Academic New Books Catalogue July-September 2025

ACADEMIC NEW BOOKS

July-September 2025

BLOOMSBURY OPEN COLLECTIONS?

A new open access model for books

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THE BOOKS

Following the success of our 2024-25 expansion, in 2025-26 we will continue to offer three collections of 20 titles each in:

• African Studies & International Development

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We want students to make the most of their time at university; to discover opportunities, succeed in their studies – and to enjoy the journey. Our books and resources support students in developing essential skills and empower them to achieve their goals.

FAVOURITES

For time-pushed students, the Pocket Study Skills pack a lot of advice into a little book. Each guide focuses on a single crucial aspect of study, providing step-by-step guidance, handy tips and clear advice.

Explore the full series at www.bloomsbury.com/pocketstudyskills

Reflective Writing for Nursing, Health and Social Work

Elizabeth Tanguay, Swansea University, UK, Peter Hanratty, Swansea University, UK & Ben Martin, Swansea University, UK

This popular, fully revised book takes students step-by-step through the process of planning and writing a reflective assignment, beginning with crucial guidance on planning and structure. It introduces different reflective frameworks and shows readers how to structure a piece of writing according to a particular framework. Chapters contain a wealth of activities and exercises which will help build students' skills and confidence.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 184 pages

PB 9781350507692 £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350507715 £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350507708 £15.29 / $15.29

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

All The Work You Shouldn't Do

How to Succeed at University

Ruby Cline, University of Cambridge, UK

In All the Work You Shouldn’t Do, you’ll learn how to get the most from your degree and make time for the things you want to pursue without letting stress take over. The book covers:

-Working out your goals and priorities

-How to focus your efforts on the things that really matter

-Planning your work

-Reading and writing more efficiently

-The importance of looking after your body and brain

Short and succinct, this book gives students the tools they need to work smart and achieve their own goals.

UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350470576 £13.99 / $18.95

ePub 9781350499461 £12.59 / $17.54

Bloomsbury Academic

Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution

Empire and Embattled Statehood

Etana H. Dinka, James Madison University, USA

Despite its massive significance for the Horn of Africa and for other contemporary global revolutions, the histories of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution are surprisingly antiquated and oversimplified. Now, fifty years after the revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who’swho of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. This five-part collection offers new insights not only into the revolution itself, but also into issues such as the Red Terror, the EPRDF revolution of 1991, and Abiy Ahmed’s repositioning of Ethiopia after 2018.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350434974

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350434981 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350434998 • £76.50 / $76.50

Zed Books

Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa

Aloysius Ngefac

Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Divine Che Neba & Michael T. Ndemanu

This edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, all-African team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial pedagogies, literatures, and approaches to indigenous African languages. Contributors explore the role of AI technologies such as ChatGPT for decolonial research and teaching; the transformative potential of African drama and literature, written and oral; the importance of values-based civic education; the importance of decolonizing continuous professional development for teachers; and the role of culturally sensitive curriculum around EFL.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 208 pages

HB 9781350509528 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350509559 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350509542 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books

African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, University of Regensburg, Germany

This edited volume brings together a team of African linguists to explore how English and its indigenized varieties, alongside other ex-colonial languages and their indigenized varieties, interact with the holistic transformation of the continent. Contributors explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity; the indiginization of medical terminology in HIV/AIDS consultations; the interactions of Romance languages with local English varieties; and resonances between decolonizing multilingualisms in Singapore and multilingualisms in Africa.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9781350510074 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350510104 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350510098 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books

Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Edited by Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni, David Simo, Esaïe Djomo, Godfrey Tangwa & Aloysius Ngefac

This edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, primarily African team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors explore new African development frameworks in the context of Covid-19, escalating global wars, and global warming; the ongoing impact of collective memory and trauma on development progress, interactions between Indigenous knowledge and Western innovations; and the potential of arts, handicrafts, and even postmodern Afropop.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9781350513693 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350513716 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350513709 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books

African Studies Now Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts

Edited by Eric Essono Tsimi, City University of New York, USA, Andrea Behrends, University of Bayreuth, Germany & Sabelo Ndlovu-Gathseni, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350466067 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350466074 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350466081 £76.50 / $76.50

Zed Books

The End of Supplication

Yannick Marshall, Knox College, USA

Yannick Marshall contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy. In our contemporary context of openly white-supremacist politics, the figure of the "supplicant negro" must be definitively destroyed in order to make way for more effective resistance to anti-Black racism.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350375093 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350375109 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350375116 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350375123 • £19.79 / $19.79

Zed Books

Digital Africa

Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK

Digital Surveillance in Africa Power, Agency, and Rights

Edited by Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK & Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury’s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and practitioners map the development, procurement and (mis)use of the ever-expanding suite of digital surveillance and policing technologies across the continent. Drawing on the empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated research of the African Digital Rights Network, this book examines how public and private actors in Africa use spyware, mobile phone extraction, biometric and face recognition systems, and other technologies for smart-city and other social, and social-control, applications. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK March 2025 US March 2025 240 pages

PB 9781350422070 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350422087 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350422094 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350422100 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Digital Africa • Zed Books

Speaking of Trust

Religion and Mutual Aid in Southwest Kenya

Teodor Zidaru, London School of Economics, UK

This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging forms of formal and informal finance and welfare, with longer-running religious structures and concerns.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350301115 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350301108 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350301092 • £0.00 / $0.00

Zed Books

Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan

An Ecological Approach for Political Cooperation

Daniel Akech Thiong, Independent Scholar Focussing on the migrations of the Dinka people of South Sudan's Jonglei state into the Equatoria region, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9781350439955 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350439948 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350439962 • £76.50 / $76.50

Zed Books

Internet Shutdowns in Africa

Technology,

Rights and Power

Edited by Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK & Felicia Anthonio, Access Now

Authored entirely by African researchers, this open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power, all of which produces actionable recommendations.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350464292 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350464285 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350464308 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350464315 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Digital Africa Zed Books

The Police, the State and the Congo Cop

Michel Thill

Following officers from the classroom to the station and the street, Michel Thill offers five readable, narrative-driven chapters, all rich with historical detail and thick description, that show how the police force in the DRC struggles to coordinate practice with training, coercion with persuasion and reconciliation, and the need to make ends meet with the duty to serve the public. His findings offer new ways of understanding relations between police reform and the state anywhere in the world, all while providing practical guidance for practitioners and policymakers.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350468788 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350468801 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350468795 • £76.50 / $76.50

Zed Books

World All Languages (except French/Lingala/Swahili)

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda

Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control

Edited by Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni’s increasingly autocratic rule?

UK August 2025 US August 2025 320 pages

PB 9781350323544 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350323537

ePub 9781350323551 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350323568 • £81.00 / $81.00

Zed Books

Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On

The Blended

Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism

Kofi Anani, Anani – Afele (A&A) Network

In this open access book, Kofi Anani offers an in-depth study of the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions. Anani shows how incorporating this principle into African leadership and governance thinking can encourage more voluntary public participation in politics, guarantee transparency and accountability in decision-making, particularly when it comes to the use of public resources, and ultimately encourage more public confidence in leaders.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350379718 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350379671

ePub 9781350379688 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350379695 • £00.00 / $00.00

Zed Books

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In May 2024, Bloomsbury acquired Rowman & Littlefield, a leading publisher for general readers, scholarly researchers, professionals, students and policy makers.

We believe the Bloomsbury and Rowman & Littlefield programmes are stronger together, under the Bloomsbury name. We remain committed to delivering works of excellence and originality in non-fiction and scholarship.

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Debates in Archaeology

Richard

Hodges,

The American University of Rome, Italy

The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

A Viking Gift?

Richard Hodges, The American University of Rome, Italy.

Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia – London, Ipswich, Southampton and York – and the impact of the Danish Conquest in AD 866 on making these towns. Hodges reviews the influence of the Scandinavian model on Anglo-Saxon England in line with new archaeological and numismatic evidence, tracing the importance of the Viking conquerors to the formation of urban market-places in England. By asking questions about the political and economic situation of the 7th- to 10th-centuries, archaeology challenges key chapters in the canonical history of not just English urbanism but also the making of the European economy.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 26 bw illus

PB 9781350523180 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350523197 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350523210 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350523203 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Debates in Archaeology • Bloomsbury Academic

The Craft of Antler, Bone, Horn and Ivory Working in the Early Medieval Emporia c. AD 600-850

Ian Riddler, Independent Material Culture Specialist, UK & Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski, Independent Material Culture Specialist, UK

This volume explores one of the most conspicuous crafts to emerge in the pre-Viking trading settlements of northern Europe: the working of antler, bone, horn and ivory. Through detailed analysis of a rich array of surviving evidence across sites and regions, it examines how and to what degree its development, practice and cultural impact during the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties influenced its later proliferation in significant Viking sites of the 9th and 10th centuries.

UK November 2025 US November 2025 240 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781350292611 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350292642 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350292635 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham

Nicky Nielsen, University of Manchester, UK

Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by Professor Steven Snape), this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal military site, but also in Ramesside Egypt more broadly. Constructed during the reign of Ramesses II, the fortified settlement was situated 300 kilometres west of Alexandria and represents the furthest western outpost of the Egyptian New Kingdom empire. Excavations in Area K of the fortress have uncovered extensive evidence for the living arrangements, minor industries, food production and daily life of the fort’s inhabitants.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 238 pages • 36 bw illus, 4 colour illus

PB 9781350327375 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350327368

ePub 9781350327399 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350327382 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Egyptology • Bloomsbury Academic

The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE

Edited by Emma Gooch, University of Newcastle, UK & Jerome Ruddick, University of Newcastle, UK

Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating ancient identities. Using archaeological, iconographic and textual material as the basis of each exploration, the contributors seek to understand the intersectional nature of what it meant to be an individual or group within a recognised social identity in ancient Greece. Among other conclusions, the chapters investigate the experiences of identity – what the experience of having a particular identity was like, as far as we can ascertain – in ancient Greece, as represented by the archaeological material record.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 72 bw illus

HB 9781350442818 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350442832 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350442825 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Debates in Archaeology • Bloomsbury Academic

Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

Later Historical Archaeologies of Material Excess and Scarcity

Edited by Gavin Lucas, University of Iceland, Iceland, Vivi Lena Andersen, Independent Scholar, Denmark, Ágústa Edwald Maxwell, University of Iceland, Iceland, Jonas Moníe-Nordin, Independent Scholar, Sweden & Timo Ylimaunu, University of Oulu, Finland

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianism.

The result is an original study of a wealth of material culture that tells us how extensive this inequality actually was and the different ways it appeared in various societies.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Iceland.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 256 pages 51 bw illus

HB 9781350455832 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350455856 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350455849 • £00.00 / $00.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation

Meng Xia, University of New South Wales, Australia

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others. Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350436428 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350436435

ePdf 9781350436442

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $76.50

The Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan Development, Governance and the Rule of Law

Naveed Ahmed, Washington University, St Louis, USA

In this book, Naveed Ahmed examines the impact of International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan. The book explores how these institutions have been hindered in achieving social justice as a result of being caught between weak local governance structures and the competing interests of other powers, including Europe and the USA. Ahmed goes on to demonstrate how the ethos and instruments of rule of law and good governance can counter the internal factors that have aggravated conditions of poverty and social injustice in Pakistan.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350295339 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350295346 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350295353 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia

Edited by Celia Lam, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China & Jackie Raphael-Luu, University of the Arts, London, UK

From Bollywood to K-Pop, from Crazy Rich Asians to YouTube stars and Boys’ Love media, this book brings together leading scholars to explore “bromance” in celebrity culture across Asia. Celebrity Bromance and Comradery in Asia demonstrates how celebrity bromances are used as global promotional tools in different national and transnational contexts, including China, Thailand, India and beyond. Across chapters written by leading international scholars, the book demonstrates how a “comradery capital” develops as Asian bromances become not just a promotional tool but commodities in their own right in contemporary celebrity culture.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780755655021 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755655045 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755655014 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

China in Iraq after the War From Underdog to Unassailable

Shirzad Azad

In this in-depth and wide-ranging study, Shirzad Azad explores the changing relationship between post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and the People’s Republic of China. China in Iraq After the War charts the deepening relationship between the two countries since the 2003 American-led invasion, that has seen China become the biggest international stakeholder in Iraq. The book uncovers the scope of China’s and Iraq’s collaboration in a number of sectors, including military, economic, technological and cultural and considers the motivating forces behind this unlikely relationship.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 208 pages

HB 9781350542464 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350542488 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350542495 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Disney

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy

Since its founding in 1923, the Walt Disney Company has become an American institution and one of the most successful businesses in history. This book chronicles Walt Disney's early years and the evolution of the Walt Disney Company from animation studio to entertainment powerhouse. It also explores how Disney changed the landscape of animation and movie making forever. An unbiased look at the controversies that have surrounded Disney over the years will help readers better understand these contentious issues and how the company has responded.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9798765138977 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440876011

ePub 9798216075172 • £21.55 / $26.95

ePdf 9781440876028 £21.55 / $21.55

Series: Corporations That Changed the World Bloomsbury Academic World English

On the Job

An Encyclopedia of Unique Occupations around the World

Margo DeMello, Carroll College, USA

This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India. Approximately 100 entries define the jobs and detail their historical, social, and cultural significance while also examining where the job is located, how it came to be, how people get into the position, and what the economic and future outlook is for that job.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 328 pages • 37 bw illus

PB 9798216195016 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440863509

ePub 9798216124757 • £77.43 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440863516 • £77.43 / $77.43

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern. Ahuvia Kahane sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350278257 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780715636770 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781472504074 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781472504081 • £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Women Re-Creating Classics

Contemporary Voices

Edited by Emily Hauser, University of Exeter, UK & Helena Taylor, University of Exeter, UK

In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women’s retellings and recreations of ancient myths and texts that has put women’s re-creations of Classics centre-stage. Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of creative and scholarly voices, this volume asks why classical creative retellings by women are so popular now—and considers what creativity can do to foster new ways of thinking and writing about Classics, thus blurring the boundary between the creative and the critical. Contributors engage with debates on how to make Classics more accessible through the medium of creative works, so that it is not just a discipline for the select few.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 336 pages • 4 bw illus.

PB 9781350445086 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350445079 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350445093 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350445062 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Kathleen Raine Classics and Consciousness

Jenny Messenger, Independent Scholar, UK

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, this book is the first study of her engagement with classical antiquity. Raine’s interpretation of the classical past not only informed her literary work, but also gave her a compelling perspective, which located consciousness as the basis of reality. This way of seeing the world, traceable from antiquity to the present day via the ‘perennial philosophy’, claimed little distinction between inner self and outer world, and stressed the interconnectedness of all beings.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781350260542 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350260566 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350260559 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Women Creating Classics A Retrospective

Edited by Emily Hauser, University of Exeter, UK & Helena Taylor, University of Exeter, UK

From Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker’s The Voyage Home (2024), there has been a huge rise in women’s rewritings of ancient myths and texts in recent years. Women writers are looking back to the classical past more than ever before, and there is serious public interest in women’s reworkings of the ancient world. But at the same time, this is nothing new: women have been responding to the worlds of Greece and Rome for hundreds of years, across many different time periods, and multiple cultures and languages.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus.

PB 9781350444362 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350444379 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350444393 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350444386 £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

Alley Marie Jordan, Independent Scholar, UK

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented knowledge, power and art. Alley Marie Jordan studies the architectural and landscape spaces of Jefferson’s classical taste, which include the villas of Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as the University of Virginia.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages • 9 b&w illus

HB 9781350428508 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350428522 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350428515 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception • Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Formalisms

Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

Edited by Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA & Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy—both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition—the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350377479 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350377431

ePub 9781350377455 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350377448 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Phryne A Life in Fragments

Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg, Canada

How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol of ancient Greek culture? This book pieces together the story of the notorious fourth-century Athenian sex worker, Phryne. It considers her early life and her development into a cultural figure, whose influence and legacy have lasted from her own lifetime to the present day. It also investigates her infamous nude courtroom appearance, her influence on one of the most well-known statues from antiquity and her connection to celebrated figures from Alexander the Great to the artist Apelles.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 208 pages 18 bw illus

PB 9781350371910 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350371873

ePub 9781350371897 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350371880 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Hellenistic Literature and Culture

Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens

Edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University, USA, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, University of Virginia, USA & Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK

In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume demonstrates the versatility of this literature and examines its multiple cultural affiliations.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 410 pages • 21 colour illus

PB 9781350288119 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350286016

ePub 9781350286030 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781350286023 • £90.00 / $90.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Kate Cook, University of St Andrews, UK

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy. Both concepts are a central part of the discourse surrounding the identity of male heroic figures in tragedy, and thus are essential for understanding a range of tragedies in their literary and social contexts. In the tragic genre, the destructive or dangerous aspects of the process of kleos (glory) are explored, and the distribution of praise and blame becomes a way of destabilising identity and conflict between individuals in democratic Athens.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350410534 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350410497

ePub 9781350410510 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350410503 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Aristophanes: Cavalry

Robert Tordoff, York University, Canada

A student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into power relations between slaves and slaveholders and the upper and lower classes in classical Athens, and its political and social themes resonate with a modern audience now more than ever before.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350065680 • £22.99 / $30.95

Previously published in HB 9781350065673

ePub 9781350065697 £63.00 / $86.39

ePdf 9781350065703 £63.00 / $63.00

Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions Bloomsbury Academic

Jokes in Greek Comedy

From Puns to Poetics

Naomi Scott, University of Bristol, UK

In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever ‘just a joke’. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in fact a site of poetic experimentation whose creative force expressly rivals that of serious literature.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781350248496 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350248489

ePub 9781350248519 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350248502 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

Ancient and Early Modern Perspectives

Edited by Bobby Xinyue, King's College London, UK

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350257269 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350257221

ePub 9781350257245 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350257238 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Roman Mourner Funeral Rites, Gender and the Body

Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK

To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well as investigating the social, cultural and ritual significance of mourning. It brings together varied evidence, ranging from literature and art to epigraphy, which helps to illustrate the rituals of mourning. Valerie M. Hope addresses fundamental questions about how mourning was expressed, displayed and performed, and in turn what mourning can reveal about Roman society.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 304 pages 20 bw illus

HB 9781350320796 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350320819 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350320802 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Poems of Optatian

Puzzling out the Past in the Time of Constantine the Great Linda Jones Hall, St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian’s work during this period. Optatian was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor’s ascent to power in Rome in 312 AD. Hoping to receive pardon, Optatian sent a gift of probably twenty design poems to Constantine around the time of the ruler’s twentieth anniversary (325/326 AD).

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 23 bw illus

PB 9781350374416 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350374379

ePub 9781350374393 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350374386 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

Edited by Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK, Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK, William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria & Bobby Xinyue, King's College London, UK

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 344 pages • 1 bw illus

PB 9781350379459 • £29.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350379442

ePub 9781350379473 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350379466 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World

Studies in Honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle

Edited by Jeremy Armstrong, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. & David Rosenbloom, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of coined money – typically with unintended consequences.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9781350283800 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350283763

ePub 9781350283787 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350283770 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Reading and Writing for Change Theories and Tools for Confronting Power

Amelia Walker, University of South Australia, Australia

This book asks how writers and readers can be active agents in fighting social injustices. With many writers oblivious to how their writing upholds the problems they seek to undo, Reading and Writing for Change helps writers identify connections between creative writing and power and enables them to produce works that envision change. Exploring how power operates in, through and around the form, structure, narrative order, grammar, style, and figurative language of stories, it offers strategies for analyzing texts that draw on theories from Indigenous, cultural and creative writing studies.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350450400 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350450394 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350450424 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350450417 £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

Signature Pedagogies for the Playwriting Classroom

Spotlight on Teaching the Novice

Playwright

Andrew Black, University of Missouri, USA

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedagogies within playwriting instruction for ‘novice’ writers and how they may be reimagined and reinvigorated. Identifying 3 signature pedagogies that are consistently used in the classroom – the writing exercise, the use of mentor texts and the workshopping of student material, this book describes key strategies and practices used by seasoned instructors and offers new teachers starting points for developing their first lesson plans that are inclusive.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350496620 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350496651 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350496644 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice

Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy

Edited by Marshall Moore, Falmouth University, UK & Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar

The first study to explore the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, this book examines the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writers/academics. Moving away from the field's focus on pedagogy, this book brings together essays on studies and methodologies to convey the diverse definitions of creative practice and how writers' can carve out strategies for a viable writing life within and beyond the academy. Offering intelligent and actionable methods for robust writing practice from multi-national perspectives, it presents wideranging investigations, generous insight along with imaginative and transdisciplinary approaches to this under-researched area.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350291034 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350290990

ePub 9781350291010 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291003 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Police Abuse and Reform in America

Examining the Facts

James J. Nolan, West Virginia University, USA, Howard Ryan, West Virginia University, USA & Makenzie Freeman, West Virginia University, USA

This authoritative work on police abuse and violence in American society offers a one-stop primer for understanding the forces driving abusive and violent police misconduct. In addition to chronicling specific notorious and controversial examples of police violence and abuse, this work delves into the root causes of police misconduct, details the varied responsibilities and culture of law enforcement in American communities, discusses civil rights and social justice considerations, and examines the arguments for and against efforts and proposals to reform and improve police departments.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 224 pages • 23 bw

HB 9781440881343

• £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781440881350

• £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9798216182993 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic

Videotape

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. In the West, its advent deepened the trends of the age: individualism, consumerism, and the fragmentation of society. In the East, it encouraged new forms of socialization and economic exchanges, while announcing the gradual crumbling of government control over the imagination of the people. By the mid-1990s, the VHS format was displaced by the DVD, then by streaming. Yet the cultural legacy of the videotape continues to inform our relationship to technology, privacy, and to entertainment.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9798765100004 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765100028 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765100011 £11.17 / $11.17

Series: Object Lessons Bloomsbury Academic

Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things

“Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series never misses.” — The Millions

Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers Modern

Friends

Richard Wilson, Kingston University, UK

Edited by Roger Holdsworth, University of Oxford, UK, Robert Stagg, Texas A&M University, USA & David Thacker, University of Bolton, UK

This illuminating book demonstrates how in the 20th century Shakespeare and his plays were misappropriated by the far right to serve the purposes of proto-, present and future fascism. Richard Wilson’s extensive and rigorous research encompasses a wide variety of figures, from A. K. Chesterton, who was both editor of fascist newspaper Blackshirt and worked at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, to celebrated Shakespeareans such as G. Wilson Knight, to writers and theatre practitioners including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Edward Gordon Craig and Marshall McLuhan. It is a vital and timely contribution to Shakespeare scholarship.

UK

HB 9781350433854 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350433861 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350433878 • £81.00 / $81.00

The Arden Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

Edited by William Baker, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA & Brian Vickers, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

The volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice, including pieces from 1775-1939. An extensive introduction charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the 21st century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. This revised edition features a supplementary introduction by Gary Watt analyzing trends in criticism since the volume was first published in 2005, including writing that focuses on: anti-Semitism and the character of Shylock; finance, risk, insurance and usury; trial, rhetoric, equity and justice; gender, queer themes, cross-dressing, and the AntonioBassanio relationship; and race and colonialism.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 528 pages

HB 9781350398979 • £170.00 / $230.00

ePub 9781350398986 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9781350398993 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare

Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage

A 'Delightful

Proteus'

Siobhan Keenan, De Montfort University, UK

This book offers the first in-depth study of Richard Burbage’s theatrical career and his ground-breaking contribution to the development of professional theatre in Shakespearean London. Burbage is best known for becoming the leading actor in Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s players. Siobhan Keenan begins by tracing Burbage’s early life and the emergent theatrical community of which he was a part, before moving on to a series of chapters which explore his growing reputation as a player and theatre manager. Chapters also examine Burbage’s influence on Shakespeare and reflect on Burbage’s cultural legacy and impact on early modern acting traditions.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 5 bw illus

HB 9781350245969 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350245976 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350245983 • £67.50 / $67.50

The Arden Shakespeare

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities

Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USA

How can Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals? Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others. With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 288 pages

PB 9781350296466 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350296428

ePub 9781350296435 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350296442 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: Shakespeare and Social Justice • The Arden Shakespeare

Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance

Edited by Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar, USA & Chris Laoutaris, University of Birmingham, UK

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the representation of women at the intersections between portraiture, literature and drama in Renaissance Britain. Bringing together art historians, curators, heritage specialists and scholars of early modern history, drama and literature, the volume situates women both as the subjects and devisers of ‘cultures of portraiture’. The essays in this volume examine how power was negotiated through the royal icon; how self-portraiture became a means of navigating the dangerous worlds of religious and courtly factionalism; how the commissioning, collecting and curating of paintings, relics and life-writings fashioned shared testaments of faith and enabled female networks across political and pedagogical arenas; how drama staged the anxieties surrounding a threatening female agency; and how creativity wielded through narrative prose fiction, illuminated manuscripts and poetry, allowed women to co-opt and subvert prevailing visual tropes and stereotypes.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages • 16 colour, 44 bw illus

HB 9781350320703 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350320710 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350320727 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture The Arden Shakespeare

Closet Drama in Early Modern England

Theatre Without a Stage

Edited by Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, École normale Supérieure, France & Aurélie Griffin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France

Early modern closet drama was a lively period of performance which took place through private readings and performances away from the public playhouse. This volume considers the cultural and historical parameters of those performances from a textual and dramaturgical point of view. Scholars highlight the radical choices made by playwrights who were actively seeking to create a new theatre. Studying a wide array of plays from 1560 to 1670, the book interrogates the role of women writers in the development of closet drama, early modern racialisation, translation and the circulation of particular motifs across the Channel.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350455030 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350455054 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350455047 • £76.50 / $76.50

The Arden Shakespeare

Queering Early Modern Death in England

Figuration, Representation, and Matter

Edited by Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA & Christine Varnado, State University of New York Buffalo State University, USA

This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, excessive, camp and uncanny dimensions of death in early modern English literary, theatrical and material archives. The essays illuminate early modern experiences before the ascendancy of Cartesian dualism occluded alternative understandings of death. Key dramatic texts from the early modern period including The Duchess of Malfi, The Winter’s Tale, The Alchemist and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore provide provoking material with which to consider the expansiveness of death in a queer mode. The volume makes clear why readers interested in queerness and death should interest themselves in sixteenth and seventeenth century England.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350458642 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350458659 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350458666 • £72.00 / $72.00

The Arden Shakespeare

ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS

Distant Memories of the Near Future

David Head

David Head's Distant Memories of the Near Future is a play about love. And artificial intelligence. In a world-first, this hour-long piece featured a prerecorded AI character interacting with a human performer. This is science-fiction storytelling, with six overlapping narratives telling a cynical yet heartfelt story of a world 'solved' by algorithms. Exploring our relationships with technology, creativity and ourselves, it ultimately asks, are these conundrums of life ever really solvable? The original production premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023 and was nominated for an Offie Award for New Writing in the same year.

UK November 2024 • US December 2024 • 56 pages

PB 9781350547070 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350547094 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350547087 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

My Life as a Cowboy

Hugo Timbrell

Conor is a gay 17 year old lifeguard, trapped in the suffocating suburbia of Croydon. But the opportunity to prove himself to the world is finally here – through the local talent show, Croydon People’s Day. His friends Zainab and Michael aren't convinced. Will his all-singing, all-dancing Country & Western tribute act be enough to get them onside and bring it home? From Bruntwood Prize-longlisted writer Hugo Timbrell comes My Life as a Cowboy: a thrilling, joyous new comedy about friendship, glory, Shania Twain and what happens when you embrace your weird side.

UK August 2024 • US October 2024 • 72 pages

PB 9781350519206 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350519220 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350519213 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Smoke

Alexis Gregory

When Alex receives a private Instagram message from his now deceased ex-boyfriend’s account, he finds himself trailing both old leads and new in a haphazard and dangerous attempt to uncover the truth. Packed with dark humour and suspense, this rollercoaster of a piece presents a comedic thriller that homes in on how today’s modern landscape may impact our grasp on reality, uncovering a hidden world within the everyday. Smoke removes the theatrics to offer audiences an intimate conversation in Alexis Gregory’s most brutally honest and raw piece yet, investigating the blur between reality and fantasy in this posttruth era.

UK November 2024 US December 2024 72 pages

PB 9781350548206 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350548220 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350548213 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Glorious French Revolution or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done

Sam Ward

August 1792. Twenty thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI. Six months later he is guillotined: France is a Republic. July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people are guillotined, and Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over. January 2024. Child poverty levels are the highest they’ve ever been. The richest 1 per cent own half of the world’s wealth. The Glorious French Revolution is an anarchic, wild, irreverent, biased and unfair retelling of one of Europe's greatest revolutions, one of its bloodiest chapters and one of its most controversial moments in history.

UK November 2024 US December 2024 80 pages

PB 9781350551701 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350551725 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350551718 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Legends of Them

Sutara Gayle

A memory: award-winning reggae pioneer Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee – hears her radio debut from Holloway Prison. Another: she’s engulfed in the Brixton uprising sparked by the police shooting of her sister. And now she is here, a silent retreat, seeking spiritual guidance from her brother Mooji, Nanny of the Maroons, and a moment of transcendence. Powered by high-octane musical numbers, virtuoso performance and raucous comedy, The Legends of Them is a breath-taking, roof-raising chronicle of Sutara’s singular, extraordinary life – and of the legends that have guided her.

UK December 2024 US January 2025 64 pages

PB 9781350551664 £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350551688 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350551671 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Accents

Emmet Kirwan

Accents is a transformative new show about the arrival of new life, the families we try to create, the families we may never have, and the post-crash boom generation living a life delayed. Written by Emmet Kirwan, composed by Eoin French and directed by Claire O’Reilly, this play presents a powerful, poetic journey through a gentrified city.

UK January 2025 • US February 2025 • 56 pages

PB 9781350521643 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350521650 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350521667 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade.

A new edition of Oscar Wilde's legendary comedy, published to coincide with the revival at London's National Theatre, in November 2024.

UK November 2024 US January 2025 88 pages

PB 9781350551572 £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350551589 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350551596 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Other Place after Antigone

Alexander Zeldin

Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands justice for the pain she carries. Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family’s competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?

UK October 2024 • US December 2024 • 72 pages

PB 9781350539242 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350539266 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350539259 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

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The Purists

Dan McCabe

On their stoop in Queens, New York, Lamont, a legendary emcee and Mr Bugz, a hall-of-fame DJ, have been winding up Gerry, a musical lover, for as long as they can remember. But when two young women, Nancy and Val, put their rap battling skills to the test, they are forced to confront their convictions on race, sexuality and music. Struggling with secrets and their fears for the future, they realise they have more in common than they thought.

UK November 2024 • US February 2025 • 112 pages

PB 9781350533882 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350533899 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350533905

£9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

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Toto Kerblammo!

Tim Crouch

See with your Ears.

Poor Effy. Sent to live with her aunt and uncle in a block that won’t allow dogs. What’s a girl to do? She smuggles her furry friend in, of course. Keeps him under a blanket. Feeds him biscuits. Ssh Toto, quiet.

Tim Crouch’s immersive new play is a tender and powerful story about listening, friendship and finding hope in the darkest of places.

UK October 2024 • US February 2025 • 96 pages

PB 9781350531468 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350531475 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350531482 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Expendable

Emteaz Hussain

Between the 1990s and 2010s hundreds of young girls were sexually exploited in northern towns by gangs of predatory men. Two sisters grapple with the impact on their community as the men around them are embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal. Playwright Emteaz Hussain‘s Expendable spotlights the often-overlooked voices of Pakistani women, delving into the shortcomings of law enforcement, politicians, and the media.

UK November 2024 • US January 2025 • 96 pages

PB 9781350553613 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350553620 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350553637 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

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Men's Business

Franz Xaver Kroetz

Translated by Simon Stephens

A love story set in the back room of a butcher’s shop with a brutal bastard of a dog howling in the yard next door. Men’s Business is the world premiere of Tony and Olivier Award-winner Simon Stephens’ new version of Franz Xavier Kroetz’s rarely performed masterpiece Mannersache

UK February 2025 US March 2025 64 pages

PB 9781350560628 £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350560635 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350560642 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Punch

James Graham

Jacob Dunne, a teenager from Nottingham, spends his Saturday nights seeking thrills with his friends. One fateful evening, an impulsive punch leads to fatal consequences. After serving prison time, Jacob finds himself lost and directionless. Searching for answers, Joan and David – the parents of his victim James – ask to meet, sparking a profound transformation in Jacob’s life.

Based on Jacob Dunne's powerful true-life account of the justice system, Punch is a play igniting discussions everywhere, from theatres and courthouses to the House of Commons.

UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9781350553408 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350553415 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350553422 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Santi & Naz

Guleraana Mir & afshan d'souza-lodhi Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to spreading social unrest and violence. Bound by their love for each other we learn how far they will go to avoid the inevitable. Santi & Naz explores female friendship, coming of age, and coming out set against the backdrop of a country soon to be changed forever. Recipient of the Fringe Society’s Keep It Fringe Fund and Winner of the Charlie Hartill Fund 2023.

UK January 2025 • US March 2025 • 72 pages

PB 9781350562011 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350562035 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350562028 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

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Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

Translated by Rory Mullarkey

Three Sisters. Their brother, and his fiancé. The teacher, the doctor, the old woman, and the soldiers stationed nearby. A small town, in the middle of nowhere. Their world is going up in flames, one minute at a time. But can they create the change they’re longing for? A masterful study of family legacy, misdirected love and the human condition in the world premiere of a new translation by award-winning playwright and Russian speaker Rory Mullarkey.

UK February 2025 US March 2025 96 pages

PB 9781350563940 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350563957 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350563964 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

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Content

Ross Dungan

I...think I mistake correspondence for contact sometimes.

A darkly comic new play that blends multimedia, movement and live illustration, Content is the story of the unseen people who are charged with scooping up the sum total of our daily online toxic waste. Armed with a teaspoon.

UK October 2024 • US February 2025 • 96 pages

PB 9781350543218 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350543232 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350543225 • £9.89 / $9.89

Methuen Drama

World English

A Picture of Health

Sudha Bhuchar

Based on the story of the painting by Thomas Hickey showing the Three Queens of Mysore and their determination to encourage others to receive the smallpox vaccine. The play is relevant to the science, history, performing arts and PSHE curriculum and explores issues surrounding colonialism, power and politics, the role of women in society and has parallels to the covid vaccine and modern day social influencers. It is particularly suitable for students at Key Stage 4 & 5.

UK September 2024 • US November 2024 • 72 pages

PB 9781350539105 • £10.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781350539129 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350539112 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Adapted by Ross MacKay

Local lad Robbie Stevenson prefers to hide away from the world inside the pages of his favourite book, Treasure Island. But with a little bit of imagination, the book comes to life, and he is thrust aboard. For some children in Scotland like Robbie, opening their bedroom door each morning requires phenomenal amounts of bravery. In Ross MacKay's adaptation of the classic story Treasure Island, Robbie soon finds that you can’t stay hiding forever when he must learn to navigate his own course. He begins to discover that the world is full of treasure if you’re brave enough to look...

UK September 2024 • US November 2024 • 88 pages

PB 9781350525443 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350525467 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350525450 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

World English

Adapting Chekhov in the 21st Century

Seven Contemporary Plays

RashDash, Pan Pan Theatre, Bonnie Greer, Dead Centre, Anton Chekhov, Inua Ellams, Vinay Patel & Simon Stephens

Edited by Frances Babbage, University of Sheffield, UK

Rediscover Anton Chekhov's acclaimed works in radical, creative new ways with this anthology

From an ambitious one-person production, to a dance-poetryplay hybrid, to an intergalactic voyage, to even an adaption of the playwright himself, Chekhov’s work has never been so radical or his themes so realised.

UK February 2025 • US May 2025 • 400 pages

PB 9781350501225 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350501218 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350501232 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350501249 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English non-exclusive

The Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian Plays

Margherita Laera, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Italy is home to one of the most vibrant contemporary playwriting scenes in Europe, yet Italian dramatists are little known to Englishlanguage readers and audiences. This engaging, highly readable volume features new plays which stage some of the biggest shared concerns of our time through fresh perspectives.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350370456 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350370470 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350370487 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350370500 £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama

World English

Contemporary Plays from Iraq

Volume II

Jawad al-Assadi, Muhaned Al Hadi, Abdul Razaq al-Rubai, Nahedh AlRamadhani, Ali Abdel-Nabi Al-Zaidi, Faten Altaee, Atyaf Rashid & A. AlAzraki, Iraqi playwright

Edited by Jeffery P. Casey & A. Al-Azraki, Iraqi playwright

Translated by Jeffery P. Casey & A. Al-Azraki, Iraqi playwright

Eleven plays that respond to the aftermath of the American-led invasion, providing a window into Iraq's cultural and theatrical landscape during a time of profound change.

From grappling with trauma, terrorism, and alienation to portraying love, resilience, and resistance, these plays offer a vivid portrayal of post-invasion Iraq, enriched by the playwright's personal introductions.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 256 pages 5 bw illus

PB 9781350465268 £22.99 / $30.95 HB 9781350465275 £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350465282 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350465299 • £20.69 / $20.69

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama

World English

Transmedia Theatre Plays

A Contemporary Anthology

Edited by Caridad Svich

Between 2020 and 2022, theatre had to adapt and, in doing so, challenged ideas of what was possible, and what was even 'theatre'.

Gathered in this collection are pieces adapted or made for podcast theatre, livestream illusionist interactive performance, audience-uploaded hybrid performance, one-on-one online interaction, lip-synch opera-theatre, climate crisis activist manifesto film/theatre, spoken word and gaming installation art, multi-location broadcast plays, providing an accessible introduction to 'Transmedia' theatre.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350496521 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350496538 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350496545 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350496552 £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama

World English non-exclusive

Global Theatre Anthologies: Classical and Modern Plays from India

Bhasa, Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Rashid Jahan, Dharamvir Bharati, Mohan Rakesh, Datta Bhagat, K.N. Panikkar & Mahesh Dattini

Edited by Nandi Bhatia & R. N. Sandberg, Princeton University, USA

This second volume in the Global Theatre Anthology series presents the fullness of Indian theatre with plays ranging from classical Sanskrit drama through major works from the beginning to the end of the 20th Century. Among the authors are the first Asian Nobel Laureate, acclaimed political writers, and a female gynecologist who created startling drama from the women she had encountered.

UK February 2025 • US May 2025 • 360 pages

PB 9781350408432 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350408449 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350408456 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350408463 • £26.99 / $26.99

Series: Global Theatre Anthologies • Methuen Drama

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Student Editions

Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK & Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Matthew Nichols, Manchester Grammar School, UK & Sara Freeman, University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA

A Taste of Honey

Shelagh

Delaney

Edited by Hannah Simpson

Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play, written when she was only 19, brought the lives and struggles of northern, working-class people onto the stage and went on to become one of the most defining plays of the twentieth century. This Student Edition contains a commentary by Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which explores themes of gender, homosexuality, race, class, youth and the family in the play, as well as looking at its social and theatrical context, and key productions since its Theatre Workshop premiere right up to the present day.

UK August 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9781350443662 • £10.99

ePub 9781350443686 £9.89

ePdf 9781350443679 £9.89

Series: Student Editions Methuen Drama Commonwealth/UK/Open Market

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Isaiah Matthew Wooden

A revised Student Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play - the first produced on Broadway to be written by a Black woman. It contains commentary and notes by Isaiah Wooden, which consider the play's socio-historical context, major themes; structure and devices; production history; and legacy. The notes section at the back of the edition contains definitions of terminology used in the play with which students may not be familiar. Overall, this edition helps students to make sense of Hansberry's play and its politics through a contemporary lens and in line with current debates around race, gender and class.

