US Catalogue FBF 2017

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I.B.TAURIS US RIGHTS GUIDE FBF 2017


Contents

Current Affairs, International Relations, Politics Cold Rush by Martin Breum America in Afghanistan Sharif Dorani Reclaiming Byzantium by Pinar Ure The Peshmerga by Fazel Hawramy The Lion and the Nightingale by Kaya Genç Dark Shadows by Joanna Lillis The Shadows of Myanmar by Poppy McPherson The Russian State & the People by Hønneland, Pietilä and Skedsmo

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History Edmund by Francis Young Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay Franco and the Condor Legion by Michael Alpert Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial by Matthew Turner Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy by Isabelle Richet Maria Spiridonova by Jörg Matthias Determann Ancient Greece and American Conservatism by John Bloxham The USA at War with the Ottoman by Eric Covey Decline of the Congress System by Miroslav Sedivy Lost Souls by Diana Peschier Zhou Enlai by Michael Dillon

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Religion The Religious Nile by Terje Oestigaard God by Philip C. Almond

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Literature & Visual Culture In Search of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy Hemingway by Richard Bradford Teffi by Edythe Haber Dark Star by Alan Strachan All Men Must Die by Carolyne Larrington Fashioning Indie by Rachel Lifter Veiling Fashion by Anna-Mari Almila

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

June 2018 MS available Extent: 288 pages Images: 8 bw illustrations Current Affairs, Arctic, Politics

Thrillingly written, this should receive good reviews

Author the world expert on this story

The Arctic is going to become a key issue in global politics The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole – sending submarines and icebreakers - the ice itself continues to recede, creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil. What is quietly unfolding in the polar north is a ‘great game’ for territory and for resources such as oil, uranium and nickel, all against the biggest backdrop of all: the destruction of the Arctic caused by climate change. And then last year things took a strange turn. The Kingdom of Denmark, through its colonial claim on Greenland, declared ownership of the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic. Its claims on a territory larger than Scandinavia overlap over 500 sq. km with Russia’s, who have planted a flag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole. Martin Breum brings this secret story to life, through a wonderfully written narrative – with researchers discovering Russian submarines, spy plane pilots flying over aircraft carriers and the inhabitants of sleepy Greenland waking up to their new place in the universe – between the great aggressive military powers of the world.


America in Afghanistan Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama Sharif Dorani Sharif Dorani completed his PhD on the War in Afghanistan at Durham University. He has lived and worked in Afghanistan and lectures on the history of US policy in the region.

March 2018 MS available Extent: 322 pages Images: 2 maps Middle East, US Foreign Policy, Current Affairs

Covers Bush to Trump, with evidence from policymakers in Washington

New insight into the ongoing Afghanistan war

New sources published in English for the first time

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


Reclaiming Byzantium Russia, Turkey & the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East Pinar Ure Pinar Ure completed her PhD in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Dominic Lieven at the LSE. She received her MA form the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Assistant Professor at İstanbul Kemerburgaz University.

March 2018 MS autumn 2017 Extent: 322 pages Images: 12 bw integrated illustrations, 2 maps Middle East, Foreign Policy

High quality study-case which reveals wider historical truths

Will appeal to Byzantine scholars & archaeologists as well as historians of Russia in the late 19th Century

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire... In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world’s leading research facilities for uncovering Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul – its purpose was to stake the claim that Russia was the correct heir to Byzantium, and the historical owner of ‘Tsargrad’ - as Istanbul was referred to in Russian circles. Reclaiming Byzantium is the first history of Russia’s efforts to reclaim its Middle East. Pinar Ure looks at the founding of the Russian Archaeological Institute, its aims and its place in the ‘digging-race’ which characterised the late Imperial phase of modern history. Above all she shows how the practise of history has been used as a political tool – events since in the Crimea, Syria and Georgia are all to some extent wrapped up in an imperial Russian historical framework.


The Peshmerga On the Frontline in the Middle East Fazel Hawramy Fazel Hawramy obtained his MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS and is a journalist based in Erbil. He reports from all the front lines across Iraqi Kurdistan and has interviewed many of the peshmerga leaders, gaining first-hand experience of many of the events described in this book. His dispatches are published in the Guardian, Al-Monitor and Hawlati, an independent daily in Iraqi Kurdistan, among others.

