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LENINGRAD 1943

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Inside a City Under Siege ALEXANDER WERTH, INTRODUCTION BY NICOLAS WERTH An eyewitness account of the longest and most gruelling siege of a major city in modern history The 900-day German Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. As the sole British correspondent to have been in the city during the blockade, Alexander Werth presents a harrowing firsthand account of the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city. His writing evokes compelling images of terror – the bombing of children’s hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism – with rich and well-informed firsthand-accounts and commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic narrative of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th-century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history.

October 2014 256 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £20.00 9781780768724 8 b&w in 8pp plates, 2 maps I.B.Tauris

‘Alexander Werth was one of the greatest war correspondents of the World War II and his descriptions of Leningrad under siege are as powerful today as when they were first published.’

– Antony Beevor Alexander Werth (1901–1969) was a Russian-born British writer and war journalist. He was the BBC’s correspondent in the Soviet Union from 1941–1945, and the Moscow correspondent for the Guardian from 1946–1949. He was one of the first outsiders to be allowed into Stalingrad after the battle, and wrote several books describing his experiences.

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic A Witness to the Spanish Civil War Henry Buckley, Introduction by Paul Preston £12.99 Paperback 9781780769318

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NYE

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The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan NICKLAUS THOMAS-SYMONDS A unique portrait of one of the great British statesmen of the 20th century Aneurin – Nye – Bevan was one of the pivotal Labour Party figures of the post-war era in Britain. As Minister for Health in Attlee’s government, his role in the foundation of the National Health Service, the world’s largest publically funded health service, changed the face of British society forever. The son of a coal miner from South Wales, Bevan was a life-long champion of social justice and the rights of working people, as such becoming one of the leading proponents of Socialist thought in Britain. In this book, acclaimed author Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds provides the first full biography of Bevan in over two decades.

October 2014 336 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780762098 20 b&w in 16pp plates I.B.Tauris

Praise for Atltee by the same author:

‘It is perhaps the most thoughtful of the various biographies of the Labour leader.’ – New Statesman ‘People like Clement Attlee are scarcely represented in British politics today; and this book is a wellargued reminder of the qualities we are losing’ – Times Literary Supplement Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds is Lecturer in politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a practising barrister. He is the author of Attlee: A Life in Politics (I.B.Tauris).

Attlee A Life in Politics Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds £12.99 Paperback 9781845117795

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FRONTLINE UKRAINE

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Crisis in the Borderlands RICHARD SAKWA The first account of the gravest international crisis of the 21st century The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the Eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here?

Richard Sakwa here unpicks the story of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through five ‘revolutions’, which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. The first full account of the ongoing crisis, Frontline Ukraine explains the origins, developments and global significance of the battle for Crimea . With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly-readable account of the struggle for Europe’s contested borderlands.

December 2014 288 pages 228 X 155mm Hardback £18.99 9781784530648 12 in 8pp b&w plates I.B.Tauris

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is also an Associate Fellow on the Russia and Eurasian Studies Programme at Chatham House and the author of Putin and the Oligarch: The KhodorkovskyYukos Affair (I.B.Tauris); The Crisis of Russian Democracy; Putin: Russia’s Choice and Russian Politics and Society.

Putin and the Oligarch The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair Richard Sakwa £20.00 Hardback 9781780764597

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ENEMY IN THE EAST

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Hitler’s Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union ROLF-DIETER MÜLLER Rediscovering a forgotten story of World War II Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front. Although it has previously been argued that the campaign was a pre-emptive strike, in fact, Hitler had been planning a war of intervention against the USSR ever since he came to power in 1933. Using previously unseen sources, acclaimed military historian RolfDieter Müller shows that Hitler and the Wehrmacht had begun to negotiate with Poland and had even considered an alliance with Japan soon after taking power. Despite the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, at the declaration of war in September 1939, military engagement with the Red Army was still a very real and imminent possibility. In this book, Müller takes us behind the scenes of the Wehrmacht High Command, providing a fascinating insight into an unknown story of World War II.

November 2014 320 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781780768298 30 b&w illustrations, 9 maps I.B.Tauris

Rolf-Dieter Müller is Professor of Military History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Coordinator of the ‘The German Reich and the Second World War’ project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II including The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers (I.B.Tauris).

The Unknown Eastern Front The Wehrmacht and Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers Rolf-Dieter Müller £10.99 Paperback 9781780768908

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FARZANA

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The Woman Who Saved an Empire JULIA KEAY, WITH A FOREWORD BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE An evocative and moving depiction of one of the most remarkable, and least-known, historical lives of the 19th century Amongst the riches of 19th-century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl is brought to court to perform for the emperor. That girl was Farzana, and she would become a courtesan, a leader of armies, a treasured defender of the last Mughal emperor and the head of one of the most legendary courts in history.

In this beautifully written book, the author’s last, Julia Keay weaves a story which spans the Indian continent and the end of a golden era in Indian history, the story of a nobody who became a teenage seductress and died one of the richest and most prominent woman of her age. Farzana rode into battle atop a stallion, though only 4½ feet tall, and led an army which defended a sickly Mughal Empire. She dabbled in witchcraft while gaining favour with the Pope, and died a favourite of the British Raj.

August 2014 326 pages 216 x 134mm Hardback £20.00 9781784530556 Illustrated I.B.Tauris

‘A delight to read’ – Charles Allen, Literary Review This book, about an amazing woman, now stands as a fitting memorial to another. Julia will be greatly missed, and this book shows what an enjoyable writer we have lost.’ – William Dalrymple Julia Keay was the author of several acclaimed biographies including The Spy Who Never Was, With Passport and Parasol and Alexander the Corrector. The text of Farzana was completed just before her death in 2011.

Opening Doors The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women’s Rights in India Richard Sorabji £27.00 Hardback 9781848853751

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THERE AND BACK AGAIN

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J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit MARK ATHERTON Publication to coincide with the release of Peter Jackson’s There and Back Again in December 2014 ‘Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.’

The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlórien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J.R.R. Tolkien’s own fiction.

For decades, hobbits and the other fantastical creatures of Middle Earth have captured the imaginations of a fiercely loyal tribe of readers, all enhanced by the immense success of Peter Jackson’s films: first The Lord of the Rings, and now his new The Hobbit. But for all Tolkien’s global fame and the familiarity of modern culture with Gandalf, Bilbo, Frodo and Sam, the sources of the great mythmaker’s own mythmaking have been neglected. Mark Atherton here explores the chief influences on Tolkien’s work: his boyhood in the West Midlands; the landscapes and seascapes which shaped his mythologies; his experiences in World War I; his interest in Scandinavian myth; his friendships, especially with the other Oxford-based Inklings; and the relevance of his themes, especially ecological themes, to the present-day.

August 2014 288 pages 228 x 155mm Paperback £9.99 9781780769271 40 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Also Available Hardback £20.00 9781780762463

‘Those new to Tolkien will profit from his book.

Established fans, too, will find something’ – The Tablet Mark Atherton is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Teach Yourself Old English/Anglo Saxon and contributed to A Companion to J R R Tolkien (edited by Stuart Lee, forthcoming).

Screening Twilight Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton and Sarah Harman (Eds) £14.99 Paperback 9781780766669

POPULAR CULTURE

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ON FAITH AND FREEDOM

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A Personal Journey MONA SIDDIQUI The inspirational autobiography of the foremost female theologian in Britain Polarized debates about ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’ are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

The vast majority of Muslims do not wish to see Islam used as a divisive force within the largely secular societies in which they live. How then can Muslim stereotyping be challenged?

Mona Siddiqui is one of the foremost Western authorities on the reconciliation of 21st-century life and Islamic custom. In this new and searching book, she applies a uniquely probing intelligence, as well as a female sensibility, to crucial issues of faith and identity (such as wearing the veil) within society at large. While speaking from within a particular tradition, she touches on matters of universal concern. Who are we?

How do we cope with growing older? What kind of world will we leave to our children? Placing her rich personal journey in a wider context, the author is able to explore love and sex, multiculturalism and diversity and ageing and death through the prism of her experience as both a Muslim and a modern woman. Her book shows why she is one of the most vital thinkers of our age.

November 2014 256 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781780769349 8 colour in 8pp plates I.B.Tauris

Mona Siddiqui, OBE, is one of the UK’s leading commentators on religious affairs. Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, she has written many books, which include How to Read the Qur’an, The Good Muslim and Christians, Muslims and Jesus.

Encounters with Islam On Religion, Politics and Modernity Malise Ruthven £14.99 Paperback 9781780760247

RELIGION

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DENG XIAOPING

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A Political Biography MICHAEL DILLON Reformer or tyrant? A new look at this most of complex Chinese leaders Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned it into one of the greatest powers of the 21st century. His ‘Four Modernisations’ – reform in agriculture, industry, military, science and technology – unveiled at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee in 1978 undoubtedly paved the way for China’s rise to superpower status. Yet, only a decade after this, his greatest achievement, Deng fell dramatically from grace, becoming reviled both within and outside of China as the man responsible for crushing the democracy movement in the carnage of Tiananmen Square.

In this book, Michael Dillon uncovers the true story of Deng Xiaoping, using recently released Chinese sources. He shows how Deng was able to be a force for reform whilst at the same time being resistant to the consequences of political modernization and uncovers the influences which shaped the statesman’s career – a life of struggle and survival.

October 2014 336 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780768953 I.B.Tauris

Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009.

He is the author of China: A Modern History (I.B.Tauris).

China A Modern History Michael Dillon £14.99 Paperback 9781780763811

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THE THIRD REICH

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On the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, EDITED BY GINA THOMAS A penetrating study of Nazi Germany from the brilliant and renowned historian Throughout his life Hugh Trevor-Roper sought to understand the forces that had allowed Nazism to emerge in German society. He was constantly in search of answers to his most pressing question: how was it possible that a regime so violent and barbarous, without effective opposition, emerged in a society which had seemed a stable and highly civilized European country? This book represents the most important and most compelling aspects of Trevor-Roper’s work on the Third Reich – much of which is previously unpublished.

