I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE London Book Fair 2017

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Society, International Relations, Politics Kingdom of Women by Choo Waihong China’s Borderlands by Steven Parham Rules by Paul Lever Europe’s Relations with North Africa by Adam Fawaz Yousef Journalism and the NSA Revelations by Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, Adrienne Russell and Dmitry Yagodin (Eds) Online Activism in the by Jon Nordenson The UAE by William Gueraiche , No Exit by Denis MacShane The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay Destroying a Nation by Nikolaos Van Dam Chasing the Chinese Dream by Nick Holdstock Finding Eden by Robin Hanbury–Tenison Why Again? by Stephen F. Cohen Frontline Turkey by Ezgi Basaran Backlist

History, Religion Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner Talleyrand in London by Linda Kelly British POWs and by Russell Wallis Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World by Charles Tieszen The Croatian Spring by Ante Batovic The First Mapping of America by Alex Johnson Kennedy and the Middle East by Antonio Perra by Spyridon Plakoudas The Korean Diaspora in Post-War Japan by Myung Ja Kim You Win or You Die by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov A Forgotten Man by Geoffrey Elliott The Riviera at War by George G. Kundahl The Tsar’s Armenians by Onur Önol The Women Who Built the Ottoman World by Muzaffer Ozgules Young Lothar by Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith Dharma by Veena R. Howard Fighting Proud by Stephen Bourne A History of Stability and Change in Lebanon by Joseph Bayeh The Makers of Modern Syria by Sami Moubayed The Reporting of Genocide by David Patrick Stalin’s Maverick Spy by Hamish MacGibbon The Myth of Hero and Leander by Silvia Montiglio Religion in the Roman World by Juliette Harrisson Building Stalinism by Cynthia Ruder Corinth in Late Antiquity by Amelia Brown Inferno by Margaret Kean Iran and the West by Margaux Whiskin (Ed) Jane Austen’s England by Anne-Marie Edwards Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England by Francis Young The Special Operations Executive (SEO) in Burma by Richard Duckett The Old Believers in Imperial Russia by Peter De Simone Embracing the Darkness by John Callow Backlist Series

Architecture, Art, Media, Culture

Dressing for Austerity by Geraldine Biddle-Perry Rebuilding Babel by Mark Crinson The Dead City Paul Dobraszcyk Feminism and Art History Now by Victoria Horne, Laura Perry (Eds) The Jazz War by Will Studdert Fascism and Resistance in 1970s Italian Film by Dominic Hubert Gavin Craft on Demand by Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch (Eds) Death in the Desert by Howard Hughes Positive Images by Dion Kagan Backlist Series

Society International Relations Politics Kingdom of Women Life, Love and Death in China’s Mountains Choo Waihong

Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.

`A crisp account by a high powered Singaporean lawyer of how she renounced her former life of February 2017 fifteen hour working days in a male dominated corporate world to find her feminist soul in the last 256 pages matriarchal ethnic group remaining in China. Full of 30 illustrations insights and touching descriptions, this is one of the most accessible and concrete descriptions of the Approx. 75,000 words Mosuo, a group more analysed than understood, World rights available putting the humanity of this tribe at the forefront of their identity.' - Kerry Brown, author of CEO China => Society, China, and The New Emperors History

In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little  The first and only book on the in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal Mosuo tribe societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest  A truly fascinating account of one with the Mosuo women, who live completely of the world's last matrilineal independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, societies with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose  Written beautifully, highly their own lovers from men within the tribe but are promotable story beholden to none. Choo Waihong is the only non-Mosuo to have ever lived with the tribe. She tells the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction. China’s Borderlands The Faultline of Central Asia Steven Parham

Steven Parham spent a year travelling through the borderlands of Central Asia and recording what he saw. He is Associate Researcher in Ethnography at the University of Bern and a Post-Doctoral Researcher on Central Asia at the University of Tampere in Finland. He has lectured around the world, including at universities in Turkey and in Budapest.

February 2017 ‘Illuminating… an invaluable insight’ - Nick Holdstock 304 pages

2 maps As China begins its momentous New Silk Road project and expands its influence into Central Asia, Approx. 100,000 words the borderlands between China, Tajikistan and World rights available Kyrgyzstan have become sites of ethnic tension and political struggle. This region – which marks the => Politics, China, Russia meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia – is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised ‘Silk Road’ sense of fraternity. As Steven Parham shows, many of the world’s  Appeal to Russia, China and Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable Central Asia markets and, in the end, impermanent. Meanwhile, the looming presence of Modern China and Russia,  Economics of these bordelands who are funnelling money and military resources increasingly important in the into the region – partly to fight what they see as a study of Modern China growing Islamic activism – are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical, intelligent book functions as part travelogue, part sociological exploration, and is  Ground-Breaking Research based on a unique body of research – five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive, as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas – as well as in Xinjiang – China’s borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future. Berlin Rules Europe and the German Way Paul Lever

Sir Paul Lever KCMG is a retired former British ambassador. Over the course of a long diplomatic career, his posts included assistant Under- Secretary at the FCO 1992–94; chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee 1994–96; Director for EU and Economic Affairs at the FCO 1996–97; and Ambassador to 1997–2003. After his retirement from the diplomatic service, he was Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Lever was appointed CMG in 1991 and knighted KCMG in 1998.

March 2017 New insights into Germany’s role as the dominant player in Europe. 288 pages

Approx. 90,000 words In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and World rights available economic power in Europe – and in the EU. Yet => Current Affairs, Germany’s leadership of the EU is geared Politics, European principally to the defence of German national Studies interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world. Beyond that there is no underlying vision or purpose. In this book, former British ambassador to Germany Paul Lever provides a unique insight into modern  New perspective on post-Brexit Germany. He shows how Germany’s history has future of Europe influenced its current economic and social development and provides important perspectives on Germany’s future political and cultural growth,  Strong interest in Europe in the especially in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis aftermath of the EU referendum which saw over 1 million refugees offered a home in Germany. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, this book will be essential reading  Important perspective into and suggests the future shape of a Germany- debates on the future of Europe dominated Europe. Europe’s Relations with North Africa Politics, Economics and Security Adam Fawaz Yousef

Adam Fawaz Yousef is a political economist who specialises in the economics of the European Union, political economy and economic development. He has acted as an economic advisor to a variety of governmental and non- governmental organisations in Europe and North America.

March 2017 New framework for understanding European relations with North Africa. 320 pages

Approx. 100,000 words The rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has World rights available reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean => International relations. Since 1995 these relations have operated Relations, Politics, under the auspices of the Barcelona Process, which Economics laid the foundations for three initiatives that define European policy towards neighbouring states: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and the Union for the Mediterranean This book scrutinises these initiatives through a socioeconomic prism. Adam Yousef reviews how  Socio-economic perspective on appropriate these initiatives have been in European relations with North promoting socioeconomic development in North Africa African states, projects the long-term implications of these policies and investigates whether they can reduce the gap in social outcomes across the  New perspective on EU’s Mediterranean Basin over time. Using Morocco as a Barcelona Process case study, this book employs a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative and quantitative data as well as economic theory. It reveals not only  Identifies successes and failures of that the Barcelona Process has had a limited impact EU policy towards Morocco on promoting social outcomes in Morocco, but crucially that it is also unlikely to do so in the future, suggesting a new approach may be required. Journalism and the NSA Revelations Privacy, Security and the Press Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, Adrienne Russell and Dmitry Yagodin (Eds)

Risto Kunelius is Professor of Journalism at the University of Tampere; Heikki Heikkilä is Senior Research Fellow at Research Center for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET) at the University of Tampere; Adrienne Russell is Associate Professor in the Emergent Digital Practices program and co-director of the Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Denver; Dmitry Yagodin is Researcher in the Research March 2017 Center for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET) at the University of Tampere. 288 pages 6 b&w illustrations A scholarly analysis of the impact of Snowden’s Approx. 90,000 words NSA revelations on media and journalism.

World rights available Edward Snowden’s revelations about the mass => Journalism, surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered International Relations an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world. This discussion has been dispersed into a number of national platforms, reflecting local political realities but also raising questions that cut across national  New perspectives from a range of public spheres. What does this debate tell us about countries the role of journalism in making sense of global events?

This book looks at discussions of these debates in  Transnational approach to the mainstream media in the USA, United Kingdom, questions of journalism and , Germany, Russia and China. The chapters security focus on editorials, commentaries and op-eds and look at how opinion-based journalism has negotiated key questions on the legitimacy of  A rich and thoughtful analysis of surveillance and its implications to security and the possibilities and limits of privacy. ‘transnational journalism’ at a Journalism and the NSA Revelations provides a rich crucial time of political and digital and thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and change. limits of ‘transnational journalism’ at a time when its definition, functions and raison d’etre appear ambiguous. Online Activism in the Middle East Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from to Kuwait Jon Nordenson

Jon Nordenson is based at the University of Oslo. He has published in The Middle East Journal and Babylon - Nordic Journal for the Middle East and North Africa, for which he won the Babylon Award for best contribution by a young researcher. He is Board Member for The Nordic Society for Middle East Studies.

March 2017 Examines the role of online platforms for affecting political and social change in Egypt in Kuwait. 336 pages

Approx. 134,000 words Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even democratization, in the Middle World rights available East? Despite existing research on this subject, => Society, Middle East, there is still no consensus on the importance of Politics social media and online platforms, or on how we are to understand their influence. This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. Since the mid-2000s, they have been the most prominent Arab countries in terms of online and offline activism.  Reveals the connections between In the context of Kuwait, Jon Nordenson examines online activism and offline the oppositional youth groups who fought for a mobilization constitutional, democratic monarchy in the emirate. In Egypt, focus surrounds the groups and organizations working against sexual violence and  Based on ethnographic research sexual harassment. Online Activism in the Middle methods East shows how and why online platforms are used by activists and identifies the crucial features of successful online campaigns. Egypt and Kuwait are  Kuwait is an often neglected revealed to be authoritarian contexts but where country in ME studies the challenges and possibilities faced by activists are quite different.

The UAE Geopolitics, Modernity and Tradition William Gueraiche

William Gueraiche is Associate Professor, American University in the Emirates (Dubai). He has been Associate Professor of Social Sciences, American University in Dubai (UAE), Lecturer in Geopolitics, University Marne La Vallee (Paris), and Lecturer in History at the University of the Sorbonne. His research focuses upon the UAE and Gulf societies, Middle Eastern security, and diplomacy in the Gulf.

A compelling account of branding of the Dubai. March 2017 288 pages The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular 12 b&w illustrations success of Dubai. The branding of the city not only Approx. 105,000 words brought Emiratis one of the highest standards of living in the world, it also spread positive World rights available representations of the UAE to the world at large, in => Political Geography, striking contrast to more familiar representations Middle East, of the Middle East. The UAE: Geopolitics, International Relations Modernity and Tradition is the first scholarly study of the UAE’s campaign to establish itself on the international stage. The author also explores the impact the resulting economic transformation has had on the country.  A fresh perspective that goes Emirati society remains at core conservative and beyond the usual polarisation of the preservation of Arab-Islamic identity remains denigrating the country or important, yet the UAE has the highest proportion commending it unreservedly of foreigners of any country in the world. What does this mean for the identity of Emiratis living there? And what are the implications for foreigners  Provides deep insights into the working there? economic and political trends in With additional analysis on the environmental cost the UAE of the Dubai lifestyle - manifest in the world’s highest electricity and water consumption per

capita - its ‘Look East’ policy and increasing volume of trade with eastern Asia, its challenge to the traditional hegemony of Saudi Arabia in the region, and the impact of the subsequent economic depression, the book will be welcomed by all with an interest in the UAE, modernity and the wider Middle East. Brexit, No Exit Why Britain Won’t Leave Europe Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane was a Labour MP serving in ’s government as Minister for Europe. He was first elected as MP for in 1994 and served until his resignation in 2012. MacShane studied at Oxford and London Universities and has four children. He is a prominent commentator on European issues.

June 2017 Former Europe Minister spells out the future of Britain’s relationship with Europe. 256 pages

7 b&w illustrations The UK’s Brexit vote on 23rd June 2016 provided Approx. 88,000 words perhaps the most dramatic proof that the era of political and economic globalization has ended. World rights available Populism, nationalism and xenophobia are surging => Politics, Current across Europe and Brexit adds to the problems Affairs facing the established political order. This book shows how we reached this stage and what needs to be done now. As a former MP and Europe minister under Tony Blair, and latterly as a commentator and writer on European issues, Denis MacShane has a unique insider perspective on the events that led to Brexit and the behind-the-scenes  Highly topical subject area discussions that followed. He argues that Brexit will not mean full rupture with Europe and that British  Extensive events and press capitalism will overcome the ultra-right-wing forces programme planned of the Conservative back-bench and UKIP. Although the path to Article 50 and beyond will be fraught  Important perspective on future and tensely-negotiated, Britain cannot and will not of EU divorce itself from the continent of Europe and the European question will continue to be a defining feature of politics into the future. The New Sultan Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey Soner Cagaptay

Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Türkiye.

June 2017 The must-have story of Erdogan’s rise, rule 224 pages and beliefs. 2 maps The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in Approx. 70,000 words a country which will play a critical geopolitical role World rights available in the wars of the Middle East. The spotlight will inevitably be on Erdogan – the powerful leader of => International the country - whose increasingly bizarre and Relations, Politics, authoritarian regime has increased tensions Turkey enormously both within and outside the country. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent – thousands of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and three quarters of highest  New insight into the roots of the ranking army officers arrested. In some senses, this Middle Eastern conflict – Turkey is coup has given Erdogan the license to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability on the frontline. under a ‘strongman’. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at where Erdogan comes from in Turkish history, what he believes in, how he  Author an internationally known has cemented his rule will assess the threats he specialist on Turkey with faces – from the liberal youth to the Gülen extensive media experience and movement, the army plotters and the Kurdish multiple platforms for promotion question. Destroying a Nation The Civil War in Syria Nikolaos Van Dam

Nikolaos van Dam is a specialist on Syria who served as Special Envoy of the for Syria in 2015-2016. He has previously served as Ambassador of the Netherlands to , Germany, Turkey, Egypt and .

July 2017 Ground-breaking account of Syria’s descent to 224 pages Chaos.

9 tables & 2 maps Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into Approx. 65,000 words civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding World rights available ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS => Middle East, Politics, as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee Current Affairs, History crisis in modern history. In this book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria Nikolaos van Dam explains the recent history of Syria, covering the growing disenchantment with the Assad regime, the chaos of civil war and the fractures which led to the rise and expansion of ISIS. Through an in-depth examination of the role of sectarian,  New book from author of regional and tribal loyalties in Syria, van Dam traces acclaimed Struggle for Power in political developments within the Assad regime and Syria the military and civilian power elite from the Arab Spring to the present day.  Author was witness to events on the ground as Special Envoy to Syria Chasing the Chinese Dream Stories from Modern China Nick Holdstock

Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. His writing can be found in Vice, The LA Review of Books, n+1, The Independent, The Dublin Review, Times Literary Supplement, the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He is the author of China’s Forgotten People, a biography of Xinjiang. He writes regularly on China for the London Review of Books.

September 2017 A spell-binding and magical narrative that tells the 256 pages story of modern China through the people who are living it. 10 b&w integrated Approx. 85,000 words China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this World rights available dizzying transformation is the idea of the ‘Chinese => Society, China, Dream’, the promise that in the new China, anyone Current Affairs can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric – from the factory-owner, to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities.  A spellbinding narrative of Chasing the Chinese Dream follows a cast of Chinese hope and dreams extraordinary characters: we meet the people getting rich; running factories and buying luxury  The author has lived a worked in cars and Louis Vuitton bags. But we also meet those China left behind, trapped by a system which forces long hours and no prospects upon them.  Should support a big publicity campaign

Finding Eden A Journey into the Heart of Borneo Robin Hanbury–Tenison

Robin Hanbury-Tenison, OBE, DL, is the doyen of British explorers. A Founder and President of Survival International, the world’s leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, he was one of the first people to bring the plight of the rainforests to the world's attention. He has been a Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, winner of the Pio Manzu Award, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, Memorial Fellow, Trustee of the Ecological Foundation and Fellow of the Linnean Society. He is the author of A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil, Mysterious China, The Great September 2017 Explorers and his two autobiographies, World’s 288 pages Apart: An Explorer’s Life and Worlds Within: Reflections in the Sand. 50 b&w & 8pp colour illustrations “Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Approx. 75,000 words Edens left, but they are there to be found by those World rights available who step off the beaten track… So it was with mine.” => Travel & Exploration, Environment, Society Fifty years ago the interior of Borneo was a pristine, virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes and naïve, virtually tame, wildlife. It was into this ‘Garden of Eden’ that Robin Hanbury Tenison led one of the largest ever Royal  Robin Hanbury Tenison is the Geographical Society expeditions, an extraordinary doyen of British explorers, a undertaking which triggered the global rainforest household name and bestselling movement and illuminated, for the first time, how author vital rainforests are to our planet. For 15 months, Hanbury Tenison and a team of some of the greatest scientists in the world immersed  Extraordinary account of the themselves in a place and a way of life that is on expedition that started the the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once a Rainforest Movement wildlife paradise is now a monocultural desert, devastated by logging and the forced settlement of  Highly topical issues (survival of nomadic tribes, where traditional ways of life and indigenous people, environment) unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly and will receive attention & being driven to extinction. This is a story for our support from RGS, Survival time, one that reminds us of the fragility of our International, etc planet and of the urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world. Why Cold War Again? How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia Stephen F. Cohen

Stephen F. Cohen is a leading scholar of Russia, media commentator and author of several widely acclaimed books. He is Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Princeton. His books include Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post- Communist Russia, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War and The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin (I.B.Tauris).

September 2017 Essential account of the new East-West crisis from 224 pages renown Russia analyst Stephen F. Cohen.

