I.B.TAURIS US RIGHTS GUIDE LBF 2018
Contents
Current Affairs, International Relations, Politics The Shadows of Myanmar by Poppy McPherson After the Genocide in Rwanda H. Grayson, N. Hitchcott, S. Joseph, L. Blackie Homegrown by A. Meleagrou-Hitchens & S. Hughes The Putin Phenomenon by Richard Sakwa Argentina’s Last Chance by David Smith March of the Moderates by Richard Carr Countering Violent Extremism by T. Abbas & M.S. Elshimi Reporting the Muslim Brotherhood by N. Jebril & M. Abunajela
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The Middle East The Great Betrayal by David L. Philips Folktales of Palestine by Farah Aboubakr The Eastern Frontier by Robert Haug Palestinian Refugees and International Diplomacy by Marte Heian-Engdal Women as Imams by Simonetta Calderini
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History Citadel of the Saxons by Rory Naismith Amazons by David Braund In Search of the Labyrinth by Nicoletta Momigliano Magic in Ancient Greece & Rome by Lindsay C. Watson Narrative in the Icelandic Sagas by Heather O’Donoghue The Hero Cults of Sparta by Nicolette Pavlides Building History and Memory in Ancient Rome by Siobhán Hargis Discovering Troy by Abigail Baker Publishing in Tsarist Russia by Yukiko Tatsumi & Taro Tsurumi Mrs Petrova’s Shoe by Wilhelm Agrell The Exit Visa by Sheila Rosenberg
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Visual Culture Conan Doyle’s Wide World by Andrew Lycett Roland Barthes and Film by Patrick ffrench Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema by Mario Slugan The Mummy on Screen by Basil Glynn All Men Must Die by Carolyne Larrington Mapplethorpe and the Flower by Derek Conrad Murray Wonder Woman by Joan Omrod Africa is the World by Eddie Chambers Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gorrill
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The Shadows of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and the Persecution of the Rohingya Poppy McPherson
October 2018 MS April 2018 Extent: 256 pages Current Affairs, Asia
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Poppy is one of the few journalists who has been on the ground since the beginning and has witnessed many of the atrocities herself
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Contains unique voices from the Rohingya people as well as beautifully written reportage
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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, first published by The Atlantic, won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for best article in 2015.
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest. Eloquent, educated in the West and clothed in white, there was worldwide adulation and celebration in 2015 when Kyi became the president of Myanmar as the military junta surprisingly stepped aside. But the real story was just beginning. While the international community focused on her appearances on the world-stage, framed as an icon of democracy and human rights, the persecution of the Rohingya – a minority Islamic community of almost a million in Myanmar – began to worsen. In 2017, as journalist Poppy McPherson travelled through the West of the country, she began to document an unprecedented increase in violence, extra-judicial killings and deportations. The UN have now declared the situation to be a genocide. The true story - of villages burnt to the ground, torture and the murder of Rohingya men and their families - is only now coming to light. Featuring harrowing frontline reporting from the Bangladesh border and Rakhine State - where most of the violence has taken place - this is a moving and powerful book about horror, devastation and the displacement of hope. This is a subject which will be increasingly in the international spotlight, as Ang Suu Kyi is stripped off many of her international accolades and has been publicly accused of enabling a genocide by the UN and many international governments.
After the Genocide in Rwanda Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconciliation Hannah Grayson, Nicki Hitchcott, Stephen Joseph and Laura Blackie (Eds)
January 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 224 pages International Relations & Politics, History, Trade
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Prolific author with much policy experience
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Based on interviews and previously unseen firsthand reporting
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Asks questions about US foreign policy priorities
Dr Hannah Grayson is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews on the AHRC-funded project ‘Rwandan Stories of Change’ www.rwandan.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk in partnership with the Aegis Trust. Pr Nicki Hitchcott is based in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Women Writers in Francophone Africa, and Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction After 1994. Pr Stephen Joseph is convenor of the Human Flourishing Research Group in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. He has published over 200 scientific papers and 10 books and is the author of What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth. Dr Laura Blackie is Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines how positive personality change can occur in the wake of significant trauma and adversity. In 1994, between April and July, up to one million Rwandan people were brutally killed in what is officially known as the Genocide against the Tutsi. This book gathers previously unpublished testimonies from individuals who lived through the genocide. These are the voices of those who experienced one of the most horrific events of the 20th Century. But their stories do not simply paint a picture of lives left destroyed and damaged, but also of healing relationships, reconciliation, resilience and reconstruction. This collection of testimonies to focuses specifically on positive change in the Rwandan storytellers themselves. Based on a wide range of perspectives—from both survivors and perpetrators, as well as unity and reconciliation groups, and rescuers—it contributes to developing a more comprehensive and up-to-date picture of what happened in Rwanda and how people’s identities have been changed by their experiences. This is a more personalized account of the genocide that is also more forward-looking rather that retrospective and political. It relates to the growth of interest in the fields of positive psychology and trauma studies. 3
Homegrown Islamist Terrorism in America Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Seamus Hughes
January 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 256 pages International Relations & politics, Current Affairs
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Features interviews with current and former jihadists
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New perspectives on threat of Islamist terrorism in America
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Two of the leading commentators on Islamist terrorism
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Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is Research Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. His PhD research focused on the impact of the Yemeni-American jihadist ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, providing an intellectual history of his ideological development and an analysis of his impact on the spread of global jihadist ideology in the West. The study is due to be published as a book by Harvard University Press in 2017. He has also advised European policymakers and police forces on counter-radicalization and regularly lectures a diverse range of audiences on this and related issues. Seamus Hughes is the Deputy Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. He is an expert on terrorism, homegrown violent extremism, and countering violent extremism (CVE). Hughes has authored numerous reports for the Program including ‘ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa’ and ‘The Threat to the United States from the Islamic State’s Virtual Entrepreneurs.’ He regularly provides commentary to media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, BBC, PBS, and CBS’ 60 Minutes. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions. How big a threat is Islamist terrorism in America? How many Americans have joined ISIS and how many want to return? Using first-hand interviews and detailed analysis of social media, this book, from two of America’s leading researchers on Islamist terrorism looks at the dynamics of Islamist terrorism in America. The idea is that it will be a US version of Radicalized which mainly focussed on Europe (albeit with some US-specific content). Using original research, it will be written in accessible, narrative style with plenty of stories and human interest.