Together, it demonstrates the force, coherence and durability of his underlying convictions and arguments, combining vivid reporting and the recreation of contemporary experience with a long-term perspective on the Nazi phenomenon.

November 2014 336 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780761633 18 in 8pp b&w plates I.B.Tauris

Hugh Trevor-Roper was perhaps the most brilliant historian of his generation. An expert in the history of both early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and latterly Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. During World War II, Trevor-Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service and in 1945 he undertook detailed enquiries into the circumstances of Hitler’s death under commission from the SIS. It was these investigations that formed the basis for his most best-known book: The Last Days of Hitler.

Gina Thomas is a journalist and historian. She is the UK cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The Wartime Journals Hugh Trevor-Roper, Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines £25.00 Hardback 9781848859906

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FRANTZ FANON

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The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution LEO ZEILIG A new biography of the influential Marxist and revolutionary ‘What matters is not to know the world but to change it’ – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading 20thcentury political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism, and as the author of the iconic book Wretched of the Earth. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon – from his uPaperback ringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa – and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described as ‘the curse of independence’. Highlighting Fanon’s role as the most influential theorist of Third-World liberation, this book is an essential work for students, academics and general readers.

December 2014 224 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £15.99 9781848857254 I.B.Tauris

Also Available Hardback £52.50 9781848857247

Leo Zeilig is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

In the Name of the People Angola’s Forgotten Massacre Lara Pawson £20.00 Hardback 9781780769059

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EUROPE UNDER NAPOLEON

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MICHAEL BROERS Classic study of Napoleonic Europe by the leading authority on the period Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped the stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an entirely new perspective – that of the ruled rather than the ruler. Michael Broers concentrates on the experience of the people of Europe – particularly the vast majority of Napoleon’s subjects who were neither French nor willing participants in the great events of the period – during the dynamic but short-lived career of Napoleon, when half the European continent fell under his rule. In this new edition of a highly-acclaimed book, Broers weaves together a myriad of regional experiences to produce a social history of the Napoleonic Empire with a truly panoramic scope.

September 2014 320 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £14.99 9781784530617 I.B.Tauris

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University. He is the author of many books on revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe including, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796–1814, winner of the Grand Prix Napoléon Prize 2006 and of Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions.

He is currently writing a two-volume biography of Napoleon, the first volume of which, Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny, was published in 2014.

Terrible Exile The Last Days of Napoleon on St Helena Brian Unwin £12.99 Paperback 9781780767383

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ORIGINAL SPIN

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Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain PAUL BRIGHTON Examines the unknown early relationship between politics and the press Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightly organized media launches – the well-known world of modern political spin.

But is this really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press for as long as newspapers have existed? In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, mediasavvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the 18th and 19th centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone and Disraeli, prime ministers have all tried to manipulate the press to a greater or lesser extent.

Brighton uncovers the covert contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed their viewpoints via the newspapers. For the first time, Original Spin tells the whole, unvarnished story.

October 2013 288 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780760599 12 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Paul Brighton is Executive Principal Lecturer and Head of the Department of Media and Film at the University of Wolverhampton. He was previously a journalist and worked for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News 24.

John Bright Statesman, Orator, Agitator Bill Cash £25.00 Hardback 9781848859968

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THE LONG SILENCE

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The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I HELEN MCPHAIL A unique insight into life in occupied France during the World War I The horror of the Western Front trenches is a well-worn theme but what was life like on ‘the other side of the Western front’ in the World War I? This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories and official records, show how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918.

Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labour camps; the population lived in terror. Starvation loomed and contact with the outside world vanished until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid which kept the population alive during the war.

August 2014 256 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £11.99 9781784530532 b&w Illustrations I.B.Tauris

This fascinating account describes how – in the struggle to survive – French civilians responded in ways familiar in the World War II: escape networks, espionage, clandestine newssheets, help for British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines.

Helen McPhail has worked as a translator for the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne.

Germany and Propaganda in World War I Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War David Welch £16.99 Paperback 9781780768274

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF PANTOMIME

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Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England JEFFREY RICHARDS Great stories, spectacular sets and a larger than life cast in this beautifully written history Queen Victoria and her family loved the pantomime, so did her subjects of all classes.

The English Pantomime is one of the most popular, least analysed of all theatrical forms. It’s been the festive mainstay of the English stage since the 18th century, and it has survived by its ability to evolve. This continual evolution is traced

by Jeffrey Richards in the first history of panto through its ‘Golden Age’ in Victorian England. He explores the spectacle, the slapstick and the talent for subversion that 19th-century pantomime had – and still has in different ways. His story, told with panache and enjoyment, is peopled with remarkable actors, managers, producers and punters, across the country from Drury Lane to Blackpool. This is a treat as rich as turkey and Christmas pudding.

September 2014 336 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £25.00 9781780762937 27 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University. His many publications on theatre history include Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World and John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre. He is General Editor of Tauris’ Cinema and Society Series.

Chaplin’s Music Hall The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight Barry Anthony, with a Foreword

by Michael Chaplin Hardback £20.00 9781780763149

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IN SEARCH OF KINGS AND CONQUERORS

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Gertrude Bell and the Archaeology of the Middle East LISA COOPER A new look at this intrepid and inspirational traveller and writer The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell was marked by myriad achievements. Although best known for her intrepid desert travels and her part in the creation of the modern state of Iraq, she also made a significant contribution to the field of archaeology. At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers of their presence in the form of castles, palaces, mosques, tombs and temples.

Among the many sites she visited were Ephesus, Binbirkilise and Carchemish in modern-day Turkey as well as Ukhaidir, Babylon and Najaf within the borders of modern Iraq. Lisa Cooper here explores Bell’s achievements, emphasizing the tenacious, inquisitive side of her extraordinary personality, the breadth of her knowledge and her overall contribution to the archaeology of the Middle East. Featuring many of Bell’s own photographs, this is a unique portrait of a remarkable life.

December 2014 192 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781848854987 80 b&w illustrations, line drawings I.B.Tauris

Lisa Cooper is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Art & Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates.

A Quest in the Middle East Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq Liora Lukitz £12.99 Paperback 9781780766812

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DREADNOUGHT

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The Ship that Changed the World ROGER PARKINSON How one revolutionary battleship design revolutionized naval warfare and changed the balance of world power The years before World War I were the ‘Age of the Dreadnought’.

The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a rewriting of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers – Germany, America and Japan – from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. He shows how the dreadnought enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy of the ‘Pax Britannica’ in the Victorian era to being a war-ready fighting force in the early years of the 20th century. The ensuing era of intensifying naval competition rapidly became a full-blooded naval arms race, leading to the development of super-dreadnoughts and escalating tensions between the European powers. Providing a truly international perspective on the dreadnought phenomenon, this book will be essential reading for all naval history enthusiasts and anyone interested in World War I.

September 2014 304 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780768267 I.B.Tauris

Roger Parkinson is a naval historian with a PhD in Naval History from University of Exeter. He is the author of The Late Victorian Navy.

The Royal Navy A History Since 1900 Duncan Redford and Philip D. Grove £25.00 Hardback 9781780767826

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THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA AND ITS LEGACY

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War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon MARK JARRETT The birth of a new international order – and a turning point in European history Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest crises in its history. In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna to reconstruct Europe after two decades of revolution and war, with the major decisions made by the statesmen of the great powers – Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand, Hardenberg and Emperor Alexander of Russia. The territorial reconstruction of Europe, however, is only a part of this story. It was followed, in the years 1815 to 1822, by a bold experiment in international cooperation and counter-revolution, known as the ‘Congress System’. The Congress of Vienna and subsequent Congresses constituted a major turning point – the first genuine attempt to forge an ‘international order’, to bring long-term peace to a troubled Europe, and to control the pace of political change through international supervision and intervention. In this book, Mark Jarrett argues that the decade of the European Congresses in fact marked the beginning of our modern era, with a profound impact upon the course of subsequent developments.

October 2014 544 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £15.99 9781784530563 10 b&w illustrations, 34 colour in 2 x 8pp plates I.B.Tauris

Also Available Hardback £68.00 9781780761169

‘Mark Jarrett’s beautifully written book deploys a great deal of information without ever getting lost in detail.’ – James J. Sheehan, Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Modern European History emeritus, Stanford University Mark Jarrett has taught at Hofstra University and Stanford University. He holds a PhD in History from Stanford University.

France and the Age of Revolution Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte William Doyle £16.99 Paperback 9781780764450

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MURDER, MAYHEM AND MUSIC HALL

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The Dark Side of Victorian London BARRY ANTHONY Unique social history of the London theatre scene – and criminal underworld – in the midVictorian era The Strand is one of London’s most iconic streets – today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of personalities – from prostitutes, confidence tricksters, vagrants and cadgers to the actors, comedians and music hall stars who trod the boards of the Strand’s early theatres. With a cast of colourful characters and through a series of exotic episodes Barry Anthony conjures up the sights and sounds of Victorian London and transports the reader a 150 years back in time to the heyday of Victorian theatre – and into the throes of the Victorian underworld.

November 2014 256 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781780766348 20 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Barry Anthony is a historian with a particular interest in the Victorian and Edwardian period who has written extensively about popular culture and entertainment. He is the author of Chaplin’s Music Hall and The King’s Jester: The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius (both I.B.Tauris) and coauthor, with Richard Brown, of a groundbreaking study of the early British cinema, A Victorian Film Enterprise.

Chaplin’s Music Hall The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight Barry Anthony, with a Foreword

by Michael Chaplin £20.00 Hardback 9781780763149

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DRESSED FOR WAR

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Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings 1914–1918 NINA EDWARDS Fresh story of World War I in its centenary year told through the language of the clothes they wore Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, a particular preference for a type of razor blade or perfume, or the just-so adjustment to the tilt of a hat, offer insights into the individual experience of men, women and children during the course of World War I.

