2021 Asian Studies catalogue

2021

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ASIAN STUDIES

CATALOGUE 2021

Contents 20C History (General).......................................................

Ancient History.................................................................

Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition....

Asian Language, Linguistics.............................................

Asian Literature................................................................

English Literature - 1700 - 1830......................................

Classical Art, Architecture................................................

Classical Literature...........................................................

Comparative Politics........................................................

Computational Linguistics................................................

Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public Law........

Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Company Law.............

Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Arbitration...............

East Asian Government, Politics, Policy...........................

East Asian History............................................................

Economic Development and Growth...............................

Economics (General).........................................................

Entrepreneurship and Innovation....................................

Global history...................................................................

Grammar and Syntax........................................................

Historical Sociology.........................................................

History of Ideas and Intellectual History.........................

International Business......................................................

International Economic and Trade Law, WTO Law..........

International Relations, International Organisations......

Legal History....................................................................

Literary Theory.................................................................

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.....................

Historical Geography.......................................................

Military History................................................................

Political Economy.............................................................

Political Sociology............................................................

Political Theory................................................................

Public international law...................................................

Social Psychology.............................................................

Social, Cultural Anthropology..........................................

Socio-Legal Studies..........................................................

Sociolinguistics................................................................

Sociology (General)..........................................................

South Asian Government, Politics, Policy........................

South Asian history..........................................................

South-East Asian Government, Politics, Policy................

South-East Asian History..................................................

Texts In Political Thought................................................

Theatre (General).............................................................

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The Cambridge History of Communism Volume 1 World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941 Silvio Pons | Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’

Volume One of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, analyzing the roots, impact, and development of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, and the development of the movement on a global scale.

• Charts the rise of communism as a global force from the Russian Revolution and Civil War to the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War • Situates Communist history in the context of the aftermath of the First World War, the crisis of empires, the Great Depression, and the rise of Fascism in Europe • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines The Cambridge History of Communism 676pp April 2020 9781107467361 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107092846 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316137024

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The Cambridge History of Communism Volume 2 The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s Norman Naimark | Stanford University, California

Volume Two of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Key themes include the relationship between East European parties and Moscow, and the spread of communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as nationalism fed anti-imperialist sentiment.

• Charts the onset of the Cold War and the growth of communism across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America • Analyzes the transformative and tumultuous geopolitics, political economy, society and culture of Communist revolutions and movements around the globe • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines The Cambridge History of Communism 700pp April 2020 9781107590014 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107133549 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316459850

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The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal Law, History, and Jurisprudence David Cohen | Stanford University, California

Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo trial was foundational in the field of international law.

However, the persistent notion of ‘victor’s justice’ in the existing literature has made it difficult to objectively assess. Cohen and Totani redress this by providing a fresh perspective based on careful examination of the trial record.

• The first truly comprehensive assessment of the Tokyo trial as a judicial process, separating it from other ideologically motivated studies • Illustrates the Tokyo Trial’s importance for international jurisprudence by placing it in the context of both modern Japanese history and international criminal law • The book is based on often neglected sources, including a draft judgment by Sir William Webb, the President of the Tokyo tribunal 559pp May 2020 9781108820684 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 November 2018 9781107119703 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316348659

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Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 Nicola Di Cosmo | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period in world history. It illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.

• Proposes an integrated view of Eurasia during the period ca.250–750 CE that brings together Rome, China, Iran, and the central steppe lands, allowing readers to gain a fresh approach to a coherent transformational period in world history that has not been discussed within these chronological and geographical parameters before • Brings together in an innovative way two areas that are the focus of considerable current interest, late antique studies and silk road studies, offering new methodologies for integrated study • Introduces the concept of ‘Eurasian Late Antiquity’, which is not based on the centrality of the Roman Mediterranean world, helping readers understand the commonalities, differences, and exchanges over a broad geographic area, including Rome, China, Iran, and the steppe lands between them 542pp 39 b/w illus. 9 maps August 2020 9781107476127 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 June 2018 9781107094345 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316146040

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Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Contact and Exchange between the GraecoRoman World, Inner Asia and China Hyun Jin Kim | University of Melbourne

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Studies the history, literature and archaeology of the great empires of the vast Eurasian continent from a comparative, interdisciplinary and, in particular, a Eurasian perspective. It highlights the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchanges across Eurasia in the ancient and early medieval worlds.

• Argues for the extraordinary extent to which ancient and medieval Eurasian empires were interconnected • Challenges the dichotomy of ‘settled’ and ‘nomad’, exploring how pastoralism was no barrier to sophisticated political and social organization • Highlights the role of Inner Asian empires in particular in facilitating contact and exchange between the great civilisations of Eurasia including Rome, China, Persia, India and the Near East 349pp 20 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables January 2020 9781316638804 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2017 9781107190412 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108115865

Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires Randolph B. Ford | State University of New York, Albany

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a ‘barbarian’ Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China.

• Gives a comparative reassessment of ethnographic practices and world views in these ancient civilizations and their reception in late antiquity • Puts forward an original theory for the understanding of the critical, yet unexplored, divergence in ancient imperial trajectories • Makes use of primary texts in all of the original languages, with translations by the author 388pp 12 maps April 2020 9781108473958 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108564090

Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China Hans Beck | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Explores the creative potential of juxtaposing the cultural foundations of the Mediterranean world and ancient China. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses.

• Captures the political cultures of the two largest civilizations in antiquity • Focusses on the relation between political leaders and the masses • Fosters a new comparative approach to the ancient world 448pp December 2020 9781108485777 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108641166

The Founder of Manichaeism Rethinking the Life of Mani Iain Gardner | University of Sydney

A study of the life of Mani using the very latest research, new texts and archaeological discoveries. The history of Manichaeism has been revolutionised by spectacular finds in Egypt, Central Asia and China, to be established as a pivotal Silk Road religion and conduit for ideas between east and west.

• Uses the life of Mani to explore the key historical basis and origins of one of the world’s most influential religions • Argues for a critical understanding and evaluation of the sources for the Mani-biography, thereby overturning many long-established and conventional views • Introduces new texts that have only recently come to light or are still in the process of being edited 142pp March 2020 9781108499071 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614962

Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia Global Challenges and Local Responses Amy Bik May Tsui | The University of Hong Kong

Written by local specialists, this book covers the impact of globalization on language policy, English language teaching and teacher education in ten Asian jurisdictions. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in English language education, teacher education, language policy and sociolinguistics.

• Covers ten countries/jurisdictions with markedly different sociopolitical, cultural and historical backgrounds and at different stages of economic development • Includes an introductory chapter which frames the discussions of the global challenges and local responses in the chapters from two major perspectives on globalization • All chapter authors have engaged in English language education and teacher education in their respective jurisdictions, providing insiders’ perspectives on their governments’ policies and the realities of the implementation Cambridge Education Research 350pp November 2020 9781108479714 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108856218

Is English an Asian Language?

Andy Kirkpatrick | Griffith University, Queensland

Asian multilingual speakers are continuously adapting and reshaping English to reflect their varying needs. This book describes how new Asian varieties of English develop, how these reflect the cultural values of users and the types of topics Asian speakers talk about and the communicative strategies they adopt when using English.

• Informs readers of new developments in how English is being used by Asian multilinguals to help them in cross cultural communication with each other • Includes examples of several different varieties of Asian English • Proposes a way of teaching English to help promote indigenous languages as languages of education alongside English 270pp November 2020 9781107134683 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 November 2020 9781316500774 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 38.99 eISBN 9781316471166

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Asian Language, Linguistics NEW IN PAPERBACK

Teaching Chinese as an International Language A Singapore Perspective Yeng-Seng Goh | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

China has risen in international prominence in recent decades, leading to a dramatic surge in the number of aspiring students of Chinese across the globe. Goh’s lively account explores the spread of global Chinese, and the teaching of Chinese as an international language to English-speaking learners from a Singapore perspective.

• Accessibly written and suitable for those with no prior knowledge of Chinese or Chinese language teaching • Explores the impact of China’s emergence as a global power on dominant teaching and learning practices • Uses the history of Chinese language policy in Singapore as a useful case study for the teaching of Chinese internationally 229pp 19 b/w illus. 50 tables April 2020 9781107660809 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 27.99 August 2017 9781107052192 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116.00 eISBN 9781107280472

The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia N. J. Enfield | University of Sydney

This comprehensive survey of the history and structures of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia draws on examples from over 100 languages, to give students a rich source of information on the languages of this unique area, of relevance to the study of languages, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and history.

• Includes detailed descriptions of the nature of mainland Southeast Asian languages, with examples from more than a hundred languages • Provides a rich account of the prehistorical background to human and linguistic diversity in mainland Southeast Asia • Offers a compact and comprehensive overview of the historical relationships between the languages and language families of mainland Southeast Asia Cambridge Language Surveys 750pp January 2021 9781108476331 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108605618

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The Singlish Controversy NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics Yoko Hasegawa | University of California, Berkeley

Designed to serve as a comprehensive, yet concise, reference book for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, this handbook explores the diverse and intriguing characteristics of Japanese in comparison with English and other European languages.

• Theoretical terms are clearly explained, without the need for prior knowledge of particular theoretical frameworks • Provides a comprehensive and thorough thematic coverage • An ideal textbook for a graduate-level introduction to Japanese linguistics courses Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics 776pp 51 b/w illus. 5 maps 47 tables September 2020 9781316636411 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99 April 2018 9781107185456 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316884461

The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics Sungdai Cho | Binghamton University, State University of New York

With contributions from global experts in Korean, this handbook gives a state-of-the-art overview of key trends in Korean linguistics, ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and language pedagogy. Researchers and students will find the Handbook an invaluable resource.

• A state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research in Korean Linguistics, covering all key current areas of study • Brings together contributions from a range of internationally renowned experts in Korean language and linguistics • Uses theory from a range of linguistic disciplines to explain features of Korean to researchers and advanced students with no prior experience of the language.

Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics 800pp March 2021 9781108418911 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108292351

Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World Lionel Wee | National University of Singapore

This book is for students and researchers who are interested in language policy and New Englishes, as well as in questions about the nature of language. It argues that a detailed analysis of the Singlish controversy can illuminate broader questions about language, identity and globalization.

• Explains the nature of Singlish, the colloquial English spoken in Singapore, through linguistic analysis • Delves into the context of what Singlish is and what it means to its speakers • Argues that the Singlish controversy changes our understanding of the nature of language 222pp 3 b/w illus. 3 tables September 2020 9781316632826 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 January 2018 9781107181717 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316855331

A Phonological History of Chinese Zhongwei Shen | University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.

• Introduces new research originally written in Chinese, and makes it accessible to researchers whose dominant language is English • Source materials are systematically introduced and explained to aid understanding of context • Covers all major historical periods of the past 2500 years 320pp 25 b/w illus. 420 tables June 2020 9781107135840 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316476925

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Asian Literature A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature Fuhui Wu | Peking University, Beijing

In this illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century to 1949, Wu Fuhui argues that this transformative period was informed both by developments in China’s domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.

• Makes available the work of one of China’s leading literary scholars in English for the first time • Presents an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to literary history • Richly illustrated

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The Cambridge China Library 856pp 680 b/w illus. 10 maps 21 tables February 2020 9781107069497 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781107706828

A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature Boqun Fan | Fudan University, Shanghai

This is the first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies of its kind. Utilising a broad range of literary genres from the late Qing through the Republican period, Fan Boqun’s innovative, illustrated analysis charts the historical blueprint of modern Chinese popular literature.

• Makes available the work of a leading Chinese scholar in English for the first time • Explores an often overlooked period of Chinese literature • Includes over 350 thoughtfully chosen illustrations using a broad range of literary genres The Cambridge China Library 830pp 350 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781107068568 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781107705975

The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore Sukanta Chaudhuri | Jadavpur University, Kolkata

This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore’s multi-faceted genius. It will cater to students and scholars of Indian and world literature, even those who know Bengali; also of Indian history, culture, philosophy, music, art, and South Asia studies.

• All of Tagore’s fields of creation and activity covered and related to each other in a single volume • Takes into account the whole range of Tagore’s works, in Bengali and English. Most English studies of Tagore confine themselves, in practice if not declaredly, only to material available in English • Draws on the best scholarship in the field, including Bengali experts who do not often write for English publications but might have the greatest expertise on Tagore • Presents this material in a contemporary international critical idiom • Brings together specialists in other fields where appropriate historians, social scientists, artists, environmentalists, scientists etc.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 515pp June 2020 9781108489942 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781108747738 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108779753

English Literature - 1700 - 1830 NEW IN PAPERBACK

China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 Eun Kyung Min | Seoul National University

This book shows that the self-conscious construction of ideas about modern English literary character derived in part from debates about Chinese history, taste, and culture. By writing China into new literary forms such as the novel, periodical paper, and newspaper, writers helped define what constituted modern English identity.

• Delivers a new account of the rise of English literary modernity and how new literary forms were influenced by notions of other cultures and traditions • Provides an exploration of the relationship between new print media in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the self-conscious understanding of modern English identity • Offers new insights into the debate between the Ancient and the Moderns, and into other early eighteenth-century arguments conducted in novels and magazines 289pp 4 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108433075 Paperback GBP 22.00 / USD 27.00 April 2018 9781108421935 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108379793

Classical Art, Architecture Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland Jaś Elsner | University of Oxford

Reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the problems of comparing the visual cultures of emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the pagan religions of the Roman world.

• Uses case studies to demonstrate the challenges of comparing art and religion across Eurasia in the first millennium • Shows how images need to be brought into discussion of these topics alongside texts and scriptures • Reveals the limitations to scholarship imposed by modern attitudes founded in the fraught history of Eurasia in the last 150 years and enables new starting points to be adopted 530pp March 2020 9781108473071 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108564465

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Classical Literature NEW IN PAPERBACK

Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices A Global Comparative Approach Anthony Grafton | Princeton University, New Jersey

This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use.

• Broadens the discussion of the history of scholarly practices beyond the limits of individual, usually Western cultural traditions, and develops modes of meaningful comparison across cultures and periods • Applies to the history of philology the techniques, concepts, and methods of the history of science - especially the relatively recent form of history of science that concentrates on practices and their development • Brings the history of the humanities, in the form of the history and methodology of philological practices, into the purview of the history of science 400pp 31 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781107513860 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99 September 2016 9781107105980 Hardback GBP 106.00 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316226728

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Resilient Communities Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War Jana Krause | Universiteit van Amsterdam

Resilient Communities focuses on civilian agency and mobilization ‘from below’ and explains violence and non-violence in communal wars.