Approx. 50,000 words The new East-West conflict, which broke out over World rights available the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, but which long predated it and soon spread through Europe and to => International the Middle East, is potentially the worst US-Russian Relations, History confrontation in more than fifty years — and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out. In this book, renowned Russia scholar and media commentator Stephen F. Cohen traces the history of this East- West relationship in the ‘Inter Cold War’ period — the years from the purported end of the preceding Cold War, in 1990-1991, to what he has long  Provides deep insights into the argued would be a new and even more dangerous economic and political trends in Cold War. Cohen’s historical and contemporary UAE analysis is insightful, thought-provoking and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand

relations between the West and post-Soviet Russia.  Compelling account of the branding of Dubai

 Valuable case study of nation- building in the post-colonial era Frontline Turkey The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle Est Ezgi Basaran

Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish journalist who made her name covering the Kurdish conflict - reporting ‘on the ground’ in the fight between ISIS, the YPG, the PKK and the Turkish state. She became the youngest ever editor of Turkey’s Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. After facing government censorship when covering the breakdown of the Kurdish talks, she resigned. She has nearly 1 million twitter followers, and extensive ‘name-recognition’ in the field of Turkish politics and journalism. November 2017 256 pages A new insight into the roots of the Middle 10 b&w integrated Eastern conflict. Approx. 100,000 words Turkey is on the front line of the war which is World rights available consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is => Current Affairs, complicated by the long-running conflict with the Turkey Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings and the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014  Author is an internationally with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War. With ISIS known specialist on Turkey with moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared extensive media experience and war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG – the multiple platforms for promotion military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds’ relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan’s failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in Middle East Twenty-First Century Jihad How to Prevent War Elisabeth Kendall, Ewan Stein

304 pages The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism 8 b&w illustrations and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, approx. 115,000 words like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple => International Relations resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and Rights available: World from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and Elisabeth Kendall is Senior Research significance of jihad remain subject to debate and controversy. Fellow in and Islamic Studies, With this in mind, Twenty-First Century Jihad examines the ways Oxford University. She is the author of in which the concept of jihad has changed, from its roots in the Literature, Journalism and the Avant- Qur'an to its usage in current debate. This book explores familiar Garde: Intersection in Egypt. Ewan Stein is modern political angles, and touches on far less commonly Lecturer in International Relations at the analysed instances of jihad, incorporating issues of law, society, School of Social and Political Science at literature and military action. As this key concept is ever-more the University of Edinburgh. He is the important for international politics and security studies, Twenty- author of Representing in Modern First Century Jihad contains vital analysis for those researching Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign the role of religion in the modern world . Policy from Nasser to Mubarak (I.B.Tauris).

Irregular War ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins Paul Rogers

224 pages If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a 2 maps matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world approx. 80,000 words expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security => Politics, Middle East specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in Rights available: World decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaida in Yemen, the chaos in Libya and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan have all shown that to be wishful Paul Rogers is a leading expert in the thinking. Once again the West is at war in the Middle East. Paul field of international security, arms Rogers, the distinguished global security specialist, provides a control and political violence with over much-needed look at the rise of such global terrorist movements 30 years’ experience. Rogers is a regular from the margins and presents a new argument as troubling as it commentator on global security issues is compelling. While Islamic State has taken root in the Middle in both national and international East and North Africa and has increasing impact across the world media, and is International Security as thousands of young men and women rally to its cause, Rogers Editor for Open Democracy. He is the argues that it should be seen not just as a threat in its own right author of Why We’re Losing the War on but as a marker of a much more dangerous world riddled with Terror, and Losing Control: Global irregular war. Security in the 21st Century. The Fog of Peace How to Prevent War Gabrielle Rifkind, Giandomenico Pico

304 pages Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to 8 b&w illustrations make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of approx. 80,000 words individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of => International Relations conflict resolution is for antagonists to understand their Rights available: World opponents, their ambitions, their pains. Developing links between psychology and politics, the authors ask: should we talk to the enemy? What happens if the Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of protagonists are nasty and brutish, tempting policy-makers to the Middle East programme at Oxford retaliate? How do nations find the capacity not to hit back, trapping themselves in endless cycles of violence? Presenting a Research Group. She is a group analyst unique combination of psychological theories, geopolitical and specialist in conflict resolution realities and first-hand peace-making experience, this book immersed in the politics of the Middle sheds new light on some of the worst conflicts in the modern East. Giandomenico Picco worked for the world and demonstrates, above all, how empathy can often be UN for over 20 years and served as a far more persuasive than the most fearsome weapons. UN negotiator on conflicts, focusing on Iran Iraq and Afghanistan.

Unmasked Corruption in the West Laurence Cockroft, Anne-Christine Wegener

288 pages How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America’s formal 12 b&w illustrations self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, approx. 80,000 words corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, => Current Affairs, Politics, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting Business, Crime both the corporate and political worlds. This book identifies the Rights available: World driving forces behind such cases, particularly the role of political finance, lobbying, the banking system and organised crime. It analyses the sectors which are particularly prone to corruption, including sport, defence and pharmaceuticals. In the course of Laurence Cockcroft is a Development their investigation, the authors consider why anti-corruption Economist and Founder of Transparency legislation has not been more effective and why there is an International, the global civil society increasing discrepancy between regulation and commercial and organization against corruption. cultural practice. Are Europe and the US genuinely serious about Anne-Christine Wegener is an anti- fighting corruption and if so what measures will be taken to roll corruption consultant. She was it back? previously a Deputy Director and Programme Manager at Transparency International UK. Blinded by Humanity Inside the UN’s Humanitarian Operations Martin Barber

272 pages How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the approx. 93,000 words most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the => International Relations, . Martin Barber argues that the explanation for Humanitarian UN 'failures' or only partial successes lies not with any lack of Rights available: World idealism or good intentions but with the constraints placed on aid workers by ill-considered policies and poor practical application - officials are 'blinded by humanity'. Barber presents an inside story based on personal/hands-on/practical experience Martin Barber was a senior UN official in Laos, Thailand, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and, finally, in and has extensive experience in Abu Dhabi where he advised the UAE government on its aid humanitarian affairs and peace programme. He tells of internal struggles at head office and the operations – both at UN Headquarters challenges of working in the field. All the major UN activities - and in the field. He served as Director of and headaches - are here, including refugee work, coordinating the United Nations Mine Action Service humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, the huge problem of 'de- (UNMAS) at UN Headquarters in New mining', and the complex internal workings of the UN York from 2000 until his retirement from Secretariat. the UN in 2005. He is now a consultant A personal narrative and lessons drawn from direct experience and analyst working on humanitarian provide the frame for an examination of major questions issues. concerning the future of humanitarian response.

Journalism in an Age of Terror Covering and Uncovering the Secret State John Lloyd

288 pages The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist 2 maps groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and approx. 80,000 words changes in legislation, permitting the collection of => International Relations, communications data. This provides journalism with acute Jounalism dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to Rights available: World account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyze, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the John Lloyd is a Senior Research Fellow at intelligence services and the news media. It provides the the Reuters Institute for the Study of answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held Journalism, a contributing editor at the to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far Financial Times, and a columnist for both have the Snowden/NSA revelations damaged the activities of the Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public? Human Rights in Russia Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin Mary McAuley

320 pages Today Russia and human rights are both high on the 21 b&w illustrations international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in approx. 122,000 words 2012, domestic developments - from the prosecution of Pussy => Human Rights, Current Affairs, Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky - and Russia’s global role, Russian Studies especially in relation to Ukraine, have captured the attention of Rights available: World the world. The role of human rights activism inside Russia is, therefore, coming under ever greater international scrutiny. Since 1991, when the Russian Federation became an Mary McAuley is an Associate of the independent state, hundreds of organisations have been created International Centre for Prison Studies to champion human rights causes, with varying strategies, and and a member of the International successes. The response of the authorities has ranged from Advisory Committee for the website being supportive, or indifferent, to openly hostile. Based on Rights in Russia. She is the author of archival research and practical experience working in the Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian community, Mark McAuley here provides a clear and Perspectives; Russia's Politics of comprehensive analysis of the progress made by human rights Uncertainty and Soviet Politics 1917-1991. organisations in Russia - and the challenges which will confront them in the future.

Frontline Ukraine Crisis in the Borderlands Richard Sakwa

356 pages The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the 12 b&w illustrations, 6 maps brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea approx. 144,000 words and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West => International Relations, have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Politics, History, Eastern Europe Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity Rights sold: DE, FI, HU, SE, RU and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have force Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with and European Politics at the University Russia. of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia In providing the first full account of the crisis, Sakwa analyses the and Eurasia programme at Chatham origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines House, and a fellow of the Academy of the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Social Sciences. His main research Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 interests are Russian domestic and disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the international politics, European October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains international relations and comparative the origins, developments and global significance of the internal democratization. and external battle of Ukraine. Little Emperors and Material Girls Sex and Youth in Modern China Jemimah Steinfeld

256 pages China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. xx illustrations Everybody knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a- approx. 70,000 words generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place - all in => Society, China the bars, cafes and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Rghts available: World Welcome to this new China. Writer and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld meets the young people behind the world's fastest- moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world Jemimah Steinfeld is a journalist who has they live in: 'little emperors' - single men who have grown up worked and lived in China. She worked under the one child policy - they're bossy and selfish; 'bare branches' - those without children; 'leftovers' - women over for the Global Times in Beijing, alongside twenty-six who aren't married; 'comrade' - how the gay writing freelance articles for CNN, Time community identifies itself; 'love markets' - weekend gatherings Out and the Huffington Post. She across China where parents attempt to find husbands and wives currently works at London’s Asia House in for their children, and others show up to match-make young charge of their literature programme and singles and even offer boyfriends for hire. Jemimah Steinfeld introduces the people at the heart of this world. is Contributing Editor (China) for Index on Little Emperors and Material Girls is the book which will change Censorship magazine. the way you see China.

China’s Forgotten People Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State Nick Holdstock

288 pages On 28 October 2013 a jeep ploughed through a busy crowd 2 maps before exploding in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The Chinese approx. 80,000 words authorities identified the driver as a Uyghur – one of an Islamic => Society, China ethnic minority, 10 million strong, who live in China’s north-west Rights available: World province of Xinjiang. Six months later, eight knife-wielding Uyghurs went on a rampage at a train station in Kunming, killing 29 people and wounding more than 140 others. These attacks, described as “China’s 9/11”, have shaken the Chinese Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. leadership, which has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its He has written on Xinjiang for the London Uyghurs. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in Review of Books and his writing can also the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the be found in Vice, the LA Review of Books, province and reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression, n+1, the Independent, the Dublin Review, hardship and helplessness in the face of a powerful and the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and intolerant one party Chinese state. As a result, China’s Islamic Salon.com amongst others. population is reacting to its own demonization, with Islamic terrorism in China no doubt set to increase over the next decade. How the Party responds will have global repercussions. Under the Shadow Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey Kaya Genç

240 pages Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East―caught approx. 75,000 words between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an => Politics, Revolution, History increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genç has Rights available: World been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas and batons to transform their country's future, and supporters of Erdoğan's conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. While talking to Turkey's angry young people Genç weaves in Kaya Genc is a novelist and essayist and historical stories, visions and mythologies, showing how Turkey's is the Istanbul correspondent of The progressives and conservatives take their ideological roots from Believer and The LA Review of Books as two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire: the Young well as a contributing editor at Index on Turks and the Young Ottomans, two groups of intellectuals who Censorship. His article for The LA Review were united in their determination to make their country more of Books Surviving the Black Sea was democratic. He shows a divided society coming to terms with selected as one of best non-fiction pieces the 21st Century, and in doing so, gets to the heart of the of 2014 by The Atlantic. compelling conflicts between history and modernity in the Middle East.

Generation M Young Muslims Changing the World Shelina Janmohamed

352 pages What does it mean to be young and Muslim ? There is a 10 b&w illustrations segment of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims that is more approx. 80,000 words influential than any other, and will shape not just the future => Islamic, Gender & Business generations of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet Studies ‘Generation M’. Tech-savvy and self-empowered, Generation M Rights sold: ID, TR believe their identity encompasses both faith and modernity. Shelina Janmohamed, award-winning author and leading voice on Muslim youth, investigates this growing cultural phenomenon, at a time where understanding the mindset of Shelina Janmohamed is the young Muslims, and what drives them, is critical. Exploring bestselling author of Love in a fashion magazines, social networking and everyday consumer Headscarf. She is an established choices, Generation M shows how this dynamic section of our commentator on Muslim social and society is not only adapting to Western consumerism, but religious trends, and has written for reclaiming it as its own. From the ‘Mipsters’ to the ‘Haloodies’, , the National and the Halal internet dating to Muslim boy bands, Generation M are BBC. making their mark. It’s time to get hijabilicious! Seeking Asylum in Israel Refugees and the History of Migration Law Gilad Ben-Nun

320 pages Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from approx. 110,000 words Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel. This, along with the highly => Middle East, Migration Studies publicised anti-African immigrant riots in Israel in 2012 and 2014 Rights available: World and the current global refugee crisis, has meant that the issue of African migration has become increasingly controversial. Here Gilad Ben-Nun looks at this phenomenon in its historical and contemporary contexts, and compares it to the wider debates surrounding the Palestinian refugees in the region and the Gilad Ben-Nun is Marie Curie concept of their right of return. He argues that this newer, Individual Fellow at the University African migration issue has forced Israel to move from of Verona’s Department of Public conceiving of itself as an ‘exceptional’ state and now has to view International Law and holds a PhD itself as a more ‘normal’ and ‘universal’ entity. Ranging as far from the University of Leipzig. He is back as Israel’s important role in the ratification drafting of the also the author of The Fourth 1951 Refugee Convention and drawing on a variety of Geneva Convention: The History of methodologies and sources, Ben-Nun offers a wide-ranging legal, International Humanitarian Law social and historical examination of asylum in Israel, that sheds (I.B.Tauris). timely light onto themes of migration and identity across the Middle East.

Arab Media Moghuls Naomi Sakr, Jakob Skovgaard Petersen, Donatella Della Ratta

256 pages Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element approx. 75,000 words in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the => Middle East, Media Studies private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What Rights sold: EG part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and reforming business practices in the Arab world? Arab Media Moguls charts the rise of some leading investors and entrepreneurs in Arab media, examining their motives, management styles, financial Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy performance and links to political power. Responding critically to at the Communication and Media scholarship on Western moguls, this book uncovers the realities Research Institute, University of of risk and success for Arab media potentates and billionaires. Westminster, and Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. Jakob Skovgaard- Petersen is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Donatella Della Ratta is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Racism, Ethnicity & the Media in Africa Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century Winston Mano 272 pages 70 b&w & colour illustrations approx. 60,000 words In today’s Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in => African Media & Politics, serious con­flicts – from Egypt to Darfur to South Africa that Ethnic & Communications Studies have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national Rights available: World cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in Winston Mano is Director of the Africa racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Media Centre, University of Westminster. Africa. It goes beyond the customary discussion of media racism He is also Principal Editor of the Journal of and ethnic stereotyping to critically address broader issues of African Media Studies, and the author of identity, belonging and exclusion. Topics covered include racism African National Radio and Everyday Life: in South African newspapers, pluralist media debates in Kenya, The Impact of Radio in the Digital Age media discourses on same-sex relations in Uganda and (I.B.Tauris). ethnicised news coverage in Nigerian newspapers.

Let 100 Voices Speak How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything Liz Carter

256 pages From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab 3 b&w illustrations Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet approx. 60,000 words and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. => Society, Media & Politics Despite being heavily-censored, China has over 560 million Rights available: World active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming Liz Carter is the former Managing together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters Editor of Tea Leaf Nation, one of the on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and most popular blogs covering China natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically in the West, and writes regularly for uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo – the Chinese The Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that, Policy. She has appeared on Al a grassroots, foundational shift of assumptions and expectations Jazeera and HuffPost Live as an is taking place, as Chinese men and women cast off the expert on Chinese media and has communist-era ‘stability at all costs’ mantra and find new forms written for various print of self-expression, creativity and communication with the world. publications. History Religion Battles for Freedom The Use and Abuse of American History Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is one of America’s leading historians of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. His books include The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery; Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and Give Me Liberty! An American History.

January 2017 ‘Nothing could be more timely, more needed than this collection of Eric Foner's work. For the depth 240 pages and breadth of his intellect as well as the clarity and Approx. 75,000 words precision of his language, he has peers but no superiors. Throughout his career, Professor Foner World rights available has enlightened and provoked us to become our => American History, better selves.’ – Toni Morrison Politics For almost four decades, Eric Foner, one of America's most distinguished historians, has introduced readers of his journalism to unknown or forgotten characters in American history, methodically unearthing the hidden history of American radicalism. In this collection of polemical pieces, Foner expounds on the relevance of  Eric Foner is one of America’s Abraham Lincoln's legacy in the age of Obama and most prolific historians on the need for another era of Reconstruction. In addition to articles in which Foner calls out politicians and the powerful for their abuse and misuse of American history. Foner assesses some of  American Radicalism especially his fellow leading historians of the late 20th relevant in today’s American century, including Richard Hofstadter, Howard Zinn politics and Eric Hobsbawm. Foner ends with an open leter to Bernie Sanders analysing the great tradition of radicalism that he has spent his career studing and which, he argues, Americans of progressive  Wide-ranging historical and disposition should seek to celebrate and retrieve. current affairs coverage Talleyrand in London The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission Linda Kelly

Linda Kelly's books include Juniper Hall, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and most recently Holland House and Ireland's Minstrel (both I.B.Tauris). She has written for , the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and numerous other publications, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Wordsworth Trust.

February 2017 A sparkling account of Prince Talleyrand’s last diplomatic mission. 192 pages

26 b&w illustrations, 1 Few people had aroused more controversy than map Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord. A former bishop whose love affairs were notorious, Approx. 60,000 words and a turncoat who had abandoned every master World rights available he had served, he was widely detested by the French public. But the French ambassador was => History greeted as a celebrity in London, where the July Revolution – foreshadowing Britain’s own Reform Bill – had been hugely popular. London society had not yet acquired the virtuous tone of the Victorian era. The easy-going morals of the Regency had carried on into the reign of William IV, and the fact  New angle on Talleyrand’s highly- that Talleyrand’s niece by marriage, the Duchess of successful career Dino, 37 years his junior, was not only his hostess but reputedly his mistress, merely added to the interest he induced. Talleyrand’s four years in London were the last and,  New perspective on Georgian high in his own opinion, the most important of his society diplomatic career. Linda Kelly’s sparkling narrative brings the period to life, providing a fascinating picture of one of Europe’s greatest statesmen as he appeared to English eyes.  Georgian era a particular period of fascination

British POWs and the Holocaust Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities Russell Wallis

Russell Wallis is Research Fellow at the Holocaust Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he gained his PhD in Modern History supervised by David Cesarani, and visiting Fellow at the Holocaust Educational Trust.

February 2017 An extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th 272 pages century.

Approx. 110,000 words In the network of Nazi camps across wartime World rights available Europe, institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; => History, World War II so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Holocaust Educational Trust, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He  Appeals to the huge market for uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an WWII and Nazi related history Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called ‘bloodlands’ of eastern Poland.  An essential new oral history of Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of the holocaust those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised.  Contains new primary source material Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule Charles Tieszen

Charles Tieszen is associate professor at Simpson University and adjunct assistant professor at the Fuller Seminary. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham and is the author of Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain and A Textual History of Christian–Muslim Relations.