October 2014 232 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781780767079 40 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Nina Edwards is a writer and cultural critic, whose books include On the Button: The Significance of an Ordinary Item (I.B.Tauris, 2011) and Offal: A Global History (2013).

On the Button The Significance of an Ordinary Item Nina Edwards £14.99 Paperback 9781848855847

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ALTERNATIVES TO APPEASEMENT

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Neville Chamberlain and Hitler’s Germany ANDREW DAVID STEDMAN Was Chamberlain’s attempt to avoid war the only viable option at the time?

Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler’s Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew David Stedman’s illuminating new study of British foreign policy before World War II systematically analyses the various alternatives to appeasement – from isolationism to collective security to outright war – and examines their origins, risks and feasibility. It surveys the advocates of other strategies – including key thinkers and decision-makers such as Churchill, Eden, Amery, Beaverbrook and Halifax – and outlines the complexities of the decisions they faced, which have previously been largely overlooked.

December 2014 320 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769882 I.B.Tauris

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Marking a valuable new contribution to appeasement historiography, this is the first work to synthesize all the alternatives available to Chamberlain, as well as illuminating policy debate within the British government.

‘Andrew Stedman aims now to bring some rigour to the debate. His approach is elegant and precise.’

– English Historical Review ‘Stedman’s book, which will appeal to students and scholars alike, will assuredly become an invaluable resource in this timeless endeavour’ – Diplomacy and Statecraft Andrew David Stedman teaches history at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD from University of Kingston and was awarded the British International History Group Thesis Prize in 2008.

Winston Churchill – The Wilderness Years Speaking out Against Hitler in the Prelude to War Martin Gilbert £11.99 Paperback 9781848859333

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CHURCHILL AND COMPANY

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Allies and Rivals in War and Peace DAVID DILKS Was Churchill loved, hated or feared by his fellow politicians? Or all three?

Winston Churchill is one of the dominating figures of the 20thcentury. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks presents Churchill not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person with a rich variety of friendships and rivalries. New and penetrating light is directed on Churchill during World War II. This was a period of dramatic relationships: conflicts with General de Gaulle in contrast with respect and affection for Roosevelt (feelings not entirely reciprocated by the American president). In the post-war era, relations with Stalin and preoccupation with the Soviet Union and the Cold War, all dominated Churchill’s subsequent career, a time when he was able to renew his working relationship with his wartime colleague General – now President – Eisenhower. Whether in or out of office, Churchill’s influence was felt in all areas of British politics. David Dilks brings Churchill vividly to life for all those interested in modern British, military and international history.

November 2014 288 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £11.99 9781780769677 8 b&w illustrations, 4pp colour plates I.B.Tauris

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‘... offers fresh and original insight into the most remarkable statesman of the twentieth century.’

–Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Chair in English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin David Dilks is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds. He is a leading historian and his publications includeThe Great Dominion: Churchill in Canada 1900–1954.

Churchill An Unruly Life Norman Rose £12.99 PB 9781845118631

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THE NAZI HOLOCAUST

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Its History and Meaning RONNIE S. LANDAU How to explain the madness that engulfed a continent?

The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic ‘explanations’ Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts – Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience – Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance.

September 2014 384 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769714 I.B.Tauris

‘Ronnie Landau has written a quite remarkable book.’

– The Times ‘Ideal for the general reader and for students alike.’

– Jewish Chronicle Ronnie Landau is the former Educational Director of the Spiro Institute for the Study of Jewish History and Culture, Head of Humanities and Principal Lecturer at the City Literary Institute and Visiting Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at both Leo Baeck College and the International Study Centre of Queen’s University (Ontario). Founding Director of the British Holocaust Education Project, he currently teaches Classical languages at Sussex House School in London.

Goering Hitler’s Iron Knight Richard Overy £12.99 Paperback 9781848859326

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THE DARK HEART OF HITLER’S EUROPE

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Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government MARTIN WINSTONE A revealing look at the darkest and most deadly phase of Hitler’s empire After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Kraków, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the ‘General Government’. The region was not directly incorporated into the Reich but was ruled by a German regime, headed by the brutal and corrupt Governor General Hans Frank. This was indeed the dark heart of Hitler’s empire.

As the principal ‘racial laboratory’ of the Third Reich, it was the site of Aktion Reinhard, the largest killing operation of the Holocaust, and of a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against Poles which was intended to be a template for the rest of Eastern Europe. This book provides a thorough history of the General Government and the experiences of the Poles, Jews and others trapped in its clutches. Employing previously underused sources, Martin Winstone provides a unique insight into the occupation regime which dominated much of Poland during World War II.

October 2014 336 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781780764771 30 b&w and 5 line illustrations I.B.Tauris

Martin Winstone is an expert on the Holocaust and Polish History. He regularly undertakes educational work with the Holocaust Educational Trust and is the author of The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide (I.B.Tauris).

The Making of a Nazi Hero The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel Daniel Siemens £20.00 Hardback 9781780760773

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THE HOLOCAUST SITES OF EUROPE

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An Historical Guide MARTIN WINSTONE An indispensable guide for anyone wishing to visit these important sites The Holocaust – the murder of approximately six million Jews

by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War II – is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable. To try to bridge this gap and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the historical context. It will be an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves.

September 2014 456 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769998 34 maps, 46 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

This guide includes a survey of all the major Holocaust sites in Europe, from Belgium and Belarus to Serbia and Ukraine.

It includes not only the notorious concentration and death camps, such as Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, but also less well-known examples, such as Sered’ in Slovakia, together with detailed descriptions of massacre sites, as well as the ghettos, ‘Euthanasia’ centres and Roma and Sinti sites which witnessed similar crimes. Throughout the book there is also extensive reference to the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust.

Martin Winstone is a writer and teacher. He also undertakes educational work for the Holocaust Educational Trust.

The Philosopher of Auschwitz Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, Translated by Anthea Bell £22.50 Hardback 9781848851504

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I.B.TAURIS SHORT HISTORIES I.B.Tauris Short Histories is an authoritatively written and elegantly presented new series which puts a fresh perspective on the way history is taught and understood in the 21st-century. Designed to have strong appeal to university students and their teachers, as well as to general readers and history enthusiasts, I.B.Tauris Short Histories aims to bring informed interpretation, as well as factual reportage, to historical debate.

Addressing key subjects and topics in the fields of history, the history of ideas, religion, classical studies, politics, philosophy and Middle East studies, the series seeks intentionally to move beyond the bland, neutral ‘introduction’ that so often serves as the primary undergraduate teaching tool. Addressing a variety of subjects in a greater degree of depth than is often found in comparable series, yet at the same time in concise and compact handbook form, I.B.Tauris Short Histories aims to be ‘introductions with an edge’.

‘Sure to be a great series.’ – Alain de Botton ‘Really stimulating: many of the published or planned works treat just the topics that I myself would be glad to read.’ – Dexter Hoyos, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney ‘An attractive idea – the series looks great.’ – Tim Blanning, Professor of History, University of Cambridge ‘An exciting and stimulating idea.’ – Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Classical and Byzantine Greek, King’s College London ‘Extremely exciting – beautifully designed intellectually.’ – Helen Castor, Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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NEW TESTAMENT

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HALVOR MOXNES Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament.

For all its variety – gospels, letters and visions – this 1st-century collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him, proclaimed the imminent end of the world, but was made captive by the authorities of Rome only to suffer a shameful criminal’s death on a cross. When his followers (including former persecutor Saul/Paul) became convinced that Jesus had defeated extinction, and had risen again to fresh life, the movement crossed over from Palestine to ignite the entire Graeco-Roman Mediterranean world. The author shows how the writings of this vibrant new faith came into being from oral transmission and then became the pillar of a great world religion.

September 2014 256 pages 216 x 134mm 9781780766089 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781780766072 Hardback £58.00

THE MINOANS

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JOHN BENNET The Minoans have for decades tantalized all those who have tried to understand this most enigmatic people of the ancient world. The Minoan allure lies in large part in the riddles to which their mysterious culture gives rise. What is contained in their earliest writing script, the still undeciphered Linear A? Did their likely extinction by volcanic eruption shape the Atlantis legend? Why was their religion so thoroughly matriarchal, with its symbols of snake goddess, serpent and labrys (double-headed axe)? What was the purpose of their great palaces at Knossos, Phaestos and Malia? What is the meaning of the atmospheric bull dance fresco uncovered at the palace of Knossos? John Bennet expertly draws on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries to separate fact from imaginiation, history from myth.

September 2014 288 pages 216 x 134mm 9781780763262 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781780763255 Hardback £52.50

ANCIENT GREECE

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P.J. RHODES Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual contours of the modern world. P.J. Rhodes is among the most distinguished historians of antiquity. In this elegant, zesty new survey he explores the archaic (8th–early 5th centuries BCE), classical (5th and 4th centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (late 4th–mid-2nd centuries BCE) periods up to the beginning of Roman hegemony.

September 2014 240 pages 216 x 134mm 9781780765945 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781780765938 hardback £58.00

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THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

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DIONYSIOS STATHAKOPOULOS The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive Imperial adventures in history. It ruled much of Europe and Anatolia for a remarkable 1100 years. From Constantine’s establishment of Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) as his capital in 324 CE, until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in the 15th century, the Byzantines became a powerhouse of literature, art, theology, medicine, law and learning. Dionysios Stathakopoulos here tells a compelling story of military conquest, alliance and reversal, including the terrifying secret weapon of ‘Greek fire’: of a state constantly at war, but not warlike, resetting wherever possible to a sophisticated diplomacy with its neighbours and enemies.

September 2013 192 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £12.99 9781780761947 Also Available 9781780761930 Hardback £47.50

NORMANS

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LEONIE V. HICKS The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche.