September 2018 MS available Extent: 256 pages Images: 2 maps Middle East, Current Affairs, History

Essential reading for those interested and involved in current events in Syria and Iraq

Author is an authority on the subject with unprecedented access to all the key figures

An essential book on the Peshmerga In the years since Islamic State tore through Iraq and proclaimed a caliphate straddling the border with Syria, the Kurds have emerged as a lead actor in the global war against the extremist group and an important partner in the campaign to “degrade and destroy” it. However, the story of the Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga -- literally “those who confront death” -- is yet to be told. This book seeks to establish who these men are, and what has motivated them to lay down their lives in one abortive revolt after another over the past century. It will trace the peshmerga’s ongoing and far from complete evolution from a rag-tag guerrilla force into a regular army. From their early beginnings in the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad to their ongoing standoffs with Islamic State, the peshmerga have come to embody the Kurdish nationalist struggle in Iraq and beyond.


The Lion and the Nightingale A Journey Through Modern Turkey Kaya Genç

September 2018 MS december 2017 Extent: 288 pages 20th C History, Diplomacy, Nationalism •

Kaya Genç one of Turkey’s most hotly-anticipated young writers. His last book garnered attention from the New York Times (front page article), Village Voice, the Economist, The New Statesmen and BBC Radio amongst others Turkey holds the key to the Middle East, and since the coup the whole world is watching A beautifully written, poetic narrative encompassing the great literature, art and storytelling of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Sight & Sound, The Millions, The White Review and TIME Magazine, among others. His first novel, L’Avventura was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of The Believer and The LA Review of Books as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. His article for The LA Review of Books Surviving the Black Sea was selected as one of best nonfiction pieces of 2014 by The Atlantic. Currently writing a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press, and due to publish his first English novel later next year, he is the author of Under the Shadow, an account of the Gezi Park uprisings and the coup attempt of December, 2016.

The story of modern Turkey told by one of the most interesting Turkish writers Kaya Genç tells the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been torn between East and West, and between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. A beautiful place of song, of storytelling and of literature, Genc travels around his country finding the places and people in whom the contrasts of the past meet. The Ottoman glory and the soft and sensual, the authoritarian and the poetic, this is the book which tells the soul of the place. Praise for his last book: Turkish journalist Genc profiles young Turkish activists organizing on his country’s frontlines in this fascinating and informative compilation that represents both investigative and literary journalism at their finest. Genc—who includes a foreword addressing the failed 2016 coup—has found a brilliant form to tell the story of a nation in turmoil, with the voices of young dissidents leading the narrative.


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

August 2018 MS available Extent: 240 pages Images: 8 bw integrated illustrations, 2 maps Current Affairs, Asia

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

Covers a crucial paradigm shift in Central Asia

China’s strategy in Central Asia will make understanding this country a must Money is flooding into Kazakhstan. The country is home to vast gas and oil deposits, and its staggering level of international investment is increasing year by year. And yet, Kazakhstan effectively looks and feels like a Cold War state. Its president for the last 26 years, Nazarbayev, is a ruthless dictator who believes in telepathy (visitors to national monuments can place their hands on a golden handprint and send him telepathic messages) and recently constructed a 56-metre glass pyramid in which 100 Kazakhstani religious leaders will meet to discuss the future of the world. This book teases out the strange and fascinating conditions of present-day Kazakhstan – a state haunted by disappearances, buried Uranium mines, corruption, and gangsterdom at the highest levels of power. Joanna Lillis is a compelling storyteller and a shrewd social critic; her study evokes a country simultaneously lost in its complex past and poised to move into the foreground of world affairs.


The Shadows of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and the Persecution of the Rohingya Poppy McPherson Poppy McPherson is a journalist based in Myanmar. She writes regularly on Asia for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the Economist, the Independent, the New Statesman and TIME magazine amongst others. She has extensive radio experience and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, the BBC World Service, Vice News and Channel News Asia. Her profile of Thailand’s ruler, Reign of the Silent King, won the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for best article in 2015.