February 2017 The first in-depth look at this important theological polemic. 240 pages

Approx. 70,000 words One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their World rights available devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet => Religion many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in accusations of idolatry. How did Christians respond to these allegations? Why did they advocate the preservation of a practice that was often met with confusion or even contempt? To shed light onto these questions, Charles Tieszen looks at every known apologetic or polemical text  Shines much needed light onto written between the eighth and fourteenth Christian–Muslim relations, the centuries to include a relevant discussion. With nature of inter-faith debates and sources taken from across the Mediterranean the wider issues facing the basin, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, the result is the communities living across the first in-depth look at a key theological debate which Middle East during the medieval lay at the heart of these communities’ religious period identities. By considering the perspectives of both Muslim and Christian authors, Cross Veneration in  By far the most comprehensive the Medieval Islamic World also raises important study of cross veneration in questions concerning cross-cultural debate and medieval Islam exchange, and the development of Christianity and Islam in the medieval period. The Croatian Spring Nationalism, Repression and Foreign Policy Under Tito Ante Batovic

Ante Batovic is a Cold War historian, with keen interest in Eastern Europe and the . He published extensively on the Croatian post-war history, Yugoslav foreign policy in the Cold War and its role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

March 2017 “Ante Batović’s book, based on extensive research in American, British, NATO, Croatian and Serbian 288 pages archives, provides not just an authoritative account 2 maps of an important, though relatively little known, episode in Cold War history. It shines a spotlight Approx. 95,000 words more generally on how the West viewed Yugoslavia World rights excl. as a pivotal state in the Cold War.” - Robin Harris Croatia Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, History, Politics, Balkan and the driving force behind the bloody and Studies difficult history of the region. Under the charismatic Tito, the Yugoslavia state was successful in remaining ‘non-aligned’ - a friend of the West and the Soviet Union as it pursued its own vision of socialism. Using primary sources not previously  A unique angle on the Yugoslav utilized by western scholars, this book will spring based on new primary document the ‘Croatian Spring’ – a movement material ‘from below’ which began in the mid-sixties and pushed for liberalism and de-centralisation. A precursor to the successful Croatian Spring of the early 1970s, this flowering of political thought and action was suppressed. In particular the fall of Ranković – ousted for allegedly bugging Tito’s private apartment - marks the beginning of the end of the centralised and stable Yugoslav state. Batovic also looks at the role of the West, who felt a centralised and stable Yugoslavia was in their interests and therefore colluded in the initial repression of a reformist movement. The First Mapping of America The General Survey of British North America Alex Johnson

Alexander Johnson is an international authority on historical cartography. He has been a Senior Consultant in Cartography to Christie’s in London and was formerly head of the map department at one of the world’s leading antiquarian book dealers in New York.

A vivid and compelling account of one of the most turbulent periods in British, American and March 2017 Canadian history.

320 pages Britain’s victory in the Seven Years War 57 b&w & 8pp colour dramatically enlarged her North American empire. illustrations Eager to know more about their new territories, the British government commissioned a Approx. 126,000 words spectacularly ambitious survey to provide an World rights available accurate map of Britain’s entire North American empire. Known as the General Survey of British => American History, North America, it ranks as one of the most Historical Geography, impressive technical achievements of the period, Cartography and provided vital intelligence for both economic and military purposes. The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey, of the spectacular maps created  Combines important cartographic and the extraordinary men who produced them: scholarship with the machinations including the highly professional Samuel Holland, of high politics and commercial Surveyor-General in the North, and the brilliant but greed mercurial William Gerard De Brahm, Surveyor- General in the South. Holland and De Brahm’s

spectacular maps, far from being obscure archival  Contains many previously documents were at the very centre of the drama, unpublished maps as the as they battled both physical obstacles and political ones, fighting Crown administrators in London and wealthy speculators in the colonies. Alexander Johnson’s has produced a vivid and compelling account of a key moment in North American history and British history. Drawing upon maps reproduced here for the first time, he shows how these spectacular maps were responsible for shaping the thoughts and actions of the powerful and influential players of one of the most turbulent periods in British, American and Canadian history. Kennedy and the Middle East The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia Antonio Perra

Antonio Perra is an associate lecturer in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London. His field of expertise concerns the history of US interventionism in the Middle East, and he has authored several papers on more contemporary issues, including, 'From the Arab Spring to the Damascus Winter: The , Russia, and the new Cold War’ (2016).

March 2017 An informative book that fills an important gap in 304 pages the Cold War literature. 8 b&w illustrations At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy Approx. 100,000 words administration designed an ambitious plan for the World rights available Middle East – its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser’s Egypt in order to keep the Arab world => History, International neutral and contain the perceived communist Relations threat. In order to offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel’s defense priorities – a decision which would begin the US-Israeli ‘special relationship’. Here, Antonia Perra shows for the first time how new relations with Saudi Arabia and  The CIA is a major subject of study Israel which would come to shape the Middle East and this book will appeal to key for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy’s efforts at Soviet containment. scholarly markets: Cold War Studies, 20th Century American History and Political Science

 There will be crossover sales to Warfare and Defence and Peace Studies institutions

Greek Civil War The Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy Spyridon Plakoudas

Spyridon Plakoudas is Lecturer at the Hellenic National Defence College and Panteion University. He holds a PhD in War Studies from the University of Reading.

March 2017 A new approach to the history of Greek Civil War.

256 pages The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the Approx. 120,000 words few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing World rights available government forces over an insurgent communist => Greek History, movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the Communism & Cold factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the War communist insurgency in Greece which had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas explores the strategies adopted  Uses unseen sources and original by government forces in order to counter the documents communist insurgency, how external and internal actors influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies achieved success. Featuring  Complete analysis of government previously unseen sources and documents, this strategies for success in Greek book reveals the strategy and tactics of the Civil War monarchist regime. The Korean Diaspora in Post-War Japan Geopolitics, Identity and Nation- Building Myung Ja Kim

Myung Ja Kim is currently a Teaching Fellow in Northeast Asian Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She founded and was President of the NGO, World Tonpo Network, Tokyo, an organization that seeks the peaceful unification of North and South Korea.

April 2017 A comprehensive study ranging from 1945-2014.

304 pages The Korean diaspora living in Japan - the Zainichi - Approx. 102,000 words represent the only Korean migrant group that has not been granted citizenship by its host state. Yet World rights available despite being Korean nationals, with legal rights of => Asian History abode in Korea, the Zainichi are culturally Japanese and have no intention of returning to their now divided homeland. The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro- North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan. Unlike the Korean diasporas living in Russia,  An important analysis of the China or the US, the Zainichi have become sharply mechanisms that lie behind nation divided along political lines as a result. -building policy, showing the Myung Ja Kim examines Japan’s changing national conditions controlling a host policies towards the Zainichi in order to understand state’s treatment of diasporic why this group has not been fully integrated into groups Japan. Through the prism of this ethnically Korean community, the book reveals the dynamics of alliances and alignments in East Asia, including the rise of China as an economic superpower, the  Develops Mylonas’ theory of security threat posed by North Korea and the nation building by using the diminishing alliance between Japan and the US. unique case study of the Zainichi Taking a post-war historical perspective, the research reveals why the Zainichi are vital to Japan’s state policy revisionist aims to increase its power internationally and how they were used to increase the country’s geopolitical leverage. You Win or You Die The Ancient World of Game of Thrones Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She has wide interests in Roman history, literature and reception. Her previous books are Magistracy and the Historiography in the Roman Republic and Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (co-edited with W .Brockliss, P. Chaudhuri and K. Wasdin). She has written on Game of Thrones for The Guardian.

April 2017 When you play a game of thrones, you win or you die.’ - George R. R. Martin 272 pages 40 b&w illustrations If the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then Approx. 80,000 words antiquity is their resonant past. In this essential World rights available sequel to Carolyne Larrington’s Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones, Ayelet => Ancient History & Haimson Lushkov explores the echoes, from the Classics, Fantasy & Summer Islands to Storm’s End, of a rich antique Myth history. She discusses, for example, the convergence of ancient Rome and the reach, scope and might of the Valyrian Freehold. She shows how the wanderings of Tyrion Lannister replay the journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas. She suggests  Must-have reading for all Game of that the War of the Five Kings resembles the War of Thrones fans the Four Emperors (68-69 AD). And she demonstrates just how the Wall and the Wildlings advancing on it connect with Hadrian’s bulwark against fierce tribes of Picts. This book reveals the  Offers the nuanced perspective of remarkable extent to which the entire Game of an ancient historian but also a Thrones universe is animated by its ancient past. keen fan’s eye-view

 The first book to show just how saturated Game of Thrones is in the antique/classical world A Forgotten Man The Life and Death of John Lodwick 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 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 and many more.

May 2017 New life of a forgotten novelist.

264 pages John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great 20 b&w illustrations novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life story, Approx. 85,000 words have been virtually lost to the mists of time. World rights available Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together Lodwick’s eventful life, from his youth in => Biography, History, Ireland, to his wartime experiences in the SOE and World War II Special Boat Service, his subsequent literary career and his untimely death in a car crash in Spain at the age of just 43. Initially acclaimed by Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess, soon after his death Lodwick’s novels fell out of fashion and they have largely remained out-of-print since. Elliott  New perspective on early C20 makes the case for a revival in the fortunes of this literary scene singular English novelist, in a biography which sheds new light on the early twentieth century literary scene, the surrealist art world and the real-  Remarkable WW2 career life experiences of World War II.

 Author has track-record in WW2 and espionage non-fiction The Riviera at War World War II on the Côte d’Azur George G. Kundahl

George G. Kundahl was, until his retirement, a Major General in the U.S. Army. He is the author of Confederate Engineer: Training and Campaigning with John Morris Wampler; Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee and The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur. He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Alabama and has been resident on the French Riviera for many years.

May 2017 The complete history of World War II in south- eastern France. 336 pages

30 b&w illustrations During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of Approx. 175,000 words the world experienced domination by more than a World rights available single one of these, but southeastern France – the region popularly known as the Riviera or Côte => History, World War II d’Azur - was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive - the rule of . Following a nine-month prelude, the reality of World War II burst onto the Riviera in June 1940 when the region had to defend itself against the Italian army and  First history of World War II on ended in April 1945 with a battle against German the Riviera and Italian forces in April 1945, a period longer than any other part of France. In this book, George G. Kundahl tells for the first  Includes new information about time the full story of World War II on the French the Battle of Riviera. Featuring previously unseen sources and photographs, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in wartime France.  The Cote d’Azur is one of France’s most visited regions The Tsar’s Armenians A Minority in Late Imperial Russia Onur Önol

Onur Önol is an instructor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, . He is a contributor to War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State and regularly presents papers on late imperial Russia at conferences internationally.

May 2017 The first English-language study of the drastic reversal of relations between imperial Russia and 272 pages their Armenian subjects on the eve of WW I. 10 b&w illustrations In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the Approx. 95,000 words confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking World rights available the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects. Yet just over a decade => History, Ethnic later, Russian Armenians were fully supportive of Minorities, World War I the Russian war effort. Drawing on previously untouched archival material and a range of secondary sources published in English, French, Russian and Turkish, this is the first English-language study of this drastic change in relations in the Caucasus. Onur Önol explains how  Appeal to scholars of Ottoman, and why the shift took place by looking in detail at Armenian and Russian history the imperial Russian authorities and their relationship with the three pillars of the Russian Armenian community: the Armenian Church, the Armenian bourgeoisie and the Armenian  Fills a conspicuous void in the Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutiun). Önol extant historiography places the evolution within a context of wider political questions, such as the Russian revolutionary movement, Russia’s nationalities  Based on extensive archival question, Tsarist fears of pan-Islamism, the path to research World War I and the influence of key characters in Russian policy making, from Pyotr Stolypin to Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov. The Women Who Built the Ottoman World Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan Muzaffer Ozgules

Muzaffer Ozgules is the Barakat Trust Post- Doctoral Research Fellow at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

May 2017 The extraordinary life and exceptional patronage of a previously neglected Ottoman royal woman. 304 pages b&w & colour At the beginning of the 18th Century, the Ottoman illustrations, 2 maps Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern Empires – it was also the ‘Golden Approx. 100,000 words Age’ of Ottoman patronage. One hitherto World rights available overlooked aspect of the empire’s remarkable cultural legacy was the role of powerful women - => Ottoman History often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of Sultans. These educated and discerning patrons left a great array of buildings across the Ottoman lands; opulent, lavish and powerful palaces and mausoleums, but also essential works for ordinary citizens, such as bridges and waterworks. Muzaffer  Heavily illustrated Ozgules here uses new primary scholarship and archaeological evidence to reveal the stories of these Imperial builders. Gulnus Sultan for example,  Ground-breaking research the head of the imperial harem under Mehmed IV and mother to his sons, was often pictured on horseback, and travelled widely across the Middle  The role of women increasingly East commissioning architects and craftsmen as she important in the study of the went. Her buildings were personal projects Ottoman Empire designed to showcase Ottoman power and they were built from Constantinople to Mecca, from modern-day Ukraine to Algeria. Ozgules seeks to re -establish the importance of some of these buildings, since lost, and traces the history of those that remain. The Women Who Built the Ottoman World is a valuable contribution to the architectural history of the Ottoman Empire, and to the growing history of the women within it. Young Lothar An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin Larry Orbach abd Vivien Orbach- Smith

Larry (Lothar) Orbach (1924-2008) grew up in Berlin and assumed the identity of Gerhard Peters from 1942-44. He spent the last year of the war in Auschwitz and emigrated to New York in 1946. Settling in New Jersey, Larry Orbach set upa jewellery business with his wife Ruth Geier – also a refugee from Nazi Berlin. Larry’s final years in his beloved New York were full and surrounded by friends from all walks of life. Vivien Orbach-Smith, Larry Orbach’s daughter, is May 2017 an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at New York University and a freelance writer. 384 pages Approx. 90,000 words The singular true story of hope amidst the darkness of Hitler’s Berlin. World rights available => History, Memoir Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin’s Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach’s mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach – under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters – entered Berlin’s  Highly respected and unique underworld of ‘divers’. He scraped a living by contribution to the literature of hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing – the period fighting, literally, to stay alive. But inwardly he remained just a boy, his mother’s son, a Jew holding desperately onto his shattered humanity. In  Underground Berlin in WWII: the end, he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, on completely untold story the last transport, in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is, in essence, a story of hope, even happiness, in the very heart of darkness. Dharma The Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh Traditions of India Veena R. Howard

Veena R. Howard is Assistant Professor of Religious and Asian Studies at the University of Oregon and author of Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action (2014).

June 2017 ‘In the Sanskrit language, religion goes by the name dharma, which in the derivative meaning implies 272 pages the principle of the relationship that holds us firm, Approx. 85,000 words and in its technical sense means the virtue of a thing, the essential quality of it.’ — Rabindranath World rights available Tagore (Indian Poet and Writer) => Religion, Philosophy, Asian Studies Dharma is central to all the indigenous religious traditions of India, which cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as ‘ethics’, ‘religion’ or ‘religious law’, dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category. Neither is it the equivalent of what many in the West might usually consider to be ‘a philosophy’. This much needed  Contributors include many of the analysis of the history and heritage of dharma world’s foremost authorities in shows that it is instead a multi-faceted religious these different religions force, or paradigm, that has defined and that continues to shape South Asian civilization ina whole multitude of forms. Exploring ethics,  Much needed comparative text practice, history and social and gender issues, the book contributors correct philosophical misrepresentations that are increasingly widespread in the West, and point to ways of  Experts in the fields of Hindu, appreciating Indian religions in a manner Buddhist, Jain and Sikh studies appropriate to the practice of Eastern, rather than here bring fresh insights to Western, tradition.

dharma in terms both of its distinctiveness and its commonality Fighting Proud The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars Stephen Bourne

Stephen Bourne is a writer and historian. An expert on Black and LGBT British history, he has written for BBC History Magazine and History Today and is a regular contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His most recent Amazon-bestselling book Black Poppies (History Press, 2013), a history of the contribution of black men and women to the First World War, won the Southwark Arts Forum Award for Literature.

June 2017 The overdue portraits of Britain’s homosexual heroes rendered vividly through unseen 256 pages photographs and their own words. Approx. 60,000 words In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, 30 b&w illustrations historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating World rights available stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great => History, Military unheralded contribution they made to the war History, LGBT effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed – a Flying Ace twice honoured for bravery by King George VI – to the infantry officers serving in the trenches on the Western Front in WWI - many of whom led the charges into machine-gun fire only  The fight for equal rights and to find themselves court-marshalled after the war representation for LGBT people is for indecent behaviour. Behind the lines, Alan not over in Britain, and lifestyle Turing’s work on breaking the ‘enigma machine’ freedom is still strictly censored and subsequent persecution contrasts with the elsewhere many stories of love and courage in Blitzed-out London, with new wartime diaries and letters unearthed for the first time. Bourne tells the  Includes a wealth of long- bitterly sad story of Ivor Novello, who wrote the suppressed wartime photography WWI anthem ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’, and the crucial work of Noel Coward - who was hated subsequently ignored by by Hitler for his work entertaining the troops. mainstream Fighting Proud also includes a wealth of long- suppressed wartime photography subsequently ignored by mainstream historians. This book is a monument to the bravery, sacrifice and honour shown by a persecuted minority, who contributed during Britain’s hour of need. A History of Stability and Change in Lebanon Foreign Interventions and International Relations Joseph Bayeh

Joseph N. Bayeh is an assistant professor at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Exeter.

June 2017 A new and unique international perspective on Lebanon’s history, including its civil war. 256 pages

Approx. 80,000 words Lebanon is a country whose domestic politics have, even more than others in the region, been at the World rights available mercy of changes on the international stage. => Middle East Studies, Having been under Ottoman and French rule in the History nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the post- World War II era has seen Lebanon subjected to Israeli, Syrian and American interventions which have all threatened the county’s stability as a state. Joseph Bayeh argues that it is this international dimension which holds the key to an in-depth understanding of the country. In support of this argument, Bayeh examines Lebanese history from  Links domestic politics with its early days under the Ottomans to the present international relations, giving the day in order to show how international shifts and book a broader market in both of conflicts have had their impact on Lebanon. With these areas changes such as the fall of the Ottoman empire, the rise of US power after World War II, the end of the Cold War and the new focus on the region in the  Offers a new international aftermath of 9/11, Lebanon has at various perspective on political junctures been bolstered or undermined. Bayeh developments in Lebanon tracks all of this, offering insights into the workings of Lebanon’s domestic politics which will appeal to researchers of the international relations of the Middle East and Lebanon’s political history.  Covers a wide range of Lebanese history – including periods of civil war and unrest The Makers of Modern Syria The Rise and Fall of Syrian Democracy 1918-1948 Sami Moubayed

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian historian and journalist. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers. He is a blogger with The Huffington Post and an online panellist with The Washington Post. He is the author of Syria and the USA: Washington’s Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower (IBT) Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad (IBT).