It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe – in Sicily and France, as well as England – is an improbably romantic idea. In exploring Norman culture in all its regions, Leonie V. Hicks places the Normans in the context of early medieval society. Her comparative perspective enables the Norman story to be told in full, so that the societies of Rollo, William, Robert and Roger Guiscard are given the focused attention they deserve.

September 2014 272 pages 216 x 134mm 9781780762128 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781780762111 Hardback £58.00

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ENGLAND’S FIRST DEMONOLOGIST

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Reginald Scot and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ PHILIP C. ALMOND Brilliant new study of one of the most important figures in the history of English witchcraft England’s first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, The Discoverie of Witchcraft published in 1584 was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving nature of Reginald Scot’s work that, on James’ accession to the English throne in 1603, he ordered every copy to be destroyed. Yet for all the anger directed at Scot, the paradox was that his detailed account of sorcery helped strengthen the hold of European demonologies in England while also inspiring the distinctively English tradition of secular magic and conjuring.

Scot’s influence was considerable. Shakespeare drew on The Discoverie of Witchcraft for his depiction of the witches in Macbeth. So too did fellow-playwright Thomas Middleton in his tragi-comedy The Witch. Recognizing Scot’s central importance in the history of ideas, Philip Almond places his subject in the febrile context of his age, examines the chief themes of his work and shows why his writings became a sourcebook for aspiring magicians and conjurors for several hundred years.

September 2014 256 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769639 1 b&w illustration I.B.Tauris

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‘… a fascinating book on a fascinating subject.’ – The Historical Association website ‘If you’re interested in the history and import of Scot’s work, Prof. Almond’s work will be invaluable.’

– The Magic Circular Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Queensland. His eight previous books include he Lancashire Witches and The Devil.

The Lancashire Witches A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill Philip C. Almond £19.99 Hardback 9781780760629

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KING ARTHUR’S ENCHANTRESSES

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Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition CAROLYNE LARRINGTON Who were the mysterious and seductive sorceresses whose power underlay Arthur’s Camelot?

King Arthur summons visions of courtly chivalry, towering castles, windswept battlefields, heroic quests and above all of the monarch who dies but who one day shall return. The Arthurian legend lives on as powerfully and enduringly as ever. Yet central to these stories are the mysterious, sexually alluring enchantresses – spellcasters and mistresses of magic who wield extraordinary influence over Arthur’s life and destiny. Carolyne Larrington takes her readers on a quest to discover why these dangerous women continue to bewitch us.

She explores them as they appear in poetry and painting, on the Internet and TV, in high and popular culture and shows that whether they be chaste or depraved, necrophiliacs or virgins, they are manifestations of the Other, frightening and fascinating in equal measure.

October 2014 272 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback £14.99 9781784530419 36 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

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‘There are rich pickings here for those who enjoy wandering the lesser-knowkn regions of faery’ – Independent ‘New ideas and lost interpretations are brought together in this hugely entertaining and clever book.’

– Jeanette Winterson, author and broadcaster Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford. Her previous books include Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children’s Books (2013)

Eternal Chalice The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail Juliette Wood £19.99 Hardback 9781845113605

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THE LAST VIKINGS

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The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers KIRSTEN A. SEAVER Vividly explores the truth behind the many myths of the Viking warriors and traders Late in the 10th century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores 500 years before Columbus’ first journeys of discovery.

But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the Norse Greenlanders and their explorations of the New World receded into the realms of myth. What happened between these momentous events? How did the Vikings really live – and die – and why have so many myths and legends grown up around this mysterious people of the sea?

October 2014 304 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £10.99 9781784530570 16 b&w illustrations and 1 map I.B.Tauris

Drawing on her deep knowledge of the culture and history Also Available of the region as well as the most up-to-date evidence from Hardback £19.99 archaeology, medieval history and the evocative Sagas, Seaver 9781845118693 weaves together a compelling and authoritative history.

‘… a book that makes the fascinating reality considerably more interesting than the fictional stories that have arisen about Norse activities in Greenland and America’ – Arctic ‘A fascinating investigation into one of the most elusive mysteries of the far North. Kirsten Seaver brings to life a wonderful cast of Saga heroes, the Norse at their most outlandish and compelling.’

– Joanna Kavenna, author of The Ice Museum Kirsten A. Seaver is an independent historian who has taught at the University of Stanford. Her previous publications include Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map and The Frozen Echo.

From Asgard to Valhalla

The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths Heather O’Donoghue £11.99 Paperback 9781845118297

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ANCIENTS AND MODERNS Edited by Phiroze Vasunia, University of Reading How can antiquity illuminate critical issues in the modern world? How does the ancient world help us to address contemporary problems and topics? In what ways do modern insights and theories shed new light on the interpretation of ancient texts, monuments and artefacts? The central aim of this exciting new series is to show how antiquity is relevant to life and times today. The series also points to the ways in which the modern and ancient worlds are mutually connected and interrelated. Lively, engaging and historically informed, Ancients and Moderns examines key ideas and practices in context. It shows how societies and cultures have been shaped by ideas and debates that recur. Each book is written for students and non-specialists in a clear and accessible manner.

October 2014 192 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £12.99 9781848859357 Also available 9781848859340 Hardback £35.00

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WONDERFUL THINGS

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A History of Egyptology from Antiquity to 1879 JASON THOMPSON The first in a comprehensive three-volume masterwork on the history of Egyptology from antiquity up to the 21st century, full of intrigue, mystery and discoveries The re-discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous chapters in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible thousands of years after it’s prou. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1879, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries and scholarly creativity.

Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

December 2014 352 pages 150 x 230mm Hardback £30.00 9789774165993 The American University in Cairo Press

Jason Thompson is currently a visiting Associate Professor at Bates College. He is the editor of Edward William Lane’s Description of Egypt and An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, and the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present, and Edward William Lane, 1801–1876.

Discovering Tutankhamun From Howard Carter to DNA Zahi Hawass, with a Foreword by Jaromir Malek £29.95 Hardback 9789774166372

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POMPEII AWAKENED

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A Story of Rediscovery JUDITH HARRIS The captivating story of Pompeii and its reemergecne in modern times On that fateful day in AD 79 the city of Pompeii was lost, and in time its location, its inhabitants and even its name were buried and forgotten. Not until 1748 did it emerge from its layer of volcanic rock, and the impact of that discovery was immediate and far-reaching. The evocative story of Pompeii’s awakening lies not just in its uniquely preserved classical remains but also in the powerful impact it made on Europe’s cultural imagination. In this rich account of those who sifted through its artefacts, we read of Nelson, Napoleon and Mussolini. Harris has delved into ancient diaries and descended deep underground to assess the latest excavations.

As the sleeping city re-awakens in her hands, Pompeii casts its spell once more, bewitching those who seek to unearth its buried secrets.

September 2014 320 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769646 8pp 4/4 plate section I.B.Tauris

‘Harris tells this story with infectious enthusiasm.’

– BBC History Magazine ‘[An] entertaining account.’ – Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement Judith Harris has for twenty-five years conducted a weekly radio broadcast on Italian culture – especially archaeology – for the Italian national network, RAI. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The New Republic.

The Last Trojan Hero A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid Philip Hardie £25.00 Hardback 9781780762470

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

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

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I.B.TAURIS INTRODUCTIONS TO RELIGION In recent years there has been a surge of interest in religion and in the motivations behind religious belief and commitment. Avoiding oversimplification, jargon or unhelpful stereotypes, I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion embraces the opportunity to explore religious tradition in a sensitive, objective and nuanced manner.

A specially commissioned series for undergraduate students, it offers concise, clearly written overviews, by leading experts in the field, of the world’s major religious faiths, and of the challenges posed to all the religions by progress, globalization and diaspora.

‘I.B.Tauris’ recent An Introduction series to the major world religions and belief systems are among the most useful and well written for students up to undergraduate level.’

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UNBELIEVABLE

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Why We Believe and Why We Don’t GRAHAM WARD Britain’s most exciting religious thinker on how we come to believe – or do not Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they believe – or disbelieve – shape their lives and the meaning the world has for them? For Graham Ward, who is one of the most innovative writers on contemporary religion, these questions are more than just academic. They go to the heart not only of who but of what we are as human beings. Over the last thirty years, our understandings of mind and consciousness have changed in important ways through exciting new developments in neuroscience. The author addresses this quantum shift by exploring the biology of believing. He offers sustained reflection on perception, cognition, time, emotional intelligence, knowledge and sensation. Though the ‘truth’ of belief remains under increasing attack, in a thoroughly secularized context, Ward boldly argues that secularity is itself a form of believing. Pointing to the places where prayer and dreams intersect, this book offers a remarkable journey through philosophy, theology and culture, thereby revealing the true nature of the human condition.

August 2014 288 pages 228 x 155mm Hardback £25.00 9781780767352 I.B.Tauris

Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. His books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (edited with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock), Cities of God, The Certeau Reader, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice, True Religion, Christ and Culture and Religion and Political Thought.

A Short History of Atheism Gavin Hyman £14.99 Paperback 9781848851375

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GANDHI AND NATIONALISM The Path to Indian Independence

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SIMONE PANTER-BRICK, FOREWORD BY W.M. ROGER LOUIS Gandhi’s nationalism seems simple and straightforward: he wanted an independent Indian nation state and freedom from British colonial rule.

But in reality his nationalism rested on complex and sophisticated moral philosophy. His Indian state and nation were based on no shallow ethnic or religious communalism, despite his claim to be Hindu to his very core, but were grounded on his concept of swaraj – enlightened self-control and selfdevelopment leading to harmony and tolerance among all communities in the new India. He aimed at moral regeneration, not just the ending of colonial rule. Simone Panter-Brick’s perceptive and original portrayal of Gandhi’s nationalism analyses his spiritual and political programme. She follows his often tortuous path, as a principal spiritual and political leader of the Indian Congress, through his famous campaigns of non-violent resistance and negotiations with the Government of India leading to Independence and, sadly for Gandhi, the Partition in 1947.