Krause draws on extensive field research on ethno-religious conflict in Indonesia and Nigeria and offers a comparative analysis of (un)successful local peace and resilience building in vulnerable mixed communities.

• Offers an in-depth analysis of non-violent communities and resilience building during communal conflict in Indonesia and Nigeria • Develops a concept of communal war and offers a typology for analyzing its patterns of violence and its social processes of escalation • Will inform scholars and students in comparative politics and conflict studies working on communal conflict, civil war, and peacebuilding, and practitioners who work on atrocity prevention and civilian protection, about civilian coping strategies and social resilience 306pp 6 b/w illus. 5 maps 5 tables January 2020 9781108457170 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2018 9781108471114 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108675079

The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation Challenges in Developing Countries William Ascher | Claremont McKenna College, California

Comparative Politics Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies Erin Aeran Chung | The Johns Hopkins University

Based on interviews and focus groups with immigrants in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this book examines how past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights and recognition. Students, researchers, and practitioners will gain insight into the gaps between immigration policies and practices in East Asia and beyond.

• Provides an in-depth comparison of immigration politics in three East Asian industrial democracies to explain different trajectories • Connects regional trends in East Asia with key theoretical debates in the social sciences • Documents the voices of immigrants to better understand the political choices they make when becoming permanent members of their receiving societies 270pp October 2020 9781107042537 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 October 2020 9781107616967 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781107337077

Integrates psychology, economics, political science, and policy design to explore ways to enact and protect poverty alleviation policies. Examines successes and failures in helping the poor through affirmative action, cash transfers, social-spending targeting, subsidies, and regional development policies in Latin America and Asia.

• Can help improve poverty-alleviation programs while avoiding destructive conflict • Reframes the conversation around poverty-alleviation by redirecting the conversation away from the misleading preoccupation with income distribution • Appeals to readers across the fields of political and social psychology, economics, political science and policy design 348pp 2 b/w illus. 9 tables August 2020 9781108840361 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108885775

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Thirsty Cities Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India Selina Ho | National University of Singapore

The experiences of the two rising powers of Asia, China and India, in providing drinking water highlight an important puzzle - why do some countries provide more public goods than others?

The book argues that public goods vary according to the social contract between a government and its people.

• Compares public goods provided by China and India and argues that regime types do not determine public goods outcomes • Proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding public goods provision through a detailed study of drinking water in Chinese and Indian cities • Explores important policy issues for developing countries and gives insights into real-life policy implications for governments 311pp 8 b/w illus. 14 tables August 2020 9781108825078 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 31.99 January 2019 9781108427821 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108580373

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The Afroasiatic Languages Zygmunt Frajzyngier | University of Colorado Boulder

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Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages and will be welcomed by linguists interested in linguistic theory, typology, historical linguistics and endangered languages.

• The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages • Does not require previous knowledge of the specific language families • Includes information on endangered and little-known languages Cambridge Language Surveys 707pp 6 b/w illus. 6 maps 99 tables December 2020 9781108977852 Paperback GBP 41.99 / USD 53.99 May 2012 9780521865333 Hardback GBP 124.00 / USD 201.00 eISBN 9781139020930

Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public Law Authoritarian Legality in Asia Formation, Development and Transition Weitseng Chen | National University of Singapore

This book compares the past and current experiences of China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam, and offers a comparative framework for readers to conduct a theoretical dialogue with the orthodox conception of liberal democracy and the rule of law.

• Provides a comparative perspective of authoritarian legality to enrich the understanding of legality and liberal rule of law and democracy • Introduces an intra-Asia comparison approach that provides a new set of metrics for evaluating legal reforms in authoritarian countries such as China • Explores various phases of authoritarian legality development and discusses not only the transition of authoritarian legality but also the post-transition struggles in various countries 500pp July 2020 9781108496681 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108634816

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Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order Gregory Shaffer | University of California, Irvine

Constitution-making is often thought of as an exclusively national project that constitutes the framework for politics and law within a nation, but constitutions have always been influenced by ideas from abroad. External influence is increasing, producing a transnational legal order with its own constitutional norms, processes, guidelines and shared ideas.

• Proposes a new way of analyzing constitution-making • Advances the theory of transnational legal ordering • Combines law, sociology and other disciplines into an integrated whole Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy 334pp 16 b/w illus. 1 map 11 tables September 2020 9781108460989 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 April 2019 9781108473101 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108561792

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Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives Takao Suami | Waseda University, Japan

Examines aspects of international and national law including human rights, rule of law, economic integration and social values and engages scholars from East Asia who critique Western ideas, enrich them through non-western practices and help produce transcultural universal categories of international constitutional law.

• Provides a balanced perspective with authors from different regions and offers insights on developments of the role of law in East Asia • Examines specific aspects of globalization including human rights, rule of law, economic integration and social values • Through inter-disciplinary study, readers will understand how different attitudes towards constitutionalism have emerged between Europe and East Asia 623pp March 2020 9781108810371 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 49.99 November 2018 9781108417112 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108264877

Proportionality in Asia Po Jen Yap | The University of Hong Kong

This book is for lawyers, political scientists, and students of law and political science who seek to understand how proportionality analysis – a legal transplant from the West – is blossoming and, in some cases, flourishing in Asia.

• Provides an overview of how proportionality analysis is applied by courts across Asia, with an enhanced understanding of how proportionality analysis operates beyond Western states • Explains how the judicial application of proportionality analysis varies according to the regime type of the jurisdiction and how politics shape judicial behaviour • Identifies and analyses the key constitutional case law in various Asian jurisdictions 300pp August 2020 9781108495752 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108862950

Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Company Law Government Intervention in the Reorganisation of Listed Companies in China Huimiao Zhao

The book contains in-depth theoretical discussion on legislative bankruptcy goals and administrative goals within the theoretical framework of China’s socialist market economy. It also provides a comprehensive overview of the reorganisation of listed companies, including details from actual legal practice.

• Applies a comprehensive empirical method to analyse the exact means and effects of government intervention • Studies the actual bankruptcy practice of listed companies in China to allow readers to understand how bankruptcies of listed companies are conducted in China • Clarifies how China’s socialist market economy influences the bankruptcy practice of listed companies 348pp January 2020 9781108496650 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108634557

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Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia Ernest Lim | National University of Singapore

Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Arbitration

Critically examines how corporate law and governance can be used to promote sustainability in Asia. It will be of interest to a broad audience, ranging from students and scholars to regulators and observers of comparative sustainability, corporate social responsibility, comparative corporate law and corporate governance, as well as Asian studies.

• Presents an analytic framework, and engages in a critical evaluation, of six corporate governance and corporate law mechanisms that can be used to promote sustainability • Demonstrates the effect of state-owned enterprises and their controlling shareholder, the government, on sustainability, thus enabling readers to understand and evaluate their relationship • Combines doctrinal, theoretical and empirical research and draws on interdisciplinary literature, situating them within the context of Asia

China and International Dispute Resolution in the Context of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’

Venture Capital Law in China

720pp October 2020 9781108473392 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108561976

International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation 428pp 2 tables April 2020 9781108494519 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108658508

Lin Lin | National University of Singapore

This book examines the law and practice of venture capital in China. Using an extensive dataset, it compares the world’s largest markets – the US and China. This comprehensive evaluation of the past, present and future of venture capital in China is a must read for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

• Provides a comprehensive and timely assessment of the Chinese venture capital market using a detailed and insightful analysis of the latest legal developments and practices within China • Introduces the special characteristics of the Chinese venture capital market and its distinctive legal problems based on hand-collected quantitative and qualitative data • Compares the legal framework and common practices found in the two largest venture capital markets in the world – China and the United States International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation 300pp February 2021 9781108423557 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108528795

Wenhua Shan | Xian Jiaotong University, China

A timely study by leading authorities of China’s role in international dispute resolution in the context of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. Providing the first comprehensive analysis of China’s policy and practice in international dispute resolution, particularly in the fields of trade, commerce, investment laws and the law of the sea.

• Provides a timely study of international dispute resolution in the context of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, a useful reference for teachers and students in international law, international dispute resolution, and China in the modern world • Features in-depth analysis of cases in the fields of international trade law, international investment law, and international law of sea • Offers a comprehensive examination of China’s participation in various fields of international dispute resolution

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration A Commentary Ilias Bantekas

Provides a comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. Written by leading academics and practitioners and combining both theory and practice, it will serve as a guidebook for practitioners, legislators and academics interested in international commercial arbitration.

• A comprehensive article-by-article commentary of the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration written by leading academics and practitioners • Provides in-depth critical analysis of commercial arbitration that not only discusses case-law but also explores the ideas behind arbitration • Combines both theory and practice, ensuring relevance for practitioners, legislators and academics 1142pp March 2020 9781108498234 Hardback GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781108633376

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China’s Gilded Age The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption Yuen Yuen Ang | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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By unbundling corruption into four distinct categories, Ang shows that the type of corruption that dominates in China - ‘access money’ (elite exchanges of power and profit) - perversely stimulates investment and growth while producing serious risks for the economy and political system.

• Provides the most data-rich study of Chinese corruption to date • Explains the enduring puzzle of economic boom and vast corruption in China by highlighting the differential effects of different types of corruption • Proposes a typology that unbundles corruption into four distinct varieties, paired with a new Unbundled Corruption Index (UCI) that covers fifteen countries, including China • Through a comparative-historical lens, it shows that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money 266pp 49 b/w illus. 27 tables May 2020 9781108478601 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108778350

China and the International Human Rights Regime Rana Siu Inboden| University of Texas, Austin

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China’s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017. She provides insights into the motivations and influences driving China’s subtle yet persistent efforts to constrain the international human rights regime and explores China’s rising position as a global power.

• Examines China’s impact on the international human rights regime • Provides insights into the motivations and influences driving China’s behaviour • Introduces, develops and applies a range of possible roles for states in international regimes 320pp January 2021 9781108841078 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108888745

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Energy and Climate Policies in China and India A Two-Level Comparative Study Fuzuo Wu | Aalborg University, Denmark

The book argues that China and India’s policy measures to address energy insecurity and climate change have been shaped at two levels. Domestically, both countries pursued fast economic growth for wealth maximization. At the international level, both countries burnished their great power status through global energy and climate governance.

• Creates a two-level pressure analytical framework by expanding the vision of Putnam’s two-level games and Neoclassical realism • Systematically compares China and India’s energy and climate change policies at two levels - domestic and international • Draws on rich primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and English to provide a nuanced perspective to readers 330pp March 2020 9781108816311 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2018 9781108420402 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108333498

From Empire to Nation State Ethnic Politics in China Yan Sun | City University of New York

Many scholars perceive ethnic politics in China as an untouchable topic due to lack of data and contentious, even prohibitive, politics. This book reveals rare knowledge and findings, offering a historical-political perspective on China’s contemporary ethnic conflict to reveal its roots in its incomplete transition from empire to nation state.

• Reveals rare knowledge and findings through field trips, local contacts and conversations, a large body of local documents, reports and policy debates • Provides comparative contexts from different ethnic groups and regions • Shows how China’s ethnic strife is rooted in historical legacies, which also highlighting how it is affected by contemporary issues 250pp 2 b/w illus. 1 map 30 tables September 2020 9781108840293 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781108794411 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108885454

Securing China’s Northwest Frontier Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang David Tobin | University of Manchester

In the first study to incorporate majority Han and minority Uyghur perspectives on ethnic relations in Xinjiang following mass violence during July 2009, David Tobin analyses how official policy shapes identity and security dynamics on China’s northwest frontier.

• Brings the region of Xinjiang into mainstream debates on China’s domestic and foreign policy • The first book to use fieldwork in Ürümchi following the July 2009 violence • Shows how Chinese nationalism shapes and is shaped by Xinjiang’s history of integration into China 288pp October 2020 9781108488402 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770408

The Belt Road and Beyond State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 Min Ye | Boston University

Over the last twenty years, China has thrice undergone political-economic crises and bureaucratic paralysis. Nevertheless, China’s autocratic leadership launched initiatives that expedited globalization and revived economic growth. This book acts as an analytical tool to study China’s policies and understand its emergence as a global power.

• A uniquely impartial investigation of the tactics attributed to China’s recently acquired status as a formidable global power • A transferable analytical tool to study policies in China, taking into account China’s state system, how it intervenes in the economy, and with what effects • Introduces and evaluates different methods in studying authoritarian China, arguing for the integration of different levels of analysis and disciplinary divides 240pp 13 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables March 2020 9781108479561 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108855389

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The Children of China’s Great Migration Rachel Murphy | University of Oxford

A longitudinal exploration of how different left-behind rural Chinese children are affected by family separation, how they feel about their migrant parents and current caregivers, and how they deal with intense study pressures in the face of disadvantage. A key text for those interested in family, gender, education, development and migration.

• Based on rich first-hand interviews with left-behind children and their caregivers, as well as migrant parents in the cities • Casts fresh light on changing gender and generational relationships in rural families as China rapidly urbanizes • Provides a multi-faceted insight into children’s experiences of parental migration and how their experiences, sentiments and relationships evolve overtime 300pp August 2020 9781108834858 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108877251

Toxic Politics China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State Yanzhong Huang

This book is for policymakers, students, scholars, and concerned citizens who are interested in Chinese affairs, politics, international relations, the environment, public health, and public policy. Huang presents new evidence of China’s deepening health crisis and examines the implications for Chinese politics and China’s international ascendance.

• Explains China’s deepening health crisis as a failure of governance connected to pathologies inherent in the Chinese state • Maps implications for the future, considering the resilience of the Chinese party-state, the viability of the China model, and China’s ability to project its influence internationally • Integrates perspectives from research on the environment, public health, policy, politics, and international relations 300 November 2020 9781108841917 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 89.99 November 2020 9781108815284 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108895132

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The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan Tianjian Shi | Duke University, North Carolina

This book explains why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior, as well as how this ‘normative reality’-centered framework connects the findings of scholars of Asian politics with the mainstream literature in comparative politics. Using multiple surveys from mainland China and Taiwan, the book shows how cultural norms, independent of structural and institutional factors, significantly shape political trust, participation, and understanding of democracy.

