American history
20C American history
A
Black Army
Segregation and the US Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941–1945
Pauline, Peretz | Université Paris 8
This book uncovers America's tortuous relationship with its black soldiers against the backdrop of a war fought in the name of democracy. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in twentieth-century US history, military history, African- American history, and race relations.
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
352pp
Jul. 2025 9781009521499 Hardback
eISBN 9781009521512
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Caring for Mom and Dad
Parent Dependency and American Social Policy
Susan, Stein-Roggenbuck | Michigan State University
This book uncovers America's tortuous relationship with its black soldiers against the backdrop of a war fought in the name of democracy. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in twentieth-century US history, military history, AfricanAmerican history, and race relations.
238pp
Nov. 2025 9781009203265 Paperback GBP
eISBN 9781009203272
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Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
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Divided America, Divided Korea
The US and Korea During and After the Trump Years
David P. Fields | University of Wisconsin, Madison Bringing together leading experts on Korea and US-Korean relations, this book provides a nuanced look at the critical relationship between the US and Korea during and after the Trump years. An important study for students and scholars interested in US foreign policy and Korea.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
266pp
Talbot C. Imlay | Université Laval, Québec Chronicles the life, work and significance of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement, revealing the importance of public political cultures and federalist frameworks. The first comprehensive study to explore Streit, this book will interest historians and students of twentieth-century US foreign relations. Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 234pp
Nov. 2025 9781009113243 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009119269
Less Than Victory
American Catholics and the Vietnam War
Steven J. Brady | George Washington University, Washington DC
This book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the American Catholic community, and the impact of the nation's largest religious group upon its most controversial war. It will interest students, scholars, and general readers interested in the Vietnam War, American religious history, and the Cold War.
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
320pp
Sep. 2025 9781009627078 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 40.00
eISBN 9781009627092
Seekers and Partisans
Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935–1941
David, May ers | Boston University
Nov. 2025 9781009298971 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009299022
This book tells the fascinating stories of individual Americans who left America to explore the world in the interwar years. It sits at the intersection of studies on the interwar era, the Second World War, and twentieth-century US affairs, and will interest students, scholars, and general readers.
436pp
Dec. 2025 9781009629874 Hardback GBP 27.00 / USD 35.00
eISBN 9781009629843
The Age of Youth
American Society and the Two World Wars
Masako,Hattori | National University of Singapore
Reveals how national security goals shaped US ideas about youth and education in the first half of the twentieth century, during both wartime and peacetime. It will interest students and scholars of US military history, politics, the history of education, and foreign relations. Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
234pp
Apr. 2025 9781009303361 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009303323
The
Greatest of All Time
A History of an American Obsession
Zev, EleffGratz | Gratz College
This book explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about it. It is for both general readers and scholars interested in American history, cultural history, and celebrity studies.
238pp
Mar. 2025 9781009572736 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009572743
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The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 Volume 11
Mark V. Tushnet | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
This comprehensive study unpacks the claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937, instead concluding that US constitutional law gradually transformed throughout the 1930s. In combining doctrinal analysis with the political, economic and social contexts of the Court's decisions, this will interest both historians and legal scholars.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1272pp
May 2025 9781009566735 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009031141
Waging Peace
A History of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Mitchell K. Hall | Central Michigan University
Illustrates that contrary to popular opinion, the Vietnam antiwar movement was not a subversive collection of political radicals and countercultural rebels, but a broad, mainstream, patrioticmovement. This book is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the Vietnam War, political science, and peace movements.
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History 482pp
Nov. 2025 9781009643269 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.00
eISBN 9781009643221
African American history
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Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
Nikki M. Taylor | Howard University, Washington DC
Using case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of enslaved women who used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. Original and compelling, this book is for general readers interested in US history and social justice. 256pp
American history - 1861 - 1900
Carolinian Crucible
Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina
Patrick J. Doyle | Royal Holloway, University of London
This book provides a richly detailed account of life and society in South Carolina during the Civil War. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in society and culture in the US South; histories of gender and family life; and Confederate nationalism.
Cambridge Studies on the American South
260pp
Nov. 2025 9781009550499 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009550451
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Nothing More than Freedom
The Failure of Abolition in American Law
Giuliana, Perrone | University of California, Santa Barbara
After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War. Studies in Legal History
334pp
May 2025 9781009219174 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009219181
American history (general)
Self-Made
The Stories That Forged an American Myth
Pamela Walker, Laird | University of Colorado Denver
Over four centuries, ambitious Americans have forged the myth of self-made success into an ideological tool that rewards individualism and promotes inequality. Pamela Laird's compelling history reveals roots of our current cultural and political divides and also highlights enduring traditions of self-improvement to serve the common good.
360pp
Jan. 2025 9781009276856 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 18.95
eISBN 9781009276818
Oct. 2025 9781108833899 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 32.95
eISBN 9781108983136
American history after 1945
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Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia
Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security
Kuan-Jen, Chen | Academia Sinica, Taiwan
This book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective. The first of its kind in the English language, this book is for students, military professionals, specialists in East Asian history, and readers interested in international history more generally.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
350pp
Nov. 2025 9781009418775
eISBN 9781009418737
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Contesting France
Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War
Susan McCall, Perlman | National Intelligence University
Feb. 2025 9781009518970 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009518963
Fragile Empire
Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1645–1720
Justin, Roberts | Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Through deep archival research, Fragile Empire is the first book to study the rise of slavery in the British empire from a global perspective. Written in an accessible manner, this work will interest undergraduates and the broader public, as well as scholars of slavery and the Atlantic world.
Slaveries since Emancipation
370pp
Contesting France tells the story of how a transnational web of French sources used their exchanges with US intelligence to shape American policy towards France in the early Cold War. A much-needed addition to intelligence studies, this book will interest students and researchers of the early Cold War.
288pp
May 2025 9781009054638
eISBN 9781009053907
Atlantic history
A Lesson on Race
The Bible and the Morant Bay Rebellion in the Atlantic World
Stephen C. Russell | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
This book tells the story of the Bible's role in Jamaica's 1865 Morant Bay rebellion and the international debates then occupying the Atlantic world. It will interest students and scholars of African-American history, Atlantic history, biblical studies, religious studies, and Caribbean history.
Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies
241pp
Jun. 2025 9781009575423 Paperback GBP 26.00 / USD 35.00
Jun. 2025 9781009575409 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009575393
Atlantic Cataclysm
Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
David, Eltis | Emory University, Atlanta
The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intra-American) began and ended, questioning the established narratives. A comprehensive and major work for scholars and students that should transform our assessment of the history of the Atlantic World.
442pp
Jan. 2025 9781108473187 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781108622288
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Jubilee's Experiment
The British West Indies and American Abolitionism
Dexter J. Gabriel | University of Connecticut, Storrs
A thorough examination of the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the emancipated British Caribbean colonies from the 1830s through the 1860s. An important intervention, Jubilee's Experiment will interest scholars of transatlantic slavery and abolition.
Slaveries since Emancipation
364pp
Nov. 2025 9781108969840 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108979894
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Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
José, Lingna Nafafé | University of Bristol
This groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the agency of Africans in the quest for abolition. The book reveals how the legal debate on abolition was begun by Africans, not Europeans. An essential new work for scholars and students interested in the abolition movement.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
486pp
Feb. 2025 9781009573726 Paperback GBP25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108974196
The Yoruba Are on a Rock
Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada
Shantel A, George | University of Glasgow
This is the first book-length study of the Africans who left a significant and disproportionate cultural imprint on Grenada's cultural landscape since the nineteenth century. It sheds new light on how the legacies of slavery, indenture, and colonialism shape the perception of Grenada's African-derived religions and their adherents.
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
364pp
Sep. 2025 9781009358965 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009358996
Colonial American history
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution 3 Volume Hardback Set
Marjoleine, Kars | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accessible and authoritative, this threevolume set will be the chief reference text on the American Revolution for years to come. Those interested in the American Revolution—whether it be history buffs, undergraduates, teachers, or specialists-will find this collection provocative, informative and educational.
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
2400pp
Oct. 2025 9781108496629 3 Hardback books GBP 320.00 / USD 400.00
eISBN 9781108634366
Early
republic and antebellum history
Gendering Secession
White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859–1861
Melissa, DeVelvis | Augusta University
This book recreates the year 1860 for elite white South Carolina women, tracing the major events on the road to, during, and after secession. It will interest students and scholars of the U.S. Civil War, the American South, and women and gender studies.
Cambridge Studies on the American South 241pp
Mar. 2025 9781009217859 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009217811
The Nation at
Sea
The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825
Kevin, Arlyck | Georgetown University, Washington DC
The Nation at Sea reveals a new story about the nation's founding, in which the federal courts played a central role in transforming the United States from infant republic to world power. It will interest students of early American history, legal history, and the history of foreign relations. Studies in Legal History
420pp
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700–1827
Michael J. Douma | Georgetown University, Washington DC
This book provides a new interpretation of slavery in Dutch New York, revealing its extent and the efforts to block emancipation. An important study that will appeal to scholars interested in slavery and, emancipation, and as well as legal, demographic, and economic history.
270pp
Jen. 2025 9781009441377 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009441360
British and Irish history
20C history of Britain
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Brotherhood of Barristers
A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940
Ren, Pepitone | New York University Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history of the four Inns of Court between 1840–1940, exploring how these societies maintained their insularity in the face of sweeping social change.
Modern British Histories
234pp
Sep. 2025 9781009393065 Hardback GBP 47.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009393041
Sep. 2025 9781009456753 Paperback GBP 429.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009456722
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Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
G. C. Peden | University of Stirling
A major new account of appeasement and the question of whether the Second World War could have been prevented.
G. C. Peden provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill's view on foreign policy, how best to deter Germany and explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the context of the 1930s.
418pp
Jun. 2025 9781009201964 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009201995
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Contact Zones of the First World War
Cultural Encounters across the British Empire
Anna, Maguire | Queen Mary University of London
The first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Through a narrative journey across five spatial contact zones, Anna Maguire follows colonial troops to explore what it meant to encounter new peoples and places during the First World War.
246pp
Untied Kingdom
A Global History of the End of Britain
Stuart, Ward | University of Copenhagen
A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimately discarded as the British empire unravelled and the 'four nations' of the United Kingdom drew steadily apart.
702pp
Mar. 2025 9781108987332 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108983082
Dreams and Songs to Sing
A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp
Alan, McDougall | University of Guelph, Ontario
A unique people's history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall tells the global story of Liverpool FC, through the eyes of the supporters who've been there along the way.
346pp 50 b/w illus.
Aug. 2025 9781009340236 Hardback GBP 22.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009340267
Making Do
Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World
Susan L. Carruthers | University of Warwick
When World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. Garments were chronically scarce. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of refugees struggled to subsist? Making Do examines the crucial role of clothing in refashioning lives after devastating violence.
400pp
Aug. 2025 9781316509333 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781316536322
NEW IN PAPERBACK War of Words
Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War
Rachel, Chin | University of Glasgow War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and transnational perspective, Rachel Chin shows how conflicts over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 were central to British, Vichy and Free French wartime policy-making.
300pp
Apr. 2025 9781009464284 Hardback GBP 25.00/ USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009464246
Politics of the Past
Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009
David, Cowan | University of Cambridge
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
Modern British Histories
299pp
Apr. 2025 9781009181006 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009180993
History of Britain - 1066 - 1450
Clergy and Criminal Violence in Later Medieval
England and Wales
Peter D. Clarke | University of Southampton
Spe. 2025 9781009340311 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009340304
This book examines the contexts and motives that entangled clergy in violence as victims and perpetrators, and questions whether clergy and laity differed so much in practice as legal theory supposed. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in ecclesiastical and legal history in the medieval period.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 392pp
Nov. 2025 9781108843805 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781108920117
NEW IN PAPERBACK Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400
Immigration, Integration and Economic Development
Milan, Pajic | Freie Universität Berlin
This study explores the economic contribution of immigrant textile workers from the Low Countries who settled in England in the fourteenth century. Providing historical context for contemporary debates on the free movement of people, it will appeal to scholars interested in medieval and migration history.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 122 352pp
Mar. 2025 9781108733625 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD eISBN 9781108774215
Ladies-in-Waiting
in Medieval England
Caroline, Dunn | Clemson University, South Carolina
This book presents the first scholarly treatment of medieval English ladies-inwaiting. It will appeal to specialists in medieval monarchy and women's history, as well as literary scholars who will benefit from the historical background of women's roles in courtly life.
362pp 10 b/w illus. 5 tables
Jan. 2025 9781009457019 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009456975
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Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Spike, Gibbs | Universität Mannheim, Germany
Drawing on untapped archival records, this book provides new insights into lord-tenant relations, state formation, social inequality, political participation and everyday life in rural societies. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and May also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 121 292pp 31 b/w illus. 4 maps 11 tables
Feb. 2025 9781009311823 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009311847
The Wars of the Roses
A Medieval Civil War
John, Watts | University of Oxford
This concise and interpretative book digs under the surface of events of the Wars of the Roses to explore the underlying dynamics of a typical civil war. Based on a series of lectures, it includes aids for non-experts and will interest general readers, as well as historians more generally.
The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and CultureL 328pp 2 b/w illus. 4 maps 5 tables
Sep. 2025 9781009422161 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009422185
History of Britain after 1450
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A Nation of Petitioners
Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918
Henry J. Miller | Durham University
Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.
Modern British Histories
314pp
Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Emily, Vine | University of Exeter
Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity but this study is the first to examine domestic religion in the capital during a period of intense religious change. Emily Vine foregrounds the experiences of minority communities, Christian and Jewish, to explore the role of the home as a setting of religious practice.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
276pp
Feb. 2025 9781009054522 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009053631
Jul. 2025 9781009457231 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009457194
Captured Consent
Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
Sonia, Tycko | University of Edinburgh
This book reveals how consent became a tool of labor coercion in seventeenthcentury English apprenticeships, indentured servitude, military conscription, and prisoner of war labor. It will interest students and scholars of early modern legal, social, and economic history in British, European, and Atlantic contexts.
Studies in Legal History
356pp
Jan. 2026 9781009581899 Hardback GBP 110.00/ USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009581905
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Empire of Influence
The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule
Callie, Wilkinson | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
An important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company's empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.
300pp
Feb. 2025 9781009311748 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009311717
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Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900
Simon, Devereaux | University of Victoria, British Columbia
This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the 'Bloody Code' and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England. Studies in Legal History
410pp
Nov. 2025 9781009392105 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009392129
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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
Jonah, Miller | University of Cambridge
This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
266pp
Apr. 2025 9781009305198 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305174
Inquiring into Empire
Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833
Lisa, Ford | University of New South Wales, Sydney
The first pan-imperial history of commissions of inquiry sent across the British empire between 1819 and 1833.
Drawing on the commissioners' extensive archive, this work develops a new understanding of early nineteenth-century reform as a part-genuine and part-defensive commitment to managing change on the global stage of counter revolution.