Summer 2018 MS January 2018 Extent: 256 pages Current Affairs, Politics

Features insights from the Palace and from the border itself from a journalist who is on the ground

A moving and important narrative which needs to be told

A narrative of morality, of the realities of power, prejudice and of the displacement of hope

The inside story of a humanitarian catastrophe There was worldwide adulation and celebration in 2015 when Aung San Suu Kyi became the leader of Myanmar – rehabilitated into political life as the military junta surprisingly stepped aside. But the real story is just beginning. The persecution of the Rohingya – an Islamic group of many millions in Myanmar – has become one of the world’s leading and most horrific stories. Under the nominal leadership of Suu Kyi it appears that the concentrations camps, extra-judicial killings and deportations have increased. According to the UN, Burmese security forces have been conducting "summary executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and ill-treatment and forced labour". Increasingly Suu Kyi surrounds herself with far-right advisors, increasingly Muslims are exiled from her courts, her palaces and her political cabinets. In 2016 an ongoing military crackdown by Myanmar's armed forces and police on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State began. Today, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar, citing violence at the hands of security forces, including extrajudicial killings, gang rapes, arson and infanticides. Poppy McPherson has been reporting on this story for the last five years. She has an array of top-level briefings and sources from inside the palace and will write a readable, relatable and important book on Myanmar, the Rohingya people, and the mercurial figure of Aung San Suu Kyi herself.


The Russian State & the People What Power, Corruption & the Individual in Putin’s Russia Geir Hønneland, Ilkka Pietilä and Pål Wilter Skedsmo

August 2018 MS December 2017 Extent: 320 pages Russia, International Relations, Political Science

Based on extensive and unique primary material – field research undertaken in regional Russia

Crossover interest for political science scholars and students of corruption

The first book to focus on the role of oligarchic systems on the everyday in Russia

Geir Hønneland is Research Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Arctic University in Norway. Ilkka Pietilä is a health sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland. Pål Wilter Skedsmo is an anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway.

An essential part of future research on Russian state power and citizenship under President Putin Russia’s state is often described as an oligarchy, with stakeholders competing for territory and influence underneath one head of state – Vladimir Putin. But what does this mean for Russian citizens on the ground? Who do they go to in order to resolve local or domestic disputes? And what effect does corruption have on their everyday lives? The culmination of a three-year research project, featuring extensive field research, The Russian State and the People seeks to answer those questions. The book is based on 160 qualitative interviews with Russian citizens and Russian civil servants in north-western Russia, from Murmansk to St Petersburg - including both rural areas and urban centres. Basing their hypothesis on Richard Sakwa’s theories of a Russian ‘normative state’, and an ‘administrative state’ which operates beneath it, the authors assess notions of freedom, ‘Russian-ness’ and corruption through the experiences of those who live there.



Edmund In Search of England’s Lost King Francis Young Francis Young was born in Bury St Edmunds, and is now a foremost authority on the history and culture of eastern England, he gained a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A former Head of History at the King’s School, Ely, he is the author and editor of seven previous books.

March 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 256 pages Images: 16pp colour plates, 3 maps Medieval History, Religion, Social & Cultural History

First book to be written on the national significance of Edmund and his key role in forging England

Feeds into discussion about the rise and future of a distinctively English nationalism

“Simultaneously a sophisticated work of history, a compelling detective story and a meditation on what it is to be English, this is a fascinating and wonderful book.” - Tom Holland Discover the probable resting place of the king who created England What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England’s greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body – placed in an ‘iron chest’ but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries – of Edmund: martyred monarch of the AngloSaxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England’s first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.


Among the Wolves of Court The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn Lauren Mackay Lauren Mackay is a Tudor historian and author of Inside the Tudor Court. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Newcastle (Australia) but has already made a name for herself as a leading young historian and commentator on the Tudor Period. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court .

April 2018 MS Sept 17 Extent: 288 pages History, Trade

Sheds new light on the machinations of the Tudor court

Highly promotable author and subject

Among The Wolves of Court: Thomas and George Boleyn introduces Anne Boleyn’s father and brother, often underplayed figures at Henry’s court, lifting the lid on their rise as highly skilled ambassadors and courtiers who negotiated their way through the complex and ruthless game of politics. Tudor fans will know that Anne Boleyn was elevated to the royal household through the machinations of her father, Thomas, and that one of the charges against Queen Anne was incest with her brother George, who followed her to the scaffold. Yet little has been written about the Boleyn men Thomas and George - to date. Based on original research and new sources, Lauren Mackay will write an engaging, trade history of The Boleyn Boys, looking at their role in the Tudor court and the influence they had over their daughter/sister in her royal marriage.


Franco and the Condor Legion The Spanish Civil War in the Air Michael Alpert

Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster. He is the author of A New International History of the Spanish Civil War and The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War .