• Offers a new and original perspective on the dynamics of Asian politics, particularly Chinese politics • Presents a new theory on how culture affects public opinion and political behavior • Results are determined through rigorous empirical examination with unique representative sampling data and sophisticated psychometric and statistical models • Addresses new research avenues for integrating regional studies with a coherent but more nuanced theoretical framework in comparative politics 315pp 49 b/w illus. 46 tables January 2020 9781316608463 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 March 2015 9781107011762 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 108.00 eISBN 9780511996474

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China’s Strategic Multilateralism Investing in Global Governance Scott L. Kastner | University of Maryland, College Park

China sometimes shows leadership in organizing global challenges, but its role can be less constructive. This book engages students of international relations and China with a theory of how rising powers approach international cooperation strategically, illustrated with case studies of Central Asia, nuclear proliferation, international finance, and climate change.

• Brings detailed analysis of Chinese foreign policy to bear on current debates in political science and international relations • Makes the theory accessible to readers without specialized training in international relations theory or formal logic • Includes detailed explanations of the context of China’s rise and its actions on issues of contemporary concern 276pp May 2020 9781108454322 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108429504 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108695725

Law and the Party in Xi Jinping’s China Ideology and Organization Rogier J. E. H. Creemers | Universiteit Leiden

This book is aimed at legal and political scholars and professionals. It will provide them with a coherent explanation of how law is conceived within its ideological context, and how the Chinese Communist Party uses it as part of its governance toolkit.

• The first legal study of China that explicitly embeds law in the Partystate framework that will enable lawyers and politics scholars to better grasp its intricate architecture • Explores the role of Party ideology in the legal system, drawing attention to the importance of indigenous Party thought, and provides a framework for understanding Chinese law in the Xi Jinping era • Explores the implications of ideology and organisation in a number of case studies to ensure the book contains vivid examples of its ideas in practice, as well as theory 250pp October 2020 9781108836357 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108864596

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Transnational Nazism Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 Ricky W. Law | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

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This study of the 1930s German-Japanese alliance employs sources in both languages to reveal the role of mass media in shaping and promoting an ideology which, by creating a niche for Japan in the Nazi worldview, convinced German Nazis to identify with non-Aryans and non-Germans to become adherents of Hitler.

• Uses both German and Japanese primary sources, many of which have been previously neglected • Explains interwar German-Japanese rapprochement from ideological and cultural perspectives, and the role of the national media of both countries • Offers an incisive look at how the seemingly narrow Nazi ideology gained broad prominence and popularity beyond its obvious core demographic Publications of the German Historical Institute 359pp 21 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108465151 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 May 2019 9781108474634 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108565714

After the Korean War An Intimate History Heonik Kwon | University of Cambridge

This ground-breaking study investigates the history and legacy of the Korean War within the realm of intimate human social experience. In doing so, it boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and examines how Korea’s civil war memories remain present in the Korean consciousness.

• Provides a fresh perspective of the Korean War and Korea’s Cold War experience from the ground up • Introduces the concept of kinship into an analysis of modern history and politics to help understand the human experience of the Cold War and its aftermath • Draws upon newly available historical and testimonial evidence, as well as a sensitive, long-term participant observation Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 246pp April 2020 9781108487924 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108768313

An Early Modern Economy in China The Yangzi Delta in the 1820s Bozhong Li | Peking University, Beijing

The first English translation of Li Bozhong’s pioneering study An Early Modern Economy in China, which uses sophisticated analysis to reconstruct the GDP of the Lower Yangzi Delta. An innovative economic history that contributes to the Great Divergence debate, Li draws comparisons the Netherlands in the same period.

• Makes available in English the ground-breaking work of one of China’s leading economic historians • The first attempt to apply methods of HSNA (historical system of national account) study to pre-modern Chinese GDP • Establishes a benchmark for future reconstructions of regional economies through GDP The Cambridge China Library 360pp 6 maps 75 tables September 2020 9781108479202 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782753

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Animals through Chinese History Earliest Times to 1911 Roel Sterckx | University of Cambridge

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, the essays explore not only developments in the human-animal relationship but the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.

• These essays move beyond the issue of animal symbolism, instead placing animals in the context of evolving knowledge paradigms • Takes a longue durée view rather than focusing on a particular historical period • Based on hitherto unstudied materials from China • This title is also available as Open Access 291pp 21 b/w illus. 2 tables May 2020 9781108446112 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108428156 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108551571

Chinese Culture and the Chinese Military Haizong Lei

This is the first English translation of Lei Haizong’s iconic study of the Chinese army. First published in 1940 in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Lei examines the rise and fall of ideas about militarism in China in a global context.

• The first English translation of a classic study of Chinese military culture • Written and published during the Second Sino-Japanese War • Will be of interest to a wide range of historians and teachers of twentieth-century history The Cambridge China Library 282pp 1 b/w illus. 6 tables April 2020 9781108479189 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108782715

Chinese Diasporas A Social History of Global Migration Steven B. Miles | Washington University, St Louis

In this concise and compelling survey of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day, Steven B. Miles traces the experiences of Chinese migrants and their families. Essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the history of migration more broadly.

• Introduces concepts and debates in migration history • Compelling case studies focus on individual migrants and their descendants • Provides an integrated history of internal and external Chinese migration New Approaches to Asian History 278pp 10 b/w illus. 5 maps 2 tables February 2020 9781107179929 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 February 2020 9781316631812 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316841211

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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Gina Anne Tam | Trinity University, Texas

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea Hyaeweol Choi | University of Iowa

Challenging the widely accepted narrative that national languages create national identity, Tam narrates the history of the Chinese nation and Chinese nationalism from the perspective of fangyan - dialects or regional languages distinct from Mandarin - and in so doing, shows how they were central to the making of modern nationalism in China.

• Challenges the widely accepted historical narrative that language standardization creates national citizens • Introduces a novel way of studying nationalism that highlights diverse visions of the nation without ignoring those who seek to maintain it as a homogenous concept • Encourages readers to expand the history of information methodology to consider both how knowledge is constructed and how that knowledge is filtered down and subsequently shapes all areas of public and private life 272pp 20 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108478281 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776400

Disability in Contemporary China Citizenship, Identity and Culture Sarah Dauncey | University of Nottingham

Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenship in China from 1949 to the present.

She proposes a dynamic relationship of identity and belonging, encompassing both the perils of difference and the potential for empowerment.

• Analyses a wide variety of Chinese cultural genres • Offers a dynamic and objective framework for understanding disability and citizenship in different societies • Reveals perspectives dependent upon closeness to the disability experience and highlights the gendered nature of disability 300pp 4 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781107118539 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316339879

Economic Thought in Modern China Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 Margherita Zanasi | Louisiana State University

Margherita Zanasi argues that ideas of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged in China in the late 1500s, roughly a century and half earlier than in Europe. This book is for those interested in modern Chinese history and in economic thought, theories of economic modernization and economic globalization.

• Places the development of Chinese economic thought in a comparative/global perspective • Focuses the relationship between economic ideas and economic circumstances to stimulate conversation between economic historians and historians of ideas • Bridges interpretative gaps between the Ming-Qing and Republican period

Arguing that religion cannot be separated from modernity, Choi demonstrates how twentiethcentury Korea exemplifies the role global Protestant networks played in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices, instilling a sense of locality and the world, and claiming new space for women in the public sphere.

• Considers the influence of multiple cultures in shaping modern gender relations in Korea • Illustrates how Protestant global networks played a significant role in shaping gendered modernity • Demonstrates colonial and postcolonial roots of gender norms and practices in modern Korea 320pp July 2020 9781108487436 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108766838

Honor and Shame in Early China Mark Edward Lewis | Stanford University, California

Shedding new light on the history of the early Chinese empires, Mark Edward Lewis explores the evolution of ideas about honor and shame.

He shows that honor-shame discourse had a farreaching impact on political structures, family and gender roles, and the public reception of writing in early China.

• Demonstrates the important role of the honor-shame discourse in the development of the imperial Chinese state • Carefully examines a comprehensive variety of early Chinese texts • Includes comparisons with other empires, most importantly the Roman Empire 350pp January 2021 9781108843690 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108919678

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Japan’s Carnival War Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 Benjamin Uchiyama | University of Southern California

This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of unrelenting repression. Uchiyama demonstrates that ‘carnival war’ coexisted with the demands of total war to promote consumerist desire alongside sacrifice and fantasy alongside nightmare, helping mobilize the war effort.

• Provides a fresh glimpse into Japanese mass culture during the war years beyond well-known government propaganda • Examines familiar but under-studied tropes of wartime Japan, such as the kamikaze pilot and the soldier • Explores the Japanese home front experience in World War II 292pp 27 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781316637449 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 March 2019 9781107186743 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316899823

252pp 2 maps May 2020 9781108499934 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108752787

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Japan’s Castles

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Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace Oleg Benesch | University of York

The Militarization of Cold War China Covell F. Meyskens | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for Japan’s future. The transformation of castles from symbols of Japan’s martial spirit into cultural heritage sites charts changing understandings of the past.

• Provides the first history of Japan’s castles in the modern period • Examines castles in a wide range of locales from the nineteenth century to the present • Lavishly illustrated

Covell Meyskens reveals a little-known chapter of Chinese history in this examination of the ways that socialism, militarism, and economic development became intertwined in a giant industrial campaign to protect socialist China from the military dangers of the Cold War. • A vivid account of how Cold War security tensions became woven into the political economy and everyday life of Mao’s China • Examines a Chinese social engineering campaign when the geopolitical friction of the Cold War in Asia was at its most intense • The first detailed exploration of the most expensive industrialization initiative undertaken in China during the Mao era

376pp 42 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108741651 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 31.99 May 2019 9781108481946 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108680578

Japan’s Living Politics Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Australian National University, Canberra

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa MorrisSuzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twentieth-and twenty-first-century social experiments with particular relevance in the context of today’s global crisis of democracy.

• Explores little-known cases of grassroots selfhelp activism in modern Japan • Provides new insights into cross-border networking by informal politics groups • Contributes to international debates about democratic alternatives in the twenty-first-century world 246pp May 2020 9781108490078 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780049

292pp May 2020 9781108489553 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784788

Ming China and its Allies Imperial Rule in Eurasia David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York

The book is for anyone interested in the Mongol Empire, Chinese history, and the ways politicians exploit historical memory to win legitimacy at home and abroad. David M. Robinson shows that even the world’s most powerful rulers such as the Ming emperor needed allies and were willing to pay for them.

• Contextualizes China in global history, breaking out of ‘isolated China’ historical narrative • Provides a full analysis of Chinese diplomacy and international leadership in the early modern period • Provides compelling new ways of thinking about power and legitimacy in the pre-modern world 258pp 2 maps January 2020 9781108489225 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108774253

Mao Zedong A Biography Volume 1 1893–1949 Pang Xianzhi

Volume 1 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893–1949. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.

• Introduces the official Chinese interpretation of the Mao period • Based on archives to which no Western scholars have yet had access • An introductory essay provides context and highlights differences in interpretation The Cambridge China Library 1018pp 21 b/w illus. 3 maps February 2020 9781107092723 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781316136492

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Qing Travelers to the Far West Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China Jenny Huangfu Day | Skidmore College, New York

This is the first English-language study of China’s first travelers, envoys and diplomats to Europe and the United States. This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how SinoWestern engagements transformed literary traditions, diplomatic institutions, networks of communications and intellectual orientations.

• Demonstrates how perspectives from literature, communication studies, intellectual history, and cultural history can inform the study of diplomacy and information order • Examines the period between the Opium Wars and the Sino-Japanese War to provide a fresh explanation for the explosion of interest in foreign policy, international affairs, and institutional reform after 1895 • Proposes a new narrative of Sino-Western relationships in the late Qing through the personal stories of travelers to the West 283pp 12 b/w illus. 1 table March 2020 9781108457729 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 December 2018 9781108471329 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108571005

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Rethinking China’s Rise A Liberal Critique Jilin Xu | Shanghai Normal University

This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China’s economic rise, critiquing China’s rejection of universal values, the nation’s embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.

• A fascinating insight into contemporary China’s intellectual world • A fresh critique of China’s ascendancy • The first volume of Xu Jilin’s work available in English translation The Cambridge China Library 250pp May 2020 9781108456586 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 July 2018 9781108470759 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108556965

Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires Zongli Lu | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

This is the first English translation of Lu Zongli’s study of how rumor formed and spread through non-official channels in early Chinese history.

Utilising popular songs, mythology and prophetic texts, Lu explores rumors in all their diverse forms, dissecting their nature, function and implications for politics and culture.

• The first English translation of a major work of Chinese scholarship • Highlights the significance of public opinion and how it formed and spread through non-official channels in Chinese politics • Explores early Chinese history using an interdisciplinary framework The Cambridge China Library 396pp September 2020 9781108479264 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782913

The Chinese Communist Party A Century in Ten Lives Timothy Cheek | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. These essays reveal the Party’s one-hundred year history, reflecting on power, setbacks, adaptability and change, and illuminating possible paths for China’s future.

• Lively and accessible introduction to one-hundred years of Chinese history • Presents innovative personal histories of the Chinese Communist Party • Brings together an international team of leading historians 250pp June 2021 9781108842778 Hardback GBP 60.00 / USD 75.00 June 2021 9781108822619 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108904186

The City of Blue and White Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World Anne Gerritsen | University of Warwick

Anne Gerritsen demonstrates the key role Chinese porcelain played in the creation of early modern global connections. Through its manufacture and global consumption, China participated in the early modern world. Drawing on research in multiple languages, this beautifully illustrated book situates porcelain in both a local and global context.

• Provides a new way of approaching global history by connecting the global and the local • Demonstrates the key role of Chinese porcelain in the circulation of global material culture • Examines the long history of China’s connections with the wider world 354pp 4 b/w illus. 53 colour illus. 8 maps 1 table May 2020 9781108499958 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108753104

The Great Exodus from China Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang | University of Missouri, Columbia

Yang uncovers the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese civil war by examining the lives of ordinary people who were displaced from China to Taiwan in 1949. He presents a trajectory of repeated traumatization and a search for home, belonging, and identity that reconsiders notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation.

• Uncovers the painful aftermath of Chinese civil war from the perspective of those traumatized and displaced by it • Discusses conflicting cultural traumas/historical memories between Taiwan and China • Offers a powerful critique of the Eurocentric notions of trauma and memory 320pp September 2020 9781108478120 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108784306

The History of Famine Relief in China Yunte Deng

This is the first English translation of Deng Yunte’s classic study of famine relief in Chinese history.

Richly researched, Deng both plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican period and provides a fascinating example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China.

• The first English translation of Deng Yunte’s classic study of famine relief throughout the history of China • A deeply researched study of famine in China spanning more than three millennia • A valuable example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China The Cambridge China Library 660pp 41 tables July 2020 9781108479905 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108801065

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The Making of a New Rural Order in South China Volume 2 Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700 Joseph P. McDermott | University of Cambridge

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This book is written for anyone interested in Chinese history, Chinese business, banking, family structure, and local society over two crucial centuries in the making of modern China. It reveals how some Chinese families acquired and retained great wealth and power over the Chinese economy.

