the al Qaeda leadership’s political approach to CBRN weapons, together with the relative success of efforts by the US, UK and Russian governments to exploit the al Qaeda CBRN threat for their wider political purposes. 6
Drones and Terrorism Asymmetrical Warfare and the Threat to Security Nicholas Grossman
December 2017 288 pages Approx. 71,000 words World Rights => Terrorism, Robotics
Nicholas Grossman is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Iowa. He is an expert on robotics, drones and asymmetrical 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.
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Charts the course of the Saudi terrorist rehabilitation programme
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Vital reading for all who have an interest in following the emergence of international terrorism
The new weapons and what they mean for the fight against terrorism 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.
America in Afghanistan Foreign Policy & Decision Making From Bush to Trump Sharif Dorani
April 2018 322 pages Approx. 100,000 words World Rights => Middle East, US Foreign Policy
Sharif Dorani completed his PhD on the War in Afghanistan at Durham University. He has lived and worked in Afghanistan and lectures on the history of US policy in the region.
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New sources published for the first time
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New insight on the ongoing Afghanistan war
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Covers Bush to Trump, with evidence from policymakers in Washington
The new weapons and what they mean for the fight against terrorism Afghanistan has been a battleground for superpowers, a breeding ground for Islamic terrorist groups and a theatre of civil war for much of the 20th Century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Middle East. Yet policymakers in the West often seem to forget the lessons learned from previous administrations, whose policies have contributed to the instability in the region. Here, Afshan Dorani focuses on the process of decision-making, looking at which factors influenced American policy-makers in the build-up to the second Afgan War, and how reactions on the ground in Afghanistan have affected events since then. America in Afghanistan is a new, full history of US foreign policy toward Afghanistan from President George W. Bush’s administration and the ‘war on terror’, to President Barack Obama’s drone strikes. Dorani is fluent in Pashto and Dari and uses unique and unseen Afghan source-work, published here for the first time, to understand the reactions from the people in Afghanistan itself. To that end the author also assesses the work of the advisors who influenced Presidents Kharzai and Ghani. This will be an essential book for those interested in the future of the region, and those who seek to understand its recent past.
International Politics in the Arctic Contested Borders, Natural Resources and Russian Foreign Policy Geir Hønneland
September 2017 320 pages Approx. 120,000 words World Rights => International relations, Arctic Resources
Geir Hønneland is Research Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Arctic University in Norway. He has published widely in Norwegian and in English on territory disputes and environmental factors in the Polar North. He gained his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2000 and is one of the most respected commentators in the field of Arctic Studies.
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A cutting-edge field, and a book which marks a major shift in contemporary International Relations
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The first book to focus on the IR role of Russia in the Arctic
A crucial addition to understanding International Relations concerning the Polar North As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes, the territory is becoming a flashpoint in world affairs. New trade routes, cutting thousands of miles off journeys, are available, and the Arctic is thought to be home to enormous gas and oil reserves. The territorial lines are new and hazy. This book looks at how Russia deals with the outside world vis a vis the Arctic. Given Russia’s recent bold foreign policy interventions, these are crucial issues and the realpolitik practiced by the Russian state is essential for understanding the Arctic’s future. Here, Geir Hønneland brings together decades of cutting-edge research - investigating the political contexts and international tensions surrounding Russia’s actions. Honneland looks specifically at ‘region-building’ and environmental politics of fishing and climate change, on nuclear safety and nature preservation, and also analyses the diplomatic relations surrounding clashes with Norway and Canada, as well as at the governance of the Barents Sea.
China’s World What Does China Want? Kerry Brown
September 2017 280 pages Approx. 75,000 words World Rights => International Relations, China
Kerry Brown is the Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London and Associate for Chinese Affairs at Chatham House. With 30 years experience of life in China, she has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Diplomat and Foreign Affairs, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets. He is the Amazon-bestselling author of CEO China and The New Emperors.
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The author is one of the few western academics who has met and worked with the leadership in China, and he speaks and reads fluent Mandarin
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Relevant for politicos, journalists, historians, analysts and all those interested in the rising superpower and its relations with the wider world
The must-have book for understanding what China wants A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China’s foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military prowess – including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also assesses China’s extraordinary plan to create a ‘New Silk Road’ across Central Asia – one of the biggest infrastructure project in modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple question: what does China want? The answer lies in the unique way China thinks about the world. A comprehensive analysis by one of the world’s most recognised and respected authorities, and based upon unparalleled research into Chinese leaders, their beliefs and their instincts, China’s World is an essential read for the Western world.
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Chasing the Chinese Dream Stories from Modern China Nick Holdstock
September 2017 224 pages Approx. 62,000 words World Rights => Current Affairs, China
Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. His writing can be found in Vice, The LA Review of Books, n+1, The Independent, The Dublin Review, Times Literary Supplement, the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He worked for many years under Isabel Hilton at China Dialogue – part of the Guardian environment network. He is the author of China’s Forgotten People, a biography of Xinjiang. His first novel, The Casualties, was published in 2015. He writes regularly on China for the London Review of Books.
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A spellbinding narrative of Chinese hopes and dreams
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The author has lived and worked in China
A kaleidoscopic travelogue of modern China – a surreal journey into the dreams and desires of the world’s largest nation China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the ‘Chinese Dream’, the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric – from the factory-owner, to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities. Chasing the Chinese Dream follows a cast of extraordinary characters: we meet the people getting rich; running factories and buying luxury cars and Louis Vuitton bags. But we also meet those left behind, trapped by a system which forces long hours and no prospects upon them. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this book looks to tell the story of modern China through the people who are living it.
Frontline Turkey The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East Ezgi Basaran
September 2017 288 pages Approx. 75,000 words World Rights => Current Affairs, Turkey Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish journalist who made her name covering the Kurdish conflict - reporting ‘on the ground’ in the fight between ISIS, the YPG, the PKK and the Turkish state. After accepting the offer to write a daily column on Turkish foreign affairs, she became the youngest ever editor of Turkey’s Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. After facing government censorship when covering the breakdown of the Kurdish talks, she resigned. Radikal was shut down by the government a month later – an unprecedented event which made headlines worldwide. She is currently an academic visitor at St Antony’s College Oxford. She has nearly 1 million twitter followers, and extensive ‘name-recognition’ in the field of Turkish politics and journalism.
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The must-have story of Erdogan, Syria and the Kurds in the Middle East
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New insight into the real roots of the Middle Eastern conflict – the Kurdish question
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Author an internationally known specialist on Turkey with extensive media experience and multiple platforms for promotion
An exiled journalist reveals Turkey’s role in the breakdown of the Middle East Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings and the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG – the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds’ relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and documents, through frontline reporting, how Erdogan’s failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in Middle East.
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Author was witness to events on the ground as Special Envoy to Syria
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Essential reading in the context of Syria’s recent crises
A Ground-breaking account of Syria’s descent into chaos
July 2017 208 pages Approx. 65,000 words Rights sold: ARB => Middle East, History, Politics
Nikolaos van Dam is a specialist on Syria who served as Special Envoy of the Netherlands for Syria in 2015-2-16. He has previously served as Ambassador of the Netherlands to Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq.
Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria, Nikolaos van Dam, explains the recent history of Syria, covering the growing disenchantment with the Asad regime, the chaos of civil war and the fractures which led to an immense amount of destruction in the refined social fabric of what used to be the Syrian nation. Through an indepth examination, van Dam traces political developments within the Asad regime and the various opposition groups from the Arab Spring to the present day, and provides a deeper insight into the conflict and the possibilities and obstacles for reaching a political solution.
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Turkey An Economic Geography Aksel Esroy
December 2017 208 pages Approx. 66,500 words World Rights => Turkey, Human Geography
Aksel Ersoy is Assistant Professor in Urban Development Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He previously held posts at Oxford Brookes University, Bristol University, and at the universities of Aberdeen and Birmingham. His research focus is upon understanding the complex relationship between social and economic transformations in developing economies, metropolitan cities and the built environment. He also takes a special interest in the political economy of the smart city.
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Turkey is a topical country and an important example of an emerging & transitional economy
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Develops a new theoretical framework for understanding the local and regional dynamics of these economies
The first book to explore the drivers of Turkey’s regional economies Turkey’s economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector. At the same time the country is positioning itself and preparing for entry into the European Union. That Turkey should meet her national economic goals is, therefore, particularly important. A vital factor in achieving these will be the country’s regional economies and their associated economic policies. To date, however, many of the policy interventions adopted have been based on models drawn from developed economies and the outcome has raised a number of concerns. Are policy interventions drawn from advanced economies appropriate for transitional economies such as Turkey? Aksel Ersoy’s book is the first work to explore the dynamics of local and regional development in Turkey. In addition, he offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the local and regional dynamics of emerging and transitional economies more generally.