UK July 2025 152 pages

PB 9781350470590 • £10.99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Iphigenia in Splott

Gary Owen

Edited by Lucy Jackson

This Student Edition of Gary Owen's critically celebrated play includes a commentary, which considers the rules of Greek drama and how they inform this play; its basis in the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Euripidean play Iphigenia at Aulis; the context that unites a 21st-century audience with an audience in ancient Greece; modern and ancient notions of tragedy; Owen's use of poetic verse; various modern interpretations of the Iphigenia myth in theatre and literature; marginalised voices in the play and working-class lives; the notion of female sacrifice; and key productions of the play to date plus notable staging choices.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 112 pages

PB 9781350435025 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350435049 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350435032 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Beneatha’s Place

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Edited by Oladipo Agboluaje, University of East London, UK

This Student Edition, with an introduction and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje, offers a lens on the play's relationship to Hansberry's 1959 play and Clybourne Park; unpacks its engagement with the post-independence politics in Africa and pan-Africanism; considers how other plays to have dealt with these themes; and compares responses to the US and UK productions. The edition includes original interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah and actor Cherelle Skeete, who played the character of Beneatha in the UK premiere of the play.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 120 pages

PB 9781350497726 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350497740 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350497733 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Home, I'm Darling

Laura Wade

Judy and Johnny are living the 1950s dream: linoleum flooring, starched collars, chocolate chiffon cake in the oven... and the laptop charging on the kitchen table.

Winner of the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Play, Home, I'm Darling is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Tamara Harvey.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 112 pages

• £10.99 / $14.95

PB 9781350516823

ePub 9781350516830 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350516847 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

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Sunset Baby

Dominique Morisseau

Brooklyn, New York City. Nina’s estranged father, a former Black revolutionary and political prisoner, reappears to obtain a coveted piece of her late mother’s legacy. While he dreamed of changing the world, she became everything he feared… but could she still hold the key to his redemption?

Following an acclaimed off-Broadway run, Sunset Baby is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Steve H. Broadnax III, the director of the 2024 offBroadway production of Sunset Baby.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 96 pages

PB 9781350535121 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350535138 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350535145 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

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The Moors

Jen Silverman

Backdropped by the bleak English moors, two sisters (and their dog) live a dreary existence, as they dream of forbidden love and power. So, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen arrive at their manor house, the two see a chance to claim what they've always wanted... no matter how destructive.

A macabre, queer thriller, The Moors is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Christine Scarfuto.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 112 pages

PB 9781350516861 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350516878 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350516885 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

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Louise Lecavalier

Dance, Labour, Culture

MJ Thompson, Concordia University, Canada

The first critical study of Louise Lecavalier, principal dancer with Montreal-based company La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999 and single most iconic dancer of her generation. This book looks broadly at the figure of the dancer and their contributions to dance aesthetics and cultural politics. Importantly, it focuses on the cultural work of the dancer, rather than choreographer, prioritizing the dancer's voice and shining light on the generally unseen labour of (often women) dancers in producing the historical movements of the discipline.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages 40 bw illus

HB 9781350195202 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350195219 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350195226 • £67.50 / $67.50

Methuen Drama

Pulitzer

Prize Winning

Musicals Of Thee I Sing to A Strange Loop

Kristin Stultz Pressley

Pulitzer Prize Winning Musicals takes a chronological look at the ten musicals that have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama since 1917. Looking at the inception and development of each show, this accessible study unpacks the creation, production and reception of each musical in order to draw parallels within the wider American dramatic canon.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350459106 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9781350459113 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350459144 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350459120 • £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Essential Musicals • Methuen Drama

Broadway Nation

How Immigrant, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists invented the Broadway Musical David Armstrong

A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Musical.

Broadway Nation is a valuable resource for both students and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of this beloved American art form. Readers will gain profound insights into the history and transformation of the Broadway Musical over a span of more than a century.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 480 pages • 53 bw

PB 9781350428317 • £28.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350428324 • £90.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350428331 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350428348 • £26.09 / $26.09

Methuen Drama

Jukebox Musicals

Crazy for You to MJ the Musical

Kristin Stultz Pressley

Through a chronological look at 10 case studies this book asks questions related to rising production costs through to audience appeal behind bringing well-known catalogs of music to the stage. It ponders the question: is there a shortage of original music being written for the musical genre or is there something else at play? Examining the origins, development and reception for each of these shows it offers an academic discussion of the most divisive sub-genres of the musical form.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350459489 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350459496 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350459502 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350459519 £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Essential Musicals Methuen Drama

Michael John LaChiusa A Critical Companion

Joshua Robinson, University of Southern Indiana, USA

Ideal for students of musical theatre looking for accessible contemporary analysis, this critical companion offers close readings and textual analysis of LaChiusa's work and original productions whilst effectively arguing for his contribution to “The New Musical Drama” that served as a foundation for some of the most successful musicals of recent years.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781350508774 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350508767 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350508781 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350508798 £19.79 / $19.79

Methuen Drama

The Theatre of Kander and Ebb

Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.

Through their biggest hits, Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975), Kander and Ebb have been performed on the stage more times both within and outside of the USA than any other American musical theatre writers. This is the first volume to explicitly analyse the recurrent theatrical tropes and dramaturgical forms in their musicals, offering an in-depth introduction to their oeuvre.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 20 bw

PB 9781350107090 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350107083 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350107106 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350107113 £19.79 / $19.79

Methuen Drama

Topics in Musical Theatre

Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK & Emilio Méndez

Musical Dramaturgy in Musical Theatre

Nils Grosch, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS), Austria

Musical Dramaturgy in Musical Theatre discusses the form from the perspective of its most common element: the song. Using a historical approach it surveys how the role of music within a musical theatre structure changed over time, which in turn pushed the function of the score to new dramaturgical levels.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9781350427921 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350427938 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350427945 £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

Orchestration in Musical Theatre

Paul R. Laird, University of Kansas, USA & Elizabeth Sallinger, University of Connecticut, USA

Provides a concise modern history of orchestration in musical theatre, including in-depth case studies which underscore how the process has evolved with the trends. Featuring case studies from shows such as Hair, The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Wicked, and Hamilton, this accessible and engaging volume in the Topics in Musical Theatre series gives students the tools to identify and discuss how orchestration contributes to the drama, characterization and dramaturgy of the modern musical.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9781350451247 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350451254 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350451261 • £9.89 / $9.89

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

A Beginner’s Guide to Directing Theatre

Robert Marsden, Staffordshire University, UK

Moving from how to choose a play to the opening night, this book takes the reader, via a stepby-step approach, through various techniques, practitioners and methodologies that could be applied to text-based theatre. By not providing one single methodology, but introducing readers to various methods, the author garners an understanding of how different plays, genres, styles and movements require their own directing approaches. From here, readers will be able to know which practitioners and directing methodologies they may wish to employ and will understand where to head next. An accessible guide for first-time or relatively inexperienced directors. UK

PB

Monologues, Duologues, and Scenes for Young Performers 30+ Original Pieces

Emma-Louise Tinniswood, Drama Teacher and Practitioner

Do you struggle to find the perfect monologue for your audition or LAMDA exam? Or are you searching for road-tested scenes for your students to study and explore in class? Look no further.

Discover over 30 monologues, duologues and scenes, each accompanied by notes on character, background and setting as well as a range of drama activities and questions to ask, allowing young performers to interrogate the script and deliver their best performance.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350530287 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350530270 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350530294 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350530300 • £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Audition Speeches • Methuen Drama

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Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance

Maiya Murphy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This interdisciplinary study of devised theatre explores devising as research practice through the intersection of cognitive sciences and the arts. It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches – both theoretical and empirical – it reveals new insights into the practices of collective creation in theatre. Works created and performed by Murphy’s international movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics, are contextualized through international devising companies including Complicité, Tectonic Theater Project, SITI Company, Frantic Assembly, and Gecko Theatre.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 224 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350279452 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350281257 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350281240 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

Rhythm in Postdramatic Performance Process

Voyages into the work of Mime Omnibus, Dairakudakan and SITI Company

Sebastian Samur

Combining theory and historiography, this book presents a new means for considering rhythm in postdramatic performance by examining the creative processes of three major international companies: Mime Omnibus (Montreal, Canada), Dairakudakan (Tokyo, Japan) and SITI Company (New York, US). By focusing on recent work from these companies, we get a glimpse into each company's latest devising processes, enriched by scholarly and archival research, while personal interviews give voice to performers often absent in performance analysis and criticism. The reader gains not only a greater understanding of rhythm in contemporary performance, but also insights into the working methods of each company.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350406421 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350406445 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350406438 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Reflections on Contemporary Performance Process Methuen Drama

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Theatre and the Threshold of Death

Lectures on the Dying Arts

Kathleen M. Gough Imagining five artist-mystics as a hierophantic faculty in a mystery school, Gough creates a series of lectures that move in that liminal space between skepticism and knowledge to ask questions about subjectivity, personhood and the necessity of staying in relationship with the unknown world. These figures are: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first-known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist and mystic; Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), “the grandmother of performance art”; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first-known abstract painter.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 208 pages 15 bw illus

PB 9781350385566 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350385511

ePub 9781350385535 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350385528 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Thinking Through Theatre • Methuen Drama

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Extended Reality Performance

Scenographic Practice in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies

Edited by Néill O’Dwyer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Joanne Scott, Independent artistresearcher, Portugal & Gareth W. Young, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

This collection illuminates the immersive world of Extended Reality Performance (XRP), where avant-garde digital performance-makers push the boundaries of creativity using cuttingedge extended reality (XR) technologies. Encompassing augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, it offers a broad selection of practice-based perspectives by artists, companies and movements working in a variety of countries across the globe, including North America, Europe and the UK. Sharing invaluable insights from industry pioneers, this book delves into the birth of this revolutionary genre while also offering a fresh perspective, unravelling the creative processes that define XRP.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages 33 colour plates & 14 bw illus

HB 9781350507432 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350507449 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350507456 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Engage

Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK & Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, USA

Drag Vistas and Visions

Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 3

Edited by Mark Edward, Edge Hill University, UK & Stephen Farrier, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

The third and final in a set, this book explores what languages and critical frameworks are available to speak about and theorise contemporary and historical drag performance. The previous two volumes paved the way in developing academic work around drag, while Volume 3 further establishes it as a field of study by looking to its frameworks and foundations. In particular, it articulates ways of studying, framing and theorising drag performance in non-reductive, non-extractive ways.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 13 b&w

HB 9781350373525 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350373556 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350373549 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

World English

Traces of Dialogue

Language, Identity and Form in European

Postdramatic Theatre

Mads Thygesen

This book offers a captivating exploration of the evolving dynamics of language, dialogue and identity in modern theatre, highlighting the pioneering contributions of European playwrights

Martin Crimp, Jon Fosse, Sarah Kane, Elfriede Jelinek and Roland Schimmelpfennig. The study reveals the complex interplay between written text and theatrical performance, upending traditional perceptions of language and personal identity. It demonstrates how the work of these writers serves as a catalyst for actors, directors and designers, and encourages a deep-dive into their creative processes by interrogating their boundary-pushing works.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350518179 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350518186 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350518193 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama

World English

Spectatorship and the Real in French Contemporary Theatre

Amélie Mons

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences’ frustration to generate an encounter with the real. Focusing on directors such as Gisèle Vienne, Jan Lauwers, Rodrigo Garcia, Jan Fabre and Romeo Castellucci, it looks at how they manipulate their audiences to experience a raw perception of materiality on stage set within narratives of mystery and the uncanny. It examines how directors implement strategies on stage to trigger such experiences, while evaluating how problematic they can be. It develops critical and philosophical tools to help spectators better engage with these contemporary practices.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350300873 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350300835

ePub 9781350300842 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350300859 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre

Ian

Farnell

This book examines how the themes and images of science fiction are enabling practitioners to intervene on the most urgent social and political issues of the present moment, including military conflict, social injustice, economic inequality, migration, nationhood, anti-democratic populism, and climate collapse. The author draws upon a wide range of dramatic forms, from critically acclaimed plays by writers such as Alistair McDowall, Caryl Churchill, Dawn King, Anne Washburn and Ella Road, to devised work, site-specific performance, Shakespearean drama and physical theatre.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 10 b&w

HB 9781350394339 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350394360 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350394353 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

World English

The Art Gallery on Stage

New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting

Mariacristina Cavecchi

In the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage, we come to see how the art gallery has interacted with the contemporary British stage in the last four decades, whether as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an evermore intense game of cross-fertilization. We come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 290 pages • 25 bw illus.

PB 9781350330733 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350330702

ePub 9781350330726 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350330719 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Participation

Edited by Taiwo Afolabi, University of Regina, Canada

This book explores and critiques the concept of participation in applied theatre both theoretically and practically, through case studies drawn from a diverse range of places including Kenya, Brazil and Canada. One of the concepts central to applied theatre practice is participation, but whilst it’s mostly considered when engaging with communities in applied theatre, the term itself is under-theorized in applied theatre discourses. This book examines and unpacks participation as a tool to foster community engagement and decolonize research and knowledge production in applied theatre practice, especially regarding representation, equity and access.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350436527

£85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350436534 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350436541 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Applied Theatre Methuen Drama

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

Erika Hughes, University of Portsmouth, UK

The first critical examination of youth-focused plays and performances about the Holocaust, this volume considers works by young authors as well as pieces taken from the diaries and memoirs of children and adolescents who experienced the Holocaust. While youth-focused plays about the Holocaust have been in the repertories of top professional companies throughout the world for decades and are often performed in theatres, schools, and community centers, they are frequently neglected in studies of Holocaust theatre. Hughes fills this gap by examining plays, musicals, performances, scripts, performative museum installations, and pedagogically-focused works of applied theatre for young audiences.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350266131 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350263338

ePub 9781350263345 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350263352 • £76.50 / $76.50

Methuen Drama

Staging Beckett in London

Matthew McFrederick, University of Reading, UK

The first dedicated performance history of Samuel Beckett’s drama in London theatre culture. By tracing these histories through original findings in international archives, interviews with key practitioners and framing the performances in their historical and cultural contexts, this open access historiography offers new readings and insights into productions of Beckett’s plays in London. Matthew McFrederick re-evaluates Beckett’s role in London theatre and the importance of their influence on Beckett’s career and legacy.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Reading Library.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350365971 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350365995 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350366008 £00.00 / $00.00

Methuen Drama

Theatre with a Purpose

Amateur Drama in Britain 1919-1949

Don Watson, Independent scholar

This is the first book to offer a sustained focus on the amateur theatre movement in Britain from the end of WWI to the end of WWII, a movement that flourished and led to more people in Britain involved in drama than at any time before or since. It reveals how it was promoted as a tool for social action and improvement and evaluates its success and legacy. By surveying the contribution of key individuals, organisations and the role of festivals and competitions, this book provides a comprehensive account of this transformative movement and period.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 224 pages 6 bw illus

PB 9781350232082 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350232044

ePub 9781350232051 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350232068 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama

The (Incomplete) Lit in Colour Play List 2024

Can you recommend a further 60 plays by writers of colour that my students can explore in the classroom? Yes, we can

This question posed to us by a secondary school teacher remains at the heart of all we do in the Lit in Colour campaign.

This second (Incomplete) Play List is filled with more powerful stories, fascinating characters and varieties of lived experiences so students can discover the creativity, rewards and relevance they offer.

The Play List recommends plays for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 with every play exploring a range of themes and concerns, all of which are representative of topics and issues that affect students today. With content warnings, themes and signposts to additional teaching resources, this List helps teachers to introduce any of these plays into secondary school classrooms.

The Global Economy

David A. Dieterle

Explore what the global economy is, how it developed and how it operates today, and why certain aspects of it have become controversial. While globalization has made it possible for greater economic interaction between nations and rapid growth on a worldwide scale, many have argued that it has also helped to widen the gap between the richest and poorest nations. This resource uses real-world examples to help students better understand the complex relationship between national and international economies.

UK January 2025

• US January 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9798765138984 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440869853

ePub 9798216090328 • £21.55 / $26.95

ePdf 9781440869860 • £21.55 / $21.55

Series: Student Guides to Business and Economics • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Space, Time and Encounter in the University Classroom

Elizabeth Hauke, Imperial College, UK

This book explores space, time and encounter in an interdisciplinary higher education classroom during a typical academic year considering how they might present as protagonists of authenticity. In this ethnography, the author is both the researcher and the teacher, delivering highly interactive and student centred modules for undergraduate students at a leading science and engineering university in the UK. The book demonstrates a remarkable alignment between the design and aspirations of the teaching, the experiences within the classroom, and the conduct of the research. Revealing the inner thoughts and inspirations of the researcher, the book includes insights from philosophy, anthropology, education, neuroscience, music, architecture, photography and popular culture.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 40 bw illus

HB 9781350477179 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350477193 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350477186 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Alternative & Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Researching Children and Childhoods A Reflexive Dissertation Companion

Sarah Richards, University of Suffolk, UK & Sarah Coombs, University of Suffolk, UK

Junior researchers in the field of childhood studies are often faced with many challenges that accompany research with young participants. Methodological concepts, such as research relationships, positionality, self-disclosure and reflexivity can sometimes become subordinate to more practical and procedural concerns. Researching Children and Childhoods frames these themes not as problems but as opportunities to deepen and strengthen research discussions and analysis. Each chapter includes a variety of researcher experiences, vignette examples, and specific activities, aimed at applying the key themes represented in this volume into research dissertations.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 176 pages

PB 9781350043206 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350043213 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350043220 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350043237 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Rogue Money and the Underground Economy

An Encyclopedia of Alternative and Cryptocurrencies

Edited by John C. Edmunds

Understand the history, development, and current workings of cryptocurrencies and the underground economy, both in the USA and around the world. This accessible encyclopedia includes entries on economic history, international trade, and current controversies surrounding alternative and cryptocurrencies. Explore both the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cryptocurrencies in today's underground economy in this thought-provoking resource.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9798765138991 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440864551

ePub 9798216140443 • £21.55 / $26.95

ePdf 9781440864568 • £21.55 / $21.55

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Can Higher Education be Decolonised?

A Situated Case Study of an Elite University in the Global North Steve Eichhorn, Leon Tikly, University of Bristol, UK & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol, UK

This open access book brings together a diverse team of writers representing academic staff, students and professional services staff engaged in decolonising activities at the University of Bristol. The chapters have been co-created and this process has generated a series of critical conversations that have highlighted tensions and contradictions involved in attempting to decolonise within our university. Through this process, the team have critiqued the concepts of “our university” and “our curriculum” and they argue that understanding these tensions and contradictions is crucial if we are to understand decolonisation as an active process.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Bristol, UK.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350415126 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350415140 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350415133 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Researching with Young People

An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Benjamin Hanckel, Western Sydney University, Australia, Karenza Moore, University of Newcastle, UK, Sophie Atherton, University of Manchester, UK & Janina Suppers, University of Waikato, New Zealand

This book introduces existing research methods such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography and creative methods, as well as covering newer methods including place-based methods, digital methods, co-production and co-authorship. Each thematic chapter is followed by a shorter invited case study, which puts the specific method into practice. The resulting pedagogical material gives useful practical application of that method to the field as a guide that can be followed by both students and instructors.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9781350438064 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350438057 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350438088 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350438071 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Transformative Motherscholarship and Art

Public Pedagogies of Childhood

Edited by Georgina Badoni, New Mexico State University, USA, Shana Cinquemani, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, Elizabeth Garber, University of Arizona, USA & Marissa McClure Sweeny, Carlow University, USA

This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother. By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from the Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350435728 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350435742 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350435735 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic

The Induction of Early Childhood Educators

Retention, Needs, and Aspirations

Laura K. Doan, Thompson Rivers University, Canada

The Induction of Early Childhood Educators presents new strategies for reducing the number of educators who are leaving the field within the first five years of work. Based on new research carried out in British Columbia, Canada, with beginning early childhood educators, Laura K. Doan proposes a set of new best-practices in mentoring and inducting novice early childhood educators. The book offers a clear insight into the needs, identity, challenges, joys, frustrations, isolation, triumphs and support that all new educators face.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 174 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350187450 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350187221

ePub 9781350187245 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350187238 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Antiracism in Early Childhood Education

Theory and Practice

Edited by Victoria Bamsey, Plymouth Institute of Education, UK, Lynn J. McNair, The University of Edinburgh, UK & Nakissa Campbell, University of East London, UK

This book explores racism and antiracist practice in early childhood education (ECE), exploring how different theoretical lenses can enable students and practitioners to consider the complexity of race and racism in early childhood and education and the impact it has on young children’s lives. Written by academics and practitioners based in the USA and the UK, the chapters cover a range of Issues and theories including, race and play, decolonial approaches in ECE, Marxism, critical pedagogy, child-centered pedagogy, pro-Black pedagogies, Black feminist perspectives, critical race theory and immigration.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350441040 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350441033 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350441057 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350441026 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Language Testing and Assessment

From Theory to Practice

Aek Phakiti, University of Sydney, Australia

This book covers crucial knowledge and skill sets for developing language tests and setting assessments. Aimed at students and practitioners of applied linguistics and TESOL, it covers the theoretical and methodological framework for language test use, assessment techniques in different language skills and basic strategies for analysis of test quality. It forms an accessible gateway into the often intimidating world of language assessment and a unique opportunity for the readers to ground their knowledge of principles in language assessment research.

UK

ePdf

Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education

Navigating Ideologies, Cultures, and Identities

Kelle L. Marshall, Pepperdine University, Canada & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Canada

This book explores the role of teachers as intercultural mediators within language immersion education programs. The authors discuss research conducted on one-way French immersion in New Brunswick, Canada, an officially bilingual province and country. Their discussion is anchored on the Douglas Fir Group framework of second language acquisition, examining the implications of ideologies for language education, curriculum and intercultural instruction. The book offers a revised model of the framework.

UK September 2025

• US September 2025 • 256 pages • 10 b/w illus

HB 9781350186514 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350186538 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350186521 • £81.00 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Teachers as Curriculum Designers for Transcultural Communicative Competence

Jennifer Eddy, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

What do language instructors consider when faced with new curriculum guidelines? How can teacher leaders encourage learner autonomy and creativity through relevant, purposeful and novel pupil deliverables? How does this experience change how teachers view their profession? This book guides educators on design of MFL, heritage and community language curriculum and assessment tasks, providing a blueprint for any revision initiative, even within a prescribed national context.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350446724 £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350446731 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350446755 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350446748 • £26.09 / $26.09

Series: Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers • Bloomsbury Academic

Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines

Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies

Chris Millora, University of London, UK

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines. In its unique application of a literacy lens to the study of volunteering, the book unravels how marginalised groups, often seen as ‘thankful receivers’, (re)use texts, words and labels to (re)define their roles in shaping social change and for whose benefit. It offers powerful case studies on how global development agendas such as value-for-money, upskilling and professionalisation – through bureaucratic literacies –impact the experiences of volunteers at the grassroots level.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350345614 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350345638 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350345621 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change • Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education

Bedrettin Yazan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Language Teacher Agency

Navigating Complex and Diverse Educational Contexts

Edited by Leonardo Veliz, University of New England, Australia, Yvette Slaughter, University of Melbourne, Australia, Gary Bonar & Minh Hue Nguyen, Monash University, Australia

This open access book argues that language teacher agency is not simply down to individual choice, but is also shaped by the complex sociopolitical, and educational contexts in which language teachers work. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of New England, Australia; University of Melbourne, Australia; and Monash University, Australia.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 19 bw illus

HB 9781350454798 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350454835 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350454804 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Criticality, Agency, and Language Teacher Identities

Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Education

Edited by Hyunjin Jinna Kim, Stony Brook University, USA & Huseyin Uysal, Knox College, USA

This book interrogates language teacher identity construction, negotiation, and meaning-making in today's ever-changing global contexts. By exploring language teacher identity through a critical lens and drawing on insights from language teachers and language teacher educators, it provides a deep understanding of how identity construction unfolds and transforms teaching practices.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350513846 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350513860 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350513853 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury

Academic

Designing Learning with Multimodality in English Medium of Education (EME)

Classrooms Across Asia

Edited

by Fei Victor Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Jack Pun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

This book provides evidence-based and pedagogically-focused analyses of a variety of multimodal resources to scaffold learning in contexts of English-Medium Education (EME) in Asia. The contributing authors are active researchers in the field of EME and multimodality across the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. They explore both the latest theoretical conceptions on the design of EME, by harnessing the affordances of multimodality, as well as practical applications of multimodal pedagogies for the teaching and learning specific subjects, particularly STEM subjects. They provide examples of EME lessons with annotated notes to showcase good practice.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350358270 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350358300 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350358287 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes Expanding the Discourse

Edited

by Milada Walková, University of Leeds, UK

This edited volume brings together researchers and practitioners who work in various linguistic frameworks and EAP contexts, with contributions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, UAE, the UK, Ukraine and the USA. It extends existing linguistic research by applying theories and approaches and by investigating genres that have received little attention, such as Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, Grice’s Cooperative Principle and the article comments and university seminar genres, amongst others. The volume provides linguistic description of student and expert genres, and clear pedagogical implications.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350300347 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350300309

ePub 9781350300323 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350300316 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes • Bloomsbury Academic

Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts

Global Higher Education Perspectives

Edited by Paul Breen, University College London, UK & Michèle le Roux, University of Bath, UK

This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of EAP and ELT higher education contexts. It presents a series of vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations. Through looking at these examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these can inform practice.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350351240 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350351202

ePub 9781350351226 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350351219 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Multilingualism in Mathematics Education in Africa

Edited by Anthony A. Essien, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

This book presents research on the teaching and learning of mathematics in multilingual settings from across multiple countries in Africa, including Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The chapters explore language policies and their implementation in mathematics education; curriculum development and pedagogy issues; support and development of mathematical practices for teachers; language issues in teaching with mathematics register in indigenous languages; and directions for future research.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350369245 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350369207

ePub 9781350369221 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369214 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Multilingual and Translingual Practices in English-Medium Instruction

Perspectives from Global Higher Education Contexts

Edited by Dogan Yuksel, Kocaeli University, Turkey, Mehmet Altay, Kocaeli University, Turkey & Samantha Curle, University of Bath, UK

This volume explores context-related ways in which the multilingual EMI model and translingual practices are seen and enacted in higher education contexts across the globe. Research on this topic is not only timely but also very much needed, particularly in contexts that are relatively new to EMI. Empirical, research-based studies as well as theoretical reviews that centre around multilingual and translingual practices in partial and full (i.e. English-only) EMI settings are elaborated, with case studies from Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350373280 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350373242

ePub 9781350373266 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350373259 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Pedagogies of Discomfort in Practice and Professional Education

Edited

by Fiona Cullen, St Mary’s University

Twickenham,

UK, Mike Seal, St Mary’s University Twickenham, UK & Michael Whelan, University of the West of England, UK

This book explores the scope for discomforting pedagogies within practice and professional education contexts, in order to consider the ethical challenges associated with exploring complex and sensitive areas of practice and everyday life. Bringing together scholars, practitioners and students who draw on themes of social justice in their pedagogical practice, the contributors unpack the debates around how to reflect on, challenge and explore critical and sensitive issues in social justice education in professional contexts. Consideration is given to how decisions in relation to notions of safety and discomfort should be made, and who is empowered to make these decisions.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350452442 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350452466 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350452459 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research

Edited by Sandra Styres, University of Toronto, Canada & Ryan Neepin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

This handbook provides an overview of the field of Indigenous education and its historical context. It covers the myriad of issues that Indigenous learners and educators face, from systemic racism and inequities to inaccuracies in historical re-tellings, to low retention and graduation rates. Written by Indigenous scholars and educators from around the world the book is divided in five sections covering: theoretical perspectives; research methods and ethics; debates on Indigenous sovereignty; two-spirit and Indigiqueer experiences; and pedagogical/practical approaches to teaching.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350373860 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350373884 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350373877 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

bell hooks’ Radical Pedagogy

New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom

Edited by Megan Feifer, Berea College, USA, Maia L. Butler, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA & Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas, USA

The first sustained collection of teachings and reflections that address the full scope of bell hooks’ teaching trilogy. Organized into four parts covering: engaged pedagogies; pedagogies of hope and joy; pedagogies of the bodymindspirit; strategies of resistance and anticolonial frameworks, the book offers an accessible guide to hooks' work for students, teachers and researchers. The chapters examine how hooks’ pedagogical framework resists antiblack, imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, abled, cisheteronormative patriarchal pedagogical praxes, while simultaneously calling for a deep and sustained commitment to the work of "educat[ing] people to heal this world into what it might become".

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350441590 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350441583 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350441606 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350441613 £17.99 / $17.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Women Navigating Educational Leadership

Jana L. Carlisle, Educational Support Consulting, USA

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women’s experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The 37 women respondents possess different educational backgrounds, reflect different ethnic, racial and age groups, and inhabit varied roles and organizations—from public school districts, charter school networks, graduate schools of education, and partner/support organizations. Jana L. Carlisle responds to the underrepresentation of women in education leadership positions and the complicated and veiled routes women must take to ascend to leadership, and proposes the most applicable models, standards, strategies, and supports vital to women educational leaders.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350410022 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350409989

ePub 9781350410008 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350409996 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic

The Burden of Conscience

Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence

Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada

In The Burden Conscience, Giroux interrogates the continuing creeping of fascism into today’s politics and education and the plague of silence that prevents us from resistance, and speaking truth to power. He argues that the silence we are seeing in the face the morally reprehensible killing of children in Israel and the large-scale killing in Gaza is part of a bigger problem that haunts the modern period: the merging of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350506893 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350506909 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350506916 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350506923 • £13.49 / $13.49

Bloomsbury Academic

The Failure of CompetenceBased Education and the Demand for Bildung

Luca Moretti, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy & Alessia Marabini, Istituto Paolini, Italy

This book contrasts two prominent models of education, Competence-Based Education (CBE) which is the dominant model in most school systems of the world, and Bildung-Oriented Education (BOE), once the basis of school systems of Northern Europe. Moretti and Marabini argue that, in spite of its celebrated ‘scientificity’, CBE is incoherent and unreliable, and contributes to structural forms of oppression and injustice. They defend BOE from objections made by critical theorists, poststructuralists and postcolonial thinkers, and argue that it is a coherent and flexible model of education.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350517981 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350518001 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350517998 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophical Questions in Art Education

Why the Arts Can and Should be Taught in Schools

Dorit Barchana-Lorand, Kibbutzim College, Israel

This book examines the rationale of incorporating the arts in the school curriculum from a philosophical, rather than pedagogical, perspective. Lorand draws on the work of a broad range of philosophers including Dewey, Eisner, Greene, Hume, Plato, Kant, Langer, Read and Schiller. The book aims to show how attempts to justify art as a tool for societal and individual improvement fail in advocating art education. Ultimately she claims that the arts should be taught because children have the right to receive art education. That right stems from the unique nature of art.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350464605 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350464636 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350464612 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Freire and Feminism

Edited by Eunice Macedo, University of Porto, Portugal

This book introduces Freire’s engagement with feminism in theory and practice. It features chapters from academics and practitioners based in Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and Spain, with a focus on the themes of social transformation, autonomy, social justice, equality, freedom, practice and reflection. The contributors engage feminist theorists including bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, and Betty Friedan to draw out the value and uniqueness of Freire’s contribution to feminist thought. The topics covered in the book include Freirian feminism as it relates to film, sex education, violence against women, women’s emancipation and liberation, and women’s bodies and sport.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350473041 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350473034 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350473058 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350473065 £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Freire in Focus • Bloomsbury Academic

Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts

The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education

Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

With this book, Keneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the center of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates. The book covers the prevalence of screen addiction, the misuse of hormone therapies for transgenders youth, anxiety and trauma medication, the connection between race and drugs, and in the final chapter offers critical, democratic, and practical solutions for educators and policy makers to tackle these issues.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350439993 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350440005 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350440012 £22.49 / $31.04

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Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Politics and Education

Derek R. Ford, DePauw University, USA & Tyson E. Lewis, University of North Texas, USA

A Lacanian Foundation For Critical Pedagogy In Freire More Than Freire

Alex J. Armonda, Southern Illinois University, USA

This open access book sets out from Paulo Freire’s claim that the problem-posing model of education works as a “kind of psychoanalysis,” and deploys a Lacanian perspective to rearticulate the theoretical and practical principles of critical pedagogy. Drawing primarily on the work of Jaques Lacan as well as Frantz Fanon, Alenka Zupancic, and Slavoj Žižek, this book offers a critical introduction to psychoanalysis in the social, political, and philosophical foundations of education.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350459892 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350459915 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350459908 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic

New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education

Curiosity’s Vital Potential

Cala Coats, Arizona State University, USA

With this open access book, Cala Coats develops a theory of “vital curiosity” as a transdisciplinary educational force that activates ecological flows of connection. In the book, curiosity becomes a critical learning disposition and creative process, tracing embodied encounters through aesthetic disruptions and attractions, activating questions and durational commitments toward affirmative complexity. Drawing on new materialist and posthuman theories, the book puts forward an image of educational life, as it extends from curiosity, as a radical pedagogical practice.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 194 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350278783 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350278745

ePub 9781350278769 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350278752 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Education in an Altered World Pandemic, Crises and Young People

Vulnerable to Educational Exclusion

Edited by Michelle Proyer, University of Vienna, Austria, Wayne Veck, University of Winchester, UK, Fabio Dovigo, Aarhus University, Denmark & Elvira Seitinger, University of Vienna, Austria

This book brings together world-leading researchers and scholars in the fields of inclusive education, disability studies, refugee education and special education to examine critical and original perspectives of the meaning and consequences of educational and social exclusion. Drawing together, the contributors consider how children already vulnerable to exclusion might be supported and educated in and through times of global pandemic and crisis. They also identify broad prospects for education and inclusion in, through and beyond times of global pandemic and crisis.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 304 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350282735 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350282698

ePub 9781350282711 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350282704 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude

Julian Stern, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK

The book presents a thematic analysis of various aspects of solitude, silence and loneliness, from the ancient world to the present day, explored thematically with consideration to the links between aloneness to other social and political issues. The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting ‘out of oneself’) and enstasy (being comfortable within oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary. A variety of types and experiences of aloneness are seen through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only explored and articulated through these art forms, but is created through these art forms.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 218 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350348059 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350348011

ePub 9781350348035 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350348028 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Bloomsbury Solitude Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

Emotion, Power,

Diane M. Hoffman

and White Saviors

This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by wellmeaning foreigners misrepresent Haitian culture as deficient, often in ways that reinforce their own power to control, define and narrate Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers childhood learning and self-education alongside the ethics of personhood and indigenous spirituality that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321373 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350321335

ePub 9781350321359 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350321342 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Rurality, Diversity and Schooling Multiculturalism

in Regional Australia

Neroli Colvin, late of University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Using interview, observational and documentary data, the book examines how multiculturalism is understood, valued and lived in two public high schools in a town which has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. Drawing on critical theories of discourse, space and race, the book examines a host of anxieties in the town and its schools about recent demographic changes revealing how notions of rurality, steeped in colonial narratives about European settlement, productivity and racial superiority, continue to shape how “difference” is perceived and experienced in regional communities.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 236 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350368323 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350368286

ePub 9781350368309 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350368293 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Coloniality and the Governance of Education in West Africa

Eva Bulgrin, University of Sussex, UK

This book explores the agenda-setting and mediation of the education decentralisation policy in Benin as a postcolonial, francophone context in West Africa. As such, it throws into sharp relief how far education decentralisation, as a global governance reform, informs policy and practice. The research draws on qualitative data with more than 80 research participants, including semi-structured interviews with high and middle-ranking officials from the Education, Decentralisation and Planning Ministries as well as head teachers, teachers, parents and members of teacher unions in Benin. It contributes to wider debates on education policy, governance, and decentralisation across the Global South.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350468528 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350468542 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350468535 £81.00 / $81.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Examining Education around the World

Fred M. Shelley, University of Oklahoma, USA

This thematic encyclopedia provides an overview of education in 70 countries worldwide and links educational organization, philosophy, and practice with important global social, economic, and environmental issues facing the contemporary world. This volume is organized into 10 chapters that look at key issues in global education, including literacy, gender, religion, science and technology (STEM), arts and humanities, school violence, multicultural education and diversity, environment and sustainability, education and difference/special needs, and views on education and a country's future.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 344 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9798216194866 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440864476

ePub 9798216185154 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440864483 • £28.73 / $28.73

Series: Global Viewpoints • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Heat

Nick James, Sight & Sound Magazine, UK

This new edition of Nick James' study of Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller unpacks the pleasures and virtues of Heat - its vision of male teamwork, its meticulously orchestrated setpieces, its rhapsody to Los Angeles - alongside the ways in which the film engages with a particular kind of bombastic machismo.

In his afterword to this new edition, published to coincide with the film's 30th anniversary, Nick James reflects upon Heat's lasting impact and on Michael Mann's subsequent film-making career.

Some Like It Hot

Steven Cohan, Syracuse University, USA

Steven Cohan's study of Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959) disentangles its production history and subsequent notoriety from the film itself, reconsidering the ways in which it playfully challenged generic and gender conventions of the 1950s. Cohan provides an indepth analysis of the film's near perfect comedic structure, Wilder's aesthetic choices and self-reflexive star performances by Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus

PB 9781839027314 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839027338 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839027321 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

Hanyo (The Housemaid)

Youngmin Choe

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Soon Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless ‘housemaid’, who drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy… Kim Ko-young’s 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), is today widely regarded as one of the greatest South Korean films of all time. In this book, Youngmin Choe argues that Hanyo encapsulates the mood of social change in postwar South Korea, and explores the questions it raises about class mobility, gender oppression and women’s work.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus

PB 9781839025860 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839025877 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839025884 £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)

Jon Hughes

Jon Hughes' study of People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930), directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, addresses a film now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema in its cultural contexts, drawing on archival research to provide an in-depth account of the film's production history and lasting influence.

UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus

PB 9781839027550 • £12.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781839027567 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839027574 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

In the Mood for Love

[Huayang Nianhua]

Tony Rayns

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) tells the story of Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, neighbours in Hong Kong tenement apartments, who fall in love but never quite manage to be together. In his sharp and revealing analysis, Tony Rayns draws on his expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar-wai and his colleagues at production company Jet Tone during the film's long and complicated genesis to provide an illuminating account of the film and its production, complete with insights into Wong's idiosyncratic working methods and influences. This new edition features an afterword by the author, looking back on In the Mood for Love 25 years after its first release.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839028281 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781839028298 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839028304 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)

Catherine Russell

Catherine Russell's study of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) provides an in-depth analysis of Mikio Naruse's distinctive filmmaking, from his use of two-shots in confined spaces, unique lighting techniques, and his "invisible" and "rhythmic" editing style. Russell analyses the recurring motif of a woman’s whitestockinged feet climbing stairs, considering how this symbolizes the the social dynamics of the high-class Japanese sex industry that sustains the hostess bar culture.

UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 88 pages • 60 bw illus

PB 9781839026430 • £12.99 / $15.95

ePub 9781839026447 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781839026454 • £11.69 / $11.69

Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

The Cinematic Enfant Terrible Rule Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema

Karolina Westling, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

This is a groundbreaking study of rule breakers in French cinema, discussing the enfant terrible – young people labelled 'terrible' (awful) by the adult generation—and charts its evolution from a negative label to a sympathetically-viewed figure of anti-authoritarian resistance. It explores a range of films, including Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite (1933), François Truffaut’s Les Quatre cents coups (1959), Catherine Breillat's 36 fillette (1988), and Ladj Ly's Les Misérables (2019). Young people on screen are seen in the light of wider social transformations to clarify the interplay between individual protests and cultural currents such as existentialism, feminism and ethnic conflicts.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 21 bw illus

HB 9798765105436 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765105443 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765105450 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Displacement of (M)others in Twenty-First Century U.S. Films

Impact on Maternal Identities of ‘Other’ Subjectivities

Jessica M. Rodríguez-Colón, The School of Visual Arts, USA

This book retraces maternal philosophy by presenting an alternative genealogy, providing a concrete definition of the term (m)other and introducing a new theory of The Gaze Economy while presenting a concrete application of it for evaluating characters in films and its effect on the subjects. It discusses maternal politics and the dispossession of maternal bodies into certain spaces to understand the importance of looking into the performativity of the maternal in both, fictional and non-fictional spaces.

UK October 2025 US October 2025 256 pages 69 bw illus

HB 9798765126424 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765126462 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765126455 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Holocaust Cinema Since 2000

Depictions of the Nazi Genocide and National Identity

Gary Jenkins, Newcastle University, UK

Aiming to understand the ways in which depictions of the Nazi genocide relate to the societies that produce them, Holocaust Cinema Since 2000 combines detailed analyses of films such as The Unknown Soldier (2006), Waltz with Bashir (2008), and Inglourious Basterds (2009) with a comprehensive understanding of political events in Israel, Germany, and the US, to explore the relationship between post-2000 Holocaust Cinema and formations of national identity. Gary Jenkins demonstrates that, in their challenging of the dominant values that underpin such formations, a number of recent Holocaust films reveal a crisis in collective identity in these three countries.

UK January 2026 US January 2026 256 pages 45 bw illus

HB 9781501356254 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501356247 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501356230 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Contemporary American Survival Film

Cassice Last, University of St Andrews, UK

This book examines this survival space across film, television, video games, literature and online, asking four questions. Firstly, what does the post 2000s survival space look and behave like, how is it new or distinct? Secondly, how responsible is the setting for triggering narrative events, does the character have any agency? Thirdly, the environment damages the human body. How does this corporeal destruction interact with the notion of a specifically American fleshiness of the American survivor? Finally, could/would one ever willingly choose to enter the survival space and why? How is this survival space employing, rejecting and reworking past rubrics?

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 18 bw illus

HB 9781501393174 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501393198 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501393181 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

From Victimhood to Empowerment

Representing Women in 1920s Soviet Georgian Cinema

Salome Tsopurashvili, Ilia State University, Georgia

From Victimhood to Empowerment brings the cinematographic works of Georgia’s State Film Industry from the margins of Soviet film studies to the center, focusing on women’s representations and exploring how the gender roles were modified throughout the decade according to the new social and political ideals through discourse analysis, postcolonial perspectives, and psychoanalytical feminist film theories. It surveys to what extent women’s screen images were emancipated and what the functional meaning of this emancipation was in its context, how the new ideals of New Soviet woman were inscribed in films, and how these ideals were combined with Georgian nationality.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 256 pages 39 bw illus

HB 9781501383175 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501383168 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501383151 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Georgian)

Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations

Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories

Edited by Dominic J. Nardi, George Washington University, USA & Keli Fancher, Signum University, USA

This collection, the first English-language volume to focus on Studio Ghibli films as adaptations, investigates how Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and other Ghibli storytellers have approached the process of reimagining literary sources for animation. The first section focuses on Hayao Miyazaki’s tendency to make significant story changes when adapting literature to animation. The second section discusses Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata, whose work has received less scholarly attention than Miyazaki’s. The final part explores films adapted from European novels - Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), Tales from Earthsea (2006) - and how they were adapted for Japanese audiences.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages • 12 bw illus

HB 9798765127063 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765127094 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765127087 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

South African Horror Cinema

From Apartheid to District 9 and Beyond

Calum Waddell, University of Lincoln, UK

This book focuses on ever-changing identities and perspectives and embraces the frequently carnivalesque and grotesque elements of a most unique lineage in macabre motion pictures. It includes discussions of a wide range of horror films, including: Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970), The Demon (Percival Rubens, 1979), District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009), The Tokoloshe (Jerome Pikwane, 2018), Fried Barry (Ryan Kruger, 2020) and beyond, to argue that South Africa should finally obtain its rightful place in the canon of wider genre studies and horror cinema fandom.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 272 pages 55 bw illus

HB 9781501385063 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501385056 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501385049 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic

Swedish Film Feminism Between Grassroots Movements and Welfare Policies

Ingrid Ryberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s. She contributes to feminist film studies by providing case studies of crucial contexts of production, distribution and reception; key films and directors including Mai Zetterling's The Girls; and reassessments of central debates in feminist film theory.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Gothenburg.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus

HB 9781350186316 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350186330 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350186323 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s

Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity

Scott Freer, University of Lincoln, UK

Scott Freer contextualizes the 1970s disaster cycle, drawing on the longer cultural history of modernist reactions to modern anxieties including the widespread dependence on technology and corporate power. He introduces a historicist perspective by placing the film genre within the immediate context of American high modernity whilst engaging with relevant philosophical, theological and eco-critical ideas on evil, determinism, and human nature. Freer explores the aesthetic theories of modern tragedy as a means of explaining the power of disaster movies as a form of ethical criticism.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages 20 bw illus

PB 9781501375620 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501336836

ePub 9781501336850 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501336843 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War

The Case of The Mortal Storm

Alexis Pogorelskin, University of MinnesotaDuluth, USA

This book establishes the global cultural and political significance of MGM’s 1940 film The Mortal Storm, which exposed the anti-Semitism that underwrote Congressional antipathy to the film industry. Integrating detailed accounts of this fraught political context into the struggles to make the film, this book resets our understanding of Hollywood’s complicated responses to the global threat of Nazism. Set among other anti-Nazi films of the period, the story of this extraordinary struggle illuminates the fears, hostility, and heroic efforts of everyone involved in making The Mortal Storm.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9798765108093 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765108109

ePub 9798765108130 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765108123 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

The Drive-In

Outdoor Cinema in 1950s America and the Popular Imagination

Guy Barefoot, University of Leicester, UK

This book contrasts the drive-in’s reputation as a space for dating or delinquent teenagers and for screening subsequent run or exploitation films with how it was promoted as entertainment for audiences who felt excluded from indoor cinemas. Through a study of the drive-ins’ roadside locations, what facilities they provided, who attended and what they saw, it provides a detailed picture of a particular form of post-war American cinema-going and an analysis of the complexities that underlie images of the American 1950s.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages 14 bw illus

PB 9781501375019 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501365928

ePub 9781501365911 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501365904 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Network Theory and Nashville

Zachary Tavlin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

This book offers an accessible introduction to network theory and shows how this theory can be used to understand Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975). Through three key theoretical subcategories—assemblage theory, actor-network theory, and network formalism—the book demonstrates how analyzing the ubiquitous characteristics of networks changes the way film fans, students, and scholars understand cinema’s storytelling possibilities. It models a method of interpretation (focusing on character, cinematography, and sound) that students can practice with other feature films. Moreover, it situates film within a larger discourse about art and society, offering students the tools for analyzing other large-form cultural objects.

UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 208 pages

PB 9781501388200 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501388217 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501388194 • £18.35 / $22.45

ePdf 9781501388187 £18.35 / $18.35

Series: Film Theory in Practice Bloomsbury Academic

Global Screen Worlds

Conversations across Cinema Cultures

Edited by Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS University of London, UK, Kate Taylor-Jones, The University of Sheffield, UK & Georgia Thomas-Parr, SOAS University of London, UK

Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media. This open access collection advances the concept of “screen worlds” rather than “world cinema” to acknowledge and reckon with the impact of new technologies on cinema and everyday life, adopting a decolonial feminist approach that insists on localized, intersectional analyses that combine discussions of race, gender, and class with critiques of historical and contemporary abuses of power.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

UK October 2025 • US December 2025 • 352 pages • 39 bw illus

HB 9798765126288 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765126325 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9798765126318 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Film, In Theory

The BFI Education Department and Film Culture

Colm McAuliffe, Kingston University, UK Film, in Theory tells the story of Paddy Whannel and Peter Wollen's revolutionary work at the BFI’s Education Department and how this led to the establishment of film studies, theory and education in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. Colm McAuliffe explores how Whannel and Wollen refashioned the BFI as a modern and progressive laboratory of ideas, hosting experimental seminars, revamping BFI Summer Schools, and launching the Cinema One series (co-edited by Whannel and Penelope Houston, editor of Sight & Sound magazine). Through extensive archival research and interviews with key figures, McAuliffe explores how the department became "a crucible for the future of film theory."

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 26 bw illus

HB 9781839026331 • £75.00

ePub

Cinema and Secularism

Edited by Mark Cauchi, York University, Canada Cinema and Secularism is the first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing myriad methodological approaches. Prompted by the recent emergence of critical secular studies, this book sets out to rectify the assumption within film studies that cinema is secular and to invite critical reflection upon its titular terms. The collection poses for the first time in the study of film the questions: Is cinema secular? And what would that mean?

Chapters in this book engage with film thinkers and traditions of thought, the relationship between cinema and enchantment, and distinct manifestations of secularism.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 14 bw illus

PB 9781501388842 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501388873

ePub 9781501388866 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501388859 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Film Figures An Organological Approach

Warwick Mules, Southern Cross University, Australia

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides the framework of analysis.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 200 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9798765112465 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501361210

ePub 9781501361234 £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501361227 £79.83 / $79.83

Bloomsbury Academic

A Dream Come True

The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

Stephan Eicke, Axel Springer Media Corporation, Germany

The book analyses David Lynch the filmmaker through the lens of Angelo Badalamenti’s music via extensive creative biographies of both, in-depth investigations into how the individual music pieces and scores came to be, how they were altered and changed during the editing process, and what clues both music and sound design can give to unlock the mysteries of individual works. The result is an insightful collage of exclusive interviews with many of Lynch’s and Badalamenti’s colleagues and friends, transcribed music examples, direct quotes, previously unpublished photographs, dialogue taken from the films, and a careful examination of secondary—sometimes contradictory— sources.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9798765129043 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9798765129050 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765129081 • £25.54 / $31.45

ePdf 9798765129074 £25.54 / $25.54

Bloomsbury Academic

Transnational Arab Stardom

Glamour, Performance and Politics

Edited by Kaya Davies Hayon, University of Lincoln, UK & Stefanie Van de Peer, Queen Margaret University, UK

This book is the first dedicated entirely to Arab stars across diverse media, regions, and eras. It addresses a gap in existing scholarship – usually focused on isolated studies of iconic Egyptian stars – and advances the field, bringing feminist and transnational film and star studies to bear on Arab stars. Transnational Arab Stardom sheds new light on major stars across the Arab world and broadens contemporary understandings to include queer celebrities and social media influencers. The collection adds exciting perspectives, exploring Arab artists’ intertexts, audiences, receptions and after-lives, and proposing new concepts such as group star power and producer-power.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 320 pages

PB 9781501393266 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781501393228

ePub 9781501393242 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501393235 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Pop Goes the Decade

The Sixties

Martin Kich, Wright State University Lake Campus, USA & Aaron Barlow

Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade. The title explores the cultural and social framework of the 1960s, addressing film, television, sports, technology, media/advertising, fashion, art, and more. Entries are presented in encyclopedic fashion, organized into such categories as controversies in pop culture, game changers, technology, and the decade's legacy. A timeline highlights significant cultural moments, while an introduction and a conclusion place those moments within the contexts of preceding and subsequent decades.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 344 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9798765141151

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440862847

ePub 9798216130406 • £72.64 / $90.90

ePdf 9781440862854 • £72.64 / $72.64

Series: Pop Goes the Decade • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Mad Max: Fury Road

Movies Minute by Minute

Alix Olson, Emory University- Oxford College, USA

This first book-length analysis of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) reads the film as an anti-capitalist, feminist manifesto. Alix Olson mobilizes an unconventional and eclectic archive of radical democratic, ecofeminist and queer theory, feminist poetry, and Afro-futurist literature to elicit the film’s relevance as a guide for radical political struggle. The book is particularly attuned to Mad Max’s depiction of “another world as possible,” a slogan which serves as an aspirational impetus for activism, and to the nature of radical social change more broadly.

UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 128 pages

PB 9798765104316 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9798765104323 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765104354 • £18.35 / $22.45

ePdf 9798765104347 £18.35 / $18.35

Series: Timecodes Bloomsbury Academic

The Sound of Silence

Ryan Gosling, Expressionism and the Silent Hero in 21st-Century Film

Nancy Epton, Independent Scholar, UK

This book analyses the enduring popularity of the silent figure and ask why we are drawn to characters who are motivated by action rather than speech.

To consider this question in more depth, the recent career of Ryan Gosling is analysed in detail, arguing that it is Gosling’s expressive capabilities that keep audiences compelled. With the use of non-verbal silence – combined with its counterbalance, sound – a more active, emotive audience response can be achieved. The book demonstrates that the sound of silence is one of the most meaningful cinematic sounds of all.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 200 pages • 86 bw illus

PB 9798765108048 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765108055

ePub 9798765108086 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765108079 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Pop Goes the Decade

The 2000s

Richard A. Hall

Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s starts with a timeline of major historical pop culture events of the 2000s, followed by an introduction describing what the U.S. was like at the beginning of the new millennium and how it would change throughout the decade. Next come chapters broken down by medium: television, sports, music, movies, literature, technology, media, and fashion and art. A chapter on controversies in popular culture is followed by a chapter on game-changers, featuring 20 individuals who made a major impact on the U.S. in the 2000s. Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U.S. in the years since.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9798765141168 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440868122

ePub 9798216130352 • £72.64 / $90.90

ePdf 9781440868139 • £72.64 / $72.64

Series: Pop Goes the Decade Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Pop Documentary Since 1980

Aesthetics, Performance, Creativity

Richard Wallace, University of Warwick, UK

Richard Wallace examines the representation of music, musicians and music-making in documentary film. He draws together conceptual frameworks from within and outside of film and television studies to provide an interrogation of the central issues in this genre. He explores a selection of texts beyond the traditional canon. Nina Simone looks out of the past of the archive, while Geri Halliwell begs Molly Dineen’s lens for validation. Taylor Swift struts across the stage alongside David Byrne. Depeche Mode fans rubs up against the suits of the Japanese salarymen as the fans under scrutiny in the music documentary’s varied forms.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350214231 £26.99 / $36.95 HB 9781350214248 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350214255 £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350214262 £24.29 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

Maria Chiara Oltolini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli. In particular, the series played a role in shaping the pop culture image of a young girl (shôjo). Examining the series through the lens of animation studies as well as adaptation studies, Oltolini sheds new light on this long-neglected staple of Japanese animation history.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781501389870 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501389900

ePub 9781501389894 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501389887 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Nightmares of Presence

Space and Place in Spanish Gothic and Horror Film

Ann Davies, University of Stirling, UK

This book explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With the primary aim of marrying the spatial turn in cultural and film studies with genre study of horror and Gothic film, Davies explores how different landscapes, spaces and places enable the subject to interact with the terrors they encounter and confront. Case studies include The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro), [.REC ](Jaume Balagueró), Insensibles (Painless, Juan Carlos Medina), Los cronocrímenes (Time Crimes, Nacho Vigalondo), and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast), among others.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages 17 bw illus

HB 9781501327377 £80.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501327353 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501327346 • £87.01 / $87.01 Bloomsbury Academic

Supply Chain Cinema Producing Global Film Workers

Kay Dickinson, University of Glasgow, UK

Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production of big budget films across an array of seemingly dissociated sites exemplifies the principles of the supply chain, and in turn generates an increasingly transnational workforce keenly adapted to the demands of blockbuster moviemaking.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 0 bw illus

PB 9781839024665 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781839024627

ePub 9781839024634 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781839024641 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: International Screen Industries British Film Institute

The Rustling Image

Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution

Meir Wigoder, Sapir College, Israel

This book discusses the aesthetic, philosophical, and political resonances of low-resolution digital images in connection to the popular and wider use of mobile phone cameras through the case study of citizen journalists and political activists during the Syrian civil war. The role of blurry and underexposed images is to make us aware that there is a category of witnessing that reveals the significance of what is not visible; and to make us understand the sense of uncertainty that we feel towards our own inability to comprehend events that have been spiraling out of control in our post-truth world.

UK September 2025 • US January 2026 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9798765118597 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765118634 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765118627 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Thinking Media Bloomsbury Academic

Fringe to Famous

Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

Tony Moore, Monash University, Australia, Mark Gibson, RMIT University, Australia, Chris McAuliffe, Australian National University, Australia & Maura Edmond, Monash University, Australia

Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analyses of Australian artists sampled from across 40 years of “indie” music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to Famous explores how some of Australia’s leading cultural practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the mainstream in the contemporary period.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9798765112472

£28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501334887

ePub 9781501334894 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501334900 • £87.01 / $87.01 Bloomsbury Academic

Thinking Media

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Frictionlessness

The Silicon Valley Philosophy of Seamless Technology and the Aesthetic Value of Imperfection

Jakko Kemper, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

This book examines imperfection as an aesthetic concept that highlights existential conditions of finitude and fragility as a particularly powerful counterweight to the dominant digital design philosophy of "frictionlessness." While frictionlessness aims to draw the user’s perception away from the exploitative and destructive conditions of digital production, imperfection forms an aesthetic source of friction that alerts users to the fragile nature of technology and the finite resources on which it relies. Through case studies, this book underlines the value of technological aesthetics of imperfection and points to the need for a renewed ethics of care in relation to technology.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9798765104422 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765104415

ePub 9798765104453 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765104446 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Stillmoving

Jon Inge Faldalen, University of Oslo, Norway

This two-volume work explores a static long take, termed a still Einstellung, as well as coexistent still and moving imagery by Lumière, Welles and the MPEG compression codec, to contemplate the kind of image it generates. The author embraces neologisms to capture specific aesthetic-technical phenomena more accurately than has hitherto been possible. Stillmoving I is a film theoretical exploration of Einstellung where the author asks whether this image is a still image, or a moving image, or both, or neither, or, finally, what Faldalen terms stillmoving Stillmoving II explores Einstellung through a small set of specific case studies.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 560 pages • 46 bw illus

HB Pack 9798765129012 • £180.00 / $240.00

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

The Emerging Contours of the Medium

Literature and Mediality

Edited by Richard Müller, Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic

What are the conditions for elaborating a mediatheoretical framework in which to situate literature as a medium? This collection explores this question in three sections. Part I develops a perspective of the (pre)history of media thinking. Part II develops the related perspectives of media philosophy and media anthropology. Part III’s main focus is the way media provide the ground for making emergent media phenomena visible, whether it be between media, media artefacts, or human and apparatus. The book was written by a collective of authors based in the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 520 pages

PB 9781501398711 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501398674

ePub 9781501398681 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501398698 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

World All Languages (except Czech)

Designing the BBC

A History of Motion Graphics

Edited by Iain Macdonald, Maynooth University, Ireland & Paula Williams, Ravensbourne University London, UK

Drawing on the unique holdings of the BBC Motion Graphics Archive, and first-hand perspectives of former BBC staff, this study provides a timely overview of over 50 years of the BBC Television Graphic Design Department. In addition, this unique volume takes a thematic approach, considering the graphic design of a range of TV genres, including household favourites such as Doctor Who; sports programming such as Grandstand and big sporting events like the Olympics; children's television including Grange Hill; popular science programmes such as Tomorrow’s World; news output such as The Nine O'Clock News, Election Night specials, the weather and the channel idents of BBC 2.

UK

PB

ePdf 9781350382282 £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic

Edited

by Piotr Siuda & Jakub Majewski, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland & Krzysztof Chmielewski

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives, regardless of where we live. In the initial months, many industry reports noted the unexpected positive impact on online digital game sales. Games were not just lockdown-proof, but boosted by lockdowns. Stay-at-home orders triggered a rush toward games as an alternative form of entertainment, and the ubiquity of mobile phones allowed wider than ever participation.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 288 pages 36 bw illus

PB 9798765110249 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765110232

ePub 9798765110256 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765110263 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America

Identities and Social Change

Edited by Anja Louis, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Abigail Loxham, University of Liverpool, UK

This book provides an inclusive and intersectional look into television from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Each of the essays, written by international scholars across various disciplines, offer close textual analyses of popular series from Mexico, Spain, Brazil and Cuba, these include La casa de papel (2017-2021), Drag Race España (2021-), Inés del alma mía (2020) and El ministerio del tiempo (2015)

The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits provide overdue critical attention to Latin American television programming, highlighting on screen representations of gendered identities and the role of online streaming in facilitating social change.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350404649 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350404656 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350404663 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

Invisible Digital

What Animation and Games Tell Us about Software and Digital Culture

Aylish Wood, University of Kent, UK

Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images and culture. At its heart is a novel method for exploring software used in the creation of moving images as markers of converging cultural, organizational and technological influences. The 3 main case studies are the animated feature Moana (2016) and the computer games No Man’s Sky (2016) and Everything (2017). These analyses of software provide a widely applicable method where moving image studies can contribute more fully to the wider and growing debates about algorithmic culture.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 200 pages 3 bw illus

PB 9781501390876 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501390906

ePub 9781501390890 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501390883 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Disruptive Information in Canada

Ahmed Al-Rawi, Simon Fraser University, Canada

This book examines Canadian news content that references different terms related to fake news and disinformation while providing an analysis of Canadian journalists’ views on how to report on fake news and its impact in today’s society. This book offers a new theoretical conceptualization of our post-truth era by introducing the concept of “Disruptive Information” via focusing on news and social media content as well as journalists reporting on these issues. With the use of a mixed methods approach, it provides different insights into this important topic.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9798765132500 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765132531 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765132524 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Edited by Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of

Wellington, New Zealand

The volume covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the birth of agriculture in Mesopotamia to the rise of Byzantium, the end of the Han Dynasty in China, and the first flowering of Mayan civilization. Human uses for and understanding of plants drove cultural evolution and were inextricably bound to all aspects of cultural practice. The growth of botanical knowledge was fundamental to the development of agriculture, technology, medicine, and science, as well as to the birth of cities, the rise of religions and mythologies, and the creation of works of literature and art.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350550537 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273404

ePub 9781350259270 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259263 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Edited by Andrew Dalby & Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The volume covers the period from 1400 to 1650. The Renaissance revived ancient knowledge in Europe whilst developments in printing accelerated the dissemination of knowledge. Exploration and trade placed all the continents in contact with one another, encouraging new food staples and spices, new botanical medicines, and new garden plants. Botanical knowledge – in the service of agriculture, trade, and science – all expanded.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350550605 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273435

ePub 9781350259300 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259317 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by David Mabberley

The volume covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules. As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 256 pages

PB 9781350550629 £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273510

ePub 9781350259362 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259355 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Edited

by Alain Touwaide, The Huntington Library, California, USA

The volume covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China. This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments, populations, and cultural practices. Many of the ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved, but these were overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicine, eating habits, and art.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350550599 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273428

ePub 9781350259294 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259287 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Edited by Jennifer Milam, University of Newcastle, Australia

The volume covers the period from 1650 to 1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. Foreign and exotic plants become objects of cultivation, collection, and display, whilst the applications of plants became central not only to naturalists, landowners, and gardeners but also to philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and rulers. As the Enlightenment took hold, the natural world became something to be grasped through reasoned understanding.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350550612 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273497

ePub 9781350259331 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259348 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Edited by Stephen Forbes

The volume covers the period from 1920 to today. Advances in agriculture, science, and technology have revolutionised the ways we feed ourselves, whilst urbanization and industrial processing have reduced our direct connection with living plants. At the same time, our understanding of both ecology and conservation have increased exponentially, whilst our appreciation of the meanings and aesthetics of plants suffuse art and everyday culture. More than ever before, we understand that the vitality of our relationship with plants will shape our future.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages

PB 9781350550636 £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273534

ePub 9781350259423 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350259416 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Domestic Violence and Abuse A Reference Handbook

Laura L. Finley, Barry University, USA

This one-stop resource for students, activists, educators, and advocates provides a thorough and accessible overview of the many dimensions of domestic violence and abuse, including risk factors, consequences, and resources. Appropriate for readers at the high school level and above, the volume focuses on the scope, extent, and characteristics of domestic violence by studying the issue from a variety of perspectives and vantage points, including the voices of domestic violence survivors and the activists and advocates working on their behalf to end one of the world's worst human rights problems.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 376 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9798765141977 £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440858833

ePub 9798216075967 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440858840 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Drug Decriminalization and Legalization

Aharon W. Zorea, University of Wisconsin–Platteville, USA

This book offers an accessible introduction to the contentious issue of decriminalizing and legalizing drugs, exploring the topic from medical, economic, legal, and cultural perspectives. Chapters in Part I provide readers with the background information they need to better understand and develop informed opinions about the topic. Part II delves into specific issues and controversies related to this subject, offering balanced and unbiased coverage. Part III features 5 engaging case studies that help the subject come to life for readers and illustrate concepts and issues discussed in the text. A glossary and annotated directory of resources round out the volume.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781440880629 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765110621 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440880636 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Health and Medical Issues Today Bloomsbury Academic

Epidemics and Pandemics

Your Questions Answered

Charles Vidich, Independent Scholar, USA

In the wake of COVID, it’s more important than ever to understand epidemics—how they emerge and what we can do to fight back.

The book’s 47 questions cover foundational concepts in epidemiology and public health, the wide-ranging impacts pandemics can have on individuals and society at large, and practical recommendations for navigating future pandemics. Augmenting the main text are engaging case studies accompanied by insightful analyses, a Common Misconceptions section that dispels popular and potentially harmful myths about epidemics and pandemics, Glossary, Directory of Resources, and Guide to Health Literacy.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 168 pages • 1 bw illus

PB 9798765112977 • £40.00 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440881381

ePub 9798765110485 • £39.91 / $49.50

ePdf 9781440881398 • £39.91 / $39.91

Series: Q&A Health Guides Bloomsbury Academic

Homes in Crisis Capitalism Gender, Work and Revolution

Marnie Holborow, Dublin City University, Ireland Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination. Holborow analyses homes in crisis capitalism through a Marxist lens of capitalist social reproduction. This book charts the interwoven social and political effects and outcomes of work and care provided in the home, as well as the effects of the pandemic, and makes the case for a radical break with capitalism to give social reproduction the material resources and social recognition it deserves.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350380004 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350379961

ePub 9781350379978 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350379985 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Medicare and Medicaid

A Reference Handbook

Greg M. Shaw, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA

This guide enables readers to understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs. In the decades since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation creating the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs in 1965, hundreds of millions of older and low-income Americans and people with disabilities have benefited. This book provides in-depth coverage of the origins, history, and evolution of both programs, as well as a guide to present-day problems, controversies, and reforms related to each of these programs.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 328 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9798765142066 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873348

ePub 9798216116370 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440873355 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III

Monarchy, Spectacle and Experience

Edited by Jennifer J. Purcell, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA, Lucy D. Curzon, University of Alabama, USA & Fiona Courage, University of Sussex, UK

Using the observations and writings of the British public who experienced it, this book documents and analyses the coronation of Charles III in its social and cultural contexts. It relates the activities and opinions of Mass Observers on the preparations and occasion of the first British coronation in 70 years, as well as the findings of Mass Observation investigators in several locations in the UK (including London) during the May 6th weekend. The volume also bears witness to social and cultural change over time, including the media response and reporting of both pre-coronation planning and coronation weekend events, such as the Big Lunch, the Big Help Out and the crowning ceremony itself.

UK September

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ePub 9781350441767 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350441798 • £20.69 / $20.69

Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Objects of Poverty

Material Culture in Britain from 1700

Edited by Joseph Harley, Anglia Ruskin University, UK & Vicky Holmes, Queen Mary University, London, UK

Focusing on the history of poverty through the lens of objects crafted, owned, and used by those living in poverty, Objects of Poverty demonstrates how objects, or the lack of them, allow us to understand the experience of impoverishment from new and innovative perspectives. Including 80 illustrations, and drawing on a variety of historical sources, including objects that survive today - this book traces the importance of materiality across all aspects of early modern and modern life, including the domestic sphere, fashion, healthcare, institutional life, and leisure.

UK

PB 9781350368170 £26.99 / $36.95 HB 9781350368187 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350368194 £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350368200 • £24.29 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

London

Geography, History, and Culture

Victoria R. Williams, Independent Scholar, UK London is one of the largest cultural and financial centers in the world. How did it become the capital city of the United Kingdom, and what is life like in this global city today? Narrative chapters cover such themes as location, people, history, politics, economy, environment and sustainability, local crime and violence, security issues, natural hazards and emergency management, culture and lifestyle, London in pop culture, and London's future.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9798216194743 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440877438

ePub 9798216112662 £21.55 / $26.95

ePdf 9781440877445 • £21.55 / $21.55

Series: Contemporary World Cities • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain

The Legacy of Samuel Jones-Loyd

Sarah Flew

This book examines the growth of charity in 19th century Britain through the lens of the philanthropic activities of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, over a 40-year period. Structured around the different recipients of Jones-Loyd’s 2,880 donations, this book offers detailed insight into the philanthropic market place of the 19th century, in addition to a variety of eminent social issues – such as the cholera outbreaks of 1849 and 1866, the education of children and adults, and emergency appeals at home and overseas.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350424593 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350424616 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350424609 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Radical War of 1820

Police Spies, Government Spies, and Willing Informers

David Smale

This book is a detailed account of the Radical War in 1820s Scotland, highlighting the conditions that led to the revolt, the reaction of the government, and the impact on Scottish society. David Smale takes readers through the mass unemployment, disaffection, and formation of radical groups calling for parliamentary reform following Peace in 1815, as a prelude to the Radical War. Using a wealth of archival material, this book readjusts existing narratives surrounding the conflict, shifting the focus away from the accounts of paid spies, and centering the little used records of the pioneering ‘new police’ force.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350513228 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350513242 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350513235 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Immigration and Exile ForeignLanguage Press in the UK and in the US

Connected

Histories of the 19th and 20th

Centuries

Edited by Stéphanie Prévost, Paris Diderot University, France & Bénédicte Deschamps, Paris Diderot University, France

This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives into the influence of these marginalised publications, and forms a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 360 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350325258 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350107045

ePub 9781350107069 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350107052 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Memory and Modern British Politics

Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy

Edited by Matthew Roberts, LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW, Sheffield, UK

Led by respected-academic Matthew Roberts, this edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statuemania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of ‘dead generations’. In doing so, this is the first collection to cover the entire modern period in detail.

UK

The German Democratic Republic

The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State

Ned Richardson-Little, University of Erfurt, Germany

This book is a concise history of East Germany and its people, from early Cold War foundations to its dissolution and the reunification of Germany in 1990. Ned RichardsonLittle delves into the central contradictions of the GDR as a state meant to overcome the horrors of the Third Reich and create a new utopia, while itself a brutal dictatorship. Richardson-Little also convincingly argues that while the existence of the GDR was a product of the Cold War, it was also entangled in international politics well beyond the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025

PB 9781350341517

ePub 9781350341548 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350341531 • £15.29 / $15.29

Series: German History in Focus • Bloomsbury Academic

The Tichborne Claimant

A Victorian Sensation

Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

The extraordinary case in 1874 of the Tichborne Claimant generated the longest trial, to that point, in British legal history. Was the man claiming to be the vanished Sir Roger Tichborne really who he said he was; or was he Arthur Orton, a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia? Why, if he was a fraud, had the dowager Lady Tichborne recognised him? The trial mesmerised the British public and led to furious debate, to the extent that several newspapers were devoted entirely to the case and a Tichbornite candidate won a seat in Parliament.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 384 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781350547636 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781852854782

ePub 9780826434814 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9780826442574 • £26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Academic

The Holocaust in Eastern Europe At the Epicenter of the Final Solution

Waitman Wade Beorn, Northumbria University, UK

This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered ‘the epicentre of the final solution’.

Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe, before tracing the escalating nature of Nazi policies in the area during the Second World War. Beorn crucially reflects on the German obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there. This 2nd edition includes two important new chapters on sources, methods, and historiographical debates in the field and non-Jewish victims of the Nazi genocidal project.

UK

PB

ePub 9781350387096 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350387089 £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series

/ $100.00

Daniel Siemens, Newcastle University, UK & Jennifer V. Evans, Carleton University, Canada & Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, Australia

Revolutions in Modern German History

Andrew G. Bonnell, University of Queensland, Australia

This innovative survey examines revolutionary history in modern Germany by focusing on key developments in the German states. There is coverage of Germany and the French Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the 1918-19 revolution, the 1933 Nazi ‘revolution’, the revolution from above in Eastern Germany 1945-49, and the 1989-90 revolution in East Germany. The book sheds new light on the continuity of conflicts between revolution and counter-revolution and the significance of wider European and transnational movements and events. The book integrates an intimate, personal dynamic by looking in-depth at the lives of individuals who experienced these tumultuous times.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350072619 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350072633 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350072626 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History

André Keil, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the history of dictatorships in Germany since the French Revolution. The Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945, which brought about the Second World War and the Holocaust, is still taught very widely as the prime example of the destructiveness of ideologically driven regimes in the 20th century; the state-socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic that lasted for over 40 years bore many of the same dictatorial features. Understanding the factors that made these two regimes possible and also their impact on the lives of many people, is key to understanding the course of modern German history as a whole.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350267732 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350267749 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350267763 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350267756 • £20.69 / $20.69

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Salon-in-Exile

Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London

Annalisa Nicholson, King's College London, UK

This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the Ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recitals, performances, and scientific lectures amid polite conversation, enabling mixed-gender intellectual exchange. In A Salon-in-Exile, Annalisa Nicholson explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first book-length study of the Mazarin salon, one of the most celebrated salons in Europe and the most vibrant Francophone community in London.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK November 2026 US November 2026 240 pages 3 bw illus

HB 9781350415775 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350415799 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350415782 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023

Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope

David Welsh, Independent Scholar, UK

This book examines the evolution of rail transport and railway workforces across modern Europe. It looks at how rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly argues that workers formed numerous new and enduring organisations such as trade unions that, in turn, became ramparts of hope. Welsh goes on to consider how the insurgent character of these organisations produced moments of fury during tumultuous 20th-century periods. The book also explores various contexts in which both characteristics came to the fore, including the ecology of fossil fuel technology.

UK

ePdf 9781350500648

£76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789-1870

Edited by Aude Attuel-Hallade, Sorbonne University, France

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Taking the French Revolution as a starting point, seen in this context as the inauguration of an unprecedented sequence of dialogues between European ‘public moralists’, the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism in the 19th century.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350371033 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350371071

ePub 9781350371057 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350371040 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Single Mothers in Twentiethcentury Ireland and Britain

Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization

Lorraine Grimes, Maynooth University, Ireland In Single Mothers in Twentieth Century Ireland and Britain, Lorraine Grimes examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to Britain in the twentieth century as they fled the shame of unmarried motherhood. Using archival research, oral history and original interviews, Grimes reveals the methods British and Irish institutions developed to manage these women, from forced adoption to institutionalisation in mother and baby homes, and the impacts these methods had on these mothers’ lives. Single Mothers is essential reading for scholars of twentiethcentury women’s social, medical and political history.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350515178 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350515192 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350515185 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Vico, Hegel, and the Making of Modern Italy

The Spirit of the Risorgimento, 1799-1861

Alessandro De Arcangelis, University College London, UK

Using a transnational approach to the intellectual history of 19th-century Italy, this book examines the highly idiosyncratic juxtaposition and amalgamation of local and foreign philosophical traditions, chiefly represented by the thought of Giambattista Vico and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Alessandro De Arcangelis convincingly argues the decisive role this played in shaping a historical mindset able to direct, and give legitimacy to, Italians’ experiences of political change.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781350522923 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9781350522947 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims

Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943

Gabriella Romano, Independent Scholar, UK

This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period. The book focusses on three different institutions in three parts of the country - Rome, Florence and Girifalco, helping to highlight the variety of attitudes and therapeutic approaches that existed across the country in the process.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350377097 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350377080

ePub 9781350377110 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377103 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Power and Urban Space in PreModern Holland

Arenas of Appropriation in the Netherlands, 1500-1850

Clé Lesger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through discursive strategies. The continuity of the power relations in the cities of Holland, spanning centuries, makes it urgent to look not only at the assumption of urban space as an expression of power relations within society, but also at the contribution of this appropriation to the acceptance and continuity of the existing power relations in pre-modern Holland.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 312 pages • 36 colour illus

PB 9781350412361 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350412378

ePub 9781350412392 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350412385 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Revolution and Civil War in North Russia

Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917-1920

Alistair S. Wright, Independent Scholar, UK

Expanding our understanding of the Russian civil war, this book provides the first detailed, archivalbased study in English to analyse the two neighbouring regions of Murmansk and Karelia. Despite not being far from the revolutionary capital, Petrograd, both territories resisted the establishment of Bolshevik power longer than many others and so this study offers novel insights into the complexities of the struggle that eventually led to communist rule. It examines the Allied/anti-Bolshevik military and home fronts from a previously uncharted perspective and shines a much-needed light on the establishment and consolidation of Bolshevik power on the civil war periphery.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 22

ePdf

How Russia Got Big A Territorial History

Paul W. Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

This book examines Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries. It tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W. Werth recounts the construction of the world's largest country—from Muscovy and the Russian Empire through the USSR to today’s Russian Federation—as well as its territorial retrenchment and even collapse on several occasions. Integrating geography, diplomacy, war, and imperial politics, the book ranges across three continents and recounts diverse interactions with neighboring polities and peoples.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages

PB

ePub 9781350284036 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350284029 £11.69 / $11.69

Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

The Nobel Family

Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

Bengt Jangfeldt

Translated by Harry D. Watson

This collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how their business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as Europe’s economic and entrepreneurial development in the long 19th century. Now famous for the prize which bears their name, the Nobels were the Swedish founders of the Russian oil industry whose huge wealth was swept away during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Throughout a time of immense change in Russia and across Europe, the Nobels' story stands out as one of both brilliance and resilience, with family firmly at its heart.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 424 pages • 88 bw illus and 10 colour illus

PB 9781350529168 • £14.99 / $19.95

Previously published in HB 9781350348912

ePub 9781350348936 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350348929 £13.49 / $13.49

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series

Jonathan Smele, Queen Mary, University of London, UK & Michael S. Melancon & Ian D. Thatcher, Ulster University, UK

The Military History of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great until Nicholas II

John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, USA

This book examines the rise and the fall of the Russian Empire through the lens of its military history. John W. Steinberg uses a variety of archival sources to capture this aspect of modern Russia from Peter the Great right up to the present day. Steinberg analyzes the social dynamic between Russian society and its military over time. Through a focus on civil-military relations, he demonstrates that both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes were built on, and ultimately dependent upon, the support of the military.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 342 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350451476 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350037182

ePub 9781350037205 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350037199 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Russian Intelligentsia

From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station

Christopher Read, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. Christopher Read offers the first explanation of the intelligentsia as a group, and contextualizes their ideas within the framework of cultural, social, political, and economic development from the late 18th century to the present day. This book is an essential guide to a fascinating aspect of Russia’s social and cultural history.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350441811 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035393

ePub 9781350035409 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350035836 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus

Periphery Unbound, 1920-29

Sara G. Brinegar, Independent Scholar, USA

Sara G. Brinegar’s book is the first to show how the politics of oil intersected with the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus; it reveals how the Soviets cooperated and negotiated with the local elite, rather than merely subsuming them. More broadly, Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus demonstrates not only how the Bolsheviks understood and exploited oil, but how the needs of the industry shaped Bolshevik policy.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus

PB 9781350286672 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350286689

ePub 9781350286702 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350286696 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

A Political History of the USA One Nation Under God

Bruce Kuklick, USA

Exploring the history of US politics from the first European contact with the ‘New World’ in 1492, up to the 2024 presidential elections, this book is an engaging account of America’s development from colony to world superpower. Using religion as a central theme to navigate through this vast topic, it moves beyond the realm of political parties, leaders and ideologies to understand how politics has intersected with the individual and societal hopes, fears and values which have underpinned US political culture and theology.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781350429208 £24.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350429246 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350429215 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350429222 £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

The Summer That Changed Everything

Leigh Straw, University of Notre Dame, Australia

This book tells the story of summer 1944, a few months that irretrievably changed the Kennedy family as they sat on the cusp of incredible heights of fame and political power. Beginning its story in the May of that year, The Kennedys at Cape Cod 1944 paints an intimate picture of those few months. As the younger Kennedy children and their parents settled into their summer refuge at Hyannis Port, this book follows the scandal of Kick’s marriage to William ‘Billy’ Cavendish, Jack’s recovery from injury sustained in the line of duty, and Joe Jr’s secret bombing missions over Europe.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 264 pages 30 bw illus

HB 9781350512580 £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350512597 £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350512603 • £18.00 / $18.00

Bloomsbury Academic

America's National Anthem

"The Star-Spangled Banner" in U.S. History, Culture, and Law

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

This A–Z encyclopedia is a one-stop resource for understanding the history and evolution of the national anthem in American politics, culture, and mythology, as well as controversies surrounding its emergence as a lightning rod for political protests and statements. It covers the origins of the song and its selection as the nation's official anthem. It discusses famous performances of the anthem; details laws and court decisions related to its performance; explains notable phrases in its lyrics; describes the meaning of the national anthem to different demographic groups; and surveys presentations and celebrations of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in popular culture.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 400 pages • 21 bw illus

PB 9798765138571 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873188

ePub 9798216045267 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440873195 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

State Oddities

An Encyclopedia of What Makes Our United States Unique

Nancy Hendricks, Independent Scholar, USA

State Oddities is a fascinating trip through the 50 states for students studying America. This book paints a picture of the broad sweep of the American story, offering a gateway to the country as it developed into one nation filled with individual states that can be remarkably different from each other, yet unified under such national symbols as the American flag and "The Star-Spangled Banner."