• Provides a holistic framework and analysis of Chinese society and its economy, both rural and urban • Shows how kinship affects business practice and organization • Analyses how Chinese merchants carved niches for their commercial activities within the Chinese government and relates this to the development of distinctive forms 497pp 2 maps 13 tables July 2020 9781107048515 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 99.00 eISBN 9781107261471

The Meiji Restoration Japan as a Global Nation Robert Hellyer | Wake Forest University, North Carolina

An international team of historians employ global history in novel ways to offer new economic, social, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration, Japan’s modern revolution, and the subsequent creation of a globally-cast Japanese nation-state in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

• Brings together cutting-edge research by twelve historians from North America, Europe, and Japan • Reveals the ways in which global contexts defined how institutions and individuals navigated and experienced the Meiji Restoration • Explores the global contexts that shaped new institutions created after the Meiji Restoration 298pp 18 b/w illus. 4 tables May 2020 9781108478052 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775762

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The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 Sidney Xu Lu | Michigan State University

This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the anxiety about overpopulation to justify settler colonialism. Lu reveals the ideological ties, human connections, and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese emigration in Hawaii, North and South America. This title is also available as Open Access.

• Examines the nexus between Japanese colonial expansion in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and the Americas • Analyzes the discourse of ‘Malthusian expansionism’ and places it at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism • Reveals how Japanese expansion developed in tandem with the history of Anglo-American settler colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries • This title is also available as Open Access 329pp 30 b/w illus. 4 tables June 2020 9781108712316 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108482424 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108687584

The Making of Song Dynasty History Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE Charles Hartman | University at Albany, State University of New York

Charles Hartman undertakes a detailed revisionist analysis of the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279), deconstructing the master narratives that emerge from these sources as products of political discourse.

• Presents a comprehensive introduction to the major sources for Song dynasty history • Offers the first analysis of the received narratives of Song history from a deconstructionist perspective • Provides a new governance model for middle period China 400pp October 2020 9781108834834 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108877176

The Politics of the Past in Early China Vincent S. Leung | Lingnan University, Hong Kong

This is a study of the political uses of the past in early China. Engaging with a variety of historical materials, including inscriptional records, excavated manuscripts, and transmitted texts, it is a wideranging exploration of the fraught relationship between politics and historical imagination in ancient China.

• Furthers our understanding of the history of early China and the ancient world • Contributes to our understanding of historiography from the Bronze Age to the first millenium BCE • The book is based on a diverse set of primary sources, including inscriptional materials and excavated manuscripts 214pp February 2020 9781108443241 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 July 2019 9781108425728 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348843

Unending Capitalism How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution Karl Gerth | University of California, San Diego

With the establishment of the PRC in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism.

Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare, Communist Party policies developed capitalism and expanded consumerism.

This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949–1976) down to the present.

• Challenges conventional histories of capitalism and consumerism • Presents a provocative new interpretation of China - and the world - in the Mao era • Provides fresh, engaging material to explain complex concepts and topics 394pp May 2020 9780521868464 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 May 2020 9780521688468 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139025225

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World History and National Identity in China

Rethinking Markets in Modern India

The Twentieth Century Xin Fan

Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction Ajay Gandhi | Universiteit Leiden

Xin Fan utilizes a variety of archival sources to tell the story of four generations of Chinese historians who created the field of world history in China over the course of the twentieth century, and offers a long-term view of the rise of nationalism in China today.

• Provides a narrative of Chinese intellectual history over the course of the entire twentieth century • Considers the influence of critics of narrow nationalism on the formation of Chinese identity • Evaluates the legacy of world-historical studies in China

This book provides a valuable non-western perspective on global capitalism. Based on rich historical and ethnographic studies, it shows the actual workings of Indian markets. It demonstrates their dynamic and contested nature, offering a useful framework for understanding commercial exchange throughout the global south.

• This volume proposes a fresh approach to the study of social embeddedness in economic activity, stressing the importance of market pliability and contested jurisdiction in the unfolding of everyday commerce • Established scholars of modern South Asia put forward a multidimensional historical and contemporary approach to socio-economic relations in the region, which enriches an understanding of the unfolding of Indian capitalism • Contributors provide an innovative set of conceptual rubrics that not only deepen the understanding of Indian markets, but prompt scholars of western commerce to revisit their own approaches, and aid the understanding of market exchange elsewhere in the global south

11000pp February 2021 9781108842600 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903653

Economic Development and Growth Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond R. Nagaraj | Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay

Based on intensive filed-work based research of MSMEs, it attempts to answer the questions of how to create manufacturing jobs and growth in India, how to accomplish Make in India objectives, and how to reindustrialise India, reduce import dependence and achieve self-reliance.

• Offers rich insights into the current state of the small industry that is often overlooked in official statistics and surveys • Explores the implications of growing automation on manufacturing employment • Provides comparative analysis of industrial performance across states and clusters 260pp January 2021 9781108832335 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108935920

Planning in the 20th Century and Beyond India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog Santosh Mehrotra | Jawaharlal Nehru University

This book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development?

How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned?

• Brings together researchers and experts who have a practical experience of planning • Both theoretical and policy-oriented • Offers historical depth on the idea of economic planning 374pp September 2020 9781108494625 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108859448

Reform and the Structure of the Indian Economy Output-Value Added Symbiosis Madhusudan Datta

As the growth rate of the economy accelerated, economists observed that growth of value added came mostly from the service sector. Can the service sector maintain the momentum if manufacturing fails to get charged up in spite of all reforms aimed at this objective? The book studies this question in depth.

• Offers specialised material on input output tables and national account statistics • Develops the important methodological aspect of measurement of sectoral contributions to overall growth in GDP • Examines the hypothesis of Baumol’s disease in the Indian context

300pp October 2020 9781108486781 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108762533

Urban Headway and Upward Mobility in India Arup Mitra

This book focuses on various aspects of urbanisation in India and its impact on socio-economic variables. It brings to the forefront the resilience of the social system that can be mitigated through significant interventions into some of the economic variables. Policy implications of the evidence based research are discussed.

• Studies the effects of urbanisation on the work force participation rate of women • Examines the impact of urbanisation in both rural and urban areas at the district level • Analyses demographic and economic characteristics in relation to the deprivation index and city size 180pp September 2020 9781108496360 Hardback / USD 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108867009

Economics (General) Cross-Border Interbank Contagion Risk Analysis Evidence from Selected Emerging and LessDeveloped Economies in the Asia-Pacific Region Roman Matousek | Queen Mary University of London

This Element provides a detailed overview of the structural changes in the Asia-Pacific region from the early 2000s onwards. It analyses cross-border interbank claims and liabilities, and evaluates the contagion risk to the individual countries spreading from the financial centres in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, New York and London.

Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets 75pp July 2020 9781108794770 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108882040

220pp September 2020 9781108496377 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108867023

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Towards a Theory of ‘Smart’ Social Infrastructures at Base of the Pyramid A Study of India Sandeep Goyal

The focus of this Element is to understand the rise of smart ‘social’ infrastructures in BoP emerging markets like India. Smart social infrastructure will play a transformative role in bridging socioeconomic gaps between rich and poor as well as providing equal opportunities for a better life and well-being to people at the base of the pyramid.

Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets 110pp June 2020 9781108794800 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108882170

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation The Economics of Venture Capital Firm Operations in India Kshitija Joshi | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

This study is the first of its kind in India based on a sample of about seventy venture capital firms that cover about 85% of the funded deals between 2010 and 2014. An in-depth review of the policies in the context of start-ups in general and venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem in particular is also provided.

• The first study in the Indian context that is based on hand-collected dataset of seventy venture capital firms • Primary data is rigorously analyzed using the best-in-class statistical techniques • Provides complete insight into the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the micro-level decision-making strategic aspects of individual venture capital firms 400pp September 2020 9781108836340 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108864565

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Enterprising Empires Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia Matthew P. Romaniello | Weber State University, Utah

Matthew P. Romaniello charts how commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled in a critical era of empire. He reveals how geopolitical developments affected trade more than commercial regulations, while also challenging depictions of this period as a straightforward era of Russian economic decline.

• Uncovers the people and history of the British Russia Company in the eighteenth century • Highlights British trade in Asia and the North Pacific, rather than focusing on the economy of the Atlantic • Moves Russia from the global ‘semi-periphery’ to the center of the global economy 307pp 7 b/w illus. 3 maps 7 tables November 2020 9781108703086 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99 February 2019 9781108497572 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628600

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 Pieter C. Emmer | Universiteit Leiden

This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.

• Offers the first full survey of the Dutch overseas empire over two centuries – an important but neglected element of colonial and global history • Overturns a colonial approach by offering a comparative and indigenous perspective on Dutch overseas expansion • Uses regional histories to understand the process of Dutch overseas expansion and early modern globalisation 400pp October 2020 9781108428378 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 October 2020 9781108449519 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108647403

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 Alexander Morrison | New College, Oxford

Russia’s conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion.

Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule.

• Provides multiple perspectives on the conquest, giving a voice and agency to Central Asian actors • Combines Russian and English-language archival sources with memoir literature and Persianate chronicles • Based on extensive research in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and India 480pp December 2020 9781107030305 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781139343381

The Cambridge World History of Violence Volume 2 AD 500–AD 1500 Matthew Gordon | University of Miami

This volume set takes a broad look at violence on a world-wide scale. It looks specifically at what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 5000–1500 CE), and analyzes violence from Japan and China in the east, across Central Asia and North Africa, to Western Europe, with two additional chapters on Aztec and Mayan culture.

• Takes a thematic approach that provides a template for thinking about violence in a global context • At the cutting edge of the history of violence, taking into account the latest scholarship • Provides a wide range of interpretations by both recognized authorities in the field and up-and-coming scholars across an array of disciplines, including archaeology, history, art history, ethnography and literature The Cambridge World History of Violence 722pp 31 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781107156388 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316661291

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Cold Wars Asia, the Middle East, Europe Lorenz M. Lüthi | McGill University, Montréal

This ambitious study provides a new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and addresses the long-term political, economic, intellectual and religious developments in these regions that continue to shape the world to this day.

• Proposes a radical reinterpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of middle and smaller powers in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe • Features new archival sources from two dozen archives in four different continents • Analyses long-term economic, intellectual, and religious developments in multiple world regions to help us to comprehend the complexities of current times 784pp 10 maps March 2020 9781108418331 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 March 2020 9781108407069 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108289825

Colonialism in Global Perspective Kris Manjapra | Tufts University, Massachusetts

This vibrant, compelling relational history of colonialism explores one of the most enduring and contested social, political, and cultural phenomena of all time. Here Manjapra communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields in clear and accessible ways for all readers wishing to understand the making of the modern world.

• Introduces interlocking histories and dynamics of colonialism and its contestation • Reveals the entangled legacies of settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire across Asia through to the present day • Communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields of study in a clear and accessible way 288pp May 2020 9781108425261 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781108441360 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108560580

The Limits of Universal Rule Eurasian Empires Compared Yuri Pines | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This volume explores the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia. It is the first comparative study that systematically addresses the factors - ideological, ecological, military, economical, and other - that shaped the empires’ space.

• State-of the art analyses of major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern • Provides systematic comparisons of the spatial trajectories of major Eurasian empires • Brings together an international team of leading specialists 350pp January 2021 9781108488631 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771061

The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750 David Veevers | Queen Mary University of London

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period.

David Veevers shows that it was the integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise.

• Provides a chronological and narrative-driven analysis of the British presence in Asia between 1600 and 1750 • Brings together diverging historiographical strands in imperial history, integrating both European and Asian histories of empire and state formation • Uses a wealth of archival sources to challenge long-established, Eurocentric views on imperial expansion and colonialism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries 318pp 4 maps June 2020 9781108483957 Hardback GBP 75.00 GBP 99.99 eISBN 9781108669344

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The Right to Dress Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800 Giorgio Riello | University of Warwick

The regulation of dress had a profound effect on global consumption and the shaping of the modern world. Leading scholars reveal why items of dress became aspirational goods, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and how people asserted their right to choose how they dressed as a ‘human right’.

• Offers a new view of social change and the history of human rights by focusing on the regulation of dress in history • Challenges the current view that ordinary people before 1800 were uninterested in expressing identity through clothing • Includes more than fifty illustrations, vividly bringing to life a much neglected field of inquiry 523pp February 2020 9781108469272 Paperback GBP 29.99 GBP 38.99 January 2019 9781108475914 Hardback GBP 95.00 GBP 125.00 eISBN 9781108567541

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What Is a Slave Society?

The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective Noel Lenski | Yale University, Connecticut

This book examines the widely accepted binary distinction between ‘slave societies’ and ‘societies with slaves’ as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding. Top scholars engage in lively debate over the usefulness of this distinction and its applicability to societies across the world and through time.

• Assembles leading international scholars who specialize in the study of slavery • Offers a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective • Proposes a reexamination of the traditional binary distinction used to examine slaveholding societies • Covers extensive ground and speaks at a level of general interest, such that the volume can serve as a textbook 526pp 22 b/w illus. 8 maps December 2020 9781316508039 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 May 2018 9781107144897 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781316534908

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German Science in the Age of Empire

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers Moritz von Brescius | Universität Bern, Switzerland

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | James Cook University, North Queensland

A study of German scientists who travelled to other nations’ empires to observe, record, and collect rich materials that shaped European views of the East.

This lavishly illustrated book provides a gripping account of trans-cultural overseas exploration, colonial science, and Anglo-German cooperation and conflicts in the nineteenth century.

• Combines European and indigenous perspectives and agency in colonial exploration • The book is based on sources written in eight languages, from seven countries, and collected from more than fifty museums and archives • This lavishly illustrated book includes more than thirty-five colour figures Science in History 428pp 50 colour illus.

November 2020 9781108446068 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 March 2019 9781108427326 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108579568

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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics Raymond Hickey | Universität Duisburg–Essen

This book offers a linguistically informed account of language contact and change, focussing on how language comes to cluster in certain geographical areas. It will be of interest to those working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, enabling the reader to understand areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.