The Putin Phenomenon Revealing the Real Face of Modern Russia Richard Sakwa
January 2019 MS April 2018 Extent: 352 pages Trade, International Relations & Politics
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From acclaimed Russia expert Richard Sakwa
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Unveils the true face of Putin’s presidency
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Based on extensive research
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests are Russian domestic and international politics, European international relations and comparative democratization. His recent books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession; Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia; Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair and Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands. What is the key to Putin’s success? Arguably, Russia’s President has become one of the outstanding political leaders of the twenty-first century. But he is also one of the most divisive. Abroad, there are sharply contrasting – and critical – perspectives on his role in Russian and international politics. His assertion of what he perceives to be Russia’s interests as a great power and his critique of the western-dominated international system have brought him into conflict with the Atlantic powers. At the same time, Putin is at the centre of emerging alternative forces, including the Eurasian Economic Union, the BRICS grouping of states and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Yet, despite international criticism, in domestic affairs Putin remains enormously popular. He has overseen an unprecedented rise in living standards and national income, and has enjoyed a run of favourable opinion polls. In this study, acclaimed Russia expert Richard Sakwa provides a nuanced perspective on The Putin Phenomenon, uncovering Putin’s personal and political development during his time in power. It is essential reading for those seeking an understanding of modern Russia
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Argentina’s Last Chance Macri and the New Politics in Buenos Aires David Smith
April 2019 MS October 2018 Extent: 272 pages Images: 8pp b&w plates Trade, International Relations & Politics
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Insider account of Mauricio Macri and his battle to save Argentina
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Based on first-hand interviews and direct observation
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Written by experienced journalist with track record and contacts
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David Smith is a British journalist based in Argentina. He was a Foreign Correspondent for Reuters, then ITN for 30 years, based in Spain, Italy, Africa, the Middle East, Moscow and Washington DC, from where he covered Argentina, especially in the 1990s and during the 2001 collapse. He then joined the United Nations, acting as an adviser to Kofi Annan, as head of UN’s Washington DC office, and then was Director of the UN in Buenos Aires, where he has lived for the past seven years. Educated at Oxford, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Michigan and Maryland. His previosu books include Mugabe: A Biography, Prisoners of God: The Modern Day Conflict of Arab and Jew, and Dream On: A Demi-Memoir. Mauricio Macri is the Emmanuel Macron of Latin America. A pragmatic former engineer and erstwhile Mayor of Buenos Aires, he is the first non-Radical/non-Peronist politician to be elected President of Argentina since 1916. His party Cambiemos (Let’s Change) is a centre-right coalition, a party mainly run by the elite business community, was founded in 2015, the same year he was elected president. His presidency has seen Argentina significantly clean up its corruption issues and open up to the world for the first time in decades, giving Argentina an opportunity to, once again, be a player on the international stage. Who is Macri, where does he come from and what does he want? Smith has negotiated insider access to Macri and his inner circle and this book will be based on first-hand interviews and direct observation. It will not be uncritical but it will provide the first and most comprehensive story of one of Latin America’s most interesting political figures. Macri, or his anointed successor (likely the current Governor of Buenos Aires – Maria Vidal), is likely to win the next presidential elections scheduled for autumn 2019.
March of the Moderates Clinton, Blair and the Inside Story of the Third Way Richard Carr
April 2019 MS August 2018 Extent: 336 pages Images: 16pp b&w section Trade, International Relations & Politics
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New anecdotes – from interviews and archives
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Plenty of political gossip
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New perspectives on successes (and failures) of Third War
Richard Carr is Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. He previously taught at UEA and was a byfellow at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. He has previously worked for think-tanks and has a PhD from UEA. He is the author of Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America, co-author of Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon, The Global 1920s, and Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War. The untold story of the transatlantic ‘Third Way’ – the many ways in which Blair and his team interacted with Clinton, Biden and the ‘New Democrats’ in the run-up to 1997 and beyond. This is as much a US story as a UK story. Richard Carr’s approach to the subject is going to be heavily anecdotal, with an emphasis on human interest, first-hand interviews and colourful ‘behind-the-scenes’ stories – see sample anecdotes in attached. The author is well-connected in the political arena (he used to work for think-tanks) and is keen to build a more active publicity profile.
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Countering Violent Extremism The International Deradicalisation Agenda Tahir Abbas and M.S Elshimi
April 2019 MS Nov 2018 Extent: 288 pages Images: 16pp b&w, 2 maps Trade, International Relations & Politics, Middle East
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Global perspectives
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Plenty of political gossip
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Highly topical issue
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Professor Tahir Abbas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at the Remarque Institute of New York University, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Institute for Religious Studies at Leiden University. Abbas has written for The Guardian, Times Higher Education, Prospect, openDemocracy, and New Internationalist among others. He is also Associate Editor of the quarterly magazine, Critical Muslim. His previous books include The Education of British South Asians Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics and Contemporary Turkey in Conflict. Dr M.S. Elshimi has a PhD from Exeter University and is the author of De-radicalisation in the UK Prevent Strategy.
This book looks at the different methods of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) adopted by different countries around the world. It takes a comparative, international approach but the chapters are structured thematically giving a more accessible approach. Tahir Abbas has been speaking and writing on CVE for a number of years and this book draws together his findings on the subject in an accessible format.