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 440 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9798765138960 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440876691

ePub 9798216148821 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440876707 £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Women Making History

Peg A. Lamphier, California State Polytechnic University, USA & Rosanne Welch, Stephens College, USA

Wilma Mankiller A Life in American History

Tamrala Swafford Bliss, University of Maryland Global Campus, USA

An excellent resource for students of Native American history, Wilma Mankiller: A Life in American History provides an illuminating overview of how Wilma Mankiller's work and activism for the Cherokee Nation, including service as its first female principal chief from 1985 to 1995, reformed and revitalized the Cherokee Nation's tribal government and economy, sponsored important pushes to improve tribal education, healthcare, and housing services, and gave many Cherokee people a renewed sense of community and pride in their heritage.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9798216195221 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873867

ePub 9798216184454 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440873874 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Gloria Steinem A Life in American History

William H. Pruden III, Ravenscroft School, USA

This book details the life and activism of Gloria Steinem, using her life as a lens through which readers can examine the evolution of women's rights in the United States over the past halfcentury. It provides an examination of her life and her efforts to further equal opportunity among all people, especially women, in the United States from the second half of the 20th century to the present. More than just a biography, this book presents a life that is at once an engine for the change Gloria Steinem sought to achieve and an example and inspiration for future activists.

UK April 2025

• US April 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9798216195160 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440872709

ePub 9798216090878 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440872716 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO World English

Hillary Clinton A Life in American History

Kathleen Gronnerud, Saddleback College, USA

This resource provides an in-depth overview of the life experiences, influences, and personal views of Hillary Clinton from her childhood in 1950s suburban Chicago to her presidential run in 2016. This book not only offers an overview of her education, family, career, and political views, but also provides historical context to her choices, accomplishments, and defeats. The volume's chapters present a chronological telling of her life story thus far including key experiences, influences, and the development of her political views.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9798216195177 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440874178

ePub 9798216096139 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440874185 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Eleanor Roosevelt A Life in American History

Keri F. Dearborn, Independent Scholar, USA

Using Eleanor Roosevelt's own words, personal correspondences, private documents, and a wide range of past perspectives and new biographical research, this book tells the intimate story of a real woman who struggled with a lack of self confidence but built a supportive network of like-minded activist women to realize change. Roosevelt's story mirrors the challenges of the 21st century and offers real examples of how change is possible.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 312 pages

PB 9798216195214 £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873928

ePub 9798216078111 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440873935 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Helen Keller A Life in American History

Meredith Eliassen, Librarian and University

Archivist at San Francisco State University, USA

This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time. Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacherguardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history. This narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9798216195207 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440874635

ePub 9798216095408 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440874642 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Rosa Parks A Life in American History

Darryl Mace, Alvernia University, USA

This book uses historical analysis and Parks's own words to paint a complete picture of her life as a courageous and defiant civil rights activist. It focuses heavily on the influence of her mother and grandparents in her civil rights activism and emphasizes the fact that Rosa Parks was always active and engaged in the struggle for civil rights. Analyses of speeches she delivered provide a picture that broadens her influence and importance far beyond the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The work also includes a timeline of key events in her life and a bibliography to aid additional research. Readers will benefit from a holistic approach that explores Parks's life well beyond her refusal to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus line.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9798216195184 • £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440868429

ePub 9798216140832 • £50.29 / $62.10

ePdf 9781440868436 • £50.29 / $50.29

Series: Black History Lives • ABC-CLIO

World English

China Resurrected A Modern Geopolitical History

Frans-Paul van der Putten

China’s rise to world superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. This book follows China’s geopolitical transformation on the world stage since 1840, arguing that its rise has shaped, and was shaped by, China's changing relationships with major world powers over the last two centuries.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350536586 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350536593 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350536609 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350536616 • £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Sacred Sites and Sacred Identities

Nalanda and its vicinity (c.600-1200)

Diwakar Kumar Singh, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India

This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the history of Nalanda and its remarkable continuity with perceptible intellectual paraphernalia for which it became famous over the period. The book attempts to understand the dynamics of a complex religious process with the focus on this monastery and its religious domain. The interpretation is largely based upon the material records generated in the course of the excavations at Nalanda.

UK August 2025 US October 2025 296 pages

HB 9789356408494 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356409712 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356407169 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic India

World English (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Zora Neale Hurston A Life in American History

Stephanie Li, Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University

This biography of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African American writers of the 20th century and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, explores Hurston's literary influences and the personal relationships that were most formative to her life. Hurston's impact extends beyond the literary world: she also left her mark as an anthropologist whose ethnographic work portrays the racial struggles during the early 20th century American South. This book explores her cultural and historical significance, providing context to her writings and allowing readers a greater understanding of Hurston's life while critically examining her major writing.

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9798216195191 £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440866548

ePub 9798216169710 £50.29 / $62.10

ePdf 9781440866555 • £50.29 / $50.29

Series: Black History Lives • ABC-CLIO

World English

The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader

Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan

Edited by Seth Jacobowitz, Texas State University, USA & Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK

This edited volume brings the writings of Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan’s most important intellectuals, into the English language for the first time. Part One contains translations of Hirabayashi’s fiction that embody the diversity of his work, including science fiction, detective fiction, and more idiosyncratic works such as ‘Demon at the Pulpit’, an antitheist and anticlerical story. In Part Two, the book provides a range of invaluable auxiliary critical essays which are written by expert scholars based in four continents. These essays examine Hirabayashi’s views on numerous topics, including the emerging women's movement, popular politics, Marxist theory, filmic and literary trends, and the relationship between mass production and modern aesthetics.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781350378155 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350378179 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350378162 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Bloomsbury Academic

Exploring World History through Geography

From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World

Julie Crea Dunbar, Independent researcher, USA

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through time to examine world history through the closely related discipline of geography. From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted – and still interact – with the environment around them, as well as the environment's role in not only shaping the society's world view but enabling the building of socially stratified and successful civilizations.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 376 pages • 52 bw illus

PB 9798765140154 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440872921

ePub 9798216182870 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440872938 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations

Michael Shally-Jensen & Anthony Vivian

This volume explores the span of human history –and plenty of prehistory – searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof. The accelerating threat of climate change challenges us to analyze our own communities' relationships with the wider world and to contemplate their very existence. This single-volume cultural encyclopedia examines lost cities and civilizations from every region of the globe and dated throughout human history. Arranged alphabetically, the compilation allows both students and general readers easy access to detailed entries on specific lost cities and civilizations.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 360 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9798765141175 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440873102

ePub 9798216182832 £77.43 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440873119 • £77.43 / $77.43

Bloomsbury Academic

The Avignon Popes and the Eastern Mediterranean Power and Authority, 1305-62

James Hill, Independent Scholar, UK

After the main crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land in the 13th century, the papacy did not withdraw from its interests and activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. This book, based primarily on the letters sent by the popes in the Vatican Archives, explores the power and authority of the popes in their attempts at influencing events in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 14th century, and considers how this impacted their successes and failures.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 216 pages

HB 9781350522541 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350522565 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350522558 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Thomas Garnett

Science, Medicine, Mobility in Britain

Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK

Robert Fox uses the career of Garnett to construct a revealing socio-scientific history through a period of intense and complex social, political, economic and scientific change. Drawing from an extensive array of archival sources, this book offers a detailed study of the trials, triumphs, and tragedies of Garnett's life, and uses his experiences to illuminate a wide canvas of the social history of British science and medicine in the crucial period of early industrialisation.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350239326 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350239296

ePub 9781350239319 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350239302 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

They Believed That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World

William E. Burns

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life—call them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong. In an often incomprehensible world where lightning or plague could end life quickly or drought could condemn a poor family to agonizing death, superstitious beliefs gave people a feeling of understanding or even control. They have continued to shape societies and cultures ever since.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 328 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9798765141137 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440878473

ePub 9798216182863 • £77.43 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440878480 • £77.43 / $77.43

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

British Settler Colonialism since 1530

Indigenous Peoples in an Imperial World

Susan Kingsley Kent, University of ColoradoBoulder, USA

This book provides an account of British setter colonialism across the globe from 1530 to the present day. Centering the impact of settler colonies on indigenous peoples whose land was taken and populations were disrupted, it traces resistance, revolution, migration, assimilation and elimination in North America, Latin America, South Africa, Kenya, Ireland, the Middle East and Australia. With maps, images, primary documents and suggested further reading British Settler Colonialism provides an introduction to empire and colonialism with a focus on indigenous peoples, cultures and histories.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350291669 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350291676 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350291690 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350291683 • £22.49 / $22.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Empire’s Other Histories

Gastrofascism and Empire

Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941

Simone Cinotto, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy

In studying food in short-lived Italian East Africa, Gastrofascism and Empire breaks significant new ground in our understanding of the workings of empire in the circulation of bodies, foodways, and global practices of dependence and colonialism, as well as the decolonizing practices of indigenous food and African anticolonial resistance. Using an original decolonizing food studies approach and an unprecedented variety of unexplored Ethiopian and Italian sources, Cinotto describes the different meanings of different foods for different people at different points of the imperial food chain.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350436879 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350436831

ePub 9781350436855 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350436848 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Victoria Haskins, University of Newcastle, Australia & Emily J. Manktelow, University of Kent, UK & Fae Dussart, University of Sussex, UK & Jonathan Saha

Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions

Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century Christina Petterson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Australian National University, Australia

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares two Moravian missions, Greenland and Australia, to demonstrate how their practices evolved over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as part of a globalizing world and economy. Petterson situates the missions within the wider contexts of empire, colonization and a globalizing economy, shedding light on previously understudied archival documents.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 232 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350325241 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350122086

ePub 9781350122109 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350122093 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Picturing Citizenship

Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation

Fay Anderson & Melissa Miles, Monash University, Australia, Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia & Amanda Nettelbeck

Citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking to the wider historical processes through which citizenship and its associated ideas of rights and belonging have been imagined, debated and found lasting form, this collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship in settler national contexts from the 19th century to the present day.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 45 illus

HB 9781350455887

£85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350455900 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350455894 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, Archivist at the State Library and Archives of Tasmania, Australia

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. This book examines how the Franklins and other explorer families engaged in science, exploration and the exchange of information in the early to mid-19th century. It follows the Franklins' journey, charting how they worked with intermediaries, imperial humanitarians and scientists, and shows how they used these experiences to claim a moral right to information.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350292970 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350292949

ePub 9781350292963 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350292956 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Galápagos

An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture

Randy Moore, University of Minnesota, USA

This encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galápagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to the challenges and issues the islands face today. In the mid-1800s Charles Darwin famously worked on his theories of evolution and natural selection there. But who actually discovered the islands? Why didn't any country claim them for more than 200 years? And is ecotourism hurting or helping these mysterious islands?

UK February 2025 US February 2025 464 pages 50 bw illus

PB 9798765140123 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440864698

ePub 9798216088523 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440864704 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

A Modern History of Politics and Violence

Raul Cârstocea, University of Leicester, UK & Paul Jackson, University of Northampton, UK

Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands

Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940

Edited by Petru Negura, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany, Andrei Cusco, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania & Svetlana Suveica, University of Göttingen, Germany

Bringing together an international cast of contributors, this book engages with popular responses to nationalising and state-building projects in Eastern Europe. The book uses several case studies to highlight, from a comparative perspective, the local population’s social and political peculiarities around national identification. It considers how these positions have changed over time and impacted the relationships between these neighbouring regions, which today make up parts of various independent states.

UK

HB 9781350443754 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350443747 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350443761 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence • Bloomsbury Academic

Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia

The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans

Carol S. Lilly, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA

As grave sites and memorials are increasingly being weaponized in conflicts across the globe, this timely book illuminates how the neglect of burial policies and politicization of cemeteries facilitated ethnicization of the dead and the desecration of graves and cemeteries during the Wars of Yugoslav Dissolution.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 344 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350285866 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350285828

ePub 9781350285842 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350285835 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Citizen-Driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War

Australian Aid during the 1971 Refugee Crisis

Rachel Stevens, Australian Catholic University, Australia

This open access book presents an international history of humanitarianism during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Examining the motivations, actions and competing interests of multiple humanitarian actors such as the Red Cross, Oxfam, grassroots NGOs and individuals, it analyses the impact of humanitarianism for refugees in the camps.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian Catholic University.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350381476 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350381445

ePub 9781350381469 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350381452 £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

Eloise Florence, Western Sydney University, Australia

Eloise Florence here turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the Anglo-American consciousness. Centered upon Teufelsberg and other Berlin sites, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American audiences. The issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memorializing war and trauma; remembering destruction as a means to advance or challenge traditional war mythologies; and curation as an entry point for tourists to reconsider the impact of British and American aerial raids, including modern drone warfare.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350269033 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350268999

ePub 9781350269019 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350269002 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence • Bloomsbury Academic

Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality

M. N. Roy and Fellow Anti-Colonial, Communist and Humanist Intellectuals, c. 1915 – 1960

Leonie Wolters, Freie University Berlin, Germany

As ideologies such as communism, fascism and various nationalisms vied for global domination during the first half of the 20th century, this book shows how a specific group of individualsa cosmopolitan elite- became representatives of those ideologies the world over. Centering on M.N Roy alongside several of his peers and competitors, this book uncovers the exclusive basis on which the universal claims of world-changing ideologies were made.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 272 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350373181 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350373150

ePub 9781350373174 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350373167 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic

Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran

The End of Informal Empire, 1941-53

Jack Taylor, Independent Researcher, UK

This book explores British policy in Iran against a backdrop of decolonisation, to demonstrate the central place this nation had in Britain’s postwar imperial reorientation. Focusing on the period leading up to Operation Ajax, it shows that although Iran was not part of Britain’s ‘rose coloured map’, it was a key part of the informal empire. Using a wealth of primary sources, this book shows how the US government intervened to restore Iranian autocracy, and therefore supplanted Britain as the foremost power in the Persian Gulf, bringing half a century of informal empire to a close.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321175 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350320581

ePub 9781350321168 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350321199 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Yiddish Voices

Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA & Alyssa Quint, Yeshiva University, USA

The Mother of Yiddish Theatre

Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska

Edited by Mikhl Yashinsky

This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska. Originally appearing in instalments in Yiddish in the Warsaw Jewish daily ‘Der Moment’, the memoirs are introduced and translated into English here for the first time. They cover the period from 1870 to 1897, reflecting on Kaminska’s childhood, how she navigated the move from shtetl to city, and staged underground Yiddish performances, first in the Russian Empire and, after World War One, openly and to great acclaim in independent Poland. The memoirs richly disclose the texture of everyday life for working Jewish women and the benefits and perils of their move from rural shtetls to more urban environments.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 328 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321076 £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781350321069 £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350321090 £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350321083 £15.29 / $15.29

Series: Yiddish Voices • Bloomsbury Academic

Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture

Edited by Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent, UK

Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering political interactions in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world; how can it be defined and what was unique about it?

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350227859 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350227828

ePub 9781350227842 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350227835 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Destruction of Dubova

Chronicle of a Dead City

Rokhl Faygnberg

Edited by Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Translated by Cynthia Madansky

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, this book – translated into English here for the first time – provides a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one Ukrainian shtetl during the Russian Civil War pogroms. Building on the most recent historiography on the Russian Civil War and antiJewish violence, Elissa Bemporad contextualizes the destruction of the shtetl within the political and military events of the war in the volume’s introduction. She explores perpetrators motivations and victim responses to the pogroms, and examines the original writing produced by Rokhl Faygnberg. Lastly, Bemporad discusses the different political and cultural purposes Faygnberg’s text has served at different times.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350517097 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350517103 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350517127 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350517110 • £15.29 / $15.29

Series: Yiddish Voices Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Renaissance of Feeling Erasmus and Emotion

Kirk Essary, University of Western Australia Offering a re-reading of Erasmus’ works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings whether they were theological, literary or otherwise. It argues that Erasmus’ conception of emotion was highly complex and richly diverse, going beyond the ‘religious’ sphere to natural philosophy, medicine and literacy. This book provides a new lens to study Erasmus' works and sheds light on how emotions were understood during the Renaissance.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350269828 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350269798

ePub 9781350269811 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350269804

• £76.50 / $76.50

Series: History of Emotions • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity

Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK & Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere, Finland

This first volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines the ambiguity of youth in the ancient world, depictions of youth in literature, adult views of the young, agency and experience of young people, and the broader social contexts in which the cultural histories of the ancient world played out. Overall, this volume offers a dynamic account of youth in the ancient world, providing a detailed study of the 500BCE500CE period, and allowing readers to trace representations and enactments of youth across time.

UK November 2024 US November 2024 264 pages 25 bw illus

HB 9781350032972 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335165 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350335158 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance

Edited by Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick, UK

Written by a diverse team of experts, this third volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores themes such as rites of passage, ideas about morality, youthful engagement with religion and the Reformations, and the experiences of young people. With analysis of the broader framework in which the cultural histories of the Renaissance played out, this volume combines detailed analysis of the 1450-1650 period with an examination of the representations and enactments of youth across time.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 280 pages

HB 9781350033016 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335202 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350335196 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire

Edited by David M. Pomfret, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Written by a team of experts, this fifth volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines youth as both a category and a lived experience, exploring the role of the young within imperial ideology, and the interactions of youthfulness with notions of progress and modernity. This volume analyses the broader social contexts in which the cultural histories of the Age of Empire played out, offering a detailed study of the years 1800-1920, and allowing readers to trace representations and enactments of youth across time.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350033054 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335288 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350335295 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Middle Ages

Edited by Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

This second volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines burgeoning global studies of the Middle Ages, which includes conceptions of the “Ages of Man” literature, travel and pilgrimage accounts, saints’ lives and conduct literature, canonical texts and lesser-known narratives, biblical drama and educational treatises, from China to the New World as well as medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, and the broader settings in which the cultural histories of youth in the Global Middle Ages played out.

UK November 2024 US November 2024 304 pages

HB 9781350032996 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335172 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350335189 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Adriana S. Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

This fourth volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores the connections between youth and Enlightenment as times of transition: between childhood and adulthood and from the premodern to the modern world. Youth embodied values cherished by the Enlightenment movement: nature, spontaneity, possibility, individuality. But the Enlightenment was an age of contrasts, and definitions and lived experiences of youth varied across regions and cultures and were always modulated by differences in gender, social rank, and ethnicity.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 296 pages

HB 9781350033030 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335271 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350335264 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

Edited by Simon Sleight, King's College London, UK & Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge, Canada

This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day.

With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout history using all six volumes of A Cultural History of Youth, or can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual period.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 304 pages

HB 9781350033078 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350335349 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350335356 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity

Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK

This volume balances traditional approaches towards education with the new history of education that tackles the topic from a much broader scope. The chapters integrate evidence from the Greek and the Roman world, next to Christian evidence from late antiquity.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350536944

• £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035010

ePub 9781350239005 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239012 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance

Edited by Jeroen J. H. Dekker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Education fueled the communication and knowledge society of the Renaissance. This period saw increasing investments in educational institutions to meet the growing demand for literacy in the context of a religiously divided Europe with growing cities and emerging central governments.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350536999 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035096

ePub 9781350239043 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239050 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

Edited by Heather Ellis, University

of Sheffield, UK

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350537026 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035201

ePub 9781350239142 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239159 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age

Edited by Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Georgetown University, USA

In the medieval world people learned, taught, worked, fought and prayed in social contexts that witnessed an expansion of literacy and learning. The chapters in this volume illustrate the extent to which medieval education formed the foundation of the modern educational enterprise.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, this volume presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350537002 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035034

ePub 9781350238763 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350238756 • £67.50 / $67.50

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A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna, Austria

The Age of Enlightenment is characterized by a growing belief in the human capacity to change the world. This volume shows how the educational endeavors of the period contributed to a thoroughly educationalized culture around 1800, the foundation of the modern nation state, which developed into the long 19th century. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, this volume presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350537040 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035157

ePub 9781350239111 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239128 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age

Edited by Judith Harford & Tom O’Donoghue

The twentieth century brought profound and farreaching changes to education systems globally in response to significant social, economic, and political transformation. This volume draws together leading historians of education to present themes that characterize the many educational developments since 1920. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350537019 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350035508

ePub 9781350239166 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239173 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Edited by Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Italy

This open access book A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. The flowering of alchemy in the Middle and Early Modern Ages had its roots in the chemical arts of antiquity.

The themes covered in this volume are theory and concepts; practice and experiment; laboratories and technology; culture and science; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9781350552036 • £25.99 / $35.95

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ePub 9781350251458 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350251472 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Bruce T. Moran

The volume covers the period from 1500 to 1700. This era in the history of chemistry was notable for natural philosophy, scientific discovery, and experimental method, and also as the high point of European alchemy - exemplified by the immensely popular writings of Paracelsus. Developments in the chemistry of metallurgy, medicine, distillation, and the applied arts encouraged attention to materials and techniques, linking theoretical speculation with practical know-how. Chemistry emerged as an academic discipline - supported by educational texts and based in classroom and laboratory instruction – and claimed a public place.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages

PB 9781350552081 • £25.99 / $35.95

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ePub 9781350251519 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350251502 • £67.50 / $67.50

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Peter J. Ramberg

The volume covers the period from 1815 to 1914. The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices. The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry. At the turn of the century, the discovery of radioactivity took hold of the public imagination, drawing chemistry closer to physics, even as it threatened to undermine the whole concept of atomism.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350552173 • £25.99 / $35.95

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ePub 9781350251557 • £67.50 / $91.79

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

Edited by Charles Burnett & Sébastien Moureau

The volume covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as ‘alchemy’. Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and commerce – alchemical practice largely focused on the production of new substances through various processes. At the same time, alchemy was deeply theoretical, exploring the development of mineralogy, the perfection of corruptible matter, the prolongation of life, and the cure of diseases.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350552043 • £25.99 / $35.95

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ePub 9781350251496 • £67.50 / $91.79

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy & Ursula Klein

The volume covers the period from 1700 to 1815. Already boasting a laboratory culture open to both manufacturing and commerce, Enlightenment chemistry now extended into academies and universities. Chemists studied myriad materials - derived from minerals, plants, and animals - and produced an increasing number of chemical substances such as acids, alkalis, and gases. New textbooks offered opportunities for classifying substances, rethinking old theories and elaborating new ones. By the end of the period – in Europe and across the globe - chemistry now embodied the promise of unifying practice and theory.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350552142 • £25.99 / $35.95

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age

Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK

The volume covers the period from 1914 to the present. The impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy has made this era the “Chemical Age”. Chemical science spread across the globe and slowly became more diversified in terms of its ethnic and gendered mix, but it became almost invisible in the West after the Oil Crisis of the 1970s. Whilst the chemical industry has clearly delivered many benefits to society— such as new materials and better drugs—it has been excoriated by critics for its impact on the environment.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages

PB 9781350552197 £25.99 / $35.95

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ePub 9781350251571 • £67.50 / $91.79

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The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity

Edited

by Clifford Ando, University of Chicago, USA, Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California, USA & Giulia Sissa, UCLA, USA

The essays in this volume of the award-winning 6-volume A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas. The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context. Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice.

UK

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ePub 9781350300934

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance

Edited by Jill Kraye, University of London,

UK

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explores the ways in which distinctively Renaissance ideas and a distinctively Renaissance culture emerged from the complex interaction of ancient and medieval influences. The emphasis is on the interplay between culture and ideas, observed at close quarters through studies of scholars, physicians, botanists, and scientists; popes, cardinals, and bishops; Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, and heretics; missionaries and Mughal administrators; artists, craftsmen, merchants, and butchers. Contributors to the volume look not only at philosophical, scientific, medical, pharmacological, astronomical, astrological, and cosmological treatises, but also at gardens, botanical collections and drawings, woodcuts, broadsides, frontispieces, peace treaties, and commercial contracts.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 272 pages 40 bw illus

HB 9781350007413 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300972 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300965 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire

Edited by James H. Johnson, Boston University, USA

Few major European writers of the nineteenth century addressed the topic of empire explicitly, but its components are present throughout their work: in science and religion, literature and the arts, and philosophy, politics, and economics. This volume in the awardwinning 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas, encompassing the period between the French Revolution and the First World War, offers a comprehensive account of nine central domains of thought in the long nineteenth century or “age of empire”. Employing recent approaches in cultural history, scholars from a variety of fields revisit well-known works and present less-familiar figures to assess the origins and impact of ideas in their national and global contexts.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 42 bw illus

HB 9781350007482 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350301016 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350301009 £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age

Edited by Dallas G. Denery, Bowdoin

College, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Reformation, which make up the Middle Ages. Each chapter investigates the ideas and practices associated with a specific theme— knowledge, the human self, ethics, politics, nature, religion, rhetoric, art, and history—in order to reveal the tangle of social, cultural, and religious factors that shaped, and were shaped by, medieval intellectual life. Central to this project is the need to read against the grain, revealing the limits and suppressions in both the medieval sources themselves and more recent scholarship on the period.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 45 bw illus

HB 9781350007406 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300941 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300958 • £67.50 / $67.50

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas focuses on the culture of the Enlightenment, long believed a time of enormous intellectual innovation and ferment. However elusive the precise connection between ideas and culture in this period, the emergent mixture resonated throughout the West and beyond. The book features essays by ten eminent scholars who consider nine different areas of intellectual investigation: knowledge, concepts of self, society and ethics, economics and politics, nature and natural law, religion, literature, the arts, and history. In all of these areas, Enlightenment culture meant the development of modern values sharply at odds with the Old Regime in which they were embedded.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781350007475 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300989 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300996 • £67.50 / $67.50

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age

Edited

by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas confronts the challenge of the narrative, symbolic, institutional, and conceptual architecture of the twentieth century, mostly in the Euro-American West. To this day our thought is defined by terms that the twentieth century set in motion—from modernity to the age of extremes, from nationalism to internationalism to decolonization, from dada to poststructuralism, from the expanding university to neoliberalism and the end of history. This book tracks nine categories: “Knowledge”, “The Human Self ”, “Ethics and Social Relations”, “Politics and Economies”, “Nature”, “Religion and the Divine”, “Language, Poetry, Rhetoric”, “The Arts”, and “History”. It asks in what ways the twentieth century fundamentally addressed and altered each of these categories.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 45 bw illus

HB 9781350007499 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350301023 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350301030 • £67.50 / $67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Modern Nigeria

Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi, IIE MSA, South Africa & Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi, Independent Scholar, South Africa

Discover Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, in this thematic encyclopedia that covers everything from geography and economics to etiquette and pop culture.

Chapters are organized thematically, examining a variety of topics. Each chapter begins with an overview essay, followed by a selection of encyclopedic entries that provide a more nuanced look at that facet of modern Nigeria. The main text is supplemented with sidebars that highlight additional high-interest topics. A collection of appendices rounds out the volume, offering short vignettes of daily life in the country, a glossary of key terms, statistical data, and a list of state holidays.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 400 pages • 13 bw tables

PB 9798765112052 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440865565

ePub 9798216172093 • £72.64 / $90.00

ePdf 9781440865572 • £72.64 / $72.64

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern France

Michael F. Leruth, College of William & Mary, USA

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to this influential nation. Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more. Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic. Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life."

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 544 pages

PB 9798765141144 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440855481

ePub 9798216186311 £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440855498 £79.83 / $79.83

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Modern Greece

Edited by Elaine Thomopoulos, Independent scholar, USA

There's more to Greece than its legacy as the birthplace of democracy and Western Philosophy. Discover what life is like in this contemporary European nation. Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more. Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic. Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life."

UK March 2025 US March 2025 432 pages 31 bw illus

PB 9798765141106 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9798216118565 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440854927 • £79.83 / $79.83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern Philippines

Patricio N. Abinales, University of HawaiiManoa, USA

This comprehensive thematic encyclopedia focuses on the Philippines, exploring this important island nation from a variety of perspectives. Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more. Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic. Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life."

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 424 pages

PB 9798765141120 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440860041

ePub 9798216118688 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440860058 • £79.83 / $79.83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern Germany

Wendell G. Johnson, Northern Illinois University, USA & Katharina Barbe, Northern Illinois University, USA

Explore what life is like in contemporary Germany, from its linguistic dialects to the famous Oktoberfest. Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more. Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic. Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life."

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 464 pages

PB 9798765141113 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440864537

ePub 9798216118558 £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440864544 £79.83 / $79.83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Writing Conceptual Histories

Edited by Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Pasi Ihalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Pasi Ihalainen and Jani Marjanen lead a group of world-renowned scholars to focus on the development and central concepts of conceptual histories. The book's innovative case study approach compares conceptual history with other approaches to history and provides students with a solid understanding of concepts of history in practice. This textbook explains the key theoretical notions of this multidisciplinary field and teaches students how this can be applied to the study of a variety of historical themes.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350287181 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350287174 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350287204 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350287198 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Writing History • Bloomsbury Academic

Social Bonds and Historical Time

Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell, Uppsala University, Sweden

This book analyses the social dimension of historical time, and explores how we emotionally and intellectually bind ourselves to the past, and project these ties onto our present and future. Gustafsson Chorell argues that historical time is inherently social, and that the nexus of past, present, and future is constructed through social mechanisms. Beginning with the concept of the ‘historical imaginary’, this book examines the theoretical shift from future-oriented to present-oriented models of time, and integrates insights from intellectual history, philosophy, and social theory.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350477223 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350477247 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350477230 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History

A Theory for the 21st

Century

Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil & Valdei Lopes de Araujo, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of ‘Updatism’, the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 144 pages • 14 bw illus

PB 9781350410725 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350410718

ePub 9781350410749 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350410732 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust

An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance

Alexis Herr, University of San Francisco, USA

This resource gives voice to the experiences of LGBTQ+ persons prior to, during, and after the Holocaust. Entries consider the lives of the persecuted and the persecutors alongside examinations of the attitudes and ideas that shaped their present and their prejudices; in short, how the German society at large came to condone, and at times participate in, the forceful arrest and disappearance of thousands of their fellow citizens. A chronology of key events, perspective essays, and primary sources further help shed light on the resilience and resistance of the LGBTQ+ community and the evolution of their persecution under the Nazis.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages • 18 bw

HB 9798216169758 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765111932 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798216169765 £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

The Holocaust in Paris

A Spatial and Oral History of Drancy

Stephanie Hesz-Wood

Hesz-Wood explores the city of Drancy from its initial conception in the 1930s by French architects Beaudouin and Lods as a model city, through eight decades of personal histories to understand how the once ground-breaking prefabricated social housing complex came to represent antithetic ideals—oscillating between a symbol of urban utopia and a place of incarceration and terror as a Nazi internment camp.

UK November 2025 US November 2025 208 pages 20 bw illus

HB 9781350453456 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350455085 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350455092 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

British First World War Propaganda

From A to Z

David Monger

Exploring 26 dedicated topics, this book delivers a comprehensive study of propaganda in Britain during the First World War. Combining analysis of the latest scholarship with discussion of primary propaganda sources, Monger provides a critical introduction to the diversity of First World War propaganda, in addition to an overview of the current state of the field. Examining subjects ranging from Duty and Jokes, to Kultur and Unofficial Propaganda, this book highlights how each form of propaganda was created and the ways it impacted its targets, whilst also crafting a narrative that links each topic from A to Z.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350386839 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350386846 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350413542 • £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350413559 £24.29 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

A Short History of the Wars of the Roses

Revised Edition

David Grummitt

Now in its 2nd edition, this book is an accessible history of the English civil wars of the mid-15th century. It offers a comprehensive account of the major political events, detailing the 30-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, and analysing the formal clashes of royalist and rebel armies, such as the battles at St Albans and Bosworth. Expanding on the successful 1st edition, the book has been updated to include new material on the struggle for Ireland, a new section on gender and the role of women, analysis of the role of chivalry, and more.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350457997 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350457980 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350458000 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350458017 £13.49 / $13.49

Series: Short Histories Bloomsbury Academic

British ‘Spy Fever’ in the First World War

Fearing the Enemy Within

Harry Richards, University of Portsmouth, UK

Following the declaration of war in 1914, German spies were sighted across Britain as a potent form of ‘spy fever’ supposedly gripped the nation. This book questions the extent to which British society was truly terrified of German spies and explores the broader impacts of secret warfare during the early stages of the First World War. Whereas previous studies of spy fever have taken a narrow view, arguing that it was entirely characterised by terror and hysteria, this book shows that it should encompass a wider variety of emotions and experiences.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350523432 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350523463 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350523456 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Admirals in Court

Discipline,

Honour and Naval Justice, 1778-1814

John Morrow, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

This book explores the courts martials of nine British flag officers during the American and French Wars in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Setting their experiences in the context of the naval courts martial system and considering their charging and conviction rate with other naval personnel in the period, it offers new insights into how the naval justice system worked at the top of society.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350467279 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350467293 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350467286 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Eastern Front in European Memory

On Victims and Heroes, 1945-2024

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Translated by Craig Patterson

This is the first comprehensive study to examine the place of the Eastern Front or Soviet-German War in European memory from a truly comparative perspective across Europe; it encompasses the Soviet and post-Soviet space, Germany (both GDR and FRG, and the Berlin Republic after 1990), Western Europe and Finland. Covering the whole post-war period to the present, with a particular emphasis on recent events, this book offers a cultural perspective on the different ways in which the politics of memory dictated by states interact with and are sometimes counteracted by grass-roots memory initiatives.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 35 bw illus

HB 9781350435995 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350436015 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350436008 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Great Sieges in World History

From Ancient Times to the 21st Century

Spencer C. Tucker, Senior fellow in military history for ABC-CLIO

This impressive collection provides readers with detailed coverage on 100 of the sieges that have had the biggest impact on world history, beginning with the Siege of Troy (1194–1184 BCE) and ending with the Siege of Mosul (2016–2017). In addition to providing basic factual information, this encyclopedia delves into the historical context and significance of each siege. Readers will be able to identify relationships between entries and observe both the gradual evolution of siege warfare over time, and compare and contrast siege characteristics within and among different historical time periods.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 320 pages

PB 9798765140130 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440868023

ePub 9798216091967 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440868030 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

John T. Kuehn, United States Army Command and General Staff College, USA

The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time. It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters, such as the Taiping Rebellion.

UK February 2025 US February 2025 408 pages 25 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9798765139998

Previously published in HB 9781440862687

ePub 9798216040798 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440862694 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern African Conflicts

An Encyclopedia of Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Terrorism

Edited by Timothy J. Stapleton, Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

Armed conflict represents a substantial part of African history since around 1960, yet this history is either insufficiently taught or overshadowed by negative stereotypes about African "tribal warfare." This encyclopedia provides concise historical information on conflicts that occurred in postcolonial Africa, covering types of conflicts from civil wars to conventional military engagements, the involvement of foreign powers, and themes such as women and war and genocide.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 432 pages

PB 9798765140161 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440869693

ePub 9798216118350 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440869709 • £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Conflict in the Holy Land

From Ancient Times to the Arab-Israeli Conflicts

Edited by Robert C. DiPrizio, United States Air Force Air Command and Staff College.

With more than 250 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Holy Land, including events, individuals, groups, places, and ideologies, this illuminating book will help students understand the volatile history of Palestine and Israel and its impact on the rest of the world. Also included are contributions from dozens of distinguished scholars and independent historians from a variety of disciplines, helping to build a fuller picture of the conflict from ancient times to the present.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 424 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9798765140116 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440867477

ePub 9798216064763 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440867484 £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Anthropocene Mobilities

Sustainable Travel and Caring for the Commons

Peter Cox

International development expert Peter Cox shows how individual choices about how to move from one place to another shape the ways we relate to the world and to each other, and in turn, how all this shapes us as people and ultimately affects worldwide problems. If we regularly opt for more physically active forms of transport, such as cycling or walking, we foster qualities needed for living less destructively: we foster good anthropocene citizenship

For its emphasis on the personal impacts of individual transport decisions and their relations to global social and environmental instability, Anthropocene Mobilities is ideal for students and informed readers eager to contribute to positive change in the world. For its novel application of Hartmut Rosa's theories to the field of mobilities studies, and for its developments of the concepts of anthropocene citizenship and mobile anthropocene citizens, it is also a must-read for scholars of international development, sociology, and environmental studies.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350464780 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350464742 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350464759 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350464766 • £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

Pandemic Policies and Resistance

Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19

Edited by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, Huron University College at Western University, Canada & Damien P. Gock

Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration and human mobilities, and care and social protection across Asia, Africa, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific. The chapters gathered here provide a comprehensive and intersectional perspective on how the pandemic affected, and continues to affect, women and girls of different ages, classes, races, ethnicities, and abilities.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350513617 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350513600 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350513624 £0.00 / $0.00

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Personalization and Digital Social Markets

Disrupting the Capitalist Economy

Tahir M. Nisar, University of Southampton, UK

Tahir Nisar presents a cogent, compelling account of recent developments and disruptions within the digital economy, and particularly within the industrial and service sectors. Through an original, overarching framework rooted in the concept of personalization and its antecedents, Nisar identifies new forms of relationships, both economic and social, among firms and customers.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 328 pages

HB 9781350444416 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350444423 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350444430 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Value Struggles

Looking at Capitalism through the Wine Glass

Stefano Ponte

In Value Struggles, Stefano Ponte offers a new and fundamental critique of contemporary capitalism and the inequalities it engenders. Over the course of a three part structure—the first of which lays the theoretical groundwork, the second of which provides empirically rich analysis of winescapes in South Africa and Italy, and the third of which draws out conclusions for other food and agriculture industries—this book explains how power is exercised in contemporary capitalism, by whom, and with what consequences for producers, workers and nature.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark (Social Sciences and Business).