• Presents the first state-of-the-art body of research and findings in the new burgeoning field of areal linguistics • Offers a unique overview of many language families from an areal perspective, benefitting those working on the history of language families, documentation and classification • Amply documents the topicality of areal linguistics in chapters from a wide range of scholars, providing insights into the mechanisms of external language change • Presents a contemporary discussion of key notions such as ‘linguistic area’ and ‘linguistic convergence and divergence’, reviewing the argument for how language change can occur when languages becomes more or less similar in their structures Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics 1033pp 83 b/w illus.

April 2020 9781107690035 Paperback GBP 42.99 / USD 5.99 April 2017 9781107051614 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 168.00 eISBN 9781107279872

The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many other subfields of linguistics, in explaining why languages are the way they are. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of theories and methods used in linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them.

• Provides a state-of-the art survey of the major issues within presentday linguistic typology • Explores how linguistic typology interacts with other subfields of linguistics • Pays equal attention to universal tendencies across languages, and typological variation within individual categories Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics 1026pp 35 b/w illus. 12 maps 73 tables April 2020 9781107464889 Paperback GBP 42.99 / USD 55.99 March 2017 9781107091955 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781316135716

Historical Sociology Family Power Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500–2018 Peter Haldén

Combining political science with history, this book presents a new history and theory of how political order developed in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, explaining why some empires and states succeed and others fail. Elite families and dynasties are shown to be crucial to state formation.

• This book uncovers longer historical trends than most comparative works in the state-formation genre • By comparing Europe with Central Asia and the Middle East the book draws new conclusions from each case as well as from a general phenomenon in human history • Makes us understand how political orders are shaped, what makes them last and draws political focus away from a focus on military force as a means of state-building 386pp March 2020 9781108495929 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108863612

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History of Ideas and Intellectual History NEW IN PAPERBACK

The History of the Arthaśāstra Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India Mark McClish | Northwestern University, Illinois

The Arthaśāstra is the foundational text of Indic political thought. By analyzing its early history, Mark McClish overturns prevailing beliefs that ancient India was governed by religion and shows that this text originally espoused a political philosophy characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the sacred mandate of dharma altogether.

• Proposes a new theory of the composition of the Arthaśāstra • Demonstrates the onset of a new kind of political theology in the late classical period • Offers a concrete historical argument about the development of political thought in ancient India, particularly charting out the rise of Brāhmaṇism as a political force Ideas in Context 307pp September 2020 9781108701747 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108476904 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641586

Women’s International Thought: A New History Patricia Owens | University of Oxford

This cross-disciplinary history of women’s international thought brings together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations today to recover and analyse the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to midtwentieth century.

• Recovers and analyzes the important work of Black diasporic, AngloAmerican, and European historical women who are missing from existing histories of international thought • Systematically analyses the work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics in the early and mid-twentieth century • Opens new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women’s and gender studies, and provides a framework for future research 360pp December 2020 9781108494694 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781108796873 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108859684

International Business Building Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Markets Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra | Northeastern University, Boston

Firms in emerging markets are becoming leading global players despite operating in challenging home country environments, but little is known about how they build their capabilities. The authors provide actionable solutions for upgrading competitiveness to international levels and achieving multinational status.

• Provide actionable solutions to upgrading capabilities, sustaining competitive advantage, and achieving multinational status • Analyses fourteen emerging markets (across Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe) in a cross- emerging market study of multiple companies from each country • Extends the current literature on emerging market firms from multinationals to all firms, paving the way for future studies • Features a global spread of expert contributors 300pp October 2020 9781108474375 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108464253 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108565240

Dynamic Growth of Chinese Firms in the Global Market Challenges, Strategies and Implications David K. Tse | The University of Hong Kong

Based on original research over four decades, this book examines how Chinese multinationals (stateowned and private) navigate the socio-political environment in China to grow, prosper and expand abroad. It includes an examination of many of their innovative strategies, illustrated with detailed case studies.

• Helps readers understand the unprecedented economic growth in China in the last four decades • Discusses how Chinese firms expand globally and the key drivers of their growth • Uses many detailed case studies of both state-owned and private enterprises 236pp 25 b/w illus.

February 2020 9781107060128 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 February 2020 9781107629752 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781107446731

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International Economic and Trade Law, WTO Law NEW IN PAPERBACK

ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms Pasha L. Hsieh | Singapore Management University

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This volume explores cutting-edge areas of ASEAN law in national, regional and global contexts and analyses the development of commercial laws in the ASEAN Economic Community. It provides a guide for policy-makers, and business and legal professionals to understand the new dynamics of Asia-Pacific regionalism.

• Proposes a normative framework of the new regional economic order that will appeal to policy-makers and academics who specialize in regional integration • Provides a comprehensive legal analysis of ASEAN law in national, regional and global contexts and explores the legal frameworks for realizing the ASEAN Economic Blueprint 2025 • Examines the impact of ASEAN law and mega-regional trade agreements on commercial laws in ASEAN countries 450pp 2 b/w illus. 4 tables November 2020 9781108949293 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 March 2019 9781108424998 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108563208

ICSID Reports Volume 18 Jorge Viñuales | University of Cambridge

Volume 18 of the ICSID Reports includes summaries, digests and excerpts of decisions rendered between 2007 and 2018 in 20 cases involving States from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, reflecting the breadth of defence arguments in contemporary practice.

• The most comprehensive collection of the decisions of ICSID arbitral tribunals and ad hoc committees • Brings the ICSID series up to date • Includes an index of cases and a chronology of ICSID disputes

International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Reports 938pp 3 tables August 2020 9781107060616 Hardback GBP 250.00 / USD 325.00 eISBN 9781107447455

International Relations, International Organisations East Asia in the World Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order Stephan Haggard | University of California, San Diego

This accessible collection of essays provides an introduction to twelve seminal events in the international relations of East Asia. The East Asian historical experience provides a wealth of new cases, patterns, and findings, helping us to move beyond Eurocentric conceptions of international relations derived from the Western experience.

• Includes interdisciplinary research on twelve key events from East Asian history that are largely overlooked in the study of international relations • Demonstrates how dialogue between historians and political scientists can lead to new findings • Accessible for readers without specialized training in international relations theory or Asian history 350pp October 2020 9781108479875 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108790895 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108807401

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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE Iver B. Neumann

This book traces the tradition of empire that emerged in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE onwards, and its influence in the modern era. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of international politics, global history and social anthropology, especially those working on state building in Eurasia.

• Documents an international system in the Eurasian steppe over the course of millennia, naming it the steppe tradition • Demonstrates how the steppe tradition underlies the systematic differences between Russia, Turkey, and the rest of Europe • Defies the Euro-centrism at the heart of the study of international relations • Appealing to scholars and advanced students of international politics, global history and social anthropology, especially those working on state building in Eurasia 325pp 2 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables February 2020 9781108430890 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2018 9781108420792 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108355308

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The World Imagined Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies Hendrik Spruyt | Northwestern University, Illinois

Spruyt explains how collective belief systems influenced the political order in three non-European societies c.1500–1900, and the way in which these polities engaged the Western colonial empires. The inter-disciplinary approach of this book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, historical sociology and global history.

• Applies an interdisciplinary approach using insights from political science, sociology, and cultural studies • Develops a methodology to study the influence of collective beliefs on political organization and international societies • Links historical study to contemporary politics and international relations LSE International Studies 410pp 6 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781108491211 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 July 2020 9781108811743 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108867948

Dependency in the Twenty-First Century?

The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations Barbara Stallings | Brown University, Rhode Island

This Element argues that it may be useful to revamp dependency to interpret China’s new relationships with developing countries, including Latin America. It does so by discussing the dependency debates, reviewing the way dependency operated in the US-Latin American case, and analysing the growing Chinese presence within a dependency framework.

Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America 75pp February 2020 9781108793032 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108875141

Legal History Identifying and Regulating Religion in India Law, History and the Place of Worship Geetanjali Srikantan | Tilburg University, The Netherlands

This exhaustively researched monograph discusses the colonial legal regulation of the place of worship in India by drawing on insights from post-colonial theory and religious studies. It equips students and legal practitioners with the ability to critically analyse matters of law and religion through the intellectual history of colonial law.

• Provides a comprehensive historical overview of colonial law in relation to the place of worship • Analyses unexplored archival material from the Indian Supreme Court on the definition of Hinduism 300pp September 2020 9781108840538 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108886307

Literary Theory The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food J. Michelle Coghlan | University of Manchester

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day. It rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children’s literature.

• Examines food in English, American, and postcolonial literature across a wide variety of historical periods, literary genres, and fields • Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to suggested further reading in literary food studies as well as a chronology of key publication and historical dates • Tells the story of cookbooks from medieval shorthand to runaway Victorian bestsellers, avant-garde culinary experiments, Soul Food activism and contemporary food blogs Cambridge Companions to Literature 314pp March 2020 9781108427364 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 March 2020 9781108446105 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316997796

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Contours of Value Capture India’s Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development Satyaki Roy

It aims to study the process of industrialisation at a conceptual level and articulate and contest the evolving debates and discourses. It provides insights into the complexities of the process and growth of industrialisation as it has played out in contemporary India.

• Extends the rich tradition of class focused analyses of post-colonial India’s industrial trajectory to contemporary times • Problematises existing binaries within the discourse on industrialisation, foregrounding class process as one of the cardinal elements in the analyses of industrial growth 239pp September 2020 9781108486910 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764858

A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century Andrés Solimano

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its wide geographic and historical coverage of episodes in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia will appeal to scholars and students of economics and history.

• Provides a broad cross-country perspective of a variety of regional, national and international crises that occurred throughout the twentieth century • Links economic and political factors underlying destabilizations and crisis situations • Stresses the importance of global shocks, the role of debt cycles, financial fragility, inequality and political economy as contributing factors to economic slumps 238pp 60 b/w illus. 52 tables February 2020 9781108485043 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 February 2020 9781108719131 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108755276

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The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations Macroeconomics Meets Psychology Tobias F. Rötheli | Universität Erfurt, Germany

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This book offers a modern behavioral economics analysis of macroeconomic expectations, using cognitive psychology and a bottom-up approach to economic expectations. It gives students and researchers a quantitative model for analyzing inflation, interest rates and business cycle phenomena for any country or historical period.

• Proposes a novel behavioral economics approach to expectations • Findings help clarify macroeconomic debates on various issues in a wide range of countries • This data can be used to interpret events such as the great recession of the USA 243pp 31 b/w illus.

August 2020 9781108482851 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 August 2020 9781108447065 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316987056

Historical Geography Historic Maps of Bahrain 1817– 1970 3 Volumes Hardback Set R Jarman

Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. The editor has compiled a comprehensive list, from particularly diverse sources, of all the British surveyed maps of Bahrain, from the earliest survey of Bahrain and Arad islands in 1817 to the last maps just prior to Independence in 1971.

• A unique diversity of sources. This collection has been gathered together from the following: Ministry of Housing, Municipalities and Environment, Bahrain; Hydrographic Office, Taunton, UK; Ministry of Defence, Military Surveys, Directorate of Geographic Information, Tolworth, UK; British Library: Map room and Oriental and India Office collections, London, UK. • The editor has compiled a comprehensive list of all the British surveyed maps of Bahrain, from the earliest survey of Bahrain and Arad islands in 1817 to the last maps just prior to Independence in 1971. Each ‘first time’ map represents a new perception of Bahrain: in the early days, in terms of geographic accuracy; in recent years, in terms of features depicted and of the maps as a record of civic development.

56pp August 2020 9781788060790 3 Hardback books GBP 1050 / USD 1395.00

Military History The Cambridge History of War Volume 2 War and the Medieval World Anne Curry | University of Southampton

An expert account of war in the medieval period world-wide, showing how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and time. Each chapter is written by a recognised expert in the field and demonstrates the place of war in society as well as examining how it was fought.

• Each chapter is written by experts in the field to provide up-to-date scholarship across a wide range of topics and a large number of geographical areas • Takes war in its broadest definition to offer informative synthesis as well as much fascinating detail • Readers can trace the relationships between strategy, tactics, weapons technology, logistics, military institutions and financing, social structures, and cultural influences Cambridge History of War 650pp 22 b/w illus. 16 maps October 2020 9780521877152 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 156.00 eISBN 9781139025492

World War II A New History Second Edition Evan Mawdsley | University of Glasgow

A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley’s acclaimed global history of World War II. Accessibly written and well-illustrated with maps and photographs, the book also includes insightful short studies of the figures, events and battles that shaped the war, as well as fully updated guides to further reading.

• Provides a global approach to the history of the Second World War, integrating events in Asia and the Pacific, India, North Africa, Europe, Russia and America • Includes a fully revised further reading section with many new sources published since 2009 • Features extensive maps and illustrations, text boxes outlining key individuals, events, and themes, timelines at the start of each chapter, suggestions for further reading and links to relevant websites 410pp April 2020 9781108496094 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 April 2020 9781108791403 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108866026

Political Economy Numbers in India’s Periphery The Political Economy of Government Statistics Ankush Agrawal | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Analyses the quality of statistics such as geographic area, census population and sample survey statistics in a developing country. Using field interviews, archival sources, and secondary data, it explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics over their lifecycles and charts their cradle-to-grave political career.

• Explores the quality of area, census population, and sample survey statistics over seven decades • Uncovers the dynamic relations between data, development, and democracy in developing countries • Reveals statistics as social artefacts shaped over their lifecycles by political and economic factors 390pp September 2020 9781108486729 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108762229

Clash of Powers US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance Kristen Hopewell | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Trade has become a flashpoint of conflict between the US and China. This book analyzes a critical aspect of their growing rivalry: their battle over the international rules and institutions governing trade.

China’s rise has significantly weakened American control over global trade institutions and its power to write the rules of global trade.

• Will significantly impact debates about China’s impact on the global trade system & the liberal international economic order • Introduces a new concept, the ‘China paradox’: the fact that China is simultaneously both a developing country and an economic powerhouse • Draws on interview and documentary materials from a diverse range of cases of US-China conflict over global trade governance 200pp 18 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781108834797 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 September 2020 9781108819862 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108877015

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Contested Capital Rural Middle Classes in India Maryam Aslany

It explores the formation of India’s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas. It examines its composition, characteristics and social identification from the perspectives of three major class theorists: Marx, Weber and Bourdieu.

• Studies perspectives from Marx, Weber and Bourdieu • Develops transferable methodological approach that interrogate theories, and bridges social theories and practice • Offers theoretical pluralism 365pp September 2020 9781108836333 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108864527

Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education Comparative Perspectives Giliberto Capano | Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy

This volume offers a comprehensive set of approaches to understanding the changing dimensions of higher education governance, the structural, institutional, and regional-national drivers precipitating convergence and divergence in governance approaches, and maps the directions of change, their consequences and outcomes.