Reporting the Muslim Brotherhood Al Jazeera and the Politics of Journalism Nael Jebril and Mohammed-Ali Abunajela
April 2019 MS Oct 2018 Extent: 288 pages Images: 12 b&w International Relations & Politics, Middle East, Visual Culture
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New perspective on reporting the Muslim Brotherhood
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Politics of reporting the Middle East
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Arab Spring continues to be analyzed
Mohammed-Ali Abunajela is Senior Media and Communications Coordinator for the Middle East and Commonwealth Independent States at Oxfam GB, and former Communications Advisor at the BBC World Service in London. He holds a PhD degree in Media Studies from the University of Bedfordshire. For many years Abunajela worked in the Middle East with high profile international news and humanitarian organizations including; Oxfam International, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Amnesty International, AFP, and ARTE TV. Nael Jebril is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Bournemouth University, and former academic Fellow in Media and Democracy at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. He is co-recipient of the 2016 Goldsmith Book Prize by Harvard Kennedy School. Jebril is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is currently editor of a special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communications and Culture. This book looks at Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood before, during and after the Arab Uprisings of 2011. It uses detailed analysis of AJA news media and interviews with ten current and former AJA journalists to consider the positions adopted by AJA with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood. It will be important reading for scholars of journalism and news media as well as those interested in the Arab Uprisings and the contemporary politics of the Middle East.
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The Great Betrayal How America Abandoned an Ally in the Middle East David L. Philips
November 2018 MS available Extent: 224 pages Images: 16pp b&w plates Middle East, History, International Relations & Politics, Trade
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Prolific author with much policy experience
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Based on interviews and previously unseen firsthand reporting
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Asks questions about US foreign policy priorities
David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State. His previous publications include An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship; The Kurdish Spring and Losing Iraq. He writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs. Why does the United States repeatedly sell out the Kurds? The author and former US State Department advisor reveals the real crisis at the heart of current Middle East conflicts. The 20th century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq. Following the discovery of oil at Baba Gurgur in the 1920s, Kirkuk became a central priority for successive Iraqi rulers. In the 1970s and 1980s plans for Kirkuk to be the capital of an autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan were decimated by the Baathist regime’s Arabization programme which saw Arabs replacing the Kurds as the significant demographic majority. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. The Great Betrayal provides a political and diplomatic history of the Kirkuk region and its international relations from the 1920s to the present day. Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen sources, it provides an accessible account of a region at the very heart of America’s foreign policy priorities in the Middle East. In this book, David L. Phillips reveals the failings of America’s policies towards Kirkuk and the devastating effects of betraying an ally.
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Folktales of Palestine Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling Farah Aboubakr
Farah Aboubakr is a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also the course organiser for the MSc in Advanced Arabic. She completed her PhD in 2014 at the University of Manchester.
January 2019 MS July 2019 Extent: 320 pages History, Middle East
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The first study to touch on female Palestinian storytellers
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The first monograph to study the culture that surrounds Palestinian folktales and storytelling
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Storytelling and folktales are important means for Palestinians to strengthen, develop and articulate their cultural identity. And yet there has been remarkably little academic work on the topic. Via study of the folktales and the culture(s) surrounding them (the storytellers themselves, as well as the compilers of folktale anthologies and collections in both English and Arabic), the book will shed new light onto Palestinian cultural identity, as well as fields including memory, literary and cultural studies.
The Eastern Frontier Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia Robert Haug Robert Haug is Assistant Professor of History at the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, where he also runs the Middle East Studies programme. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and has published in peerreviewed journals and edited collections on medieval frontier regions.
January 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 352 pages Images: 10 b&w History, Middle East
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Draws on an extensive range of primary sources – from numismatics to local histories to archaeological data
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Focus on the region – what is today Central Asia, broadly speaking – in locally specific terms, rather than as part of grander narratives on the various empires
Transoxania, Khurāsān, and Ṭukhāristān – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the ‘eastern frontier’ in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasi-independent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions.
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Palestinian Refugees and International Diplomacy The Failed Politics of Repatriation and Resettlement after 1948 Marte Heian-Engdal
May 2019 MS Oct 2018 Extent: 288 pages Middle East, History, International
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Based on multiple international sources from the U.S, Israeli, UK and UN archives
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First comprehensive analysis of international efforts to solve the Palestinian refugee problem between 1948 and 1968
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The current refugee crisis facing the international community is deeply connected to the Palestinian refugee crisis
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Marte Heian-Engdal was recently awarded the Abba P. Schwartz Fellowship (2016) from the National Archives branch at the John F. Kennedy Library to carry out her research and her work has been published in internationally acclaimed journals, including: British Journal of Middle East Studies; Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier and Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. She is a frequent commentator in Norwegian news outlets (TV, radio and print) and writes a foreign policy column in the Norwegian daily Dagsavisen. After almost seventy years, the Palestinian refugee problem remains unsolved. But if a deal could have been reached involving the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, it was in the early years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. So why didn’t this happen? This book is the first comprehensive study of the international community’s earliest efforts to solve the refugee problem. Based on a wide range of international primary sources from Israeli, US, UK and UN archives, it presents new evidence to reveal the major proposals to solve the conflict between 1948 and 1968 and to understand why these failed. The book shows that the main actors involved – the Arab states, Israel, the US and the UN – agreed on very little when it came to the Palestinian refugee problem and therefore managed to produce very little for the Palestinians. Emerging most strongly in this new analysis is how the changing stances taken on the Palestinian issue– namely, whether it was seen as a humanitarian and practical problem, or a political problem – continually affected the progress that was made. The book highlights the changes and developments that took place in this period and reveals the limited influence that US policy makers had over Israel after its ascension to the UN.