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Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonizing WesternIndigenous Dialogues

Interwoven Epistemologies for Multiple Modernities

Edited by Karsten Kiewitt, University of Applied Sciences Clara Hoffbauer Potsdam, Germany, Ronald Lutz, University of Applied Sciences of Erfurt, Germany, Gregory Cajete, University of New Mexico, USA, Maria do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Scalabrinian Centre for Migration Studies (CSEM), Brazil & Ditlhake

Kefilwe Johanna, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

This groundbreaking book offers a unique collection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to decolonizing international development and its approaches to major issues such as pandemics, global warming, and ever-growing inequality. It provides a unique, rare forum for discourse between the expressive potentials of differing world views, and ultimately, for developing cooperation in the terms of Eisenstein’s notion of interbeing, which counteracts the “History of Separation” between nature and culture and between Global South and Global North.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 288 pages

HB 9781350425200 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350425217 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350425224 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work

Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research

Edited by Robel Afeworki Abay, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany, Anna-Lisa Klages, Sara Rodríguez Lugo & Tanja Kleibl, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany

This groundbreaking collection showcases still-overlooked decolonial approaches to social work research and education. It is a must-read for all scholars and students of social work, and particularly for those interested in issues related to diversity, pedagogy, or the history of the profession. It is also of keen interest for practitioners wishing to cast a critical eye on their own education and practice.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages

HB 9781350419223 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350419216 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350419209 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Economies of Care

Market Women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh, University of Exeter, UK

In this major intervention in feminist anthropology - which remains largely rooted in western feminist ideologies - open access book Economies of Care examines emotional aspects of economic life in the marketplaces of Papua New Guinea; where market women’s labour is a nexus not only for gender relations, but also for wider spiritual, cosmological and reciprocal ones. What role do emotions and care for others play in the relational economy in which this marketplace is embedded?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350320901 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350320918 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350320925 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

A Taxing Journey

How Civic Actors Influence Tax Policy

Edited by Paolo de Renzio, School of Public and Business Administration of Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil

This open access book examines how civic organizations can influence tax policy and administration in ways that benefit ordinary citizens through in-depth case studies from a wide range of countries including France, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, Uganda, and the United States. These examples, covering a range of lower and higher income countries, across many aspects of tax systems, give us useful examples to build on by demonstrating that citizens everywhere can influence tax policy and ultimately secure fairer societies.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350344655 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781350344624 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350344631 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law

John Linarelli, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation

Law and Technology

Edited by Matthias Haentjens, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK & Ilya Kokorin, Leiden University, the Netherlands

This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services.

Leading experts in the fields of financial law, regulation, and technology examine the goals, rules and operation of MiCAR.

UK November 2025 • US January 2026 • 416 pages

HB 9781509970407 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509970414 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509970421 £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

UNCITRAL Model Laws on Digital Trade

Electronic Transferable Records, Digital Identity and Trust Services

Luca G Castellani, UNCITRAL Secretariat, Austria

This book provides an analysis of two UNCITRAL texts: the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) and the Model Law on the Use and Cross-border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services (MLIT).

The book discusses core MLETR provisions such as those on scope of application, functional equivalence, and reliability standards. It illustrates variations in enactment techniques and substantive content in laws enacting MLETR, including in France, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages

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The Governance of Macroprudential Policy

How to Build Regulatory Legitimacy

Through a Social Justice Approach

Tracy C Maguze, Pew Charitable Trusts, USA

This book critically examines the theoretical foundations and legal framework for macroprudential policy, its tools and governance in the UK, the US, and the EU. It goes deeper into a normative discussion of the legitimacy of macroprudential policy in these jurisdictions, where the mandate for maintaining financial stability has been delegated to independent authorities.

By proposing that macroprudential policymakers should have a social justice mandate alongside their financial stability mandate, as well as legal mechanisms for operationalising the added authority, the book contributes to the growing discourse on the role of social justice in public policy.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781509968435 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509968398

ePub 9781509968404 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509968411 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

Transnational Mortgage Law

Reconstructing the Global Framework for Housing Finance

Guido Comparato, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK & Irina Domurath, University Adolfo Ibañez, Chile

This book uncovers the legal principles and rules around mortgages devised by various institutions beyond the national dimension.

Mortgages have become a transferable commodity with the potential to affect international financial stability and consumer welfare, and are now being subject to a process of transnationalisation.

The book reconstructs the development of mortgage law and considers its interaction with transnational law. It highlights the emergence of new policy objectives and rationales for regulation that have led to changes in the structure and functions of mortgage laws, identifying tensions between the goals of risk mitigation, financial stability, consumer protection, and housing justice.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509983063 • £90.00 / $120.00

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A Socio-Legal Theory of Money for the Digital Commercial Society

A New Analytical Framework to Understand Cryptoassets

Israel Cedillo Lazcano, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico

This book poses the question: do we need a new body of regulations and the constitution of new regulatory agents to face the evolution of money in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

After the Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent introduction of Distributed Ledger Technologies in monetary matters, multiple opinions claim that we are in the middle of a financial revolution that will eliminate the need for central banks and other financial institutions to form bonds of trust on our behalf. In contrast to these arguments, this book argues that we are not witnessing a revolutionary expression, but an evolutionary one that we can trace back to the very origin of money.

Accordingly, the book provides academics, regulators, and policy makers with a multidisciplinary analysis that includes elements, such as the relevance of intellectual property rights, which are disregarded in the legal analysis of money. Furthermore, the book proposes the idea that traditional analyses on the exercise of the lex monetae ignore the role of inside monies and technological infrastructures developed and supported by the private sector, as exemplified in the evolution of the cryptoassets market and in cases such as Banco de Portugal v Waterlow & Sons.

The book puts forward a proposal for the design and regulation of new payment systems and invites the reader to look beyond the dissemination of individual Distributed Ledger Technologies like Bitcoin.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 288 pages

PB 9781509969678 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509969685

ePub 9781509969692 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509969708 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

The Art Law Library

Ruth Redmond-Cooper, Institute of Art and Law, UK

Beyond Restitution

Exploring the Stories of Cultural Objects

After their Return

Kristin Hausler, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK & Elke Selter, ALIPH, Switzerland

This open access book offers a unique perspective on the repatriation of cultural objects by focusing on the aftermath of the return processes.

It tells the story of 7 cultural objects that were housed in European institutions and returned to countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509982523

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ePub 9781509982530 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509982547 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: The Art Law Library • Hart Publishing

Corporate Finance Law

Principles and Policy

Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK & Jennifer Payne, University of Oxford, UK

This acclaimed book provides a discussion of key issues in corporate finance law. One of the book’s distinctive features is its equal coverage of the equity and debt sides of corporate finance law. The book covers a broad range of topics regarding the debt and equityraising choices of companies of all sizes, and the mechanisms by which those providing capital are protected. Each chapter provides a critical analysis of the present law to enable the reader to understand the tensions in this area, and the attempts by the legislature, regulators, the courts, and the parties involved, to deal with them.

UK

ePdf 9781509979721 £53.99 / $53.99

Hart Publishing

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law A Comparative Study

Reza Beheshti, University of Nottingham, UK

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer.

The book concentrates on four prominent legal regimes, namely the UK sales law, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG), the American Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016 (UPICC).

Providing access to, and analysis of, cases and arbitral decisions from all over the world, the book scrutinises the strengths and weaknesses of buyers’ remedies through comparative and normative examination.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781509972319 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509940462

ePub 9781509940479 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509940486 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Digitising Cultural Heritage Clashes with Copyright Law

Pinar Oruç, University of Manchester, UK

This book investigates the role played by copyright on the digitisation of cultural heritage from 3 angles: the theoretical differences between cultural property law and copyright; a comparative analysis of the EU, the UK, and the USA; and the analysis of current practices, based on empirical research.

As heritage digitisation projects are becoming increasingly common, the impact of copyright is also becoming more problematic. The book introduces the reader to the debates on cultural heritage and copyright implications of 2D and 3D scanning; virtual and augmented reality; text and data mining; and artificial intelligence.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9781509959280 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509959297 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509959303 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: The Art Law Library • Hart Publishing

Corporate Restructuring Law in Flux

Edited

by Jennifer Payne &

Kristin

van

Zwieten,

University of Oxford, UK

This book analyses recent developments in English corporate restructuring law, exploring questions around the design of domestic restructuring laws and their application in cross-border cases.

It focuses on an important granular question in the design of domestic restructuring rules; it considers the changes to English law at a more ‘macro’ level, drawing on comparative and theoretical insights; and considers thorny questions raised more generally by restructuring law reform efforts over the past decade, both in England and abroad.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781509978380 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509978397 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509978403 • £108.00 / $108.00

Hart Publishing

Digital Platforms, Competition Law, and Regulation

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Kalpana Tyagi, Anselm Kamperman Sanders & Caroline Cauffman, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

This open access book offers a comparative perspective on competition law challenges presented by the converged digital markets. It provides a rigorous discussion of reasons why regulatory responses may fall short.

Part 1 offers an inter-disciplinary perspective on the most recent legislative solutions in the European Union, namely, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the Data Act. Part 2 offers competition and regulatory responses to these ever-emerging digital challenges by the UK, Latin American, Indian and Chinese regulators. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK August 2025 US August 2025 296 pages

PB 9781509969371 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509969388

ePub 9781509969395 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509969401 • £00.00 / $00.00

Hart Publishing

Constitutionalism in Asia

Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore & Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore & Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore

The Basic Structure Doctrine in Malaysia Themes and Perspectives

Edited by Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore & HP Lee, Monash University, Australia

This book presents an in-depth interrogation of the theory and application of the Basic Structure Doctrine in the Federation of Malaysia.

This collection of essays responds to this extremely important debate on the limits of constitutional amendments as a form of constitutionmaking in Malaysia by considering the theory behind the Basic Structure Doctrine and critically examining how it has been harnessed by the Federal Court and by other political actors – most notably Islamists and secularists; and royalists and republicans – on the ground.

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On the Law of Speaking Freely

Adam Tomkins, University of Glasgow, UK

This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by examining where the idea of free expression came from in the first place, applying the lessons of the past to address the challenges of the present.

It offers not just insights but answers to these and other such vital questions by roaming widely over the law of free speech, from English common law to the European Convention on Human Rights via the US First Amendment.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 320 pages

PB 9781509972104 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781509972098 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781509972111 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781509972128 • £22.49 / $22.49

Hart Publishing

Emerging Constitutionalism in South Sudan Challenges and Opportunities

Mark A W Deng, University of Melbourne, Australia

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the emerging constitutionalism in South Sudan and the challenges it faces.

It critically analyses the constitution-making processes that occurred in South Sudan between 2005 and 2011, finding that there was a failure of constitutional discourse. It goes on to analyse how the constitution is being implemented. It finds that, despite the clear division of powers and functions between the national government and the sub-national governments, what has emerged in South Sudan in the post-constitution-making period is a form of coercive centralism where the national government controls much of the political decision-making process.

UK

Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

Andrew Harding, National University of Singapore

This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countriesIndonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.

The books aregues that these states have used various forms of subsidiarity for dealing with ethnic and religious pluralism and the social diversity for which Southeast Asia is especially noted. A silent revolution has occurred in which our view of these states as highly centralised ‘developmental states’ is in need of serious modification. Southeast Asia, the book argues, presents a high degree of originality in the framing of territorial governance.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781509961887 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509961849

ePub 9781509961856 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509961863 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Constitutionalism in Asia • Hart Publishing

Regency, Counsellors of State, and the Future of the Modern Monarchy

Craig Prescott, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This book provides a complete history of the Regency Acts and Counsellors of State.

It outlines why the position was created in the early 20th century, how the question of a regency and Counsellors of State became entangled with the abdication of Edward VIII, and how the position became a crucial feature of the reign of Elizabeth II.

Charles III is known to favour a “slimmed down”, more flexible, modern monarchy. Reforming the positions of Counsellors of State and regent could be part of this whilst ensuring that the modern monarchy continues to fulfil its constitutional duties.

UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 224 pages

HB 9781509976904 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509976911 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509976928 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law Hart Publishing

Rethinking Legitimacy Courts, Constitutions and Politics

Allan C Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

This book presents a new perspective on the debate around legitimacy, politics and constitutional law in Supreme Courts.

Moving away from the troubling perception that Supreme Courts are trampling on the wrong side of the law/politics divide, it accepts and defends the critical claim that constitutional law is intrinsically and inescapably politics: in style, substance and outcomes.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781509985326 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509985333 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509985340 £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Small State Constitutionalism

Edited by Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales, Australia & Elisabeth Perham, University of New South Wales, Australia

This volume addresses the important, but undernoticed, question of the impact of state size and scale for constitutional law and governance, and brings together leading global scholars to focus on the lessons from a range of small states and jurisdictions in this context.

The collection features contributions by scholars living and working across the Global South and North, and includes attention to the constitutional experiences of small states and jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and Oceania that have not received much coverage in the literature.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 400 pages

HB 9781509979769 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509979776 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509979783 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

The Language of Comparative Constitutional Law

Questioning Hegemonies

Edited by Erika Arban, University of Melbourne, Australia, Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University & Jeong-In Yun, Korea University, South Korea

This volume examines the impact and salience of language in the field of comparative constitutional law. It addresses the epistemological and conceptual implications of English as the lingua franca and the related global influence of Anglophone jurisdictions in orienting the discourse. It does this through the identification of concepts, designs and ideas that warrant engagement and exploration also outside of those origin jurisdictions. In doing so, the volume underscores that language is not a neutral device but can produce hegemonic pressures and expectations.

UK October 2025

• US October 2025 • 464 pages

HB 9781509983933

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509983940 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509983957 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Judicial Review and Electoral Law in a Global Perspective

Edited by Cristina Fasone, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy, Edmondo Mostacci, University of Genoa, Italy & Graziella Romeo, Bocconi University, Italy

This book fills a gap in constitutional law by investigating the global trend towards substantive constitutional adjudication of electoral legislation. On what premises is this judicial scrutiny grounded, what can explain the trend, and with what consequences for representative democracy?

Given the global reach, the combination of theoretical and practical approaches, and the comparative assessment provided, this work is of interest for academics in the field of law, political science and philosophy, and for policy-makers and judges in constitutional democracies across the continents.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 392 pages

PB 9781509957927 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509957880

ePub 9781509957897

• £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509957903 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law • Hart Publishing

The Irish Court of Appeal

The First Decade of an Intermediate

Appellate Court

Edited by Mark Coen, University College Dublin, Ireland & Noel McGrath, University College Dublin, Ireland

This book examines intermediate appellate courts by using the Irish Court of Appeal as a case study.

Intermediate appellate courts are often overlooked in legal scholarship, which tends to focus on apex courts, most frequently national supreme courts. However, intermediate appellate courts perform a series of vital functions, including error prevention and the development of doctrine, and ensuring that apex courts are free to concentrate on issues of exceptional public importance. The significance of intermediate appellate courts has increased in recent decades in tandem with an increase in the volume and complexity of litigation in many countries.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 464 pages

HB 9781509978908 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509978892 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509978885 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation – Comparative Perspectives

Volume 2: Connections and Analysis

Edited by Matthias Klatt, University of Graz, Austria

This book is part of a 2-volume set that provides an in-depth investigation into the canon of constitutionally conforming interpretation. The 2 volumes analyse the canon’s employ in the national, supranational and international context and theoretically reflects on the issues raised.

The book considers overarching issues, such as the canon’s relation to constitutional amendments or global constitutionalism and is rounded off by a comparative analysis. Together with volume 1, which gathers national reports, this book sets the stage for cross-national discourse.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781509953806 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781509953813 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781509953820 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory Hart Publishing

Demoicratic Authority

On the Nature and Grounds of the EU’s Right to Rule

Josef Weinzierl, Bavarian Judiciary, Germany

What is the nature of EU’s authority? This book explores this question, and is much needed given the increased scrutiny of the EU's actions in the face of growing nationalism and various other internal and external challenges.

By setting out an original account of the preferred moral standard to evaluate such authority, ie demoicratic authority, it illustrates how that standard affects the practical reasoning of those subject to the EU’s authority. Theoretically significant, the book has important practical value as legitimacy challenges in the EU increase. Constitutional lawyers and theorists, as well as political scientists will welcome this innovative work.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 200 pages

PB 9781509965137 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509965045

ePub 9781509965052 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509965069 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law • Hart Publishing

AI and the Rule of Law

The Necessary Evolution of a Concept

Paul Burgess, Monash University, Australia

This book considers the ways in which the concept of the rule of law will need to evolve in order to ensure that the exercise of power by Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not become arbitrary and does not proceed unchecked. It presents the rule of law and its impact on the past and the present; considers what AI is, what it does, and what it might become in future; and looks at how AI will need to be harnessed to allow power to be exercised more effectively in the future.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9781509963218 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509963171

ePub 9781509963188 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509963195 £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia

Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement

Andrew Edgar, University of Sydney, Australia

This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.

This book has two aims. The first is to explain the systems of parliamentary scrutiny in the UK and Australia and their historical development. The second aim is to examine recent developments in regulation-making that avoid or minimise this safeguard.

The book contributes to public law in the UK and Australia by analysing recent developments that involve executive over-reach, by reference to the historical development of parliamentary checks on regulation-making.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 232 pages

PB 9781509972289 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509972241

ePub 9781509972258 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509972265 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

EU Consumer Protection in Cloud Computing Contracts

Consumers in the Cloud Tomasz Dolny, European Commission, Belgium

This book assesses whether EU consumer law effectively protects consumers in cloud computing contracts.

From music subscriptions and streaming services to online gaming and social networks, cloud-based services are an integral part of our daily lives. Understanding the legal landscape of cloud computing is therefore crucial.

The book looks at the entire lifecycle of a cloud computing contract, highlighting critical consumer problems, such as unclear information, service availability, data integrity, and unbalanced contract terms.

Written for legal scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and market participants, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of EU law provisions on cloud computing contracts.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509985098 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509985081 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509985074 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Pandemocracy in Latin America

Revisiting the Political and Constitutional Dimension of the Pandemic

Edited by Pablo Riberi, National University of Cordoba, Argentina

Adopting a global-south perspective, this book explores the constitutional, political, and institutional measures that have paved the way for several aggressive state policies in various Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributions provide a detailed review of the democratic decay and the ‘rule of law’ impairment in many countries of the region. The book goes beyond mere observation and explores all the main theoretical elements that can enhance a more comprehensive understanding of the political and normative impact of the pandemic.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9781509965311 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509965274

ePub 9781509965281 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509965298 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Residential Construction Law

The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

Philip Britton, formerly King's College London, UK, Matthew Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia, Deirdre Ní Fhloinn, Bar of Ireland & Kim Vernau, Women’s Pioneer Housing, UK

This acclaimed book is the first of its kind to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction.

The updated edition addresses two fundamental questions: what assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers, including renters) of homes that construction work will comply with applicable standards of design, safety and build quality? And what forms of redress can residents expect, when, often long after completion of construction, they discover defects?

The book addresses these central issues in a comparative context across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 864 pages

HB 9781509975884 • £190.00 / $260.00

ePub 9781509975891 • £171.00 / $232.19

ePdf 9781509975907 • £171.00 / $171.00

Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in Consumer Law

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand & Iain Ramsay, University of Kent, UK (Emeritus)

This book analyses the history of the common law foundations of consumer law, and encourages readers to rethink the role that consumer law plays in our society. The collection also includes a unique socio-legal perspective, considering the role that consumer law has played in addressing racial discrimination, LGBTQ challenges and the rights of women.

The book demonstrates the theoretical and practical significance of consumer law through a wide range of contributions by distinguished authors from the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Australia.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 448 pages

PB 9781509952632 • £54.99 / $74.95

Previously published in HB 9781509952298

ePub 9781509952304 £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781509952311 £99.00 / $99.00

Series: Landmark Cases Hart Publishing

UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit

Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Edited by Gemma Davies, Durham University, UK & Helena Carrapico, Northumbria University, UK

This unique collection offers an in-depth understanding of UK-EU police and judicial cooperation post-Brexit, an under-explored field. It considers the legal and political operation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and its implications for a wide number of policy areas. As well as critiquing its operation, contributors suggest reforms that would improve police and judicial cooperation between the UK and the EU.

This discussion is balanced against practical considerations, with short chapters setting out practitioners’ perspectives on the TCA.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 400 pages

HB 9781509966448 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509966455 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509966462 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Hart Studies in European Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

Disabling Criminal Justice

The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System

Marie Tidball, University of Oxford, UK

This book considers the governance of defendants and offenders with autism in the UK courts.

Drawing on a rigorously-researched case study of adult defendants with autism, the book brings together legal and policy literature, criminological and criminal justice theory with disability studies to provide insight into the ‘dividing practices’ that affect the governance of disabled defendants' conduct.

Using interviews with elites and practitioners, and court observation of 8 adult defendants with autism, the book investigates why the status of defendants with autism as disabled under the Equality Act 2010 has been overlooked in criminal justice policy and criminal court decision-making.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9781509956982 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509956944

ePub 9781509956951 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956968 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Contemporary Challenges to Criminal Justice

Liber Amicorum for Ralph Henham

Edited by Paul Behrens, University of Edinburgh, UK

This study provides a critical examination of seminal issues within the main areas of criminal justice: its theoretical framework, transnational, and international criminal law. It examines the impact of 'public morality' on sentencing policy, murder and the mandatory life sentence, genocide, and the notion of magnitude and incitement to terrorism. Taking an approach that is fully integrated in contemporary criminal justice scholarship, it offers a diverse and expert perspective. With a comprehensive introduction and conclusion drawing the various strands together, it provides a rigorous, coherent overview of the key issues in play in contemporary international criminal justice.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 464 pages

PB 9781509948666 • £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9781509948628

ePub 9781509948635 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509948642 £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law Hart Publishing

The Inquest Book

The Law of Coroners and Inquests

Caroline Cross, 1 Crown Office Row, UK & Sir Neil Garnham, Queen’s Bench Division, High Court, UK

Edited by Rajkiran Arhestey, 1 Crown Office Row, UK & Matthew Hill, 1 Crown Office Row, UK

This is the 2nd edition of the only practical guide to inquests which combines a general overview, relevant legislation, and case law summaries in one book. It is structured according to the elements of an inquest or the subject matter of a coroner’s investigation.

The new edition includes 'mini' indices within the book and covers recent key legal developments including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the narrowing in scope of Article 2 ECHR; changes in the standard of proof for suicide and unlawful killing; and learnings from high-profile inquests, including the Hillsborough disaster and the Manchester bombing.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 896 pages

HB 9781509962273 £180.00 / $245.00

ePub 9781509962280 £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9781509962297 £162.00 / $162.00

Hart Publishing

Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law

Bridging the Accountability Gap

Luigi Daniele, Nottingham Law School, UK

The book identifies the unresolved legal problems surrounding the prevention and control of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks as international war crimes, critically unpacking the macroscopic implications of these problems for international adjudications. The author demonstrates that the Rome Statute of the ICC, legibus sic stantibus, does not allow to prosecute and punish the most recurring forms of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, crucially impairing the ability of this institution to pursue the objectives declared by its founding treaty. It concludes by offering two amendment proposals for the Rome Statute to bridge the gaps and overcome the antinomies identified.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9781509976072 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509976089 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509976096 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

The Aarhus Convention Coming of Age?

Edited by Gregory Jones KC, Francis Taylor Building, UK & Aine Ryall, University College Cork, Ireland

21 years since its adoption, this edited collection reflects on the Convention’s impact across a number of key themes. It explores the Convention’s role in the legal and political order; its jurisdictional impact; the role of the Compliance Committee; Aarhus and the European Union; Aarhus and Brexit. It also looks at the Convention’s national impact, charting its application in practice in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. It addresses procedural issues such as standing, costs and remedies. Addressing questions of origins and scope to policy and practice, all environmental lawyers will find this collection invaluable.

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HB

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Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 2

The Substantive Cases

Edited by Paul Craig, University of Oxford, UK & Robert Schütze, Durham University, UK

This two-volume set on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.

Volume 2 introduces the ‘substantive cases’ that have shaped the Union’s internal market and internal or external policies. Each case is placed in its historical and doctrinal context, and each chapter presents the history of its reception by the Court and academia.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 448 pages

HB 9781509954179 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509954186 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509954193 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Landmark Cases • Hart Publishing

The European Judiciary A Community of Law and a Community of Judges

Edited by Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain & Joan Solanes Mullor, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

In this open access book, leading Spanish scholars explore the role and function of the judicial levels of interaction of the European integration process. It firstly looks at institutional dimension and the role of the European Court of Human Rights. It then goes on to examine the institutional challenges for the Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally it looks at the evolution and reaction of constitutional courts in the aftermath of the European integration process.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509975709 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509975716 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509975723 £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Modern Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 1

The Constitutional Cases

Edited by Paul Craig, University of Oxford, UK & Robert Schütze, Durham University, UK

This 2-volume work on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.

Volume 1 explores the ‘constitutional cases’ that have come to define the legal nature and competences of the Union.

UK May 2025 US May 2025 432 pages

HB 9781509954124 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509954131 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509954148 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Landmark Cases • Hart Publishing

Actors and Roles in EU Disability Law

Edited by Delia Ferri, Maynooth University, Ireland & Eva S Krolla, Maynooth University, Ireland

This open access book looks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry. It provides novel approaches to studying EU disability law. The book takes a contextual approach, both engaging with current debates and policies and providing rigorous legal analysis. In addition to looking at the ‘how’ of the field’s development, it addresses the ‘who’ by charting the key stakeholders in the field.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781509984275 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509984282 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509984299 £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Modern Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

The Evolving Governance of EU Competition Law in a Time of Disruptions

A Constitutional Perspective

Edited by Carlo Maria Colombo, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Kathryn Wright, University of York, UK & Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

This book analyses the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times. Economic crises, the climate emergency, digitalisation, and geopolitical and democratic threats all have societal and economic effects on the EU. This brings about significant governance and constitutional challenges by questioning how the governance of EU competition law is being transformed to respond and adapt. The essays in this collection focus on the substantive and procedural developments across the three main policy areas of EU competition law: antitrust, merger control and State aid. It will be invaluable for EU constitutional and competition lawyers.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 368 pages

PB 9781509951833 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951796

ePub 9781509951802 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509951819 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Shaping a Genuine Area of Freedom,

Security and Justice

Edited by Koen Lenaerts, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Eugene Regan, Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Ulla Neergaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Karsten Engsig Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

In recent years the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) has occupied a prominent place in the working of the European Union and by extension the Court of Justice (CJEU). This book looks at the framework of the AFSJ, its workings, and finally the impact of EU law upon it, providing remarkable insights into the importance of the AFSJ and how EU law has evolved.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 392 pages

HB 9781509975112 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509975129 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509975136 • £108.00 / $108.00

Hart Publishing

Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism

Parliamentary Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation

Giovanni Rizzoni, LUISS University of Rome, Italy

This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge.

The book argues that the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does so by studying the ‘encyclopaedic patterns’ underlying modern parliamentarism. Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and democratic decision-making.

This is a truly innovative book; challenging, provocative and asking crucial questions of how parliaments work and legislate.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781509964000 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509963911

ePub 9781509963928 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509963935 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Parliamentary Democracy in Europe Hart Publishing

Building Bridges in European and Human Rights Law

Essays in Honour and Memory of Paul Heim CMG

Edited by Michael-James Clifton, EFTA Court, Luxembourg, Suzanne Rab, Serle Court Chambers, UK & David Scorey KC, Essex Court, UK

This unique book, formed as a series of essays, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European and human rights law. Drawing on the contributions of international judges, leading practitioners, and officials, the collection provides personal reflections and expertise on selected aspects of European and human rights law. In so doing, it provides multi-level perspectives on the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EFTA Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court, and the interaction of their jurisprudence with domestic law.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9781509952625 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509952588

ePub 9781509952595 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509952601 £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

The Evolution of the EU Treaties From the Treaties of Rome to the Conference on the Future of Europe

Klemens H Fischer, University of Cologne, Germany

This book explores how the EU Treaties evolved, placing them within the context of their time. It illustrates how they reacted to the social, political and economic realities of their age, but also how they addressed future and foreseeable challenges. This helps to fully demonstrate the current constitutional landscape and to suggest how it might develop going forward. The book provides a comprehensive explanation of the development of EU policy from the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s to the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, which led to a tighter union and ultimately to Brexit.

UK September 2024 • US December 2024 • 432 pages

HB 9781509980147 • £120.00 / $160.00

Nomos/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva

How Europe Rules Global Sport

Edited by Antoine Duval, TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands, Alexander Krüger, Umeå University, Sweden & Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Sweden

This open access book explores the complexity of the lex sportiva, the transnational legal regime governing international sports. Contributors trace the embeddedness of the lex sportiva within national law, European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights, pointing out the fact that European legal processes are central when challenging the status quo as illustrated recently in the Semenya and Superleague cases.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 400 pages

PB 9781509971480 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509971442

ePub 9781509971459 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509971466 £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Swedish Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

Autonomy, Care and Family Law

Anna Heenan, University of Cambridge, UK

This book combines doctrinal, theoretical and original empirical data to consider different approaches to balancing paid work and caretaking.

The book considers how, given changing social trends, family law and policy should take account of caretaking responsibilities on parental separation. Crucially, it suggests that we need to rethink family law and policy by reference to a principle of care.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 192 pages

PB 9781509959372 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509959334

ePub 9781509959341 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959358 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

Privatizing Human Rights Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors

Philip Alston, New York University School of Law, USA, Bassam Khawaja, Human Rights Watch, USA, Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America, USA & Jackson Gandour, NYU School of Law, USA

Governments around the world are privatizing everything, with dramatic but largely ignored negative consequences for human rights. This open access book outlines the response that is urgently needed.

Building on the latest evidence and on specially commissioned case studies, the book develops a new approach to enable courts, UN treaty monitoring bodies, and NGOs to respond to the ever-growing threat that privatization poses to human rights.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK December 2025 US December 2025 304 pages

PB 9781509982578 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781509982585 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781509982592 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509982608 • £00.00 / $00.00

Hart Publishing

A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law

Paul England, Taylor Wessing, London, UK

This new edition offers a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law. This book uniquely addresses European patent law. Each chapter enables the common ground, and differences, between approaches to be assessed. In addition to featuring completely revised content on the fast-moving subject areas of FRAND and plausibility, and updates in all other areas of patent law, the 3rd edition includes for the first time fully integrated coverage of every substantive decision of the Unified Patent Court. A must-read for anyone working in the field of European patent law.

UK July 2025 • US August 2025 • 768 pages

HB 9781509981144 • £190.00 / $260.00

ePub 9781509981151 £171.00 / $232.19

ePdf 9781509981168 £171.00 / $171.00

Hart Publishing

Citizenship and Human Rights

From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: A New Framework

Christian H Kälin, Henley & Partners, UK

Can universal human rights and different national citizenship regimes be compatible? This book argues that they can’t. It explores whether the emergence of postnational models of citizenship that aim at decoupling human rights and citizenship succeed in overcoming tensions between the universal (multiculturalism; universal human rights; postnational values) and the particular (citizenship; borders; national values and diverse local narratives). The author argues that it is illegitimate to speak of universal human rights, universal human dignity, or universal social justice. It is only by recognising this reality that transformation of human rights and citizenship can be meaningfully undertaken.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781509950331 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509950249

ePub 9781509950256 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509950263 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Unified Patent Court Procedure A Commentary

Christof Augenstein, Preu Bohlig & Partner, Sabine Agé, Véron VA & Associés & Alex Wilson, Powell Gilbert

This commentary is focused on the procedure of the Unified Patent Court, and covers infringement and defences; proceedings and the UPC; the statutes of the UPCC; financial provisions and general provisions. It also explores languages of proceedings; proceedings before the Court; powers of the Court; appeals; decisions, implementation and operation of agreement. All patent lawyers will welcome this magisterial commentary.

UK September 2025 • US October 2025 • 1000 pages

HB 9781849464932 • £300.00 / $410.00

Beck/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

EU Copyright Law Harmonisation

An Empirical Analysis of National Courts Case Law

Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham, UK & Gilles Stupfler, University of Angers, France

This book provides the first comparative and empirical analysis of the state of harmonisation in EU copyright law in the 27 Member States, and the UK, at the level of national courts. The book provides detailed legal analyses and descriptive statistics per topic, per type of work, per country, across countries and over time supported by statistical analysis, making inferences for the future development of the law. Its findings are of crucial relevance for policymakers and the judiciary at EU and national level and will interest scholarly audiences in the UK, EU, EEA and beyond.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 448 pages

HB 9781509974849 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509974856 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509974863 £108.00 / $108.00

Hart Publishing

EU Global Value Chain Regulation

A Practical Guide

Josephine Norris, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This practical guide enables practitioners, compliance professionals, and anyone with an interest in the international dimension of supply chains to navigate the EU’s approach to regulating global value chains.

Written by a legal practitioner working for the European Commission, the book situates the EU’s approach to global value chain regulation in the framework of broader discussions on the complex interface between international trade law, international environmental law, and the UN sustainable development goals.

Structured as a contextualised, accessible guide, the book decodes the emerging EU regulatory landscape and offers a perspective on future developments in this legal field.

UK July 2025 • US September 2025 • 544 pages

HB 9781509977550 • £180.00 / $245.00

ePub 9781509977567 £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9781509977574 £162.00 / $162.00

Hart Publishing

Reforming Public Procurement Law

Liber Amicorum in Honour of Sue Arrowsmith

Edited by Annamaria La Chimia, University of Nottingham, UK & Martin Trybus, University of Birmingham, UK

This book honours the contribution of Sue Arrowsmith as the leading scholar in the field of public procurement law. Divided into 3 main parts – the UK, the EU, and the world – it focuses on central reform themes that have characterised the evolution of public procurement law and policy in the past decades. The chapters are written by experts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe with backgrounds in academia, legal practice, and international organisations. The reader is provided with a diverse set of insights into the objectives, approaches, priorities, and future direction of public procurement reform.

UK September 2025

• US September 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509968015 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509967971

ePub 9781509967988 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509968008 • £85.50 / $85.50

Conceptions of Data Protection and Privacy

Legal and Philosophical

Perspectives

Edited by Elisa Orrù, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany & Ralf Poscher, Max Planck Institute, Germany

This open access book provides a conceptual clarification of what data protection and privacy are about, compares the German, European, and US legal perspectives, and examines the social value of privacy amid political struggles and the AI revolution. Reseachers and legal practitioners will find insights into landmark EU and US constitutional decisions. Additionally, it is valuable for anyone seeking to understand the legal and philosophical foundations of globally influential regulations like the GDPR and the AI Act.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 512 pages

HB 9781509983728 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509983735 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509983742 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Hart Studies in Information Law and Regulation • Hart Publishing

Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration

A WTO, FTAs, and Competition Law Analysis

George A Papaconstantinou, European Commission, Belgium

This book provides a comprehensive study of the cutting-edge regulation of financial infrastructure and international economic integration.

It discusses how the liberalisation of financial market infrastructure is achieved within the WTO, Economic Integration Agreements, and EU competition law, exploring whether a more harmonious relationship between financial regulation and economic integration is feasible. The book demonstrates the existence of both structural barriers to trade and trade-facilitating tools that can impede and foster the integration of financial market infrastructure.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781509966790 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509966752

ePub 9781509966769 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966776 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law Hart Publishing

Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 17

To Govern or To Be Governed, That Is the Question

Edited by Eleni Kosta & Suzanne Nusselder, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Dara Hallinan, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany & Paul De Hert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This book examines the discourse and developments surrounding privacy and data protection in the digital realm, featuring papers and discussions from the 2024 CPDP.ai international conference.

The book features comprehensive discussions on the adequacy and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms established by the EU AI Act. It pays special attention to the risks to fundamental rights associated with AI usage by law enforcement agencies, examining whether the current legal framework sufficiently safeguards against these risks. Finally, the book provides an in-depth exploration of deepfake technology that generates nude images, and the role of AI in the EU’s migration management systems.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781509984015 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781509984008 • £49.50 / $67.49

ePdf 9781509983995 • £49.50 / $49.50

Series: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection • Hart Publishing

Digital Sovereignty and the Green Transition

EU Challenges in Times of War and Energy Crisis

Edited by Edoardo Celeste, Dublin City University, Ireland, Tamara Alvarez Robles, Universidad de León, Spain, Gaël Depoorter, Avignon Université, France & Tamara Favaro, University of Pisa, Italy

This book is the first investigation of the environmental impact of EU digital sovereignty strategies.

It maps the ambitions and limitations of EU digital strategic autonomy and explores the structural challenges underlying its relationship with sustainability objectives in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine and the consequent tensions in the EU energy sector.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9781509983629 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509983636 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509983643 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Mediterranean Digital Societies Law and

Technology

Edited by Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy

This open access book provides a Mediterranean perspective on digital societies, focusing on cultural heritage, tourism, smart city development, migration, humanitarian action management, maritime security, health data sharing, and the Mediterranean data space.

The book is a key resource for scholars who want to understand these topics from a Mediterranean, rather than an EU-centric perspective. It supports policy makers designing their digital strategies in the Mediterranean region, and considering the impact of data-driven technologies on society and their geo-political dimension.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK September 2025 US September 2025 208 pages

HB 9781509983674 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509983681 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509983698 • £00.00 / $00.00

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

Edited by Klaus Lörcher, Formerly of the European Trade Union Confederation, Belgium, Niklas Bruun, Hanken School of Economics, Finland & Ana Teresa Ribeiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights.

Part 1 analyses the main transversal questions, including substantive issues and all procedural elements. Part 2 deals with the specific provisions which are directly linked to the employment relation. Together, the chapters in this book empower the user to find answers to relevant and practical problems.

The book is an essential resource for academics and practitioners in labour law who are using international law instruments to enforce and improve workers’ rights.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 608 pages

HB 9781509984596 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781509984602 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781509984619 • £117.00 / $117.00

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Private Law and the Employment Contract

Edited by Alan Bogg, University of Bristol, UK & Paul S Davies, University College London, UK

This book brings together leading scholars from private law and employment law to reflect upon private law doctrines as they relate to the employment contract.

The essays in this book examine specific doctrinal issues against this dynamic backdrop of changing social, economic, and constitutional conditions. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue, these contributions explore the regulatory functions of private law doctrines at the cutting-edge of modern employment law.

As private law becomes the default regulation for most employment contracts in 21st-century labour markets across the world, this book is an essential resource for practitioners, judges, academics and students.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781509981588 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509981595 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509981601 • £81.00 / $81.00

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Labour Law and Economic Policy How Employment Rights Improve the Economy

Adrián Todolí-Signes, University of Valencia, Spain

This book changes the narrative of why we need labour standards. It studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, and economic growth.