August 2017 A very thorough and detailed look at the life of key Syrian nationalist political figures in the 1940s. 288 pages 7 b&w illustrations After Under the Black Flag, Sami Moubayed is returning to his routes in C20 Syrian history for his Approx. 100,000 words next book, a consideration of Syria’s ‘founding World rights available fathers’ in the years 1918-1948, based on the records of Syria’s defence minister Ahmad al- => International Sharabati, a man whose political career, although Relations & Politics, brief, tells an important chapter of the history of Middle East, History Syria. It’s a tragic story of an entire generation of Syrian nationalists, filled with justice denied, hopes dashed, and democracy amputated. The book tries to shed light on Ahmad al-Sharabati’s role in the  A new perspective on Syrian Palestine War of 1948, and examines his reasons history for resigning as Minister of Defense, an act which foreshadowed the calamity of Husni al-Za’im’s coup d'état. In this book, Sami Moubayed tries to unearth  Author with growing track-record important and long-hidden truths about Ahmad al- and recognition Sharabati and his generation of Syrian nationalists who constituted the first democratic government of Syria.  Access to insider sources and documents The Reporting of Genocide Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights David Patrick

David Patrick is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He completed his PhD in Modern History at Sheffield University.

August 2017 ‘We have all been bystanders to genocide: The crucial question is why.' - Samantha Power 224 pages

Aprox. 100,000 words The West’s responses to genocide are mixed. While the UK and US are committed to the ideals World rights available of human rights, freedom and equality, reactions => International are tempered by geopolitical ‘noise’, pre- Relations, History conceived ideas of worth and media attention- spans. This study of the media response to genocide looks at the two most recent genocides – those of Rwanda in 1994 and Bosnia in 1992-5. Among other observations, David Patrick argues in particular that an over-reliance on the Holocaust as the framing device we use to try and come to terms with such horrors can lead to slow  A Controversial and important responses, mis-interpretation and category errors subject matter – in both Rwanda and Bosnia, much energy was expended trying to ascertain whether these regions qualified for ‘genocide’ status as compared to the Holocaust, and such a debate can be  Contains a mass of primary harmful. He shows how genocide in and of itself is research not enough to guarantee press interest, that in order to gain the attention of the world such tragedies are reduced to stereotypes - framed in terms of innocent victims and brutal oppressors - which can sometimes over-simplify the situation on the ground, and that such problems lead to mixed and inadequate responses from governments. In fact, the British and American responses to Bosnia and Rwanda were insufficient and despite rhetoric of human rights, genocide is often reduced to a debating point. Stalin’s Maverick Spy The Story of a British Super-Agent in World War II Hamish MacGibbon

Hamish MacGibbon was Director of the Publishing House James and James. He is the son of James and Jean MacGibbon.

August 2017 A gripping World War II espionage story.

288 pages A few years before he died James MacGibbon 25 b&w illustrations confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of Approx. 100,000 words the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and World rights available interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and => History, Biography, their young family under close surveillance for a World War II number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James’s death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear – in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for , D-Day. In this book,  Unknown World War II story James’s son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and

their flirtation with wartime espionage. It isa  New perspective on espionage, unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught communism and D-Day planning up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.

 Sheds light on UK-US-USSR relations during World War II The Myth of Hero and Leander The History an Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend Silvia Montiglio

Silvia Montiglio is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. Her previous books include Silence in the Land of Logos; Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture; From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought; Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel; and, most recently, The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature (I.B.Tauris). September 2017 304 pages One of the most resilient tales from the ancient world, whose resonant themes of love and loss, 10 b&w integrated and of sex and death, speak to us still across both Approx. 102,000 words time and the distant straits of the sea.

World rights available Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical => Classic & ancient tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a History, Mythology tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover’s  The first time this fascinating mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself subject has been written about in from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia English Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West.  Author is a leading and senior US- Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and based interpreter of ancient Greek eroticism, the author explores the origin of the myth and legend legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages – notably in the  General appeal as well as to writings of Christine de Pizan – and Renaissance; students of classics & comparative how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and literature how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton. Religion in the Roman World Gods, Myth and Magic in Ancient Rome Juliette Harrisson

Juliette Harrisson is Lecturer in History at Newman University, Birmingham. She is the author of Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination (2013).

September 2017 The Gods of Rome are brought back to life in this lively and accessible history of Roman Religion. 304 pages 25 b&w integrated The Romans had a persisting and voracious appetite for myth, magic and ritual. They invoked Approx. 85,000 words the local gods to rain down punishment on World rights available adulterers or thieves. They burned fragrant resin for the protecting deities of hearth and home. They => Classic & Ancient sacrificed at temples to bring glory to the divine History, Religion & person of the emperor. And they conducted secret Mythology rites of initiation into cults like those devoted to Isis, Cybele, Dionysus and Mithras. Juliette Harrisson shows ancient Rome to have been a hive of religious experimentation. In her new and comprehensive survey, she takes her readers from  The widest-ranging and most the turmoil of the Late Republic to the high point of accessible treatment of Roman imperial rule (133 BC-AD 235), thereby exploring religion in print the many facets of religiosity in the Roman world. She examines, among other topics, worship of the state-sanctioned Olympian gods and the role of  Written by an experienced religion in Roman politics; the impact of ‘mystery pedagogue and teacher cults’ focused on Greek, Near Eastern and Egyptian deities; attitudes towards witchcraft, superstition and the early monotheists; and evidence for  Considerable general plus ancient atheism. An epilogue discusses the rise of interdisciplinary student appeal Christianity in the third and fourth centuries. Building Stalinism The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space Cynthia Ruder

Cynthia Ruder is an associate professor of Russian Studies at the University of Kentucky. She previously published Making History for Stalin, which focused on the 1933 construction of the Belomor Canal. She has also contributed to peer- reviewed journals and edited collections and was the only non-Russian citizen who participated in the conference to commemorate the 70th anniversary (2007) of the Moscow Canal’s opening in 1937.

October 2017 An inter-disciplinary and innovative exploration of the all-pervasive nature of Stalinism and its 304 pages afterlife in Russia today. 10 b&w integrated Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of Approx. 100,000 words leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and World rights available provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water. Yet the past looms heavy over these => History, Soviet quotidian activities: the canal was built by Gulag Society inmates at the height of Stalinism and thousands died in the process. In this wide-ranging book, Cynthia Ruder argues that the construction of the canal physically manifests Stalinist ideology and that the vertical, horizontal, underwater, ideological, artistic and  Extensive use of archival sources, metaphorical spaces created by it resonate with the personal interviews and desire of the state to dominate all space within and contemporary material outside the Soviet Union. Approached through an extensive range of archival sources, personal interviews and contemporary documentary  The first English-language study of materials these include a diverse body of artefacts this signature Stalinist – from waterways, structures, paintings, sculptures, literary and documentary works, and the Gulag  construction project itself. Building Stalinism concludes by analysing  Considers the complex legacy of current efforts to reclaim the legacy of the canal as Stalinism in Russia today a memorial space that ensures that those who suffered and died building it are remembered. Corinth in Late Antiquity A Greek, Roman and Christian City Amelia Brown

Amelia Brown is a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has published widely on ancient Greece in the late antique and early Byzantine periods.

September 2017 A history of roman and late Antique Corinth.

272 pages Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the 20 b&w illustrations radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Approx. 80,000 words Mediterranean world from the second to sixth World rights available centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, => Classic History, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late Mediterranean antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian Archaeology authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city’s ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical  The first ever comprehensive records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of scholarly guide to Corinth in Late urban transformation, from the old Agora and Antiquity temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways  Makes use of all available sources, Corinthians responded to internal and external creating the definitive and pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing synthetic work on the topic urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological  Accessibly written, with studies, she connects this process to broader researcher, student and trade changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the audiences in mind. late antique Mediterranean.

Inferno A Cultural History of Hell Margaret Kean

Margaret Kean is a Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford and Dame Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda's College Oxford. She is the author of John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Sourcebook and has contributed to a variety of publications including Blackwell's A Companion to Milton.

October 2017 Doom, damnation and everlasting anguish: why do we remain so fascinated by the horrors of hell? 288 pages

40 b&w illustrations Eternal fire, diabolical torment, graphic mortification of the flesh and a smoke-filled Approx. 90,000 words underworld pierced by the despairing shrieks of the World rights available damned: the idea of Hell has for thousands of years exerted both fascination and terror. And despite its => History, Literature horrors, it is hard to resist its almost seductive allure. Whether expressed in medieval Doom paintings and grim warnings of everlasting suffering, or in modern psychological interpretations, the belief in a ghastly terminus for the souls of the cursed has proved remarkably resilient and persistent. It has far outlived specific  A unique and diverse exploration portrayals by artists, writers and theologians, and of a fascinating subject has seemed far more resonant an idea than either a heavenly Paradise or New Jerusalem. In her rich and wide-ranging book, Margaret Kean tells the history of hell through literature,  Highly promotable author philosophy, art, music and film. She shows that affirmations of human freedom and the value of the individual have remained closely tied to the  Strong cross-disciplinary appeal: notion of hell even as contemporary narratives to students of literature, history, have replaced a medieval mindset. From Dante and Bosch to Blake and Milton, and from Joseph Conrad religion and art - and general and Primo Levi to Angel Heart, Alien 3 and Event readers Horizon, Kean vividly explores hell as both secular confessional and divinely ordained penal colony - as metaphor for alienation and infernal locale for one's never-ending worst nightmare. Iran and the West Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic Margaux Whiskin (Ed)

Margaux Whiskin is a lecturer in the languages department at the University of Warwick. She has previously taught at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of St. Andrews, where she also received her PhD.

October 2017 A timely reassessment of mutual cultural perceptions between Iran and the West. 352 pages 20 b&w illustrations Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to Approx. 120,000 words be at odds. Iran and the West charts this World rights available contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each => History, Middle East, other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, Politics perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and historical representations of the ‘other’ and the ways in which these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for example, have their  Appeal to a wide range of origin in the ancient world but have since been disciplines altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda. Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour and Azar  Supported by foreword from Ali Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter- Ansari disciplinary and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on the complex history, present and future of Iranian–Western relations Jane Austen’s England A Walking Guide Anne-Marie Edwards

Anne-Marie Edwards is the author of over 40 travel guides to the English countryside. She contributed to the The Jane Austen Companion and Walker’s Britain. Edwards originally broadcast most of these walks on the BBC. She is a member of the Ramblers Association, the Backpackers Club, The British Shakespeare Association and the Jane Austen Society.

October 2017 A unique guide to Jane Austen’s England.

224 pages This is an engaging account of Austen’s life and 60 b&w illustrations, 15 work, arranged as a series of walking tours through maps the towns and countryside she knew and loved – the settings for her novels. The 15 circular walks in Approx. 120,000 words the book describe the country houses, churches, World rights available great estates and elegant cities Austen knew and introduce the reader to the real-life people she => Travel, History, met, many of whom gave her hints for the Literature characters in her novels. The walks include Godmersham House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice and the view from Box Hill, scene of the ‘exploring party’ in Emma.

 The only walking guide to Jane Austen's England

 Vividly illuminates all the places that appear in Austen's novels

 Austen has a huge fanbase and this will be essential reading for all Austen fans and travellers Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England A History of Sorcery and Treason Francis Young

Francis Young is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and gained a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. He is the author and editor of several books, including English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553-1829, The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767, The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds: History, Legacy and Discovery and A History of Exorcism in Catholic October 2017 Christianity. 256 pages Can English history be understood apart from Approx. 80,000 words accusations of magic and treason? The 400-year World rights available history of a vital and neglected topic.

=> History, Religion, Treason and magic were first linked together during Magic & Folklore the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the ‘superstition’ embodied by magic came to be  A big book with a big idea: the associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis political events of English history Young here offers the first concerted historical cannot be understood except analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to through the history of magic and harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the its accusers course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the  First book to explore English Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject magical treason as quite separate usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: and distinct from witchcraft a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the  Author is an authoritative figure convictions of undesirables, magic was also on witchcraft and magic perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond. The Special Operations Executive (SEO) in Burma Jungle Warfare and Intelligence Gathering in World War II Richard Duckett

Richard Duckett is Lecturer in History at Reading College. He is an expert on WWII in Burma.

October 2017 The fist study of the SEO’s extensive and extraordinary activities in occupied Burma during 276 pages the Second World War. 12 b&w integrated, 2 maps Using newly declassified documents, The Special Approx. 80,000 words Operations Executive in Burma uncovers the history of SOE’s involvement in Burma from 1941 until World rights available beyond Burma’s independence from the British => Military History Empire in 1948. Richard Duckett charts the unknown story of the secret war against the Japanese, fought by the Special Operations Executive in the jungle and mountains of Burma. This is the first study of the Special Operations Executive’s extensive and extraordinary activities in  Contains previously unpublished occupied Burma during the Second World War. Operating in the jungle, deep behind enemy lines, primary sources the SOE played a key role in the retaking of Burma after the Japanese invasion. At the edges of the old British Empire, the story is also one of de-  Also story of decolonisation, the colonization, the end of imperial military history end of imperial military history and of a changing of the guard – the SOE were often men ‘trained on the playing fields of Eton’ and of a changing of the guard and their exploits carry a romantic, even nostalgic colour, for military historians. This book is based on absolutely meticulous primary research in the National Archives – most of the material is unseen and has never been used, and there are even some wonderful photographs we can print for the first time. The Old Believers in Imperial Russia Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow Peter De Simone

Peter De Simone is an assistant professor in the School of History at Utica College, New York. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences internationally on the Old Believers.

October 2017 A thoroughly researched account of a religious 250 pages minority in Imperial Russia.

20 b&w illustrations Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there Approx. 100,000 words will be no fourth.’ So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite World rights available Russia as heirs to the legacy of the Roman Empire => History, Religion following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The so-called ‘Third Rome Doctrine’ spurred the creation of the Russian Orthodox Church, although just a century later a further schism occurred, with the Old Believers (or ‘Old Ritualists’) challenging Patriarch Nikon’s liturgical and ritualistic reforms and laying their own claim to the mantle of Roman legacy. While scholars have commonly painted the  Appeal to both history and subsequent history of the Old Believers as one of religion lists survival in the face of persistent persecution at the hands of both tsarist and church authorities, Peter De Simone here offers a more nuanced picture.  Based on previously unexplored Based on research into extensive, yet mostly archival material from a scholar unknown, archival materials in Moscow, he shows with rare linguistic skill (Church the Old Believers as versatile and opportunistic, Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic) and demonstrates that they actively engaged with, and even challenged, the very notion of the spiritual and ideological place of Moscow in  Research serves as a microcosm of Imperial Russia. Ranging in scope from Peter the a changing Russia over a broad Great to Lenin, this book will be of use to all chronological span. scholars of Russian and Orthodox Church history. Embracing the Darkness A Cultural History of Witchcraft John Callow

John Callow is a writer and historian specializing in seventeenth-century politics, witchcraft and popular cultures. He is the author of 13 books, including of Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Europe, which he co- authored with Geoffrey Scarre. He broadcasts regularly for the BBC.

November 2017 Few cultural icons are as powerful and resonant as 304 pages the figure of the witch.

10 b&w illustrations As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Approx. 119,000 words Luther –hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle – found himself seemingly tormented by demons World rights available hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of => History, Soviet Union rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belief in the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley; from the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive  The first comprehensive cultural sorceresses of TV’s Charmed; and from Derek history of the witch to be Jarman’s punk film Jubilee to Ken Russell’s The published in English Devils, John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating life.  Gripping reading for historians, students of culture and religion, and general readers

 Interest in witchcraft is exponential: from films, novels and rock songs to exponents of MBS and Wicca Antiquity Imagined The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East Robin Derricourt

304 pages Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially 40 b&w illustrations, 1 map to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and approx. 100,000 words observable. The region has been seen as the source of => Ancient History, Mythology & civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also of Esoterism, Archaeology mystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether about the Rights available: World Lost City of Atlantis or visits by alien beings. In his exploration of how its past has been creatively interpreted by later ages, Robin Derricourt surveys the various claims that have been made for Robin Derricourt is Honorary Egypt - particularly the idea that it harbours an esoteric wisdom Associate Professor of Archaeology vital to the world’s survival. He looks at ‘alternative’ interpretations of the pyramids, from maps of space and time to at the University of New South landing markers for UFOs; at images of the Egyptian mummy Wales. He is the author of Inventing and at the popular mythology of the ‘pharaoh’s curse’; and at Africa: History, Archaeology and imperialist ideas of racial superiority that credited Egypt with Ideas and of People of the Lakes: spreading innovations and inventions as far as the Americas, Archaeological Studies in Northern Australia and China. His book is the first to show in depth how ancient Egypt and the surrounding lands have so continuously Zambia. and seductively tantalised the Western imagination.

Babylon Legend, History and the Ancient City Michael Seymour

384 pages Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury 27 b&w illustrations and wickedness. ‘By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and approx. 100,000 words wept’, wrote the psalmist, ‘as we remembered Zion’. One of the => Ancient History, Religion, greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon has been eclipsed Middle East, Archaeology by its own sinful reputation. More recently the site of Babylon Rights available: World has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work have done little to displace the many other fascinating ways in which the city has endured and reinvented itself in culture. Saddam Hussein, for one, notoriously exploited Michael Seymour is a Research the Babylonian myth to associate himself and his regime with its Associate in the Department of glorious past. Why has Babylon so creatively fired the human Ancient Near Eastern Art at the imagination, with results both good and ill? Why has it been so Metropolitan Museum of Art, New enthralling to so many, and for so long? Michael Seymour’s book York. He is co-author (with I.L. ranges extensively over space and time and embraces art, Finkel) of Babylon: Myth and archaeology, history and literature. The author brings to light a Reality. carnival of disparate sources dominated by powerful and intoxicating ideas such as the Tower of Babel and the city of sin. The Spell of Hypnos Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature Silvia Montiglio

336 pages Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, 11 b&w illustrations honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither approx. 90,000 words was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, => Mythology, History, Religion often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by Rights available: World a god or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative relationship, as when Penelope for the first time in weeks slumbers happily through Odysseus’ vengeful slaughter of her suitors. Silvia Montiglio’s imaginative and comprehensive study Silvia Montiglio is Basil L of the topic illuminates the various ways writers in antiquity Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at used sleep to deal with major aspects of plot and character Johns Hopkins University. Her development. The author shows that sleeplessness, too, carries previous books include Silence in great weight in classical literature. Exploring recurring tropes of the Land of Logos; Wandering in somnolence and wakefulness in the Iliad, the Odyssey, Athenian Ancient Greek Culture; From Villain drama, the Argonautica and ancient novels by Xenophon, to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Chariton, Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, this is a unique Thought and Love and Providence: contribution to better understandings of ancient Greek writing. Recognition in the Ancient Novel.