March 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 288 pages Images: 20 bw illustrations History, Spanish Civil War, Aviation History, WW II

First study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air

Pivotal conflict at a turning point in aviation technology

Examines contributions of external powers to the Spanish Air War

A comprehensive study of the Condor Legion and Spain’s war in the air The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new techniques of air war were rehearsed including high-speed dogfights, attacks on ships, bombing of civilian areas and tactical air-ground cooperation. At the heart of the air war were the Condor Legion, a unit composed of military personnel from Hitler’s Germany who fought for Franco’s Nationalists in Spain. In this book, Michael Alpert provides the first study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air. He describes and analyses the intervention of German, Italian and Soviet aircraft in the Spanish conflict, as well as the supply of aircraft in general and the role of volunteer and mercenary airmen. His book provides new perspectives on the air war in Spain, the precedents set for World War II and the possible lessons learnt.


Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Their Role as Expert Witnesses Matthew Turner Matthew Turner is a Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia, from where he gained his PhD. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Jena Center for Twentieth Century History in Germany.

April 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 320 pages Images: 7 bw illustrations History, Holocaust, Legal History, World War ii

Taps into debates on role of historians in legal trials

Features original research and first-hand interviews

Adds to our knowledge of the prosecution of war crimes after World War II

New analysis of the role of expert witnesses in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation’s leading historians as expert witnesses – Martin Broszat, Hans Buchheim, Helmut Krausnick, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen – appointed by the prosecution to give evidence pertaining to the historical and organisational context of the Holocaust. Following the trial, the reports of these historians were published in a bestselling book, Anatomie des SS-Staates (Anatomy of the SS State) and Matthew Turner here investigates the relationship between the trial and this publication. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the intersection between history and law that accompanies historians’ entry into the courtroom. Very little, however, has been written about this intersection with a focus on a single case study. Based on original research in several German archives and first-hand interviews, Turner addresses these connections through a study of West Germany’s most famous trial, and the monumental work of history produced from the engagement of historical expertise in court.


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

April 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 336 pages Images: 12 bw illustrations History, Biography, Fascism, Italian History, Women’s Political Activism

New perspectives on women and Antifascism

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

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

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

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


Maria Spiridonova Murder and Martyrdom in Revolutionary Russia Geoffrey Elliott Geoffrey Elliott is an independent writer and historian. A retired investment banker, he is an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of several books including I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent; Kitty Harris: The Spy with 17 Names; Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War; From Siberia with Love: A Story of Exile, Revolution and Cigarettes; Gentleman Spymaster: How Lt. Col. Tommy 'Tar' Robertson Double-crossed the Nazis and A Forgotten Man: The Life and Death of John Lodwick.

July 2018 MS Sept 17 Extent: 288 pages Images: 30 illustrations History, Biography

Intriguing female character

Author has a solid track record

The extraordinary life of Maria Spiridonova Mariya Spiridonova was a female communist revolutionary and assassin in pre-Soviet Russia. In 1905 she assassinated local dignitary and her arrest and subsequent trial became a cause célèbre. She spent 11 years in a Siberian prison but was released in the February Revolution of 1917 and became a famous figure. In the Great Purge of 1937 she was arrested and sent to the Gulag, where she was killed just after the outbreak of WW2. It’s a fascinating story and one which Elliot will tell with his signature verve and élan.


Ancient Greece and American Conservatism Classical Influence on the Modern Right John Bloxham John Bloxham teaches at the University of Nottingham, where he leads courses on classical history and ancient Greek. He is also an associate tutor at the University of Leicester and associate lecturer at the Open University. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham.

April 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 288 pages Classics, History, International Relations & Politics

Demonstrates the myriad ways that Ancient Greek thought is used to bolster political theories of the American Conservatives

Brings Classics and Reception Studies to modern political thought

The relationship between Ancient Greece and the American Right is closer than previously thought US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify a more assertive foreign policy in the 1990s. By tracing this phenomenon and analysing these, and various other, examples of selectivity, subversion and adaptation within their broader social and political contexts, John Bloxham here employs classical thought as a prism through which to explore competing strands in American conservatism. From the early years of the Cold War to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bloxham illuminates the depth of conservatives’ engagement with Greece, the singular flexibility of Greek ideas and the varied and diverse ways that Greek thought has reinforced and invigorated conservatism. This innovative work of reception studies offers a richer understanding of the American Right and is important reading for classicists, modern US historians and political scientists alike


The USA at War with the Ottoman Empire Foreign America’s Mercenary Forces in the Middle East Eric Covey Eric Covey completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin last year. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.