Using case studies from across the EU, the UK, and the US, the book shows how the deregulation of labour markets harms innovation and the economy. It demonstrates that labour standards such as the minimum wage, sectoral collective bargaining and collective rights, protection against dismissal and discrimination, occupational risk prevention, and social security are necessary for the economy to function properly.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781509973927 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509973880

ePub 9781509973897 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509973903 • £76.50 / $76.50

Hart Publishing

World English

Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe

Edited by Mark Hill KC, University of Notre Dame London, UK & Lina Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

This edited collection examines the challenges, both apparent and real, faced by Muslim practice and Islamic belief within the legal and political framework of Europe.

The volume’s contributors range from academics at leading universities to former judges and politicians. Its twenty chapters focus on constitutional challenges, human rights with a focus on religious freedom, and securitisation and Islamophobia, while adopting supranational and comparative approaches.

This book will appeal not merely to law students in the United Kingdom and the European Union, but to anyone involved in diplomacy and international relations, including political scientists, lobbyists, and members of NGOs.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9781509966998 • £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9781509966950

ePub 9781509966967 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509966974 • £85.50 / $85.50

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Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present

Edited by Emily Gordon, St John’s College, UK, Charles Mitchell, University College London, UK & Ian Williams, University College London, UK

This is the first collection of historical essays to focus on law as a particular type of response to infectious disease outbreaks, exploring it has been not simply a value-neutral tool through which official power could be used unproblematically.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages

HB 9781509984442 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509984459 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509984466 • £85.50 / $85.50

Hart Publishing

Moral Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence

Maximilian Kiener, University of Oxford, UK

This book uses the 'Lorry Driver Paradox’, a novel puzzle, to explore and clarify our understanding of moral responsibility. It breaks new ground in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), and connects moral philosophy, legal theory, and AI ethics.

The book employs a paradox-driven methodology through a combination of legal and philosophical perspectives, and provides solutions to challenges around ‘responsibility gaps’ and trustworthy AI. It presents a novel conception of strict answerability, as opposed to strict liability, and argues that taking responsibility is a genuine normative power, like consenting or promising.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509956845 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509956852 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956869 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Law and Practical Reason Hart Publishing

The Legal History of the Church of England

From the Reformation to the Present

Edited by Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK & Stephen Coleman, Cardiff University, UK

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the established Church of England since the Reformation to the present day.

It explores the foundations of this body of law – the ecclesiastical law - and considers its crucial role in the development of the Church of England over the centuries.

Each chapter studies a broadly 50 year period, evaluating the significance of the legal landmarks for the development of church law, and its place in wider English society.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9781509973163 • £49.99 / $67.95

Previously published in HB 9781509973194

ePub 9781509973187 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509973170 • £90.00 / $90.00

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Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise

The Law That Never Was

Philip Bajon, Aston University, UK

This book analyses the informal decision-making process in the EU against the background of a gradually emerging European legal order.

Based on extensive multi-archival research in the UK, France, Germany, the Benelux countries and in Community institutions, the book explores the resistance against majority rule under the so-called Luxembourg Compromise of 1966.

Presenting a deeply revisionist account of European law and politics the book demonstrates how the Luxembourg arrangement served as a compromise between the Treaty text and political reality, as a counterweight to technocratic ideas, and as a bridge between irreconcilable divides over European unification.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 448 pages

HB 9781509982851 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509982844 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509982837 • £90.00 / $90.00

Hart Publishing

Sustaining Access to Justice

New Avenues for Costs and Funding

Edited by Xandra Kramer, Adriani Dori & María Carlota Ucín, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands & Masood Ahmed, University of Leicester, UK

This book explores the complex landscape of costs and funding of civil justice by weaving together normative considerations, regulatory shifts, and market dynamics.

The book considers the regulatory frameworks governing public and private funding, the rise of new trends and challenges in contemporary legal finance, and the potential of ADR and ODR procedures to streamline civil justice processes and expand access to justice.

By addressing the intersectionality of legal, economic, political, market and social dynamics, the book helps readers gain a better understanding of the inherent complexity of costs, funding, and their implications for access to justice.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages

HB 9781509981670

£90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509981663 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509981656 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Civil Justice Systems • Hart Publishing

Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Volume 2

Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania

Edited by Paul Wragg, University of Leeds, UK & András Koltay, University of Public Service, Hungary

In this ground-breaking two-volume set, worldleading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world’s press, its freedom, and its limits. The contributions in Volume 1 look at key jurisdictions in Europe; whereas Volume 2 goes beyond Europe to analyse the situation in key jurisdictions in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. Each volume can be used independently or as part of the complete set.

This work will be incredibly valuable to policy makers and academics who seek to capture the global picture for the purposes of effecting change.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781509950430 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509950393

ePub 9781509950409 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509950416 • £81.00 / $81.00

Hart Publishing

Studies in Private International Law - Asia

Medical Decision-Making with Children and Young People

Rebecca Limb, University of Southampton, UK. This book provides a timely and much-needed critical legal review of children’s participation in healthcare that goes beyond merely documenting the extent and scope of participation, and explores the importance, definition of, and barriers to their meaningful participation.

The book explores to what extent national law and international nonbinding conventions have created a ‘right’ to participation, studies the application of national law in clinical practice asking whether the law facilitates meaningful participation, and analyses the interaction between law and quasi-legal regulations. It will be useful for academics, children’s activists, and legal and clinical practitioners.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781509959969 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509959976 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959983 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Paul Beaumont, University of Stirling, UK & Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan

Private Law and Building Safety

Edited by Matthew Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia, Susan Bright, University of Oxford, UK, Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK & Andrew Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia

In this book, leading international building and private law experts provide a timely and unique analysis of the real-world problem of building safety, approached through the lens of private law. It explores the extent to which private law can be part of the solution to – as well as being part of the cause of – the building safety crisis which afflicts people around the world. The book offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars consideration of this vital yet under-considered aspect of the building safety crisis, along with new insights into the nature, limits and utility of private law.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages

HB 9781509976607 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509976614 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509976621 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Politics, Policy and Private Law

Volume II: Contract, Commercial and

Company Law

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Amy Goymour, University of Cambridge, UK, Janet O'Sullivan, University of Cambridge, UK & Sarah Worthington, University of Cambridge, UK

This ambitious and expert study explores the role of policy in shaping private law, focusing on equity, tort law and property law.

This second volume explores contract, commercial and corporate law, with chapters looking at corporate law and not-for-profit and unconscionable bargains to modern day transactions. The volumes also explore traditional private law areas through a novel lens, such as the gig economy, highlighting the similarities and differences across the different aspects of private law. This is a landmark and ambitious project undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781509961016 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509961023 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509961030 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Cambodian Private International Law

Nobumichi Teramura, University of Brunei Darussalam

This book is the leading reference on Cambodian private international law in English. The chapters apply a combination of common and civil law analytical perspectives and cover the whole of Cambodian private international law, including commercial matters, family law, succession, electronic commerce, intellectual property, competition (antitrust), and environmental disputes.

In addition to covering the traditional conflict of law areas of jurisdiction, applicable law (choice of law) and enforcement, the chapters also look into conflict of laws, questions arising in arbitration and assess Cambodia’s involvement in the harmonisation of private international law globally and regionally within ASEAN.

UK July 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages

HB 9781509954049

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ePub 9781509954056 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509954063 • £135.00 / $135.00

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

Private International Law in East Asia

From Imitation to Innovation and Exportation

Edited by Olivier Gaillard & Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland

This open access book examines the conflict of law rules in East Asian states. The book analyses in particular the shift in legal influence on, in, and within the East Asian region.

Parts 1 and 2 give a contextual overview of the legal regimes of China, Japan, and South Korea. Part 3 offers a detailed look at the conflict rules relevant to commercial law, while Part 4 examines the rules applying to family and succession law.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9781509970148 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509970100

ePub 9781509970117 £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509970124 £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia Hart Publishing

From Theory to Practice in Private International Law

Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen

Edited by Justin Borg-Barthet, Katarina Trimmings, Burcu Yüksel Ripley & Patricia Zivkovic, University of Aberdeen, UK

This book, compiled in honour of the work and life of Professor Jonathan Fitchen, brings together preeminent scholars from across the private international law world to address the discipline. The contributions in the book analyse a variety of conceptual and substantive problems in private international law and consider developments in the discipline, from conceptual analyses of the evolving nature and scope of private international law to substantive problems across longstanding issues on which there is insufficient scholarly analysis.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781509956685 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509956647

ePub 9781509956654 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509956661 • £81.00 / $81.00

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Private International Law in Uzbekistan

Elijah Putilin, Putilin Dispute Management, Uzbekistan

This book is the leading reference in English on private international law in Uzbekistan. Dispelling a common misconception that the law of ex-USSR countries is largely the same, the book provides an authoritative account of private international law in Uzbekistan, as well as the role the country plays in the harmonisation of private international law in the region and beyond.

The chapters provide authoritative guidance on conflict-of-law rules, issues of jurisdiction in contractual and non-contractual matters, as well as the practice and procedure of enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards in Uzbekistan.

UK September 2025 • US October 2025 • 400 pages

HB 9781509969531 • £160.00 / $220.00

ePub 9781509969548 • £144.00 / $195.74

ePdf 9781509969555 • £144.00 / $144.00

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

Care Proceedings with an International Element An Empirical Study

Maria Sofia Wright, Practising English Solicitor, UK

Presenting the findings of 100 care cases, this book analyses how jurisdictional issues are determined and how information sharing of child protection operates across borders. It illustrates how prospective carers are assessed and how legal permanence for children living overseas is secured. It identifies ways in which children’s welfare interests are compromised, and suggests solutions: identifying how private international law instruments should be improved to promote the best interests of children.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 288 pages

HB 9781509977307 • £90.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509977314 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509977321 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Studies in Private International Law • Hart Publishing

The Politics of Memory Laws

Russia, Ukraine and Beyond

Edited by Uladzislau Belavusau, University of Amsterdam, Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Angelika Nußberger, University of Cologne, Germany

This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate international conflicts.

Proceeding from Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, this examination plots how memory wars have preceded, partially led to and encouraged the outbreak of the war itself via Russian propaganda. It also looks at developments in neighbouring countries such as Poland and Hungary.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open Access was funded by the University of Copenhagen.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781509975303 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509975310 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509975327 • £81.00 / $81.00

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Territorial Status in International Law

Jure Vidmar, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the concept of statehood, illustrating that statehood (rather than the statehood criteria) is territorial legal status established in the formal sources of international law; and (iii) grounds non-state territorial entities in the sources of international law to explain their international legal status. This fresh new theoretical perspective has both scholarly and practical importance, providing a tool helping decision-makers and judges in the practical application of international law both internationally and domestically.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781509959525 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509959488

ePub 9781509959495 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959501 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

Cyberbullying and Sexting Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age

Elizabeth Agnew, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Drawing on two empirical studies and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory challenges concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people (persons under 18 years).

The author explores issues ranging from conceptualising the behaviours, examining the prevailing presence of sexism, myths and stereotypes surrounding gender roles and identity, and the limitations of criminal law as an effective regulatory tool. In doing so, identifying peer-based sexting behaviours as part of a continuum of sexual behaviour is promoted alongside the need to consider interventions beyond the legal landscape.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9781509951383 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951345

ePub 9781509951352 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951369 • £76.50 / $76.50

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The Pathology of Plenty

Natural Resources in International Law

Lys Kulamadayil, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

This open access book argues that international law impacts on the resource curse, but that this impact can be unexpected and unpredictable. It illustrates how the law’s role in resource-cursed countries is at once constitutive, preventive, remedial and punitive. The author draws on different fields of public international law to show how law can be both implicated in, and responsive to, the resource curse.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781509969623 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509969630 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509969647 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

Marine Bioprospecting, Biodiversity and Novel Uses of Ocean Resources

New Approaches in International Law

Edited by Niels Krabbe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden & David Langlet, University of Uppsala, Sweden

This open access book explores how developments in marine biodiversity and other resources challenge the foundations of the law of the sea and its domestic implementation. It does this by examining different perspectives and case studies. The contributors also examine international environmental law, intellectual property rights, and contract law. The team of experts broaden the scholarly debate on marine genetic resources and provide a timely reflection on ongoing policy developments.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Gothenburg, Department of Law.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781509968312 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509968275

ePub 9781509968282 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781509968299 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Studies in International Law Hart Publishing

Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 12

Edited by Peter Harris, University of Cambridge, UK & Dominic de Cogan, University of Cambridge, UK

This book is a continuation of the prestigious series investigating current tax policy debates in a historical context.

The authors are a mix of senior tax professionals from academia, the judiciary, and practice, with representatives from 9 countries. The chapters fall within 3 basic categories: UK tax, international taxation, and non-UK tax systems.

Collecting papers from the biennial Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, the book is a key resource for those interested in tax law and legal history.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 496 pages

HB 9781509981731 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781509981748 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781509981755 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Studies in the History of Tax Law • Hart Publishing

Collection Management Basics

Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro, University of Maryland, USA, John Novak, Fairfield University, USA & G. Edward Evans, Flagstaff, AZ, USA

This eighth edition covers all aspects of the management cycle from selection through deselection and preservation. It includes discussions of intellectual freedom, legal issues in collection development, and collaborative collection development. Timely topics such as diversity, open access, AI, digital preservation, local history, creation spaces, and “libraries of things” bring this comprehensive overview up to date. Chapters rely on feedback from experts working in the field and include many sidebars with practical examples and resources. Designed primarily for students in LIS programs, the text is also a valuable resource for all library workers responsible for collection management.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 400 pages

PB 9798216170259 • £49.99 / $67.95 • HB 9798216170297 • £112.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216184041 • £49.49 / $61.15

ePdf 9798216184058 • £49.49 / $49.49

Series: Library and Information Science Text Series • Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

The Children’s Literature Selection Handbook, K–8

Christie

Kaaland, Antioch University Seattle, USA

Beginning with an introduction to standard literary fiction genres, including a discussion of literature trends and children’s reading interests and needs, The Children’s Literature Selection Handbook, K–8 includes chapters on fiction, biography, folk literature, picture books, informational texts, poetry, and graphic novels. A focus on book series, a deep discussion of graphic novels, the inclusion of global literature and review sources for selection, and information on publishers and the publishing industry set this timely book apart from others in the field. It’s the perfect companion to the vast wealth of children’s literature future teachers and school librarians will read during their studies and careers.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9798216186120 • £36.99 / $49.95 • HB 9798216186168 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216186137 • £35.92 / $44.95

ePdf 9798216186144 £35.92 / $35.92

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Mastering United States Government Information

Sources and

Services

Christopher C. Brown, University of Denver, USA

This approachable book provides an introduction to all major areas of US government information. Important updates to the second edition include a robust look at Data.census.gov, further elaboration on bill tracking, and enhanced instructional tools for dealing with documents that will never change and the ever-changing discovery tools and web portals that have transformed access to these documents. Examples throughout the text help users understand real-life information challenges, while exercises at the end of chapters help them become comfortable answering government information questions on their own. Several appendixes serve as quick reference sources.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 432 pages

PB 9781440880896 • £54.99 / $74.95 • HB 9781440880872 • £112.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216184096 • £54.28 / $67.45

ePdf 9798216184102 • £54.28 / $54.28

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The Organization of Information

Daniel N. Joudrey

The fifth edition of The Organization of Information provides a timely, detailed introduction to organizing in a variety of information contexts, including library cataloging, archival description, indexing, museum registration, metadata creation for digital collections, organizing on the web, linked data, and the development of the Semantic Web. Providing a thorough overview of the field’s major issues, challenges, and standards, The Organization of Information is an essential resource for students in library and information science programs as well as for established professionals who want to refresh their knowledge of the latest developments in the field.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 800 pages

PB 9781440878619 • £59.99 / $79.95 • HB 9781440878596 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216184331 • £57.47 / $71.95

ePdf 9781440878602 £57.47 / $57.47

Series: Library and Information Science Text Series Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

Ethics, Information, and Technology

James D. ("Kip") Currier, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Exploring the ethical implications of a new information environment, this book offers information professionals guidance on making ethical choices. Covering subjects that range from big data and hacking to surveillance and access, Kip Currier explores the background of each topic and describes how, where, and why ethical dilemmas arise within it. Citing real-life examples, Currier shows how to identify an ethical dilemma, provides guidance on how to respond, explains how to separate personal belief from professional responsibility, and discusses how to make exceptions in a principled way.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 424 pages

PB 9781440856662 • £54.99 / $74.95 • HB 9798216186113 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798216171386 • £54.28 / $67.45

ePdf 9781440856679 • £54.28 / $54.28

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Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee

Books and Activities for Nature Storytime

Heather McNeil, Deschutes Public Libraries, Bend, Oregon, USA

This time-saving guide provides everything teachers and librarians need for nature storytimes in one convenient place. Each storytime includes opening and closing songs, movement between stories, opportunities for participation, and tips on selecting and reading the stories. Extensive bibliographies include educational resources, books to help families explore nature together, and books with nature activities. Help young readers build their early literacy and social and emotional learning skills and develop a respect for the beauty of the natural world.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9798216184249 • £35.99 / $54.95

ePub 9798216184256 • £39.91 / $49.45

ePdf 9798216184263 • £39.91 / $39.91

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School Librarians and Principals Leading Together International Perspectives

Edited by Dianne Oberg, University of Alberta, Canada & Luisa Marquardt, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

School Librarians and Principals Leading Together offers a timely collection of research literature addressing the role of the principal in adopting, implementing, evaluating, and institutionalizing school libraries. An international group of contributors makes this a wide-ranging and comparative study of the important relationship between principals and librarians in service of student learning and achievement. Chapter topics include principals’ perceptions of the impact of the school library on student academic achievement, flexible scheduling, school libraries as technology hubs, and the ways in which the impact of the library/librarian is assessed, from rural Thailand to New Zealand to China to the United States.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9798216188605 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9798216188636 • £97.39 / $121.50

ePdf 9798216188629 • £97.39 / $97.39

Series: School Librarianship Worldwide Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

Advanced English Grammar A Linguistic

Approach

Ilse Depraetere, Université de Lille 3, France & Chad Langford, Université de Lille 3, France

Depraetere and Langford, with 50 years of teaching experience between them, present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the specifics. This book pulls all the relevant notions from linguistic theory to enable language students to fully grasp English grammar. Full of challenging exercises and supported by a companion website featuring an extensive answer key, a glossary and further exercises for study, this is the reference grammar of choice for both native and non-native English speakers.

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Space, Time and Quantification in the YiChing

A Conceptual Unity

Yancheng Yang, Henan University of Science and Technology, China

This book explores representations of the relationship between time and space in ancient China, as expressed by the I Ching The I Ching is one of the oldest of the Chinese classics and a foundational text for the Confucian and Daoist traditions. This book is the first in-depth examination of time and space and their quantification in the I Ching from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. It argues that space and time is a unified concept in China, and compares the Chinese conceptualization of the unity of space and time with an asymmetric conceptualization of space and time in the West.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 11 bw illus

HB 9781350509061

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ePub 9781350509092

• £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350509078 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Cognitive Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

Gregory Paschalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs

Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France

In his career as a logician, Charles Sanders Peirce introduced a number of highly innovative semiotic concepts that he never fully developed. This book takes a detailed look at the most important of these undeveloped concepts, including hypoiconicity and semiosis, and highlights their theoretical interest for a general semiotics. In doing so, it also identifies and explains the changing theoretical background to these developments.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages • 40 bw illus

PB 9781350288850 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350288812

ePub 9781350288836 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350288829 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics • Bloomsbury Academic

World Englishes and Social Media

Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger, FU Berlin, Germany, Sven Leuckert, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, University of Regensburg, Germany

As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube. It focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, identities and social meaning making, and metalinguistic commentary, and ends with a discussion section providing an overview of World Englishes and social media. Investigating these areas in detail, the book covers a wealth of topics, including ethical questions and research methodology, linguistic features and creativity, and meta-discourse.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages • 19 bw illus

HB 9781350421417 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350421431 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350421424 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure

Edited by John E. Joseph, University of Edinburgh, UK

With chapters written by leading scholars from across the world, this detailed and comprehensive volume charts the significance of Ferdinand de Saussure’s work across the wide range of fields in which it had an impact, providing a thorough understanding, and the definitive guide to, his ideas and legacy. Divided into four parts, the book explores Saussure’s life and career, including his published and unpublished work, the Course in General Linguistics, and a variety of key themes and topics for further attention.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 464 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350379787 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350379800 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350379794 £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

Semiotics with a Conscience Decoding Dangerous Discourses

Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Canada

Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book confronts negative perceptions of semiotics and explores how it can be used as a potentially powerful science of conscience. Identifying key issues of concern, such as climate change and anti-science discourses, it describes the semiotic notions and methods that can be used to analyze misrepresentations, propaganda, or meaning collapses, developing awareness of hidden meanings and their harmful effects on society.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350362123 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350362086

ePub 9781350362109 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350362093 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics Bloomsbury Academic

Japanese Linguistics in Use

An Introduction for Language Learners

Toshiko Yamaguchi, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Bringing together Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language in Use into one allencompassing volume, this book is an essential introduction to Japanese linguistics for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying either Japanese language or linguistics. Containing an extensive array of examples drawn from everyday life, such as manga, newspapers and food packaging, the book brings together authentic materials with linguistic notions to deepen understanding of Japanese through experiencing it as a living language. It includes a companion website hosting translations, quizzes and commentaries to the book’s activities.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 496 pages 100 b&w

PB 9781350290594 £34.99 / $49.95 HB 9781350290600 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781350290617 £31.49 / $43.19

ePdf 9781350290624 • £31.49 / $31.49

Bloomsbury Academic

Linguistics and Oral History

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

Edited by Chris Fitzgerald, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland

This volume brings together linguistics and oral history practitioners to explore the synergies between both disciplines. Contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the United States take different perspectives on the relationship between oral history and language. This book exposes readers to commonalities that exist between oral history and linguistics including methodological parallels in constructing and analysing written transcriptions of spoken events, analytical approaches to determining salient themes and linguistic items, relevant theoretical perspectives that frame discourse practices in oral histories and the practical considerations which researchers face when investigating large sets of spoken data.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350458239 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350458253 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350458246 • £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature

Megan Mansworth, Aston University, UK

This book develops a cognitive stylistic exploration of readers’ emotional experiences of literature. Adopting Possible Worlds Theory as a framework, the volume constructs a stylistic analysis of some of the ways in which novels elicit readers’ emotions. A typology of past, present, and future textual actual and possible worlds is formulated to frame analysis of three novels: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. The author integrates close stylistic analysis with the use of empirical data drawn from reader interviews and online reader reviews.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350428935 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350428959 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350428942 £85.50 / $85.50 Bloomsbury Academic

English

Lexical Semantics

A Cognitive Linguistics Approach

Zeki Hamawand, University of Kirkuk, Iraq Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook places cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the study of lexical semantics and defines them succinctly. Divided into three parts, the book introduces lexical semantics then explores earlier approaches to lexical meaning. Finally, the author considers cognitive processes and conceptual mappings. Each chapter includes chapter outlines and summaries, key takeaways, practice activities and further reading suggestions.This book offers a novel approach for producing and interpreting lexical items in English.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350520479 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350520462 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350520448 • £25.19 / $35.09

ePdf 9781350520431 • £25.19 / $25.19

Bloomsbury Academic

Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders

The March of Data

Edited by Steven Coats, University of Oulu, Finland & Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland

Highlighting the ways in which new developments in natural language processing, machine learning, and data analytics can engage with topics across linguistics, humanities, and social science disciplines, this volume provides insight into the diversity of methods, approaches and corpora that inform our understanding of the “border regions” between the realms of data science, language/ linguistics, and social or cultural studies.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages • 45 bw illus

PB 9781350362307 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350362260

ePub 9781350362284 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350362277 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication

Edited by Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak, Opole University of Technology, Poland & Paula García-Ramírez, University of Jaén, Spain

Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives. Focusing on the idea of hermeneutics as a discipline that can connect different areas of interest, the book offers an inside view into how the contributors ‘interpret’ it within their own academic remits, demonstrating its presence in qualitative academic interpretations and canonical contemporary research in humanities.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 312 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350405479 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350405431

ePub 9781350405455 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350405448 £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance

Staging Conversation

Spencer Hazel, Newcastle University, UK

This book uses case studies from dramatic performances and data from real-world interaction to present findings from interaction analytic research. Over ten chapters, Spencer Hazel illuminates the nuances that shape our everyday interactions, demonstrating how practitioners of the dramatic arts seek to develop and construct authentic representations of interaction. This book also explores the processes by which these representations of interaction are produced through interaction: between actors, between actor and director and between others in the creative team.

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Advances in Sociolinguistics

Tommaso M. Milani, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Conspiracy as Genre

Narrative, Power and Circulation

Edited by Catherine Tebaldi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Alistair Plum, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg & Christoph Purschke, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives that represents them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects. It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. It looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies. Across three parts, the book theorizes how conspiracy narratives are told, what they do in the social world, and how they circulate these social meanings.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 11 bw illus

HB 9781350467873 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350467897 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350467880 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics Bloomsbury Academic

Queer Correctives

Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality, and Christianity in Singapore

Vincent Pak, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This book explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. Drawing on Foucauldian critical theory and approaches in discourse studies, it shows how language is at the centre of this particular iteration of neo-homophobia, one that no longer finds value in overt expressions of hate and disdain for those with non-normative sexualities, but relies extensively on seemingly neutral calls for change and transformation in personal lives.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350454149 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350454163 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350454156 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

The Literary Lifeline Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading

Kevin Harvey, University of Nottingham, UK

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. Interweaving fragments from his own experience of reading, Harvey takes us on a fascinating tour of reading for therapeutic effect, exploring the rise of shared reading and other uses of bibliotherapy in various social and personal contexts. He argues, through a series of compelling stories and life experiences, that reading not only benefits physical and emotional wellbeing, but that it also humanises the care process, particularly in institutional settings where personhood can be threatened or undermined completely.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781472583604

ePub 9781472583628 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781472583611 • £20.69 / $20.69

Contemporary Studies in Linguistics

Li Wei, University College London, UK

Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space

Kinga Kozminska, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

In a world dominated by the visual, this book highlights how a focus on the sounded sign may bring us closer to the ways in which bodies and meanings are (re)made, and collective doing and thinking are formed in the globalised world. Examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group belonging to the first generation of UK Polish migrants, the book focuses on the semiotic processes through which contemporary moving bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes and considers how they develop metrics to account for sociolinguistic change and authenticate their projects and practices in transnational timespace.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350331341 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350331303

ePub 9781350331327 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350331310 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics Bloomsbury Academic

Language and Social Justice

Global Perspectives

Edited by Kathleen C. Riley, Rutgers University, USA, Bernard C. Perley, University of British Columbia, Canada & Inmaculada M. GarcíaSánchez, University of California, USA

The first reference resource to specifically explore the interface between language and social justice, this volume examines how language symbolizes, frames, and expresses political, economic, and psychic problems in society, and contributes to visions for social justice.

Investigating specific case studies in which language is used to challenge and negotiate social injustices, each chapter provides a unique perspective on how language carries value and enacts power.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 520 pages

PB 9781350247543 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350156241

ePub 9781350156265 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350156258 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

Kathryn

Batchelor,

University College London (UCL), UK & Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds, UK

Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

How is a Witness Heard?

Peter Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK

Exploring the work of interpreters and translators at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, this book asks vital questions about how victims of genocide can make their voices heard in legal systems, and the processes by which the testimony of Holocaust survivors has entered the public record. The author discusses interpreters’ professional practice and ethical self-understanding in the unequal linguistic and institutional structures of the courtroom, showing how interpreting and translation affected the way victims’ voices were heard. He explores the contribution of interpreting and translation to the developing memory of the Holocaust in the 1960s and to the public image of the survivorwitness.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 312 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350469648 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350469662 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350469655 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Writing Between Languages

Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing

Sheela Mahadevan, University of Liverpool, UK

This open access book casts light on an understudied corpus of Indian Francophone literatures by writers and translators originally from former French territories of India and beyond.

Sheela Mahadevan explores how and why these authors write between French and Indian languages and literatures. The book thereby advances theorization of multilingualism and translation, and contributes to discourse on Indian translation traditions, including the concept of ‘transcreation’, and the boundaries of literary translation.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350469440 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350469464 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350469457 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Positionalities of Translation Studies

On the Situatedness of Translation Research

Edited by Garda Elsherif, University of Mainz, Germany & Joanna Sobesto, Jagiellonian University, Poland

This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, technological and institutional influences on Translation Studies (TS). It brings together self-reflexive case studies and juxtaposes them in order to provoke discussion on the role of contemporary researchers in the discipline of TS. The contributions cover various aspects of positionalities and its influences on translation research, including activism, gender, technology, infrastructure, experiential knowledge, and geopolitics, showing that TS as a discipline is not a monolith but consists of various histories interconnected with each other.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350447868 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350447882 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350447875 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction

Affect, Behavior and Cognition

Edited by Claire Y. Shih, University College London, UK & Caiwen Wang, University of Westminster, UK

A timely contribution to the field of Translation Process Research, this book advocates that the three components of social interaction – affect, behaviour, and cognition – underpin the daily activities of translators and interpreters. Exploring the intertwining nature of these components, it examines them theoretically, empirically, and methodologically, including coverage of literary translation, translator training, and interpreters’ practice.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350279353 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350279315

ePub 9781350279339 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350279322 £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Religion and Literature

Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK & Mark Knight

Beckett and Nature

Edited by Charles Clements, Tufts University, USA, Eleanor Green, University of Manchester, UK & James Martell, Lyon College, USA

This volume takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene. It offers contextualized readings of the understandings of nature and the natural with which Beckett entered into dialogue throughout his decade-spanning œuvre. It shows that part of the radicality of Beckett’s writing is that it questions what appears in our cultures as the most unquestionable and opens up possibilities for thinking not only what is human, literature, and philosophy, but also gender, identity, and any attempt at definitions of ourselves or the world at large.

UK

The Decades Series

Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK & Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster, UK

The 1920s

A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Edited by Tamás Bényei, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Shene Boskani, Brunel University London, UK & Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK

A wide-ranging critical re-evaluation of British fiction of the 1920s, this book examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350433434 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781350433458 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781350433441 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: The Decades Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The 2010s

A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Edited by Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK, Nick Bentley, Keele University, UK, Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK

Relating the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received, this book covers the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors such as Nicola Barker, Anna Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid and Zadie Smith, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 336 pages

PB 9781350440890 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350268210

ePub 9781350268234 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781350268227 £90.00 / $90.00

Series: The Decades Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred

Imaginary

Keith Hanley, Lancaster University, UK

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, but also examining other Victorian writers such as Ruskin and Newman, this book describes how the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350476004 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350476028 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350476011 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature Bloomsbury Academic

The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology

Challenging the Nation

Charles Andrews, Whitworth University, USA

Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology—works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today. Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 216 pages 20 bw illus

PB 9781350362079 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350362031

ePub 9781350362055 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350362048 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Denae Dyck, University of Victoria, Canada

Examining the creative thought that arose in response to nineteenth-century religious controversies, this book also shows that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted a range of writers to undertake an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature. Using a series of case studies, it demonstrates that a variety of Victorian intellectuals used wisdom literature to reframe their experiences of doubt and uncertainty, focusing on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George MacDonald, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9781350335400 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350335370

ePub 9781350335394 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350335387 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities

The Poetry (Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn) of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá

Akinloyè Òjó, University of Georgia, USA

Akínwùmí Ìsòlá (1940–2018) contributed to the development of Yorùbá literary traditions by producing most of his literary works in Yorùbá. This book considers his language use in the poetry anthology Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn (1978), composed over a significant period in his life; his contributions to the promotion of Yorùbá and African linguistic and cultural values; and the procedures, benefits, and challenges of translating his poetry into English. The author examines the relationship between African oral traditions and contemporary literature, addressing the influence of traditional forms of praise-singing in contemporary Yorùbá poetry.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 304 pages • 12 bw illus

HB 9781501390623 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781501390630 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501390647 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

American Indian Literature

An Encyclopedia for Students

Edited by Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe, University of Oklahoma, USA

American Indian literature is a varied and vibrant collection of Indigenous artistic expression. This encyclopedia introduces readers to the key historical and contemporary figures in American Indian literature and their defining works. From the fiery sermons of Methodist minister William Apess to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful novels of Louise Erdrich, this book illustrates the indelible and influential imprint American Indians have made on the landscape of American letters.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 432 pages

HB 9781440874956 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765112717 • £72.64 / $90.00

ePdf 9781440874963 £72.64 / $72.64

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales Reconsidering the Short Fiction

Edited by Joan Passey, University of Bristol, UK & Robert Lloyd, Cardiff University, UK

The first exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, this volume digs into the lasting impact of her work and offers new methodologies to study it. Calling upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis, it examines a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works such as 'The Lottery' alongside later works that received lesser critical attention, this book promises a rich expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in Horror fiction.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 248 pages

PB 9781350361157 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350361119

ePub 9781350361133 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350361126 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity

Christopher Weinberger, San Francisco State University, USA

Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we accountable for how we read fiction? This book takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects often ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics, to discover answers to these and other questions. Offering new readings of works by Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Weinberger shows how they address key issues in new ethical theories. Finally, the author identifies a continuity between the methods of Japan’s modern novel progenitors and those of novelists at the forefront of global literature today.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9798765105399 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765105382

ePub 9798765105412 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765105405 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal

Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism

Edited by Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK & Ana Paula Arnaut, University of Coimbra, Portugal

This is the first critical assessment of the contemporary novel in Portugal available in English. The works under analysis are varied and representative of the most vibrant work in Portugal since 2000, and the editors’ introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the Novel after its postmodern period – especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity. Readings also discuss new topics and writing strategies as well as the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9798765100356 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765100318

ePub 9798765100325 • £72.64 / $90.00

ePdf 9798765100332 • £72.64 / $72.64

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

Ned Curthoys, University of Western Australia, Australia

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through selfreflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence. It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing intermedial genre encompassing contemporary historical fiction, historical feature films, and children’s and YA literature. Analysing a number of highly influential novels and films about the Holocaust and WWII, the book argues that the narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman, which includes a swerve away from ‘home’ and its parochialism and moral certainties, has contributed to shaping audience perceptions of traumatic histories and their ethical implications in the 21st century.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 168 pages

PB 9798765103883 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765103890

ePub 9798765103906 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765103913 • £79.83 / $79.83

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New Directions in German Studies

Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Ecologies of Writing

Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions

of Textual Production in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Edited by Urs Büttner, University of Oxford, UK & Jacob Haubenreich, Johns Hopkins University, USA

This edited collection explores the multiple dimensions of authorship that constitute the "ecology" of writing. Examining the early 20th century to the present, Ecologies of Writing expands our understanding of this period of dramatic media-technological transition in which writers become increasingly self-reflexive and responsive to the materials and changing environments of their craft Drawing from works in German literature and theory, contributors expand this framing to encompass the vast array of material, social, environmental, and economic influences that all inform the practice of writing.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages • 10 b&w illustrations

HB 9798765124451 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765124475 • £87.01 / $108.00

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Series: New Directions in German Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought Towards

an

Alluvial Poetics of Worlding

Michael Stern, University of Oregon, USA

Nietzsche's notion of the will to power explains how particular and local interpretations spread and dominate. Stern situates Nietzsche's thought alongside those of Africana artists and thinkers who, confronted with the effects of the slave trade and colonial violence, speak to new theoretical paradigms addressing erasure and displacement and its relationship to form making. Michael Stern sets Nietzsche in conversation with Africana artists and philosophers to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial worldmaking.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9798765139639 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765139646 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765139653 • £79.83 / $79.83

Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Interwar Salzburg

Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna

Edited by Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA & Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin, USA

A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture. Interwar Salzburg tells the story of a European cultural capital eclipsed in histories enamoured with Austria's imperial past and glittering aristocracy. Contributors from all over the globe introduce how the city-state of Salzburg fostered not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public and civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 360 pages 5 b&w illustrations

PB 9798765112571 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765112588

ePub 9798765112595 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765112601 • £94.20 / $94.20

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur

Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

Ivana Perica, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany

This book offers an alternate framing of the literary and political afterlives of revolution between 19281968 in Eastern and Western Europe. Examining works by Bertolt Brecht, Ivan Olbracht, and August Cesarec among others, the author excavates a series of problems, optics and styles characteristic of the forgotten episodes of 20th-century literary history. She shows that the proverbial Iron Curtain was not impenetrable, and that the walls and borders erected in the post-World War II period could not completely suppress the reverberations and revival of projects that flourished in the political-literary metropolises of the interwar period.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 20 b&w illustrations

HB 9798765123928 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765123935 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765123904 • £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Song Lyrics and Literary History

The Afterlives of Vårvindar friska

Gunilla Hermansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The Swedish song 'Vårvindar friska' (Fresh Spring Breezes) started its life in 1828. Since then, it has been reprinted, translated, performed, and used in the most surprising contexts, in different corners of the world. This particular case may be rather exceptional, but Gunilla Hermansson argues that the underlying dynamics are not – and yet they have been underexposed in studies of literary history. The exploration of 'Vårvindar friska' uncovers new facets of how people have engaged with word art in their everyday lives in the modern era.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 24 bw illus

HB 9798765127353 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765127360 £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765127377 £94.20 / $94.20

Bloomsbury Academic

Castration Desire

Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction

Robinson Murphy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

As the #MeToo movement made clear, we require new tools for imagining alternative masculinities. Enter Castration Desire, which examines an array of contemporary novelists and filmmakers who are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire.” Figures such as Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, IrishCanadian Emma Donoghue, Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, and South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment. Castration Desire examines how, in promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these transnational artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented relationality.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 23 bw illustrations

PB 9798765102183 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765102176

ePub 9798765102190 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765102206 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Comparative Jewish Literatures

Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA

Kabbalah and Literature

Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA

This study examines the intersection of Kabbalah with secular Jewish literatures to point to how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah’s conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets and signifiers to demonstrate how literature’s absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function and the tasks it sets for itself. In this way, Kabbalah and Literature proposes a novel, intuitive approach, shifting focus away from the Jewish text’s epistemological elements to embrace its 'secrets'.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 1-2 b&w images

PB 9781501379611 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501359682

ePub 9781501359699 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501359705 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction

Essays on the Moral Imagination

Edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett & Matthew Bardowell,

Missouri

Baptist University, USA

In contrast to other studies that examine morality in crime fiction through the lenses of personal guilt and personal justice, this book draws together threads that are often treated separately: personal guilt and social guilt. In recent years public awareness has attended to the relationship between social structures and justice, and this collection centers on how personal and social ethics are bound together amidst the shifting moral landscapes of mystery fiction. Featuring essays on Japanese, Filipino, Indian and Colombian mystery fiction as well as American and British fiction, this volume also analyzes social guilt and justice across cultures.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9798765105788 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765105795

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Bloomsbury Academic

The Political Uses of Literature Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020

Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann & Ivana Perica, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany

Analysing the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing, this volume reopens discussion of literature’s political and activist genealogies, drawing attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and tracing the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across subsequent historical moments, most notably the 1960s and our own present – including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia. In mapping out these diverse traditions, contributors advance critical discussions in the field, but most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature’s political uses today.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 312 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781501399299 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501399336

ePub 9781501399329 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501399312 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Poesis in Extremis

Literature Witnessing the Holocaust

Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the Holocaust. Framed by discussion of truth in fiction and fiction as truth, with Wiesel’s Night as an entry point, this innovative book explores the blurred boundary of fact and fiction in Holocaust literature, asking to what extent poetry and fiction can serve as testimony and what might be the criteria for literary witnessing.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9798765100226 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765100189

ePub 9798765100196 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765100202 • £87.01 / $87.01

Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction

Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging

Gero Bauer, University of Tübingen, Center for Gender and Diversity Research, Germany

This book investigates dimensions of temporality and belonging in contemporary novels, films and television series – including The Road, The Walking Dead, Cloud Atlas, Sense8, The People in the Trees and A Little Life – as they find their expression in the interplay between hope and kinship. Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as an organising temporality, often presumed to be in the future, Bauer challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of kingship in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9798765104187 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9798765104194

ePub 9798765104200 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765104217 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature

Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions

Edited by Silvia Anastasijevic, Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany & Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational and planetary connections articulated in it.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 312 pages

PB 9781350374119 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350374072

ePub 9781350374096 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350374089 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

Storytelling around the World Folktales, Narrative

Rituals, and Oral Traditions

Jelena Cvorovic, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia & Kathryn Coe, Indiana University, USA

This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines – from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists – use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9798765141090 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440872945

ePub 9798216149682 • £77.43 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440872952 • £77.43 / $77.43

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

The Sultan's City, 1800-1876

Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green State University, USA

From Romantic Byzantium to operatic sultans and vampiric janissaries, the arc of this book takes on a fascinating but often overlooked area of 19th century studies - the encounter with Constantinople/Istanbul, “the diamond between two sapphires” on the Bosphorus and the effect of the city’s complicated history on Romantic /Victorian writers and artists. Piya Pal Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 280 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9781350398641 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350398658 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350398665 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures

Edited by Toral

Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan & Jack Webb

Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, examining published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality.

Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism ‘from below’, and provides fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 528 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350261792 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350261754

ePub 9781350261778 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350261761 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Divine Cosmos

Humboldt's Ecology in NineteenthCentury American Literature

Lucas Nossaman, North Greenville University, USA

Alexander von Humboldt presented nature as a “cosmos,” an interconnected web that exceeded the scientific world of static taxonomy and individual species that 18th-century science had produced. As this study shows, Humboldt’s ecology did more than initiate a change in natural science. His writings caused Americans to reconsider how to portray the divine in nature. Writers such as Thoreau, Douglass, and Melville utilized their religious contexts and Humboldtian modes of observation to envision nature holistically rather than in terms of singular evidences of “design.” They discovered that natural forms connected across regions, and indeed, across the entire divine creation.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9798765125694 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765125687 • £72.64 / $90.00

ePdf 9798765125670 £72.64 / $72.64

Bloomsbury Academic

Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women

Marion Sherwood, Member of the Tennyson Society Executive Committee & Rosalind Boyce, Honorary Secretary of the Tennyson Society Publications Board

Contradicting perceptions of women as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet, revealing that the women in Tennyson’s family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents. Focusing on the letters and lives of four women – their letters, preserved in archives in Lincoln and for the most part unpublished, cast a unique light on the Tennyson family’s interrelationships and the times in which they lived.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 240 pages

PB 9781350360563 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350168244

ePub 9781350168268 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350168251 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

21st-Century British Gothic

The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary

Fiction

Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional appropriations of the Gothic within British contemporary literature, revealing how such concepts as the uncanny, spectral, abject and sublime work to illuminate the insecure and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been absorbed and repurposed in works like Double Vision, The Accidental, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil, The City and the City and White is for Witching to address the many cultural anxieties invoked living under neoliberal governance: terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350286603 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350286566

ePub 9781350286580 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350286573 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Maggie O'Farrell

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK

Covering all of her 8 novels and her memoir I am, I am, I am, Maggie O’Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the first full-length study of O’Farrell’s work, offering a critical guide to her full oeuvre, from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet. Covering such topics as narrative, grief and sacrifice, hauntology, marriage, intertextuality and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic, this book also features a new and exclusive interviewer with O’Farrell herself, a timeline of her life and works and suggested further reading.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 176 pages

PB 9781350325043 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350325005

ePub 9781350325029 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350325012 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic

Open Scholarship in the Humanities

Paul Longley Arthur & Lydia Hearn

Offering new insights into promising ways to facilitate the uptake of open scholarship in the humanities, this open access book gives further shape to the digital humanities and the prospects of their future as part of a far more open and public world of scholarship.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Edith Cowan University.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781350237476 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350232273

ePub 9781350232297 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350232280 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Teenage Time Coming of Age Disruptively in Literature, Culture and Film 1945-2024

Pamela Thurschwell, University of Sussex, UK

Reading adolescent time as framing and disrupting developmental narratives of modernity, this book shows how the teenager, as they have been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature. Thurschwell exposes Anglo-American representations of the adolescent as both destructive and recursive and traces how the teenager is 'out of time' and time-travelling, commodified, anarchic, futureless, precarious with an uneven distribution of time in relation to race. Texts and films examined include American Pastoral, Sula, The Hate U Give, The Fault in Our Stars, Donnie Darko, and Back to the Future amongst others

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350318427 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350318441 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350318434 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

Hyperbolic Realism

A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction

Samir Sellami, Independent Scholar, Germany

What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781501374555 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501360497

ePub 9781501360503 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501360510 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Edited by Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK, Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria & Raquel Medina

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. With original contributions from pioneers in the field, this book examines literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, as well as poetry and drama. It also includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Ageing Studies with examples from film and literature and brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 480 pages • 40 b/w images

PB 9781350212213 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350204331

ePub 9781350204355 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350204348 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

Marketing Chinese Children's Books

Paratext and the Politics of Authorship

Frances Weightman, University of Leeds, UK

Centering the paratextual elements of contemporary Chinese literature written for children, Marketing Chinese Children's Books explores the marketing, presentation and construction of popular Chinese authors for their audience, parents and teachers. Taking the publications of Cao Wenxuan, Yang Hongying, Shen Shixi and Gerelchimeg Black Crane as case studies, Frances Weightman considers how the marketing of these authors presents them as academic and political authorities to be emulated and trusted, how they are demonstrative of the commercialism in children's literature and what they expose about the different ways in which popular authors are promoted based on their gender, nationality and ethnicity.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 224 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350273559 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350273573 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350273566 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

Anthony Mandal & Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University, UK

Resisting Big Tech

The Personalized is Political

Niels Niessen, Tilburg University, Netherlands

How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial “intelligence” prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book critiques Big Tech’s colonization of everyday life.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages • 75 colour illus

PB 9781350504097 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350504103 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350504127 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350504110 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Audio Readers

Book Consumption in the Streaming Age

Karl Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden

The first computational study of readers and reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data, to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: When it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350358409 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350358362

ePub 9781350358386 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358379 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

Franziska Röber, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults. It focuses on three representative sitcoms - Waiting for God, The Old Guys and Vicious - to examine this trend, demonstrating the ways in which sitcoms specifically enable and restrict representations of later life sexualities.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350473508 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350473522 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350473515 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life • Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK, Sowon Park, UC Santa Barbara, USA, Angela Woods, Durham Univeristy, UK & Stuart Murray

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture

Edited by Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK & Anna Stenning, University of Leeds, UK

Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book Introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies that explores the potential of neurodiverse scholarly practice in literary and cultural studies.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 240 pages 7 bw illus

HB 9781350421172 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350421196 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350421189 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Douglas RJ. Small, Edge Hill University, UK

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Reading texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley, it examines the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 264 pages 11 bw illus

PB 9781350400139 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350400092

ePub 9781350400115 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350400108 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Janet Harbord, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9781350345058 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350345065 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350345089 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350345072 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Stanley Cavell has written extensively on modernist art – particularly on painting, photography, music, literature, and especially cinema. However, Cavell’s importance for understanding modernism is not exhausted by his interest in modernist art and literature. Equally significant, and perhaps even more original, is his understanding of ordinary language philosophy as a modernist enterprise in its own terms. This volume features introductory essays on Cavell’s most important works, delves into more specific aspects and problems pertaining to Cavell’s aesthetics and its moral and political implications, and includes an extended glossary of Cavell’s key words and concepts.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781501313639 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781501313646 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501313653 • £94.20 / $94.20

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry

Lyrical Challenges to Utopianism

Daniela Kukrechtová, College of Holy Cross, USA

Through an urban ecocritical approach often missing in literary analyses of modern American poetry, Daniela Kukrechtová reveals how five modern American poets – Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks – challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization. She shows how these writers promoted the radical idea that cities were for people, and their texts both reveal that the extreme dystopian/utopian discourse helped create and maintain disparities between (racialized) affluent and impoverished urban areas, and also imagine and give voice to the people subject to the plans and policies behind the modern American city.

UK August 2025 US August

HB

Academic

Modernist Archives

American Modernism (Re) Considered

Edited by Robert C. Hauhart, Saint Martin’s University, USA & Jeff Birkenstein, Centralia College, USA

What is literary modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart? Contributors discuss a wide range of texts – by authors such as Nella Larsen, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anne Carson, Wallace Stevens, Américo Paredes, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and T. S. Eliot – to challenge the aesthetic, social, and temporal boundaries of modernism in America. Through original close readings, this volume subjects modernism to new interrogations and offers new answers to questions that remain contemporary even as they harken back to its height of popularity and interest in the mid-1920s.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9798765126820 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765126844 • £94.20 / $117.00

ePdf 9798765126851 • £94.20 / $94.20

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Modernism in Wonderland

Legacies of Lewis Carroll

Edited by John D. Morgenstern & Michelle Witen, University of Basel, Switzerland

Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentiethcentury writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll’s fictions and discovered there the quintessence of their own modernity, this book demonstrates that Carroll’s influence extended far beyond literary style, pervading all aspects of modern life from commercial culture to politics, from philosophy to the new physics. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350248755 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK, Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway & Natasha Periyan, Falmouth University, UK

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

A

Manuscript Critical Edition

Katherine Mansfield

Edited by Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer new critical readings exploring the history of these stories.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 344 pages

PB 9781350402447 £26.99 / $36.95

Previously published in HB 9781350096653

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Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic

World English

The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959

Ezra Pound

Edited by Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era. These letters reveal the extent of the impact of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political writings during this period and his growing engagement with the culture of Nazi Germany.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 392 pages

PB 9781350442863 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781472506511

ePub 9781472508485 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781472512017 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: Modernist Archives Bloomsbury Academic

The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature

Wolves, Woods and Wilderness

Kaja Franck

Using an Ecogothic approach, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, categorising it as an emblem for society’s fear of untamed wilderness. Exploring Dracula, the works of Anne Rice, Maggie Stiefvater and Annette Curtis Klause alongside natural histories and fairy and folk tales, it undermines notions of the Gothic werewolf. Interrogating or stabilizing the canon of lycanthropic literature, Franck considers the changing attitude towards wolves alongside the growing environmentalism movement, and reclaims the wolf from the singularly monstrous figure of the werewolf.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages

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The Afterlives of Frankenstein

Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

Edited by Robert I. Lublin, University of Massachusets, Boston, USA & Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

An exploration of adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in film, comics, theatre, art, videogames and more, this book illuminates how the novel's myth has evolved since its publication. Divided into four sections, it considers the cultural dialogues the novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 248 pages • Colour images

PB 9781350351608 • £28.99 / $39.95

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The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry

Politics of Poetic Experimentation

Farshad Sonboldel, University of California, San Diego, USA

This book analyses the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in the Constitutional Revolution (1900–1920), the post-constitutional era (1920–1940) and the ascendency of modernism (1940–1960) in Iran. Dominant narratives portray modern Persian poetry as a gradual and moderate change as well as a response to – and reflection of – cultural and socio-political changes within Iranian society. Examining formal and thematic aspects of radical experiments by alternative poets, this study reformulates the story of modern Persian poetry and their role in the initiation and progress of the 'literary revolution'.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 232 pages • 1 b&w illustration

PB 9798765103586 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Persian)

Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc Iconographies of Difference

Joel Merriner, University of Plymouth, UK

A comprehensive history and analysis of the Soviet illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings published 1981 - 1993, this book explores these works against a backdrop of state censorship, restrictive publishing practices and logistical struggles of translation. Employing comparative analysis to reconcile neglected Soviet illustrations with their Western equivalents, it situates both within the wider cultural and political contexts of the period. Reflecting upon their relevance to current debates regarding visual heterogeneity in fantasy, the book examines artistic reception, iconography and the permeability of cultural boundaries during the final years of Communist rule, shedding new light on the role of visual art in shaping cultural content.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages 75 colour illus

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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

Containment, Leakage, Anarchy

Simon Van Schalkwyk, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Focusing on Lowell’s career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation, this book argues that Lowell’s imitations are symptomatic of and critically responsive to familiar nodes of Cold War ideology, such as containment and contamination, secrecy and security, post-imperial U.S. expansion and Empire. Reading Imitations (1961) with Lowell's other works, Van Schalkwyk suggests that Lowell’s imitations challenge and develop our understanding of confession’s preoccupation with the personal, regional and national frameworks through which Lowell has commonly been understood.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages • 5 b&w tables

HB 9798765132555 • £90.00 / $120.00

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Reading Mediated Life Narratives

Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives

Amy Carlson, University of Hawai'i, USA

Calling attention to the unseen mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this book uncovers strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in the material book, the museum gallery and its associated online counterparts and archives. Carlson exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives. Surveying a range of sites where vulnerability can occur, this book explores the auto/biographical sources, and the social media posts of Amalia Ulman and Kim Kardashian.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350324701 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation

Contemporary Critical Approaches

Edited by Martín L. Gaspar, Bryn Mawr College, USA & Maria Rossi, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA

Offering a wide-ranging thematic exploration of key debates on contemporary translation in Latin American literature and culture, this book features 32 chapters from a mixture of the field's leading authorities, alongside up-and-coming voices from around the world. Sections focus on colonialism, race, gender, the archive, criticism, creation, authenticity, politics, and world literature to offer a broad and ambitious snapshot of where the field is now as well as where it is going.

UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 464 pages

HB 9781350378759 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350378773 • £117.00 / $159.29

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A Genre of Her Own

Life Narratives and Feminist Literary Beginnings in

Modern

India

Gayathri Prabhu, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India

This book argues for feminist literary roots in latenineteenth and early-twentieth-century Indian life narratives. It explores women’s voices across genres—pamphlets, letters, essays, autobiographies, and novels—highlighting their emotional range: pride, despair, wit, nostalgia, anger, hope, and celebration. These writers, actively engaged in print culture, reflect on their dual roles as women and writers, challenging the male-dominated literary landscape. Their works tackle themes like marriage, motherhood, labor, sexuality, illness, and intellectual pursuit, offering rich, evolving perspectives on gender and identity within shifting literary contexts.

UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9789356408234 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears

Of Sanskrit Reflective Traditions Today

D Venkat Rao, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

This book explores using Sanskrit to rethink human thought, challenging the dominance of European intellectual traditions. Sanskrit, with its vast historical spread across Asia and Europe, offers a unique reflective idiom that contrasts with European frameworks in language, art, reason, justice, and politics. The book argues that despite shared linguistic roots, European thinkers have followed a different, often violent intellectual path. In contrast, Sanskrit’s history of coexistence offers an inclusive model for understanding justice and coexistence, urging a cross-cultural examination to foster new possibilities for intellectual inquiry and global understanding.

UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 328 pages

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World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Modern European Borders in Fiction

The Divided Continent

Andrew Hammond, University of Sussex, UK

There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortress Europe, whose exposure of irregular migrants to trafficking, discrimination and deportation is rarely absent from the daily news. Modern European Borders in Fiction references over 600 novels and short stories analysing engagement of post-1945 novelists.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350517660 £85.00 / $115.00

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New Turkey and the Far Right How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country

Selim Koru

Turkey is preparing for a future that is less dependent on its Western treaty allies with an alliance structure of its own. This book focuses on the new relations being built with fellow revisionists like China and Russia, Turkey’s involvement in the wars in Syria and Ukraine, and Erdogan’s grand strategy. The book de-exceptionalizes Turkish politics by showing how Turkey relates to the broader global trend of far-right nationalist movements. It is based on interviews with politicians from across the country’s political spectrum in addition to the author’s intimate knowledge of the country’s far-right and Islamist traditions.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages

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The Invention of the Eastern Question

Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of

Revolutions

Ozan Ozavci

Ozavci traces the emergence of the ‘Eastern Question’ by exploring the life and career of Robert Liston, British Ambassador at Istanbul over two embassies in 1790’s and 1810’s. Using previously unexplored Ottoman, Russian, French, and British archival sources, including Liston’s private papers and his wife Henrietta’s Istanbul diaries, the book portrays Pera, the ambassadorial district of Istanbul, as a contact zone of interaction between European and Asian diplomats and Ottoman statesmen, and offers a micro-global, emotional and cultural history of diplomacy in the period.

The Kurdish Movement in Turkey

Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of

Conflict

Elsa Tulin Sen, King’s College London, UK

Published in Association with the British Institute at Ankara.

Both theoretically informed and drawing upon empirical research in the form of interviews with Kurdish and Turkish activists, non-activists and political representatives, this book provides a new perspective on the contemporary Kurdish movement in the context of Alan Touraine’s concept of a total social movement. Describing the oscillation between nationalist and social movement paradigms, the book argues that the recent decline of the latter is due to the resumption of military action by the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party after 2015.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 200 pages

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Turkism in Eurasia

Identity, Ideology and Politics

Galina M. Yemelianova, SOAS, University of London, UK

Turkey’s role in the former-Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian Turkic world is growing, with increasing political, cultural and economic initiatives in these territories and the rise of local Turkist parties and initiatives. But what are the historical origins of Turkism, and what might the future hold for these culturally Turkic, but distinct polities? Based on both primary and secondary sources in Russian, Turkish (modern and Ottoman), English and French, this book uses semi-structured interviews with relevant policy-makers and academics ethnographic and archival research to provide the first historybased integrated study of the ideational, ideological, political and geopolitical role of Turkism in Eurasia.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

HB 9780755650309 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Missionaries in Persia

Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism

Christian Windler, University of Bern, Switzerland

This book examines the social roles adopted by Catholic missionaries in the multicultural metropolis of Safavid Isfahan. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the European missionaries were quickly forced to settle for acting as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants and healers of Armenians and Muslims. Through such activities the missionaries gained social acceptance locally, as well as economic independence from Rome. Using these interactions as a case study, the book shows how early modern Catholicism was confronted and shaped in multiple ways by experiences in Iran and other Asian empires.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 408 pages

PB 9780755649402 • £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9780755649389 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755649372 • £81.00 / $81.00

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Two Months on the Nile Thomas Sandwith’s Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Journey

Stephen Boys Smith

British Consul with a long-standing interest in archaeology Thomas Sandwith’s account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history. In January 1893 he began a diary in which he recorded his journey on the Nile aboard a dahabiya. Possessing a keen interest in antiquities and experience in acquiring them during his consular career, he recounts visiting newly discovered archaeological sites and meetings with Egyptologists, providing a unique snapshot of the ‘golden age’ of Egyptology. His astute descriptions of his journey from Cairo to Aswan and back give a vivid new perspective on the growth of European tourism in British-occupied Egypt and early Egyptian industry.

UK

The Banquet of the Brethren

An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics: Part 2 An English translation of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan

Edited by Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) was written by Ismaili missionary and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 462). A work of philosophical theology it discovers divine unicity (tawhid), the authority of the Prophet Muhammad, his legatee, 'Ali b. Abi Talib, and his descendants. This English translation is the first translation in any language outside the Persian milieu. It also includes an extensive introduction to make the work of Nasir-i Khusraw further available to a wider audience and opens up for the reader the intellectual world of the 5th century in all its sophistication and variety.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 496 pages

PB 9780755654765 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9780755654772 • £95.00 / $130.00

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Series: Ismaili Texts and Translations • I.B. Tauris

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Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia

A Gramscian Analysis

Fabio Merone & Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Canada

Written by two renowned experts of political Islam, this book uses the philosophy of Gramsci to provide a new perspective on Islamism and Salafism in Tunisia. In particular, the book explains how the ideological/theological side of Islamic activism realizes itself into practical political action. In doing so, it argues that Islamists and Salafists can be described as ‘post-Islamist’ in the same way communist parties became ‘post-communist’ and ‘post-ideological’, where ideology has the same meaning as revolutionary politics. The theoretical approach and critical outlook developed here provides an innovative framework to understand Islamist politics in other contexts.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780755656387 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series • I.B. Tauris

Genealogical History in the Persianate World

Edited by Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey, USA & Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

While genealogical sources have received attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book demonstrates the value of genealogical documentation as historical sources for scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene and beyond.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9780755649792 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I.B. Tauris

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion

Edited by Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK & Shainool Jiwa, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK

The crucial role and contributions of the Fatimids have often been overshadowed in academic research. This open access book addresses numerous Fatimid topics across art, statecraft and religion to shed light on Fatimid rule and its broad tolerance, intercultural dialogue, trading and travel. Bringing together a diverse range of Fatimid specialists across the 22 chapters, the book is a comprehensive contribution to Fatimid studies that updates and extends the existing scholarship.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd.

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 368 pages • 80 b&w images

PB 9780755657780 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9780755657797 • £95.00 / $130.00

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Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings

A Textual History of Sex and Gender

Maznah Mohamad, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

There are few studies on the relationship between gender and the history of Islam in Southeast Asia. This book argues that in the nineteenth century - before the formalisation of sharia laws - Islam was heavily influence by elements of enchantment and mysticism, and that this was mirrored in the portrayal and experience of gender relations and sexuality. The analysis is based on handwritten manuscripts and published books written in the Malay language. This includes sex manuals, advice literature and prescriptions, and the first Malay language dictionaries. The author shows how discursive traditions around gender and sexuality in Islam have changed.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780755648511 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Gender and Islam • I.B. Tauris

Balkan Muslims and the Middle East

The Influence of the Arab World on the Islamic Revival

Harun Karcic, Executive Producer, Aljazeera Balkans

The current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims is due to a long history of contact with the Arab World. This book is the first to examine the evolving relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East covering three phases: under communism, during its violent collapse, and during its uneasy post-war and postYugoslav independence. Harun Karcic identifies how official links with the Middle East sparked an Islamic revival. In particular, the book shows how Yugoslavia used its Muslim population as ‘gate openers’ in the Arab world and to lobby for support when war broke out in 1992.

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 224 pages

ePdf 9780755646852

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Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary Scholars and Mystics

SeyedAmirHossein

Asghari, Baylor University, USA

What is the place of Sufi and philosophical thought in Shi’ism today? This book examines two seminal schools within the contemporary Shia seminary to answer this ongoing question. While the Sufi School of Najaf's tries to harmonize philosophy, Sufism and Shia theology, the Maktab-i Tafkik (School of Separation) is in staunch opposition to such syntheses, advocating for a strict adherence to what it perceives as the pure, unadulterated teachings of Shia Islam. The book traces the contrasting intellectual trajectories of these schools of thought from the mid-19th century to the present day. It brings to the fore the ideological battles within the Shia seminary.

Political Islam at the Crossroads Resilience and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East

Edited by Ayfer Erdogan Safak & Shaimaa Magued, University of Cairo, Egypt

This book explores Islamist groups' means of adaptation and resilience in the face of authoritarian political exclusion, unpacking Islamists’ sociopolitical persistence and ideological sustainability. Individual chapters explore similarities and divergences among Islamist groups/ parties in terms of ideological affiliations, means of survival and political participation strategies, drawing on comparative cases from across the MENA region.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9780755652396 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism

The Contribution of al-Sulami

Jason Welle

Al-Sulami (d. 1021) was an influential early Sufi master whose works espoused the virtues of companionship as a way for believers to experience God’s guidance and cultivate religious virtues. This book provides a historical reconstruction of sufi companionship in eleventh-century Khorasan, arguing that al-Sulami’s concept of suhba (companisonship) envisioned the transformation of society as whole, not just the masterdisciple relationship. Bringing debates in contemporary virtue ethics on the nature of friendship and friendship’s role in the acquisition of virtue to bear on al-Sulami’s spiritual method, the book offers an original analysis of the latter’s thought that will be of interest to scholars of early Islam, Sufism as well as moral theologians interested in virtue ethics and character.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9780755652310 • £28.99 / $39.95

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The Renaissance of Islam

History, Culture and Society in the 10th Century Muslim World

Adam Mez

In this important study, Adam Mez draws upon a vast range of sources to produce a detailed account of all aspects of Islamic culture and society in the tenth century - finance, religion, geography, industry and trade, law, morals, navigation, etc. The result is a lucid and engaging work that even today remains a key resource for researchers and students alike. The original edition is now very rare. This new edition, introduced by Hugh Kennedy, one of the leading scholars of the period, makes the work available once again and includes a bibliography and index specially prepared for this edition.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 544 pages

PB 9780755635597 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781784538910

ePub 9781838603588 • £90.00 / $122.84

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Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life

New Frontiers in Science and Religion

Edited by Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar & Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Zayed University, UAE

Over the last 30 years, humanity has discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system. The discovery of extraterrestrial life could be imminent. This book explains how such a discovery might impact Islamic theology. It is the foundational reference on the subject, comprising contributions from Muslim theologians, scholars of comparative religion and philosophers, to historians, social scientists and natural scientists. Given the accelerating advances in exoplanet research and astrobiology, the book is a necessary and timely resource at the frontier of science and Islamic thought.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages

PB 9780755650927 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9780755650903 • £85.50 / $116.09

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Palestinians in Israel after the Arab Spring

The Political Impact of Regional Protest and Fragmentation

Yusri Hazran Khaizran & Muhammad Khalaily

This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially events in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. It is based on the findings of governmental and public surveys. It shows that Arab-Palestinian citizens were divided on the idea of integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring, while the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely. The book covers the new policies adopted by the central government in Israel that have been formed since 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

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Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

Afaf Jabiri, University of East London, UK

In this book Afaf Jabiri examines the experiences of Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan and argues for a feminist analysis of settler-colonialism, particularly in the case of second displacement. Based on four years of field research in camps in Jordan - including interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book highlights how local women’s groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. The book reveals how these groups have challenged state politics, the selectivity of aid, and the politics of the gendered development approach in humanitarian settings.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9780755644841 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755644803

ePub 9780755644827 • £76.50 / $103.94

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I.B. Tauris

Ethical Living through Stories Encounters with Adab

Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London, UK

In this book, Wen-chin Ouyang shows how our experience of adab stories has the power to transform both our personal relationships and society. She draws on classic works from the famous Arabic epic Thousand and One Nights and compares tales from the canonical Chinese novel Three Kingdoms. The book demonstrates how these stories tell about ourselves allowing us to define, test and refine our ethics of living. More than this, they have the power to help us experience a profound contemplation of our lives on earth, linking us to our shared humanity and showing us how to live meaningfully.

UK February 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages • 30 colour images

PB 9780755657490 • £8.99 / $11.95

ePub 9780755657506 • £8.09 / $12.14

ePdf 9780755657513 • £8.09 / $8.09

Series: World of Islam • I.B. Tauris

World English

Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States

Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine

Emile Badarin

Using Palestine as a case study, this book shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures. This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective to show that in colonial contexts, settlers use recognition to legitimize and normalize the dispossession and elimination of indigenous people. The book critically examines the Euromodern categories of race, racism and racial hierarchies and the interplay between colonialism, racism and Zionism. Central to this analysis is how anti-Zionism became equated with anti-Semitism, which has led to the advancement of both settlercolonialism in Palestine and Israel’s recognition on the international stage.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780755656226 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755656257 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755656240 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Unsettling Colonialism in our Times I.B. Tauris

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence

Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction

Rania M. Mahmoud

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in the aftermath of the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution and the 1919 Revolution. Reading novels by Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, Bahaa Taher and Jon Wilcox against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9780755651009 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755651047

ePub 9780755651023 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755651030 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Zahera Harb

Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Dina Matar, SOAS, University

of London, UK

This book problematizes the relationship between politics and communication in the Middle East and North Africa region, paying attention to the diversity of communicative forms and political practices outside formal institutions and structures while remaining conscious of the power dynamics within institutional practices. Examining political communication in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Syria, the Gulf, Turkey and Iran, the book’s chapters challenge Western-centric theories and methodologies within the broad field of political communication that continue to focus on democracy or its absence and are primarily concerned with elites, focusing on the marginal or the peripheral, the informal, and the grassroots. UK

The Syrian Conflict in the News Coverage of the War and the Crisis of US Journalism

Gabriel Huland

The Syrian Conflict in the News analyses the coverage of the Syrian conflict in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on how the three newspapers framed six key events in Syria from March 2011 to April 2018, including the Ghouta chemical attack, the Russian intervention in Syria and US-led airstrikes. Gabriel Huland argues the overreliance on elite narratives resulted in the underrepresentation of local voices and other players who were in a more advantaged position to devise solutions to the conflict and crisis currently pervading US journalism.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9780755650149 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755650118

ePub 9780755650132 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755650125 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

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Sectarianism, DeSectarianization and Regional Politics in the Middle East

Protest and Proxies across States and Borders

Edited by Samira Nasirzadeh, Elias Ghazal, Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Eyad Alrefai & Simon Mabon, all of University of Lancaster, UK

This volume provides a comparative account of sectarianism looking at Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. It examines the ways in which sect-based difference shapes regional politics and vice versa. The book aims to provide a holistic understanding of the role of sectarian identities in the contemporary Middle East and explain why this has serious implications for the ordering of life across the region.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9780755639212 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755639175

ePub 9780755639199 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755639182 • £76.50 / $76.50

I.B. Tauris

Spoils of War in the Arab East

Reconditioning Society and Polity in Conflict

Edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh, Harout Akdedian, Central European University & Haian Dukhan

This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground. It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of ‘conflict transformation’ rather than of ‘conflict termination’, because the extreme changes that accompanied these countries into war continue long after the conflicts end.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 286 pages

PB 9780755649129 £29.99 / $40.95

Previously published in HB 9780755649082

ePub 9780755649105 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780755649099 • £85.50 / $85.50

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Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement

Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University, Denmark

Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation –this book examines Kurdish women fighters’ motivations to join The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The book is the largest ethnographic study on this Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement to date. It discusses Kurdish women’s personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. It reveals for the first time that Kurdish women fighters join the PKK to improve conditions for themselves but also to improve conditions for women across the entire region.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9780755648405 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755648368

ePub 9780755648382 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755648375 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Kurdish Studies I.B. Tauris

The B-52s' Cosmic Thing

Pete Crighton, Freelance writer, Canada

The B-52s fifth record Cosmic Thing took the world by storm in 1989 in the wake of the band’s single greatest tragedy: losing guitarist Ricky Wilson to complications from AIDS in 1985. Cosmic Thing is a celebration of queer joy in the face of that seismic setback. Not only did the B-52s have to fight through their pain and grief to make Cosmic Thing, they were up against a conservative government under Reagan (then Bush), a misunderstood virus still ravaging the queer community and the expectations of what ‘serious’ artists were supposed to look like.

UK September 2025

• US September 2025 • 128 pages

PB 9798765133125 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765133156 • £11.17 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765133149 • £11.17 / $11.17

Series: 33 1/3

World English

• Bloomsbury Academic

Smooth Music That Is Easy to Listen to, from the Middle of the Road to Everywhere

Paul Hegarty, University of Nottingham, UK

Smooth explores the ways in which music has sought to be easy, approachable, comforting and beguiling in its accessibility. From easy listening and exotica in the 1950s through jazz fusion, new age music, ambient and chill out, K-Pop, AOR and MOR, Japanese city pop and performance of high emotion alongside the warm and mellow bath of adult contemporary, Smooth analyses what easy listening can be across a range of often very poorly-defined genres. Global in scope, Smooth covers the music of the culture industry as aspiring to the universal and timeless, and evaluates how easy (and eased) listening works and how it affects the listener.

UK August 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9798765104361 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9798765104378 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765104385 • £18.35 / $22.45

ePdf 9798765104392 • £18.35 / $18.35

Bloomsbury Academic

silverchair's Frogstomp

Jay Daniel Thompson, RMIT University, Australia Australian rock band Silverchair released Frogstomp in 1995, and it became a global sensation. Its success has often been attributed to an imitation of North American grunge bands and its capitalization of Gen X angst. This book argues that Frogstomp is culturally significant on its own terms due to its reflection of the impact of globalization on Australian music in the late 20th century and because of its eclectic, and little discussed, array of pop culture influences. Engaging with Australian 1990s popular culture and grunge music and analyzing Silverchair’s performance at the MTV and ARIA Music Awards in 1995, Frogstomp is seen here in a distinctive new light.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 152 pages

PB 9798765113349 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9798765113332 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765113356 • £16.76 / $20.65

ePdf 9798765113363 £16.76 / $16.76

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic

Beatles Real Person Fiction

The Role of Fiction in 21st-century Beatles Fandom

Bethany Easton, Cumbria University, UK 21st-century Beatles fans continue to find new ways to access the group and view new content. Interviews with and surveys of authors and readers alongside textual analysis of BRPF texts provide insight into the fandom and creation of fanfiction. This analysis ultimately demonstrates that all generations of Beatles fans desire belonging to a community in which their fandom can be shared and Beatles knowledge celebrated. For newer generations of fans who were not present during the Beatles active period, BRPF offers a way to learn more about the group whilst gaining an intimacy with them.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9798765109250 • £90.00 / $120.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765109267 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765109274 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

David Bowie and the Moving Image A Standing Cinema

Katherine Reed, California State University, Fullerton, USA

David Bowie’s audio-visual work remains relatively unexplored. More narrowly focused studies address the artist’s music videos or film roles, but none provide a comprehensive view of the two-way street that was Bowie’s work with film, theorizing the way he engaged with the medium throughout his 50-year career. David Bowie and the Moving Image is just such a comprehensive study. Analyzing Bowie’s music videos, planned film projects, acting roles, and musical works included in films, this monograph provides an intervention in Bowie scholarship. This study of Bowie’s multimedia projects informs our understanding of all areas of his work, from music to fashion to visual art. It enters the debate about Bowie’s artistic legacy and fills an important gap by addressing Bowie as musician, actor, and auteur.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages • 17 bw illus

PB 9781501371400 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501371257

ePub 9781501371264 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501371271 • £87.01 / $87.01

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Serge Gainsbourg

An International Perspective

Edited by Olivier Julien, Universite ParisSorbonne, France & Olivier Bourderionnet, University of New Orleans, USA

Bringing together a large selection of established scholars from across the world Serge Gainsbourg:

An International Perspective emphasizes his unique position in French popular culture. The 27 chapters address issues such as his musical influences and collaborations, esthetics and form, his experimentations with disciplines other than music (mainly film and literature) and his multifaceted identity, not to mention the relationship between highbrow and lowbrow culture in the French context. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume engages in a dialogue between musicology, film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and more, revealing the broad scope of Gainsbourg’s impact in and outside of France, from the early 1960s through today.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9798765113172 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501365669

ePub 9781501365676 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501365683 • £87.01 / $87.01

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The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Dispatches from the Front

Don Armstrong, Independent Scholar, USA

Ralph J. Gleason worked behind the scenes as well as in print. From John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie to Bob Dylan and the Fillmore’s Bill Graham, Gleason acted as their confidant and advisor. This book tells the story of Ralph J. Gleason, the trailblazing music writer who created the first popular music newspaper column, and cofounded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason covered the remarkable succession of musicians who innovated popular music from the 1930s to the 1970s. It draws on never-before-published letters, anecdotes, family accounts and exclusive interviews to reveal one of the 20th century’s most fascinating individuals; one who not only reported on but shaped the direction of popular music.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 304 pages

PB 9781501393525 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501366987

ePub 9781501366994 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501367007 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Performing Folk Songs

Affect, Landscape and Repertoire

Elizabeth Bennett, University of Essex, UK

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire, and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs ‘by heart.' Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on British folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781501390227 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501390180

ePub 9781501390197 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501390203 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

The Musical Lives of Charles Manson

The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties —or, No Sense Makes Sense

Nicholas Tochka, University of Melbourne, Australia

Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insights into Sixties counterculture. Did the guitar-playing guru personify the violence that the rock counterculture had inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of that society’s broken institutions? For nearly five years, commentators debated the meaning of Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca killings. The key thread linking these narratives was rock music.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781501384554 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501384561 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501384578 • £18.35 / $22.45

ePdf 9781501384585 • £18.35 / $18.35

Bloomsbury Academic

Listen to Jazz!