Blood and Martyrs Football and the History of Modern Turkey Patrick Keddie
March 2018 320 pages Approx. 120,000 words World Rights => Sports & Culture, Turkey
Patrick Keddie is a journalist and essayist based in Istanbul. A reporter for Al Jazeera, his writing has also appeared in VICE, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, the Irish Times, the LA Review of Books, Middle East Eye and the Sunday Herald among others.
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The first book to bring the colourful world of Turkish football to a Western audience
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New insight into a crucial Middle Eastern nation
Funny, touching and beautifully observed, this is the story of Turkey as we have never seen it before Turkey is a nation obsessed with football and Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this most political of countries, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been something more. From the fan groups accused of attempting to assassinate the president, to the World-Cup players fighting corruption, football in Turkey is a scene for politics, anger and resistance Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through of the world’s most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where simit sellers compete with water cannons for the attentions of the fans, to the deserts of Anatolia, where Islamic teams show their devotion through soccer. He meets referees in the closet facing death threats, women fighting for the right to wear shorts on the pitch and Kurdish teams playing for the human rights. In doing so he lifts the lid on a new side to the story of modern Turkey. Blood and Martyrs also tells the story of the biggest recent scandal in European football, the fixing of the Turkish first division, and sketches the scandals murky connections to the country’s leadership.
Turkish Nomad The Intellectual Journey of Talat S. Halman Jayne L. Warner
October 2017 288 pages Approx. 62,000 words World Rights => Culture, Biography, Turkey
Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, CT. Her publications include Elmalı-Karataş II: The Early Bronze Age Village of Karataş. Warner has served as assistant editor for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and executive director of the Poetry Society of America (New York). She has also served as director of the American Turkish Society (New York) and director of the New York Office of the Board of Trustees of Robert College of Istanbul. She is the editor of Cultural Horizons: A Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman; The Turkish Muse: Views and Reviews, 1960s–1990s; Rapture and Revolution: Essays on Turkish Literature; and A Millennium of Turkish Literature: A Concise History.
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A unique study of Turkey’s transition from empire to republic seen through the eyes of one family
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A lavishly illustrated biography of illustrious poet—scholar—diplomat Talat S. Halman
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Follows the literary, scholastic, and journalistic journey of a restless writer
Reveals how Turkish women experienced and participated in public life during the modernization process in Turkey between 1950 and 1980 From the Ottoman Empire to the boldness of Turkey's new Republic, Istanbul has been home to some of the great thinkers of history. In the twentieth century, Talat Sait Halman, writer and poet, exemplified Turkey's powerful and influential literary culture. Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republic as its first minister of culture. The more than four decades Halman lived primarily in the United States are used to discuss how his ideas developed as he taught at leading universities and introduced Americans to Turkish literature and culture through his translations and public lectures.
Space Science and the Arab World Astronauts, Observatories & Nationalism in the Middle East Jörg Matthias Determann •
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History of Arabic science has mainly focused on the medieval times, this book focuses on the nineteenth century until the present day
The history of Arab space science from the nineteenth century until the present day
December 2017 224 pages Approx. 70,000 words World Rights => Middle East Studies, History of Science
Jörg Matthias Determann is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He is the author of Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East (I.B.Tauris) and Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East (I.B.Tauris). He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space. Twenty-five years later, the discovery of a planet 500 light-years away by the Qatar Exoplanet Survey subsequently named ‘Qatar-Ib’ - was evidence of the cutting-edge space science projects taking place across the Middle East. This book identifies the individuals, institutions and national ideologies that enabled Arab astronomers and researchers to gain support for space exploration when Middle East governments lacked interest. Jörg Matthias Determann shows that the conquest of space became associated with national prestige, security, economic growth and the idea of an ‘Arab renaissance’ more generally. Equally important to success were the international collaborations: to benefit from American and Soviet expertise and technology, Arab scientists and officials had to commit to global governance of space and the common interests of humanity. Challenging the view that the golden age of Arabic science and cosmopolitanism was situated in the medieval period, Determann tells the story of the new discoveries and scientific collaborations taking place from the nineteenth century to the present day. 18
God A New Biography Philip C. Almond
June 2018 264 pages Approx. 91,000 words World Rights => Religion, History of Ideas
Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His previous books include The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession, England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’, The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill, The Devil: A New Biography (cited as one of the Independent’s ‘Books of the Year: Best Books on Religion’) and Afterlife: A History of Life after Death, all published by I.B.Tauris.
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No serious biography of God has been attempted since 1996: there’s room for a new approach
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First history of the Almighty to place its subject squarely within wider currents of intellectual history
A brilliant “new “ like of the Creator The story of God is the story of a paradox. It is the drama of a transcendent, timeless being who, throughout history, has supposedly engaged with immanent and mortal creatures on a fallen and broken world of his own making. In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that – whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam – God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West. Expertly placing the narrative of divine presence within the wider history of ideas, Almond suggests that the notion of a deity has been the single greatest conundrum of medieval and modern civilization. In this rich, nuanced appraisal, ‘God’ is shown to be more complex and fascinating than ever before. 20
Radical Prophet The Mystics, Subversives & Visionaries who Strove for Heaven on Earth Christopher Rowland
September 2017 288 pages Approx. 62,000 words World Rights => Religion, History of Ideas
Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland’s Professor Emeritus 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).
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Christopher Rowland was for many years the holder of the top biblical studies Chair in the world
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A book with an argument: strong, highly reviewable, ideas book by a doyen of biblical studies
A powerful and passionately argued rediscovery of what Christianity really means 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 money-changers: 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.
Cyborg Theology Humans, Technology and God Scott A. Midson
October 2017 288 pages Approx. 62,000 words World Rights => Religion, Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Scott A Midson is Samuel Ferguson Research Assistant in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, where he obtained his PhD in 2012. Specializing in religion and technology and religion and new media, he is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology, where he delivered a paper in 2016 on the topic of ‘Black Mirrors.’ Cyborg Theology is his first book.
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Innovatively and originally takes the idea of the cyborg into theology and religion
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Cross-disciplinary sales potential in theology, philosophy, critical theory and cultural studies
A Bold and brilliant thesis about the relationship of human and non-human The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and technology. In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway’s and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals – through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden – how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, ‘post-human’, technologies. 22
Dharma The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India Veena R. Howard
August 2017 288 pages Approx. 93,000 words World Rights => Religion, South Asian Studies, Philosophy
Veena R. Howard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action (2013).
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Explores ethics, practice, history and social and gender issues, of the often problematic interpretations of dharma Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the straightforward equivalent of what many in the West might usually consider to be “a philosophy”. This much-needed analysis of the history and heritage of dharma shows that it is instead a multi-faceted religious force, or paradigm, that has defined and that continues to shape the different cultures and civilizations of South Asia in a whole multitude of forms, organizing many aspects of life. Experts in the fields of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh studies here bring fresh insights to dharma in terms both of its distinctiveness and its commonality as these are expressed across, and between, the several religions of the subcontinent.
The Religious Nile Water, Ritual and Society since Ancient Egypt Terje Oestigaard
June 2018 440 pages Approx. 91,000 words World Rights => Religion, History, Anthropology
Terje Oestigaard is Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Docent, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Bergen. His books include Water, Christianity & the Rise of Capitalism (I.B.Tauris), Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions, and Water and Food: From Hunter Gatherers to Global Production (co-ed. with T. Tvedt, I.B.Tauris).
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‘Give me sure hope of setting my eyes on the head waters of the Nile and I shall abandon civil war’ - Julius Caesar The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Even Caesar, the most powerful man on earth at the time, was unable to fathom the Nile and its mysteries. Yet the search for the source of the Nile also contained a religious quest – a search for the origin of its divine and lifegiving waters. The source of the Blue Nile, in Ethiopia, is the very outlet of the river Gihon, connecting Paradise with Christian believers, while the source of the White Nile, in Uganda, is central to the traditional cosmology of the region. In waterfalls from Lake Victoria to Murchison Falls innumerable and powerful water spirits define culture and religion. In The Religious Nile Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated with the river have played a key role in the cultural development and make-up of the societies and civilizations associated with it. Including details of rites and ceremonies now fast disappearing, the author brings out in rich detail the religious and spiritual meanings attached to the life-giving waters by those whose lives are so bound to the river. Part religious quest, part exploration narrative, the author shows how this mighty river is a powerful source for a greater understanding of human nature, society and religion. 24
The Fatimid Caliphate Diversity of Traditions Farhad Daftary & Shainool Jiwa (Eds)
October 2017 288 pages Approx. 67,000 words World Rights => Religion, History of Ideas Farhad Daftary is Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and Head of its Department of Academic Research and Publications. An authority on both Shi‘i and Ismaili studies, he has lectured and published widely, with more than 200 articles, encyclopaedia entries, edited books and acclaimed monographs. Most recent of these are: Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions and The Study of Shi'i Islam. Shainool Jiwa is a senior faculty member at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. As a specialist on the Fatimids, she has written and lectured extensively on medieval Islamic history and has edited and translated key medieval Arabic texts relating to Fatimid history, including The Founder of Cairo and Towards a Shi‘i Mediterranean Empire. Dr Jiwa is also the co-editor of The Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity. 25
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Examines unexplored aspects of Fatimid state and society
Examines Fatimid state – society relations and the distinctive nature of the Fatimid Empire The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin in 1171, the Fatimid caliphate governed a vast area stretching, at its peak, from the Red Sea in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Their leaders - the Ismaili Shi‘i Imam-caliphs - were distinctive in largely pursuing a policy of tolerance towards the religious and ethnic communities of their realm, and they embraced diverse approaches to the practicalities of administering a vast empire. Such methods of negotiating government and diversity created a lasting pluralistic legacy. The present volume, edited by Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa, brings together a series of original contributions from a number of leading authorities in the field. Based on analyses of primary sources, the chapters shed fresh light on the impact of Fatimid rule. The book presents little explored aspects of state -society relations such as the Fatimid model of the vizierate, Sunni legal responses to Fatimid observance, and the role of women in prayer. Highlighting the distinctive nature of the Fatimid empire and its legacy, this book will be of special interest to researchers in mediaeval Islamic history and thought.