Twin Horse Gods The Dioskouroi in Mythologies of the Ancient World Henry John Walker

288 pages The twin deities known by the ancient Greeks as the Dioskouroi, approx. 85,000 words and by the Romans as the Gemini, were popular figures in the => Ancient History, Mythology classical world. They were especially connected with youth, low Rights available: World status and service, and were embraced by the common people in a way that eluded those gods associated with regal magnificence or the ruling classes. Despite their popularity, no dedicated study has been published on the horse gods for over a hundred years. Henry John Walker here addresses this neglect. Henry John Walker is Senior His comparative study traces the origins, meanings and Lecturer in Classical and Medieval applications of the twin divinities to social and ritual settings in Studies at Bates College, Lewiston, Greece, Vedic India (where the brothers named Castor and Maine. He is the author of Theseus Pollux were revered as Indo-European gods called the Asvins), and Athens (1995) and of Etruria and classical Rome. He demonstrates, for example, that Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One since the Dioskouroi were regarded as being halfway between Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome gods and men, so young Spartans – undergoing a fierce and (2004). rigorous military training – saw themselves as standing midway between animal and human. Such creative interpretations of the myth thus played a central role in the culture and society of antiquity. The Devil A New Biography Philip C. Almond

288 pages It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as 26 b&w & colour illustrations many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, approx. 85,000 words Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in => Religion, History, Philosophy Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has Rights sold: NL, US throughout the ages and across civilizations been a compelling and charismatic presence. For two thousand years the supposed reign of God has been challenged by the fiery malice of his opponent, as contending forces of good and evil have between Philip C. Almond is Emeritus them weighed human souls in the balance. In this rich and multi- Professor of Religion in the textured biography, Philip C Almond explores the figure of the University of Queensland. He has devil from the first centuries of the Christian era through the rise published several titles with of classical demonology and witchcraft persecutions to the I.B.Tauris. modern post-Enlightenment ‘decline’ of Hell. The author shows that the Prince of Darkness, in all his incarnations, remains an irresistible subject in history, religion, art, literature and culture.

Afterlife A History of Life After Death Philip C. Almond

256 pages For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of 34 b&w & colour illustrations life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually approx. 85,000 words have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance => Religion, History of Ideas, beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philosophy Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable journey to Rights sold: DE, HU, PL, US worlds both of torment and delight. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only if a gold obol is first placed for Philip C. Almond is Emeritus payment on the tongue of its corpse. He transports us to the Professor of Religion in the legendary Isles of the Blessed, walks the hallowed ground of the University of Queensland. He has Elysian Fields and plumbs the murky depths of Tartarus, published several titles with primordial dungeon of the Titans. The pitiable souls of the I.B.Tauris. damned are seen to clog the soot-filled caverns of Lucifer even as the elect ascend to Paradise. Including medieval fears for the fate of those consumed by cannibals, early modern ideas about the Last Day and modern scientific explorations of the domains of the dead, this first full treatment of the afterlife in Western thought evokes many rich imaginings of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Limbo. The Witches of Warboys An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Passion Philip C. Almond

240 pages When one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth 20 b&w illustrations Throckmorton suddenly fell sick in 1589, no one in the small approx. 85,000 words English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying => History, Witchcraft events that would follow. Or envisaged that four years later, in Rights sold: ES April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbours Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of the Philip C. Almond is Emeritus witches of Warboys. Yet despite a rich and colourful cast of Professor of Religion in the characters, and a potent mixture of tension and pathos to match University of Queensland. He has anything in the later Salem witch trials, it has never before been published several titles with told in full. At the heart of the narrative coils a dark account of I.B.Tauris. possession by demons, of malevolent spirits, of trust broken and of children accursed. Philip Almond leads us into a half-forgotten world of horror and crime, of victims and victimisers, of spectres, sex with the devil and 'scratching' the witch: a macabre and dangerous world where nothing is as it seems, where evil begets evil, and where innocence is betrayed.

From Gabriel to Lucifer A Cultural History of Angels Valery Rees

288 pages For sceptics, angels may be no more than metaphors: poetic 21 b&w illustration devices to convey, at least for those with a religious sensibility, approx. 90,000 words an active divine interest in creation. But for others, angels are => Religion, History of Ideas absolutely real creatures: manifestations of cosmic power with Rights sold: DE the capacity either to enlighten or annihilate those whose awestruck paths they cross. Valery Rees offers the first comprehensive history of these beautiful, enigmatic and sometimes dangerous beings, whose existence and actions have been charted across the eons of time A prominent scholar of the and civilization. Whether exploring the fevered visions of Ezekiel Renaissance, Valery Rees is a Senior and biblical cherubim; Persian genii; Arab djinn; Islamic Member of the School of Economic archangels; the austere and haunting icons of Andrei Rublev; or Science in London. She co-edited Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and the more benign idea of the Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His watchful guardian angel, the author shows that the ubiquity of Philosophy, His Legacy (2002), and these celestial messengers reveals something profound, if not has featured as a regular panellist about God or the devil, then about ourselves: our perennial on BBC Radio 4's flagship ideas preoccupation with the transcendent. programme, In Our Time. Winter is Coming The Medieval World of Game of Thrones Carolyne Larrington

272 pages Game of Thrones is a phenomenon. As Carolyne Larrington 40 b&w illustrations reveals in this essential companion to George R. R. Martin’s approx. 80,000 words fantasy novels and the HBO mega-hit series based on them the => Medieval History, Visual show is the epitome of water-cooler TV. It is the subject of Culture, Fantasy & Myth intense debate in national newspapers; by students, bloggers Rights sold: CN, DE, EE, ES and cultural commentators contesting the series’ startling portrayals of power, sex and gender. Yet no book has divulged how George R R Martin constructed his remarkable universe out Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and of the Middle Ages. Discussing novels and TV series alike, Tutor in Medieval English Literature Larrington explores among other topics: sigils, giants, dragons at St John’s College, Oxford. Her and direwolves in medieval texts; ravens, old gods and the previous books include She is the Weirwood in Norse myth; and a gothic, exotic orient in the author of several titles published eastern continent, Essos. From the White Walkers to the Red with I.B. Tauris. Woman, from Casterley Rock to the Shivering Sea, this is an indispensable guide to the twenty-first century’s most important fantasy creation.

The Land of the Green Man A Journey Through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles Carolyne Larrington

264 pages Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is 31 b&w illustrations, 1 map another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and approx. 90,000 words unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic => History, Mythology & Folklore mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the Rights sold: CN undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed bythe psyches of those who inhabit them? In this sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and myriad of fantastical beings has moulded the nation’s cultural Tutor in Medieval English Literature history. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, at St John’s College, Oxford. Her sometimes malignly, over an eerie landscape that also conceals previous books include She is the brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o’Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee and Black Shuck: author of several titles published terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning with I.B. Tauris. coal. This is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where giants lie in wait. King Arthur’s Enchantresses Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition Carolyne Larrington

272 pages King Arthur summons visions of courtly chivalry, towering 36 b&w illustrations castles, windswept battlefields, heroic quests, and above all of approx. 90,000 words the monarch who dies but who one day shall return. The => Mythology, History, Religion Arthurian legend lives on as powerfully and enduringly as ever. Rights sold: CN Yet central to these stories are the mysterious, sexually alluring enchantresses - spellcasters, mistresses of magic who wield extraordinary influence over Arthur's life and destiny. Carolyne Larrington takes her readers on a quest to discover why these Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and dangerous women continue to bewitch us. She explores them as Tutor in Medieval English Literature they appear in poetry and painting, on the Internet and TV, in at St John’s College, Oxford. Her high and popular culture and shows that whether they be chaste previous books include She is the or depraved, necrophiliacs or virgins, they are manifestations of author of several titles published the Other, frightening and fascinating in equal measure. with I.B. Tauris.

Magic and Masculinity Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era Frances Timbers

232 pages In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial 10 b&w illustrations magic – the attempted communication with angels and demons approx. 100,000 words – both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. => Early Modern History, Religion, The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control Witchcraft and command commensurate with their social position in a Rights available: World patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the Frances Timbers is a Postdoctoral spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to Researcher at University of Victoria, undermine the patriarchal culture and further their own agenda. Canada. She holds a PhD from Frances Timbers studies the practice of ritual magic in the University of Toronto. sixteenth and seventeenth centuries focusing especially on gender and sexual perspectives. Using the examples of -well known individuals who set themselves up as magicians (including John Dee, Simon Forman and William Lilly), as well as unpublished diaries and journals, literature and legal records, this book provides a unique analysis of early modern ceremonial magic from a gender perspective. The Female Mystic Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages Andrea Janelle Dickens

256 pages The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was 15 b&w illustrations astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval approx. 85,000 words period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing => Religion, History, Gender people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, Studies uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited Rights available: World poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet Andrea Janelle Dickens is Assistant the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and Professor of Ancient and Medieval religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay Church History at United religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which Theological Seminary, Trotwood, was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book Ohio. She has written many essays rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose and articles on medieval theology lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval and spirituality, and is also the theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed author of The I.B.Tauris History of as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. This attractive survey Monasticism: The Western provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets Tradition. their ideas in context.

Renaissance Woman

Gaia Servadio

288 pages The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and 20 b&w illustrations indeed a ‘New Woman’, proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast approx. 90,000 words of a book. She dates the birth of this revolutionary movement => History, Biography not to the traditionally quoted year of 1492 but to the invention Rights sold: IT of the printing press in 1456, which made books – and hence education – available to women. Central to her story are the lives of such as Vittoria Colonna, whose extraordinary mutual love with Michelangelo is told here, Tullia d’Aragona, poet and Gaia Servadio is a broadcaster, the best known courtesan of her age, and French poet Louise journalist, editor and writer, whose Labé, who fought in battle in male clothes. They are placed books include Mafioso, Luchino centre stage to the Renaissance’s power plays, paintings and Visconti: A Biography, The Real architecture, courtesans and popes, music and manners, fashion, Traviata and Rossini. food, cosmetics, changing societies and the language of poetry and symbols The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats Kate Felus

272 pages Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and 70 b&w & colour illustrations enjoyed of the UK’s historical treasures The Georgian garden approx. 80,000 words has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to => Social History European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from Rights available: World grass, trees and water – a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous. Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, Kate Felus is a garden historian and this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals historic landscape consultant. She its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to researches & writes about designed evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the 18th century landscapes of all periods, there was a desire to escape the busy country house where specializing particularly in privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved eighteenth and early nineteenth- aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other century parks and gardens. eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks.

The Georgian Menagerie Exotic animals in Eighteenth-Century London Christopher Plumb

In the 18th century, it would not have been impossible for a 256 pages visitor to London to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo 12 b&w illustrations making its way down the Strand, heading towards the approx. 75,000 words menagerie of Mr Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock’s was => Social History, British Empire just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their Rights available: World trade in London in this period – attracting visitors and potential customers. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London’s ports, the menagerists gained access to animals from the most far-flung corners of the globe. Many Christopher Plumb is an aristocratic families sought to create their own private independent historian. He has menageries with which to entertain their guests, whilst for the worked as a television and museum less well-heeled, touring exhibitions of exotic creatures – both consultant and holds a PhD from alive and dead – satisfied their curiosity for the animal world. Manchester University. Whilst many exotic creatures were treasured as a form of spectacle, others fared less well – turtles and civet cats were sought after as ingredients for soup and perfume respectively. In this book, Christopher Plumb introduces many tales of exotic animals in London in this period in an entertaining and enlightening book which will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in Georgian Britain. British Imperial What the Empire Wasn’t Bernard Porter

224 pages The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ 16 b&w illustrations widely, from broadly adulatory - a ‘great’ enterprise, spreading approx. 55,000 words ‘civilization’ through the world; to the blame that is often put on => Social History it for most of the world’s ills today, including racism, exploitation Rights available: World and the problems of the Middle East. In this provocative book, Bernard Porter argues that many of these judgments arise from some fundamental misreadings of the nature, causes and effects of British imperialism, which was a more complex, ambivalent Bernard Porter is Emeritus and in some ways accidental phenomenon than it is often taken Professor of History at the to be. Drawing on his fifty years’ experience of research and University of Newcastle. He has writing on the subject, Porter aims to clear away many of the published ten books before this misconceptions that surround the story of the British Empire’s one, many of them on imperial rise, governance and fall; and to point some ways to a fairer themes, including Critics of Empire, (though not necessarily more favourable) assessment of it. He The Lion’s Share and The Absent- addresses the connections of imperialism with capitalism, racism Minded Imperialists. and British domestic culture, and ends with some reflections on the modern repercussions of both the Empire itself, and the myths which have sprung up around it.

Original Spin Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain Paul Brighton

288 pages Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of 14 b&w illustrations confidential information and tightly-organised media launches - approx. 97,000 words the well-known world of modern political spin. But is this really a => History, Politics new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the Rights available: World press for as long as newspapers have existed? In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, media-savvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and Paul Brighton is Executive Principal nineteenth centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone Lecturer and Head of the and Disraeli, Prime Ministers have all tried to manipulate the Department of Media and Film at press to a greater or lesser extent. Brighton uncovers the covert the University of Wolverhampton. contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how He was previously a journalist and the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed worked for BBC Radio 4 and BBC their viewpoints via the newspapers. For the first time, Original News 24. Spin tells the whole, unvarnished, story. The Fall of the House of Speyer The Story of a Banking Dynasty George W. Liebmann

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little 256 pages known today. Yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the 45 b&w illustrations third largest investment banking firm in the United States, approx. 84,000 words behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, => History, Economic History Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included Rights available: World the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany’s Weimar Republic, as George W. Liebmann is a lawyer well as providing League of Nations loans to Hungary, Greece and historian specialising in and Bulgaria. Yet, the firm was doomed by the nationalist American and international history. passions aroused by World War I. Its English partner was His publications include Diplomacy denaturalised and exiled; its American partner enjoyed reduced Between the Wars: Five Diplomats standing because of his connection to Germany; and the and the Shaping of the Modern Frankfurt branch closed with the coming of the Third Reich, its World and The Last American German partner fleeing into exile. The firm was dissolved in Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and 1939, a surprisingly anticlimactic end to one of the great the Changing Face of US Diplomacy international banking companies of modern times. George W. (both I.B.Tauris). Liebmann here tells the story of the firm and the family – shedding new light on the protagonists of a remarkable dynasty.

Drink and Culture in 19th Century Ireland The Alcohol Trade and the Politics of the Irish Public House Bradley Kadel 256 pages The vibrant Irish public house of the nineteenth century 45 b&w illustrations hosted broad networks of social power, enabling publicans approx. 85,000 words and patrons to disseminate tremendous influence across => Social & Cultural History Ireland and beyond. During the period, affluent publicans Rights available: World coalesced into one of the most powerful and sophisticated forces in Irish parliamentary politics. They commanded an unmatched economic route to middle-class prosperity, inserted themselves into the centre of crucial legislative Bradley Kadel is Assistant Professor debates, and took part in fomenting the issues of class, of History at Fayetteville State gender, and national identity which continue to be contested University, University of North today. From the other side of the bar, regular patrons relied on Carolina. this social institution to construct, manage and spread their various social and political causes. From Daniel O’Connell to the Guinness dynasty, the Acts of Union to the , and Christmas boxes to Fenianism; Bradley Kadel offers a first and much-needed scholarly examination of the ‘incendiary politics of the pub’ in nineteenth-century Ireland. The University of Cambridge A New History Gill R. Evans

400 pages The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities 46 b&w illustrations, 2 maps have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts approx. 120,000 words elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford => History, General Interest and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and Rights sold: CN gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts and heretical outbursts, shifts of political and religious allegiance and gripping stories of individual heroism and defiance, they are also narratives of difference and distinctiveness. In this first history of it’s kind, G. Gill R. Evans is Professor of R. Evans explores the remarkable and unique contribution that Medieval Theology and Intellectural Cambridge University has made to society and culture, both in History in the University of Britain and right across the globe, and will subsequently publish Cambridge. The author of over 50 her history of Oxford University to complete a major new history books, she is also general editor of of the two universities. Ranging across 800 years of vivid history, the I.B.Tauris History of the Church. packed with incident, Evans here explores great thinkers such as John Duns Scotus - the 13th century Franciscan Friar who gave his name his name to 'dunces' - and celebrates the extraordinary molecular breakthroughs of Watson and Crick in the 20th century.

The University of Oxford A New History Gill R. Evans

384 pages The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder. After its 53 b&w illustrations foundation in the late 12th century it made a crucial approx. 120,000 words contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities — => History, General Interest the study of the liberal arts law, medicine and theology — and Rights sold: CN attracted teachers of international calibre and fame. In her concise and much-praised new history, G. R. Evans reveals a powerhouse of learning and culture. Over a span of more than 800 years Oxford has nurtured some of the greatest minds, while right across the globe its name is synonymous with Gill R. Evans is Professor of educational excellence. From dangerous political upheavals Medieval Theology and Intellectural caused by the radical and inflammatory ideas of John Wyclif to History in the University of the bloody 1555 martyrdoms of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Cambridge. The author of over 50 Ridley; and from John Ruskin's innovative lectures on art and books, she is also general editor of explosive public debate between Charles Darwin and his the I.B.Tauris History of the Church. opponents to gentler meetings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings in the 'Bird and Baby', Evans brings Oxford's revolutionary events, as well as its remarkable intellectual journey, to vivid and sparkling life. The Congress of Vienna and Its Legacy War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon Mark Jarrett

544 pages Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest 44 b&w & colour illustrations crises in its history. In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and approx. 125,000 words their ministers descended upon Vienna to reconstruct Europe => History, Diplomacy, Politics after two decades of revolution and war, with the major Rights available: World decisions made by the statesmen of the great powers — Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand, Hardenberg and Emperor Alexander of Russia. The territorial reconstruction of Europe, however, is only a part of this story. It was followed, in the years 1815 to 1822, by a bold experiment in international cooperation Mark Jarrett holds a PhD in History and counter-revolution, known as the ‘Congress System’. The from Stanford University. He has Congress of Vienna and subsequent Congresses constituted a taught at Hofstra University and major turning point – the first genuine attempt to forge an Stanford University. ‘international order’, to bring long-term peace to a troubled Europe, and to control the pace of political change through international supervision and intervention. Based upon extensive research, this book provides a fresh look at a pivotal but often neglected period.