344pp
Feb. 2025 9781009470629 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009470599
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Love Spells and Lost Treasure
Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era
Tabitha, Stanmore | University of Exeter Love Spells and Lost Treasure innovatively explores the role of practical magic in everyday life in medieval and early modern England. Both engaging and authoritative, the book sheds fresh light on premodern society and beliefs. Packed with useful examples, it makes an important contribution to historical and magical studies alike.
322pp
NEW IN PAPERBACK On Laudianism
Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I
Peter, Lake | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
636pp
Apr. 2025 9781009306799 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009306829
Protestant Bodies
Gesture in the English Reformation
Arnold, Hunt | University of Durham
What did early modern English Protestant worshippers think that they were doing when they bowed, knelt, or made the sign of the cross? Protestant Bodies explores the history of the English Reformation through the gestures of public worship and reestablishes their central role in early modern England.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
372pp
Nov. 2025 9781009286688 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009286695
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Lucky Valley
Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
Catherine, Hall | University College London
Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 536pp
Jun. 2025 9781009102766 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009106399
Feb. 2025 9781108841719 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781108894746
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Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707
Karin, Bowie | University of Glasgow Explores the dynamics of opinion politics in the era of Reformation and AngloScottish union - a period of religious and constitutional tension - through protestations, petitions, oaths, oral and written modes of public communication, offering a historicised understanding of public opinion and its rise in prominence.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
304pp
Jul. 2025 9781108825184 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108918787
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Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547
Laura, Flannigan | University of Oxford The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tudor monarchy's administration of justice, presenting a more holistic vision of politics and society in late medieval and early modern England. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
322pp
Apr. 2025 9781009371353 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009371346
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Strolling Players of Empire
Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833
Kathleen, Wilson | State University of New York, Stony Brook
A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects. Critical Perspectives on Empire 510pp
Jun. 2025 9781108790819 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108786317
The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–1649
Volume 68 Stewart, Beale
Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure in the English Civil War. This volume publishes the annual household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, between 1640 and 1649. Illuminating Brooke's activities and the administration of his estates, the accounts are crucial sources for historians of 17th-century England. Camden Fifth Series, 68 624pp
The Papers of Admiral George
Volume 69
Grey
Michael, Taylor
The Papers of Admiral George Grey presents the memoir, journal, and correspondence of George Grey, son of the Whig prime minister the Earl Grey, and sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century.
Camden Fifth Series
328pp
Feb. 2025 9781009601214 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00
eISBN 9781009601207
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The Making of an Imperial Polity
Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis Lauren, Working | University of Oxford Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenth-century England, this book offers new perspectives on Jacobean tastes and political culture, confronting the histories of colonialism and domestic political development. This title is also available as Open Access. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History 270pp 8 b/w illus.
Jul. 2025 9781108713856 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108625227
The Overseer State Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–1916
Sascha, Auerbach | University of Nottingham
In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
386pp
Sep. 2025 9781009654555 Paperback GBP 36.95 / USD 49.95
eISBN 9781009654548
The
Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780
Law, Society, and State Formation
Naomi, Tadmor | Lancaster University
In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. This ground-breaking book explores the far-reaching consequences of the English settlement laws for society, culture, and the state from c.1660 to 1780.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
300pp
Nov. 2025 9781108499194 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781108595063
The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
Nicolas, Bell-Romero | Tulane University, Louisiana
In this first history of the University of Cambridge's involvement in slavery and abolition, Nicolas Bell-Romero uncovers the extent to which the problem of slavery was an inextricable feature of social, economic, cultural, and intellectual life throughout Britain. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
408pp 20 b/w illus.
Oot. 2025 9781009652544 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009652582
Think of England
Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination
Mar. 2025 9781009315791 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009315777
Paul Kléber, Monod | Middlebury College,Vermont Tracing the history of English identity over more than 2,000 years, this study explores how being English has been understood as belonging to a nation, a people, or a race. Paul Kléber Monod examines and contextualises the language of English identity, raising important questions about the resurgence and future of this concept.
Camden Fifth Series
396pp
Dec. 2025 9781009652292 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.00
eISBN 9781009652339
Unsettled Subjects
Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship in the Australian Settler Colonies
Amanda, Nettelbeck | University of Adelaide
Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Amanda Nettelbeck explores how intersecting concerns around race and mobility during the nineteenth century changed the terms of British subjecthood and informed the possibilities of imagined colonial citizenship.
Critical Perspectives on Empire 300pp 20 b/w illus.
Sep. 2025 9781009489430 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009489423
Violent Waters
Environmental Politics in Early Modern England Elly, Robson Dezateux | Christ Church, Oxford
How were wetlands constructed and contested by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during seventeenth-century improvement projects? Tracing the contentious environmental politics that emerged in early modern England, Violent Waters casts fresh light on socioeconomic change, state formation, and civil war conflict.
350pp
Irish history
A Concise History of Ireland
Caitriona, Clear
A political, cultural, social and economic history of the island of Ireland, from the arrival of Christianity to the present day. This accessible and engaging survey explores the major political events alongside the living and working conditions of ordinary men and women – what they traded and farmed, how they lived and loved.
Cambridge Concise Histories
346pp
Nov. 2025 9781009678902 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009678933
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Working-Class Raj
Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India
Alexandra, Lindgren-Gibson | University of Mississippi
Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective. Modern British Histories 198pp
Apr. 2025 9781009356572 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009356565
History of Britain before 1066
Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 50
Rosalind, Love | University of Cambridge
Contributions to the fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England range from the seventh century with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus,and Aldhelm's Irish influences, into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus, and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Anglo-Saxon England
528pp
Mar. 2026 9781009494007 Paperback GBP 28.00 / USD 38.00
Mar. 2026 9781009493970 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009493987
America in Ireland
Culture and Society, 1841–1925
Fionnuala,Walsh | University College Dublin
Exploring the influence of America on culture, society, and politics in post-Famine Ireland, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates the value of a transnational perspective. Inspired by the work of historian David P. B. Fitzpatrick (1948-2019), America in Ireland examines how reverse migration shaped Ireland's modernisation and globalisation.
258pp
Jan. 2025 9781009376877 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009376884
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Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire
Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922
Darragh, Gannon | University College Dublin
From the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins, Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to British assessments of the Irish Question. Far from a 'sideshow' to the revolutionary events in Ireland, this study argues that the Irish Revolution was defined by political conflicts, and cultures, across the Irish Sea.
314pp
Jan. 2025 9781009588171 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 175.00
eISBN 9781009588164
Apr. 2025 9781009158282 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009158299
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Land and Liberalism
Henry George and the Irish Land War
Andrew,Phemister | Newcastle University
Connecting popular attitudes and social practices with political ideas, Land and Liberalism shows how Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict and demonstrates the centrality of Henry George and the Irish Land War to the transformation of liberal thought.
290pp
Feb. 2025 9781009202923 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009202909
Money and Irish Catholicism
An Intimate History, 1850–1921
Sarah, Roddy | May nooth University
This innovative study explores the financial relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and its laity from about 1850, when the Church grew wealthy. Focusing on the motivations, experiences and emotions of the ordinary people who gave the money, it asserts their agency in the phenomenon of the postFamine 'devotional revolution'.
286pp
Jan. 2025 9781009456692 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009456685
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Ulster's Lost Counties
Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
Edward, Burke | University College Dublin
In 1920, the three Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan were excluded from Northern Ireland. This book examines the enduring loyalism within protestant communities in the “lost counties”. It traces the role of intergenerational memories of violent displacement in militant loyalist politics and paramilitarism during the recent Troubles.
358pp
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Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933
Adam, Bisno
Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Publications of the German Historical Institute
232pp
May 2025 9781009469296 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009469272
European history
20C European history
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Between God and Hitler
Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
Doris L. Bergen | University of Toronto Protestant pastors and Catholic priests served as chaplains in Hitler's military. What role did Christian chaplains play in Nazi crimes? Drawing on a wide array of sources this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.
346pp
Jun. 2025 9781009012577 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009026154
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Building Socialism
The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941
Yiannis, Kokosalakis | Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Provides the first detailed examination of rank-and-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system, offering an empirical account of the bottom level of the apparatus of the Soviet Communist Party in its formative years.
New Studies in European History
296pp
Jun. 2025 9781108720823 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108767712
Apr. 2025 9781009218849 Paperback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009218870
Emigrant Soldiers
Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War
Selena, Daly | University College London
During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned from across the world to serve in Italy's armed forces. But what happened to these men during the war and after it had ended? Emigrant Soldiers reconstructs their experiences, following the trajectories of four men who returned from the United States, Brazil, France, and Britain.
276pp
Jun. 2025 9781009268905 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009268912
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Feeding the Mind
Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919–1933
Tomás, Irish | Swansea University
In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europe's intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continent's democracies and preserve international peace. This groundbreaking book tells the story of the postwar rebuilding of European intellectual life.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
300pp
May 2025 9781009124447 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009128476
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Frontiers of Empire
Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945
Robert L. Nelson | University of Windsor, Ontario Frontiers of Empire connects the settlement of the North American West with Germany's colonization of Eastern Europe, through the fascinating biography of Max Sering, a world-famous professor who was present at every major phase in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier.
330pp
Sep. 2025 9781009235372 Paperback GBP29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009235402
Geographies of Renewal
Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945–1990
Jeremy, DeWaal | University of Exeter
This wide-ranging study explores changing conceptions of home and Heimat in West Germany from the end of the Second World War to national reunification. Jeremy DeWaal challenges ideas that Heimat was taboo or a largely reactionary idea after 1945, exploring efforts to reconceive the concept in democratic, inclusive, and post-nationalist ways.
New Studies in European History
386pp
Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Felix A. Jiménez Botta | George Mason University Korea
Felix Jiménez Botta explores the contested language of human rights in West German mobilization against human rights abuses in Latin America. Examining both market-critical and market-friendly visions of rights, he challenges the revisionist interpretation of post-1970s human rights as an inherently conservative political and intellectual project.
Human Rights in History
378pp 12 b/w illus.
Jan. 2025 9781009513432 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009513401
Invisible Fatherland
Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany Manuela, Achilles | University of Virginia Weimar Germany is often seen as the ultimate political disaster-a democracy whose catastrophic collapse led directly to Hitler's rise. Invisible Fatherland rethinks Weimar from its beginnings, revealing its vibrant constitutional patriotism and offering enduring lessons about democratic values and practices for today's world.
320pp
Oct. 2025 9781009650991 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009651028
Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania
Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944–1950
Stefan Cristian, Ionescu | Chapman University, California
After the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu in 1944, Jewish survivors in Romania sought to recuperate their rights and assets. This study analyzes both the attempts of the transitional government to repeal antisemitic legislation, and the later communist nationalizations that once again
dispossessed Jewish communities.
New Studies in European History
318pp
Sep. 2025 9781009473828 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009473835
Making Antifascist War
The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936–1939
Adrian, Pole | University of Edinburgh
In this study of the 35,000 antifascists who joined the International Brigades to defend the Second Spanish Republic, Adrian Pole traces their cross-cultural encounters with civil-war Spain. He demonstrates how these encounters enabled thousands of transnational actors to define a deeply contentious conflict in their own very particular terms.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 270pp 20 b/w illus.
Aug. 2025 9781009601641 Hardback GBP90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009601665
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Migration
at the End of Empire
Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt
Joseph John, Viscomi | Birkbeck, University of London
How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? This innovative study presents a new framework for understanding the impact of empire and decolonisation on migrant subjects, and how conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure shaped Mediterranean history in the age of decolonisation.
328pp
Jan. 2025 9781009466875 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009466899
Sep. 2025 9781009473408 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009473415
Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire
Betto, van Waarden | Maastricht University This innovative study examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician within a system of transnational media politics in the Age of Empire. Betto van Waarden historicizes contemporary debates on media and politics, exploring how politicians harnessed mass communication to both help and hinder democratization.
New Studies in European History
373pp
Sep. 2025 9781009604048 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD135.00
eISBN 9781009604017
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Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms
R.J.B. Bosworth | University of Oxford
What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? This vivid and engaging biographical study explores the highs and lows of a family that was at the centre of Italian politics over several generations, and traces the complex relationship between public and private life.
278pp
Mar. 2025 9781009280211 Paperback GBP GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009280167
Profits and Persecution
German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
Peter, Hayes | Northwestern University
What role did German big business play in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust? Profits and Persecution explores the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders instruments of the Nazi regime and then, after the war, falsifiers of the historical record until prompted to change by new commercial calculations.
224pp
The Cambridge History of the Holocaust 4 Volume Hardback Set
Mark, Roseman | Indiana University
This four-volume landmark study offers a multi-perspectival analysis of the Holocaust, its historiography, and its impact on the post-war world. Including over 100 contributions from leading scholars, the volumes examine in turn the origins of the Holocaust, its policies and participants, the victims and helpers, and the outcomes and repercussions.
The Cambridge History of the Holocaust 2288pp
Jan. 2025 9780521772884 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139049689
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Social Justice in TwentiethCentury Europe
Martin, Conway | University of Oxford Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. Using a transnational approach, this book provides the first historical account of the evolution of social justice across Europe during the twentieth century, and explores the divergent ways different groups have understood and sought to achieve social justice.
294pp
Sep. 2025 9781009370813 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009370868
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The Atrocity of Hunger
Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and, Krakow Ghettos during World War II
Helene J. Sinnreich | University of Tennessee, Knoxville
During World War II, German racial policy designated Jews 'useless eaters', and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos as people tried to survive through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
308pp
Jun. 2025 9781108884365 4 Hardback books GBP 450.00 / USD 550.00
eISBN 9781009520423
The European Art Market and the First World War
Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925
Maddalena, Alvi | University of Manchester
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the European art market. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 285pp 27 b/w illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009600811 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009600798
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The Modernist Wish
A History of Europe, 1914-1939
Geoff, Eley | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? This study offers a comprehensive, integrated history of Europe's early 20th century, seen as the crucible of a new metropolitan modernity. Geoff Eley unites social, cultural-intellectual, and political history, encompassing large-scale transformations and individual lived experiences. Cambridge History of Europe 350pp
Feb. 2025 9781009108669 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009105293
Jan. 2026 9780521811453 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 450.00
eISBN 9781139020053
The Quest for Individual Freedom
A Twentieth-Century European History
Moritz, Föllmer | University of Amsterdam
How did twentieth-century Europeans understand the concept of individual freedom? And how did they endeavour to achieve it? Moritz Föllmer combines cultural, social, and political history to analyse the multi-faceted nature of this quest in an era of conflict and change. 264pp
Apr. 2025 9781009482813 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009482820
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Vichy's Double Bind
French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War
Karine, Varley | University of Strathclyde
Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind, between the irreconcilable positions of the two Axis governments.