Faith and Ethics The Vision of the Ismali Imamat M. Ali Lakhani
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January 2018 288 pages Approx. 63,000 words World Rights => Current Affairs, Turkey
M. Ali Lakhani, QC, has practised as a barrister and solicitor at all levels and in 1998 he founded Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, which has published articles from the Prince of Wales, the Dalai Lama, Karen Armstrong, Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William C. Chittick, among others. Lakhani has published in the anthology, The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam (2006) and a compilation of his selected writings were published in 2010, entitled The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom. His paper, ‘The Metaphysics of Human Governance: Imam ‘Ali, Truth and Justice’, won first prize at the Imam ‘Ali Conference in Iran.
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An analysis of the ideas and principles of the Aga Khan, based on his public statements and actions For Shia Muslims, spiritual leadership - known as ‘Imamat’ - has continued by hereditary succession through Ali, cousin and son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad, and his wife Fatima. But only the Shi’i Ismaili Muslims continue to have a living, hereditary Imam, who is believed by Ismailis to be directly descended from the Prophet himself. In this thoughtful book, Ali Lakhani examines the ideas and actions of the 49th and current Imam of Ismaili community, Prince Karim Al Hussaini, also known as the Aga Khan, to reveal what Islam looks like today. As the leader of an estimated 15 million Ismailis, the statements and work of Prince Karim confronts controversial issues and contemporary concerns, but does so through religious faith and a wholly Islamic ethics. This book is the first to provide an independent and extensive survey of the public statements and actions of the Aga Khan. It shows how he fuses faith and ethics in an attempt to pioneer an Islamic, intellectual framework that celebrates diversity, cosmopolitanism and social justice – all issues of enormous significance in a modern world riddled with uncertainties. 26
Imam Ali Concise History, Timeless Mystery Reza Shah-Kazemi
January 2018 288 pages Approx. 35,000 words World Rights => Religion, Islamic Studies
Reza Shah-Kazemi is the author of several books in the fields of Islamic studies and comparative religion, including the awardwinning Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam ʿAli. He is Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica and Senior Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
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Based on insights from the Sufi masters Ibn ʿArabi and Rumi
A guide to the life and teachings of Ali ibn Abi Talib illuminating the essence of his own spirituality ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib is unparalleled in Islam. He was the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, the first Shiʿi Imam and the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs. Sunni and Shiʿi Muslims alike hold ‘Ali in the highest regard owing to his status as a spiritual teacher and his strength as a warrior. According to the mystical tradition of Islam, ‘Ali is the embodiment of ‘the perfect human being’ (al-insan al-kamil). Reza Shah-Kazemi here draws on the insights of the Sufi masters Ibn ‘Arabi and Rumi to look beyond the biographical details of ‘Ali’s life to reflect on the spiritual significance of his actions and teachings. In the spirit of taʾwil or esoteric interpretation the author identifies how ‘Ali’s inner spiritual principles can be regarded as transcending the boundaries of time, space, religion and culture. For Shah-Kazemi, it is this mystical interpretation of ‘Ali that invites a new, much deeper understanding of his personality and contemporary relevance, outside the confines of history.
Living Islam Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey Ayse Saktanber
January 2018 New PB edition 288 pages Approx. 62,000 words World Rights => Middle East, Women’s Studies, Islam
Ayse Saktanber is Associate Professor in sociology and women's studies at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and the editor of Fragments of Culture: the everyday of modern Turkey (I.B.Tauris).
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Examines the role of women in the Islam vs. Secularism debate
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How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey? In this innovative book Ayse Saktanber rejects approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position of women, or see Muslim women as the 'reverse' or the 'dark' side of modernity. Taking as her subject matter families who have come together to 'live Islam' as 'conscious Muslims' in a suburb of Ankara, she attempts instead to understand the experiences of women for whom the discourse of modernity has a distant but complex relevance and to look at the ways in which they have become crucial agents in the effort to make Islam a living social practice in a secular order. Full of both theoretical insight and fascinating accounts of the lives of Islamist women, this prize-winning study is essential for anyone interested in the contemporary Muslim world.
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The Fatimids The Rise of a Muslim Dynasty (909-969) Shainool Jiwa
February 2018 288 pages Approx. 40,000 words World Rights => Islamic History
Shainool Jiwa is a senior faculty member at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. As a specialist on the Fatimids, she has written and lectured extensively on medieval Islamic history and has edited and translated key medieval Arabic texts relating to Fatimid history, including The Founder of Cairo (2013) and Towards a Shi’i Mediterranean Empire (2009). Dr Jiwa is also the co-editor of The Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity (2015).
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The first ever complete introduction to the Fatimid Empire – one of the great Islamic empire
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A lively account of the rise and expansion of the Fatimid Empire Emerging from a period of long seclusion, in the year 909 the leader of the burgeoning community of Ismaili Shi‘i Muslims was declared the first Fatimid Imamcaliph. Abd Allah al-Mahdi founded the only sustained Shi‘i dynasty (909–1171) to rule over substantial parts of the medieval Muslim world, rivalling both the Umayyads of Spain and the Abbasids. At its peak, the Fatimid Empire extended from the Atlantic shores of North Africa, across the southern Mediterranean and down both sides of the Red Sea, covering also Mecca and Medina. This accessible history, the first of two volumes, tells the story of the birth and expansion of the Fatimid Empire in the tenth century. Drawing upon recently available eyewitness accounts, Shainool Jiwa introduces the first four generations of Fatimid Imam-caliphs — al-Mahdi, al-Qa’im, al-Mansur and alMu‘izz — as well as the people who served them and those they struggled against. Readers are taken on a journey through the Fatimid capitals of Qayrawan, Mahdiyya and Mansuriyya and on to the founding of Cairo. In this lively and comprehensive introduction, we discover various milestones in Fatimid history and the political and cultural achievements that continue to resonate today.
Young Lothar An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin Larry Orbach & Vivien Orbach-Smith
July 2017 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => History, Memoir, WWII
Larry (Lothar) Orbach (1924-2008) grew up in Berlin and assumed the identity of Gerhard Peters from 1942-44. 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 and, with his wife Ruth Geier - also a refugee from Nazi Berlin - they had two children, Vivien and Richard. True to his word, Larry Orbach’s mother, Nelly, lived with him and his family until her death at age 83 in 1969. Larry’s final years in his beloved New York were full and surrounded by friends from all walks of life
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Underground Berlin in WWII: 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
A singular true story of hope amidst the darkness of Hitler’s Berlin 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. Outwardly he became a cagey amoral street thug, inwardly he was a sensitive, romantic boy, devoted son and increasingly religious Jew, clinging to his 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.
Mischka’s War A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York Sheila Fitzpatrick
July 2017 336 pages Approx. 100,000 words World Rights => History, Memoir, WWII
Sheila Fitzpatrick is Emerita Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney. One of the most acclaimed historians of twentieth-century Russia, she is the author of several books, including The Russian Revolution; Stalin’s Peasants, Everyday Stalinism, Tear off the Masks! and A Spy in the Archive: A Memoir of Cold War Russia (I.B.Tauris, 2013).
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Memoir detailing an extraordinary journey from Latvia to Nazi Germany to 1950s New York On a winter’s day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight – a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS – the authors of such atrocities – Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler’s Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during Riga’s worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go, Mischka was among the lucky ones – but even luck leaves scars. The author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka’s odyssey and survival.
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Maverick Spy Stalin’s Super Spy in World War II Hamish MacGibbon
August 2017 288 pages Approx. 81,500 words World Rights => History, Biography, WWII
Hamish MacGibbon was a publisher for 55 years and Director of the Publishing House James and James.
‘Hamish MacGibbon has written a thrilling account of English charm and Russian espionage, of politics and passion. It’s also a portrait of a marriage and a window onto a fascinating period of European history viewed through the eyes of two intelligent, sensitive, unashamedly partisan witnesses.’ – Lara Feigel, author of The Love Charm of Bombs and The Bitter Taste of Victory
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A gripping Would War II espionage story A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James’s death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear – in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James’s son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.