Women as Imams Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer Simonetta Calderini Simonetta Calderini is a Reader in Islamic Studies for the Theology and Religious Studies Programme at the University of Roehampton. She has published numerous articles on the topic of women imams in publications such as Comparative Islamic Studies. She has a PHD in Islamic Studies from SOAS and has held a post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Oriental Institute at the University of Naples.
July 2019 MS December 2018 Extent: 224 pages History, International Relations & Politics, Trade
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Gives theological and historical perspective to a highly topical, controversial debate
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addresses wider questions on the role of women in Islam as a whole
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Uses a mix of contemporary and scriptural sources
Can a woman be the leader of Muslim congregational prayer? If so, could she be permitted to lead a mixed congregation, or women-only? Since the 9th Century, Islamic narratives about Umm Waraqa bint Nawfal, an early Medinan woman who was instructed by the Prophet Muhammad to lead the people of her household in prayer, have been variously interpreted to answer the very same questions. In 2005, Professor Amina Wadud made Islamic history as she led a mixed Friday prayer in New York City. Drawing on the Umm Waraqa hadiths and in the light of the media frenzy, praise and hard-line opposition which followed the Wadud event, Simonetta Calderini explores the controversy, validity and the prerequisites of women functioning as Imams. In recent years, media reports of women Imams throughout the world, in places such as Tamil Nadu and Uzbekistan, and the training of women preachers in Syria, Morocco and Malaysia have become increasingly frequent and, as a result, have caused widespread debate amongst scholars and clerics. Looking back at medieval laws which provide historic-textual precedents on the question of female ritual leadership, and looking ahead to present day initiatives such as “The Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in Mosques”, this book examines the permissibility of the practice of women Imams and provides an original and much needed view on a significant modern phenomenon. Calderini analyses modern events alongside historical hadiths and laws to shed light on a highly topical debate whose outcome will inevitably shape the lives of future generations of Muslim women. 15
Citadel of the Saxons The Rise of Early London Rory Naismith
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Medieval British History at King’s College London. His earlier books include Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, which won the Best First Book Prize of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists in 2013.
November 2018 MS Available Extent: 256 pages Images: 16pp b&w plates Medieval History, Social & Cultural History
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Ties into and exploits considerable current interest in and enthusiasm for the Anglo-Saxons
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First popular treatment of Anglo-Saxon and early medieval London
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Peter Ackroyd meets Alfred the Great: brings to life the great metropolis as it fought off the Vikings
Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fourth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city’s phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings, is still virtually unknown. Rory Naismith here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today’s metropolis, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as bulwark against the Danes and pivotal English citadel.
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Amazons The Legendary Warrior Women of Antiquity David Braund David Braund is Professor of Black Sea History at the University of Exeter. His many books include Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola and Classical Olbia and the Scythian World: From the Sixth Century BC to the Second Century AD.
December 2018 MS May 2018 Extent: 224 pages Images: 16pp b&w plates Classics & Ancient History, Mythology, Religion
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Popular history of the Amazons in print
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David Braund is the leading authority writing in English on the subject: this book is long-awaited
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Plenty of new insights and discoveries
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The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. The Greeks were fascinated by the notion of a race of fierce female fighters: pitiless battles between the Athenians and Amazons echo through the Archaic period. In his vibrant new book, David Braund shows how these lithe warriors captivated moderns as well as ancients, unleashing, with their deadly arrows, a myth so powerful that from the medieval and Renaissance eras to the present it held its recipients spellbound. Deftly traversing art, literature and culture, he discusses Homer’s Penthesilea, combative sister of Hippolyta the Amazon Queen, cut down by Achilles beneath the walls of Troy. He examines Herodotus’ andoktrones – ‘killers of men’ – situated in the region bordering Scythia (Crimea) in Sarmatia; Aeschylus’ Scythian Amazons; and those placed by other classical writers in Pontus by the shores of the Euxine Sea. He then explores portrayals by Virgil, Chaucer, Ariosto and Mary Renault – who writes lyrically of the Amazons as muscular moon-maids of Artemis. Finally, he looks at the basis of the legend in history, locating in recent archaeology a reality as surprising and evocative as any fiction told through story or myth.
In Search of the Labyrinth The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete Nicoletta Momigliano
Nicoletta Momigliano is Reader in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Bristol. A leading figure in Mediterranean Bronze Age studies, her previous books include Knossos: A Labyrinth of History, Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’, Knossos Pottery Handbook and Bronze Age Carian Iasos.
February 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 240 pages Images: 40 b&w Classics & Ancient History, Mythology, Religion
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The first complete history of Minoan reception
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Senior author internationally known and celebrated for her work on Crete and the Minoans
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Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary appeal to scholars of classics, archaeology, art history & literature
When Heinrich Schliemann carried out his famous excavations at Troy and Mycenae he seemed also to be giving mythical Homeric heroes like Agamemnon historical flesh, blood and bone. But arguably it was the sensational discoveries in the early twentieth century of Sir Arthur Evans and other archaeologists on Crete that more completely revolutionized understandings of prehistory. The ancient civilization Evans found on the island was dubbed ‘Minoan’, after the legendary King Minos; and ever since – whether they be RG Collingwood or Gordon Childe, Giorgio de Chirico or Pablo Picasso, Robert Graves or Mary Renault – classicists, archaeologists, artists and writers have alike been captivated by the Minoans. From appropriations by European intellectuals to feminist identifications with the Mother Goddess, Nicoletta Momigliano here offers the most complete history of the rediscovery of Minoan culture and its reception from Evans to the present day. She situates Bronze Age Crete and its material remains in a broad intellectual context, exploring in depth the enduring imaginative legacy of the Minoan civilization.