New Studies in European History
266pp
Apr. 2025 9781009368339 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009368346
European history - 1000 - 1450
Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss
The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras
Naomi Ruth, Pitamber | Clark University, Massachusetts
This richly illustrated book presents the art, architecture, and material culture of a little-known Byzantine dynasty, the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204–1261), uncovering many of their contributions to the so-called Palaiologan renaissance which took place in Constantinople after the city was regained in 1261.
400pp 170 colour illus. 3 maps
Dec. 2025 9781009331791 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009331777
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Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
A Thousand-Year History
Jonathan R. Lyon | University of Chicago
Challenging the standard narrative of a "medieval" Europe of feudalism and lordship being replaced by a "modern" Europe of government, bureaucracy and the state, this book argues for continuity in corrupt practices of justice and protection between 750 and 1800, focusing on the position of advocate.
438pp
Sep. 2025 9781009074711 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009075961
Debating Papal History, c.250–c. 1300
Responsive Government and the Medieval Papacy
D. L. d'Avray | University College London
Through a series of case studies with translated supporting documents, D.L. d'Avray offers a fresh reinterpretation of papal history from the third to the thirteenth century. He argues that papal authority was not imposed from the top but emerged through responses to resolve tensions between subsystems, both ecclesiastical and lay.
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Frankish Jerusalem
The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East
Anna, Gutgarts | University of Haifa, Israel
This book analyzes the gradual urban transformation of Jerusalem under Frankish rule. A key text for readers interested in the Crusades and the Latin East, the history of Jerusalem, and medieval cities.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 295pp 5 maps 27 tables
May 2025 9781009418317 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009418348
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History in Flames
The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
Robert, Bartlett | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The writings of the medieval period come down to us in manuscripts, which are highly vulnerable. This book explores cases in which large numbers of such manuscripts were rapidly destroyed by human force such as arson, shelling, or bombing, and the attempts made to enable their survival.
256pp
352pp
Oct. 2025 9781009597524 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009597494
Oct. 2025 9781009457132 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.95
eISBN 9781009457187
The Power of Peasant Consumers
The Material Culture of Food in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Valencia Luist, Almenar Fernández | University of València
This book explores the objects peasants used to store, cook, and serve their food at home in late medieval Valencia, building on discussions on changes in living standards, consumption patterns, and material culture in pre-industrial European societies. It will interest students and scholars of medieval history, archaeology, art, and anthropology.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 376pp 87 b/w illus. 2 maps 45 tables
Oct. 2025 9781009602440 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009602488
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The Power of Protocol
Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400 – c.1600
D. L. d'Avray | University College London
How did the papacy govern European religious life without a proper bureaucracy and the normal resources of a state?
The Power of Protocol explores how the demand for papal services was met and examines the genesis and structure of papal documents from the Roman empire to after the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century.
280pp
Apr. 2025 9781009361125 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009361156
Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan
Philip, Daileader | The College of William & Mary
This book examines how and why late medieval townspeople reconceptualized time and applied their new understanding of it to politics and economics. It is for students and scholars of late medieval history, particularly those interested in the state and its growth, trade, production, social conflict, and the Black Death.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
258pp 1 table
Aug. 2025 9781009601801 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009601788
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Beyond the Monastery Walls
Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies
Warren C. Brown | California Institute of Technology
Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. This book uses a rich set of alternative sources to explore the lives of the early medieval laity beyond their interactions with churches and monasteries, and casts fresh light on a part of the medieval world which is usually hidden from view.
400pp
Feb. 2025 9781108790048 Paperback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781108855426
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Alice, Hicklin | King's College London
Offers a new perspective on the major historical problems surrounding the paradigms of Carolingian reform and Gregorian reform. It will interest students and scholars of the Middle Ages and those interested in the organisation of religious and ecclesiastical practices. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 333pp 6 b/w illus. 5 maps 10 tables
Sep. 2025 9781009575355 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009575379
Marriage in Byzantium
Christian Liturgical Rites from Betrothal to Consummation
Gabriel, Radle | Yale University, Connecticut
Rome in the Tenth Century
A History in Art
John, Osborne | Carleton University, Ottawa
This is an integrated analysis of written texts and the evidence of material culture (standing remains and recent archaeological discoveries) which provides a much fuller picture of tenth-century Rome than any previous study. It is intended for all those with interests in medieval Rome, medieval art, and medieval archaeology.
British School at Rome Studies
228pp 52 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009639699 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009639705
The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus
Saints, Hagiographers and Texts (Fourth to Thirteenth Century)
Stephanos, Efthymiadis | Open University of Cyprus
A systematic study of the texts written in honour of the saints of Cyprus during the Byzantine era. Reveals cultural activity on an island peripheral to the major urban centres of the Byzantine Empire, but forced to defend its identity in broader political conflicts and ecclesiastical controversies.
360pp 1 map
Jul. 2025 9781009355605 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009355575
The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition
From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries
Yaniv, Fox | Bar-Ilan University, Israel
The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.
342pp
Brings together ritual texts, visual representations, objects, and historical narratives to trace the social process of marriage formation in the pre-modern Mediterranean world. Recreates the colorful ceremonies employed and explores what they reveal about family ties, religious belief and practice, sexuality, law, and gender relations.
468pp 35 colour illus.
Jan. 2025 9781009469562 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009469548
Jul. 2025 9781009285063 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009285025
The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850–1240
John, Latham-Sprinkle | Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The first book in the English language to explore the medieval history of the North Caucasus. It is for students and scholars interested in the medieval history of Eurasia, Russia, the Byzantine Empire, and Christianity, as well as archaeology and anthropology.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
348pp 10 b/w illus. 7 maps 5 tables
Aug. 2025 9781009373487 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009373463
European history (general)
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 3 Volumes Hardback Set
Maarten, Prak | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Split into three chronological volumes, the set comprehensively and methodically examines Europe's long urban history from its pre-historic roots through to today. Written accessibly, it will interest students, teachers, experts, and general readers with a keen interest in the fascinating history of urban Europe.
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 1950pp 95 b/w illus. 40 maps 30 tables
Oct. 2025 9781108966283 3 Hardback books GBP 94.99 / USD 120.99
European history after 1450
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Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
Joan-Pau, Rubiés | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective.
344pp
Empire of Fear
From Monarchical Commonwealth to French Royal State, 1561–1651
James B. Collins | Georgetown University, Washington DC
In 1570s France, political discourse shifted from a focus on the common good (le bien public) to the good of the state (le bien de l'État). James B. Collins explores how language affected policy at all levels, from the peasant village to the royal court.
362pp
Jan. 2026 9781107030091 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781139342896
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Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe
Feb. 2025 9781009305327 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009305372
Court, Credit, and Capital
Amsterdam's Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age
Maurits, den Hollander | Tilburg University
This book explains how important innovations in insolvency legislation contributed to seventeenth-century Amsterdam's economic boom. It is for students and scholars interested in the legal history of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as social and economic history.
Studies in Legal History
312pp
Stuart. Carroll | University of York Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe's transition to modernity between 1500 and 1800. This book transforms our understanding of that process, exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies, the violence it engendered and the solutions that helped create modern society.
500pp
Mar. 2025 9781009287340 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009287319
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Fighting Terror after Napoleon
How Europe Became Secure after 1815
Beatrice, de Graaf | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jan. 2025 9781009631051 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009631037
Democracy's Double Helix
Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Lars, Behrischr | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Where does our democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but elitist; and the idea of individual equality, emerging in the early modern period. This study explores their trajectories and their first convergence in American and French revolutions.
344pp
Aug. 2025 9781316516317 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009029667
Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.
520pp
Feb. 2025 9781108816205 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108895873
Huguenot Networks
Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Penny, Roberts | University of Warwick
Beginning with the chance discovery of an interrogation document smuggled to England in a basket of cheese, this study explores the importance of truth and secrecy within Huguenot networks across Europe. Penny Roberts examines how these networks were sustained and nurtured by Huguenot ministers, often at considerable danger to themselves.
New Studies in European History
300pp
Feb. 2026 9781009622936 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009622929
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Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe
A Cultural History of Gambling
Jared, Poley | Georgia State University
Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world.
New Studies in European History
228pp
Apr. 2025 9781009393577 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009393539
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Mercenaries of Knowledge
Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics
Fabien, Montcher | Saint Louis University, Missouri
From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics, through the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar, Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654).
364pp
Apr. 2025 9781009340489 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009340458
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Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
A Global History, c. 1750–1830
Jan C. Jansen | The University of Tübingen
Offering a bold new vision of the age of revolutions, this global history highlights the intersection of war, empire and forced migration in a period usually identified with a quest for liberty and political participation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
315pp
Sep. 2025 9781009370530 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009370578
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Red Secularism
Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933
Todd H. Weir | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Exploring the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history, this book reveals the educational efforts of red secularists to transmit to workers their humanisticmaterialistic worldview and their crucial role in the political struggles over religion which fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. 382pp
Apr. 2025 9781107583436 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781316443736
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Royal Heirs
Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Frank Lorenz, Müller | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. Royal Heirs paints a vivid picture of this late flowering. It focuses on what the heirs to the throne contributed to this phenomenon, and how monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.
366pp
eISBN 9781009071284
The German Empire, 1871–1918
Roger, Chickering | Georgetown University, Washington DC
This broad survey of imperial Germany provides rich insights into this fractious period, when furious economic growth and social change resulted in pervasive civic conflict. The German Empire, 1871–1918 explores the challenges of rapid industrialization and urban growth, both for local communities and Germany's global relations.
665pp
Feb. 2025 9781009069526 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jan. 2025 9781107026742 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781139208550
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War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early
Modern Venice
Anastasi, Stouraiti | Goldsmiths, University of London
Provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in early modern Venice, weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies to show how war and territorial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venice. Timely and thoughtprovoking, this book offers new perspectives on the cultural history of war in early modern Europe.
308pp
Feb. 2025 9781108971355 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108974790
Russian, East European history
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Domestic Service in the Soviet Union
Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor
Alissa, Klots | University of Pittsburgh
This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union. Bringing together gender and labor history, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the Bolshevik regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to participate in public life and reinvent themselves as equal members of society.
New Studies in European History
318pp
Jun. 2025 9781009467162 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009467193
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Tunguska
A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy
Andy, Bruno | Northern Illinois University
This engaging new account of the powerful Tunguska explosion of 1908 provides a fresh look at the enigmatic disaster and the generations of researchers who have tried to understand it. Taking readers inside expeditions and investigations to explore the role of mystery in environmental history, Bruno examines the legacy of the explosion. Studies in Environment and History
326pp
History - cross discipline
Diplomatic, international history
An International Anomaly
Colonial Accession to the League of Nations
Thomas, Gidney | Geneva Graduate Institute
At the founding of the League of Nations, British statesmen drafted a loophole allowing colonies to accede as memberstates. Gidney explores how this loophole has shaped norms around sovereignty and its continuing legacy into today's United Nations. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Global and International History
316pp
Feb. 2025 9781108744393 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108887847
Violence and Occupation
The Red Army in the Balkans and Central Europe, 1944–1945
Vojin, Majstorović | University of North Texas
This ground-breaking history examines the Red Army's occupation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria during World War II. Majstorivić argues that the troops' behaviour in each country was shaped by Kremlin policy, official propaganda, intensity of combat, and troops' differing perceptions of local populations. Cambridge Military Histories
344pp 25 b/w illus. 5 maps
Jan. 2026 9781009652445 Paperback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009652438
Apr. 2025 9781009584449 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009584432
Cold War Asia
A Visual History of Global Diplomacy
Matthew, Phillips | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK
This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.
252pp
Feb. 2025 9781009379618 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009379649
Cold War Comrades
An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance
Gregg A. Brazinsky | George Washington University, Washington DC
Drawing on previously unexamined Chinese and North Korean sources, Gregg A. Brazinsky demonstrates how mutual emotional ties helped to shape political, military, and cultural interactions between the PRC and the DPRK. He argues that this friendship and the emotion it inspired were crucial to both countries' survival as socialist states.
274pp
Dec. 2025 9781009633314 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 40.00
eISBN 9781009633277
Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies
A History of American-Russian Relations
David S. Foglesong | Rutgers University, New Jersey
A bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship, unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors.
640pp
Nov. 2025 9780521111058 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.00
eISBN 9780511844126
In the Shadow of the Vatican
Texan Evangelical Missionaries in Cold War Italy
Mario, Del Pero | SciencesPo, Paris
This book tells the story of the Church of Christ, an evangelical mission that went to Italy to promote religious freedom and American values. It is intended for scholars and students, as well as the broader public interested in history, global politics, and religion.
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
288pp
Nov. 2025 9781108489133 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 60.00 eISBN 9781108774017
Operation Wrath of God
The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
Aviva, Guttmann | Aberystwyth University
This unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War reveals the key role of European agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation Wrath of God. Through unique access to unredacted sources, Aviva Guttmann uncovers a secret security order which operated independently of foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny.
350pp
Aug. 2025 9781009503075 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781009503068
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Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
Peter, Jackson | University of Glasgow
This volume brings together leading scholars to provide a new history of peacemaking after the First World War. Drawing on the latest research, it examines the place of ideas, actors, institutions, and global networks in efforts to build a new international order.
440pp
Spinning the World
The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations
Andrew, Johnstone | University of Leicester Spinning the World is the first book to examine the public relations industry's hidden hand of influence on American foreign relations. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in twentieth-century US history, US foreign policy, and international relations, as well as PR, business, and communications. Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 256pp
Jul. 2025 9781009567862 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009567831
Economic history
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An Economic History of Europe
Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present Third edition
Karl Gunnar, Persson | University of Copenhagen
In this revised and updated edition, An Economic History of Europe reestablishes itself as the leading textbook on European economic history. With an expanded scope, from prehistory to the present, it will be invaluable source for students, educators and researchers seeking to better understand developments over millenia.
Jan. 2025 9781108827348 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108907750
Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite
The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War
Andrew Thomas, Park | University of Hong Kong Andrew Park tells the story of Sarah Wambaugh and the rise and fall of the plebiscite, once seen as a promising democratic solution to international conflict which – more than once – became embroiled in controversy and war in the first half of the twentieth century.
Global and International History
300pp
New Approaches to Economic and Social History
343pp 36 b/w illus. 4 maps
Sep. 2025 9781009614009 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
Sep. 2025 9781009613989 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009614023
An Economic History of India
Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century
Bishnupriya, Gupta | University of Warwick
Dec. 2025 9781009647779 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009647762
A major new economic history of India from the reign of Akbar to India's postindependence integration into the global economy. Bishnupriya Gupta builds a new framework for understanding development and underdevelopment in a large colonial economy as well as of India's post-independence economic performance through to the present day.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series 234pp
Feb. 2025 9781108798730 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
Feb. 2025 9781108491624 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
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An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
Pedro, Lains | Universidade de Lisboa
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Written by a team of leading historians and including extensive new data, this will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development. 808pp
Jul. 2025 9781108726221 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781108770217
Before Banks
The Making of Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France
Elise M. Dermineur | Stockholm University
Elise Dermineur reconstructs the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Examining the credit instruments at ordinary people's disposal, the role of women in credit markets and the social, legal and economic experiences of indebtedness, she uncovers lessons for today's financial systems.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series 293pp
Jan. 2025 9781009502641 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009502634
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Capital Shortage
Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920–1960
Maanik, Nath | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
A study of capital shortage and widespread poverty in colonial and postcolonial India. Connecting environmental, institutional and political economic theories to history, Maanik Nath offers new insights on why credit was scarce, and how this scarcity affected development patterns in the Global South.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
248pp
May 2025 9781009359047 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009359023
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Imperial Borderlands
Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier
Bogdan G. Popescu | John Cabot University, Rome
What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic development?