Babushka’s Journey The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps Marcel Krueger
October 2017 247 pages Approx. 70,000 words World Rights => History, Biography, WWII Marcel Krueger is a writer, translator and editor living in Ireland, and mainly writes non-fiction about places, their history, and the journeys in between. He works as the book editor of the Elsewhere Journal and is the contributing editor of Sonic Iceland. His articles and essays have been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Reykjavik Grapevine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Slow Travel Berlin and CNN Travel, amongst others. Together with Paul Sullivan he is the author of Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers (IBT) “Babushka’s Journey shows the effects of the terrifying last year of World War 11 on the former German province of East Prussia. By reaching the past through a journey of his own, Marcel Krueger discovers the extent of this destruction and what his beloved grandmother endured when she was caught up in it. This book is a moving account of family love and the devastation of war.” - Max Egremont
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Author is a master storyteller and has a good promotional platform
An evocative blend of past and present on the road to Stalin’s labour camps This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cilly, or 'Babushka', into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an poignant and evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snowcovered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the Soviet labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. Chasing the sights, sounds and voices of past and present along this route, the author describes two different journeys that follow the same path. As he stumbles through the bars of present-day Poland and dreams on the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, Krueger forges an authentic retelling of Cilly’s tragic yet hopeful story, discovering that her journey reflects tens of thousands of similar personal histories, which continue to haunt Germany, Poland and Russia today.
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The Myth of Hero and Leander The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend Silvia Montiglio
September 2017 304 pages Approx. 104,000 words World Rights => Classical & Literary Studies, History of Ideas
Silvia Montiglio is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. Her previous books include Silence in the Land of Logos, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture, From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought, Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel and, most recently, The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature (I.B.Tauris).
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Authoritative: author is a leading and senior US-based interpreter of ancient Greek myth and legend
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Unique: the first time this fascinating subject has been written about in English
Like Pyramus and Thisbe, or Romeo and Juliet, Hero and Leander are the compelling protagonists in a tale of epic but tragic love Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover’s mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages – notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan – and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.
Classical Reception and Children’s Literature Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation Helen Lovatt, Owen Hodkinson (Eds)
December 2017 320 pages Approx. 112,000 words World Rights => Classical & Literary Studies, Mythology, Education
Owen Hodkinson is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus’ Heroikos and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of SelfConscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid, The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).
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First book to address the central and significant topic of change in classics and children’s literature
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Some adjunct general as well as interdisciplinary classics and literary studies appeal
Shows how children’s literature offers fresh and exciting ways of approaching the ancient world Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as ‘valid’ for classical study. And within this process of widening, children’s literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children’s literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classicallyinspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical ‘nonsense’ in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children’s literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics. 36
Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval & Early Modern England A History of Sorcery and Treason Francis Young
September 2017 264 pages Approx. 91,000 words World Rights => History, Religion, Magic & Folklore
Francis Young is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author and editor of seven previous books, including English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553 -1829 and A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity (2016). He broadcasts regularly for the BBC on historical topics.
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400-year history of an important, original and neglected topic
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First book to explore English magical treason as quite separate and distinct from witchcraft
A big book with a big idea: the political events of English history through the history of magic and its accusers Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the ‘superstition’ embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.
Embracing the Darkness A Cultural History of Witchcraft John Callow
October 2017 284 pages Approx. 120,000 words World Rights => History, Religion, Mind Body & Spirit
John Callow is a Research Fellow in History at Lancaster University and Director of the Marx Memorial Library in London. He is the author of The Making of King James II, King in Exile: James II as Warrior, King and Saint, and - with Geoffrey Scarre - of Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe.
“Vivid, compelling and highly readable.” - Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The first comprehensive cultural history of the witch to be published in English
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Gripping reading for historians, students of culture and religion, and general readers
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Interest in witchcraft is exponential: from films, novels and rock songs to exponents of MBS and Wicca
Why was European culture possessed for so long by a fear of black magic and the supernatural? As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belief - like Luther's - in the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley; from the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive sorceresses of TV's Charmed; and from Derek Jarman's punk film Jubilee to Ken Russell's The Devils, John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating life. He takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. And where dark, winding country lanes could terrify by night, as the hoot of an owl or shriek of a fox became the desolate cries of unseen spirits, ghouls and spectres. Witchcraft has profoundly shaped the western imagination, and endures in the forms of modern-day Wicca and paganism. 38
The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination Memory, Film and Medievelism Paul B. Sturtevant
December 2017 336 pages Approx. 105,000 words World Rights => History, Film Studies
Paul B. Sturtevant is an audience research specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the very popular collaborative history blog 'The Public Medievalist'.
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What does the public really know about the middle ages? It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms – post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world – that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate, visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms constantly being developed, synthesised and remade. In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider public’s understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions. Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways – both formal and informal – that people learn about the medieval past and the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past, and why understanding this is so important.
Edmund In Search of England’s Lost King Francis Young
March 2018 224 pages Approx. 75,000 words World Rights => History
Born in Bury St Edmunds, and now a foremost authority on the history and culture of eastern England, Francis Young gained a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author and editor of seven previous books, including English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553 -1829, The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds: History, Legacy and Discovery, and A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity. He broadcasts regularly for the BBC on historical and religious topics.
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The likely discovery of the body of King Edmund is as historically important as that of Richard III
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First book to be written on the national significance of Edmund and his key role in forging England
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Feeds into much topical discussion about the rise and future of a distinctively English nationalism
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England’s greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body – placed in an ‘iron chest’ but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries – of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England’s first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.
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Dragon Lords The History and Legends of Viking England Eleanor Parker
April 2018 288 pages Approx. 77,500 words World Rights => History, Religion, Folklore, Archaeology
Eleanor Parker is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in the University of Oxford and also a member of Worcester College, Oxford. Dr Parker writes an acclaimed blog in her guise as A Clerk of Oxford, called ‘an orchard of golden apples’ by the Daily Telegraph. In 2015 her blog won the Longman-History Today Award for Digital History, and she now writes a regular column for History Today. “A riveting and rewarding read.” - Levi Roach, University of Exeter
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First book to explore in-depth the meanings and history of Viking legend in England
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Author rapidly acquiring a large following as celebrated blogger the ‘Clerk of Oxford’
Uncovers the remarkable degree to which England is Viking to its core Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious pillagers of popular repute. Eleanor Parker here unlocks secrets that point to more complex motivations within the marauding army that in the late ninth century voyaged to the shores of eastern England in its sleek, dragon-prowed longships. Exploring legends from forgotten medieval texts, and across the varied AngloSaxon regions, she depicts Vikings who came not just to raid but also to settle personal feuds, intervene in English politics and find a place to call home. Native tales reveal the links to famous Vikings like Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons; Cnut; and Havelok the Dane. Each myth shows how the legacy of the newcomers can still be traced in landscape, place-names and local history.
Among the Wolves of Court The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn Lauren Mackay
April 2018 312 pages Word count tbc World Rights => History, Trade
Lauren Mackay is a Tudor historian and author of Inside the Tudor Court. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Newcastle (Australia) but has already made a name for herself as a leading young historian and commentator on the Tudor Period. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court .
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Brings to life previously two-dimensional characters in the Anne Boleyn story
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Startling new insights into Tudor history
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Essential reading for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Tracy Borman
Dramatic new retelling of the Anne Boleyn tale, through the stories of her father and brother Thomas and George Boleyn – the father and brother of Anne Boleyn and heads of one of the most powerful infamous dynasties in English history. Already key figures in Henry VIII’s court, with the ascent of Anne to the throne in 1533 these two men became the most important players on the Tudor stage, with direct access to royalty, and with it, influence. Both were highly skilled ambassadors and courtiers who negotiated their way through the complex and ruthless game of politics with ease. But when the Queen fell from grace just three years later, it was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her brother his life. In this ground-breaking new book, Lauren Mackay reveals this untold story of Tudor England, bringing into the light two pivotal characters whose part in the rise and swift fall of Anne Boleyn has so far remained cloaked in shadow.
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Miss Palmer’s Diary The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady Gillian Wagner
September 2017 294 pages Approx. 99,000 words World Rights => Social History
Dame Gillian Wagner has been Chair of Barnardo’s and Carnegie UK. She is the author of Thomas Coram, Gent; The Chocolate Conscience; Barnardo and Children of the Empire.
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Unique first-hand account of life as a Victorian lady
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Sheds new light on immediate aftermath of Battle for Balaclava
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True life Jane Austen-esque story of love and courtship
Set during the Crimean War, the fascinating true story of a woman ahead of her time In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and about to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which were a rite-of-passage for young women of her class. To record the glittering whirl of activity, Ellen started writing a diary, a unique daily account which was discovered over a century later by her descendants. For Ellen, the path to true love did not run smooth – after a scandalous encounter with a duplicitous Swedish count, her marriage prospects were dealt a heavy blow. But Ellen was a woman ahead of her time. Undeterred by her increasing social isolation, she set off on a treacherous trip across Europe in pursuit of her beloved brother Roger, an officer in the Crimean War. In doing so she became one of the first women to visit the battlefield at Balaclava. Ellen’s diaries provide a first-hand account of the realities of debutante life in Victorian London whilst also telling the story of an inspirational young woman, her quest for love and her spectacular journey from the ballroom to the battlefield.