Simone Panter-Brick obtained her doctorate in Law and Political Science at the University of Nancy, France. Her previous publications include Gandhi Against Machiavellism: Non-Violence in Politics.

October 2014 240 pages 216 x 134mm 9781784530235 Paperback £15.99

GANDHI AND THE MIDDLE EAST Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests

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SIMONE PANTER-BRICK Gandhi’s involvement in Middle Eastern politics is largely forgotten yet it goes to the heart of his teaching and ambition – to lead a united freedom movement against British colonial power.

Gandhi became involved in the politics of the Middle East as a result of his concern over the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate following the World War I. He subsequently – at the invitation of the Jewish Agency – sought to reconcile Jews and Arabs in a secret deal at the time of the Mandate of Palestine.

However, Jewish and British interference coupled with the Arab Revolt and the rise of the Muslim League in India thwarted Gandhi’s efforts in the region.

Like so many who would follow, Gandhi was unable to solve the problems of the Middle East, but this book for the first time reveals his previously obscure attempt to do so.

Simone Panter-Brick obtained her doctorate in Law and Political Science at the University of Nancy, France. Her previous publications include Gandhi Against Machiavellism: Non-Violence in Politics.

October 2014 216 pages 216 x 134mm 9781784530228 Paperback £14.99

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STROLLING THROUGH ROME

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The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City MARIO ERASMO Guiding the walker into the vibrant history, culture and architectural splendour of this perennially enchanting city Rome, the Eternal City – birthplace of Western civilization and soul of the ancient world – has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the mostvisited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve November 2014 into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture, 200 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £14.99 whilst also navigating the vibrant modern city?

Mario Erasmo here guides the traveller through Rome’s many layers of history, exploring the streets, museums, piazze, ruins and parks of this ‘city of the soul’. Punctuated with anecdote, myth and legend, these unique walks often retrace the very steps taken by ancient Romans, early Christians, medieval pilgrims, Renaissance artists and aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Here is a rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe’s most beguiling cities.

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Mario Erasmo is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. He specializes in the Legacy of Classical Antiquity and leads art and garden tours in Europe retracing the travels of the Grand Tour. He is the author of Death: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B.Tauris) and Reading Death in Ancient Rome.

Strolling through Istanbul The Classic Guide to the City Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely £12.99 Paperback 9781848851542

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AN ALEXANDRIA ANTHOLOGY

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Four Hundred Years of Travel Writing EDITED BY MICHAEL HAAG Takes the reader on a nostalgic journey through Alexandria of old Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Europe on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the East – the fabled cosmopolitan town that fascinated travelers, writers, and poets in the 19th and 20th centuries, where French and Arabic, Italian and Greek were spoken in the cafés and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandrian Anthology, we follow the delight of travellers discovering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures, its beaches and gardens, its elegant villas, duck shoots in the marshes, desert expeditions to ancient monasteries and vanished vineyards. Most of all they are haunted by the city’s resplendent past – the famous Library, the temple built by Cleopatra for Antony, the great Pharos lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the world, of which only traces remain – we follow our travellers here too as they voyage through an immense ghost city of the imagination.

November 2014 120 x 160mm Hardback £11.99 9789774166723 20 b&w illustrations The American University in Cairo Press

Michael Haag is a writer and photographer based in London.

He has photographed and written Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and he is the author of Alexandria: City of Memory and Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860–1960 (AUC Press, 2008).

A Cairo Anthology Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing Edited by Deborah Manley £11.99 Hardback 9789774166129

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AMERICAN TRAVELERS ON THE NILE

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Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774–1839 ANDREW OLIVER An intriguing look at an unknown facet of Middle Eastern travel history The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two 18th-century travellers, this book then turns to the twenty-five-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale and Columbia, travelling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travellers themselves.

November 2014 424 pages 150 x 230mm Hardback £29.95 9789774166679 34 color illus The American University in Cairo Press

Andrew Oliver has written and lectured on the decorative arts of the ancient world. He has traveled widely in the Mediterranean and has made a special study of the published accounts of European and American visitors in lands of the Ottoman Empire. Mr Oliver is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Women Travellers in Egypt From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century Edited by Deborah Manley £12.99 Paperback 9789774165702

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FROM CAIRO TO BAGHDAD

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British Travellers in Arabia JAMES CANTON The British Empire’s effect on travel to the Middle East Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves visiting the region as British influence increased. Missionaries, soldiers and spies as well as tourists and explorers started to visit the area, creating an ever bigger supply of writers, and market for their books. In a similar fashion, as the Empire receded in the wake of World War II, so did the whole tradition of Middle East travel writing.

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In this elegantly crafted book, James Canton examines over Hardback £62.00 100 primary sources, from forgotten gems to the classics 9781848856967 of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger and Philby. He analyses the relationship between Empire and author, showing how the one influenced the other, leading to a vast array of texts that might never have been produced had it not been for the ambitions of Imperial Britain.

‘… a lucid, well-argued and informative book which is a pleasure to read ...’ - Times Literary Supplement James Canton teaches at the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. He studied at Exeter and Essex Universities, gaining a PhD in literature.

He has taught widely in the UK and Egypt, and has himself travelled extensively across the Middle East.

Revolt in the Desert The Abridged Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom T.E. Lawrence, New Foreword by Jeremy Wilson £9.99 Paperback 9781848856653

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THE SILK ROAD – CENTRAL ASIA, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN

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A Travel Companion JONATHAN TUCKER, INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Stunning, highly illustrated portrait of the legendary Silk Road – an indispensable companion Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 2,000 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world.

In this beautifully illustrated book, which covers the Central Asian section of the Silk Road – from Lake Issy Kul through Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Khiva and Merv to Herat, Kabul and Iran – Jonathan Tucker uses traveller’s anecdotes and a wealth of literary and historical sources to celebrate the cultural heritage of the countries that lie along the Silk Road and illuminate the lives of those who once travelled through the very heart of the world.

December 2014 288 pages 210 x 148mm Paperback £14.99 9781780769257 40 b&w, 16 colour I.B.Tauris

‘This is a beautifully designed and produced work … undoubtedly one of the fullest and clearest – and certainly the best illustrated – introductions to this vast and bewildering subject.’ – Asian Affairs Jonathan Tucker is a consultant on South East Asian art for Bonhams and the author of The Silk Road: Art and History (Philip Wilson Publishers), China and Europe and The Troublesome Priest.

The Silk Road Ten Thousand Miles through Central Asia Sven Hedin, New Foreword by John Hare £12.99 Paperback 9781845118983

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THE SILK ROAD – CHINA AND THE KARAKORUM HIGHWAY

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A Travel Companion JONATHAN TUCKER, FOREWORD BY PAUL THEROUX Stunning, highly illustrated portrait of the legendary Silk Road – an indispensable companion Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 2,000 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world.

In this beautifully illustrated book, which covers the China section of the Silk Road – from Xian through Loulan, Korla, Turfan and Khotan to Kashgar and onwards to India – Jonathan Tucker uses traveller’s anecdotes and a wealth of literary and historical sources to celebrate the cultural heritage of the countries that lie along the Silk Road and illuminate the lives of those who once travelled through the very heart of the world.

December 2014 288 pages 210 x 148mm Paperback £14.99 9781780763569 40 b&w, 16 colour I.B.Tauris

‘... a wonderful reference book and an enlightening journey in itself’ – Paul Theroux Jonathan Tucker is a consultant on South East Asian art for Bonhams and the author of The Silk Road: Art and History (Philip Wilson Publishers), China and Europe and The Troublesome Priest.

Mongolia Travels in the Untamed Land Jasper Becker £12.99 Paperback 9781845116491

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REVOLUTION IS MY NAME NEW An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir MONA PRINCE, TRANSLATED BY SAMIA MEHREZ What it was like and how it felt to be an Egyptian woman revolutionary during the eighteen days that changed Egypt forever A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary’s experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February 2011. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear, certitude and anxiety, Prince immerses us in each day’s unexpected and inconclusive details, as she meets other writers and intellectuals involved in the demonstrations.

Mixing the political and the personal, the public and the private, she exposes both her family’s conservative politics and her own classist prejudices against other sectors of Egyptian society, all of whom teach her lasting transformative lessons.

There are moving descriptions of the brutal violence of the security forces against demonstrators, the daily battles of resistance and the author’s own abduction and beating at the hands of the police, but she also paints scenes of exceptional solidarity, perseverance and humanity, while weaving in conversations with fellow demonstrators, new-found friends and street children, as well as police conscripts and officers.

November 2014 208 pages 150 x 230mm Paperback £9.99 9789774166693 The American University in Cairo Press

Mona Prince is Associate Professor of English Literature at Suez Canal University in Egypt. She has published novels (including So You May See, AUC Press, 2011) and short stories in Arabic. Samia Mehrez is Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo.

Tahrir Square The Heart of the Egyptian Revolution Mia Grondahl £18.95 Paperback 9789774165115

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SACRED SPACE AND HOLY WAR

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The Rise of Shi’ite Islam JUAN COLE the story of the shi’as and their struggle for identity in the modern world How is it that Shi’i Muslims have set the agenda of political discourse in the Islamic world in recent years? Why have Shi’a been at the forefront of Islam’s reassessment of the West? In the past 300 years, Shi‘i Islam, already the state religion in Iran since the 16th century, has grown significantly in Iraq, northern India and what is now Pakistan. Its effervescence dominated Islamic world politics in the last quarter of the 20th century. Juan Cole examines Shi’i Islam as a world religion that has faced modernity on its own terms. He explores the little known history of Shi‘i communities as far afield as Bahrain and India, giving attention as well to important centres such as Lebanon, Iraq and, of course, Iran.

He demonstrates the way in which the Shi’a have sought to define space and time as sacred, and to defend those spaces from encroachments by the Other, whether that Other be Sunni Arab, Hindu or European Christian. Yet the Shi’i struggle for authentic identity in the modern world has not been only a matter of reactionary digging in. Cole shows that Shi‘i clerical institutions have been supple and imaginative in coming to terms with phenomena such as modern finance capital, imperialism and the modern bureaucratic state. This book will prove of enormous importance to those interested in the history of Islam and the Islamic world, and to all students of the Middle East.