March 2018 MS available Extent: 322 pages Images: 16 bw integrated illustrations Middle East, US History, Ottoman History

New primary source material

Sales across US history, Turkish studies and Islamic History

Uses sources from the USA to shed light on the Ottoman empire’s workings We live in an age of proxy warfare and de facto mercenary armies operating across the Middle East and on the fringes of Europe. America’s current foreign policy seems to suggest a deep and lasting conflict between the Islamic East and the West. This history seeks to uncover the origins of this approach, by telling the story of American mercenary ambitions and the US army which fought the Ottoman Empire in the Tripolitan War of 1801. Thomas Jefferson, refusing to pay tribute to the Barbary Coast states, went to war with the Pasha of Tripoli. But the conflict was not, as so often portrayed, centred around Christianity versus Islam. The war concerned trade agreements and customs, and various pirates, clientele states and smaller entities (such as the Kingdom of Naples) were involved. The East, as Eric Covey shows, was then a source of hope and adventure; where careers and fortunes could be made – in some ways the American version of the East India Company. Using sourcework from the USA to shed light on the Ottoman empires workings, Covey links this history together, and shows how America’s earliest interactions with the Middle East and North Africa were based around trade, profiteering and clientelism.


Decline of the Congress System Metternich, Italy and European Diplomacy Miroslav Sedivy Miroslav Sedivy is Deputy Head of the Department of Historical Studies at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He is the author of Crisis among the Great Powers (I.B.Tauris, 2016) and Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question. He holds a PhD from Charles University, Prague.

June 2018 MS available Extent: 416 pages Images: 16 bw illustrations, 1 map History, Diplomacy, International Relations, European History

Vital new contribution to understanding of the Congress System and its role in 19th Century diplomacy

New perspectives on Metternich – great 19th Century statesman

Extensive new research based on archival sources

Detailed analysis of role of Italy in 19th Century diplomacy Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the ‘Congress System’ became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the politicallegal Congress System that the period has often been referred to as the ‘Age of Metternich’. In this book, Mirolsav Šedivý analyses Metternich’s policy towards the pre-united Italian states from 1830 to 1848. With an emphasis on geopolitics and international law and drawing attention to the unsettled role of the Italian states within European diplomacy in the period, this book explains why the Italian peninsula never developed into the stable region that Metternich hoped to establish at the heart of the Congress System. Owing to the self-interested policies of some European Powers as well as the larger of the Italian states Metternich proved unable to bring about ‘the transformation of European politics’ in Italy. Using a thorough analysis of the role that Italy played in the Congress System and based upon extensive research in eighteen European archives, this book also explains why it was Italy where the first war among the so-called civilised nations broke out after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, an event representing the first brutal blow to the Congress System.


Lost Souls Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum Diana Peschier Diana Peschier is an expert in Victorian literature and nineteenth-century religion. Her last book, Nineteenth-Century Anti Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Brontë is about Charlotte Brontë and the influence of anti-Catholic discourse on her life and her novels. She received her PhD in English from London University, an M.A. in Women’s History and a B.A. in Theology from Leeds University. She also has a short story/memoir which is being edited for publication in a collection of stories about madness.

May 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 272 pages Images: 16 illustrations History, Literature, Psychoanalysis

New perspective on Victorian mental health

Established independent author with track record

An examination of the records of women in nineteenthcentury mental asylums It is generally accepted that what has been termed by scholars as ‘the rise of the Victorian Madwoman’ marked a turning point in the treatment of women with mental illnesses. It was during the nineteenth-century that madness became closely associated with femininity in scientific, literary and popular discourse. Whilst keeping this theory in mind, Peschier examines the records of mental asylums in the London area during the middle part of the nineteenth-century in order to ascertain the reasons given for why women, and to a lesser extent men, were admitted. After the implementation of the Lunatics Act 1845 for the first time all counties and principal boroughs of England and Wales were required to make provision for the care of lunatics which led to an unprecedented period of asylum construction, The book examines patients’ case notes, treatment plans and final outcomes. These records are compared to the popular ideas of the madwoman found in imaginative literature of the time to see if the widely held belief that women were incarcerated in asylums for petty or even spurious reasons was actually true. Whilst carrying out this research Peschier came to the conclusion that a close reading of asylum records reveals a pattern of women’s behaviour and perceived insanity which is interpreted according to Victorian theories and teaching around female mental health .