Captain Gill’s Walking Stick The True Story of the Sinai Murders Saul Kelly
March 2018 272 pages Approx. 71,000 words World Rights => History, Middle East, Espionage
Saul Kelly is Reader in International History in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. He is the author of The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War; Cold War in the Desert: Britain, the United States and the Italian Colonies, 1945-52 and Whitehall and the Suez Crisis.
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Sheds light on Victorian expeditions and espionage in Middle East
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Fascinating true crime story
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First full account of the Sinai Murders
New exploration of classic story of Victorian espionage and murder The sale at auction in Edinburgh in 2010 of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor Edward Palmer of Cambridge University and a young naval lieutenant, Harold Charrington, were killed in an ambush by Bedouin in the Sinai Desert in 1883. The trio had been tasked with informal diplomacy in the region, specifically to prevent the Arab sheikhs from joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their noninterference with the Suez Canal. The gruesome murders shocked late-Victorian Britain, and led to pressure from the Queen, Parliament and the Press for the British government to launch a manhunt for the killers in a vast desert area, with mountainous terrain. This book traces the story behind the murder of the three men, uncovering the reason for their journey to the desert, the story of the murder itself as well as the backlash back home in England. It shines light on a fascinating, forgotten crime, as well as on early intelligence operations in the Middle East.
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Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Their Role as expert Witnesses Marcel Turner
April 2018 320 pages Approx. 100,000 words World Rights => History, Holocaust, Legal History
Matthew Turner is a Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia, from where he gained his PhD. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Jena Center for Twentieth Century History in Germany.
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Taps into debates on role of historians in legal trials
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Features original research and first-hand interviews
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Adds to our knowledge of the prosecution of war crimes after World War II
New analysis of role of expert witnesses in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation’s leading historians as expert witnesses – Martin Broszat, Hans Buchheim, Helmut Krausnick, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen – appointed by the prosecution to give evidence pertaining to the historical and organisational context of the Holocaust. Following the trial, the reports of these historians were published in a bestselling book, Anatomie des SS-Staates (Anatomy of the SS State) and Matthew Turner here investigates the relationship between the trial and this publication. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the intersection between history and law that accompanies historians’ entry into the courtroom. Very little, however, has been written about this intersection with a focus on a single case study. Based on original research in several German archives and first-hand interviews, Turner addresses these connections through a study of West Germany’s most famous trial, and the monumental work of history produced from the engagement of historical expertise in court. 46
The Jazz War Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II Will Studdert
November 2017 320 pages Approx. 85,000 words World Rights => WW II, Music History
Will Studdert completed his PhD at the University of Kent, where he specialised on the history of jazz and propaganda during World War II.
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Strong contribution to our understanding to Nazi propaganda
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Contemporary testimony of the effect of jazz and swing on soldiers, civilians and propaganda makers
“So it seems that Swing is mobilised and will play its part in the coming struggle.” - B.M. LyttonEdwards During World War II, one kind of music embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Allied powers – Jazz. Labeled ‘degenerate’ by Hitler himself, jazz was adopted by the Allies to win the hearts and minds of the German public, but it was also used by the Nazi Minister for Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, to deliver a message of Nazi cultural superiority. When Goebbels co-opted young German musicians into ‘Charlie and his Orchestra’ and broadcast their anti-Allied lyrics across the English Channel, Jazz took centre-stage in the propaganda war that accompanied the real war on the ground. The Jazz War is based on the largely unheard oral testimony of the musicians who played on German and British wartime radio broadcasts, and chronicles the evolving relationship between jazz music and the Axis and Allied war efforts. Studdert shows how Jazz simultaneously helped and hindered the Allied cause as Nazi soldiers secretly tuned in to British radio shows while London partygoers listened to European stations, leading them to be branded a ‘fifth column’ by the British press. This book will appeal to students of the history of Jazz, broadcasting, cultural studies, and the history of World War II.
The WRNS in Wartime The Women’s Royal Navy Service 1917-1945 Hannah Roberts
November 2017 288 pages Approx.100,000 words World Rights => History, Naval History, WW
Hannah Roberts holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. She is Head of Sociology at Godalming College.
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Important perspective on female military service
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New perspective on women’s role in the Royal Navy in both world wars
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First-hand interviews and original sources
A comprehensive history of the early years of the WRNS The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, reformed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously little studied British military institution, which celebrates its centenary in 2017. She shows how political and military decision-making within the fluctuating national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the growth of the service in World War II into realms never expected of women. The WRNS took on a wide-ranging role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the service because of its uniquely independent origins. From 1941 onward the WRNS spread internationally and subverted the combat taboo by adopting semicombatant roles. Using twenty-one new oral histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in both the world wars. 48
Croatia and the Rise of Fascism The Youth Movement and the Ustasha During WW II Goran Miljan
December 2017 328 pages Approx. 95,000 words World Rights => Balkan Studies, WW II
Goran Miljan received his PhD in Comparative History from the Central European University in Budapest where he specialized in the history of the Second World War in Croatia. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust and genocide studies at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University. He has been awarded several scholarships and grants for his research, and been published in peerreviewed journals on the topic of Modern Croatian History.
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The first book in English to focus on the Ustasha youth programme
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An essential study of an often forgotten part of WW II and Fascism During World War II, Croatia became a fascist state under the control of the Croatian Fascist Party - allied with the Nazi Party in Germany. Here, Goran Miljan examines and analyzes for the first time the ideology, practices, and international connections of the Ustasha Youth organization. The Ustasha Youth was an all-embracing fascist youth organization, established in July 1941 by the ‘Independent State of Croatia’ with the goal of reeducating young people in the model of an ideal ‘new’ Croat. This youth organization attempted to set in motion an allembracing, totalitarian national revolution which in reality consisted of specific interconnected, mutually dependent practices: prosecution, oppression, mass murder, and the Holocaust - all of which were officially legalized within a month of the regime’s accession to power. In order to justify their radical policies of youth reeducation, the Ustasha Youth, besides emphasizing national character and the importance of race, also engaged in transnational activities and exchanges, especially with the Hlinkova mládež [Hlinka Youth] of the Slovak Republic. Both youth organizations were closely modelled after the youth organizations in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Reporting Genocide Media, mass Violence and Human Rights David Patrick
October 2017 320 pages Approx. 102,000 words World Rights => 20th C History, Media Studies
David Patrick is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He completed his PhD in Modern History at Sheffield University.
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Ground-breaking research based on a unique data-set, published here for the first time
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Of practical use for policy-makers and political think-tanks across the globe
An essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate The Western world’s responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality, their actual material reactions are more usually dictated by geopolitical ‘noise’, pre-conceived ideas of worth and the media attention-spans of individual elected leaders. Utilizing a wide-ranging quantitative analysis of media reporting across the globe, Patrick argues that an over-reliance on the Holocaust as the framing device we use to try and come to terms with such horrors can lead to slow responses, misinterpretation and category errors – in both Rwanda and Bosnia, much energy was expended trying to ascertain whether these regions qualified for ‘genocide’ status. The Reporting of Genocide demonstrates how such tragedies are reduced to stereotypes in the media - framed in terms of innocent victims and brutal oppressors - which can over-simplify the situation on the ground. This in turn can lead to mixed and inadequate responses from governments. Reporting on Genocide also seeks to address how responses to genocides across the globe can be improved. 50
The Secret War for China Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao Panagiotis Dimitrakis
October 2017 406 pages Approx. 149,000 words World Rights => History, IR & Politics
Panagiotis Dimitrakis holds a doctorate in War Studies from King’s College London, and is an expert on intelligence and military history. He is the author of The Secret War in Afghanistan and Military Intelligence in Cyprus: From the Great War to Middle East Crises amongst others.
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Documents the clandestine confrontation between Mao and Chiang and the secret negotiations between Chiang and the Axis Powers
An urgent and necessary guide to the intricacies of the Chinese Civil War which decisively shaped the modern Asian world In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek – the head of China’s military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) – began the ‘northern expeditions’ to bring China’s northern territories back under the control of the state. It was during this period that the KMT purged communist activities, fractured the army and sparked the Chinese Civil War – which would rage for over twenty years. The communists, led by General Mao Tse-Tsung, were for much of the period forced underground and concentrated in the Chinese countryside. This resulted in China’s war featuring unusually high levels of espionage and sabotage, and increased the military importance of information gathering. Based on newly declassified material, Panagiotis Dimitrakis charts the double-crossings, secret meetings and bloody assassinations which would come to define China’s future. Uniquely, The Secret War for China gives equal weighting to the role of foreign actors: the role of British intelligence in unmasking Communist International (Comintern) agents in China, for example, and the allies’ attempts to turn nationalist China against the Japanese.