The book focuses on the Habsburg frontier and provides a new framework for understanding how states force borderland dwellers to help accomplish the state's objectives and the long-term repercussions for access to public goods.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
332pp
May 2025 9781009365185 Paperback GBP 29.99 /USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009365215
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution
Wardship in Britain, 1485–1660
Sean, Bottomley | Cardiff University
An important study of institutional change pre-industrialisation, Bottomley examines wardship, the Crown right to seize underage heirs and their land. Wardship was highly corrupted and representative of decaying state capacity. Without constitutional change in the seventeenth-century, Britain could not have industrialised in the eighteenth.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series 223pp
Nov. 2025 9781009384353 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009384315
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Marché Noir
The Economy of Survival in Second World War France
Kenneth, Mouré | University of Alberta Marché Noir explains how and why black markets in France became essential to ordinary consumers and to businesses to survive scarcity and German exploitation. Drawing on archival evidence and diverse records of personal experience, Kenneth Mouré explains the black market's critical role in everyday life in Vichy France.
326pp
Jan. 2025 9781009207690 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009207683
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Money in the Dutch Republic
Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange Sebastian, Felten | Universität Wien, Austria Sebastian Felten examines regional and global circuits of monetary exchange in early modern Europe by analysing everyday practices in the Dutch Republic. He considers how peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists combined many types of money in their everyday lives and thus fashioned plural monetary system. 284pp
Jul. 2025 9781009102742 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009106375
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Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise
A Century of Indo-German Business Relations
Christina, Lubinski | Copenhagen Business School
An analysis of the role of nationalism in global business strategy, showing how multinationals in the twentieth century acted not just as drivers of globalization but also as sophisticated operators in a world of nations. By exploring German companies in India, Lubinski traces nationalism's influence on business tactics and competitive strategies. Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
300pp
May 2025 9781009054003 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009049795
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Order and Rivalry
Rewriting the Rules of International Trade after the First World War
Madeleine Lynch, Dungy | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Order and Rivalry traces the formation and development of multilateral trade structures in the aftermath of the First World War in response to the marginalization of Europe in global markets, the use of private commerce as a tool of military power and the collapse of empires in Central and Eastern Europe. 334pp
Arp. 2025 9781009308878 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009308892
Slavery, Freedom, and Development
How Africa Became the Mirror Image of Europe
Warren C. Whatley | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In this innovative reinterpretation of African and European economic history, Warren Whatley contrasts how Western European freedom from slavery unleashed freedom dividends across Western Europe whilst AfricanAmerican slave trades instead produced slavery and underdevelopment in Africa. 264pp
Jan. 2026 9781009407144 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.00
eISBN 9781009407151
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Sovereignty without Power
Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980
Leigh A. Gardner | London School of Economics and Political Science
Sovereignty without Power provides the first quantitative and comparative economic history of Liberia and contributes to debates in economic and political history. Liberia's economic history over two centuries shows the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty for independent states around the world during the age of empires.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
364pp
Feb. 2025 9781009181099 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009181082
The Age of Paper
The Bank Note, Communal Currency and British Society, 1790s–1830s
Hiroki, Shin | University of Birmingham
In the first detailed examination of Britain's transition to paper currency, Hiroki Shin explores how state, nation and community played a role in its introduction. He demonstrates how paper money derived its value from the community of users, highlighting the social and cultural factors that accelerated the use of the Bank of England note.
The Capitalist Self
The Social Origins of Financial Capitalism in Early Modern England
Craig, Muldrew | University of Cambridge
In this radical reinterpretation of the Financial Revolution, Craig Muldrew transforms our understanding of capitalism as a socially constructed set of institutions and beliefs. He shows how credit was transformed into capital through accounting and paper currency as well as through ideas about the self which stressed individual responsibility.
480pp
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series 332pp
Jan. 2025 9781009503273 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 781009503280
Oct. 2025 9781009644471 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009644488
The CEO
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
Michael, Aldous | Queen's University Belfast Michael Aldous and John Turner reconstruct the evolution of British CEOs over the past century. From gentleman amateurs to professional managers, entrepreneurs, frauds, and fat cats, they reveal the characters who have made it to the top, how they get there, and the lessons from their successes and failures.
296pp
Jan. 2025 9781009489522 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009489553
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Jane, Whittle | University of Exeter
Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book deepens our understanding the preindustrial economy, and rethinks not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, gender, pay and economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
345pp 15 b/w illus. 3 maps 30 tables
Sep. 2025 9781316519943 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009019743
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The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market
Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971
Oscar, Sanchez-Sibony | The University of Hong Kong
Highlights the importance of the Soviet Union and the socialist world in shaping the rise of the international political economy we know today. Sanchez-Sibony documents how the Soviets succeeded in helping bring about financialization and international market practices in Europe.
260pp
May 2025 9781108995184 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108993555
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Virtue Capitalists
The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008
Hanna, Forsyth | Australian Catholic University, Sydney Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
312pp
May 2025 9781009206457 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009206471
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Why Populism?
Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present Paul, Kenny | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Accessibly and engagingly written, this book uses the conceptual toolkit of economics to show that populists are rational actors in search of the cheapest and fastest route to high office. As a strategy based on direct mass communication with voters, populism thrives when it is more cost-effective than its alternatives.
284pp
Jul. 2025 9781009275309 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009275262
Environmental history
Burning Swamps
Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy
Katja, Bruisch | Trinity College Dublin
This groundbreaking Environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.
Studies in Environment and History
292pp
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Cities in a Sunburnt Country
Water and the Making of Urban Australia
Margaret, Cook | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.
Studies in Environment and History
300pp
Sep. 2025 978100960089 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 978100960096
Chernobyl Children
A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster
Melanie, Arndt | Albert-LudwigsUniversität Freiburg, Germany
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. This insightful study demonstrates how this exposed the ecological consequences of a nuclear catastrophe to the world, and brought the human reality of the disaster into the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Studies in Environment and History
68pp
Mar. 2025 9781108926898 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 9.99
eISBN 9781108917698
Gateway to the Mediterranean
An Environmental history of Late Ottoman Izmir
Onur, İnal | Universität Wien, Austria
This in-depth exploration of Ottoman Izmir is the first book to study a Mediterranean port city through an environmental historical lens. Introducing the 'gateway city' model, this thoughtful analysis provides an alternative way to understand the creation of an integrated economic and ecological space in Western Anatolia.
Studies in Environment and History
250pp
Sep. 2025 9781009607261 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 10.00
eISBN 9781009607292
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Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil
An Environmental history of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s–90s
Matthew P. Johnson | Harvard University, Massachusetts
In the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a spate of low carbon hydropower dams to electrify its cities and industries. The costs fell disproportionately on Indigenous communities and the environment. Johnson examines the implications across Brazil alongside global questions of politics and environmentalism.
Studies in Environment and History
330pp
Aug. 2025 9781009457767 Hardback GBP 27.00 / USD 35.00
eISBN 9781009457750
Nov. 2025 9781009428705 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 9.99
eISBN 978100942874
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Medieval Riverscapes
Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c.
300–1100
Ellen F. Arnold | Ohio State University
In this expansive history Ellen F Arnold uses saints' lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 300–1100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuries, she explores how environmental experiences were incorporated into pre-modern cultural spaces.
Studies in Environment and History
280pp
Aug. 2025 9781009299411 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 9.99
eISBN 978100929981
The Nature of the Ottoman City Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s
Stefan, Peychev
This interdisciplinary history problematizes the dominant narrative of decline and stagnation in Ottoman Sofia. Stefan Peychev challenges the boundaries between disciplines, timescales, and geographies to demonstrate the integration of Ottoman ideas of the built environment with local culture to create a long-lasting urban water system.
Studies in Environment and History
224pp
Sep. 2025 9781009558853 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009558822
Vietnam's Coal Frontier Mining, Environment, and Empire
Thuy Linh, Nguyen | Mount Saint Mary College, New York
In one of the first energy histories of Southeast Asia, Thuy Linh Nguyen explores the environmental, economic and social impacts of large-scale coal mining in French colonial Vietnam, arguing for the centrality of the carbon energy in shaping the local communities and environment spanning water, sea, land, and timber forests.
Studies in Environment and History
324pp
Armed Internationalists
Transnational Volunteering in the Twentieth Century
Morten, Heiberg | University of Copenhagen
This unique transnational history explores the extraordinary lives of leftwing volunteers who fought in multiple conflicts across the globe during the mid-twentieth century. Heiberg, Acciai and Bjerström argue that the Spanish Civil War set a precedent for war volunteering that shaped global responses to a range of conflicts for decades.
Global and International History
350pp
Nov. 2025 978100968012 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 10.00
eISBN 978100968005
Global history
A Clash of Color Dialogues on Race, Caste, and Solidarity in the United States and India
Avinash, Hingorani | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Compares the broader philosophical and sociological comparisons between race, caste and class and the intersections between the three. It examines multiple academic disciplines such as transnational history, global intellectual history, the history of race, ethnic studies, South Asian history, African American history, and Asian American history.
Global South Asians
215pp
Dec. 2025 9781009679213 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009679251
Mobile Manuscripts
Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Christopher D. Bahl | Durham University
In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, locating South Asia as a key node of connection.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
340pp
Jan. 2025 9781009526784 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009526814
Africa in Urban History
Ambe J. Njoh | University of South Florida
This Element explores Africa's urban history using race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory. It proposes a new typology of African cities, focuses on Indigenous cities and uses conflict, interactionist, and race ideology theories to explain the articulation of racism, ethnicity, and classism in the continent's urban space.
Elements in Global Urban History
90pp
Jan. 2025 9781009446846 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009500722 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009446839
Feb. 2025 9781009359726 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009359719
Population Control as a Human Right
International Law and the Global Quest to Curb Overpopulation
Roman, Birke | University of Regensburg Concerns about global overpopulation spread rapidly in the 1940s and still persist today. Roman Birke demonstrates the conflicts this created between the rights of the community and the rights of the individual, and how human rights became central to the population debate at both a domestic and international level.
Human Rights in History
242pp
Oct. 2025 9781009601160 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009601184
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Red Internationalism
Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies
Salar, Mohandesi | Bowdoin College, Maine
Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.
Human Rights in History
354pp
Jul. 2025 9781009074810 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009076128
Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832–1914
Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism
Sophie, van den Elzen | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This book shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their "own" history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. It will be of interest to cultural and literary historians of nineteenth-century abolition, the abolitionist movement, women's history, and transatlantic reform culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Slaveries since Emancipation
304pp
Jan. 2025 9781009411967 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009411943
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States-in-Waiting
A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Lydia, Walker | Ohio State University
States-in-Waiting narrates how postcolonial statehood did not fulfill the aspirations of many nationalist claimants demanding independence. Foregrounding little-known regions and the networks connecting them to global politics, Lydia Walker illuminates the un-endings of decolonization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Global and International History
304pp
Nov. 2025 9781009305846 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305815
The Colombo Plan
Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia
David, Lowe | Deakin University, Victoria Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented administrators created what David Lowe argues was an unusually productive diplomatic environment of development internationalism, with a legacy that still endures today.
Global and International History
271pp
Sep. 2025 9781009600736 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009600729
Historical theory, historical method and historiography
A Human Rights View of the Past
Antoon, De Baets | University of Groningen
This Element explores human rights' theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history. It clarifies the concept of a human rights view of the past, reviews its contributions to each dimension, and highlights the benefits it can bring to historical theory and practice.
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice 80pp
Jan. 2025 9781009345941 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009547857 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009345927
History of ideas and intellectual history
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A Caribbean Enlightenment
Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792
April G. Shelford | American University, Washington DC
Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.
Ideas in Context, 150
406pp
Mar. 2025 9781009360838 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009360821
Affective Touching
Neurobiology and Technological Applications
Mark, Paterson | University of Pittsburgh
Part I ofthis Element offers a history of the science of social touch, from related discoveries in mammals by physiologists in the 1930s, to the recent rediscoveries of the CT nerves in humans. Part II considers how these findings are being intentionally folded into technologies for interaction.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses 76pp
Mar. 2025 9781009484374 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Mar. 2025 9781009484367 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009484404
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Confusion in the West
Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and PostModern World
Anna, Rist
Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse. The book explains how what we call the 'Original Tradition' in Western thought has been replaced by a variety of alternative theories which are usually in unrecognized conflict with one another.
280pp
Jul. 2025 9781009218412 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009218429
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Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism
Peter R. Anstey | University of Sydney
Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book is the first integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy, one of the most significant developments of the period. Ideas in Context, 145 380pp
Feb. 2025 9781009015585 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009030236
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Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
New Methods and Computational Approaches
Peter,de Bolla | University of Cambridge
What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? This book explains how computational approaches to text mining can substantially increase the power of our understanding of ideas in history.
312pp
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
James Q. Whitman | Yale University, Connecticut James Q. Whitman offers a new account of the disappearance of lawful slavery, and asks us to reconsider some of our most basic ideas about the nature of property. The book will interest students and scholars of law, the history of slavery, European colonialism and imperialism, and classics.
Studies in Legal History
452pp
Apr. 2025 9781009263603 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009263610
Family, Vocation, and Humanism in the Italian Renaissance
George, McClure | University of Alabama
By examining the letters, autobiographies, dialogues, polemics, and fictional works of the early Italian humanists, such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni Conversini, and Leon Battista Alberti, this book shows how Italian humanists wrestled with the crisis of vocational choice amid struggles with natal and conjugal families. 222pp
Jan. 2026 9781009629270 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009629294
Freedom and Perfection
German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx Douglas, Moggach | University of Ottawa and University of Sydney
This historical study examines perfectionism and its political implications in the German lands between 1650–1850. Douglas Moggach demonstrates how a new perfectionism of freedom arose from Kant's critiques of older ethical-political theories, highlighting the central importance of Leibniz for later theorists of the state, society, and economy. Ideas in Context, 156 356pp
Aug. 2025 9781009590433 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009590419
Jan. 2025 9781009497534 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009497541
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Hegel and the Representative Constitution
Elias, Buchetmann | Universität Rostock, Germany
This important volume provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. It also provides an accessible entry point into the Philosophy of Right and sheds new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe.