Zhou Enlai China’s Good Communist Michael Dillon 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 has been Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the author of China: A Modern History and Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Made Modern China (both I.B.Tauris).

March 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 336 pages Images: 16 bw illustrations History, Biography, China Studies, Political Leaders

Essential biography for understanding China’s twentieth century development

Pivotal statesman figure in China’s twentieth-century history

Key figure in creating the modern China we know today

The full biography of China’s ‘power behind the throne’ Zhou Enlai Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the ‘power behind the throne’ – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai’s long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China’s modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, whom he served under as China’s first premier from 1949 until 1976. Zhou was also a major ally of Deng Xiaoping and a source of major influence for his ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. He was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status and one of the key determinants of China’s central role in the modern world. Cultivated and urbane, Zhou was a sympathetic and intellectual character, who was well-liked by non-communists, foreigners and his staff. In this book, Michael Dillon restores Zhou to his rightful place in history and analyses the role of a man who was ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.



The Religious Nile Water, Ritual and Society since Ancient Egypt Terje Oestigaard Terje Oestigaard is Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Docent, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Bergen. His books include Water, Christianity & the Rise of Capitalism, Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions, and Water and Food: From Hunter Gatherers to Global Production (co-ed. with T. Tvedt, IBT).

February 2018 MS available Extent: 440 pages Images: 50 illustrations History, Religion, Water, Africa, Anthropology

Richly illustrated

Details little known rituals and practices that are now fast disappearing

Unique perspective on the Nile

Part religious quest, part exploration narrative of the river from its sources to the sea across five millennia

‘Give me sure hope of setting my eyes on the head waters of the Nile and I shall abandon civil war’ - Julius Caesar Even if Caesar was perhaps the most powerful man on earth at the time, limits to his knowledge and domination are clear. Even the Roman emperor was inferior to the Nile and its mysteries. The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. Since antiquity the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for the source of the Nile was also a religious quest – for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. The source of the Blue Nile, in Ethiopia, is the very outlet of the river Gihon, connecting Paradise with Christian believers. The source of the White Nile, in Uganda, is a source that is central in traditional cosmology - in waterfalls from Lake Victoria to Murchison Falls innumerable and powerful water spirits define culture and religion. From its origins to the sea, the Nile may also be said to be a powerful source for a greater understanding of human nature, society and religion. In The Religious Nile Terje Oestigaard explores the cultural history of the river across five thousand years to reveal the role played by water in the development and make-up of societies and civilizations. Spanning five thousand years, from antiquity to the present day, the author explores the religions and cultures along the Nile and the meanings attached to water by the civilizations dependent upon its waters. The result is a rich and engaging story of the world’s most famous river.


God A New Biography Philip C. Almond Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His previous books include The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill, The Devil: A New Biography (cited as one of the Independent's 'Books of the Year: Best Books on Religion') and Afterlife: A History of Life after Death.

June 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 264 pages Images: 16pp bw illustrations Religion, Philosophy, History, Politics, Literary Studies, Art History, Cultural Studies

First serious biography of God since 1996: there’s room for a new approach

Considerable general appeal plus wide specialist interest across academic & scholarly disciplines

A brilliant new history of the Almighty which places him squarely within the history of ideas The story of God is the story of a paradox. It is the drama of a transcendent, timeless being who, throughout history, has supposedly engaged with immanent and mortal creatures on a fallen and broken world of his own making. In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that – whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam – God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West. Expertly placing the narrative of divine presence within the wider history of ideas, Almond suggests that the notion of a deity has been the single greatest conundrum of medieval and modern civilization. In this rich, nuanced appraisal, ‘God’ is shown to be more complex and fascinating than ever before.



In Search of Isaiah Berlin A Literary Adventure Henry Hardy Henry Hardy is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College and Isaiah Berlin’s editor and literary trustee. He became Berlin's editor in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at the College). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full-time on Berlin since 1990 and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975–1997, coedited with Mark Pottle and Nicholas Hall) was published in September 2015 by Chatto.

August 2018 MS available Extent: 288 pages Images: 32 bw illustrations Biography, History, Philosophy

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

Berlin’s thought is especially topical today

One of the most revealing portraits of Isaiah Berlin, by the man who knew him best Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20 th century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today. But who was the man behind such influential philosophies? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decadeslong collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin’s huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who illuminated a new way of thinking about the world, yet whose own life has for so long remained in the shadows.