Kitchener Hero and Anti-Hero Brad C. Faught

320 pages The years before World War I were the ‘Age of the 26 b&w illustrations Dreadnought’. The monumental design, first approx. 120,000 words introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was => Naval & Military History, quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of World War I maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re- Rights available: World writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers - Germany, America and Japan - from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. He shows how the dreadnought C. Brad Faught is Professor of enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy History and Chair of the of the ‘Pax Britannica’ in the Victorian era to being a war-ready Department of History at Tyndale fighting force in the early years of the twentieth century. The University College in Toronto.He is ensuing era of intensifying naval competition rapidly became a the author of Into Africa: The full-blooded naval arms race, leading to the development of Imperial Life of Margery Perham; super-dreadnoughts and escalating tensions between the The New A-Z of Empire (both European powers. Providing a truly international perspective on published by I.B.Tauris). the dreadnought phenomenon, this book will be essential reading for all naval history enthusiasts and anyone interested in World War I. Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire A History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the Levant Dorothe Sommer

336 pages The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle 31 b&w & colour illustrations East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – approx. 100,000 words within the area – as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional => Middle East & Social History domination. But here, Dorothe Sommer explains how Rights available: World freemasonry in Greater Syria at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century actually developed a life of its own, promoting local and regional identities. She stresses that during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, freemasonry was Dorothe Sommer holds a PhD in actually one of the first institutions in what is now Syria and History from The University of Lebanon which overcame religious and sectarian divisions. Leiden. She formerly worked at The Indeed, the lodges attracted more participants – such as the Centre for Research into members of the Trad and Yaziji Family, Khaireddeen Freemasonry and Fraternalism at Abdulwahab, Hassan Bayhum, Alexander Barroudi and Jurji The University of Sheffield. Yanni - than any other society or fraternity. Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire analyses the social and cultural structures of the Masonic network of lodges and their interconnections at a pivotal juncture in the history of the Ottoman Empire, making it invaluable for researchers of the history of the Middle East.

Politics and Peasantry in Post-War Turkey Social History, Culture and Modernization Sinan Yildirmaz

304 pages When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World 4 b&w illustrations War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much approx. 90,000 words of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Atatürk’s task of building a => Turkish & Modern European nation ‘from the people up’ meant that the peasantry, by far History Turkey’s largest ethnographic group, became an important Rights available: World symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the material culture of this peasantry – their speeches, social club documents, art and Sinan Yildirmaz is Assistant diaries – and reveals a rich social and political life which Professor of History at Istanbul flowered after the Second World War. Politics and the Peasantry University and an expert on the in Post-War Turkey is the first history to show how the changing cultural history of Modern Turkey. peasantry laid the foundations for the modern Turkish state, and He lives and works in Istanbul. will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the History of Modern Turkey. Dreadnought The Ship that Changed the World Roger Parkinson

320 pages The years before World War I were the ‘Age of the 26 b&w illustrations Dreadnought’. The monumental battleship design, first approx. 106,000 words introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was => Naval & Military History, quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of World War I maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re- Rights available: World writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers - Germany, America and Japan - from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. He shows how the dreadnought Roger Parkinson is a naval historian enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy with a PhD in Naval History from of the ‘Pax Britannica’ in the Victorian era to being a war-ready University of Exeter. He is the fighting force in the early years of the twentieth century. The author of The Late Victorian Navy. ensuing era of intensifying naval competition rapidly became a full-blooded naval arms race, leading to the development of super-dreadnoughts and escalating tensions between the European powers. Providing a truly international perspective on the dreadnought phenomenon, this book will be essential reading for all naval history enthusiasts and anyone interested in World War I.

Reckless Fellows The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps Edward Bujak

224 pages The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in 46 b&w illustrations 1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in approx. 66,000 words reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as => Military History, World War II ‘air cavalry’ and also in combat, establishing air superiority over Rights available: World the Imperial German Air Force. Edward Bujak here combines the history of the air war, including details of strategy, tactics, technical issues and combat, with a social and cultural history. The RFC was originally dominated by the landed elite, in Lloyd George’s phrase ‘from the stateliest houses in England’, and its Edward Bujak is Associate pilots were regarded as ‘knights of the air’. Harlaxton Manor in Professor of History at Harlaxton Lincolnshire, seat of landed gentry, became their major training College, the British campus of the base. Bujak shows how, within the circle of the RFC, the class University of Evansville, Indiana. He divide and unconscious superiority of Edwardian Britain is the author of England’s Rural disappeared – absorbed by common purpose, technical Realms: Landholding and the expertise and by an influx of pilots from Canada, Australia, New Agricultural Revolution. Zealand and South Africa. He thus provides an original and unusual take on the air war in World War I, combining military, social and cultural history. The Secret World Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War Hugh Trevor-Roper

272 pages During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the 12 b&w illustrations secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a approx. 107,000 words substantial and successful expansion of British counter- => History, World War II, espionage. Hugh Trevor-Roper’s experiences working for the Intelligence & Espionage Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the war had a profound Rights available: World impact on him and he later observed the world of intelligence with particular sharpness. To him, the subjects of wartime espionage and the complex espionage networks that developed Hugh Trevor-Roper was the most in the Cold War period were as worthy of profound investigation brilliant historian of his generation. and reflection as events from the more distant past. Expressing An expert in the history of early his observations through some of his most ironic and modern Britain and , entertaining correspondence, articles and reviews, Trevor-Roper he served in the Secret Intelligence wrote vividly about some of the greatest intelligence characters Service during World War II. He was of the age – from Kim Philby and Michael Straight to the the author of numerous books, Germans Admiral Canaris and Otto John. Including some including his famous investigation previously unpublished material, this book is a sharp, revealing of Hitler’s last days. and personal first-hand account of the intelligence world in World War II and the Cold War.

Hugh Trevor-Roper The Wartime Journals Richard Davenport-Hines

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor 336 pages -Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the 18 b&w illustrations, 2 maps sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he approx. 118,000 words confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender => History, World War II, notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty’s Service). The Intelligence & Espionage Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor- Rights available: World Roper, a war-time ‘backroom boy’ who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England - including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service, Richard Davenport-Hines is the author of the Abwehr. He became an expert in German resistance plots many books, including A Night at the and after the war interrogated many of Hitler’s immediate circle, Majestic and The Pursuit of Oblivion. investigated Hitler’s death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler’s will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper’s secret journals - unknown even to his family and closest confidants - is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. . At the same time they offer an engaging and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime. The Shadow Man At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews

288 pages James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary 12 b&w illustrations history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to approx. 100,000 words Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the => History, Communism, man who recruited promising students deemed ripe for Biography conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was Rights available: World reinforced following the release of his MI5 file and the disclosure of Soviet intelligence files in Moscow. These revealed his key part in the recruitment of John Cairncross, the so-called ‘fifth Geoff Andrews is a writer and man’, as well as his pivotal war-time role in the Special historian, who specialises in the Operations Executive in shifting Churchill and the allies to history of political ideas and support Tito and the communist Partisans in Yugoslavia. In this movements. His previous books book, Geoff Andrews reveals Klugmann’s story in full for the first include The Slow Food Story: time, uncovering the motivations, conflicts and illusions of those Politics and Pleasure and Not a drawn into the world of communism and the sacrifices they Normal Country: Italy after made on its behalf. Berlusconi.

Aftermath The Makers of Postwar World Richard Crowder

320 pages In a single decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order 16 b&w illustrations, 2 maps collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires – approx. 109,000 words France, Germany and the United Kingdom – receded, replaced => History, World War II & Cold by two new superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United War, Communism States. This shift in power was accompanied by efforts to create Rights available: World a new form of diplomacy: internationalism, working through multilateral bodies such as the United Nations, the IMF and the European Coal and Steel Community. New concepts emerged, Richard Crowder is an independent like human rights and decolonisation. But there were darker writer and historian. He studied at shadows too, cast by the onset of the Cold War: the failure to Oxford, and at the Kennedy School establish international controls on atomic energy, or the growth of Government in Harvard of the national security state and modern intelligence apparatus. University. He works as a UK Idealism and old fashioned power politics evolved into an uneasy diplomat, but writes in a personal cohabitation. capacity. The Holocaust Sites of Europe A Historical Guide Martin Winstone

456 pages The Holocaust is the gravest crime in recorded history, 46 b&w illustrations, 34 maps committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost approx. 150,000 words unimaginable. To try to bridge this gap and better understand => History, World War II, the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and European Studies magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the Rights available: NL former camps, ghettos and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the Martin Winstone is a writer and historical context. It will be an indispensable guide for anyone teacher. He also undertakes seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the educational work for the Holocaust Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves. Educational Trust. This guide includes a survey of all the major Holocaust sites in Europe, from Belgium and Belarus to Serbia and Ukraine. It includes not only the notorious concentration and death camps, but also less well known examples, such as Sered' in Slovakia, together with detailed descriptions of massacre sites, as well as the ghettos, ‘Euthanasia’ centres and Roma and Sinti sites which witnessed similar crimes.

The History of a Forgotten German Camp Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcówka Tomasz Ceran

240 pages Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to 11 b&w illustrations Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a approx. 70,000 words process of ‘depolonization’ (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in => History, World War II, the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish Genocide, Eastern Europe people living in Nazi-occupied territories. By examining policies Rights available: World excpt PL of indirect extermination through a detailed study of Szmalcówka, a ‘displacement’ camp located in Toru? in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Tomasz Ceran explores the terrible consequences of Nazi ideology. He provides both an in- Tomasz Ceran is a Polish historian depth historical account of a little-known camp and an who works for the education branch important analysis of Nazi practices and policy-making in the of the Institute of National Polish territories which were annexed. A strong addition to Remembrance, Poland. He holds a World War II literature, Ceran’s book is essential reading for PhD from Nicholas Copernicus scholars and students interested in World War II, Polish History, University, Torun, where he also Nazi ideology and the nature of violence and resilience. teaches. In the Shadow of Hitler Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe Rebecca Haynes, Martyn Rady

344 pages Many important right-wing political figures from the late approx. 115,000 words nineteenth century and inter-war period have been over- => History, Political Theory shadowed in history by Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. Rebecca Rights available: World Haynes here assesses the careers of seventeen of the most important figures in right-wing politics in Central and Eastern Europe during this period and reveals the significance of leaders whose impact has been overlooked. Some of these were Nazi- sympathisers; others rejected German National Socialism in Rebecca Haynes is Senior Lecturer favour of rival nationalist and right-wing ideologies and in Romanian History at the School programmes. But all played a role in modern European political of Slavonic and East European history that cannot be ignored. This book seeks to draw some of Studies, University College London. the leading right-wing politicians and thinkers in Central and Martyn Rady is Professor of Eastern Europe out from under Hitler’s shadow. Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

The Dark Heart of Hitler’s Europe Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government Martin Winstone

320 pages After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Kraków, fell approx. 115,000 words under Nazi occupation in an administration which became => History, World War II, known as the ‘General Government’. The region was not directly Holocaust Studies incorporated into the Reich but was ruled by a German regime, Rights sold: NL. PL headed by the brutal and corrupt Governor General Hans Frank. This was indeed the dark heart of Hitler’s empire. As the principal ‘racial laboratory’ of the Third Reich, it was the site of Aktion Reinhard, the largest killing operation of the Holocaust, Martin Winstone is an Education and of a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against Poles Officer for the Holocaust which was intended to be a template for the rest of eastern Educational Trust. He is the author Europe. This book provides a thorough history of the General of The Holocaust Sites of Europe: Government and the experiences of the Poles, Jews and others An Historical Guide (I.B.Tauris). trapped in its clutches. Employing previously underused sources, Martin Winstone provides a unique insight into the occupation regime which dominated much of Poland during World War II. Killing the Enemy Assassination Operations During World War II Adam Leong Kok Wey

272 pages During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 1 map ‘SOE’ or Special Operations Executive, in order to support approx. 100,000 words resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in => History, World War II, Nazi ‘targeted killing’ – the assassination of enemy political and Germany military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with Rights available: World tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons. But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner Adam Leong Kok Wey completed to today’s ‘extra-legal’ killings of wartime enemies in foreign his PhD in Special Operations and territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Military History at the University of Adam Leong’s work evaluates the effectiveness of political Reading. He is currently Senior assassination in wartime using four examples: Heydrich’s Lecturer at the National Defence assassination in Prague (Operation Anthropoid); the daring University of Malaysia. kidnap of Major General Kreipe in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination of General Yamamoto.

Moroccan Dreams Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy Claudio Minca, Lauren Wagner

320 pages Morocco has long been a mythic land firmly rooted in the 76 b&w illustrations European imagination. For more than a century it has been approx. 115,000 words appropriated by writers, artists and explorers such as Pierre Loti, => Historical Geography, Edith Wharton, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Bowles and Elias Canetti. Postcolonial & Cultural Studies In Moroccan Dreams, the authors explore the ways in which this Rights available: World legacy is being recreated for nostalgic consumption by those seeking the authentic experience of the orient. Taking the reader on a tour, both real and imaginary, to sites that form the quintessential Morrocan experience, including the capital city Claudio Minca is Head and Rabat, the medina at Fez, Marakkech, the Kasbah, the desert, Professor of Cultural Geography. Tangier, and the gentrified colonial elegance of Essaouira, they Lauren Wagner is a cultural unravel the elements that are so appealing about this imagined geographer and linguistic experience. Richly illustrated, Moroccan Dreams provides an anthropologist. She is a member of enticing journey that will delight all those captivated by the the Cultural Geography Group at culture and spatialities of the European colonial enterprise and the University of Wageningen. all those enamoured of Morocco and its extraordinary geographie. Visitors to Verona Lovers, Gentlemen and Adventurers Caroline Webb

264 pages Even before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular 16 colour illustrations, 2 maps destination with travellers, including those undertaking the approx. 100,000 words popular ‘Grand Tour’ across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb => History, Travel, Literature compares the experiences of travellers from the era of Rights available: World Shakespeare to the years following the incorporation of the Veneto into the new kingdom of Italy in 1866. She considers their reasons for visiting Verona as well as their experiences and expectations once they arrived. From the late 17th century and Caroline Webb graduated in the popular ‘Grand Tours’ to the 19th century and the increase History from the University of of visitors from across Europe and across the Atlantic with the London and read Italian and Art arrival of the railway, the author is keen to explore the fabled History in Cambridge and Verona. city of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In comparing a myriad of She has worked as a historical varied accounts, this book provides an unrivalled perspective on researcher and teacher and is co- the history of one of Italy’s most seductive cities. author of The Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant among the Ottomans (I.B.Tauris).

Strolling Through Rome The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City Mario Erasmo

352 pages Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and 14 b&w illustrations soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two approx. 115,000 words thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited => History, Travel places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two Rights available: World millennia of history, culture, art and architecture, whilst also navigating the vibrant modern city? Mario Erasmo here guides the traveller through Rome's many layers of history, exploring the streets, museums, piazze, ruins and parks of this ‘city of the soul’. Punctuated with anecdote, Mario Erasmo is Professor of myth and legend, these unique walks often retrace the very Classics at the University of Georgia. steps taken by ancient Romans, early Christians, medieval He is the author of several books on pilgrims, Renaissance artists and aristocrats on the Grand Tour. the cultural history of Italy including Here is a rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past Reading Death in Ancient Rome and alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating Death: Antiquity And Its Legacy (all secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities. I.B.Tauris) with extensive experience teaching and leading tours throughout Italy, France, and the UK. Palermo, City of Kings The Heart of Sicily Jeremy Dummett

288 pages Palermo – the capital of Sicily – is a destination with a difference. 26 b&w & colour illustrations, 12 The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of maps art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also approx. 95,000 words has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence ofthe => History, Travel mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides a concise overview of Rights available: World Palermo’s long history, together with a survey of its most important monuments and sites. He looks at the influences of the city’s various ancient rulers – the Phoenicians, Romans, Jeremy Dummett is an expert on Arabs and Normans – as well as its more recent incarnation as the history of Sicily and author of part of the Italian state. In addition to being an essential Syracuse, City of Legends: A Glory of companion for visitors to Palermo, this book can be equally Sicily. His professional career took enjoyed as a standalone history of the city and its place at the him to Athens and Milan, where he heart of Sicily. lived and worked for many years. Now retired, he is a frequent visitor to Sicily.

Syracuse, City of Legends A Glory of Sicily Jeremy Dummett

240 pages Dubbed ‘the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them 31 b&w & colour illustrations, 12 all’ by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of maps anywhere in Sicily. Syracuse, City of Legends - the first modern approx. 80,000 words historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse’s place within the => History, Travel island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals why it continues Rights available: World to captivate visitors today, more than two and a half millennia after its foundation. Over its long and colourful life, Syracuse has been home to many Jeremy Dummett is an expert on creative figures, including Archimedes, the greatest the history of Sicily and author of mathematician of the ancient world, as well as host to Plato, Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, and Caravaggio, who Sicily. His professional career took have all contributed to the rich history and atmosphere of this him to Athens and Milan, where he beguiling and distinctive Sicilian city. Generously illustrated, lived and worked for many years. Syracuse, City of Legends also offers detailed descriptions of the Now retired, he is a frequent visitor principal monuments from each period in the city’s life, to Sicily. explaining their physical location as well as their historical context. This vivid and engaging history weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse. Evita The Life of Eva Perón Jill Hedges

272 pages Eva Perón remains Argentina’s best-known and most iconic 21 b&w illustrations personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego approx. 100,000 words Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, => History, Politics, Biography President Juan Domingo Perón - himself a remarkable and Rights available: World charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge for at Oxford amounts interest 60 years after her death. After their political Analytica since 2001 and was breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality formerly Editorial Manager of earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning business information service following her death from cancer at the age of just 33. Based on Esmerk Argentina. She has a PhD in new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to Latin American Studies from the explore the personality and experiences of ‘Evita’ and the University of Liverpool and is the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn author of Argentina: A Modern influenced by her. This is an essential reading for anyone History. interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of ‘Evita’.