• Comprehensive global overview of higher education governance in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America • Offers theoretical advancement in the study of higher education systems, appealing to those seeking new, innovative conceptual and theoretical approaches to frame their scholarship • Provides a detailed conceptual breakdown of various facets of governance in higher education including internationalization, research, accountability, quality assurance, and institutional decisionmaking Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy 400pp October 2020 9781108483964 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108669429

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Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India Min Ye | Boston University

This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the return of these countries’ diasporas affects such liberalization. It examines diasporic investment from Western FDIs and finds that diasporas, rather than Western nations, have fueled globalization in the two Asian giants.

• Analyzes diasporic and native impacts • Discusses social networks and the policy-making process

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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains Capturing the Gains?

Stephanie Barrientos | University of Manchester

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. It examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

• Provides a unifying framework for examining a number of comparative case studies on a selection of consumer products • Products include apparel and agri-food (flowers, fruit, vegetables and cocoa) sourced from different countries including Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and the UK Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains 334pp April 2020 9781108729239 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 May 2019 9781108492317 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108679459

Land Acquisition and Resource Development in Contemporary India Shashi Ratnaker Singh | University of Cambridge

It highlights the reasons for large scale land conflicts in India, scale of stalled investments, social movements, evolution of land acquisition and mining laws, and what led to the amendments of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act 2013 and Mining and Mineral Act 2015.

• Selectively merges theoretical perspectives on land and natural resource governance • Explains the compensation arguments at two levels: between the project developers and the local project affected community and between the central and provincial governments over the issue of ‘fair’ resource revenue sharing • Advances the argument that the land acquisition drive in India is mired in the politics of two contradictory developmental claims 300pp October 2020 9781108486927 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764872

Mobility as Capability Women in the Indian Informal Economy Nikhila Menon

Provides valuable insights on the dynamics of women’s mobility, autonomy and agency in India’s informal labour market. It illustrates mixed methods research and challenges the current discourse on gender and paid work using Capability Approach.

• Provides insights on lived experiences of hard to reach community of informal women workers • Challenges the myth of exalted status of women in the Kerala model of development • In-depth analysis of the complex patriarchal structures of State, markets and work places which stifle women’s agency 300pp September 2020 9781108836425 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108870924

258pp 16 b/w illus. 3 maps 25 tables April 2020 9781107666108 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 October 2014 9781107054196 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781107286214

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Power Grab Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization Paasha Mahdavi | University of California, Santa Barbara

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Power Grab shows that controlling the means of production of oil and minerals determines the rise and fall of political leaders. Nationalization seizing operations for the state - is a gamble: its immediate windfalls can fortify the foundations of enduring rule, or its operational costs can risk future prosperity and political survival.

• Proposes a new theory on the rise and fall of political leaders in extractive-resource economies, providing insights into modern political paradoxes, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela • Combines statistical analysis with interviews and archival records on national oil companies, offering evidence from multiple perspectives for readers versed in either quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches • Unpacks the opaque politics surrounding state-owned enterprises and will appeal to readers interested in learning deep insights about the world’s largest companies Business and Public Policy 274pp 29 b/w illus. 16 tables April 2020 9781108478892 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781350

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Revolutionary Legacy, Power Structure, and Grassroots Capitalism under the Red Flag in China Qi Zhang | Fudan University, Shanghai

This book proposes a theory of localized propertyrights protection under authoritarianism. It is a must-read to those who are interested in how politics would impact the legal and institutional environment of doing business in developing countries in general, and in China in particular.

• Proposes a theory of localized property rights protection under authoritarianism, appealing to those who are interested in general policy theory • Provides a framework to judge the government-business relationship in different localities of a country, even within a province • Combines in-depth fieldwork with archival work, quantitative data analysis, and analytical sophistication, while complex mathematical treatment is avoided 364pp 9 b/w illus. 26 tables November 2020 9781108949262 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 March 2019 9781108474924 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108657501

Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia Preet S. Aulakh | York University, Toronto

Explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy. Using an analytical framework around three dimensions related to the forms, institutions, and spatialities of mobility, it examines the interrelationships between mobilities of capital and labour at multiple levels of analyses.

• Uses different geographical sites within Asia (China, Japan, India and Philippines, among others) • Is attentive to power dynamics at global, national and sub-national levels • Identifies various formal and informal institutional actors and explores the multiple ways in which they facilitate capital and labour mobilities 284pp February 2020 9781108482325 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108687140

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The Global Coal Market Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies Mark C. Thurber | Stanford University, California

Written for scholars and practitioners, this book examines the key producers and consumers that will most influence the production, transport and use of coal in the future. A series of country case studies shed light on how the global coal market may evolve, and the associated economic and environmental implications.

• The first book-level treatment of the operation of the modern global coal market, providing an ideal reference for readers wanting to understand today’s production, transport, and use of coal, and how these will evolve over time • Combines rich detail and rigorous analysis with accessible writing throughout, and will appeal to a range of people from academics to industry experts, and from stakeholders to general readers interested in understanding the importance of coal to our economic and environmental future • The text features include insightful figures and tables to effectively convey ideas visually as well as through text, and numerous countryspecific case studies within thematically oriented chapters to uncover rich histories of the evolution of country coal sectors 722pp 125 b/w illus. 80 tables January 2020 9781107465749 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 July 2015 9781107092426 Hardback GBP 118.00 / USD 165.95 eISBN 9781316136058

Political Sociology Colossus The Anatomy of Delhi Sanjoy Chakravorty | Temple University, Philadelphia

Colossus is a comprehensive, data-driven, theory-rich, and multidisciplinary compilation that dissects the figurative anatomy of Delhi and India’s National Capital Region. It will find a prominent place in studies on South Asia, urbanization and urban social behavior, and become a standard resource on these subjects.

• Enlarges the coverage out of the usual focus area of central Delhi • Provides insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, including economics, environmental science, geography, history, political science, sociology, and urban planning • Focuses on social attitudes and relations, which is new in urban studies South Asia in the Social Sciences 460pp December 2020 9781108832243 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108935654

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The Civil Sphere in East Asia Jeffrey C. Alexander | Yale University, Connecticut

From leading East Asian scholars, this collection of case studies, distributed across five East Asian nations, examines a wide range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts. It will be of use to graduate students and researchers in cultural sociology, political sociology, social theory, sociology of social movements, and globalization theory.

• Covers an incredible range of topics, from banking crises and Presidential impeachment in Korea, to police surveillance and scandals over fertility technology in Japan, to labor struggles in China, to memory wars throughout East Asia • Utilizes diverse case studies across five different nations in East Asia • Advances civil sphere theory, a new, ambitious, and exciting sociological theory of democratic possibilities 322pp 2 b/w illus. 5 tables February 2020 9781108448208 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 31.99 February 2019 9781108427838 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108698368

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Political Theory Deparochializing Political Theory Melissa S. Williams | University of Toronto

Leading political theorists offer diverse interpretations of how to de-center Western thought in the field of political theory. This intergenerational, multi-methodological book demonstrates transformative qualities of comparative political theory.’Deparochializing’ political theory is a necessary response to global modernity in the twenty-first century.

• Works to de-center Western/Euro-American thought traditions in the way we define the field of political theory • Builds political theory for the modern, globalized world, transforming the field of political theory • Demonstrates that comparative political theory is suited to scholars across generations and across a wide array of methodological approaches in the discipline 324pp 2 tables April 2020 9781108480505 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108635042

Public international law Chinese Refugee Law and Policy Lili Song | University of Otago, New ZealandT

This book systematically and critically examines Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chinese and Asian approaches to refugee protection in academia and the policy sector.

• Systematically examines Chinese refugee law and policy to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of in-depth critical legal and policy analyses • Draws from empirical information acquired through field visits and interviews with refugees, former refugees, and staff of governmental and non-governmental organisations working with displaced populations • Through comparison of China, Hong Kong and Macao, readers will gain a better sense of factors that shape refugee law and policy in these jurisdictions 226pp 3 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table March 2020 9781108483988 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108669474

Adapting International Criminal Justice in Southeast Asia Beyond the International Criminal Court Emma Palmer | Griffith University, Queensland

States in Southeast Asia exhibit a range of adapted approaches toward prosecuting international crimes. This book examines engagement with international criminal justice in Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Myanmar and demonstrates how norms can be adapted in multiple spatial and temporal directions beyond the International Criminal Court.

• Provides an overview and analysis of the laws and institutions for prosecuting international crimes within Southeast Asia • Identifies themes associated with the experiences of states within Southeast Asia of international crimes trials since World War II, including during the Rome Statute negotiations and beyond • Provides an example of interdisciplinary international law scholarship by applying and critiquing international relations theories 344pp 4 tables May 2020 9781108483971 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108669450

Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific Jolene Lin | National University of Singapore

This edited collection is the first to comprehensively consider the role that litigation can play in galvanizing climate action in countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and China. Scholars, lawyers, and students of law and environmental studies will find this immensely useful.

• Provides in-depth case studies of climate litigation in selected jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region (e.g., Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia) • Features a dedicated section on climate change litigation in China and a detailed academic analysis of climate litigation in China (in the English language) • Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars from Global North and Global South and contains a wide range of perspectives 500pp September 2020 9781108478465 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108777810

The Asian Turn in Foreign Investment Mahdev Mohan | Singapore Management University

Critically discusses the increasing significance of Asian States in the field of international investment law and policy. Contains analyses of national investment law rule-making in Asia, contributions of Asian States on cutting-edge developments to the global community, and contemplates future possibilities for investor-State dispute settlement.

• Contains individual country analyses of key developments in international investment law, including the admission of foreign investment, the regulation of foreign investment, and investment treaty policy • Covers both national and multilateral investment law rule-making in Asia, including the approach and influence of ASEAN as a major regional trading bloc and party to several investment treaties • Includes several chapter-length treatments of different Asian States’ approaches to balancing the tension between protection of covered investments and preserving States’ regulatory policy space 450pp February 2021 9781108426596 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108675772

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The Dawn of a Discipline International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents Frédéric Mégret | McGill University, Montréal

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There are many books on the history of international criminal justice but most focus on major historical institutional developments. This book explores international criminal justice as it emerged particularly in the inter-war period at the intersection of a variety of intellectual projects that are often neglected today.

• Provides an in-depth study of leading figures in the early international criminal justice project and helps rediscover and understand who these individuals were • Historicizes the international criminal justice project andcontextualizes international criminal justice in an earlier intellectual ferment • Addresses the diversity of ideas about international criminal justice and questions the hegemonic (white) male narrative of the intellectual history of international criminal justice 520pp 15 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781108488181 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108769105

Social Psychology Creating Equality at Home How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare Francine M. Deutsch | Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts

Creating Equality at Home tells the fascinating stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about sharing the housework and childcare - such as who washes the dishes or cuts back on paid work to look after the baby bring profound rewards for men, women, marriage, and children.

• Gives fascinating, real-life examples of how couples around the world are creating equality in family work • Demonstrates that individual choices and decisions can thwart traditional social norms and structural forces • Reveals that equality in family work is not just a woman’s issue, as men also benefit from equal sharing • Shows that gender equality is not an impossible dream, but exists right now in unlikely places 428pp 23 maps June 2020 9781108497886 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 June 2020 9781108708845 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108597319

The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women Fanny M. Cheung | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The handbook will be a valuable psychological knowledge touchstone for scholars studying in fields concerned with the lives of women and gender issues. It can also be used by practitioners working with female groups as well as members of the general public to understand more about the psychology of women.

• Builds upon and expands the existing scholarship in the field by taking a broader perspective and using an international framework • Draws upon the expertise of international scholars to examine gender differences • Provides a thorough, contemporary and cross-cultural comparison of effects of intersecting factors such as income/class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, and functionality on the situation of women Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 578pp 18 b/w illus. 10 tables August 2020 9781108473033 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 August 2020 9781108460903 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108561716

Social, Cultural Anthropology (Hi)Stories of Desire Sexualities and Culture in Modern India Rajeev Kumaramkandath

This volume situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. It draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures.

• The essays in this volume take into consideration multiple paradigms of analysis required for an understanding of sexuality • Presents a pan-Indian panorama of experiences and discourses of sexuality; the introduction theorises the volume in light of other works and provides a rich reading experience • Attempts to move away from standard postcolonial assumptions regarding sexuality and modernity in the Indian context 255pp February 2020 9781108494410 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108637770

Godroads Modalities of Conversion in India Peter Berger | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

This book is especially relevant as it offers various case studies dealing with conversion within, between and across religious traditions, provides a thorough theoretical discussion of the topic, is multi-disciplinary and contextualizes the Indian situation comparatively.

• Offers insights into the dynamics of religious change beyond the restricting confines of particular religious traditions • Discusses relevant theories and analytical tools that can inspire and help researchers in their study of conversion and cultural change • Includes different disciplines and thus provides each scholar concerned with the questions of conversion insights into questions of neighboring disciplines 325pp September 2020 9781108490504 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781077

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Film and Constitutional Controversy

Gender in World Englishes

Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Marco Wan | The University of Hong Kong

Tobias Bernaisch |Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany

Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book argues that film can show us how constitutional controversies impact upon cultural identity, a crucial dimension overlooked in conventional legal analysis. Provides new interpretations of key constitutional issues and films. Draws upon author’s background in both legal and literary/cultural studies.

• Demonstrates how a genre as seemingly remote from law as film can further our understanding of constitutional disputes • Investigates the links between cultural identity and the rule of law in the Hong Kong context, furtheringour knowledge of the relationship between law and cultural identity • Provides historically-grounded and nuanced interpretations of film texts and enables readers to appreciate film from a renewed and renewing perspective Law in Context 300pp October 2020 9781108495776 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 October 2020 9781108797764 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781108863025

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Regulating Religion in Asia Norms, Modes, and Challenges Jaclyn L. Neo | National University of Singapore

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia, including how religion responds to such regulations. It looks at underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and the challenges emerging from such regulation.

• Explores the relationship between law, religion and society from an Asian perspective that will expand and build on existing studies from the west • Provides theoretical perspectives as well as case studies focusing on Asian experiences • Provides insights from a wide range of contributors and presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the topic 341pp November 2020 9781108949316 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 March 2019 9781108416177 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108235983

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Ruling before the Law The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia William Hurst | Northwestern University, Illinois

This is the first comparative analysis of law and politics in China and Indonesia, for scholars of politics, law, sociology, and history. Based on extensive archival, interview, and observational research across multiple localities in both countries, it is the most comprehensive work in decades on either country’s legal system.