Ideas in Context, 146
272pp
Apr. 2025 9781009305952 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305983
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Eva, Piirimäe | University of Tartu
By situating his evolving ideas in panEuropean debates on the problems and prospects of modern European politics, this book proposes a radically new interpretation of the political thought of Johann Gottfried Herder, and shows that Herder was deeply committed to finding ways to achieve moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe.
Ideas in Context, 147 398pp
Feb. 2025 9781009263832 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009263825
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Hijacked
How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Elizabeth, Anderson | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people.
392pp
Mar. 2025 9781009275392 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95
eISBN 9781009275422
In Defense of Economic and Social Human Rights
An Intellectual History, 1940 to the Present Christian Olaf, Christiansen | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
In this groundbreaking intellectual history of economic and social human rights, Christian Olaf Christiansen traces their justification from World War II until the present day. Featuring a series of fascinating thinkers, this is the first book to comprehensively map the key arguments made in defense of social and economic human rights. Human Rights in History 262pp
Oct. 2025 9781009551410 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009551397
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Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
Tejas, Parasher | University of California, Los Angeles
Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia. Ideas in Context, 149 214pp
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The Kingdom of Darkness
Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy
Dmitri, Levitin | University of Oxford
This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the process by which speculative philosophy was gradually excluded from the European system of knowledge, not least via new genealogies of global thought.
982pp
Aug. 2025 9781009695169 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781108934152
The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
Jan. 2025 9781009305600 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009305563
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The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
Martin, Mulsow | University of Erfurt
The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into antiChristian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment? Ideas in Context, 148 412pp
Apr. 2025 9781009241113 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009241168
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The Jewish Imperial Imagination
Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought
Yaniv, Feller | University of Florida
Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a famous Jewish thinker and the leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. This book offers the first interpretation of his religious thought as political, showing how Baeck, along with German-Jewish thought more broadly, cannot be properly understood without the imperial context.
Ideas in Context, 151
252pp
Milinda, Banerjee | University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, has shaped modern Asian and European politics, and thought. This book studies the epic to show how kings and peasants, politicians, and revolutionaries, moulded this trajectory.
South Asian Intellectual History
296pp
Mar. 2025 9781009484688 Hardback GBP90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009484695
The People's Two Powers
Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy
Arthur, Ghins | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Examines the emergence of democracy and liberalism in modern France, exploring the distinction between public opinion and popular sovereignty. Arthur Ghins considers how democracy was first rejected, then associated with the idea of rule by public opinion by liberals, culminating in the invention of 'liberal democracy' in the 1860s.
Ideas in Context
320pp
Apr. 2025 9781009321884 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009321877
Jan.2026 9781009688826 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009688796
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The Power of Necessity
Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650
Lisa, Kattenberg | University of Amsterdam
Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between political pragmatism and moralreligious principle, bridging the persistent gap between theory and practice in political thought. Ideas in Context, 144 298pp
Feb. 2025 9781009073059 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009071864
The State in Machiavelli
Peter, Stacey | University of California, Los Angeles
This innovative study reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of the state as the core of his political philosophy. Spanning a millennium and a half of political, social, moral, rhetorical and aesthetic developments, Peter Stacey offers a new intellectual history of European political thought in which to contextualise Machiavelli's central concepts.
Ideas in Context
500pp
Nov. 2025 9781009630320 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00 eISBN 9781009630351
The
State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity
Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology
Christopher, Watkin | Monash University, Victoria
By exploring the distinct accounts of the state of nature in the writing of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, this book offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing debates of our time, showing how the state of nature idea provides a powerful lens through which to focus the complex forces shaping today's political and cultural landscape.
379pp
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Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912
Michael, Brown | Lancaster University
In this innovative, engaging, and archivally rich history, Michael Brown explores the relationship between emotions and surgery in the long nineteenth century. He examines how it transforms our understanding of the history of surgery and demolishes long-standing myths and stereotypes.
326pp
Doc. 2025 9781009670463 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009670456
NEW IN PAPERBACK Time, History, and Political Thought
John, Robertson | University of Cambridge Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.
362pp
May 2025 9781108792233 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108877237
Making Babies in Early Modern England
Leah, Astbury | University of Bristol Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to the histories of gender, medicine, social status, as well as family life. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
266pp
Feb. 2025 9781009289344 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009289399
History of medicine
Childhood, Pain and Emotion
A Modern British Medical History
Leticia, Fernández-Fontecha | Washington and Lee University, Virginia
This innovative work explores the objectification of childhood pain in British medical discourse from the dawn of Darwinism to the advent of the welfare state. Fernández-Fontecha examines the relationship between the experience of pain and its social and medical perception, demonstrating how the child in pain came to be perceived.
264pp
Dec. 2025 9781009602860 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009602846
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Nurturing Indonesia
Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Hans, Pols | University of Sydney
This history of medicine in Indonesia widens its scope to cover the social role of the medical profession. Pols' focus on decolonisation and the role of physicians in this political process means this study will appeal not only to historians of medicine but also to historians of Southeast Asia.
Global Health Histories
312pp 26 b/w illus. 1 map
Nov. 2025 9781108440677 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108341035
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Statistics and the Language of Global Health
Apr. 2025 9781009558730 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009558723
Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
Yi-Tang, Lin | Université de Genève Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health. Using the case study of China and Taiwan in the period 1917-1960, Yi-Tang Lin examines the efforts by universities, foundations and health organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health policy.
Global Health Histories
278pp
May 2025 9781108994057 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108991339
The Dreaded Pox
Sex and Disease in Early Modern London
Olivia, Weisser | University of Massachusetts, Boston
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis. This remarkable history invites readers into the teeming, pox-riddled streets of everyday early modern London, uncovering the lives of the poxed elite as well as of the maidservants and prostitutes who left few words behind.
246pp
Feb.2026 9781009651875 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009651837
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The Great Plague Scare of 1720
Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Cindy, Ermus | University of Texas, San Antonio
An innovative new study of the transnational ramifications of the 1720 Plague of Provence in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world, situated at the nexus of the history of medicine, disaster studies, and the diplomatic history of the eighteenth century. Global Health Histories
268pp
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Tasman World
Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa
New Zealand
Alexandra, Roginski | Deakin University, Victoria
A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settlercolonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives, Roginski traces the careers of a range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered.
Science in History
290pp
Mar. 2025 9781108747349 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108784733
History of science and technology
NEW IN PAPERBACK Creolised Science
Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific Dorit, Brixius
The first comprehensive study of crosscultural plant knowledge in eighteenthcentury Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly global history of botanical knowledge. Science in History
276pp
Feb. 2025 9781009010504 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009023665
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Science for Governing Japan's Population
Aya, Homei
This major new study highlights the role of population sciences in turning Japan into a modern sovereign nation. Based on a range of local and state archives in Japan and in the United States, Aya Homei unpacks assumptions about the links between population, sovereignty, and science.
Science in History
314pp
Nov. 2025 9781009200462 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009200486
Monopolizing Knowledge
The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution
Jessica, Ratcliff | Cornell University, New York
In this exploration of the colonial political economy of science through the East India Company's library and museum in Britain, Ratcliff shows how 'Company science' became part of the cultural fabric of Britain. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and May also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Science in History
306pp
May 2025 9781009186841 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009186827
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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
Visions of Chemical Modernity
Peter, Thompson | Michigan State University
A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War. Peter Thompson traces how the development and proliferation of chemical protective technologies like the gas mask produced new subjective relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction.
Science in History
342pp
Jan. 2025 9781009379496 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009379526
Mar. 2025 9781009314848 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009314862
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Underground Mathematics
Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Thomas, Morel | Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe where mining and metallurgy were of great significance. Through vivid case studies, he illustrates how geometry was used in metallic mines, from surveying to map-making, by practitioners using esoteric manuscripts.
306pp
May 2025 9781009267267 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009267274
Military history
After Anzac
The Development of Australian Infantry on the Western Front, 1916–1918
Lewis, Frederickson | University of New South Wales, Canberra
Examining the development of the Australian infantry through a critical and comparative lens, After Anzac provides an engaging account of the birth of the Anzac legacy and how this continues to define Australian infantry and society today.
Australian Army History Series
304pp 70 b/w illus. 2 maps
Feb. 2026 9781009603812 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009603782
Assault Brigade
The 18th Australian Infantry Brigade in World War II
Matthew, Miller
The Australian Army served in numerous theatres and campaigns throughout World War II, earning distinction and at times facing significant challenges. During the Pacific War, the infantry brigade, as an intermediate formation commanding multiple infantry battalions and numerous attached units, was key in Australian efforts to secure victory.
Australian Army History Series
324pp
Jan. 2025 9781009431811 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009431835
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Bodies of Work
The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation
Julie M. Powell | University College Dublin
An examination of the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies, and cultural material aimed at the rehabilitation of Allied exservicemen, disabled in the First World War. In this well researched study, Powell considers the gender, class, and ethnic dimensions of rehabilitation.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
270pp
May 2025 9781009230254 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009230292
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Holding Out
The German Army and Operational Command in 1917
Tony, Cowan
A ground-breaking study of German operational command from November 1916 to the eve of the third battle of Ypres. Tony Cowan's detailed analysis of the German defeat of the 1917 Entente spring offensive sheds new light on how the army and Germany were able to hold out so long during the war against increasing odds.
Cambridge Military Histories
360pp
Hunger Redraws the Map
Food, State, and Society in the Era of the First World War
Mary Elisabeth, Cox | Central European University, Vienna
The First World War resulted in major economic and agricultural strains to neutral and belligerent countries alike. This innovative history analyses the resulting hunger crises across Europe and the Ottoman Empire and how these transformed relationships between the state, citizens, and civil society.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
350pp 15 b/w illus. 15 maps
Nov. 2025 9781009441308 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009441278
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Making Sense of the Great War
Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front
Alex, May hew | London School of Economics and Political Science
Alex May hew provides new perspectives on military morale by exploring the experiences of English infantrymen in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. Drawing on approaches from anthropology, psychology, and sociology, he examines the morale and endurance of these soldiers and helps to explain how soldiers made sense of the Great War.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
390pp
Jun. 2025 9781009168748 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009168762
Mobilising the Australian Army
Contingencies and Compromises Over More than a Century
John, Blaxland | Australian National University, Canberra
Mobilising the Australian Army explores the rich history of the Australian Army, the challenges of preparing armies for war in uncertain times, and the many possibilities for their continuing strength and future success.
432pp
Jul. 2025 9781108820516 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781108900553
Sep. 2025 9781009565264 Hardback GBP 46.99 / USD 56.99
eISBN 9781009565257
Redemption
MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
Peter R. Mansoor | Ohio State University
Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by U.S. armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the full course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and Filipino guerrilla operations to MacArthur's return to Leyte and the subsequent battles of liberation.
600pp 33 b/w illus. 9 maps
Aug. 2025 9781009541190 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 34.95
eISBN 9781009541176
Soldiers and Bushmen
The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902
Thomas, Richardson | University of New South Wales, Canberra
Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in the South Africa, 1899–1902 examines the commitment to what was expected to be a short war. It presents a thematic, analytical history of the birth of the Australian Army in South Africa, while exploring the Army's evolution from colonial units into a consolidated federal force.
Australian Army History Series 256pp 25 b/w illus. 14 maps
Sep. 2025 9781009597814 Hardback GBP 37.99 / USD 47.99
eISBN 9781009597838
The Cambridge History of Strategy 2 Volume Hardback Set
Isabelle, Duyvesteyn | Universiteit Leiden
This global history of strategy explores how leaders of different social groups, civilisations, empires and states have practised strategy over the course of three millennia. With contributions written by leading experts in each subject, the Cambridge History of Strategy offers new perspectives on the history of strategy.
The Cambridge History of Strategy 1242pp
Jan. 2025 9781009417631 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00
eISBN 9781009417624
The Cambridge History of War Volume 3 War and the Early Modern World
David, Parrott | University of Oxford
This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible history of war from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the development of steam-powered, ironclad warships in the mid-19th century. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the history of war, transnational and global history, and international relations.
Cambridge History of War 688pp
Aug. 2025 9780521874281 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 180.00
eISBN 9780511843136
The Colonial Way of War Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c.1890–1914 Tom, Menger | Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität München
The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. Through detailed study of five major British, German and Dutch colonial wars, Menger argues instead that these wars' extreme violence was part of a shared 'Colonial Way of War'.
Cambridge Military Histories 374pp
The Generalissimo
Luigi Cadorna and the Italian Army, 1850–1928
Marco, Mondini | Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Major new biography tracing the rise, command and reputation of the controversial Luigi Cardorna from his appointment to the head of the Italian army to defeat at Caporetto in 1917. Marco Mondini delves into how ideology and psychology combined to create an untouchable autocrat.
Cambridge Military Histories 280pp
Aug. 2025 9781009098670 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009105057
History - other areas
African history
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Arming Black Consciousness
The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition and South Africa's Armed Struggle
Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson, Asheeke | Georgia State University
Using oral and archival sources, Toivo Asheeke excavates the neglected history of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle in South Africa. Asheeke highlights the BCM's engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism.
African Studies, 164 300pp
May 2025 9781009346719 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009346696
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Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army
Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race M. T. Howard | University of Oxford
Aug. 2025 9781009508285 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009508278
Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army during the war of liberation (1965-1980). It enriches scholarly understandings of the motivations and loyalties of colonial troops.
African Studies
306pp
Sep. 2025 9781009348454 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009348423
Building the African Nation
The African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa
Ethan R. Sanders | Regis University
This study examines how people in East Africa came to see themselves as 'Africans', using a global intellectual history lens. Ethan Sanders challenges dominant understandings of nationalism in Africa, exploring how the thought of James Aggrey and Julius Nyerere shaped African Identity and offering a new definition of pan-Africanism.
African Identities: Past and Present
344pp
Aug. 2025 9781009625609 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009625616
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Child
Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
Bernard, Moitt | Virginia Commonwealth University
Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.
African Studies, 165
250pp
May 2025 9781009296465 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009296441
Curating the Colonial Past
The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History
Riley, Linebaugh | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
This study offers the first full length exploration of the systemised destruction and removal of key documents by British Colonial administrators in East Africa in the early 1960s. Riley Linebaugh chronicles the struggle over these 'migrated archives', between British attempts to conceal and Kenyan efforts to reveal evidence of the colonial past.
African Studies
316pp
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Dress Cultures in Zambia
Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
Karen Tranberg, Hansen | Northwestern University, Illinois
Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.
The International African Library
224pp
May 2025 9781009350341 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009350310
Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu's Borderlands
Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa
Gillian, Mathys | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
This innovative study explores how longterm historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders.
African Studies
406pp
Sep. 2025 9781009525411 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009525381
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Decolonizing African Knowledge
Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Toyin, Falola | University of Texas, Austin
Addressing the consequences of colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative work from one of Africa's most eminent historians uses memory, visual aesthetics and literature to consider the 'Self' and Yoruba Being in the context of the African decolonial project.