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Magic in Ancient Greece & Rome The Sorcery and Divination of Classical Antiquity Lindsay C. Watson Lindsay C. Watson is Honorary Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. His previous books include Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity, Martial: Select Epigrams, A Commentary on Horace’s Epodes, Juvenal: Satire 6 and Martial (in the I.B.Tauris ‘Understanding Classics’ series).
February 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 288 pages Images: 20 b&w Classics & Ancient History, Mythology, Religion
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Needed, overdue, holistic treatment of ancient magic (Greece + Rome)
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Written by a senior professor and foremost expert on ancient magical texts
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Fresh perspectives that will ensure undergraduate and general appeal
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Ancient magic was not an abstract thing, used to propitiate the gods or explore some arcane esoteric principle. It was visceral. It was often intended to render harm. It was about obtaining tangible results, whether redress, love, sexual satisfaction, justice or murder. As Lindsay Watson shows – in this first comprehensive survey in English of classical sorcery – spellworking in antiquity was above all pragmatic. ‘May he not enjoy his kingdom or the days he longed for, but let him die before his time and lie unburied in the sand’ (Aeneid Book IV). When the doomed Dido hurled these bitter words at Aeneas (departing Trojan prince, betrayer and former object of her love), Virgil’s rapt audience would have recognized the dramatic intent of a curse intended to produce a destructive outcome. The author shows magic to have been a practical philosophy, woven into the very fabric of everyday classical life and living. Concentrating on four key areas – curse magic, love spells, animal divination and the relationship of literary texts to day-to-day magic – he here explores the whole gamut of antique magical activity.
Narrative in the Icelandic Sagas Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature Heather O’Donoghue
February 2019 MS July 2018 Extent: 272 pages Images: 16 b&w History, Literary Studies, Folklore, Religion & Myth
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A big, important new book on the structure, ideas and narrative voice of the Icelandic Sagas
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Author is one of the foremost interpreters of Old Norse literature and culture
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Offers many significant new perspectives on the meanings and significance of the Saga narratives
Heather O’Donoghue is Professor of Old Norse in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. One of the foremost authorities on Old Norse literature and culture, her previous books include The Genesis of a Saga Narrative: Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga; Old Norse Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction; Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative; From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (IBT); and English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History. She has also broadcast with the BBC on the topic of the Norse Gods. The Icelandic Sagas rank among the greatest works of world literature. Representative of a unique literary genre, and composed in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, they tell of earlier people and of events which supposedly took place in Iceland in the period between its settlement in 870 and conversion to Christianity in the year 1000. Often called the ‘family sagas’ – and from which the giants, dragons and magic of the Eddas are conspicuous by their absence – they reflect a real-world society in transition, grappling with major new challenges of identity and development. Heather O’Donoghue examines the singular textual voice of the Sagas while also exploring their important underlying ideas about the passage of time. Deploying modern narrative theory, especially that of Paul Ricoeur (as well as perspectives from St Augustine), she brings fresh and lively insights to what are arguably the most important foundation documents of the Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage. Her book is an essential discussion of the luminous transmitted oral tradition of a migratory people and of an iconic canon of Western culture.
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The Hero Cults of Sparta Religion and Private Worship in a Greek Polis Nicolette Pavlides Nicolette Pavlides is an assistant professor at University College Cork in Ireland. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on hero-cults and religion in Sparta.
March 2019 MS Nov 2018 Extent: 320 pages Images: 20 b&w History, Russian Studies
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First dedicated study of the massively popular and widespread hero cults at Sparta
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Hero-cults in ancient Greece were often a local phenomenon – that is, a hero was usually worshipped in a polis to which they were directly connected by myth. Nicolette Pavlides here capitalises on this phenomenon to explore the unique religious practices of citizens in ancient Sparta and, in the process, challenge numerous common scholarly misconceptions surrounding their habits of worship. Pavlides draws on a wealth of evidence from shrine sites, votive dedications, archaeological findings and literary sources, to demonstrate that hero-cults in the city-state were continually introduced, altered and influenced by various political and societal dynamics. Daily and localised experiences across the cults of Helen and Menelaos, Hyakinthos, Orestes and Chilon, along with many others, illustrate the fluidity of the boundaries between the divine, the heroic and the mortal in Sparta. This, the first study of the form and function of hero-cults in Sparta from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods (roughly 800–31 BC), is essential reading for all scholars of ancient Greek myth and religion.
Building History and Memory in Ancient Rome The Campus Martius and the Formation of Identity Siobhán Hargis Dr. Siobhán Hargis is a Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, and was previously a Senior Tutor for Classics at University College Dublin. She holds a PhD in Roman Archaeology from TCD, on which this book is based.
March 2019 MS November 2018 Extent: 320 pages Images: 20 b&w Classics, Social & Cultural History
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Uses the archaeological record to understand creation of history, memory and identity in ancient Rome, so appeals to archaeologists and classicists
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Sheds new light on one of the most studied and important areas of ancient Rome
The Campus Martius was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about two square kilometres in size. In the fifth century BC, it was an open space between the city and the Tiber, where Romans gathered for festivals and to be counted for the census. Eventually, however, structures were built there for military training, religious worship, commemoration, entertainment, leisure and commerce. The book will cover the development of the Campus Martius from the foundation of the city to the mid-2nd century AD. (Ending with Antoninus Pius, because his successors changed relatively little in the Campus Martius for the next hundred years, until the Aurelian Walls were constructed in 276 AD, finally incorporating the area into the city proper). A central argument of the book is that the Campus Martius was far more important in the early development of Roman identity, communal memory and history-making than has been thought.
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Discovering Troy Schliemann and the Reinvention of Homer’s Ancient City Abigail Baker Abigail Baker has a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, 2006-08) and a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of London. She was Assistant Curator at the Knossos Stratigraphic Museum (Crete) from 2013 to 2014.