• Furthers our understanding of law and politics in Asia • Offers a new theoretical and analytical framework with broad implications • The book is based on comparative fieldwork-based research in both China and Indonesia • Grounds political analysis in historical, cross-national, and subnational contexts Cambridge Studies in Law and Society 319pp 2 b/w illus. 6 tables January 2020 9781108445894 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 April 2018 9781108427203 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108551502

Based on authentic English-language material, and backed by the latest statistical methods, this book explores the impact of gender on linguistic choices in English-speaking countries worldwide, considering local social realities. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students with an interest in language, gender and World Englishes.

• Examines gender in World Englishes from Africa, America, Asia, Britain and the Caribbean • Roots its results in large databases of authentic language use by speakers from different parts of the world • Guarantees that results are empirically reliable by employing multifactorial statistical methods Studies in English Language 275pp November 2020 9781108482547 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108696739

English around the World An Introduction Second Edition Edgar W. Schneider | Universität Regensburg, Germany

A lively introduction to world Englishes, describing varieties used in a wide range of countries worldwide, and setting them within their historical and social contexts. Providing essential knowledge and skills for students of world Englishes, this second edition is a timely update of the leading introduction to the subject.

• Written for a basic fifteen-week course module, and features lots of pedagogical features (discussion questions, key terms, glossary, further reading, etc) • Draws on the hands-on experience of the author, who has travelled extensively to the places discussed in this book and observed their language and culture • Students are shown how theory can be applied to real-life situations • The audio examples on the web site are clearly explained and interpreted in the book, showing the student which diagnostic features to pay attention to Cambridge Introductions to the English Language 306pp 30 b/w illus. 18 maps 4 tables July 2020 9781108425377 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108442268 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108656726

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Language Regard Methods, Variation and Change Betsy E. Evans | University of Washington

A state-of-the-art collection of research, written by renowned international scholars, exploring ‘language regard’ - an all-encompassing term used to describe non-linguists’ attitudes towards, beliefs and perceptions about, and ideologies of language.

It explores issues such as how language regard is studied, and its pivotal role in language variation and change.

• Sets an innovative and exciting agenda for language regard, presenting new research in the field • Features a broad range of research from across the world, on language other than English • Provides discussion of methodology and data around the key foundational concepts of language regard, ideal for scholars and students new to the field 330pp 37 b/w illus. 45 maps 4 tables September 2020 9781316614976 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 January 2018 9781107162808 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316678381

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Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice John Baugh | Washington University, St Louis

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This book will be of interest to readers who want to learn about how linguistic research can inform legal matters and policies that promote social equity, with emphasis on overcoming racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and xenophobia particularly in societies where such divisions are accentuated by distinctive languages or dialects.

• Connects linguistic research to efforts that promote equality, exposing ways in which linguistic research can advance justice • Introduces the concept of ‘linguistic harassment’ and demonstrates how different forms are pertinent to public and private life • Highlights the international presence of linguistic injustice through illustrations from different parts of the world 235pp 14 b/w illus. 12 tables September 2020 9781316607312 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 January 2018 9781107153455 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316597750

South Asian Government, Politics, Policy Bread, Cement, Cactus A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation Annie Zaidi

In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the cultural conflicts in India that have shaped her identity. Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on land and regional affinity, migration and otherisation, and the ways in which memory works to attach us to a particular place.

• 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize, for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues • A personal yet researched exploration of identity in the author’s India that will resonate with readers worldwide • Available in Open Access 166pp May 2020 9781108840644 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 May 2020 9781108814638 Paperback GBP 9.95 / USD 12.95 eISBN 9781108886932

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An Introduction to Japanese Society Fifth Edition Yoshio Sugimoto | La Trobe University, Victoria

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. This edition begins with a new historical introduction placing the sociological analysis of contemporary Japan in context, and includes a new chapter on religion and belief systems.

• To match contemporary teaching syllabi, the text now includes a brief historical introduction to Japan and a chapter on religion and belief systems • The engaging discussion encourages students to develop an understanding of the complexity and multifaceted nature of Japanese society • Student learning is scaffolded through the inclusion of case examples and video examples, research questions, suggested further readings and online resources • Instructors will find additional reflection questions and research questions on the companion website, which can be utilized in online learning 0pp November 2020 9781108724746 Paperback GBP Price is not yet set / USD Price is not yet set eISBN 9781108661669

Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation Uma Pradhan | University of Oxford

This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning ‘ethnic identity’ as ‘national identity’. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.

• Helps the reader to rethink existing theories on ethnicity and nationalism • Provides methodological insights and details on the ethnography of schools and education in Nepal • Gives a bottom-up perspective on the social changes in Nepal South Asia in the Social Sciences 300pp September 2020 9781108489928 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779715

Risk and the Rupee in Pakistan’s New Economy Financial Inclusion and Monetary Change in a Frontier Market Antonia Settle | University of Melbourne

The book challenges the development sector’s embrace of financial inclusion as social and economic policy solution to new instabilities associated with the deregulation of money and prices in developing economies. Economic globalisation generates new risks for ordinary people that undermine the development agenda by unwinding financial inclusion.

• Engages cutting edge questions of political economy – about the evolution of money and monetary management under global markets – with development thinking • Further develops the critique of financial inclusion, which has certainly posed an important critique but has often been quite simplistic • Contributes to academic debates within post-Keynesian theory 275pp September 2020 9781108489935 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779739

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The Sweatshop Regime Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments Made in India Alessandra Mezzadri | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

This book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex ‘regime’ of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms. It engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.

• Analyses the different circuits of exploitation consumers ‘wear’ on a daily basis • Engages critically with contemporary debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains 258pp April 2020 9781108799249 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 January 2017 9781107116962 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781316337912

Housing and Politics in Urban India Opportunities and Contention Swetha Rao Dhananka

Provides a comprehensive insight into community processes and the imbricated worlds of formal policy prescription, implementation and informal practices of negotiation and political loyalties that affect housing provisions for the urban poor.

• Maps India’s political opportunities in its institutional blueprint, but also in everyday practices • Fine-grained analysis of India’s formal and informal set-up to understand ongoing social and political dynamics • Combines concepts from various disciplines and northern and southern contexts to provide a rich analytical toolkit 250pp September 2020 9781108484268 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108594677

Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition Shahla Hussain

Brewing Resistance Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys | University of Toronto

This book details the movement against India’s Emergency based on newly uncovered archival evidence and oral histories.

• Places the significance of the Emergency in global and historical context • Shows how both left and right movements formed linkages in order to resist the state during Emergency 355pp September 2020 9781108490528 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108781114

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Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State Gujarat since 2002 Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande | University of Mumbai, India

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002. Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande addresses the migration-displacement debate by chronicling what happened and seeks to locate the rights claims of the displaced in the dominant debates on citizenship.

227pp April 2020 9781108814119 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.9 October 2016 9781107065444 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781107588332

From Hierarchy to Ethnicity The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India Alexander Lee | University of Rochester, New York

This book critically discusses two important trends in twentieth-century Indian politics around caste - the rise in the political salience of caste identities, and a shift in the way caste identity was conceptualized.

• Contributes to long-standing debates in political science and history about the construction of caste identity, and the structure of caste politics, during the colonial era in India • Uses interesting data sources - colonial era petitions, and other archival material • Includes an Appendices comprising of data sources, statistical sources, and additional tables and figures 310pp February 2020 9781108489904 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779678

It is intended for audience interested in decolonization, identity, sovereignty. It shifts focus from the statist perceptions that construe Kashmir as a disputed region between India and Pakistan. It takes a people-centered approach to delve into Kashmiri experiences to capture the complexity of popular discourses and nationalist rhetoric.

• Contributes to understanding of themes of identity, sovereignty, and self-determination • Provides a historically grounded study of post-colonial Kashmir • Addresses the political trajectory that led to India’s recent unilateral decision to ultimately abrogate Article 370 and Article 35 A of the Indian constitution, the basis of Kashmir’s constitutional relationship with India 350pp December 2020 9781108490467 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108780995

Rethinking Conflict at the Margins Dalits and Borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir Mohita Bhatia | Stanford University, California

This book departs from the conventional Kashmir-centric analysis of the conflict situation and expands the debate by linking it critically to the aspirations of Jammu region. Rich with narratives, this book talks about the Jammu and Kashmir conflict from the perspective of marginalized Hindu communities of the region.

• Brings Jammu at the centre stage of conflict and explores the voices of the people along the border • Highlights the diversity of Jammu and Kashmir • Looks at socio-political issues beyond the conflict 275pp September 2020 9781108836029 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108870122

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The Broken Ladder The Paradox and Potential of India’s One-Billion Anirudh Krishna | Duke University, North Carolina

This book is for people interested in making the world a better place for poorer people, those who are curious about the paradox of India, those concerned to know more about the effects of globalization in developing countries, and those who are looking for a balanced view.

• Proposes a new view of social development, explaining the paradox of India’s rapid growth and widespread poverty • Mathematical treatments are avoided • By drawing on the stories of everyday lives, the individual is placed at the center of the development process 313pp August 2020 9781108402507 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2017 9781108415927 Hardback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108235457

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Women, Power, and Property The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India Rachel E Brulé | Boston University

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Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women’s ability to claim fundamental economic rights. Yet greater voice is costly. Whether women experience benefits or backlash depends on individual bargaining power at the time a woman is elected.

• Develops a theory explaining the connection between women’s political representation and economic power • Provides new evidence on the benefits and costs of electoral quotas for women, a globally used remedy for political inequality • Offers policy-relevant strategies to anticipate and address backlash against reforms that economically empower women Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics 433pp 47 b/w illus.

October 2020 9781108835824 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108869287

Development of Environment Laws in India Kanchi Kohli

Introduces India’s environment laws to readers interested in law, contemporary politics, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political economy, ecological studies and administration. It is a handy volume for students, practitioners and a wide range of professionals dealing with and interested in environmental issues in India.

• Highlights the dynamic nature of environmental law-making in India between the judiciary, executive and parliamentary structures • Contains a large volume of materials from the late 1990s which shows a marked shift in the nature of environmental governance in India • Materials introduce the readers to contemporary debates in environment law within India’s post-liberalisation context 430pp November 2020 9781108490498 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 109.99 November 2020 9781108748490 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108781053

Dynamics of Caste and Law Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India Dag-Erik Berg | Høgskolen i Molde, Norway

The caste system is central to understanding the politics of inequality and discrimination in India and elsewhere. This book explains how caste and law have mutually evolved in India’s democratic order, providing new insights into why caste oppression may persist despite India’s constitutional promises of equal opportunities.

• Explains how caste-based discrimination in India has been addressed in India’s constitutional democracy by policymakers, movements and activists in the past and continues to shape social relations, politics and public institutions today • Develops new concepts to explain how caste-based domination matters for India’s Dalits, law and institutional processes by using case studies and a rich empirical material • It contributes to an ontological turn in the study of caste by analyzing the scholarship of Bhimrao Ambedkar on caste and democracy and bringing it in dialogue with new post-foundational political theory

South Asia in the Social Sciences 260pp February 2020 9781108489874 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108779616

South Asian History Deceptive Majority Hinduism, Untouchability, and Underground Religion Joel Lee | Williams College, Massachusetts

An account of contemporary religious life in Lucknow illuminates the embrace and contestation of Hinduization in a Dalit community, it examines the practices by which signs of the community’s Hindu affiliation are amplified and tied to a new ethic of publicity. Lee tracks Dalit religion to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic.

• Ethnographic history of religious majoritarianism • Challenges presuppositions at the very foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia South Asia in the Social Sciences 250pp November 2020 9781108826662 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781108920193

A Genealogy of Terrorism Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea Joseph McQuade | University of Toronto

Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Traces the genealogy of counter-terrorism laws in colonial India • Shows how the idea of terrorism built on older criminal categories such as thugs and pirates • Demonstrates the role of violence in shaping the Indian nationalist movement and colonial responses 300pp November 2020 9781108842150 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108896238

A History of Bangladesh Second Edition Willem van Schendel | Universiteit van Amsterdam

This revised and updated edition reveals the vibrant, colourful past of Bangladesh, chiefly known in the West through media images of poverty, underdevelopment and disasters. Based on the latest academic research and richly illustrated, this is a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia.

• Brings together social, economic, political, cultural and environmental history to explain the history of Bangladesh • Accessible for a wide audience - Lonely Planet lists the first edition as ‘the best nonfiction book’ on Bangladesh • Includes many previously unpublished illustrations and maps, biographies of key political figures, a glossary to help the reader with pronunciation and suggestions for further reading 456pp July 2020 9781108473699 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108462464 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108684644

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A Hygienic City-Nation

Imagining Afghanistan

Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta Nabaparna Ghosh

The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge Nivi Manchanda | Queen Mary University of London

This book offers the first comprehensive history of everyday urban spaces – that is, spaces planned by the people, and not the state – in a colonial South Asian city. It will interest students, researchers, and faculty of history, South Asian studies, empire and colonialism, nationalism, comparative cities, architecture, and city-planning.

• This is the first academic monograph on the everyday spaces of colonial Calcutta’s neighbourhoods or paras • The book explains urbanization as a pedagogic process that targeted both spaces and bodies in the city • It points to the conflation of urbanism and nationalism in nationalist (Swarajist) discourses on public health and the city

An innovative examination of knowledge production relating to Afghanistan in the imperial imagination. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda argues that the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled both colonial and contemporary foreign intervention in the region.

• Provides an interdisciplinary framework through which to study modern Afghanistan • Uses a methodologically diverse toolkit to explore the ‘history of the present’ • Develops postcolonial theory grounded in the empirically rich ‘case’ of Afghanistan

250pp September 2020 9781108489898 Hardback GBP 75000 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779654

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266pp 11 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781108491235 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867986

Citizen Refugee Forging the Indian Nation after Partition Uditi Sen | University of Nottingham

Uditi Sen explores how partition refugees were used as agents of nation-building in post-colonial India. Utilising archival records and oral histories, Sen analyses official policies towards Hindu refugees, and their own perspectives ‘from below’.

This book expands our understanding of popular politics and citizenship in post-partition India.