African Identities: Past and Present
534pp
Jul. 2025 9781009463058 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009463041
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Imperial Incarceration
Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa
Michael, Lobban | London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Lobban examines the use of detention without trial in the British African Empire, evaluating the various legal powers used to facilitate imperial expansion. An essential text for lawyers and historians, Imperial Incarceration demonstrates the importance of context in understanding the law's effect.
Studies in Legal History
464pp
Mar. 2025 9781009048934 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009049634
May 2025 9781009001496 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009004848
Minority Identities in Nigeria
Contesting and Claiming Citizenship in the Twentieth Century
Oghenetoja, Okoh | Loyola University, Maryland Focusing on Niger Delta minorities, this book reframes Nigeria's nationalist narrative to understand these communities beyond their experience of crude oil politics. Oghenetoja Okoh explores how majority and minority identities were produced by the British colonial state, leaving Nigeria to inherit the violence that accompanies this dynamic.
African Identities: Past and Present
209pp
Sep. 2025 9781108488471 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108764001
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Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
Race, Childhood, and Citizenship
Rachel, Jean-Baptiste | University of California, Davis
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Drawing on multinational oral history and archival research, Rachel Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of multiracial people, or 'métis' in colonial French Africa. Offering a nuanced history of race-making, belonging, and rights, she shows how métis carved out varied visions of belonging in Africa, Europe, and internationally.
African Identities: Past and Present
319pp
Jun. 2025 9781108733311 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108773751
New Sudans
Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum Nicki, Kindersley | Cardiff University
Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, and hundreds of stories, poems, songs, jokes and photographs, this book tells the history of political ideas and projects organised by South Sudanese people displaced by war and famine in the capital Khartoum over Sudan's second civil war from 1983–2005.
African Studies
362pp
Race, Taste and the Grape
South African Wine from a Global Perspective Paul, Nugent | University of Edinburgh
Offers a detailed history of Cape wine from the late nineteenth century to the present, exposing how race has shaped patterns of consumption through statistics, marketing and advertising materials. Considers how regulation of the industry arose, why it failed, and what the impact of this has been locally and globally. 373pp
Sep. 2025 9781009184250 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009184274
Feb. 2025 9781009422376 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009422383
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On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890
Philip, Gooding | McGill University, Montréal
Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdisciplinary sources and methods, he positions African peoples and environments as integral to the histories of global economies, religions, and cultures.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
266pp
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Relative Distance
Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Leslie, Fesenmyer | University of Birmingham
Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas – moral, material, and affective – facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart ofrelations between individuals, societies, and states.
The International African Library, 71 244pp
Apr. 2025 9781009114189 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009122023
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Plunder for Profit
A Socio-Environmental history of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
Elijah, Doro | Universitetet i Agder, Norway
Examining the history of tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro outlines the impacts left on landscapes, communities and people. Drawing from Environmental history and political economy, Doro illuminates debates about colonialism, conservationism and sustainability.
African Studies, 162 331pp
Jan. 2025 9781009096256 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009093071
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eISBN 9781009335096
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Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa
The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga Makhroufi Ousmane, Traoré, | Pomona College, California
Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré shows the Soninke community's resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of ethnic belonging. Traoré highlights the varied ways in which West Africans crafted and negotiated their identities.
African Identities: Past and Present 473pp
Jun. 2025 9781009282338 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009282352
Socialist De-Colony
Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War
Nana, Osei-Opare | Rice University, Houston
In 1957, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom. Nana Osei-Opare offers a provocative reading of this defining moment. He demonstrates how race and Soviet influence enabled and disrupted Ghana's transformational projects to secure Black freedom. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Global and International History 320pp
Dec. 2025 9781009601436 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009601481
Australian history
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The Antipodean Laboratory
Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870
Anna, Johnston | University of Queensland Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multidisciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.
326pp
Mar. 2025 9781009186919 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009186896
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The Humanitarians
Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975
Joy, Damousi | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to the International Year of the Child in 1979, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
362pp
A Hundred Flowers
How Literature Shaped Maoism
Dayton, Lekner | Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign through the words and lives of its writers. He argues that literary practice and circulation were major forces in the shaping of Maoism and in the creation of the contemporary Chinese state.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
288pp
Oct. 2025 9781009600538 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009600484
Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
A Mongol Family at the Ming Court
Mar. 2025 9781108987363 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108983204
East Asian history
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A History of East Asia
From the Origins of Civilization to the TwentyFirst Century Third edition
Charles, Holcombe | University of Northern Iowa
A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade, restructured post-World War II material, new illustrations and references, and discussion questions.
529pp
David, Robinson | Colgate University, New York In 1405, a family left their home in the Mongolian steppe and moved to China. Winning recognition for military skill and loyalty at the Ming court, their story demonstrates how the early-modern world's most developed state sought to balance the often contradictory demands of securing ability and addressing difference.
298pp
Sep. 2025 9781009602020 Paperback GBP 28.00 / USD 38.00
Sep. 2025 9781009602013 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00
eISBN 9781009602006
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An Early Modern Economy in China
Jun. 2025 9781009504799 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
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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.
The Cambridge China Library
640pp 6 maps 75 tables
Dec. 2025 9781108749473 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781108782753
Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia
Mandy Jui-man, Wu | Hanover College, Indiana
This Element reviews gendered archaeology in Asia since the 1990s, exploring the role of gendered identities in ancient societies. It highlights how national guidelines, local traditions, and historiographic shifts influence research, with recent studies emphasizing national civilizations and traditional values.
Elements in Ancient East Asia
86pp
Jan. 2025 9781108987394 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009533546 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781108987486
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China and the Philippines
A Connected History, c. 1900–50
Phillip B. Guingona | Nazareth University, New York
This innovative study brings diverse transnational characters to life, foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, and advancing a nuanced reading of world history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and May also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Asian Connections
292pp
May 2025 9781009359214 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009359207
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China's Cold War Science Diplomacy
Gordon, Barrett | University of Oxford
The first comprehensive study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party's science diplomacy. Based on a wide range of archival research, including material from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barrett provides new insights into the actors, organisations, and networks underpinning Chinese international scientific outreach in the Mao Era.
274pp
Chinese Statecraft
Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China
Timothy, Brook | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
A thoughtful overview of the Chinese tradition of statecraft: the practices that determined the duties and obligations of the state toward the people and that guided officials in the administrative practice of good government. Together these essays bring the Chinese historical tradition into the global history of responsible government.
280pp
May 2025 9781108948401 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108951746
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China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China during the Cold War
Ariane, Knüsel | University of Fribourg
The first study to analyse the central role that Switzerland played in China's presence in Europe in the Cold War. Using extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on the formulation and implementation of China's foreign policy, foreign trade policy, and intelligence activities.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
326pp
Feb. 2025 9781009169479 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009169486
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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 Cambridge China Library 288pp 1 b/w illus. 6 tables
Nov. 2025 9781108749459 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108782715
Jul. 2025 9781009636131 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009636124
Connected Cartographies
World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842
Florin-Stefan, Morar | National University of Singapore
This essential history tells the fascinating story of encounters between Chinese and Western traditions of world geography and cartography. It reveals how cross-cultural exchanges shaped our understanding of the world, enriches global perspectives and highlights the importance of collaboration in knowledge creation.
285pp
Sep. 2025 9781009636032 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009636049
Convict Politics
From Utopia to Serfdom in Early China (221 BCE – 23 CE)
Liang, Cai | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Liang Cai harnesses newly excavated manuscripts and techniques from the digital humanities to reveal how early Chinese empires criminalized the innocent while exonerating actual offenders. Paradoxically driven by the quest for a crime-free utopia, these practices fostered an enduring skepticism towards the law in the Chinese tradition.
320pp
Oct. 2025 9781316515303 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009019866
Exhibitionist Japan
The Spectacle of Modern Development
Angus, Lockyer
Japan has been an enthusiastic user of exhibitions for 150 years, holding over 1300 since the later nineteenth century. Lockyer explores how these events have been used as catalysts of development, arguing that the history of this enthusiasm nuances our understanding of modern Japan.
292pp
Feb. 2025 9781009544252 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009544245
Geographies of Gender
Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan
Tadashi, Ishikawa | University of Central Florida Centering on imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule since 1895, Geographies of Gender traces perceptions and changing practices of gender across the empire. Tadashi Ishikawa demonstrates how the Japanese empire became a gendered space in public debates and judicial practices concerning family and marriage.
298pp
Jan. 2025 9781009534178 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009534215
Grains of Conflict
The Struggle for Food in China's Total War, 1937–1945
Jennifer, Yip | National University of Singapore China's war against Japan was, at its heart, a struggle for food. Jennifer Yip's deeply researched study argues that the Chinese government's attempts to provision its armies constituted the crux of total war. Making intensive use of preindustrial resources, it vied with the Chinese Communist Party and Japanese for sustenance.
290pp
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Multiracial Britishness
Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45 Vivian, Kong | University of Bristol Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth.
Modern British Histories
294pp
Jul. 2025 9781009601320 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009601344
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Japan's Ocean Borderlands
Nature and Sovereignty
Paul, Kreitman | Columbia University, New York Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global Environmental history, Paul Kreitman explores how the politics of conservation and sovereignty have entangled on islands from Hawai'i to the South China Sea, from the mid-nineteenth century till today.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
288pp
Apr. 2025 9781108747462 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108779241
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Justice After Mao
The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China
Daniel, Leese | University of Freiburg How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of atrocities committed in its own name? This cutting-edge volume addresses the question of historical justice in post-Mao China through issues of property, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and memory. It provides a fresh perspective on Chinese history and politics, socialisms and transitional justice.
334pp
Apr. 2025 9781009202985 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009202930
Negotiating Imperialism
Murakami Naojirō's Archival Diplomacy
Birgit, Tremml-Werner | Stockholms Universitet
This study of Japanese imperial history examines the relationships between scholarship, translation and diplomacy. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, Tremml-Werner emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history, memory and the archive. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
300pp
Dec. 2025 9781009640800 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009640817
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Networks of Faith and Profit Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE
Yiwen, Li | City University of Hong Kong Debunks long-held assumptions regarding the lack of contact between China and Japan between 839-1403 CE, arguing that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Examination of Buddhist records, objects and images illuminates how this system worked.
Asian Connections
232pp
May 2025 9781009261302 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009261265
Mar. 2025 9781009303088 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009303132
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Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
Macau during the Second World War
Helena F. S. Lopes | Cardiff University
Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpicks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
342pp
Apr. 2025 9781009311762 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009311786
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Revolutionary Transformations
The People's Republic of China in the 1950s
Anja, Blanke | Freie Universität Berlin
Based on first-hand archival material, this volume brings together insightful new essays on the theme of China's revolutionary transformation in the 1950s, calling into question existing narratives on the foundational decade of the People's Republic of China.
306pp
Nov. 2025 9781009304092 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009304146
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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 Cambridge China Library 388pp
Nov. 2025 9781108749534 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108782913
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Shanghai Tai Chi
The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China Hanchao, Lu | Georgia Institute of Technology
A rich and captivating social and political history of Shanghai, one of the world's most complex cities, under high socialism. Using the metaphor of Tai Chi, Hanchao Lu explores how people experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture that epitomizes state-society relations in a communist country.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China 378pp
Oct. 2025 9781009180962 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009180979
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The Cambridge Economic History of China
1800 to the Present
Debin, Ma | Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume II covers the period from 1800 to the present in twentyone thematically and chronologically organized chapters, charting the development of the institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped China's modern economy.
The Cambridge Economic History of China 866pp
The China Question
Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear
Ho-fung, Hung | Johns Hopkins University
For centuries, Western scholars portrayed China either as a land of superior morality or as a formidable threat. Hung shows how Western political elites and China's authoritarian regime continue to promote orientalist stereotypes to advance political projects, arguing that only open debate can overcome the extremes of fantasy and fear.
324pp
Jun. 2025 9781108442459 PaperbackGBP 39.99 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781108348485
Feb.2026 9781009559775 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009559751
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The Collapse of Nationalist China
How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War
Parks M. Coble | University of Nebraska, Lincoln
This is a ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Nationalist China, an event which fundamentally changed the course of twentieth-century history. Using newly available archival sources, Parks Coble reveals why, despite the financial backing of the US, Chiang Kai-shek's government lost the civil war against the communists in 1949.
282pp
Aug. 2025 9781009297646 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009297639
The Fall of the Tang
Gao Pian's Trials of Allegiance
Franciscus, Verellen | Ecole française d'ExtrêmeOrient
Casting new light on ideas of allegiance, governance, military affairs and religious life in the waning years of the Tang Dynasty, this major new study views events from the perspective of Gao Pian, one of the most intriguing characters to shape the history of ninth-century China.
350pp
Feb.2026 9781009649919 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009649926
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The Gods of the Sea
Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Fynn, Holm | Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent antiwhaling protests that shocked the country.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
234pp
May 2025 9781009305556 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305532
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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 twentiethcentury China.
The Cambridge China Library 698pp 41 tables
Dec. 2025 9781108790956 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108801065
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The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951
Nagatomi, Hirayama | University of Nottingham
Ningbo China
By shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party, Nagatomi Hirayama offers an indispensable lens through which to view the formation and transformation of the Chinese radical right in the first half of the twentieth century.
312pp
History (general) after 1500
Friends of God and Slaves of Men
Religion and Slavery, Past and Present
Kevin, Bales | University of Nottingham
This groundbreaking book is the first major study of how religion has both justified and opposed slavery across faiths in the past and into the present day. It is for scholars, students, and readers interested in history, theology, and human rights.
Slaveries since Emancipation
269pp
Apr. 2025 9781009101967 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009105170
The
Making
of Labour Precarity in China since 1949
Xiaojun, Feng | China Agricultural University Xiaojun Feng presents a compelling new framework through which to analyse labour precarity via a study of China since 1949.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
300pp
Oct. 2025 9781009631129 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 40.00
eISBN 9781009631143
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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
Steven L. B. Jensen | The Danish Institute for Human Rights
This volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights from the Middle Ages to the present day. It situates this history within perennial struggles over obligation, while probing the relationship of social rights to questions of religion, race, gender, class, empire and globalisation. Human Rights in History
352pp
Dec. 2025 9781009640534 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009640572
Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
Jenny Huangfu, Day | Skidmore College, New York
This book examines how the concept of political crime evolved in modern China, not only from a domestic legal point of view, but as a transborder legal and diplomatic process open to interpretation and maneuvering by both state authorities and the broader transborder population. Studies in Legal History
310pp
Feb. 2025 9781009005111 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009008686
History (general), world history
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Volume 2
Jan, Machielsen | Cardiff University
Oct. 2025 9781009456036 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009456081
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world's leading historians. This volume features articles on a range of topics, including China, English history, and transnational activism, and addresses issues of historical methodology and practice.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Seventh Series, 2 512pp
Feb. 2025 9781009601269 Paperback GBP 30.95 / USD 37.85
eISBN 9781009601283
History after 1945 (general)
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Bearing Witness
Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement
Andrea, Nicholson | University of Nottingham
Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors' voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of more effective interventions.