Argentina A Modern History Jill Hedges

336 pages In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the 16 b&w illustrations, 4 tables, 1 world’s most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina map has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it approx. 118,000 words fall well behind its regional neighbours. At the same time, => History, Politics despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic divisions, Rights available: World Argentina has failed to create an -over arching post- independence national identity and its political and social history has been marred by frictions, violence and a 50-year series of military coups d’état. In this book, Jill Hedges analyses the Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor modern history of Argentina from the adoption of the 1853 for Latin America at Oxford constitution until the present day, exploring political, economic Analytica since 2001 and was and social aspects of Argentina’s recent past in a study which will formerly Editorial Manager of be invaluable for anyone interested in South American history business information service and politics. Esmerk Argentina. Frantz Faron The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution Leo Zeilig

256 pages Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth- 12 b&w illustrations century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and approx. 90,000 words imperialism and as the author of the iconic book ‘Wretched of => History, Philosophy, African the Earth’. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon - from his Studies, Biography upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Rights available: World Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The Leo Zeilig is Visiting Researcher at book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, University of the Witwatersrand, national liberation and what Fanon described ‘the curse of South Africa. He was previously a independence’. Highlighting Fanon’s role as the most influential senior researcher at the Centre for theorist of third-world liberation, this book is an essential work Sociological Research at the for students, academics and general readers. University of Johannesburg and holds a PhD from Brunel University.

Casting off the Veil The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt’s First Feminist Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi

320 pages In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, 12 b&w illustrations removed her veil in ’s train station, she created what approx. 100,000 words became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists => History, Middle East, throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status Biography, Feminism as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Rights sold: EG, FR, IT Egypt. In Casting off the Veil, her granddaughter Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi uses never-before seen letters and photographs to explore the life and thought of Egypt’s first feminist, as she Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi is a campaigned against British occupation, as well as striving to freelance interpreter, and has improve conditions for women throughout the country. From worked for international, regional her birth into a wealthy and powerful family, her early years and national organisations, spent in a harem, to her iconic status as one of the most including the Library of Alexandria, influential feminists in Middle Eastern history, this isa UNESCO and WHO. fascinating portrait of a determined and ground-breaking woman, a rich and important story which will captivate everyone with an interest in Egyptian, feminist or colonial history. My Way A Muslim Woman’s Journey Mona Siddiqui

240 pages Polarized debates about ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’ are now so 8 colour illustrations ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be. approx. 80,000 words The vast majority of Muslims do not wish to see Islam used as a => Religion, Politics, Middle East, divisive force within the largely secular societies in which they Philosophy live. How then can Muslim stereotyping be challenged? Mona Rights available: World Siddiqui is one of the foremost Western authorities on the reconciliation of 21st-century life and Islamic custom. In this new and searching book, she applies a uniquely probing intelligence, Mona Siddiqui, OBE, is one of the as well as a female sensibility, to crucial issues of faith and UK’s leading commentators on identity (such as wearing the veil) within society at large. While religious affairs. Professor of Islamic speaking from within a particular tradition, she touches on and Interreligious Studies at the matters of universal concern. Who are we? How do we cope University of Edinburgh, she has with growing older? What kind of world will we leave to our written many books, which include children? Placing her rich personal journey in a wider context, How to Read the Qur’an, The Good the author is able to explore love and sex, multiculturalism and Muslim and Christians, Muslims and diversity, and ageing and death through the prism of her Jesus. experience as both a Muslim and a modern woman. Her book shows why she is one of the most vital thinkers of our age.

Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam A History of Muslim Dreaming and Foreknowing Elizabeth Sirriyeh

256 pages People in Western societies have long been interested in their approx. 80,000 words dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the => Religion, Politics, Middle East, West are likely to seek interpretation of those dreams to help Philosophy them make life-changing decisions. In the Islamic world the Rights available: World situation is quite different. Dreaming and the import of visions are here of enormous significance, to the degree that many Muslims believe that in their dreams they are receiving divine guidance: for example, on whether or not to accept a marriage Elizabeth Sirriyeh is Senior Lecturer proposal, or a new job opportunity. In her authoritative new in Religious Studies at the book, Elizabeth Sirriyeh offers the first concerted history of the University of Leeds. Her previous rise of dream interpretation in Islamic culture, from medieval books include Sufis and Anti-Sufis: times to the present. Central to the book is the figure ofthe The Defence, Rethinking and Prophet Muhammad - seen to represent for Muslims the perfect Rejection of Sufism in the Modern dreamer, visionary and interpreter of dreams. Less benignly, World and Sufism: A Guide for the dreams have been exploited in the propaganda of Islamic Perplexed. militants in Afghanistan, and in apocalyptic visions relating to the 9/11 attacks. This timely volume gives an important, fascinating and overlooked subject the exploration it has long deserved. Unbelievable Why We Believe and Why We Don’t Graham Ward

256 pages What am I to believe?' is perhaps the fundamental question of xx b&w illustrations human existence. It is unlikely that most people reach the end of approx. 85,000 words their lives without wondering what it has all been for and what => Religion, Philosophy, happens next. But the question of belief is more than just Psychology, Politics academic, since what people believe is now more critical than Rights sold: ever. As G R Evans shows, an ignorance of the history of beliefs can leave individuals susceptible to the influence of extreme ideas, and unsure how to put them into context and judge their Graham Ward is Regius Professor validity. In all religions, not just Islam and Christianity, that is of Divinity in the University of precisely how sects and cults get a grip. This book shows how Oxford. His books include Barthes, ethical questions fit together, and how great historical debates Derrida and the Language of and decision-making - whether about religious conflict, or Theology, Radical Orthodoxy: A New theodicy, or questions of authority - shed light on some of the Theology (edited with John Milbank great moral challenges facing the religions today. Concentrating and Catherine Pickstock), Cultural especially on the Christian tradition, Evans shows how the Transformation and Religious history of religious debate can help us to understand the nature Practice, Christ and Culture and of current misunderstandings and divison over belief, a crucial Religion and Political Thought. step for people of all faiths in the new century.

First Light A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle Gill R. Evans

320 pages For sceptics, angels may be no more than metaphors: poetic 20 b&w illustration devices to convey, at least for those with a religious sensibility, approx. 80,000 words an active divine interest in creation. But for others, angels are => Religion, History, Philosophy, absolutely real creatures: manifestations of cosmic power with Popular Science the capacity either to enlighten or annihilate those whose Rights available: World awestruck paths they cross. Valery Rees offers the first comprehensive history of these beautiful, enigmatic and sometimes dangerous beings, whose existence and actions have been charted across the eons of time Gill R. Evans is Professor of and civilization. Whether exploring the fevered visions of Ezekiel Medieval Theology and Intellectural and biblical cherubim; Persian genii; Arab djinn; Islamic History in the University of archangels; the austere and haunting icons of Andrei Rublev; or Cambridge. The author of over 50 Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and the more benign idea of the books, she is also general editor of watchful guardian angel, the author shows that the ubiquity of the I.B.Tauris History of the Church. these celestial messengers reveals something profound, if not about God or the devil, then about ourselves: our perennial preoccupation with the transcendent. Confucianism An Introduction Ronnie Littlejohn

256 pages It is arguably Confucianism, not Communism, which lies at the 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps core of China's deepest sense of self. It has defied eradication, approx. 80,000 words remaining a fundamental part of the nation's soul for 2500 => Religion, Philosophy, World years. And now, as China assumes greater ascendancy on the History world economic stage, it is making a strong comeback as a Rights available: CN pragmatic philosophy of personal as well as corporate transformation, popular in home, boardroom and in current political discussion. What is this complex system of ideology that Ronnie L. Littlejohn is Professor of stems from the teachings of a remarkable man called Confucius Philosophy and Director of Asian (Kongzi), who lived in the distant sixth century BCE? Though he Studies at Belmont University, left no writings of his own, the oral teachings recorded by the Tennessee. His previous books founder's disciples in the 'Analects' left a profound mark on later include Riding the Wind with Liezi: Chinese politics and governance. In this this new, comprehensive New Essays on the Daoist Classic, introduction, Ronnie Littlejohn offers full coverage of the Chinese Philosophy: An tradition's sometimes neglected metaphysics, as well as its Introduction and Daoism: An varied manifestations in education, art, literature and culture. Introduction.

Daoism An Introduction Ronnie L. Littlejohn

'The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.' So begins the first verse 288 pages of the mysterious Dao De Jing, foundation text of the ancient 20 b&w illustrations, 1 map Chinese religion of Daoism. Often attributed to semi-mythical approx. 85,000 words sage Laozi, the origins of this enigmatic document - which => Religion, Philosophy, World probably came into being in the third century BCE - are actually History unknown. But the tenets of Daoism laid down in the Dao De Jing, Rights available: World and in later texts like the Yi Jing (or 'Book of Changes'), continue to exert considerable fascination, particularly in the West. In this Ronnie L. Littlejohn is Professor of fresh and engaging introduction to Daoism, Ronnie L. Littlejohn Philosophy and Director of Asian discusses the central facets of a tradition which can sometimes Studies at Belmont University, seem as elusive as the slippery notion of ‘Dao’ itself. The author Tennessee. His previous books shows that fundamental to Daoism is the notion of ‘Wu-wei’, or include Riding the Wind with Liezi: non-action: a paradoxical idea emphasising alignment of the self New Essays on the Daoist Classic, with the harmony of the universe, a universe in continual flux Confucianism: An Introduction and and change. By exploring the great subtleties of this ancient Chinese Philosophy: An religion, Littlejohn traces its development and encounters with Introduction. Buddhism; its expression in art and literature; its fight for survival during the Cultural Revolution; and its manifestations in modern-day China and beyond. Chinese Philosophy An Introduction Ronnie L. Littlejohn

288 pages The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced approx. 100,000 words more human beings than any other. China has been the home => Religion, South Asian Studies, not only of its indigenous philosophical traditions of History of Ideas, Philosophy Confucianism and Daoism, but also of uniquely modified forms Rights available: World of Buddhism. As Ronnie L Littlejohn shows, these traditions have for thousands of years formed the bedrock of the longest continuing civilization on the planet; and Chinese philosophy has profoundly shaped the institutions, social practices and Ronnie L. Littlejohn is Professor of psychological character of East and Southeast Asia. The author Philosophy and Director of Asian here surveys the key texts and philosophical systems of Chinese Studies at Belmont University, thinkers in a completely original and illuminating way. Ranging Tennessee. His previous books from the Han dynasty to the present, he discusses the six include Riding the Wind with Liezi: classical schools of Chinese philosophy (Yin-Yang, Ru, Mo, Ming, New Essays on the Daoist Classic, Fa and Dao-De); the arrival of Buddhism in China and its Confucianism: An Introduction and distinctive development; the central figures and movements Daoism: An Introduction. from the end of the Tang dynasty to the introduction into China of Western thought; and the impact of Chinese philosophers – ranging from Confucius and Laozi to Tu Weiming – on their equivalents in the West.

The Power of Tantra Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies Hugh B. Urban

264 pages For most contemporary New Age and popular writers, Tantra is celebrated as a much-needed affirmation of physical pleasure 24 b&w illustration and sex: indeed as a 'cult of ecstasy' to counter the perceived approx. 90,000 words hypocritical prudery of many Westerners. In recent years, Tantra => Religion, History, South Asian has become the focus of a still larger cultural and political Studies debate. In the eyes of many Hindus, much of the western Rights available: World literature on Tantra represents a form of neo-colonialism, which continues to portray India as an exotic, erotic, hyper-sexualised Orient. Which, then, is the 'real' Tantra? Focusing on one of the Hugh B. Urban is one of the leading oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, western scholars of Tantric religion, northeast India, Hugh B. Urban shows that Tantra is less about and the author of several books optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos, the human which include Magia Sexualis: Sex, body and political society. In a fresh and vital contribution to the Magic and Liberation in Modern field, the author suggests that the 'real' meaning of Tantra lies in Western Esotericism, Tantra: Sex, helping us rethink not just the history of Indian religions, but Secrecy, Politics and Power in the also our own modern obsessions with power, sex and the Study of Religion and Songs of invidious legacies of cultural imperialism. Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Bengal. The Church in the Early Modern Age The I.B. Tauris History of the Christian Church C. Scott Dixon

288 pages The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the 1 map development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of approx. 90,000 words Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most => Religion, Cultural Studies important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C. Rights available: World Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early modern Christianity -re oriented the Church to such an extent that they gave rise to new versions of the religion. Tracing these changes from the fall of Constantinople to the end of the C. Scott Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Thirty Years' War, and treating the High Renaissance and the History at Queen s University, Reformation as part of the same overall narrative, the author Belfast. His previous books include offers an integrated approach to widely different national, social The Reformation and Rural Society; and cultural histories. Moving beyond Protestant and Catholic The Reformation in Germany (with conflicts, he contrasts Western Christianity with Eastern R W Scribner); Protestants: A Orthodoxy, and examines the Church's response to fears of History from Wittenburg to Ottoman domination. Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 and Contesting the Reformation.

Popes, Cardinals and Wars The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe D. S. Chambers

256 pages Can Christian clergy – supposedly men of peace – also be 20 b&w illustrations warriors? In this lively and compelling history D.S. Chambers approx. 90,000 words examines popes and cardinals over several centuries who not => History, Religion only preached war but also put it into practice as military Rights sold: ES leaders. Satirised by Erasmus, the most notorious - Julius II - was even refused entrance to heaven because he was ‘bristling and clanking with bloodstained armour’. Engaging and stimulating, and using references to scripture and canon law as well as a D.S.Chambers, who was a pupil of large range of historical sources, Popes, Cardinals and War the late J.R. Hale, began research in throws light on these extraordinary and paradoxical figures – Italy and the Vatican in the late men who were peaceful by vocation but contributed to the 1950s and has since spent much process of war with surprising directness and brutality– as well time in Italy. He has published as illuminating many aspects of the political history of the extensively on subjects relating to Church. the Italian Renaissance, but in particular concerning cardinals, and the cities of Rome, Venice and Mantua. The Three Sons of Abrahams Interfaith Encounters Between Judaism, Christianity and Islam Jacques B. Doukhan

256 pages Christianity, Judaism and Islam have sometimes been more approx. 70,000 words closely identified not for what they offer to save the world but => Religion, Politics, Philosophy, for what they bring to destabilise it. It is one of the depressing Biblical Studies paradoxes of religion, supposedly a force for good, that it is all Rights available: World too frequently the occasion for conflict instead of peace, generosity and better treatment of one’s neighbour. The contributors to this volume start from the premise that there is a price to be paid by the ‘sons of Abraham’: whether Jews, Jacques B. Doukhan is Professor of Muslims or Christians. And that is the cost of learning how to be Hebrew and Old Testament brothers through mutual and attentive engagement. Mature Exegesis, and the Director of the interfaith discussion offers respect for a shared heritage while Institute of Jewish-Christian Studies, also recognising points of distinctiveness. This book explores at Andrews University, Berrien what articulating such regardful difference, as well as Springs, Michigan. His books include commonality, might mean for the future of faith relations. Hebrew for Theologians: A Textbook Including provocative reflections by Elie Wiesel, Irving for the Study of Biblical Hebrew in Greenberg, Hans Küng and others, the book makes a vital Relation to Hebrew Thinking and contribution to dialogue. In its searching analysis of issues of Israel and the Church: Two Voices

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Art Architecture Media Culture Dressing for Austerity Aspiration, Leisure and Fashion in Post-War Britain Geraldine Biddle-Perry

Geraldine Biddle-Perry is a fashion and cultural historian who lectures in fashion and design history & theory at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is co-author, with Sarah Cheang, of Hair: Styling Culture and Fashion.

March 2017 A new look for Austerity...

256 pages The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive 36 b&w illustrations economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification ‘Austerity Britain’ in the late Approx. 80,000 words 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in World rights available tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and => Social & Cultural aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour History, Fashion & government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in Design a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and  Radical reassessment of British consumer agency. The book examines the society's response to post-war immediate post-war period – its politics, its Austerity fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.  Brings together political history, real people, fashion & design

 Author distinguished cultural & fashion historian Rebuilding Babel Modern Architecture and Internationalism Mark Crinson

Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a board member of ABE Journal (Architecture Beyond Europe) and also vice-president of the European Architectural History Network. His previous books include Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence (2012; winner of the Historians of British Art Prize, 2014) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003; winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize, 2006).

May 2017 A revisionist history of the modernist architectural 320 pages movement, which encapsulated internationalist 54 b&w & colour politics and ideals in the inter-war years and illustrations beyond.

Approx. 100,000 words The ‘International Style’ was one manifestation of World rights available this new way of thinking, but Crinson shows how the aims of modernist architecture frequently => Architecture, History engaged with the substance of an internationalist mindset in addition to sharing surface similarities. Bringing together the visionaries of internationalist projects - including Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Berthold Lubetkin, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe – Crinson interweaves ideas of evolution,  A book crafted for students and ecology, utopia, regionalism, socialism, free trade, scholars of architecture and art and anti-colonialism to reveal the possibilities theory, as well as for those heralded by modernist architecture. Furthermore, interested in the history of he re-connects pivotal figures in architecture with a twentieth-century optimism about cast of polymath internationalists such as Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, Julian Huxley, the world and its architecture Rabindranath Tagore and H. G. Wells, to provide a richly detailed socio-cultural framework.  Internationalism influenced nearly all modern architecture, but there is no book yet on this subject. The Dead City Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay Paul Dobraszcyk

Paul Dobraszczyk’s research focuses on visual culture and the built environment from the 19th century onwards. He is co-editor of Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (2016) and Function & Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century (2016), as well as author of Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain (2014) and London’s Sewers (2014).

June 2017 Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. 272 pages b&w & colour In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban illustrations landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants Approx. 90,000 words and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths World rights available meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving => Urban Studies, Art cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or History, Visual Culture simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example,  Informed by first-hand visits to urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist many of the sites "dark tourism" narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even  Blends visual culture and urban fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, studies to show that how we London, Manchester and Varosha, this book imagine cities is full of meaning demonstrates that how we discuss and depict and political potential urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting  Written in an engaging style that visions for its future. will appear to specialists and non- specialists Feminism and Art History Now Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice Victoria Horne, Laura Perry (Eds)

Victoria Horne is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and teaches courses on contemporary art at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012, she established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative. Lara Perry is the Academic Programme Leader for History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is the author of History’s Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856 – 1900 (2006) and co-editor of Politics in a Glass June 2017 Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial 288 pages Transgressions (2013). 35 b&w illustrations … Approx. 85,000 words World rights available Four decades of feminist art history have prompted a radical rethinking of the discipline. This volume => Contemporary Art, asks how feminism’s interventions and propositions Gender Studies are relevant to contemporary scholarship today. To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant new research gathered here engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography  Introductory essay that surveys since around 1970, and considers how to maintain feminist art history over the last the forcefulness of its critique while addressing 50 years & will act as an contemporary political struggles. The book presents new research on a diversity of invaluable resource for students topics that span political movements in Italy, urban and researchers alike gentrification in New York, community art projects in Scotland and Canada’s contemporary indigenous culture. Individual chapter analyses focus on the art  Tackles issues in curatorial and of Lee Krasner, The Emily Davison Lodge, Zoe museum studies as well as art Leonard, Martha Rosler, Carla Lonzi and history – broad spectrum of Womanhouse. Together with a synthesising international case studies introductory essay, these studies provide readers with a view of feminist art histories of the past, present and future. Positive Images Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Popular Culture of ‘Post Crisis’ Dion Kagan

Dion Kagan is an early career academic and arts writer who works on film, theatre, sex and popular culture. He lectures in gender, sexuality, screen and cultural studies at Melbourne University, and at the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, at LaTrobe University.