June 2019 MS December 2018 Extent: 272 pages Images: 40 b&w History, Literary Studies, Folklore, Religion & Myth
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First monograph to assess in full the impact of Schliemann’s discovery many new perspectives on Schliemann and the discipline of archaeology
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Offers many significant new perspectives on the meanings and significance of the Saga narratives
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Concentrates on wider questions about how the reception of and debate around the Trojan objects displayed there (dubbed ‘Priam’s Treasure’: a now famous cache of gold, silver and copper artefacts and jewellery) helped to shape a new public conception of the ancient world. Dr Baker will reflect on the origins and role of art even as she engages with the relationship between ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’ civilizations and how mythology can change ideas of history as well as of archaeology (leading to the rise of weird theories about human origins as well as what she calls ‘pseudoarchaeologies’). The author argues that Schliemann’s ‘discovery’ of Troy (via detective and spadework and – a great deal more controversially – dynamite), and the objects that he brought to light, were crucial in shaping the excitement and controversy over Troy. Schliemann continues to loom large in discussions about the way in which mythic cities become ‘real’ in the popular imagination, whether in formal museum exhibitions or the afterlives they assume.
Publishing in Tsarist Russia A History of Print Media from Enlightenment to Revolution Yukiko Tatsumi and Taro Tsurumi (Eds)
June 2019 MS Dec 2019 Extent: 288 pages Images: 8 b&w History, Russian Studies
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A revisionist account of publishing in the Russian Empire
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Chimes with general historiographical developments in the field
Yukiko Tatsumi is a lecturer at the Institute of Global Studies, University of Tokyo. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections in Japanese, Russian and English and is a regular feature at international Slavic studies conferences. Taro Tsurumi is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. He has published a monograph in Japanese on Jews in the late Russian Empire (University of Tokyo Press) and contributed to journals and edited collections in Japanese and English. He is also regular feature at international Slavic studies conferences.
Benedict Anderson’s theory of ‘print capitalism’ asserts that the rapid expansion of print media in the late eighteenth century standardised national languages and popularised knowledge of national history, geography, ethnicity and culture, the result being the emergence of nation-states at the expense of the old empires. The main study of publishing in the Russian Empire partially relies on Anderson’s theory to understand the dynamics of print media production and consumption under Romanov rule. Since then, however, Imperial Russian historiography has moved away from considering the empire as trying, and failing, to become a nation-state to seeing it as – in many ways – successfully and flexibly operating and managing its large, diverse population. This edited collection draws on this revisionist trend and considers the history of print media in the Russian Empire anew. Contributions, ranging from the 18th to the 20th century and focusing on a variety of geographic, ethnic and thematic areas, demonstrate that the press in the Russian language can be seen repeatedly to have worked within the structure of the Russian Empire, in some cases even strengthening rather than undermining the old order. 25
Mrs Petrova’s Shoe The True Story of a KGB Defection Wilhelm Agrell
Wilhelm Agrell is Professor of Intelligence Analysis at Lund University and guest professor at the Swedish National Defence College. He is a well-known writer and historian in his native Sweden.
January 2019 MS available Extent: 256 pages Images: 8pp plates History, Cold War, International Relations & Politics
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Cold War intrigues – spy stories always fascinating
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The Petrov Affair was one of the most intriguing stories of the Cold War era – the defection of Vladimir and the subsequent dramatic scenes at Sydney Airport as Evdokia was frog-marched to her plane to Moscow by KGB agents (until PM Menzies intervened and she was, after much drama, allowed to remain in Australia) has provided some of the most iconic images of the era. Agrell’s book sheds new light on the affair – looking especially at the role of Evdokia (who Agrell describes as a ‘bigger catch’ than her husband, with access to hordes of intelligence information) and utilising new sources from Vladimir’s previous job in Sweden (where he was based 19431947) which have not previously been seen. His books will introduce the story to a new readership whilst providing new perspectives for those familiar with Cold War intrigues.
The Exit Visa A Family’s Journey Through Wartime Europe Sheila Rosenberg
Sheila Rosenberg was a teacher of English Literature and English as a Second Language. She is a Trustee of the Toni Schiff Memorial Fund. She received an OBE in 2011 for her contribution to ESOL teaching.
January 2019 MS available Extent: 264 pages Images: 15 b&w History, Holocaust Studies
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Unique Holocaust story
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This is the rather wonderful but devastating story of Toni and Hilda Schiff, a mother and daughter separated at the height of World War II. Hilda, the daughter, was saved by the UK Kindertransport programme and her father managed to escape to neutral Switzerland whilst her mother stayed behind in Vienna from where she travelled to join family in Belgium (neutral until occupied by the Germans in 1940). Hilda’s father, Moses, managed to get Toni an Entry Visa into Switzerland and she got as far as the Franco-Swiss border (where she could see her husband on the other side) but she didn’t have the requisite Exit Visa to leave Vichy France and just 9 days later she was transported to Auschwitz. In the 1980s Hilda resolved to find out what had happened to her mother and made several trips across Europe to trace her mother’s wartime journey. Her research has been put together by Sheila Rosenberg to form a continuous narrative and the book will be sponsored by the Toni Schiff Memorial Fund and supported by the Wiener Library.
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Conan Doyle’s Wide World The Travels that Inspired Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett
January 2019 MS Available Extent: 256 pages Images: 10 b&w Literature, Travel
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Conan Doyle has a huge following
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Reveals the unknown side of this household name
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Over 400 Sherlock Holmes societies worldwide significant promotional opportunities
Andrew Lycett is a writer and broadcaster who has written acclaimed biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. The last of these was described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'hugely enjoyable' and 'impeccably researched', while the Sunday Times dubbed it 'undoubtedly the best account of Doyle'. As a journalist, Lycett has contributed regularly to The Times, Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Geographical Society.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world’s greatest detective; he was also an intrepid traveller – and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures - which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between - are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place. Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.