Slaveries since Emancipation
254pp
May 2025 9781009018470 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009039741
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971
Margot, Tudor | University of Exeter
A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945–1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation.
Human Rights in History
338pp 17 b/w illus. 6 maps
Feb. 2025 9781009264938 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009264952
Latin American history
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A Colonial Book Market
Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
Agnes, Gehbald | Universität Bern, Switzerland
Tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, Agnes Gehbald provides a comprehensive study of print culture in Peru in the decades before Independence. An important volume for those interested in the history of books beyond the European market.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 129 402pp
Nov. 2025 9781009360869 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009360876
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A Silver River in a Silver World Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678
David, Freeman | University of Missouri, Kansas City
A study for scholars of colonial Latin American, Dutch, and economic history that explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade during an understudied period of Spanish America's history. It raises questions about foreign 'contraband' traders and 'corrupt' officials, underscoring that their activities frequently proceeded within the law.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 118 240pp 2 maps
Oct. 2025 9781108405393 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108277754
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A Tale of Two Granadas
Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668
Max, Deardorff | University of Florida
This book examines the struggle for citizenship in the New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), offering the first deep analysis of how a wave of Catholic reform resulted in opportunities for the Spanish empire's diverse subjects. An important contribution to Latin Americanists and scholars of empire.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 130 394pp
Nov. 2025 9781009335430 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009335447
Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
Slavery, Freedom, and the Writing of History
Theodore W. Cohen | Southern Illinois University Carbondale
This history of Afro-Mexicans charts their lived experiences from the colonial period, through Mexico's war for independence and the abolition of slavery and caste. Written for both students and scholars, it combines intellectual and cultural perspectives with social and political histories to explore the lives and identities of Afro-Mexicans.
Afro-Latin America
293pp
Nov. 2025 9781009456012 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009456005
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Agrarian Puerto Rico
Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940
César J. Ayala | University of California, Los Angeles
An examination of the evolution of land tenure and social structure in various economic zones of Puerto Rico during the early twentieth century. Archival data show that the integration of Puerto Rico into the US economy led to overwhelmingly diverse outcomes in different socioeconomic regions of the island.
330pp
Nov. 2025 9781108726375 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108763981
An Unholy Pedagogy
Visions of Learning from Mesoamerica, 1300-1650
Joshua Jacob, Fitzgerald | University of Cambridge
This ethnohistory of Colonial Mexico explores local education systems and school art and architecture before and after the Spanish invasion in the sixteenth century. It investigates Nahua (Aztec) visual, material and textual sources to uncover new theory for students and scholars of history, art history, and archaeology.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
300pp
Feb. 2026 9781009702577 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009702607
Anchoring
an Empire Gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Panama
Bethany, Aram | Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla
This book is a bottom-up exploration of how gender and ethnicity shaped lived experience across the isthmus of Panama, c. 1500-1671. It is for students and scholars interested in the history of globalization, Central and Latin America, gender studies, and cultural studies.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
221pp
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
Peter, Wade | University of Manchester
This collection interrogates how art with anti-racist intent can move beyond identity politics, embracing an inclusive anti-racism. It will be of interest to students and scholars in Latin American studies, ethnic and racial studies, art, anthropology, sociology, and literary studies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Afro-Latin America
336pp
Oct. 2025 9781009595353 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009595407
Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean
From the Margins to the Center
Sandra McGee, Deutsch | University of Texas, El Paso
This is the first book in any language to provide a comprehensive and comparative history of antifascisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. Multidisciplinary and accessible, it will engage students, scholars, and general readers interested in fascism/antifascism, Latin American studies, and those concerned with rising right-wing populism today.
268pp
Jan.2026 9781009680530 Paperback GBP 28.00 / USD 38.00
Jan.2026 9781009680516 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00
eISBN 9781009680547
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Becoming Heritage
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia
Maria Fernanda, Escallón | University of Oregon
Becoming Heritage examines how ostensibly inclusive heritage policies created exclusion and conflict among groups within the Afro-descendant Palenquero community in Colombia. Bringing together broader discussions on race, nation and inclusion, this book is for students and scholars interested in heritage, ethnicity and politics in Latin America.
Aug. 2025 9781009522083 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009522120
Armed Citizens and Citizens in Arms
The Military and the Creation of the State of Peru, 1800‒1860
Natalia, Sobrevilla Perea | University of Kent, Canterbury
This book reconstructs the history of the armed forces in nineteenth century Peru. It is the first book to explore the armed forces as an institution of social provision and will interest students and scholars of Latin America, political science, and military history.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
240pp
Sep. 2025 9781009098892 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009106511
Afro-Latin America
260pp
Feb. 2025 9781009180399 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009180382
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Being the Heart of the World
The Pacific and the Fashioning of the Self in New Spain, 1513–1641
Nino, Vallen | Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, University of California, Berkeley
Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
268pp
Nov. 2025 9781009322041 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009322089
Black Catholic Worlds
Religious Geographies of EighteenthCentury Afro-Colombia
Bethan, Fisk | University of Bristol
This book examines how people of African descent used Catholicism to improve their lives in quotidian ways throughout New Granada . It will appeal to readers interested in colonial Latin America, slavery, the Inquisition, Colombian history, the Atlantic World, Africana Religions, Black Studies, and Mobility Studies.
Afro-Latin America
308pp
Sep. 2025 9781009543538 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009543576
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982
Sebastián, Carassai | Universidad de Buenos Aires
A detailed analysis of the wide range of coups d'état in contemporary Latin America with contributions from leading experts in the field. It will interest scholars and students of history, political violence, and human rights in the Latin American context.
288pp
May 2025 9781009344838 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009344821
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Cuban Privilege
The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America
Susan Eva, Eckstein | Boston University
The first book to document the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans over other immigrants for more than half a century, highlighting the racial and political biases embedded within US immigration policy. A fascinating, topical account of interest to policy makers and scholars of Latin America.
391pp
Hispanic Technocracy
From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945–1991
Daniel Gunnar, Kressel | The Koch History Centre, University of Oxford
This book explores how the Cold War Latin American right sought to rescue the essence of Europe's fascist ideology after 1945 by reformulating it into novel authoritarian state models. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history, political science, economics, sociology, and anthropology.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
302pp
Jul. 2025 9781108822398 Paperback GBP 23.00 / USD 30.00
eISBN 9781108902465
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Empire on Edge
The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatan's Caste War, 1847–1901
Rajeshwar, Dutt | Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
This transnational account of colonialism at the margins reveals why frontiers are key to understanding imperial anxieties and conflicts. This book is the first monograph to explore Yucatán's Caste War of 1847–1901 in the context of frontiers and borderlands studies, British history, and imperial and colonial studies.
200pp
Aug. 2025 9781009603041 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009603072
NEW IN PAPERBACK Islands in the Lake Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain
Richard M. Conway | Montclair State University, New Jersey
An essential text for those interested in the history of Native Americans and Mexico. It offers a novel approach to understanding cross-cultural encounters and colonialism in the early modern period, combining Environmental history with Spanish and native-language sources to explain socioeconomic and cultural continuities.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
Nov. 2025 9781108737050 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108642309
Global Servants of the Spanish King Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Adolfo, Polo y La Borda | University of Nottingham
This book explores mobility and cosmopolitanism across the early modern Spanish empire, and how they impacted its governance. It will attract students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire, global history, the Spanish empire, Latin America, and the Spanish Pacific world.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 134 368pp
Feb. 2025 9781009403214 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009403207
410pp
Nov. 2025 9781009001861 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009003957
My Own Past
Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art Alejandro, de la Fuente | Harvard University, Massachusetts
This book is a revisionist history of Cuban art that centers on the works and social worlds of artists of African descent, from the colonial period to the present. Cogently argued and carefully researched, it will interest students and scholars of Afro-Latin America, and collectors of Latin American art.
Afro-Latin America
304pp
Sep. 2025 9781009586467 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009586412
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North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970
Moe, Taylor | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s, offering a new understanding of North Korean foreign policy and the rise of Tricontinentalism. An important addition to studies on the international Left and the Cold War.
242pp
May 2025 9781009305259 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009305204
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Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization
José Juan, Pérez Meléndez | University of California, Davis
This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 132
428pp
Aug. 2025 9781009281850 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009281874
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Policing Freedom
Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Martine, Jean
Policing Freedom explores the history of punishment in Brazil, intersecting with studies on the global history of punishment, which historicize the prison as existing within a continuum of punitive strategies to discipline Brazil's racially diverse working-class. Key reading for students and scholars of the Atlantic slave trade.
Afro-Latin America
366pp
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The Metamorphosis of the Amazon
An Environmental history of Oil Extraction in Ecuador
Maximilian Fritz, Feichtner | Independent Scholar
A compelling study for readers interested in the Environmental history of Latin America, this book sheds light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest and the impact oil development. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and May also be available Open Access. Check our website
Cambridge Core for details.
254pp
Nov. 2025 9781009289153 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009289146
Seditious Spaces
Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors' Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil
Greg L. Childs | Brandeis University, Massachusetts
The first book-length study of the Tailor's Conspiracy of Bahia, Brazil, in the English language. It is for students and scholars interested in the history of slavery and freedom in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora.
Afro-Latin America
264pp
Mar. 2025 9781316515594 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009026031
Stereotypes in Black
Afro-Argentines and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
María de Lourdes, Ghidoli | Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires
This book highlights the construction and repeated use of racial stereotypes of the Afro-Argentine population, and how this strategy of invisibilization created the desire for a homogeneous nation. It will interest students and scholars of nineteenth century Latin America, the African diaspora, and Latin American art.
Afro-Latin America
382pp
Nov. 2025 9781009343084 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009343053
The Power of Dissent
Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas
Sergio, Serulnikov | Universidad de San Andrés
This book explores the crisis of Spanish rule through the advent of a culture of popular contestation and dissent in Chuquisaca, the most important city in the southern Andes, in the decades preceding the wars of independence. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history and the age of Atlantic revolutions.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
370pp
Aug. 2025 9781009610070 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009610100
The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism
History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana
James Andrew, Whitaker | Troy University
This book illustrates how the Makushi people, an Indigenous society in Amazonia, use shamanic practices and frameworks to draw in outsiders and to acquire resources from them for transformational projects in the past and present. It is for scholars and students interested in Indigenous societies across the Americas.
Cambridge Latin American Studies
228pp
Feb.2026 9781009674508 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009674522
Feb. 2025 9781009478403 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009478397
The Women Who Threw Corn
Witchcraft and Inquisition in SixteenthCentury Mexico
Martin Austin, Nesvig | University of Miami
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of witchcraft in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. It will interest students and scholars of ethnohistory, Latin American studies, gender history, anthropology, and religious studies.
320pp
Jun. 2025pp 9781009550529 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009550505
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Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century
Joseph M. H. Clark | University of Kentucky
An innovative book that draws on environmental, economic, social, and cultural history to define a regional space between Mexico and the Caribbean through which African diasporans defined identities and built communities. Essential reading for scholars of Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 128 340pp
Nov. 2025 9781009180320 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009180337
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We, the King
Creating Royal Legislation in the SixteenthCentury Spanish New World
Adrian, Masters | Universität Trier, Germany
We, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how its policies, racial categories, and society were created from the "bottom up". An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 127 338pp
Nov. 2025 9781009315401 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009315425
Middle East history
NEW IN PAPERBACK A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City
Ashkan.Rezvani Naraghi | University of Tehran, Iran
Telling the history of Tehran from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates how the city was transformed by developing discourses around spatial knowledge. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in the process of urban change. The Global Middle East, 22 488pp
Jun. 2025 9781009188913 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009188906
An Islamic Legal Philosophy
Ibn Abd al-Salām and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law
Mariam, Sheiban | Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Traces the ethical turn in medieval Islamic legal philosophy through the work of the prominent jurist and legal philosopher Ibn 'Abd al-Salām (d. 660/1262). Mariam Sheibani examines how Ibn 'Abd al-Salām advanced a comprehensive analysis of the law's purposive and coherent rationality, situated within wider historical and intellectual contexts. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 315pp
Dec. 2025 9781009588461 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009588478
Challenging the Caliphate
Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ömer, Koçyiğit | Marmara University
Examining the role of steam transportation and print culture in shaping Ottoman centre-periphery relations, this study offers fresh insights into the modern Muslim word. Through rich archival research, Ömer Koçyiğit examines the circulation of ideas of the Caliphate, Wahhabism and Mahdism in a global context.
The Global Middle East
292pp
Dec. 2025 9781009663496 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009663441
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Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge
Andrew, Hammond | University of Oxford Andrew Hammond offers a significant, innovative reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on three key figures, Hammond demonstrates their lasting impact on Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology, which has been neglected by previous histories.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 336pp
Apr. 2025 9781009199537 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009199544
Leaping Decolonization
North Africa in the Global 1960s and 1970s
Idriss, Jebari | Trinity College, Dublin
In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African thinkers and leaders reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing networks. Idriss Jebari examines how these traces reveal powerful debates which challenged colonial legacies, redefined progress, and reappropriated tradition.
The Global Middle East
300pp
Feb. 2026 9781009700603 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009700559
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Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran
Assef, Ashraf | University of Cambridge
Focusing on the formation of the Qajar empire in Iran, this book draws attention to continuities between the Safavid and Qajar periods. By situating the formation of Qajar Iran in its early nineteenthcentury context, Assef Ashraf is able to highlight the overarching themes of transition and change.
361pp
Nostalgia in Late Pahlavi Iran
Zhand, Shakibi | London School of Economics and Political Science
This innovative study explores the forms, expressions, and narratives of nostalgia in both popular society and the state in late Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi examines the rise and spread of nostalgia through sources ranging across mass media, literature, court proceedings and state policy, offering a new dimension to the study of the period.
399pp
Sep. 2025 9781009361545 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009361538
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Mandatory Madness
Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
Chris, Sandal-Wilson | University of Exeter
Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule.
The Global Middle East, 26 360pp
May 2025 9781009430388 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009430395
Mantle of the Sufi Kings
Political Sufism and the Rise of Early Modern Iran
Hani, Khafipour | State University of New York at Buffalo
Explores how loyalty, social cohesion, and political Sufism shaped the rise of early modern Iran, revealing an empire's cultural and religious legacy. Examining the evolution of Safavid political theology, Hani Khafipour offers a bold interpretation of Iran's history with important implications for current religio-political discourse.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 256pp
Nov. 2025 9781009663526 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009663533
New Hebrews
Making National Culture in Zion
Yaron, Peleg | University of Cambridge
Examines the cultural history of Zionism and the revolutionary ways it used language, literature, architecture, art, music and body culture to reshape modern Jewish culture. Yaron Peleg offers an interdisciplinary study of nationalism and examines the psychology of modern Israel. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
May 2025 9781009591478 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009591430
Apr. 2025 9781009574310 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009574280
Palestinian Doctors
Medical Practice and the Transformation of Palestine, 1900–1948
Yoni, Furas | University of Haifa, Israel
This study examines the social history of Palestinian doctors and the emergence of a professional community during the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods.