December 2014 272 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 9781780769745 I.B.Tauris

Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Islam Today A Short Introduction to the Muslim World Akbar S. Ahmed £13.99 Paperback 9781860642579

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THE GULF STATES

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A Modern History DAVID COMMINS At a time of unprecedented changes, a major new survey of the Arab States of the Gulf The geopolitical importance of the Gulf region is a source both of great interest and great tension. David Commins here provides an in-depth narrative of the modern political history of the Gulf States, providing a comprehensive and accessible account of their recent development and strategic importance.

Focusing primarily on economic, cultural, religious and social themes from the 14th century to the present, The Gulf States covers key topics of the region’s history, from the influence of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Arab dynasties, to oil wealth, modern prosperity and the formation of the Gulf States as we know them today. With the importance and influence of the Gulf States continuing to increase, this book is an invaluable source of information on the Gulf region’s development for researchers and students alike.

September 2014 352 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback £15.99 9781780769660 14 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

‘… a comprehensive and accessible account …’

– Middle East Magazine David Commins is Benjamin Rush Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. His publications include The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (I.B.Tauris, 2006), Historical Dictionary of Syria (1996, revised edition 2004) and Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (1990).

Buraimi The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia Michael Quentin Morton £25.00 Hardback 9781848858183

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ISLAM IN AMERICA JONATHAN CURIEL

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Islam is a hidden ingredient in the melting pot of America. Although there are between two and eight million Muslims in the USA, Islam has traditionally had little political clout compared to other minority faiths. Nonetheless, it is believed to be the country’s fastest-growing religion, with a vibrant culture of theological debate, particularly regarding the role of women preachers.

In Islam in America, Jonathan Curiel traces the story of America’s Muslims from the 17th-century slave trade to the 18th-century immigration wave to the Nation of Islam. Drawing on interviews in communities from industrial Michigan to rural California, Curiel portrays the diversity of practices, cultures and observances that make up Muslim America. He profiles the leading personalities and institutions representing the community, and explores their relationship to the wider politics of America, particularly after 9/11.

Jonathan Curiel is a former staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, whose work has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Salon.com and the LA Times. He is the author of Al America: Travels through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots.

December 2014 224 pages 198 x 126mm 9781848855991 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781848855984 Hardback £49.50

ISLAM IN SAUDI ARABIA DAVID COMMINS

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The common image of Saudi Arabia portrays a country where religious rules dictate every detail of daily life: where women may not drive; where unrelated men and women may not interact; where the latter veil their faces; and where banks, restaurants and cafés have dual facilities: one for families, another for men. Yet life in the kingdom, contrary to perception, is not so clear cut as simply obeying dogma. David Commins challenges the stereotype of a country immune to change by highlighting the ways that urbanization, education, consumerism, global communications and technological innovation have exerted pressure against rules issued by the religious establishment.

David Commins is Professor of History at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. A specialist in modern Islamic thought, his publications include The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia, The Gulf States: A Modern History (both published

by I.B.Tauris).

December 2014 192 pages 216 x 134mm 9781848858015 Paperback £12.99 Also Available 9781848858008 Hardback £49.50

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THE ART OF THE WARRIOR

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Chinese Martial Arts in Original Images (1750–1930) ANDREW WHEATCROFT AND ATHENA LIN An illustrated celebration of five centuries of artistic tradition featuring images never before reproduced Most of the great martial arts trace their origins back to China and today’s People’s Liberation Army are still taught the tenets of a martial philosophy which dates back over ten centuries.

These traditions of combat and ceremony, also referred to as wushu, have a history as long as China itself, and provide a fascinating insight into Chinese culture throughout the ages.

Although now practiced by the modern day ‘warriors’ of handto-hand conflict, wushu is based on the idea of avoiding war, as is suggested in The Art of War, the military treatise of the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu. In Imperial China, the martial traditions were officially discouraged – regarded as the province of bandits and potential rebels – but, through popular art, the people of China continued to record and idolize martial heroes. Featuring over 200 wonderful period images and further illustrations from three Chinese novels published during the Ming dynasty of 1368 to 1644, The Art of the Warrior illuminates the role of the fighter in Chinese history.

December 2014 224 pages 246 x 189mm Hardback £28.00 9781780766836 200 colour and b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Andrew Wheatcroft is based in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and is currently Visiting Professor, City University London, and an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication. Athena Lin is Lecturer at Wuhan University, China, and a recognized authority throughout China on the history and traditions of the martial arts.

The Warrior Women of Islam Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature Remke Kruk £14.99 Paperback 9781848859272

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ROMAN SPLENDOUR, ENGLISH ARCADIA

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The Pope’s Cabinet at Stourhead SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS AND DUDLEY DODD A celebration of the great masterpiece of Renaissance furniture-making At Stourhead in Wiltshire, the Palladian mansion contains an extraordinary Roman cabinet glittering with gilt-bronze mounts, semi-precious stones and elaborate architectural ornament. Its façade conceals over 125 more-or-less secret drawers. The cabinet was brought to Stourhead in 1740 by Henry Hoare ‘the Magnificent’, of the Hoare banking dynasty; he had purchased it in Rome as made for Pope Sixtus V, the great rebuilder, whose papacy, from 1585 to 1590, coincided with the Spanish Armada. The superb quality of the ‘Sixtus Cabinet’ became apparent during restoration in 2006–07 and this prompted an investigation into its history.

September 2014 304 pages 295 x 235mm Hardback £45.00 9781781300244 200 colour and 5 line illsutrations Philip Wilson Publishers in association with the National Trust

The text is lavishly illustrated with photographs of the cabinet and examples of other pieces of pietre dure inlaid furniture in English collections.

Simon Swynfen Jervis was successively Curator of Furniture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He has written widely on furniture, interior decoration, ornament and design.

Dudley Dodd had a long career with the National Trust, where he was Secretary of the Arts Panel, and has published widely on Stourhead, whose first modern guidebook he wrote in 1981, as well as guidebooks to several other National Trust houses.

London’s Lost Jewels The Cheapside Hoard Hazel Forsyth £19.95 Paperback 9781781300206

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THE HEATH AND THE HORSE

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A History of Newmarket Heath DAVID OLDREY AND TIMOTHY COX A beautifully illustrated history of the the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred horse racing Newmarket has a unique historic position as the acknowledged home of horseracing. Yet until now no book has provided a definitive history of Newmarket Heath, the key figures who contributed to its transformation from untamed heath land to the world’s finest racing ground, and the origins and development of the Jockey Club. This comprehensive and authoritative book is the first to trace this history from its early beginnings to the present day and to show how and why the sport of horseracing developed on the heath and spread globally from that base. All of the turf’s greatest racehorses and the larger-than-life characters integral to the heath’s history are included.

November 2014 272 pages 298 x 225mm Hardback £35.00 9781781300237 150 colour and b&w Philip Wilson Publishers

David Oldrey is a former Deputy Senior Steward of the Jockey Club and a historian of horseracing and its art. He is author of The Jockey Club Rooms, A Catalogue and History of the Collection and The Halifax Collection of Sporting Art. Timothy Cox is a historian of the thoroughbred with an extensive library, based in England. He owns and operates The Cox Library, a free online bibliography of works on the thoroughbred horse.

Pissarro Creating the Impressionist Landscape Katherine Rothkopf £19.95 Paperback 9780856676321

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SANCTITY PICTURED

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The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy TRINITA KENNEDY The first overview of the art of these two rival religious orders Italy in the 13th century was transformed by two new religious orders, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. They created a tremendous demand for works of all kinds – painted altarpieces, crucifixes, fresco cycles, illuminated choir books, and liturgical objects – to decorate their churches. The visual narratives they favoured are notable for their naturalistic treatment and the emphasis on expressive gestures to show human emotions, both of which were significant new developments in Italian art. This book is the first major study to examine the art of these rival religious orders together, exploring the ways in which they used art as propaganda to promote the charisma of their saints and to articulate their revolutionary concept of religious vocation.

October 2014 224 pages 275 x 210mm Hardback £35.00 9781781300268 195 colour Philip Wilson Publishers

Trinita Kennedy is Curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, and formerly was Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Donal Cooper is Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Holly Flora is Associate Professor, History of Art, at Tulane University.

Amy Neff is Associate Professor, School of Art, at the University of Tennessee. Janet Robson is an independent scholar and co-author of The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica.

The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches Nicholas N. Patricios £45.00 Hardback 9781780762913

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THE ARABIAN HORSE OF EGYPT

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY NASR MAREI, TEXT BY CYNTHIA CULBERTSON Magnificent photographs celebrating the history and spelndour of this special breed Prized for their stamina and their acclimation to the harsh conditions of the Arabian deserts, the ancestors of the horses that are now recognized as the Egyptian Arabian purebred horse entered Egypt centuries ago, establishing the valuable bloodlines of the breed there. The breeding programs in Egypt therefore became the root source for the finest Arabian horses, attracting passionate enthusiasts from all corners of the world.

Artists, poets, and historians have for centuries been inspired by their great beauty and romantic legacy. Nasr Marei is the third-generation owner of a stud farm in Giza, Egypt. His love for and knowledge of the Egyptian Arabian horse, coupled with his sensitive and striking photography, have inspired this visual tribute. His extraordinary photographs, accompanied by text that traces the history and evolution of the Arabian’s journey into Egypt, celebrate the lineage of this living treasure of Egyptian heritage.

December 2014 160 pages 250 x 150mm Paperback £18.95 9789774166655 140 colour photographs The American University in Cairo Press

Nasr Marei is the co-founder and vice-chairman of the Egyptian Arabian Horse Breeders Association.

He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Arabian Horse Breeders Alliance in 2013.