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

August 2018 MS available Extent: 256 pages Images: 10 illustrations Biography, American Literature

Major literary biography that will garner attention

Hemingway perennial seller and this will completely reassess him and his work

Bradford: established, award-winning biographer with track record

A ground-breaking new biography of the 20th century’s most iconic writer Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway’s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer’s private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingway’s oeuvre Hemingway’s unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.


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

September 2018 MS December 2017 Extent: 320 pages Images: 25 bw illustrations Biography, 20th Century History, Literature, Russia

Written by the world’s foremost authority on Teffi

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

The first biography on Teffi in any language Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia’s most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people – from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin – and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of War and Peace and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing – and enjoying comparable fame – until her death in 1952. Teffi’s best stories effortlessly shift from light humour and satire to pathos and even tragedy – ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile. In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi – who has recently been ‘rediscovered’ in the West to resounding acclaim – to life. Teffi’s life and works afford a unique panoramic view of the cultural world of early twentieth century Russia, from the debauchery of the Silver Age to the terror and euphoria of revolution, and of interwar Russian emigration. But they also offer fresh insights into the seismic events – from the 1905 Russian Revolution and World War II to life as a refugee – that she experienced first-hand and recreated in her vivid, penetrating, moving and witty writing.


Dark Star The Untold Story of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan

September 2018 MS Autumn 2017 Extent: 352 pages Images: 16pp b/w Biography, Film, History

New life of Vivien Leigh – one of C20 greatest actresses

Previously unseen sources and documents

Experienced author with good publicity contacts

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

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


Fashioning Indie Popular Fashion, Music and Gender Rachel Lifter Rachel Lifter is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on fashion and music and fashion and the body. She has published chapters in Fashion Cultures Revisited (2013) and Fashioning Professionals (2017). She has also taught at Pratt Institute, London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London.

April 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 256 pages Images: 20 images Fashion, Cultural Studies

Ethnographic analysis of indie summer music festivals, it examines the extremely popular practice of festival fashion, heretofore unexplored by fashion scholars

Contributes a new analysis of the construction of youth cultural identities

A cultural history, spanning from the early 1980s until the present day The independent – or indie – music scene emerged in the early 1980s, and was seen then as punk’s heir. When indie rocker Pete Doherty began a relationship with supermodel Kate Moss in 2005, indie was seen to have become mainstream. Its look – slender bodies clad in skinny jeans – had reached the height of popular fashion. This book charts transformations in indie music culture in the wake of its intersection with feminine popular fashion culture. It examines indie’s move out of the dank, underground venues of North London and onto the sunbaked fields of Coachella, California. It argues, moreover, that the ideal figure of indie has transformed from the slender, white, guitar-playing man into the ‘festival fashionista.’ Through this story and a related analysis of the second-hand retailer Beyond Retro, the book demonstrates more broadly how ‘authenticity’ and ‘individuality’ have come to underpin discursive, commercial and professional practices in 21st century popular fashion.


Veiling Fashion Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities Anna-Mari Almila Anna-Mari Almila is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Her research interests include cultural sociology of fashion, fashion and social theory, and sociology of wine. She is the editor of The Routledge International Research Companion to Veils and Veiling Practices.

April 2018 Draft ms available Extent: 256 pages Images: 10 bw illustrations Visual Culture, Middle East, Politics

How the veil features in Muslim women’s fashion consciousness

What the Hijab means in Muslim minorities an ongoing debate

Crosses fashion & material culture, sociology of religion, gender studies

A fresh understanding of the meaning and experience of Muslim dress in minority contexts Veiling in Fashion explores the worlds of women who wear the hijab, for reasons ranging from religious observance to making fashion statements. The book is based in participant observation among women, across generations, from Shi’a and Sunni, Somali, Iranian, Iraqi, Afghan communities living in Helsinki. The Finnish experience representative of Western European experiences in exhibiting common tensions between official policies open to migration and popular views that are virulently anti-immigrant. These women comprise a test-case of working, playing, being fashion consumers in these social and political spaces. Drawing upon a wide range of theoretical resources, it shows how veiling involves a complex mixture of phenomena, including the interplay of space and gender, diverse forms of material culture, and dynamics of globalization, trans-national migration and community-building. The book provides an innovative approach to studying veiling by connecting varied realms of practice: It shows how domains as apparently separate as fashion, materiality, city spaces, private life, religious beliefs, and cosmopolitan social conditions are all tightly bound up together in ways that only a sensitive multi-disciplinary approach can reveal.


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