Yoni Furas and Liat Kozma examine doctors' interactions with the rural and urban society and their entangled relationship with the British colonial administration and Jewish doctors.
271pp
Sep. 2025 9781009463355 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009463362
The Conquest of the Mountains
State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East
Owen Robert, Miller | Bilkent University, Ankara
This study examines the massacres in the Sasun region in 1893–1894, analyzing how the Ottoman State colonized its eastern mountainous peripheries. Owen Robert Miller considers how three nascent technologies (modern firearms, steamboats, and telegraphs) centralized Ottoman authority and entrenched rule in hitherto autonomous regions.
248pp
Dec. 2025 9781009524957 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009524940
The Last Caravan
Camels, Traders and Markets in the Middle East
Philippe, Pétriat | Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne
Analyses the history of the lesser-known interior of the Middle East where radical transformations shaped the region we know today. The book connects the history of deserts to that of the cities, and the links between the Middle East to the African Sahara and the Eurasian steppes.
306pp
Jan. 2025 9781009524520 HardbackGBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009524537
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The Making of Persianate Modernity
Language and Literary History between Iran and India
Alexander, Jabbari | University of Minnesota
Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures.
The Global Middle East, 25 266pp
Mar. 2025 9781009320818 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009320825
The New Israelis
Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism
Alex, Weingrod | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
A wide-ranging ethnographic-styled study of current Israeli political-cultural processes, dilemmas, and paradoxes which provides detailed coverage of ongoing divisive conflicts, focusing on key topics such as shifting ethnic-group identities. Aimed at scholars and students of Israeli history and society, as well as the wider interested public.
348pp
Jan. 2025 9781009382366 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009382311
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The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo A History
Paul M. Love, Jr | Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
Paul M. Love, Jr. explores the history of the minority Ibadi Muslim community in Cairo from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Using a unique range of sources, Love both illuminates the events of Egyptian history and highlights the role of the Ibadis in shaping political, religious, and commercial life in Ottoman-era Cairo.
250pp
Jun. 2025 9781009254298 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009254267
The Rise and Fall
of Turkey's Democrat Party
The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 Reuben, Silverman
Drawing extensively on Turkish-language materials, this study offers a thorough account of Turkey's Democrat Party. The first governing party to gain power through competitive elections and the first to be removed by a coup, the Democrat Party crafted a center-right political coalition that continues to define Turkey's politics today.
Cambridge Middle East Studies, 73 320pp
The Science of Music
Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond
Mohammad Sadegh, Ansari | State University of New York, Geneseo
This book offers a detailed analysis of how the science of music was a part of a larger intellectual and sociocultural context in the medieval Islamic world. It is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of science and the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization 246pp
Jan. 2025 9781009502542 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009502580
Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World
The Beginnings of Local History-Writing
Harry, Munt | University of York
An innovative exploration of the understudied phenomenon of local history-writing in the early Islamic World.
Harry Munt situates local history-writing within its historical contexts, examining how Muslim scholars used this genre to think about their local community's place within a larger, more universal Muslim community.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
320pp
Feb. 2026 9781009648264 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009648318
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When Democracy Died
The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne Hans-Lukas, Kieser | Universität Zürich
In an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference concluded more than ten years of war and genocide in the late Ottoman Empire and explores the Treaty of Lausanne's resounding impact in the Middle East. Kieser shows how the Treaty excluded minority groups and shaped modern states.
342pp
Mar. 2025 9781009014267 PaperbackGBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009029957
South Asian history
A History of India's Green Revolution
Reign of Technocracy
Prakash, Kumar | Pennsylvania State University India's 'green revolution' embraced more productive agricultural practices and high yielding variety seeds, bringing the country out of food scarcity. Although lauded as a success of the Cold War fight against hunger, Prakash Kumar argues this was part of a much broader, contested history of agrarian modernization in India.
Oct. 2025 9781009604451 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009604482
254pp
Aug. 2025 9781009646581 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009646598
An Empire of Images
Visual Culture and the British in India, 1688–1815
Apurba, Chatterjee | University of Reading
This book demonstrates eighteenthcentury Britons' imperial self-image and political culture of legitimation in South Asia through art by the British and Indians. By making the case for a colonial visual archive, intersecting with EIC and private written archives, we can perceive the outlines of the expansive domination that emerged later.
380pp
Sep. 2025 9781009567213 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009567190
Assembling India's Constitution
A New Democratic History
Rohit, De | Yale University, Connecticut
In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the nation's people. They argue that the deep sense of ownership diverse publics assumed over the constitution became pivotal to the formation, legitimacy and endurance of India's democracy.
371pp
Colonial Caregivers
Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India
Satya Shikha, Chakraborty | The College of New Jersey
By uncovering the historical lives and voices of Indian ayahs (nannies), Colonial Caregivers challenges British sentimentalization of the colonial home. The book provides valuable insights on colonial race, caste, gender, and class relations and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of South Asia and the British Empire.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
318pp
Sep. 2025 9781009330053 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009330046
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Bankrolling Empire
Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India
Sudev, Sheth | University of Pennsylvania Sudev Sheth presents the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the rise of its successor states as experienced directly by family entrepreneurs. Using hitherto untapped sources in multiple languages, he reveals how local persons and elites participated in the financial crisis that shook Indian society to its very foundations.
378pp
Feb. 2025 9781009330220 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009330213
Citizens to Traitors
Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971–1974
Ilyas, Chattha | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
This book recovers the hitherto untold story of the way in which citizens were made and unmade after the Bangladesh War by studying the predicament of Bengali military and civil personnel interned in West Pakistan as a bargaining chip to facilitate the return of Pakistani prisoners of war held by India.
Muslim South Asia
330pp
Sep. 2025 9781009467148 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009467131
Contested Childhoods
Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala
Divya, Kannan | Shiv Nadar University, India
Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India.
338pp
Jan. 2025 9781009343343 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009343350
Democracy's Dhamma
Buddhism in the Making of Modern India, c. 1890–1956
Gitanjali, Surendran | O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Democracy's Dhamma is a genealogy of the engagement with Buddhism in modern India illustrating how Buddhist activists experimented through Buddhist ideas and heritage with socialism, liberalism and democracy.
South Asian Intellectual History
368pp
Sep. 2025 9781009568241 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009568258
Jan. 2025 9781009424950 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009424974
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Empires of Complaints
Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793
Robert, Travers | Cornell University, New York Robert Travers explores the Mughal and Persianate context for colonial stateformation in eighteenth century Bengal. By examining the interactions between colonial authorities and Indian petitioners, he shows how the British reinterpreted and reconstituted Mughal law to suit their new Indian empire.
298pp
May 2025 9781009125697 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009127882
NEW IN PAPERBACK Ethical Empire?
India Reformism and the Critique of Colonial Misgovernment Zak, Leonard
This interdisciplinary work, which traces the formation of global reformist networks and reconceptualizes anticolonial critique, will appeal to students of history and political science.
304pp
Oct. 2025 9781009650441 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009650489
May 2025 9781009321082 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009321044
Fighting the Fever
Kala-azar in Eastern India, 1870s–1940s
Achintya Kumar, Dutta | The University of Burdwan
The book investigates certain obscure but important aspects of the social history of disease and medicine in colonial eastern India against the backdrop of the outbreak of a lethal disease called kala-azar, or black fever.
414pp
Apr. 2025 9781009568203 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009568180
Film City Urbanism in India
Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City,1890-2000
C. Yamini, Krishna | FLAME University, India
The book is about the reciprocal relationship between cinema and the city as two institutions which co-constitute each other.
250pp
Sep. 2025 9781009583824 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009583831
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Hajj across Empires
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
Rishad, Choudhury | Oberlin College, Ohio
In the Malay World
A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community
Gazi, Mizanur Rahman | BRAC University
Reconstructs the history of Bengali migration and their transnational community and addresses the lacuna between Bengali historical migration and their current migration to Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. The book discusses the connectivity between Bengal and Malaya, the governance of Bengali migration, and their space-making in multifaceted ways.
Global South Asians
318pp
Jan. 2025 9781009446099 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009446044
India in the Interim
The 1947–1951 Government
Rakesh, Ankit | Loughborough University, United Kingdom
This archival history of an interim government revisits the time from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is an episodic narrative of its work. It traces this time of transitional governance, and spotlights its principals, problems, and policies in a bird'seye view.
266pp
Jan. 2025 9781009525268 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009525305
Itinerant Belonging
Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
Asian Connections
376pp 11 b/w illus. 3 maps
Jul. 2025 9781009253666 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009253673
Imagining Quit India
War, Politics and the Making of a Mass Movement, Bengal 1940–45
Anwesha, Roy | University of Sheffield
The book explores an untold story of the Second World War – just how revolutionary and emotional the experience of the War was in eastern India, and how, in the midst of this global conflict, far from being a confident leader, the movement highlighted British imperial anxieties of a post-war political order. 290pp
Ketaki, Pant | University of Southern California Along the coast of Gujarat, nineteenthcentury merchant houses or havelis still stand in historic port cities. In this ambitious, multifaceted work, Ketaki Pant uses these old spaces as a lens through which to view not only the vibrant stories of their occupants, but the complex entanglements of Indian Ocean capitalism. Cambridge Oceanic Histories
255pp
Apr. 2025 9781009601603 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009601597
Leaving Legacies
The Individual in Early Modern South Asia
Shayan, Rajani | Michigan State University
This book describes a distinctive practice and ethics of individuality through a close examination of epigraphy, architecture, and manuscripts. It shows that a concern for the individual was instrumental to the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order during Mughal rule and after.
308pp
Jan. 2025 9781009509510 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009509527
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Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940
Somak, Biswas | University of Cambridge
Analyses the phenomenon of western Indophilia, its ideological and affective composition, and its political implications in late-colonial British India. Argues that Indophile deployments around transnational projects like abolishing indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anticolonial, were not necessarily emancipatory.
Global South Asians
310pp
Feb. 2025 9781009608800 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009337960
Provincial Metropolis
Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India
David, Boyk | Northwestern University
This book examines the city of Patna, in the north Indian region of Bihar, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once a thriving urban center, Patna had become provincial. Nonetheless, its intellectual and cultural life remained vigorous, not despite its provinciality but because of it.
240pp
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The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration
Sebastian Raj, Pender | University of Oxford
In this innovative and engaging new study, Sebastian Raj Pender utilises extensive archival research from India and Britain to trace the ways in which commemorative practices have responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of the 1857 Indian uprising from the perspective of the present.
270pp
Sep. 2025 9781009510837 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009510844
Resilient Communities
Household, State, and Ecology in Southern Panjab, c.1750–1900
Girija, Joshi | Centre d'Études Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes
Offers a historical perspective on the relationship between community, subsistence, and governance in rural north-western India. Studies the enduring contingency of kinship and caste bonds amongst Panjabi agropastoral populations by highlighting their role in the politics of resource control.
343pp
Feb. 2025 9781009055505 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009052276
The
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Economic History of Modern South Asia
Latika, Chaudhary | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
In recent decades South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed. This major new reference history incorporates recent scholarship, addresses contemporary challenges, and shifts our focus from broad generalizations to more nuanced studies emphasizing local factors, inequality and diversity.
1048pp
Sep. 2025 9781009512510 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009512527
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Round Table Conference
Geographies
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London
Stephen, Legg | University of Nottingham
Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future. This geographical analysis explores the imaginations, infrastructures, urban spaces and contestations of the meeting.
416pp
Jan.2026 9781108833035 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781108966788
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The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
Joshua, Ehrlich | University of Macau
In this original and deeply researched account, Ehrlich transforms the histories of the East India Company and British India. He reveals that, for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pursuit of knowledge played a fundamental role in the Company's politics and ideology.
256pp
Apr. 2025 9781009573320 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009215329
Apr. 2025 9781009367981 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009367967
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The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920
Kyle, Jackson | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver
Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author, Kyle Jackson presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from Indigenous perspectives of encounters with the British Empire in the early twentieth century.
288pp
May 2025 9781009267328 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009267359
The Nehru Years
An International History of Indian Non-Alignment
Swapna, Kona Nayudu | Yale-NUS College, Singapore
A groundbreaking study of India's nonaligned position in the Cold War, its internationalist ambitions, mediatory diplomacy, and peacekeeping during the Nehru period. Swapna Kona Nayudu's deep archival work examines India's diplomatic role in four major international crises, exploring the contested yet central nature of Indian non-alignment.
238pp
Apr. 2025 9781009579087 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009579063
The Story of a Sikh Museum
Heritage, Politics, Popular Culture
Kanika, Singh | Ashoka University, India
The Story of a Sikh Museum examines the Bhai Mati Das Museum at Sisganj Gurdwara in Old Delhi, one of the most significant Sikh shrines in India.
275pp
Sep. 2025 9781009550413 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009550406
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The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa Gender and Culture in EighteenthCentury Rajasthan
Heidi Rika Maria, Pauwels | University of Washington
Visions of Greater India
Transimperial Knowledge and AntiColonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960 Yorim, Spoelder | Freie Universität Berlin Brings together three stories usually told apart: the archaeological recovery of a 'lost' Buddhist past on the Silk Roads, projects of colonial archaeology in Southeast Asia and the history of interwar British India. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and May also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
346pp
May 2025 9781009403191 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009403177
Voices from Calcutta
Indian Indenture in the Age of Abolition
Purba, Hossain | University of York
At the intersection of histories of labour, migration, empire and South Asia, this book shows how spokesmen from Calcutta – the capital of British India – challenged colonial labour practices, shaping and reshaping the lives of 19th-century Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean plantations.
Global South Asians
266pp
Through literary and art-historical analysis, Pauwels brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century. Reconstructing how Banī-ṭhanī came to be acclaimed as 'India's Mona Lisa,' she conveys new insights in the history of Hindi literature, devotion, palace women, and social mobility of the enslaved.
296pp
May 2025 9781009201681 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009201698
Unruly Monuments
Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture Aditi, Chandra | University of California, Merced Examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras.
418pp
Jul. 2025 9781009573009 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009572989
Women and Colonial Law
A Feminist Social History
Second edition
Janaki, Nair | Jawaharlal Nehru University
This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women's legal status up to the present day. It introduces students and general readers to the critical events, and legal decisions that determined the place of women under law.
Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
310pp
Apr. 2025 9781009597005 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009596992
South-East Asian history
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Colonizing Animals
Jonathan, Saha | Durham University
Jul. 2025 9781009345170 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009345187
Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. This pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 explores how animals were transformed by colonial subjugation and introduces readers to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past.
250pp
May 2025 9781108964630 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108990240