Cynthia Culbertson has an international reputation as an Arabian horse historian.

HRH Princess Alia Bint Al Hussein, who has provided the foreword, is a world-renowned Arabian horse breeder, show judge and director of the Royal Stables of Jordan for the Preservation of the Arabian Horse.

The Essential Horse Hilary Bracegirdle and Patricia Connor (Eds) £27.00 Paperback 9780856675317

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CITIES, CITADELS AND SIGHTS

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Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople TEXT BY SOPHIE LEE GORDON AND BADR EL HAGE Beautifully produced volume for lovers of early photography that takes the reader on a journey back in time to historic Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey In 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlightenment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged with taking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royal album. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best early photographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From timeless views of the Pyramids, the Dome of the Rock, Baalbek, and Hagia Sophia to scenes from another age of the streets of Cairo or tall ships on the Bosphorus, 120 of Bedford’s most outstanding photographs are showcased here in this fascinating visual tour of ancient lands in royal company.

October 2014 160 pages 250 x 250mm Hardback £24.95 9789774166709 120 illus The American University in Cairo Press

Francis Bedford (1815–94) was an English architect and lithographer who took up the new art of photography in the early 1850s and began fulfilling royal commissions for Queen Victoria in 1857. Sophie Gordon is senior curator of photographs at the Royal Collection Trust and has published widely on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century photography.

Badr El Hage is an independent photo-historian who has worked as a freelance writer and curator in the Middle East.

Paris along the Nile Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque Cynthia Myntti £29.95 Paperback 9789774248122

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A PASSION FOR FREEDOM

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My Life MAMPHELA RAMPHELE Autobiography of the international stateswoman and spokeswoman for South Africa Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party. In this highly acclaimed autobiography, Mamphela Ramphele vividly describes her extraordinary life – when she was born to teacher parents in the rural village of Kranspoort, few would have predicted that she would become not only a medical doctor, but an international leader and the founder of not one but two new political movements. As a young woman, Mamphela was instrumental in creating the ideology of Black Consciousness with her partner, Steve Biko. As an accomplished and respected businesswoman who had reached the pinnacle of success, she felt compelled to start Agang SA, to provide South African voters with an alternative to the increasingly corrupt ANC. Richly anecdotal, this book describes her loves and losses and her remarkable successes in both politics and business.

August 2014 352 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback 312.99 9781784530426 16pp b&w plates I.B.Tauris

Mamphela Ramphele is a leading figure in South African politics. She started Letsema Circle, a community development initiative, and then the Citizen’s Movement, before finally entering politics. Her Agang South Africa party was launched in 2013 and she continues to have a high profile as one of the most steadfastly independent and critical voices.

BIko A Life Xolela Mangcu, with a Foreword

by Nelson Mandela £12.99 Paperback 9781780767857

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The First 50 Years ANDREW SARDANIS Unique insider account of the first half-century of Zambian independence On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider’s account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonization and the problems of the incoming government, presented with an immense uphill task of rebuilding the infrastructure of government and administration – civil service, law, local government and economic development. As a friend and colleague of many of the most prominent names in post-independence Zambia – from the presidencies of founding leader Kenneth Kaunda to the incumbent Michael Sata – Sardanis uses his unique eyewitness experience to provide an inside view of a country in transition.

September 2014 336 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £12.00 9781780768229 8pp colour plates, 16 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

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Andrew Sardanis was born and educated in colonial Cyprus, worked as a journalist and spent his life in Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia, where he developed his business interests, including work with multinationals, and was a member of the legislature and government. He is the author of Africa: Another Side of the Coin and A Venture in Africa (both I.B.Tauris).

A Venture in Africa The Challenges of African Business Andrew Sardanis Hardback £31.00 9781845112882

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BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN A MODERN HISTORY OF FILMMAKING

BEH IND THE SI LVER SCREEN

Series Editor: Jon Lewis The Behind the Silver Screen series of ten volumes will together cover for the first time the collaborative art, craft, business and history of filmmaking from inception to reality. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour, they also comprise the first full history of filmmaking.

Following the first two books in the Series, on Cinematography and Screenwriting, will be volumes devoted to acting, animation, art direction, costume, make up and hair, directing, editing and special effects, producing and sound

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Behind the Silver Screen, Vol. 1 PATRICK KEATING (ED.) Cinematography’s role as a science and an art is often forgotten. This book remedies the omission by examining the highlights of the art of the cinematographer and providing the first comprehensive overview of how the field has rapidly evolved, from the early silent film era to today’s new technologies. It shows how cinematography has been influenced by both technological advances and trends in the movie industry, from big-budget blockbusters to indie films, with detailed views of films and profiles of the great cinematographers. It enables readers to have a fresh eye for what appears on the screen due to what happens on and behind the camera.

Sept 2014 256 pages, 234 x 156mm 9781784530198 Paperback £14.99 40 b&w illustrations, 8pp colour section Also available Hardback 9781784530181 £58.00

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Behind the Silver Screen, Vol. 2 ANDREW HORTON AND JULIAN HOXTER (EDS) The screenplay is where a film begins. This book highlights the art of the screenwriter and the business of screenwriting from Hollywood’s silent beginnings through to today’s global multi-media marketplace. Focusing on key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond and on how films from The Birth of a Nation to Chinatown began on the page, the book reveals the profound ways in which screenwriters contribute to films, as they try to capture the dreams, nightmares and concerns of the period in which they are writing. It is compelling reading for anyone interested or involved in the creative collaboration that generates the movies we see on the screen.

Sept 2014 256 pages 234 x 156mm 9781784530211 Paperback £14.99 40 b&w illustrations, 8pp colour section Also available Hardback 9781784530204 £56.00

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The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema CLAIRE JENKINS How is the traditional family unit portrayed in Hollywood films?

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainstream US cinema has not yet been closely studied. Home Movies addresses this oversight by assessing recent cinematic representations of the family October 2014 in terms of cultural politics and representations of gender, 288 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £17.99 sexuality, race and class.

Focusing on a diverse range of popular films – from Meet the Parents to The Incredibles – Claire Jenkins analyses the father-daughter relationship within sequels and series; Meryl Streep’s embodiment of the mother; the superhero family and extraordinary manifestations of the ordinary family; disaster films which depict the president as father; ‘mom-coms’ and Hollywood’s representations of the non-traditional family. She combines film studies, gender studies and family history to demonstrate the complexities of Hollywood’s family values.

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Claire Jenkins is Lecturer in Film and Media Communications at Bath Spa University (UK). She has published work on a number of topics including superhero families, older women in Mamma Mia! and gender and clothing in popular media.

The Hollywood Family Film A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter Noel Brown £17.99 Paperback 9781780762708

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NAOMI SAKR, JAKOB SKOVGAARD-PETERSEN AND DONATELLA DELLA RATTA (EDS)

Essential guide to the media entrepreneurs of the Middle East Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarization, and reforming business practices in the Arab world? Arab Media Moguls charts the rise of some leading investors and entrepreneurs in Arab media, examining their motives, management styles, financial performance and links to political power. Responding critically to scholarship on Western moguls, this book uncovers the realities of risk and success for Arab media potentates and billionaires.

December 2014 288 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback ÂŁ24.50 9781780767321 I.B.Tauris

Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, and Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. Her publications include Arab Television Today; Transformations in Egyptian Journalism and Women and Media in the Middle East (all published by I.B.Tauris).

Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

He is the author of Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta and (with Bettina Graf) The Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.

Donatella Della Ratta is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen.

Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression Naomi Sakr ÂŁ18.99 Paperback 9781850435457

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REUTERS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JOURNALISM SERIES In an era of globalization, the comparative study of the practice and nature of journalism on an international level is increasingly important. This new series provides a unique global perspective on the role of the media in the modern world, offering analysis of addressing the key issues facing journalists today.

Given the critical role of independent media in open societies and the power of information in the modern world, the series will serve as a forum for engagement between leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, as well as practitioners of journalism from around the world.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) is a research centre for international comparative journalism based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

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RACISM, ETHNICITY AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA

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Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-first Century WINSTON MANO (ED.) A new look at the media’s role in both countering and perpetuating racism in the major African states Since the colonial era in Africa, racism and ethnicity have largely led to serious conflicts – the Nigerian-Biafran War, killings in Darfur, xenophobic attacks in South Africa – that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development on the continent.

This book sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and undermining racism, ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa.

It goes beyond customary discussions of representation of racism and ethnicity to question the role played by specific media institutions. Topics and issues covered include racism in South African newspapers, pluralist media in Kenya, media discourses on homosexuality in Namibia, and the politics of ‘African News’ in Nigerian newspapers.

October 2014 320 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £16.99 9781780767062 I.B.Tauris

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Winston Mano is Director of the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster. He is also Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies. He is the author of African National Radio and Everyday Life: The Impact of Radio in the Digital Age (forthcoming from I.B. Tauris) and is editor of The Media and Zimbabwe (2005).

The Biafran War The Struggle for Modern Nigeria Michael Gould, with a Foreword

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An Egyptian Novel BAHAA ABDELMEGID, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN WRIGHT Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family’s high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, the inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with him, especially the clash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionally entangled with anyone other than his version of the ideal woman. In his year away from home Mutazz learns how diverse the world is, but returning to Cairo is a shock that tests his physical and mental strength. Only when he passes that test can he make a promising new start.

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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS An Egyptian Novel

MIRAL AL-TAHAWY TRANSLATED BY SAMAH SELIM Hind, newly arrived in New York with her eight-year-old son, several suitcases of unfinished manuscripts and hardly any English, finds a room in a Brooklyn teeming with people like her who dream of becoming writers.

As she discovers the various corners of her new home, they conjure up parallel memories from her childhood and her small Bedouin village in the Nile Delta: Emilia who sells used shoes at the flea market smells like Zeinab, the old woman who worked for Hind’s grandfather; the reflection of her own body as she dances tango awakens the awkwardness of her relationship to that body across the years; the story of Lilette, the Egyptian bourgeoise who has lost her memory, prompts Hind to safeguard her own. Through this kaleidoscopic spectrum of disadvantaged characters we encounter unique but familiar life histories in this award-winning and intensely moving novel of displacement and exile.