Franco Anatomy of a Dictator Enrique Moradiellos
December 2017 252 pages Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => Biography, History, Modern Spain
Enrique Moradeillos is Professor of Modern Spanish and European History at the University of Extremadura, Spain. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London and Complutense University, Madrid and is the author of ten books on twentieth-century Spain, published in Spanish.
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Major new biographical account of Franco
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Puts Franco in the context of his regime
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Three-dimensional reassessment of one of the key figures in twentieth-century European history
Based on new research, a major new portrait of Franco as dictator and man On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions - Franco, the man; Franco, the Caudillo and Franco's Spain. In so doing, he offers a reappraisal of Franco's personality, his leadership style and the nature of the regime that he established and led until his death. As a dictator who established his power prior to World War II and maintained it well into the 1970s, Franco was one of the most central figures of twentiethcentury European history. In Spain today, he is a spectre from a regrettable recent past, uncomfortable yet still very real and significant. Although a realtively minor dictator in comparison with Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin, Franco was more fortunate than them in terms of survival, long-lasting influence and public image. A study of his regime and its historical evolution sheds new light on fundamental questions of European history, including the social and cultural bases for totalitarian or authoritarian challenges to democracy and sources of political legitimacy grounded in the charisma of a leader. 52
Franco and the Condor Legion The Spanish Civil War in the Air Michael Alpert
March 2018 288 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => History, Spanish Civil War, Aviation History
Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster. He is the author of A New International History of the Spanish Civil War and The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
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Pivotal conflict at a turning point in aviation technology
A comprehensive study of the Condor Legion and Spain’s war in the air The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new techniques of air war were rehearsed including high-speed dogfights, attacks on ships, bombing of civilian areas and tactical air-ground cooperation. At the heart of the air war were the Condor Legion, a unit composed of military personnel from Hitler’s Germany who fought for Franco’s Nationalists in Spain. In this book, Michael Alpert provides the first study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air. He describes and analyses the intervention of German, Italian and Soviet aircraft in the Spanish conflict, as well as the supply of aircraft in general and the role of volunteer and mercenary airmen. His book provides new perspectives on the air war in Spain, the precedents set for World War II and the possible lessons learnt.
Maurice Thorez A Biography John Bulaitis
March 2018 368 pages Approx. 138,000 words World Rights => History, Politics, Communism, France
John Bulaitis is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. His previous book, Communism in Rural France: French Agricultural Workers and the Popular Front, is also published by I.B.Tauris.
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A major figure in French and European history - essential reading for anyone interested in modern history and communism
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Uses previously unpublished archival material - much of which has only recently been released
A major new biography of pivotal figure in French communist history Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most important communist parties in the West. Born in a mining village and leaving school at the age of 12, Thorez’s rapid rise in the PCF paralleled Stalin’s consolidation of power in the Soviet Union. After World War II, he became a minister and, briefly, deputy prime minister, before the Cold War excluded communists from political power. The PCF became known as ‘the party of Maurice Thorez’, as a leader cult around Thorez was created that mirrored the ‘cult of personality’ around Stalin. This book is based on a wealth of original source material, including Thorez’s diaries and notebooks. John Bulaitis outlines how Thorez’s political life intersected with and was shaped by key historical events. At its heart, the book explores the paradox of the mass communist movement in France: its ability to fuse attachment to the French nation with fervent loyalty to the Soviet Union and Stalinist practices. 54
Singapore A Modern History Michael D. Barr
June 2018 368 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Asia, History
Michael D. Barr is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Flinders University, Australia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Asian Studies Review and the author of Cultural Politics and Asian Values, Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore (edited with C. Trocki), Constructing Singapore (with Z. Skrbiš), Lee Kuan Yew, and The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence (I.B.Tauris).
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Only history of Singapore which traces roots back to 16th century
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Singapore is a vital trading and economic hub
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Author is a leading expert on Singapore’s history, politics and culture
Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from 16th century to present Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called ‘Singapore Story’. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country’s history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.
The Land Beyond A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East Leon McCarron
September 2017 272 pages Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => Travel Literature, Middle East
Leon McCarron is a Northern Irish writer, film-maker and speaker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and specializes in storytelling via long distance, human-powered expeditions. He has cycled from New York to Hong Kong, walked 3000 miles across China, trekked 1000 miles through the Empty Quarter desert in Arabia and travelled along Iran’s longest river. At the end of 2014 he rode a horse across Argentina, following the Santa Cruz river in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. His first book, The Road Headed West described a cycling adventure across North America. McCarron has also produced a TV series, Walking Home from Mongolia, for National Geographic and made three independent films. In 2017 he was awarded the Neville Shulman Challenge Award. 57
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A story that goes behind news headlines, to illuminate the untold stories of the Holy Land
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Author awarded Neville Shulman Challenge Award
“A marvellous adventure and an impressive feat of endurance. This is also a journey that explores the people and landscapes of a misunderstood part of the world with great insight and enthusiasm.” - Ranulph Fiennes
The human story of the Middle East - beyond the headlines There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace ancient trading and pilgrimage routes and traverse some of the most contested landscapes in the world. In the West Bank, he met families struggling to lead normal lives amidst political turmoil and had a surreal encounter with the world’s oldest and smallest religious sect. In Jordan, he visited the ruins of Hellenic citadels and trekked through the legendary Wadi Rum. His journey culminated in the vast deserts of the Sinai, home to Bedouin tribes and haunted by the ghosts of Biblical history. The Land Beyond is a journey through time, from the quagmire of current geopolitics to the original ideals of the faithful, through the layers of history, culture and religion that have shaped the Holy Land. But at its heart, it is the story of people, not politics and of the connections that can bridge seemingly insurmountable barriers.
Finding Eden A Journey into the Heart of Borneo Robin Hanbury-Tenison
September 2017 270 pages Approx. 86,000 words World Rights => Travel & Exploration, Conservation & Environment
Robin Hanbury-Tenison, OBE, DL, is the doyen of British explorers. A Founder and President of Survival International, the world’s leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, he was one of the first people to bring the plight of the rainforests to the world's attention. He has been a Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, winner of the Pio Manzu Award, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow, Trustee of the Ecological Foundation and Fellow of the Linnean Society. Among his many publications are: Land of Eagles (IBT), Fragile Eden, The Oxford Book of Exploration, and his two autobiographies, Worlds Apart and Worlds Within. "The greatest explorer of the past twenty years." - Sunday Times
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Robin Hanbury Tenison is the doyen of British explorers, a household name and bestselling author
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Extraordinary account of the expedition that started the rainforest movement
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Highly topical issues (survival of indigenous people, environment)
“Robin Hanbury-Tenison is the champion of indigenous populations everywhere. This is an inspiring book, an evocative, enchanting account of his life among the nomadic Penan tribe of Borneo and how he changed our attitudes towards such tribal peoples for ever." - Redmond O’Hanlon, author of Into the Heart of Borneo and Congo Journey
The story of the expedition that launched the global rainforest movement Fourty years ago the interior of Borneo was a pristine, virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes and naïve, virtually tame, wildlife. It was into this ‘Garden of Eden’ that Robin Hanbury Tenison led one of the largest ever Royal Geographical Society expeditions, an extraordinary undertaking which triggered the global rainforest movement and illuminated, for the first time, how vital rainforests are to our planet. For 15 months, Hanbury Tenison and a team of some of the greatest scientists in the world immersed themselves in a place and a way of life that is on the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once a wildlife paradise is now a monocultural desert, devastated by logging and the forced settlement of nomadic tribes, where traditional ways of life and unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly being driven to extinction. This is a story for our time, one that reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world. 58
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September 2017 288 pages Approx. 70,000 words World Rights => Classics & the Ancient World, Travel
Paul Wilkinson founded the Kent Archaeological Field School (www.kafs.co.uk), is currently Director of the Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company – or SWAT Archaeology for short (www.swatarchaeology.co.uk) – and holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of St Andrews. His previous books include the bestselling Pompeii: The Last Day and Archaeology: What it is, Where it is, and How to do it, which have each sold well in excess of 50,000 copies.
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Handy yet comprehensive guidebook: ideal for the Pompeii visitor Authoritatively introduces all the important sites, which are attractively illustrated throughout Wilkinson is the bestselling author of Pompeii: The Last Day, which has sold around 80,000 copies
The indispensable one-stop shop for every visitor to the famous site and city The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy archaeological guides to reveal and explain its public spaces and private residences. This compact and userfriendly handbook, written by an expert in the field, helpfully fills that gap. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, diagrams and other images, Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide offers a general introduction to the doomed city followed by an authoritative summary and survey of the buildings, artefacts and paintings themselves. The result is an unrivalled picture, derived from an intimate knowledge of Roman archaeology around the Bay of Naples, of the forum, temples, brothels, bath-houses, bakeries, gymnasia, amphitheatre, necropolis and other site buildings – including perennial favourites like the House of the Faun, named after its celebrated dancing satyr.