• Gives equal weighting to oral history and archival research, bringing the policies of resettlement to life • Uses a pan-Indian analytical framework to transcend the conventional East versus West regional division that characterises partition studies • The personal accounts of refugees reveal unexplored aspects of everyday citizenship and identity formation 303pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps 5 tables August 2020 9781108441094 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2018 9781108425612 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348553

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India The Hijra , c.1850–1900 Jessica Hinchy | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

• Examines the history and social practices of the nineteenth-century transgender Hijra community • Analyses colonial archival practices and the formation of colonial knowledge • Based on extensive archival research in India and the UK, including previously unexamined documents 323pp March 2020 9781108716888 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 April 2019 9781108492553 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108592208

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India’s Revolutionary Inheritance Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh Chris Moffat | Queen Mary University of London

This innovative account of revolutionary thought in South Asia explores the long-term legacies of militant violence and the politics of commemoration in a post-colonial context. Asking how anti-colonial martyrs have come to ‘haunt’ the independent state, Chris Moffat provides an exciting new window into contemporary Indian politics.

• Presents the first critical study of the multifarious afterlives of iconic anti-colonial revolutionary Bhagat Singh • Proposes a new framework for understanding the relationship between anti-colonial histories and post-colonial politics in the modern world • Foregrounds the importance of martyrdom, myth and memory in the global history of revolutionary politics 294pp 33 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781108739016 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108496902 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108655194

Language and the Making of Modern India Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956 Pritipuspa Mishra | University of Southampton

Mishra explores the history of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, to illustrate the relationship between linguistic politics and nationalism. She considers the ways the state has dealt with multilingualism and the role of languages in the constitution of the Indian nation. This title is also available as Open Access.

• Provides a nuanced framework for understanding regional history in India • Situates the regional history of Odisha within broader national and global trends to help readers understand how language and nation interact in post-colonial contexts • Presents a coherent history of multilingualism in India relevant to global debates about linguistic justice and governance of multilingualism • This title is also available as Open Access 256pp 7 maps January 2020 9781108425735 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108591263

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Let there be Light

Revolutionary Pasts

Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 Suvobrata Sarkar

Communist Internationalism in Colonial India Ali Raza | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Let There Be Light focusses on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources, and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, and the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West.

• Brings back the use of vernacular sources to understand Indian appropriation of modern technoscience • Explores the uncharted terrain of electrification in a colonial context

In this history of the communist movement in South Asia from the eve of the First World War to Independence, Ali Raza reveals the lives, dreams, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and their utopian visions of remaking the world.

• Presents a compelling narrative of communist internationalism in Colonial India • Offers a methodologically innovative social and intellectual history of Indian communism • Charts the entanglement of local, regional, and global politics in the Indian independence movement

320pp September 2020 9781108835985 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108874205

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Making a Muslim Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India S. Akbar Zaidi

Post 1857, colonial India witnessed the emergence of numerous new forms of Muslim identities, some emerging as new Islamic ‘sects’ (maslaks), and others based on educational priorities. This book critically examines, how a feeling of utter humiliation - zillat - acted as an agentive force allowing Muslims to remake their many identities.

• Uses previously unseen Urdu sources to further our knowledge and understanding of Muslim North India • Challenges the definition of unitary Muslim quam and identity • Acknowledges zillat as an agentive force in the remaking of Muslim identities in North India after 1857.

300pp December 2020 9781108490535 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108781152

Negotiating Mughal Law A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires Nandini Chatterjee | University of Exeter

In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access.

• Combines quantitative methods with micro-historical analysis to explore law, empire and society • Provides a people-centred story of one of the greatest Islamic empires of all times • Incorporates a wide range of sources, including a reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents • This title is also available as Open Access 310pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps April 2020 9781108486033 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108623391

294pp April 2020 9781108481847 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108693875

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 Ishita Pande | Queen’s University, Ontario

Ishita Pande’s innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India’s coming of age, examining India’s Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of ‘age’ as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

• Provides the first history of ‘age’ in colonial India • Brings theoretical perspectives and methods from the history of childhood, legal history, queer theory and critical secular studies to bear on the history of child marriage • Uses the archives of colonial India to engage broader debates on the history of age, childhood, sexuality and legal personhood 320pp July 2020 9781108489744 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779326

The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India Manu V. Devadevan

This book posits that India as an idea is neither a colonial construct nor a phenomenon as old as the Vedas or the Harappan age, but a historical reality that had its beginnings in the ‘early medieval’ times. It is a mustread for anyone interested in the meaning of India’s past.

• Provides a fresh assessment of the early medieval period and its point of departure from the early historical period • Expands the thematic scope of early medieval historiography by including aspects such as identities (caste, language, religion and territory) and ideas that governed science, literature and performative arts • Identifies the early medieval as the period when institutions, ideas and identities associated with India began to evolve 420pp September 2020 9781108494571 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781108748513 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108781176

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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis Emma J. Flatt | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Emma J. Flatt shows the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She argues that a shared courtly disposition facilitated travel, knowledge acquisition and encounters in the Persian-speaking world. This became a route to employment, worldly success and ethical refinement.

• Draws attention to the history of courts, rather than kings, in Indian history • Allows a more complex understanding of ethical life in pre-colonial Indo-Persian societies • Utilises understudied sources, such as those on magic and astrology 338pp June 2020 9781108741644 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108481939 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108680530

The Frontier in British India Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century Thomas Simpson | University of Cambridge

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.

• The first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast colonial India • Advances an innovative framework for understanding colonial power and knowledge • Moves beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries and critically engages with various distinct fields of theory and historiography 350pp January 2021 9781108840194 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879156

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The Decline of the Caste Question Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal Dwaipayan Sen | Amherst College, Massachusetts

This revisionist exploration of the decline of castebased politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that it was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal, the leader of the Dalit movement, over the transition of Partition and Independence.

• Utilises Jogendranath Mandal’s private papers and freshly discovered archival materials • Traverses the watershed of Independence in 1947, and joins themes often treated distinctly, such as caste, partition, communalism, and the transfer of power • Presents a new explanation for the puzzling absence of caste-based politics in Bengal 317pp 7 b/w illus. 1 table November 2020 9781108405706 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2018 9781108417761 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108278348

The Frontier Complex Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 Kyle J. Gardner | George Washington University, Washington DC

Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial bordermaking practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.

• Offers a new history of the rise of geopolitics • Based on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages • Highlights how ongoing border disputes between India and China are rooted in colonial British border-making practices

The Insecurity State Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India Mark Condos | Queen Mary University of London

Condos explores the ‘dark underside’ of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India.

He argues that India’s colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence.

• A provocative, new view of the British Empire in India • Based on rich archival research • Contributes to the major debates on colonial state-building, colonial violence, imperial sovereignty, and postcolonial legacies of empire 272pp 11 b/w illus.

May 2020 9781108407014 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 August 2017 9781108418317 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108289740

The Making of the Indo-Islamic World c.700–1800 CE André Wink | University of Wisconsin, Madison

André Wink offers a new interpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography, situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world.

• Provides a world-historical perspective on the history of South and Southeast Asia • Introduces an environmental and geographical dimension to Indian history • Situates the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world 308pp August 2020 9781108417747 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 August 2020 9781108405652 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781108278287

300pp February 2021 9781108840590 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886444

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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India Shinjini Das | University of Oxford

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Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which Western homeopathy was re-interpreted in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen.

• Broadens the history of colonial medicine in India beyond studies of British state medicine and studies of Indian traditional medicine, such as Ayurveda • Foregrounds the role of family as both producer and consumer in the history of colonial medicine • Based on both official archival sources and Indian language vernacular sources 306pp 16 b/w illus.

November 2020 9781108430692 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2019 9781108420624 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108354905

South-East Asian Government, Politics, Policy Labor and Politics in Indonesia Teri L. Caraway | University of Minnesota

Two decades after Indonesia’s transition to democracy, Indonesia’s labor movement is a vibrant political actor. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of this development, investigating the unique tactics Indonesia’s labor movement used to gain a strategic foothold in a country with no recent history of union engagement in politics.

• Provides the first in-depth analysis of the Indonesian labor movement since the fall of Suharto • Breaks new theoretical ground in analyzing the puzzling success of Indonesia’s labor movement • Challenges prominent theories of Indonesian politics that sideline subaltern actors Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics 224pp 15 b/w illus. 16 tables March 2020 9781108478472 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108777858

Rural Development in Southeast Asia Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence Jonathan Rigg | University of Bristol

Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia’s modernisation.

Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past half century.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia 75pp September 2020 9781108719322 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108750622

Stateness and Democracy in East Asia Aurel Croissant | Universität Heidelberg

Through theoretically-grounded case studies and comparative analysis of consolidating, low quality, and failed democracies in East Asia, this volume challenges the dominant ‘state first, democracy later’ argument in the existing political science literature. It will interest scholars and students of comparative democratization, state building, and East Asian politics.

• Provides rich comparative empirical analysis, drawing on in-depth qualitative case studies of countries across the region • Allows readers to compare processes of institutional development in East Asia with other regions, such as Latin America and Africa • Helps readers understand how different properties of stateness interact with elements of democracy within and across cases studies 286pp May 2020 9781108495745 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862783

The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia Lee Morgenbesser | Griffith University, Queensland

This Element offers a way to understand the evolution of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia. The empirical results presented reveal vast differences within and across authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia, but also a discernible shift towards sophisticated authoritarianism over time.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia 75pp 14 b/w illus.

April 2020 9781108457231 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108630061

South-East Asian History A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand Patrick Jory | University of Queensland

Patrick Jory presents the first ever history of manners in Thailand. Utilising Thai etiquette manuals dating from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, he explores how societies have regulated personal and social behaviour over time.

• Presents the first history of manners in Thailand • Places the history of manners in Thailand within a global historical framework • Based on a wide range of little-known primary source materials 350pp February 2021 9781108491242 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868006

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Islam and Asia

Saigon at War

A History Chiara Formichi | Cornell University, New York

South Vietnam and the Global Sixties Heather Stur | University of Southern Mississippi

A new history of Asia and Islam from the seventh century to today, approached as an interconnected space of encounters and interactions. Challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle East in the development of Islam, Formichi argues for Asia’s centrality in the development of global Islam as a religious, social and political reality.

• Provides a transnational history of Asia and Islam grounded in specific case-studies • Facilitates discussion in the classroom, and makes abstract concepts accessible to readers • Includes a range of pedagogical features including introductions to key personalities and concepts, primary sources, illustrations, maps and suggestions for further reading

South Vietnamese activists, intellectuals, students, and professionals had multiple visions for Vietnam’s future as an independent nation. In expressing their views in the press and in public demonstrations, they performed democracy even as the Saigon government and US intervention stymied the development of democratic institutions.

• Highlights the diversity of the Saigon intellectual scene while illustrating American attempts, struggles, and failures to make sense of the urban political milieu • Fills a gap in the existing literature by introducing South Vietnamese voices into the Vietnam War narrative • Draws on a plethora of Vietnamese archival materials, including South Vietnamese government and military documents, newspapers and magazines, intelligence reports, and letters from citizens to various government officials in the 1960s and 1970s

New Approaches to Asian History 348pp 14 b/w illus. 7 maps May 2020 9781107106123 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781107513976 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316226803

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Making Two Vietnams War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975 Olga Dror | Texas A & M University

This comparative study of North and South Vietnam, the first of its kind, shows how young Vietnamese were raised during the war. Through the prism of adult-youth relations, it analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures.

• The first systematic comparative study of youth culture in North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War • Reveals the experiences of non-combatants during the Vietnam War • Based on extensive archival and textual work and an innovative methodology 340pp 14 b/w illus. 7 tables November 2020 9781108455244 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2018 9781108470124 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108556163

Miracles and Material Life Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya Teren Sevea

Through a close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked Malay Islamic manuscripts, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) across the Indian Ocean world and on the frontier of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

• Takes a new approach to understanding connections between miracles and magic, and material life, labour, production, extraction and technology • Reveals a universe of peripatetic, professional Islamic miracle workers and Sufis in the past and the present, in the Malay world and beyond • Draws on hitherto untranslated Malay and Sufi manuscripts, providing readers with access to little-known esoteric content Asian Connections 290pp 10 b/w illus. 2 maps July 2020 9781108477185 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108569781

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 292pp June 2020 9781107161924 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 June 2020 9781316614112 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316676752

The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation Gregg Huff | University of Oxford

Gregg Huff presents the first comprehensive account of the economic and social impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia during World War II.This is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and economies of Southeast Asia before, during, and in the decades after the Pacific War. • Provides the first comprehensive study of Southeast Asian economy and society during the 1941-1945 Japanese occupation • Features an extraordinarily wide range of archive material drawn from 25 archives over three continents • Includes economic, social and historical analysis to assess the longterm impact of the Pacific War and Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia 450pp October 2020 9781107099333 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316162934

The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia A Cultural History Marieke Bloembergen

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.

• Uncovers how heritage sites and their politics transcend national boundaries • Examines the politics of heritage, orientalism, and mobility from an Asian perspective • Provides a fresh perspective on the international debate about heritage formation and cultural knowledge production Asian Connections 338pp 29 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781108499026 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614757

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Texts In Political Thought Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven Kumazawa Banzan

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The first major work on political economy in early modern Japanese history, Kumazawa Banzan’s (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning, translated unabridged, features incisive commentary on this pivotal work and its controversial author within the context of broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought.

• A full translation of the first political economy text in early modern Japanese history • Offers students of Japanese history and thought an introduction to a pivotal thinker and text, contextualized within larger historical and intellectual developments in East Asian history • Allows students without training in Japanese language to access a complete text pertaining to early modern Japanese political thought Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought 300pp December 2020 9781108425018 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 December 2020 9781108441155 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108348911

The Essentials of Governance Wu Jing

Wu Jing’s eighth-century collection of dialogues between Emperor Taizong and his officials is a seminal work in Chinese literature addressing core themes of East Asian thinking about the politics of power. This accessible translation will be indispensable for students of East Asian and international political thought.

• Offers an accessible and reliable translation of a seminal work of East Asian political thought • Makes available for the first time a central and still current vision of imperial government • Detailed introductory survey by two leading scholars of Chinese intellectual history offers indispensable insights into the contents, historical context, and history of its global reception Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought 350pp November 2020 9781108831048 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 November 2020 9781108926287 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108923118

Theatre (General) The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals Ric Knowles | University of Guelph, Ontario

Presents an up-to-date, contextualized account of the global reach and impact of the ‘festivalization’ of culture. It analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange and reveals their role in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas.

• Offers a wide ranging overview of the global reach of theatre and performance festivals • Re-contextualizes the study of festivals within humanities scholarship and emergent global conditions • Identifies international festivals as potential sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange within a globalized world Cambridge Companions to Literature 368pp June 2020 9781108425483 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 June 2020 9781108442398 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108348447

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