November 2017 The first book to explore legacy of HIV/AIDS in popular culture. 272 pages

35 b&w illustrations A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, during what was Approx. 80,000 words commonly termed ‘The AIDS Crisis’. Since the World rights available advent of antiretroviral drugs, however, the connotations of HIV/AIDS have changed: having the => Gay Studies, Media & virus no longer means certain death. But while Culture these life saving drugs mean that gay men can have a potentially healthy, normal life, what do these changes mean for how they and HIV is presented in popular culture? Positive Images is the first examination of the various methods used to portray gay men and HIV in the media over the past  Uses wide range of examples from two decades. From Queer As Folk to Dallas Buyer’s crisis period to now Club and The Normal Heart, Dion Kagan explores film, documentaries, news coverage and pornography across the English-speaking world and  Draws on gender & cultural exposes the socio-cultural foundations upon which studies theories and highly those twenty years were based. His analyses relevant to students of this provide acute insights into the fraught legacy of the discipline AIDS Crisis and its continued impact upon the modern gay consciousness. The Jazz War Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II Will Studdert

Will Studdert completed his PhD at the University of Kent, where he was supervised by Professor David Welch and Professor Ulf Schmidt and externally examined by Jeffrey Richards.

August 2017 A superb history of World War II.

224 pages World War II saw both sides sinking huge amounts Approx. 100,000 words of money and effort into the propaganda war. Radio was by far the most popular media, and both World rights available the BBC and Goebbels’ German equivalent (the => Media & Culture, Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment) could be History, World War II, heard in both Germany and England. The radio output of the combatants was overwhelmingly jazz- based and music was the hook through which to deliver the message of cultural superiority and imminent victory. Here the Nazi’s had a major problem. Despite Germany’s rich jazz scene of the twenties and thirties, the music was considered to display ‘negro rhythm’ and ‘Jewish characteristics’  Strong contribution to our which were unacceptable to Hitler. The music was understanding of Nazi considered irresistible, and thus begins on of the propaganda key stories of this book: Goebbels’ bizarre efforts to fake an indigenously German jazz band, which were called, for the benefit of British and American  Research is based around the listeners, ‘Charlie and his Orchestra’. They were to superb and largely unheard oral play a more acceptable version of swing music testimony of the players of which Goebbels christened, with characteristic flair, ‘Charlie and his Orchestra‘ ‘New German Entertainment Music’. Studdart’s research reveals how Goebbels’ henchman Hans Hinkel attempted to launch a Nazi  Contemporary testimony of the jazz label to control the releases of Louis Armstrong effect of jazz and swing on and others in occupied Europe, and how he was regularly pelted with fruit by Nazi soldiers when he soldiers, civilians and propaganda prevented the playing of jazz at ‘entertaining the makers troops’ rallies. Fascism and Resistance in 1970s Italian Film Bertolucci, Fellini, Pasolini and Visconti Dominic Hubert Gavin

Dominic Hubert Gavin is a Research Assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published articles on 1970s and ‘80s Italian cinema in journals such as Italian Studies and Adaptation. His current research interests focus on post-World War II politics in the USA and Europe in relation to historiography, film and popular culture .

August 2017 An original approach to Italian film that pinpoints how the politicised years of the 1970s produced 224 pages revisionary, historical films on fascist and anti- 35 b&w illustrations fascist forces during the dictatorship.

Approx. 130,000 words Cinema is one of Italy’s post-war success stories; World rights available the memory of fascism one of its ongoing challenges. From 1968, a bout of neofascist => Visual Culture, Film terrorist attacks and the growth of left-wing social Studies protest movements marked a new era. It is perhaps unsurprising then, that Italian film at the time would revisit the fascist powers and resistance groups of the dictatorship. This book examines Italian cinema from the late 1960s until the end of the ‘70s, from internationally  Examines directors’ work popular acclaimed directors such as Luchino Visconti, with cinephiles, students and Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo scholars alike e.g. Bernardo Bertolucci, through to lesser-known names like Bertolucci, Paolo Pier Pasolini, Ettore Scola, Lina Wertmüller and Liliana Cavani. Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti The author reveals how Italian film reflected on the etc. but also reveals how lesser- fascist period in distinct ways compared to its European counterparts who were re-examining known popular Italian film makers their own fascist occupations, including Vichy-era were working with similar content France and German films on Nazism. From the commedia all’italiana films to art-house classics, and from representations of fascism’s perverse  Uses new research material such allure to its outright horror, this study considers the as film reviews from radical left complex social, political and aesthetic factors journals of the period behind the films of this ‘long decade’. Craft on Demand The New Politics of the Handmade Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch (Eds)

Anthea Black is an artist and cultural worker based in Toronto, Canada. She has exhibited in Canada, the US, Norway and The Netherlands and curated exhibitions No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen and PLEASURE CRAFT. Nicole Burisch is a critic and curator based in Montreal, Canada. She has worked with organizations such as Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Artexte, and Centre des arts actuels Skol and was a 2014-2016 Core Fellow Critic-in- Residence with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.since 2005.

November 2017 Making the new politics of craft and sustainability. 304 pages The handmade has become inseparable from 32 b&w illustrations capitalist modes of production and consumption Approx. 90,000 words and this change demands new understandings of objects, aesthetics and labour. Craft on Demand World rights available examines the role of the handmade in contemporary art, craft and design as part of a => Fashion dramatically shifting global economy. New writing and artists projects by international scholars and practitioners explore the politics of scarcity, hoarding and sustainability, craftivism and ‘ethical’ consumption, urban space and new technologies, race, cultural heritage and sovereignty. Engaging with craft, art, design students and practitioners  Radical critique of craft politics in who want a radical rethink of the politics and the global economy economics of the handmade, they claim craft as a dynamic critical field for thinking through the most immediate issues of our time.  Original chapters from writers and makers

 For all engaged in studying and making crafts Death in the Desert The Complete Guide to Spaghetti Westerns Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes is a film writer and historian. His books on popular film genres include Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood and in his Filmgoers’ Guide series for I.B. Tauris, From Stagecoach to Tombstone, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Crime Wave, When Eagles Dared and Outer Limits: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Sci-Fi Films. He is contributor to The James Bond Archives, the official fiftieth anniversary celebration of 007.

November 2017 European westerns, the unabridged story, featuring over 500 films . 400 pages 45 b&w illustrations Instantly recognisable from their music and visual style, spaghetti westerns are a magnificently Approx. 200,000 words popular cult film genre. Through home media, they’ve stayed alive and available to an avid World rights available audience, enjoying remarkable influence and => Cinema History, lasting success. In over 500 detailed film reviews Visual Culture covering 20 years of westerns in Europe, genre expert Howard Hughes takes a fascinating snapshot of European western films and filmmaking during their frenzied, popular heyday. He narrates the spaghetti western story from the genre’s early, tentative days to its explosive golden era following  Definitive complete guide to the success of A Fistful of Dollars and the mass- European Spaghetti Westerns produced scramble of films that swamped cinemas covering over 500 films in the late 1960s, before the gradual falling off of enchantment with the genre. Death in the Desert also looks at other westerns  Howard Hughes is the international expert on the genre made in Europe in the 1960s and ‘70s: the early West German ‘Winnetou’ westerns, swashbuckling

Spanish ‘Zorro’ movies, kung-fu westerns, German  Illustrated with rare posters and musical and comedy westerns, American and stills British westerns filmed in Spain, and the then East Germany. This essential read for cinephiles, collectors and completists, is fully illustrated with rare posters and stills. Engaged Urbanism Cities and Methodologies Ben Campkin and Ger Duijzings (Eds)

302 pages How can we understand the variety and dynamism of b&w & colour illustrations contemporary cities and urban experience across the globe? approx. 70,000 words Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which => Architecture, Cities, Urban urbanists are responding to this question and working towards Geography fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully Rights available: World illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk- taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke Ben Campkin is Senior Lecturer in situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice – Architectural History and Theory at from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, the Bartlett School of Architecture, to film, sculpture, performance and photography – in a diversity University College London, and of cities such as , Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio Director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory. de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the He is the author of Remaking greatest challenges for present and future populations are being London: Decline and Regeneration rigorously and creatively addressed in Urban Culture, which received the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation Book Award.

Sustainable Cities Assessing the Performance and Practice of Urban Environments Pierre Laconte and Chris Gossop (Eds)

256 pages With more than half the global population now living in urban 72 b&w & 8pp colour illustrations areas, one of the key issues confronting us today is how we approx. 68,000 words make our growing cities sustainable. Sustainable Cities offers => Architecture & Urbanism valuable new insights for addressing this vital challenge. Rights available: World Part I examines the built environment at three levels of observation – individual buildings, urban neighbourhoods and entire cities and towns. While charting the genuine improvements made, it also reveals the scale and complexity of Pierre Laconte is President of the the task ahead. Part II offers a critical assessment of the Foundation for the Urban techniques used to assess urban development, including the Environment. He was a partner of measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, ecological footprint Groupe Urbanisme-Architecture, analysis, and the assessment of urban biodiversity. It concludes the organisation responsible for the with an alternative approach to CO , making the case for this planning and implementation of the 2 greenhouse gas to be seen as a resource, rather than as a new university town of Louvain-la- liability. The final part presents cases of best practice from the Neuve, near Brussels. He is the UK and Europe. editor of Changing Cities: Challenge to Planning. Chris Gossop is a town planner and environmentalist. Antipolitics in Central European Art Reticence as Dissidence Under Post- Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989 Klara Kemp-Welch

360 pages Art historians have tended to frame late-socialist Central 133 b&w illustrations European art as either ‘totalitarian’ or ‘transitional’. This bold approx. 107,300 words new book challenges this established viewpoint, contending that => Visual Culture, International the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident Relations heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Rights available: World Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways in which artists in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary embraced alternative forms of action-based practice just as their dissident Klara Kemp-Welch is Lecturer in counterparts were formulating alternative models of politics - in 20th Century Modernism at The particular, an ‘antipolitics’ of- self organisation by society. In Courtauld Institute of Art. She is co- doing so, she makes a case for the moral and political coherence editor of a special issue of of Central European art, theory and oppositional activism in the ArtMargins devoted to Artists’ late-socialist period, arguing for the region’s centrality to late- th Networks in Eastern Europe and 20 century intellectual and cultural history. Latin America, and author of book chapters and catalogue essays on Central and Eastern European post- war art.

Participation in Art and Architecture Spaces of Interaction and Occupation Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich

344 pages If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient 72 b&w illustrations democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes approx. 130,000 words emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and => Art & Architectural History, aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st Rights available: World Century, since the revolutionary unrest of the 1960s, participation in art and architecture has lost its utopian glow and become the focus of a fierce debate: does ‘participatory’ art and architecture shape social reality, or is it shaped by it? Martino Stierli is Chief Curator of Contemporary critics see in participation only technocratic Architecture and Design at the control, while others embrace it as a viable politics in an era of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in global capitalism. This volume breaks the impasse by looking at New York. how participants themselves exert power, rather than being victimized or liberated from it. From artists hijacking Google Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Earth to protesters setting up a museum of the revolution in Art History at the School of the Art Cairo, art, architecture, and daily life are explored in their Institute of Chicago. participatory dimension. Art as Organism Biology and Evolution of the Digital Image Charissa N. Terranova

336 pages ‘Play art’ or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the 82 b&w illustrations contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of approx. 114,000 words passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing => Visual Culture, them active participation. The work of ‘play’ artists - from Rights available: World Carsten Höller’s ‘Test Site’ at the Tate Modern to Gabriel Orozco’s ‘Ping Pond Table’ - must be touched, influenced and experienced; the gallery-goer is no longer a spectator but a co- creator. Charissa N. Terranova is Associate Time to Play explores the role of play as a central but neglected Professor of Aesthetic Studies at concept in aesthetics and a model for ground-breaking modern The University of Texas at Dallas. and postmodern experiments which have tended to blur the She is the author of Automotive boundary between art and life. Moving freely between Prosthetic (2014) and has published disciplines, Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th articles in Leonardo, Art Journal, and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and Urban History Review and Journal of leisure studies, and the philosophical theories of Kant, Gadamer Urban History, among others. and Derrida, to critically engage with current discussion on the role of the artist, viewers, curators and their spaces of encounter.

Time to Play Action and Interaction in Comtemporary Art Katarzyna Zimna

224 pages ‘Play art’ or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the 8 b&w illustrations contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of approx. 85,000 words passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing => Visual Culture, Art Theory them active participation. The work of ‘play’ artists - from Rights available: World Carsten Höller’s ‘Test Site’ at the Tate Modern to Gabriel Orozco’s ‘Ping Pond Table’ - must be touched, influenced and experienced; the gallery-goer is no longer a spectator but a co- creator. Time to Play explores the role of play as a central but neglected Katarzyna Zimna is an independent concept in aesthetics and a model for ground-breaking modern artist, researcher and book and postmodern experiments which have tended to blur the illustrator based in London and boundary between art and life. Moving freely between Lodz, Poland. Her work has featured disciplines, Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th in exhibitions across Europe. and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical theories of Kant, Gadamer and Derrida, to critically engage with current discussion on the role of the artist, viewers, curators and their spaces of encounter. The Delirious Museum A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas Calum Storrie

256 pages The Delirious Museum gives a new interpretation of the relationship between the museum and the city in the 21st 30 b&w illustrations century. It presents an original view of the idea of the museum, approx. 70,000 words proposing that it is, or should be, both a repository of the => Architecture, Museum & artefacts of the past and a continuation of the city street in the Cultural Studies present. Storrie re-views our experience of the city and of the Rights sold: IT museum taking a journey that begins in the Louvre and continues through Paris, London, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, re- imagining the possibilities for museums and their displays and re -examining the blurred boundaries between museums and the Calum Storrie is an architect, cities around them. On his quest for The Delirious Museum he curator and exhibition designer, takes the reader on a stimulating journey through cities and who has worked with the British museums worldwide. Museum and the National Portrait Serious general readers interested in urban culture, design and Gallery among others. He has architecture, as well as professional architects, cultural studies written extensively on the meanings and museology academics will enjoy the book, which is well of the museum. illustrated in black and white.

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This is Not Art Activism and Other “Not-Art” Alana Jelinek

192 pages Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist b&w illustrations to make the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the approx. 50,000 words status quo and if it fails in this prime objective it only serves to => Art Theory & History, Political deaden a disenfranchised society further. Activism Alana Jelinek returns to the question ‘what is art?’, retelling the Rights available: World history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives. From the author’s unique perspective as a practicing artist and theoretician, This Is Not Art offers a new way of understanding Alana Jelinek is AHRC fellow at the and practicing art - as the embodiment of power and agency Museum of Archaeology and within us, the possibility of thinking and acting differently, of Anthropology, University of finding new stories to tell. Cambridge. Dressed for War Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914-1918 Nina Edwards

Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, 240 pages gender bending in goggles, with overalls on over their trousers. 43 b&w & 8pp colour illustrations What people wear matters. Well illustrated, this book tells the approx. 60,000 words stories of what people on both sides wore on the front line and => Visual Culture, Fashion, on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Cultural History Nina Edwards reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism Rights available: World of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, Nina Edwards is a writer and wearing a certain perfume, say, or the just-so adjustment to the cultural critic, whose books include tilt of a hat offer insights into the individual experience of men, On the Button: The Significance of women and children during the course of World War I. an Ordinary Item (I.B.Tauris) and Offal: A Global History.

On the Button The Significance of an Ordinary Item Nina Edwards

288 pages What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and 52 b&w & 8pp colour illustrations beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never approx. 70,000 words be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully => Visual Culture, Fashion, protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections Cultural History or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and Rights available: World repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great aesthetic movements. It's Eurocentric, and is found all over the world. On the Button is an inventive and unusual exploration of the Nina Edwards is a writer and cultural history of the button, illustrated with a multiplicity of cultural critic, whose books include buttons in black and white and colour. It tells tales of a huge Dressed for War: Uniform, Civilian variety of the button's forms and functions, its sometimes Clothing and Trappings (I.B.Tauris) uncompromising glamour, its stronghold in fashion and and Offal: A Global History. literature, its place in the visual arts, its association with crime and death, its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories. On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight. Adorned in Dreams Fashion and Modernity Elizabeth Wilson

344 pages When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela b&w & colour illustrations Carter described the book as ‘the best I have read on the approx. 90,000 words subject, bar none’. From haute-couture to haberdashery, => Fashion, Cultural Studies ‘deviant’ dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social history Rights sold: IT, RU of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion’s vociferous opponents, from the ‘dress reform’ movement to certain strands of feminism. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or to Elizabeth Wilson is Emeritus Professor subvert it and this brand new edition traces recent at London Metropolitan University and developments to bring the story of fashionable dress - and its also teaches at the Architectural enormous cultural impact – bang up to date. Association, the London Institute and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include Bohemians, Hallucinations: Life in the Post-modern City and The Sphinx in the City.

Being Gorgeous Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual Jacki Willson

240 pages Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, 25 b&w & colour illustrations flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for approx. 60,000 words women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical => Visual Culture, Fashion, tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable Cultural History misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first Rights available: World century. Jacki Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive Jacki Willson is a Cultural Studies images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide Lecturer for Fashion, Textiles and spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola’s Marie Jewellery students at Central Saint Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy’s, Audacity Chutzpah, Martins, University of the Arts Burly Q and Carnesky’s Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous London. She is the author of The demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, Happy Stripper: Pleasures and critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by Politics of the New Burlesque inappropriately re-appropriating femininity. (I.B.Tauris). Art and…

Art and… is a series of intelligently written and highly readable illustrated books for the gallery-goer and students. The series takes as its starting points both that art matters—that it has a real and important connection to the world in which we live—and that contemporary art, sometimes difficult or unapproachable, need not equate to difficult writing. In selecting themes, we have aligned art with those perennial issues such as sex and war wich trouble generation after generation, as well as those specifically contemporary issues—recent scientific advances and advertising for example—to show how art both reflects and influences the wider world.

Contemporary Thinkers Reframed

Are you baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to those who ‘think in images’. Contemporary Thinkers Reframed instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilize actual examples of artworks, films, televisions shows, works or architecture, fashion and even computer games to explain and explore the work of the most commonly taught thinkers. Conceived specifically for the visually minded, the series will prove invaluable to students right across the visual arts.

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