Jane Austen’s England A Walking Guide Anne-Marie Edwards
September 2017 224 pages Approx. 47,000 words World Rights => Travel, Literature, History
Anne-Marie Edwards is the author of over 40 travel guides to the English countryside. She contributed to the The Jane Austen Companion and Walker’s Britain. Edwards originally broadcast most of these walks on the BBC. She is a member of the Ramblers Association, the Backpackers Club, The British Shakespeare Association and the Jane Austen Society.
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The only walking guide to Jane Austen's England
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Vividly illuminates all the places that appear in Austen's novels
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Austen has a huge fanbase and this will be essential reading for all Austen fans and travellers
A lively exploration of the places that inspired Jane Austen It is impossible to fully appreciate Jane Austen without experiencing the landscapes which inspired her. Jane Austen's England - the first book of its kind - takes the reader on a series of walking tours into the very heart of her world. These fifteen picturesque walks describe the country houses, churches, great estates and elegant cities that were the settings for her novels and introduce the reader to the real-life people she met, many of whom became characters in her books. An indispensable guide for all Austen fans, some of the sights include Godmersham House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, the view from Box Hill, scene of the 'exploring party' in Emma, Lyme Regis' treacherous Cobb in Persuasion, Bath's Assembly Rooms in Northanger Abbey and many more.
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Riviera Dreaming An American Architect on the Côte d’Azur Maureen Emerson
March 2018 264 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Travel, History, Literature
Maureen Emerson lived in Provence for 20 years, where she worked as a local coordinator for CBS and NBC at media festivals in Cannes. During her years in Provence Maureen became enthralled with the stories of those expatriates who lived on the Riviera in the 1920s and 1930s and how the Second World War affected their lives. Her first book on the Riviera, Escape to Provence, was published in 2008. “Through the work of Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer, as architect and gardener, Maureen Emerson has created a fascinating account of the South of France in times of glorious peace and hideous war, telling the stories of those who made their homes there. She evokes a particular generation in this wonderful book.” - Hugo Vickers
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Unique history of the Riviera during its most fascinating period – the Jazz Age
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Barry Dierks – an iconic Riviera architect
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The stories behind the most glamorous houses on the French Riviera In 1926 a young American architect and his lover, an ex-officer in the British Army, moved to the south of France and built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterranean. They called it Le Trident. From the moment it was built, it captivated Riviera society. Noel Coward called it “impossibly beautiful” and its guest book became filled with the Riviera beau monde. As commissions for more villas flooded in, Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer became the “darlings of the Riviera”. Over the years, Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera’s most recognisable villas for clients ranging from Somerset Maugham’s Villa Mauresque and Jack Warner’s Villa Aujourd’hui to the Marquess of Cholmondeley’s Manoir Eden Roc and Maxine Elliott’s Château de l'Horizon. Riviera Dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these stunning houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the Cote d’Azur at the height of the Jazz Age.
Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire Lisa McCracken Lacy
September 2017 368 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Travel, History, Middle East
Lisa McCracken Lacy holds a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin.
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Detailed biography of a key figure in Middle East history
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An engaging portrait of Lady Anne Blunt, a late Victorian traveller and political activist Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region and its people. By the standards of the time, Lady Anne held independent – and quite radical – ideas about the Middle East, believing in the need to respect Arab culture and to treat the people as equals. With an encompassing knowledge of the region, she challenged prevailing assumptions and, as a result of her aristocratic heritage, exerted strong influence in British political circles. Her extensive journeys in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Persia formed the basis of her knowledge about the Middle East. She pursued an intimate knowledge of Bedouin life in Arabia, the town culture of Syria and Mesopotamia and the politics of nationalism in Egypt. Her husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, gained a reputation as an anti-imperialist political activist. Lacy shows that Lady Anne was her husband’s partner in marriage, politics and travel and exerted strong influence not only on his ideas, but on the ideas of the British political elite of the era. 62
Literary Guide for Travellers Discover the world through the lens of the literary greats
New: August 2017 288 pages 84,000 words World rights available
288 pages 84,000 words Rights sold: CN
288 pages 84,000 words World rights available
288 pages 84,000 words Rights sold: CN
288 pages 84,000 words Rights sold: CN
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Growing Up with the Impressionists The Diary of Julie Manet Translated & edited by Jane Roberts •
Provides an unrivalled and truly fascinating insight into the lives of the Impressionists
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“An enchanting book... a delightful story with aptly chosen illustrations” - Book of the Year, Financial Times
224 pages, 70 images Approx. 66,000 words World Rights => Art History
“Francophiles will dote on the lively diary of Julie Manet which provides valuable insights into the lives of Degas, Renoir and others in that charmed circle.’” - Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post
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.
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Julie Manet, the daughter of Eugène 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.
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes Strories from a Silver Age Michael Meylac
September 2017 360 pages, 78 images Approx. 111,000 words World Rights excl. RU => Ballet, History, Dance
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.
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Foreword by Ismene Brown afterword by John Neumeier
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Essential reading for ballet fans
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The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. 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 important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and 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. The dancers’ own words reveal what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provide fascinating new insights into one of the most vibrant and creative groups of artists of the modern age.
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Marvel’s Mutants The X-Men Comics of Chris Claremont Miles Booy
March 2018 256 pages Approx. 75,000 words World Rights => Cultural Studies, Comics & Superheroes
Miles Booy is an expert on Marvel comics. He is the author of Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present (2012) and a contributor to The Cult TV Book (2012), both from I.B Tauris.
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Chris Claremont’s X-Men superhero comics are iconic for fans
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The X-Men comics of Marvel genius Chris Claremont In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn’t used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the bestseller in a revived comics market. Unusually in the comics world, one man, Chris Claremont wrote the comic over seventeen years, from 1975 to 1991, developing new characters such as Wolverine and Storm, and taking themes from Freudian psychology, Christian temptation narratives, Existentialist philosophy and the language of sub-cultural identity. Marvel’s Mutants is the first book to be devoted to the aesthetics of these comics that laid the foundation for the worldwide X-Men franchise we know today. Miles Booy explores Claremont’s recurrent themes, the evolution of his reputation as an auteur within a collaborative medium, the superhero genre and the input of the artists with whom Claremont worked. Also covered are the successful spin-off projects, which Claremont wrote: solo Wolverine miniseries and whole new teams of mutant superheroes.
Once Upon a Time Lord The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who Ivan Philips
March 2018 256 pages Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Media Studies, Sci Fi & TV
Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on popular culture, science fiction and horror, reviewing regularly for Critical Studies in Television. He is a contributor to Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who.
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Shows how Doctor Who tells stories & uses myths
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New take on Doctor Who as hero
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Accessibly Doctor Who fan and student friendly in style & content
“We’re all stories in the end”, said the Doctor Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated and interwoven, sometimes contradictory, body of tales that constitute this eccentric masterpiece of modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new Who’, Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord’s story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. Doctor Who is considered as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in complex and at times divisive ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. The book also offers a distinctive take on the popular hero’s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has inhabited across more than half a century.
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On Video Games The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space Soraya Murray
October 2017 288 pages Approx. 98,500 words World Rights => Contemporary Visual Culture, Game Studies
Soraya Murray is Assistant Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she is also affiliated with the History of Art & Visual Culture Department and the Center for Games and Playable Media. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in contemporary art, cultural studies and games. Her research has been published in Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, CTheory, Public Art Review, Third Text, Gamesbeat and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.
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First book to focus on the visual content of American video games from a cultural studies perspective
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Looks at the most popular American action and shooter games today, but offers a strong theoretical & methodological backbone that will outlast changes in gaming culture
Video games are a defining part of mass visual culture Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters like The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts. As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. This book examines both their elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds, whose social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalisation and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture. Demonstrating that games are at the frontline of power relations, she reimagines how we see them – and more importantly how we understand them.
Hitchcock and the Spy Film James Chapman
November 2017 335 pages Approx. 100,000 words World Rights => Film & Visual Culture
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.
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New understanding of Hitchcock through his spy films using fresh sources
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Close encounters with the films including Hitch’s unmade spy thriller
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Large and consistent interest in Hitchcock
Discovering Hitchcock, master of spies 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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Godard and Sound Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard Albertine Fox
November 2017 256 pages Approx. 83,000 words World Rights => Film Studies, Musicology
Albertine Fox is Lecturer in French Film at the University of Bristol. She has published on film sound, music and voice in relation to Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema and video art. Her articles have appeared in Studies in French Cinema, SEQUENCE, and Sight & Sound online and her chapter on ‘Constructing Voices in Sauve qui peut (la vie)’ was awarded the 2014 Susan Hayward Prize by the Association for Studies in French Cinema.