August 2014 192 pages 127 x 203mm 9789774166594 Paperback £8.99 Available in the Middle East only

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RITUALS OF HOSPITALITY NEW Ornamented Trays of the 19th Century in Greece and Turkey FLAVIA NESSI AND MYRTO HATZAKI (EDS), FOREWORD BY ORHAN PAMUK A captivating picture of everyday life in Ottoman Turkey The functions of daily life in the 19th century Ottoman Empire - and in the newly established Kingdom of Greece - placed great emphasis on elaborate rituals of hospitality. Central to these were the serving of coffee and syrupy ‘spoon’ sweets along with intricate rituals enacted over the presentation and sharing of meals. In this context, a fashion developed for the creation and display of elaborate ornamented trays painted with topographical scenes and figures from Istanbul and across the empire. These paintings - often exquisitely executed by unknown artists - present a remarkably fresh and candid picture of life in late Ottoman Turkey and Greece.

They are becoming increasingly prized and sought after by collectors and museums worldwide and this work will be a valuable benchmark and reference for all collectors. It brings together and illustrates several hundred of the finest known examples and decodes the iconography, functions and techniques of the various styles and types. What emerges is a kaleidoscope of colours, flavours and meanings that lie beneath the surface of these objects and which elegantly span the space between east and west, oriental and occidental, functional and ornamental.

April 2014 288 pages 290 x 246mm Hardback £45.00 9789602043271 Colour throughout Melissa Publishing House

Flavia Nessi is and art historian and researcher specialising in late Ottoman visual arts. Myrto Hatzaki is Curator of the Paris Collection of European Art, A. G. Leventis Foundation.

Orhan Pamuk, the world-renowned writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006

Artisans of Empire Crafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans Suraiya Faroqhi £14.99 Paperback 9781848859609

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Dilks, 21 Dillon, 8 Discovering Tutankhamun, 32 Divine Supermarket, The, TPP6 Dodd, 49 Doyle, 17 Dreadnaught, 16 Dressed for War, 19 Edward Lear, TPP5 Edwards, 19 Elizabeth and Essex, TPP6 Encounters with Islam, 7 Enemy in the East, 4 England’s First Demonologist, 28 Erasmo, 31, 38 Essential Horse, The, 52 Eternal Chalice, 29 Etruscan Places, TPP6 Euro Crisis in the Media, 59 Europe under Napoleon, 11 Faroqhi, 62 Farzana, 5 Finlayson, TPP4 Fleming, TPP5 Forster, TPP5 Forsyth, 49 Fox, TPP7 France and the Age of Revolution, 17 Franks, 59 Frantz Fanon, 10 Freely, 38, TPP2 From Asgard to Valhalla, 30 From Cairo to Baghdad, 41 Frontline Ukraine, 3 Gandhi and Nationalism, 37 Gandhi and the Middle East, 37 Gender, 31 Germany and Propaganda in World War I, 13 Gilbert, 20 Glorious Adventure, The, TPP7 Goering, 22 Golden Age of Pantomime, 14 Gordon, 53 Gould, 60 Grondahl, 44 Grove, 16 Gulf States, 46 Haag, 39 Hackett, 27 Hage, 53 Halliburton, TPP7 Hamilton, 59 Hardie, 33 Harman, 6 Harris, J, 33 Harris, W, TPP6

Hatzaki, 62 Hawass, 32 Heath and the Horse, 50 Hedin, 42 Heidelberger-Leonard, 24 Hicks, 27 Hinduism, 35 Hollywood Family Film, The, 57 Holmes, 31 Holocaust Sites of Europe, 24 Home Movies, 57 Homer, 34 Horace, TPP5 Horton, 56 Howells, TPP6, TPP7 Hoxter, 56 Hyman, 36 In Search of Kings and Conquerors, 15 In the Name of the People, 10 Islam in America, 47 Islam in Saudi Arabia, 47 Islam Today, 45 Islam, 35 Italian Journeys, TPP6 Jainism, 35 Jarrett, 17 Jenkins, 57 Jervis, 49 John Bright, 12 Journalism and Public Relations, 59 Journey into Barbary, TPP7 Keating, 56 Keay, 5 Kennedy, 51 King Arthur’s Enchantresses, 29 King Condemned, TPP6 Kruk, 48 Kuhn, 59 Lancashire Witches, The, 28 Land of an African Sultan, The, TPP6 Landau, 22 Larrington, 29 Last Trojan Hero, The, 33 Last Vikings, The, 30 Lawrence, DH, TPP6 Lawrence, TE, 41 Lee, 53 Leningrad 1943, 1 Levi, TPP5, TPP7 Levy, 59 Life and Death of the Spanish Republic, The, 1 Lifting the Veil. TPP6 Lin,48 Littlejohn, 35 Lloyd, 59 London’s Lost Jewels, 49

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Ratta, 58 Raudvere, 35 Redford, 16 Religion, 31 Rembrandt’s House, TPP3 Reporting the EU, 59 Revolt in the Desert, 41 Revolution is my Name, 44 Rhodes, 26 Richards, 14 Rituals of Hospitality, 62 Roman Splendour, English Arcadia, 49 Rome of the Euphrates, TPP7 Rose, J, 35 Rose, N, 21, Rothkopf, 50 Royal Navy, The,16 Rupke, 31 Ruthven, 7, TPP6 Sackville-West, TPP5 Sacred Architecture of Byzantium, 51 Sacred Space and Holy War, 45 Sakr, 58 Sakwa, 3 Sanctity Pictured, 51 Sardanis, 55 Sattin, TPP6 Screening Twilight, 6 Screenwriting, 56 Seaver, 30 Selim, 61 Seneca, 34 Seven League Boots, TPP7 Sewell, TPP7 Sex, 31 Shoemake, TPP4 Short History of Ancient Greece, The, 26 Short History of Atheism, A, 36 Short History of the American Revolutionary War, 27 Short History of the Byzantine Empire, The, 27 Short History of the English Renaissance Drama, 27 Short History of the Minoans, The, 26 Short History of the New Testament, The, 26 Short History of the Normans, 27 Short History of the Weimar Republic, 27 Siddiqui, 7 Siemens, 23 Sikhism, 35 Silk Road – Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran, The, 42 Silk Road – China and the Karakorum Highway, 43 Silk Road, The, 42 Singh, 35

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TANGIER City of the Dream IAIN FINLAYSON A cult classic of Tangier, iconic hang-out for Bowles, Burroughs and the Stones No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of Tangier.

From the 17th century, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines of government, a city of refuge and excitements where sex is cheap, drugs are plentiful and where the outcasts of the world can breathe easily. The golden years of Tangier began after World War I and barely survived World War II. Among those who sought sanctuary in or inspiration from this legendary city were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles, Ronnie Kray, the unhappy Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Cecil Beaton and Truman Capote. It is this ‘last resort of the living dead, alive but not madly kicking’ which Iain Finlayson explores in his witty, enthralling book.

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‘A dream concealed in stone ... sky supersonic, orgone blue, warm wind ... Such beauty, but more than that, it’s like the dream is breaking through.’ – William Burroughs Iain Finlayson is the author of acclaimed biographies of James Boswell and Robert Browning, as well as books on such varied themes as the Scots, the writers of Romney Marsh and denim. He is Books Editor of Saga Magazine and reviews books for The Times as well as writing for Harpers Bazaar and the Scotsman, among others.

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REMBRANDT’S HOUSE Exploring the World of the Great Master ANTHONY BAILEY A unique and groundbreaking portrait of the great master by an award-winning author No.4 Breestraat, Amsterdam, is an imposing 17th century house, but little different from many big old houses in the city. What makes it exceptional is that for twenty years one of the world’s greatest artists lived here – Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the time. This is the story of that house, the September 2014 world Rembrandt observed in and around it and the special 256 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 universe he created in his studio there.

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STROLLING THROUGH LONDON The Definitive Walking Guide AIDAN WASLEY A must-have guide to the world’s greatest city London’s obliging equanimity in the face of two millennia of tourists has been a distinguishing feature of the place since it was founded as a Roman settlement around 43 AD. It is a huge yet humane city; an international capital that embraces the individual at eye-level, welcoming the walker to wander, explore, and join the numberless millions who have found themselves-in every sense-in this lively, companionable, and endlessly evolving city. Strolling Through London take its walking reader across this buzzing metropolis, balancing the expected tourist highlights with lesser-known corners and byways. Each walk offers a unique and bespoke type of London experience – from ‘Lively’ to ‘Literary’, ‘Medieval’ to ‘Modern’ and Underground London’ to ‘London in a Day’. All impart the kinds of rewarding experience and discovery that only come from a true engagement with London’s complex, vibrant history and spirit.

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Aidan Wasley is the author of The Age of Auden and has written for Salon among other journals and magazines. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia, with a focus on modern English literature and culture.

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THE ZODIAC ARCH Fifty Years of Travel FREYA STARK Writings that reveal a glimpse of the woman behind the legend that was Freya Stark With such tantalising chapters as ‘In Defence of Smuggling’ and ‘Lunch with Homer’ this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel and a life spent as one of the twentieth century’s most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark’s writings range from eloquent musings on the nature of travel, of being a woman – both writer and explorer – in what was then predominantly a male world and jewel-bright stories from across the world – Arabia to North Africa, Iran and India – that captivate the reader with every sentence. There are romantic picnics under starlit skies on remote islands, meaningful moments of quiet in Mecca and Jerusalem and heartfelt accounts of encounters with a kaleidoscope of people. The Zodiac Arch resurrects lost worlds, reveals a little of the woman behind the legend and is, at heart, a magnetic read for all those under the spell of wanderlust.

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