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Roland Barthes and Film Photography, Myth and Leaving the Cinema Patrick ffrench Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King's College London, where he teaches and researches twentieth-century French literature, thought and film. He is the author of After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community, The Cut: Reading Bataille's Story of the Eye and The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel. He is also the co-editor, with Roland-François Lack, of The Tel Quel Reader.
January 2019 MS May 2018 Extent: 256 pages Images: 15 b&w Film Studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies
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Examines the place of cinema within the work of Roland Barthes
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A reassessment of the work of Roland Barthes, arguing for the surprising yet integral influence of cinema on his philosophy of photography, myth and culture
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Provides close analysis of Barthes’ important works related to cinema and to the image
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Roland Barthes maintained a resistant stance to cinema throughout his writings. He was wary of what he called the spectator’s ‘sticky’ adherence to the screen. Falling into a hypnotic trance, an audience supposedly becomes susceptible to ideology and ‘myth’. Patrick ffrench here reveals the comparatively unexamined influence of cinema on Barthes’ works, focusing particularly on the essays ‘The Third Meaning’, ‘On Leaving the Cinema’ and his acclaimed book Camera Lucida. Despite Barthes’ cautious and mistrustful relationship to film, ffrench provides proof of his deep engagement with it and draws out a persistent interest in particular films and directors. Barthes’ thought was, in fact, punctuated by the experience of watching films – from Fellini and Antonioni, to Eisenstein, the Marx Brothers and Hitchcock – and in turn his philosophy of photography, culture, semiotics, ethics and theatricality have proved immensely important for film theory. ffrench argues that although Barthes found pleasure in ‘leaving the cinema’ – disconnecting from its dangerous allure by a literal exit or by forcefully breaking your own trance – Barthes found value in coming back to the screen anew. Barthes thus delved underneath the pull of a progressing narrative and the moving nature of the image, by becoming attentive to space and material aesthetics. ffrench here presents an invaluable reassessment of one of the most original and subtle thinkers of the twentieth-century: a figure indebted to the movies
Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema A New Film History Mario Slugan Mario Slugan is Postdoctoral Associate Fellow in the Department of Film & Television Studies, University of Warwick. He is also the Managing Editor of the peer-reviewed journal APPARATUS: Film, Media & Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe.
February 2019 MS April 2018 Extent: 336 pages Images: 30 b&w Visual Culture, Film Studies
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An examination of the attitudes towards cinema in its early years and the role of imagination in this approach to cinema
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Uses a wealth of archival research from the time of cinema’s origins
When watching the latest installment of Batman, it is perfectly normal to say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne making love to Miranda Tate. We hardly say that we see Christian Bale dressed up as Batman going through the motions of punching Tom Hardy dressed up us Bane. Nor do we say that we see Christian Bale pretending to be Bruce Wayne simulating intercourse with Marion Cotillard who is playacting to be Miranda Tate. But if we look at the history of cinema and consider the contemporary reviews from around 1900 we will see that people said precisely what we nowadays would raise our eyebrows at. They spoke of film as no more than documentational recordings of actors performing on set. By innovatively combining philosophical aesthetics and new cinema history, this book investigates how our default imaginative engagement with film changed over the first two decades of cinema. It elucidates not only the importance of imagination for the understanding of early cinema but also contributes to our understanding of what it means for a representational medium to produce fictions. Specifically, it argues that cinema provides a better model for understanding fiction than literature.
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The Mummy on Screen Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema Basil Glynn Dr Basil Glynn is Lecturer in Film and Television at Middlesex University, London, where he is also the Programme Leader for the BA in Television Production. As well as co-editing Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations, he has written numerous articles and chapters including one for Reading Asian Television Drama.
February 2019 MS April 2018 Extent: 240 pages Images: 15 b&w Film Studies
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Looks at historic attitudes towards ‘the East’ through film
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Covers a wide span of film history with particular attention to key eras e.g. the silent era and ‘70s Hammer horror
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There are books on vampires abound, and there is plenty of literature demonstrating a zeal for zombies, but where are the studies of the mummy figure in the horror genre? This book promises to delve into the history of the mummy on American and British film screens, from the initial silent film period, through to its recurrent appearance in ‘30s and ‘40s Universal Studios features, and onwards to 1970s Hammer horror fun. The author argues that the mummy is pivotal to understanding popular attitudes towards ‘the Orient’ across time, and brings much-needed attention to an enduring ‘monster’ of the cinema.
All Men Must Die Lethal Love and Fatal Attraction in Game of Thrones Carolyne Larrington Carolyne Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford. Her bestselling exploration of the medieval ideas and inspirations behind Game of Thrones was likewise published by I.B.Tauris in 2015, under the title Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones.
April 2019 MS Oct 18 Extent: 272 pages Images: 40 halftone illustrations Visual Culture, TV, Fantasy & Myth, Medieval History, Literary Studies
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Authoritative: Larrington now seen as a sure and reliable GoT guide
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Original, insightful and revealing: puts entirely new perspectives on the show and its characters
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An essential reading for all fans of Game of Thrones
‘All men must die’: or ‘Valar Morghulis’, as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered into High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome ways; and often in pain, terror and ordure within the bloodspattered and viciously unpredictable world that is HBO’s sensational evocation of Game of Thrones. Epic in scope and in imaginative breadth, the stories that the show has brought to life, across eight seasons and 74 hours of programming, tell of the dramatic rise and fall of nations, the brutal sweeping away of old orders and the advent of new autarchs in their eternal quest for dominion. Yet within these grand landscapes, as Carolyne Larrington divulges, may be found more intimate narratives of love and passion as well as of death – tales that focus on strong relationships between women as well as among the ‘cripples, bastards and broken things’, as George R R Martin describes his anti-heroes. In this vital follow-up to her earlier Winter is Coming, the author explores themes of power, bloodkin, lust and sex in order to put entirely fresh meanings on the show of the century.