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The first book on Jean-Luc Godard and sound
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Restores the significance of examining soundscapes for film studies
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What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on the impact of carefully constructed sound to produce innovative effects. For the first time, this book brings together his post-1979 multimedia works, and an analysis of their rich soundscapes. The book provides detailed critical discussions of feature-length films, shorts and videos, delving into Godard’s inventive experiments with the cinematic soundtrack and offering new insights into his latest 3D films. By detailing the production contexts and philosophy behind Godard’s idiosyncratic sound design, it provides an accessible route to understanding his complex use of music, speech and environmental sound, alongside the distorting effects of speed alteration and auditory excess. The book is framed by the concept of ‘acoustic spectatorship’: a way of cultivating active listening in the viewer. It also draws on ideas by leading sound theorists, philosophers, musicians, and poets, giving particular emphasis to the pioneering thought of French sound engineer and theorist, Pierre Schaeffer. Softening the boundaries between film studies, sound studies and musicology, Godard and Sound re-evaluates Godard’s work from a sonic perspective.
The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker Bülent Diken, Graeme Gilloch & Craig Hammond
December 2017 174 pages Approx. 62,000 words Rights sold: TUR => Film Studies
Bülent Diken teaches Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. In particular, his research interests include the sociology of cinema and urbanism, and he has a number of previous publications which include The Culture of Exception (2008) and Sociology through the Projector (2005). Graeme Gilloch is Reader at Lancaster University, where he researches and teaches courses in visual culture – especially film and photography – and metropolitan and urban cultures. Craig Hammond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Society at Blackburn College, UK, where he researches film from a sociological perspective, amongst other interests.
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Shows how Ceylan is one of the most original and provocative film makers of the 21st century
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The book takes a unique transnational approach to Ceylan’s oeuvre, rather than simply situating him in the canon of ‘New Turkish Cinema’
The first substantial study of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s work Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s meditative, visually stunning contributions to the ‘New Turkish Cinema’ have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey’s modernisation has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan’s films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of ‘nostalgia’ understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan’s work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook.
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Some Things You Should Know Confessions of a TV Executive Truman Locke
February 2018 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => TV & Media
Truman Locke is the pen name of a leading producer of factual television.
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The insider’s story of a year producing factual TV, written as a page-turning thriller
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For TV students and everyone wanting to know inside story of how TV shows come to be
Gripping first-person insider story of a year in the life of a TV producer Truman Locke is a television executive. His job - to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV - gives him a license for adventure; freedom to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, so long as he's successful. In the past, he always has been. Now, things are going wrong. Under mounting pressure, his manoeuvring and risk-taking start to slip out of control, bringing trouble and danger to his ordered world, jeopardizing everything. In Some Things You Should Know, this talented but flawed anti-hero tells his own story - one of lies, crime and complex relationships. It's a page-turning thriller, inspired by the realities of life in a glamorous but treacherous industry, exposing them in a way no book ever has before. Written by a leading television producer, Some Things… is as well a thought-provoking, gripping and unflinching true story about television for people studying TV and working in the industry. Truman’s experiences show what it’s like to work at TV’s cutting edge: what motivates TV producers, how they think and behave, and what it takes to succeed in a cut-throat creative business.
Inside the Freud Museums History, Memory & Site-Responsive Art Joanne Morra
October 2017 288 pages, 80 images Approx. 80,000 words World Rights => Art Theory, Psychoanalysis, Museum & Holocaust Studies
Dr. Joanna Morra is Reader in Art History and Theory at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. She is the Founder and Principal Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture.
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As founder and principal editor of Journal of Visual Culture, Joanne Morra is an exceptionally well-connected, high profile author
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Good potential sales to gallery-goers
A Guide to the Freud Museums and how their history and spaces have inspired artists and curators Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the great psychoanalyst’s objects and artefacts. Now museums, both of these spaces resonate powerfully. Since 1989, the Freud Museum London has held over 70 exhibitions by a distinctive range of artists including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Susan Hiller, Sarah Lucas and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna houses a small but impressive contemporary art collection, with work by John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Jenny Holzer, Franz West and Ilya Kabakov. In this remarkable book, Joanne Morra offers a nuanced analysis of these historical museums and their unique relationships to contemporary art. Taking us on a journey through the ‘site-responsive’ artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these Museums, Joanne Morra offers a fresh experience of the history and practice of psychoanalysis, of museums and contemporary art. 74
Modern Art at the Berlin Wall Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys Claudia Mesch •
Unique study of art in post- WWII Germany
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Penetrating insights into the cultural coordination of new national identities and modernism’s many legacies
October 2017 New PB 336 pages, 31 images Approx. 120,000 words World Rights => Art, Cultural Studies
Claudia Mesch is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She is the editor, with Viola Michely, of ‘Joseph Beuys: The Reader’ (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and is founding editor of the e-journal ‘Surrealism and the Americas’. She writes on diverse topics in twentieth-century and contemporary art, especially postwar modernism, its ties to surrealism, and European intellectual history, and is working on a study of European intellectuals’ and surrealism’s preoccupation with Native American culture. She is a frequent contributor of art and film criticism to ‘Sculpture’, ‘caa.reviews’ and ‘The Art Book’.
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At the end of World War II, both Germanies faced the common problem of recovering and redefining modern art - museum buildings lay in ruins and Nazi confiscations and plunder had decimated every major public collection of modern art. A wide group of artists, American, Jewish and German, struggled to take visual art beyond the crude separations of the ‘Iron Curtain’, and to transcend the first global cultural divide of the twentieth century. The group included Joseph Beuys, Allan Kaprow, Gerhard Richter, Carolee Schneemann, Ed Kienholz, Yvonne Rainer, Jörg Immendorff and Nam June Paik. Their artwork engaged critically with imposed national and global identities, and with issues of memory and trauma that is far less known than official memorials and ‘countermemorials’ to World War II. Mesch analyzes artworks across a number of different mediums including performance, painting and film, and also how some of these artworks were disseminated on television. Modern Art at the Berlin Wall presents a new chapter in the history of modern art in considering the cultural struggles of artists as they coped with the wide-scale trauma of World War II and the global ideological divide of the Cold War era. It challenges the perception that an absolute cultural separation existed between the capitalist West and the communist Soviet Bloc.
Photography Reframed New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture Ben Burbridge & Annebelle Pollen (Eds)
February 2018 368 pages, 40 images Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => Contemporary Photography, Visual Culture
Ben Burbridge is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. He is widely published in the field of photography, art and politics. Curatorial projects include the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space and Revelations: Experiments in Photography. Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is widely published in the field of visual and material culture. She is the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015), Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (I.B.Tauris, 2016) and co-editor of Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (2015).
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A vital road map to developments in twenty-first century photography At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a diverse set of photographic territories: the ontology of photography; the impact of mass photographic practice; the public display of intimate life; the current state of documentary, and the political possibilities of photographic culture. These lively, accessible essays by some of the best writers in photography together go deep into the most up-to-date frameworks for analysing and understanding photographic culture and shedding light on its histories. Photography Reframed is a vital road map for anyone interested in what photography has been, what it has become, and where it is going.
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The Family of Man Photography in a Global Age Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz and Shannon Zamir (Eds)
December 2017 336, 70 images Approx. 106,000 words World Rights => History of Photography
Gerd Hurm is Professor of American literature and Director of the Center for American Studies at the University of Trier, Germany. Anke Reitz is a photography curator at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg and is in charge of the CNA's Steichen Collections The Family of Man and The Bitter Years. Shamoon Zamir is Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Studies and Director of Akkasah: Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian and co-editor of The Photobook (IBT).
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The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen plained its subject as ‘the everydayness of life' and ‘the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world'. The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common future for humanity after 1945. This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes’s influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen’s work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Today, when armed conflict, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future, it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man.
Fashion Crimes Dressing for Deviance Joanne Turney (Ed)
May 2018 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words World Rights => Fashion & Cultural Studies, Criminology, Popular Culture
Joanne Turney is Senior Lecturer in History of Design, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University. She is the author of The Culture of Knitting and co-author, with Rosemary Harden, of Floral Frocks. She is also co-editor, with Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Michael Langkjær, of Images in Time (2011).
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Significance of the hoodie, hip hop, the thong is revealed through their wearers
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Of interest to criminologists as well as fashionistas
Why has the hoodie become a symbol of fear? This new book explores the relationship between fashion and criminality In both revealing and concealing the body, fashionable clothing is an excellent communicator of a person’s identity, which in turn can assume social and moral significance in coding someone as ‘respectable’ or as an outsider; as deviant. This book explores the relationship between fashion and criminality. It sets out to develop from interdisciplinary perspectives, new ways of seeing everyday dress and the individual body in the public space. It focuses on specific garments and their individual or group wearers – the Hoodie and the trench-coat, knitted Norwegian Lustkoffe sweaters and low-slung trousers, branded sportswear and Hip Hop styling, the fashion model - innocuous in themselves, but which have been coded as deviant socially and in the media. It questions the point at which morality as a form of social control meets criminality and demonstrates how such established dress codes and terms as ‘suitability’ or ‘glamour’ can be renegotiated through the exploration of what people wear every day in response to notions of criminality. 78
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