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Mapplethorpe and the Flower Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control Derek Conrad Murray
February 2019 MS August 2018 Extent: 224 pages Images: 50 b&w Visual Culture, Art History, Photography, Gender Studies, Gay Studies,
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First book specifically about flower photographs.
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Mapplethorpe continual source of fascination.
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Derek Conrad Murray is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the junctures of AfricanAmerican and African diasporic art, post-black art and aesthetics, cultural theory, identity, and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals of contemporary art and visual culture, including American Art, Art in America, Art Journal, Third Text, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art where he currently serves as associate editor. Vast tracts of criticism have been devoted to Robert Mapplethorpe’s infamous persona as a sexual outlaw and to his more notorious photographs, especially his S and M imagery. In Mapplethorpe and the Flower, Derek Conrad Murray refocuses this critical gaze and produces the first book-length examination of the artist’s flower photographs. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated and disciplined formalist, who was committed to identifying what was most beautiful about his subject and whose precise and controlled photography belied his permissive public image. In this book, Murray offers the exciting interpretation that the flower images represent the apogee of Mapplethorpe’s marriage of formal sophistication with his own conceptual bravado. He thus allows for a provocative new reading of this fascinating artist, which challenges the myth that has grown around him.
Wonder Woman Feminism, Culture and the Body Joan Omrod
Dr Joan Ormrod is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests are in the intertwining of culture and mass media, including body theory and superheroes, narratives, form and time in the media, fantasy and narrative, comics and gender and subcultures and audiences.
February 2019 MS August 2018 Extent: 240 pages Images: 15 b&w Visual Culture, Cultural & Media Studies
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Comics Studies has seen a boom in academic interest with a growing number of higher education courses dealing with comics.
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None of the previous books about Wonder Woman deal with the post Marston comics in any detail
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Builds upon popularity of forthcoming Marvel and DC film starring Gal Gardot
Wonder Woman is seventy-five years old this year and Wonder Woman: Feminism, Culture and the Body analyses the discourses that construct bodies in key moments of her history from the early 1940s to the present. The processes that construct these changes are evident in Wonder Woman narratives and imagery from the good girl art of the 1940s, to the cheesecake of the fifties, the kick-ass feminist version of second wave feminism, to the big haired Goddess of the 1980s, the silicone-breasted hyperbolic nineties body, to the violent gym-toned Amazon body of more recent times to the multiplicities of Wonder Woman bodies in a postmedia culture. Despite fascinating stories and villains in the comics, the comics do not sell well. Before the late 1990s when she appeared in DC animated films, she was regularly featured only in two television shows, ABC’s Saturday morning animation Super Friends (1973-85) and Lynda Carter’s, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman that ran for three seasons (1975-79). Most people know Wonder Woman through the Lynda Carter series, merchandising, fantasy dress up/cosplay and cultural quoting. Yet, despite a lack of wider cultural saturation of the character, Wonder Woman is an icon of feminism and the most famous superheroine.
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Africa is the World Writings on Diaspora Eddie Chambers Eddie Chambers is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches art history of the African Diaspora. Having first been an artist, he spent the early 1980s working with a new generation of BlackBritish artists and went on to curate many exhibitions. He is the author of Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s and Roots and Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain, both of which were published by I.B.Tauris.
April 2019 MS Oct 18 Extent: 272 pages Images: 40 halftone Visual Culture, Art, African Studies
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Author is recognised as an authority on art of African Diaspora due to artistic, curatorial and academic experience
Africa is the Wold brings together a selection of writings by Eddie Chambers, published in a variety of publications, over the course of a decade and a half, from circa 2000 onwards together with four new texts. The book will in many respects provide an important and much needed overview of the practices of a number of important contemporary artists of the African Diaspora, as well as presenting a range of arguments and opinions relating to the ways in which Black artists’ work is exhibited, taught, and reflected on. As such, the book is intended to be a valuable resource for university professors and college lecturers whose classes touch on or focus on art history and visual culture of the African Diaspora. World is Africa will also be invaluable to students and researchers working in the fields of emerging disciplines of cultural studies, art history and visual culture, particularly where/when such subjects embrace or reflect the practices of contemporary Black artists. In sum, the book will critically reflect on the continuing emergence and quest for visibility for Black artists, over a period of the best part of two decades.
Women Can’t Paint Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art Helen Gorrill Helen Gorrill was formerly an associate lecturer in art history and semiotics at Coventry University. She has an extensive background in multi-disciplinary fine art research and her own artwork is digitally archived by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She has also exhibited worldwide.
May 2019 MS Nov 2018 Extent: 256 pages Images: 35 b&w Visual Culture, Art History, Photography, Gender Studies
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Discusses how an artist’s gender significantly impacts upon their artwork’s various values
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Introduces a new metatheory of ‘androgynous aesthetics’ to the field, arguing gender inequality may be the cause of this paradigm shift
In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that ‘women don’t paint very well’. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are few aesthetic differences in men and women’s painting, but that men’s art is valued at up to 80 per cent more than women’s. Indeed, the power of masculinity is such that when men sign their work it goes up in value, yet when women sign their work it goes down. Museums, she attests, are also complicit in this vicious cycle as they collect tokenist female artwork which impinges upon its artists’ market value. An essential text for students and teachers, Gorrill’s book is provocative and challenges existing methodologies whilst introducing shocking evidence. She proves how the price of being a woman impacts upon all forms of artistic currency, be it social, symbolic, cultural or economic and in the vanguard of the ‘Me Too’ movement calls for the artworld to take action.
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