Exploring a Musical Genre

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, Westfield State University, USA, and Springfield College, USA

Providing an introductory overview of jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, Listen to Jazz! explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and styles. Surveying the sounds, concepts, performances, and production of jazz, this work includes A-to-Z entries on recent jazz musicians from around the world, jazz musicians and recordings that have been marginalized, and musicians, songs, and albums that have contributed to the defining aspects of specific jazz styles. Chapters on the impact of jazz on popular culture and its legacy, as well as a bibliography, enhance the historical and analytical content of the work.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 320 pages 15 bw photos

HB 9781440875519 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798765110782 £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440875526 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Exploring Musical Genres • Bloomsbury Academic

Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences

Popular Music Autobiographies

Edited by Tom Attah, Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK & Christian Lloyd, Queen's University, Canada

Popular musicians' autobiographies are one of the most important ways that stars create, negotiate and perpetuate the realities and myths of their lived experiences for fans. Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture. These narratives function beyond thrilling fans with a sense of intimacy, as they attempt to create a narrative or reclamation on the musician's terms.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages

HB 9798765108413 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765108420 • £79.83 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765108437 • £79.83 / $79.83

Bloomsbury Academic

James Tenney

Writings and Interviews on Experimental

Music

Edited by Robert Wannamaker, California Institute of the Arts, USA, Lauren Pratt, James Tenney Estate, Canada & Tashi Wada, Independent Scholar, USA

The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934–2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout his five-decade artistic career. These document both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American music, film, art, and technology. The writings are accompanied by a wealth of photographs, artworks, compositional sketches, archival documents, and previously unpublished scores.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages

HB 9798765121320 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765121337 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765121344 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages non-exclusive

NOFX

Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations

Edited by David Pearson, Lehman College, USA, Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate Center, USA & Ellen Bernhard, Georgian Court University, USA

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX’s aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band’s listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. NOFX’s aesthetics of provocation and discomfort force us to think about the positive value and problems caused by a longstanding attitude within punk. Their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, as the band has incorporated virtuosic guitar and bass playing, an array of chords and harmonic approaches, borrowings from various musical styles, and song structures of considerable complexity, broadening punk’s expressive possibilities in the process.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages

HB 9798765128619 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765128626 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765128633 • £87.01 / $87.01

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The Music Industry in the Digital Age

How Platforms are Redefining Pop, DIY and Participatory Culture

Richard Frenneaux, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Today’s music artists are expected to adapt to a rapidly shifting market, where networked music and social media platforms effect constant change in consumption patterns. Not only is it prudent to explore the impact of digital culture on the contemporary music creator, but also to understand how co-creation has impacted the creator’s relationship with their audience. Through an ethnographic approach, interviewing participants within key areas of the music industry, this book explores what competencies artists need to develop for success in the digital age, as well as what it means to be an artist working within the ‘new’ music industry.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9798765113455 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765113462 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765113479 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Listening to Landscape

Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion

Phil Hubbard, Kings College London, UK

Moving deftly between cultural theory, musicology and geography, Listening to Landscape serves as a primer on hauntronica that defines the genre as uniquely concerned with questions of landscape and Englishness. However, it argues that 21stcentury hauntronica is not mere nostalgia, but should be considered a provocation that helps us imagine a new radical politics for the Anthropocene. In making this argument, it speaks to urgent questions of national identities in the post-Brexit era, offering a distinctive take on the way contemporary culture deals with the ghosts and memories of Albion.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9798765112922 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765112939 £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765112946 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Bowie, Beckett, and Being The Art of Alienation

Rodney Sharkey, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar

An exploration of the artistic practices of Samuel Beckett and David Bowie illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation. By documenting their shared passion for literature, art, and music, the book shows how Beckett and Bowie used the arts in all forms (painting, drama, film etc.) to produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs. Through the creation of alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined and punished by an implicitly repressive social order, which Beckett and Bowie transgress, opening up new spaces beyond conventional identities.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages 2 bw illus

PB 9781501391286 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501391248

ePub 9781501391255 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501391262 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound

Black and South Asian Artists in Their Own Words

Edited by Amit Dinesh Patel, University of Greenwich, UK, Gabrielle Messeder, SOUND/ IMAGE Research Group, UK & Andrew KnightHill, University of Greenwich, UK

Black and South Asian artists are some of the least represented within the genre of experimental sound. Ethnically diverse artists have been excluded from the traditional discourse. Their experiences, therefore, provide a valuable counterpoint to the normalized white majority. This volume presents the voices of these diverse and often marginalized practitioners, seeking to celebrate Black and South Asian experimental sound musicians and their underrepresented music practice. Bringing together a diverse array of international artists and practitioners this book challenges the white norm in the field of experimental sound.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 288 pages

HB 9798765105108 • £90.00 / $120.00

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ePdf 9798765105122 • £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Academic

Literature as Sound Studies

Edited by yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, USA & Liesl Yamaguchi, UC Berkeley, USA

Sound has always played a crucial role in literature and literary study. The literary category has often hinged on the particular attention that literary works draw to their own sound, whether that sound be psychologically rehearsed, as in silent reading, or acoustically realized, as in a theatrical performance. Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions, this text brings out the ways that literary writers and commentators have used and studied sound from antiquity to the present. The authors posit literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration and an opportunity to enrich the field of sound studies.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9798765121375 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765121382 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765121399 • £87.01 / $87.01

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American Philosophies

From Wounded Knee to the Present

Erin

McKenna, University of Oregon, USA & Scott L. Pratt

American Philosophies offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world. The 2nd edition of this book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, gender, indigenous peoples, philosophies of disability and environmentalism. It also takes seriously the dramatic political and social machinations since 2017 and engages with emerging voices and traditions. A substantial and provocative introduction to the work of the major American thinkers and their contemporary interlocuters.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 440 pages

PB 9781350342743 £26.99 / $36.95 HB 9781350342750 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350342774 £24.29 / $33.74

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Fanon, Žižek, and the Violence of Resistance

Zahi

Zalloua, Whitman College, USA

In a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures. The purpose of this inventive exploration is to advance an anti-racist critique, attending to the processes by which ontology operates in a racial matrix to produce some human bodies that count and others (deemed not-quite- or non-human) that do not. For Fanon and Žižek, the violence of ontology must be met with another for m of violence, a revolutionary violence that delegitimizes the logic of the symbolic order and troubles its collective fantasies.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages

PB 9781350513273 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350513280 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350513303 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350513297 £19.79 / $19.79

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Zero Point

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities.

The 'zero-point' of the title is ground level, rock bottom, the place to which one retreats and where one regroups. Taken from Vladimir Lenin's 1922 piece 'On Ascending a High Mountain, in which Lenin considers the complexities of how one 'retreats' while keeping faith in the cause, the central simile of the climber offers a blueprint for resilience, flexibility, and the persistence of hope.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350537842 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350537866 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350537859 • £8.99 / $8.99

Series: Žižek's Essays • Bloomsbury Academic

Punk Anarchism

An Anti-Theory of Resistance

Sean Parson, Northern Arizona University, USA

Punk Anarchism is a radical critique of contemporary politics and offering an alternative framework rooted in anarchism, punk rock, dadaism, and situationism. It argues that traditional approaches to political change are ineffective in the face of the climate crisis and the failures of liberal institutions. Instead of focusing on reformist measures like recycling and voting, the book advocates for a nihilistic approach that rejects the possibility of meaningful change within the existing political system. Ultimately, Parson proposes an anti-theory of negation as a way to imagine political agency beyond traditional frameworks.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350537330 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781350537323 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781350537354 • £17.09 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350537347 • £17.09 / $17.09

Bloomsbury Academic

The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf Moments of Becoming

Thomas Nail, University of Denver, USA

Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her “philosophy”—the “constant idea” that “makes her a writer.” She called these “exceptional moments,” or “moments of being.”

Thomas Nail contends that Woolf is a philosopher of being. And these "moments of being" as forming a unique process philosophy of motion. The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf contends that Woolf offers us an absolutely unique philosophical and aesthetic understanding of phenomena, that she is a philosopher in her own right, held a unique philosophical position that makes a totally unique contribution to how to think in the world.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9781350526051 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350526068 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350526082 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350526075 • £19.79 / $19.79

Bloomsbury Academic

Freedom

A Disease Without Cure

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

Freedom is a concept that appears deceptively simple but the moment we try to define it, we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek draws on philosophers including Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Edith Wharton, and counters the idea of libertarian individualism, to argue that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and fragile. Tracing its connection to a variety of issues, including environmental breakdown, capitalism, and war, he shows through this entertaining and illuminating journey how a deeper understanding of freedom can offer hope in dark times.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 328 pages

PB 9781350559165 • £9.99 / $12.95

Previously published in HB 9781350357129

ePub 9781350357143 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350357136 • £18.00 / $18.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophical Filmmakers

Costica Bradatan, Texas Tech University, USA

Chantal Akerman

Filmmaker and Philosopher

Andreja Novakovic, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire. In particular, Akerman turns her camera on contexts that had been previously neglected, such as transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners as well as the domestic sphere, revealing their significance in structuring experience.

Andreja Novakovic looks at the role of rituals, gestures and habits in Akerman’s (auto)fictional worlds drawing on sources from Hegel to Butler, Beauvoir and Federici. Chantal Akerman is a fascinating reinterpretation of one of the most important directors of European cinema.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9781350361416 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350361423 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350361447 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350361430 • £17.99 / $17.99

Series: Philosophical Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

David Lean Filmmaker and Philosopher

Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, USA

This book draws out the threads and themes of this widely celebrated and incredibly influential director who, despite his long career, consistently refused to claim anything approaching a unifying mode of thought in his work. From the early, more domestic films like Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations, to the sprawling epics Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, the five decades that Lean devoted to filmmaking are laid out and their common motifs plotted in full. These films enable philosophical discussions to be brought to bear on Lean’s films, unearthing the thoughts and ideas behind one of cinema’s great technicians.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350429321 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350429314 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350429345 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350429338 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: Philosophical Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

Incomputable Earth

Technology

and the Anthropocene Hypothesis

Edited by Antonia Majaca, Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Looking afresh at the Anthropocene, this open access volume investigates how the capitalist engineering of earth is not only accelerating, but is doing so in parallel with the expansion of digital technologies, including ‘artificial intelligence’. Through scholarly essays, artistic contributions, and a glossary of emerging concepts, Incomputable Earth tackles a range of urgent topics, from the racialized politics of climate change to planetary financialization. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections. com. It is funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 608 pages • 60 bw illus

HB 9781350264977 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Explorations in Philosophy and Theology

Kevin Hart, Duke University, USA & Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA

Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology

The Apophatics

of the

Sensible

William C. Hackett, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, USA

William C. Hackett provides a renewed reading of Christian theology by evaluating the role of anthropomorphism. Through this theological history, he addresses the fear of anthropomorphism that prompted early philosophers and theologians to adopt abstract understandings of God. Hackett charts its wide-ranging importance to theology through figures including Balthasar, Bultmann, Dionysius the Areopagite, and Cyril of Alexandria. By exploring the turn away from embodied views of God in Scripture, this book focuses on anthropomorphic views of God in symbols, images, and narratives. Emphasising these forms promotes an intellectual vision of Christianity that challenges theoretical and conceptual abstraction.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350359154 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350359116

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ePdf 9781350359123 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology Bloomsbury Academic

The Book of Experience

From Anselm of Canterbury to Bernard of Clairvaux

Emmanuel Falque, Catholic University of Paris, France

Translated by George Hughes

Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Experience weaves together contemporary phenomenological questions with medieval theology, revealing undiscovered dialogues already underway between Hugh of St. Victor and Maurice MerleauPonty, between Richard of St. Victor and Emmanuel Levinas, between Aelred of Rievaulx and Michel Henry, and not least between Bernard of Clairvaux and the trio of Descartes, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion, consummating in a masterful phenomenological reading of Bernard’s sermons on the Song of Songs

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350386532 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350386495

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ePdf 9781350386501 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Poetics of the Sensible

Stanislas Breton

Translated by Sarah Horton, Youngstown State University, USA

In the first English language translation of this classic text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insights from Neoplatonism and phenomenology. Taking a stance within the generative conception of human language, Stanislas Breton expands the sense of the “poetic” to include the body and its senses phenomenologically intertwined with the world. He boldly writes of God, of the angel, of the icon, and of prayer in a refusal to bracket his religious faith.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 176 pages

PB 9781350387058 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350386853

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ePdf 9781350386860 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Militant Aesthetics

Art Activism in the 21st Century

Martin Lang, University of Lincoln, UK

Bringing together political and aesthetic theory, Martin Lang provides a comprehensive examination of militant art. Through first-hand interviews and experiences, this book sheds light on numerous international case studies, from Grupo Etcétera who are prepared to risk arrest for their art to others like Thomas Bresolin, who utilises military uniforms in violent performances that connect with public anger. Combining these examples with the thought of Badiou, Žižek, Rancière and Mouffe, as well as up-to-date scholarship from Bishop, Léger and others, Lang investigates the instances, attributes and rules of militant art, to propose a new overall theory of 21st-century militant aesthetics.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 264 pages 16 bw illus

PB 9781350346789 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350346741

ePub 9781350346765 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350346758 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art • Bloomsbury Academic

Ideology and Interpellation Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy

Jonathan Fardy, Idaho State University, USA

Bringing Althusser into dialogue with Laruelle, Rancière, and Baudrillard, Jonathan Fardy examines the ground-breaking Althusserian theory of ideological interpellation through three of its key critics. From Laruelle’s dismissal of Althusser’s presumption that “standard philosophy” is guarded against the lures of ideology to Rancière’s contention that employers’ failure to “interpellate” or recruit workers was due to their failure to understand the workers’ dreams of unwaged aesthetic and philosophical labour, this book reveals the continuing relevance of post-Althusserian Marxist thought. Importantly, it also demonstrates the need today for a rigorous theory of ideology, traces of which can be found in Althusser’s legacy.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 176 pages

PB 9781350358959 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350358911

ePub 9781350358935 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358928 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophical Health

Thinking as a Way of Healing

Edited by Luis de Miranda, University of Turku, Finland

Drawing on the history of philosophy, from the ancient concept of flourishing to Kant, Nietzsche, and Foucault, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care. Going beyond physical and psychological health, one may envision philosophical health as a state of creative coherence between a person’s way of thinking and their way of acting, such that the possibilities for a good life are increased. Advocating philosophy as a lived practice, this international volume uncovers the increasing relevance of philosophical health to contemporary debates on well-being, counselling, and personal development.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 296 pages

PB 9781350353084 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350353046

ePub 9781350353060 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350353053 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life • Bloomsbury Academic

Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice

Nicholas Davey, University of Dundee, UK

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more, Nicholas Davey develops the hermeneutical foundations of creative practice. With Gadamer’s language ontology as his cue, he takes Gadamerian thinking beyond Gadamer himself, investigating in particular the productive value of negativity that is central to hermeneutics and to wider spheres of creative learning. In doing so, this pioneering volume not only uncovers the significance of philosophical hermeneutics for the arts and the humanities, but defends the humanities as a whole from the current scepticism inspired by deconstruction and post-structuralism.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 328 pages

PB 9781350347649 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350347656

ePub 9781350347670 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350347663 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Philosophy of the Short Term

Jay Lampert, Duquesne University, USA

Jay Lampert explores the question of time in depth using the resources of short (as well as long) term processes in order to develop best temporal practices in ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical activities, both theoretical and practical. The methodology develops ideas based on the history of philosophy (from Plato to Hegel to Husserl to Deleuze), interdisciplinary studies (from cognitive science to poetics), and practical spheres where short term practices have been studied extensively. Philosophy of the Short Term is the first book to deal systematically with the concept of the short term.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350348004 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350347960

ePub 9781350347984 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350347977 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Phenomenology of Questioning

Husserl, Heidegger and Patocka

Joel Hubick, KU Leuven, Belgium

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the central role that questioning plays in phenomenology. Joel Hubick not only offers a phenomenological analysis of the activity of asking questions, but further traces the development of this form of questioning in the early stages of the phenomenology movement, from Husserl to Heidegger and Patocka. In doing so, this volume affords a crucial insight into the history of phenomenological reasoning, as well as a reminder to today’s phenomenologists to continue asking questions.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350358195 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350358157

ePub 9781350358171 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358164 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics

Methodologies and Their Consequences

Edited by Barry Hallen, has been Reader in Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; Fellow and Associate, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia.

Barry Hallen brings together four Yoruba artists and scholars who write about the art and aesthetics of their own culture. By setting their writings side-by-side, Hallen treats their work as interrelated for the first time. We see how, when combined, they offer a higher level of understanding of the remarkable and fascinating form of life associated with the name Yoruba. The first book of its kind to take such a discursive and analytic approach to Yoruba art and aesthetics, this collection represents exciting new scholarship in the disciplines that have come to be known as African philosophy and art history.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 8 colour illus and 17 bw illus

PB 9781350476103 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350476110 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350476134 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350476127 • £16.19 / $16.19

Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind

Perspectives on Fiction and Beyond

Edited by Katerina Bantinaki, University of Crete, Greece, Efi Kyprianidou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus & Fotini Vassiliou, Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Bringing together 15 essays from a team of established and rising philosophers, this volume sheds light on how both representational and non-representational forms of art allow empathic engagement. It examines the significance of such engagement for cognition, our emotive life and our moral stance. Opening with a historical reconstruction of the origins of empathy, chapters explore our emphatic engagement with fictional characters, with the inanimate in art forms such as film, music and architecture, with the cognitive value of empathy with fiction, and finally our emphatic response to fiction in relation to our moral attitudes.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350409521 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350409545 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350409538 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer

Edited

by Lona Gaikis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

Featuring an extensive collection of major scholars on Susanne K. Langer, this open access book elucidates her transdisciplinary connections and insights across philosophy, psychology, literature, aesthetics, history, architecture and other arts. Divided into two approaches to Langer's philosophy, Part I places her historically and Part II situates her work in conversation with current scholarship. The contributors position her firmly in mainstream theory and assert Langer’s ongoing importance to intellectual histories.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350294738 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350294646

ePub 9781350294653 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350294677 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry

James D. Reid, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA & Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA

Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry

Literary Experiments with Philosophical

Problems

V. Joshua Adams, University of Louisville, USA

V. Joshua Adams traces the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the present, engaging with work by W.R. Johnson, Maud Ellman, and Sharon Cameron. Defending impersonality as a response to skeptical problems, Adams uses what he terms “experiments in impersonality” to answer the skeptic's wish. His account of impersonality promises a new theoretical justification for our practical interest in literary texts and promises to renovate our conception of how poems might do philosophical work, as well as our sense of what a philosophical poem can be.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350259645 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350259669 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350259652 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry Bloomsbury Academic

Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel

Essays on the Lily Discourses

Edited by Frances Maughan-Brown, College of the Holy Cross, USA & Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA

This book is a collection of essays that respond to Kierkegaard’s beautiful and vital Lily Discourses. Long branded as “merely” devotional writings, Kierkegaard’s texts dealing with the lilies and birds spoken of in Matthew’s gospel are rich with poetic nuance and philosophical significance. In this volume emerging and established interpreters addresses Kierkegaard's religious, literary and dramatic aspirations in these discourses. With the fields and approaches of each contribution ranging from analytic aesthetics to eco-theology, this is the go-to text for anyone looking to teach or write about the Lily Discourses across the disciplines of philosophy, literary studies and religion.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350476523 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350476554 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350476547 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

The Levinas Dictionary

Donna Orange, New York University, USA & Joseph Cohen, University College Dublin, Ireland

Widely influential in continental philosophy and beyond, French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, combined the work of philosophy with that of a Hebrew prophet. This dictionary provides access to terms he used to build his overall argument, those from phenomenology to which he gave new meanings, those terms which focused his critique of Western philosophy, as well as terms he invented.

A broad and forward-looking introduction to a thinker whose work has only become more relevant to contemporary theory and practice.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 328 pages

PB 9781350275027 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350275010 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350275041 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350275034 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Academic

Expanding

Philosophy of Religion

J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA & Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, USA

Reimagining Philosophy of Religion

Understanding, Commitment, and Making-Believe

Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Notre Dame, USA

By exploring how analytic philosophy of religion can broaden its horizons to combat old biases, Amber L. Griffioen makes the discipline socially and practically relevant. Divided into units on Reorientation, Reformation, and Revolution, she engages with a wide range of religious phenomena, from religious cognition and beliefs to imagination, prayer, religious experiences, mysticism and compassion. With each chapter examining one aspect of traditional analytic philosophy of religion, she provides suggestions for how the field can develop in more constructive and inclusive directions.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350328501 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350328471 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350328495 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350328488 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Art-Making as Spiritual Practice Rituals of Embodied Understanding

Edited

by Lexi Eikelboom & David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Australia

This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual significance of art. This innovative volume turns its attention to the role of the artist, and to specific examples of art practices, putting them into conversation with particular ritual practices. By creating a web of connections that emerge across multiple disciplines and practices, a team of scholars and artist shed new light on the way art-making and ritual embody non-discursive forms of understanding. This is a rich and in-depth examination of the possibility that art has spiritual meanings that are endemic to the practice of art-making itself. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Templeton Religious Trust.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 304 pages 9 bw illus

HB 9781350474185 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350474208 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350474192 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Expanding Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

From Action to Ethics

A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility

Constantine Sandis, University of Hertfordshire, UK

In this collection of Constantine Sandis' best essays in the philosophy of action, he brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology, and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350235151 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350235113

ePub 9781350235137 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350235120 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

God and the Liberation of Reason in French Philosophy

Edited by Murray Littlejohn, University of New Brunswick, Canada & Stephanie Rumpza, Sorbonne Université, France

Demonstrating that engagement with the question of God in contemporary French philosophy marks a deep awareness of the nature of philosophy and its relation to history, the work collected here offers new perspectives on theological orientations in phenomenology. With twelve contributions from leading experts in French philosophy of religion, the essays in this volume use the question of God to deconstruct the metaphysical patterns still carved into our thought, and reconstruct new paths that might be open to philosophy after we abandon them. The volume makes available major thinkers seldom translated, promising to deepen the Anglophone reception and understanding of contemporary French philosophy.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350438354 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350438378 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350438361 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil

Edited by Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA

Exploring Simone Weil's thought through 38 short essays, this handbook distills her complex writings into an organic whole. Placing Weil's philosophy in context, it maps her intellectual influences, including thinkers like Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Marx. It concludes with a critical consideration of the philosophical terms that tie her thinking together.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 464 pages

HB 9781350341623 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350341647 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350341630 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Angolan Political Thought Resistance and African Philosophy

Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Hunan University, China

Angolan Political Thought introduces anticolonial thinkers whose writings on colonialism and liberation have been instrumental in the formation of Angolan identity. It focuses on the political nature of these thinkers and how their work has impacted Angolan political reality. Cordeiro-Rodrigues both introduces and critically analyzes the thought of Queen Njinga, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Agostinho Neto and Pepetela and systematically addresses five important topics in Angolan political thought. The book provides a general introduction to African political philosophy and explains the place of Angolan political thought in this before exploring the liberating potential of Angolan thinking.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 216 pages

PB 9781350245440 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350245402

ePub 9781350245426 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350245419 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Provincialising Pluralism

Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions

Edited by Brian Black, Lancaster University, UK & James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

How have South Asian traditions responded to plurality and difference? The question lies at the centre of this collection, inviting us to understand South Asian ways of thinking about difference, diversity, and ‘the other’. Drawing from a wide range of literary, intellectual, and religious sources, this is the first in-depth treatment of how South Asian traditions understand themselves in relation to others. Marking a significant contribution to re-thinking pluralism in the 21st century, this collection shows what can we stand to learn from recognising the diversity among the pluralisms seen throughout the history of South Asian thought.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 528 pages

HB 9781350436039 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350436053 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350436046 • £126.00 / $126.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Developmental Psychology of Personal Identity

A Philosophical Perspective

Edited by Massimo Marraffa, Roma Tre University, Italy & Cristina Meini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy

Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini re-connect the psychology of identity with its philosophical roots in this study. They trace the contemporary problem of the self to John Locke and William James’ foundational theories on personal identity. By integrating the philosophy of identity with empirical and neuropsychological research, Marraffa and Meini provide an original synthesis of multidisciplinary conceptions of the self. The combination of philosophy and neuropsychology makes an important contribution to the multiple disciplines that are concerned with personal identity. It provokes new routes to understanding identity and self, personality, and autobiographical memory.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350369030 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350368996

ePub 9781350369016 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350369009 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Metaphysics of Meditation

Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad

Stephen Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. Sankara’s commentaries on the Upanisads are a core of the Vedanta tradition and Aurobindo is a towering figure of 20th-century Hindu thought. This is the first time their approaches have been studied together. Addressing a huge gap in the contemporary literature on meditation in the Hindu traditions, Phillips presents a compelling new way of thinking about meditation in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy and Upanisad

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350412446 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350412415

ePub 9781350412453 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350412422 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies Bloomsbury Academic

Mimetic Theory, AI, and Desiring Machines

Explorations in Technology, Film, Fiction, and Philosophy

Edited by Thomas Ryba, Purdue University, USA & Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University, USA

Thomas Ryba and Sandor Goodhart bring together a team of renowned scholars to theorize artificial intelligence from a Girardian perspective for the first time. Chapters present cutting edge reflections on Girard’s mimetic theory in connection with science, humans, fiction, film, philosophy and God, shedding light on artificial intelligence and the consequences of the implementation of humanoid robots into daily life. Drawing on close interpretative readings of films, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Ex Machina and Her, as well as literary productions, philosophic essays and theological concepts, it offers a novel approach to utilize the seminal ideas of Girard.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 416 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350382732 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350382756 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350382749 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred • Bloomsbury Academic

Advances in Neurophilosophy

Edited

by Nora Heinzelmann, University of Erlangen, Germany

Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers to a range of experimental methods from neuroscience. Chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the discipline, covering neuroimaging, causal interventions and advanced statistical methods. A team of experts combine clear explanations of complex methods with reports of cutting-edge research, advancing our understanding of how these tools can be applied to further philosophical inquiries into agency, emotions, enhancement, perception, personhood and more. With contributions organised by neuroscientific method, this volume provides an accessible overview for students and scholars of neurophilosophy.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350349520 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350349483

ePub 9781350349506 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350349490 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Kant and the Problem of Nothingness

A Latin American Study and Critique

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla

Translated by Addison Ellis, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, a highly respected Latin American philosopher, published the first study of Kant’s concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla’s groundbreaking work makes it available in English for the first time. Mayz Vallenilla’s interpretation is deeply informed by Heidegger's reading of Kant, against the background of the early 20th century neo-Kantian tradition. Accompanied by translator’s notes and a glossary, Addison Ellis' translation includes extensive commentary and an introduction providing historical context and references to the original sources in German.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 208 pages

PB 9781350277816 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350277786

ePub 9781350280755 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350277793 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Deleuze and the Problem of Experience

Transcendental Empiricism

Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview. By focusing on Deleuze’s theory of the faculties, we can see how he builds a transcendental system of thought that defies the predictability of empirical experience. This new understanding of Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist not only helps to situate his work in the constellation of twentieth century French philosophers but also helps us to understand a philosopher for whom difference and heterogeneity were central to his own philosophical corpus.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350450608 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350450622 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350450615 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Portraits of Bertrand Russell

Edited by Gülberk Koç Maclean, Mount Royal University, Canada

This indispensable resource to the life and work of Bertrand Russell contains valuable and hard-to-find portraits from more than 80 figures written between 1872 and 1970. Including writings from G. E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Lloyd George, J.M. Keynes, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and many others.

They capture the power of Russell's ideas and the reach of his thought, while his own accounts of these encounters offer a comparison of how he thought he portrayed himself to others and how he was perceived.

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UK October 2025 US September 2025 1000 pages

HB Pack 9781350085497 £350.00 / $475.00

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Rethinking European Modernity Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought

Hans Schelkshorn, University of Vienna, Austria

This open access book undertakes a self-critical reinterpretation of European modernity. Hans Schelkshorn presents modernity as a complex process of ‘de-limitations’ instigated by Renaissance thought, which laid the foundations of modern science, politics and economies in the 17th century. By reassessing the origins of modernity and bringing neglected Renaissance thinkers into the narrative, Schelkshorn paves the way for a more cosmopolitan account of European thought.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Hans Schelkshorn/University of Vienna.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 512 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350266810 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350266773

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Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia

The Life and Thought Behind the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska, Jagiellonian University, Poland.

Delving into Wittgenstein's recently-published private diaries from 1914 to 1917, Urszula IdziakSmoczynska offers unique insight into a pivotal period in Wittgenstein's life, when he completed his ground-breaking work in logic and underwent a profound spiritual transformation that left an indelible mark on his future and his philosophical evolution. This important exploration of Wittgenstein’s formative years not only sheds light on Wittgenstein's philosophical journey but highlights his role in a broader context – as one of the major intellectuals and artists who struggled in the first World War, shaping the postwar scientific and artistic landscape.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350511965 • £85.00 / $115.00

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The Problem of Free Will and Naturalism

Paradoxes and Kantian Solutions

Christian Onof, Birkbeck College, UK

Christian Onof reviews contemporary approaches surrounding free will and argues that their main shortcomings are ultimately due to paradoxical requirements on free will imposed by the naturalistic framework. Onof singles out Kant’s critical solution as one that stands out among historical approaches and offers a coherent picture of free will. Drawing on unpublished notes and key publications of Kant's critical period, Onof addreses several debates which loom large in contemporary Kant literature. His exegetical work puts Kant’s theory into conversation with contemporary analytic theories of free will and leads to defining a Kantian position that overcomes the issues plaguing existing approaches to the problem of free will.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350425408 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350425361

ePub 9781350425385 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350425378 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Michael Hauser, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of, but departing from, those two towering modes of late 20th century culture. Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, and answering some of the contradictions at the heart of Alain Badiou’s most influential works, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the 20th century and the ideologies that replaced them.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781350437845 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350437876 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350437869 • £76.50 / $76.50

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The Contingent Universality A New Ontology

Jure Simoniti, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

There may exist something like the most unbearable of all philosophical thoughts. It is the thought of contingency and universality converging, intersecting, and being one and the same thing, approached from two different perspectives. Hardly anything is as unsettling as the insight into the absolute contingency of the emergence of universals, and the correlative realization that the only true universality is one of the contingency of everything. The goal of this book is to think this unbearable thought through to the end and face up to its most binding and disconcerting consequences.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350514720 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350514744 £76.50 / $103.94

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Artificial Dispositions Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical Issues

Edited by William A. Bauer, North Carolina State University, USA & Anna Marmodoro, Durham University, UK

How do artificial dispositions, found in automation, computation and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350336155 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350336117

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Deleuze and Slowness

Krzysztof Skonieczny, University of Warsaw, Poland

Focusing on the concept of slowness in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, this book diverges from the conventional interpretation of Deleuze as a philosopher of speed or even accelerationism, instead delving into the minor but critical themes in his works, from idiocy to catatonia. Advocating for a pragmatic reading of its source material, it utilises Deleuze’s thought to address the urgent challenges in contemporary political and social philosophy, particularly the issue of acceleration in its subjective, socio-political, and ecological dimensions.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350525481 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350525504 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350525498 £76.50 / $76.50

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Eliminativism in Ancient Philosophy

Greek and Buddhist Philosophers on Material Objects

Ugo Zilioli, University of Oxford, UK

A comparative investigation in the metaphysics of material objects and persons in ancient philosophy, this book provides radically new insights into key themes and areas of ancient thought by drawing on Greek and Buddhist philosophies. Chapters cover concepts such as nihilism, indeterminacy, solipsism and tropes, demonstrating how the philosophy of major thinkers Protogoras, Vasubandhu, Gorgias, Nagarjuna, Democritus, Pyrrho, Epicurus and the Cyrenaics advance our understanding of eliminativism.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 192 pages

PB 9781350400856 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350105164

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ePdf 9781350105171 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil Unprecedented Conversations

Edited by Kathryn Lawson, University in Kingston, Canada & Joshua Livingstone, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century, who, despite bearing similar lifeexperiences, developed radically unique political philosophies. The writings here respect the profound differences between Arendt and Weil whilst pulling out the shared preoccupations of power, violence, freedom, resistance, responsibility, attention, aesthetics, and vulnerability. Without shying away from exploring the more difficult concepts in these philosophers' works, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil also aims to pull out the relevance of their writings for contemporary issues.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350344457 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350344464

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ePdf 9781350344471 • £76.50 / $76.50

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Futures Theory

Philosophies of the World to Come

Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Babson College, USA

What are the most radical transformations on the horizon of world societies, cultures, technologies, political movements, ecology, art, media – and how are they irreversibly altering our experience of time, movement, language, mind, body, virtuality, power, and nature?

Compiling the most fascinating writings and presentations of over 18 prominent thinkers belonging to different disciplines, this book sheds light on the many possibilities of the future from multiple perspectives, peering into how futures are imagined globally, the potential evolution of intellectual fields, and opening up a discussion of the steps toward a new atmosphere for thought itself in the epochs to come.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 352 pages

PB 9781350421035 £25.99 / $35.95 HB 9781350421042 £75.00 / $100.00

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Series: Futures Theory • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Frege's Pragmatics

Thorsten Sander, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

In this detailed exposition of Frege’s pragmatics, Thorsten Sander explores his views on colouring, side-thoughts, presuppositions, indexicals and illocutionary force and relates these to current research in philosophy of language and linguistics. Providing a fresh perspective on Frege’s account of various pragmatic aspects of language, he addresses questions such as: How exactly does sense differ from colouring? What does Frege mean by terms such as presuppositions and side-thoughts, and wherein lies the difference between these phenomena? In this first book-length treatment of Frege’s pragmatics, Sandor makes the case that Frege’s groundbreaking ideas are an essential part of his overall philosophical enterprise.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

HB 9781350463257 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350463271 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350463264 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics • Bloomsbury Academic

Bernard Stiegler Memories of the Future

Edited by Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis, Lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands & Paul Willemarck, Junction Phenomenology

Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Bernard Stiegler's thought which reached beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where he had been originally received.

Stiegler was a contemporary philosopher whose work reflected multiple different facets including theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, as well as aesthetics. The essays here provide a detailed examination of Stiegler’s remarks on spirit, philosophy and technicity, whilst simultaneously offering a comprehensive account of its unifying themes.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 264 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350410480 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350410442

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A Philosophical History of Police Power

Melayna Kay Lamb, University of Law, UK This book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex relationship with sovereignty and law, in a form which is not reducible to implementation. It argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as ‘artificial’ is replaced by a liberal, non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a ‘natural’ order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book shows the an-archic character of police power.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 232 pages • 1 b/w illus

PB 9781350204089 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350204041

ePub 9781350204065 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350204058 • £76.50 / $76.50 Bloomsbury Academic

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Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments America's Continuing Revolution

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

This constitutional companion book shows students just how revolutionary the Constitution was—and how relevant it remains today. After revisiting the key events leading to the Constitution's ratification, this book explores the Constitution article by article, and amendment by amendment, to help readers better understand how each section of the document shapes the country we live in today. The 8th edition illuminates such issues as Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution for the January 6th riots, Mike Pence's role in certifying Electoral College votes, Ketanji Brown Jackson's appointment to the Supreme Court, and the Dobbs decision, among other recent developments.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 416 pages • 20 bw images

PB 9798765130544 • £32.99 / $45.95 • HB 9798765130551 • £95.00 / $140.00

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State, Society and Corruption in Africa

The Evolution of Corruption from the Precolonial Period to the Present

Yusuf Ali & Abiodun Alao, The Brookings Institution, USA

An illuminating interrogation of the impacts of corruption on state structures and institutions in Africa, focusing on a variety of institutions and establishments – including the judiciary to the legislature, civil service to religion, tertiary education to national economies – with case studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

UK September 2025

• US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350476196 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350476189 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350476172 • £26.09 / $36.44

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Series: Peace, Society, and the State in Africa • Bloomsbury Academic

(Un)avoidable Conflict in Ukraine

The Ideal Self and Fault Lines in Europe and Russia

Cristian Nitoiu, Loughborough University, UK

Taking a conceptual approach to European-Russian relations in the post–Cold War era, this book traces how each side's "ideal self" came into conflict with "fault lines" in international politics. Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine is not only a symptom of conflict taking over the European continent but also a point of no return that will be difficult to roll back. Could the state of conflict on the Europe continent have been avoided?

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 232 pages

HB 9798765137123 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765137147 • £79.83 / $99.00

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Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond

Thomas C. Wright, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA

Examining how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, this fourth edition engages with the question: is the Cuban Revolution dead? It includes a new chapter with expanded coverage of women’s political representation, the continued rise of authoritarianism, Mexican democratization, the "Pink Tide" of recent leftist governments, including those of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Cuban politics in the post-Castro era.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 304 pages 20 b/w maps

PB 9798765131015 • £28.99 / $44.95 • HB 9798765131022 • £95.00 / $140.00

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Orientalism, Liberalism and Colonial Governmentality

Deconstructing the Imperialised Historiography of Modern South Asia

Sanjeev Kumar HM, University of Delhi, India

This book examines the formation of modern South Asia as a geopolitical, psycho-cultural, and historical construct. It traces the region’s colonial past, analyzing how Orientalism and liberalism shaped its identity through Foucault’s methods of genealogy and archaeology. The book explores how colonial power, informed by Edmund Burke’s ideas and Victorian values, created a distorted imperial worldview of South Asia. By unpacking these intertwined discourses, it offers a critical genealogy of South Asian identity, revealing the complex interplay between power, knowledge, and culture in shaping the region’s modern conception.

UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 336 pages

HB 9789356405349 • £85.00 / $115.00

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The Making of Modern Kosovo

Reassessing Ibrahim Rugova’s Policy of Non-Violence

Jakup Azemi, University College London, UK

Explores how the independent state of Kosovo was built, not only through the success of the war of 1998-1999, but also through Ibrahim Rugova's decade-long policy Policy of non-violence, which led to NATO intervention and international support for the creation of modern independent Kosovo.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350460065 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350460058 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Communitarianism

Politics, Society and Public Policy

Henry Tam

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Henry Tam’s Communitarianism brings different strands of communitarian thought together into a critical synthesis to show how communitarian ideas can be applied in practice, addressing key problems in social, economic, and political life, with case studies from the state, business and the voluntary sectors.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781350422391 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350422407 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350422414 • £22.49 / $31.04

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Anti-Racism as Communism

Paul Gomberg, University of California at Davis, USA

Anti-racism is a necessary part of modern political discourse, but often it excludes the Marxist analysis of class and labor. This Marxist exploration of antiracism in the USA explores racial exploitation and oppression of Black labour, from the Civil War era to the present day, as well as the origin and meaning of Race in the USA, and why it persists.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350258013 £28.99 / $39.95

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Ungrievable Lives

Race, Risk and Responsibility in Neoliberal Societies

Tanisha Spratt

A distinctive and damning exploration of the devaluation of Black and Brown lives in contemporary neoliberal societies, drawing on timely and relevant contemporary and historical case studies including that of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic and Shamima Begum.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350400801 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350400818 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Torture and Enhanced Interrogation

A Reference Handbook

Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo

Explore the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide. Torture and Enhanced Interrogation begins with an in-depth historical overview of the practice before examining the most explosive controversies that surround the use of torture and enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding to extract information from prisoners or alleged enemies of the state.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 392 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9798765141984 • £21.99 / $29.95

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Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Globalizing Eastern Europe

Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century

Edited by Gilad Ben-Nun, University of Leipzig, Germany, Katja Castryck-Naumann & Lena Dallywater

Based on cutting-edge contemporary research, Globalizing Eastern Europe offers a series of refreshing arguments to counter misconceptions of Eastern Europe as an entrenched, deprived and peripheral region. From grain production to the making of modern international law, and from emancipatory educational concepts, to the de-nationalisation of classical music, this rich and diverse volume recasts Eastern Europe as a globally active and important region on the world stage.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 320 pages 40 colour images

PB 9781350265325 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350264311 • £65.00 / $90.00

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The Horn Engaging the Gulf

Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations

Aleksi Ylönen, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sheds light on the recently intensified relations between the states in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf, through the diplomatic and economic agency of the African states. Aleksi Ylönen investigates case studies from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, and their engagement with the Gulf States - particularly Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting these intensifying relations.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9780755635160 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Nationalism in India

Multiple Dimensions and Ideologies

Bidyut Chakrabarty, Previously, Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, India

This book explores the evolving visions of Indian nationalism during the freedom struggle, focusing on the differing ideologies of key leaders. While their approaches varied—ranging from the Moderates’ support for British rule to the New Nationalists’ advocacy for active resistance—their common goal was India’s political emancipation. Leaders like Aurobindo, Lal-Bal-Pal, and later Gandhi, shaped the nationalist movement through different methods, including passive resistance. Despite ideological differences, they shared a commitment to independence, with Gandhi’s 1918 success in Champaran marking a new era in the fight for freedom.

UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 300 pages

HB 9789361317378 £85.00 / $115.00

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Eco-communities

Surviving Well Together

Edited by Jenny Pickerill, University of Sheffield, UK

This open access book critically explores the aims and practices of eco-communities worldwide

The book examines eco-communities through the lens of key three challenges: how eco-communities practice living together in non-conventional ways; how eco-communities challenge conventions, particularly mainstream approaches to time, economics, race, justice, democracy and aesthetics; and the challenge of replication and propagation.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 304 pages

HB 9781350528154 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350528161 • £00.00 / $00.00

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Space Strategy and Military Doctrine

Policy Documents of NATO Allies

Bert Chapman

Examining open access civilian and military space policy, strategy, and doctrine documents, this book highlights emerging trends and developments in military space strategy. Bert Chapman collects public documents from Australia, Canada, NATO, the United States, and the United Kingdom from 2017 onward to illustrate space’s critical importance to national and international security and to multiple areas of civilian economic and personal use including climate change, food security, personal and global communications, and the potential for expanded space exploration.

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Series: Praeger Security International Bloomsbury Academic

A Military History of the Ottomans

From Osman to Atatürk

Mesut Uyar Ph.D. & Edward J. Erickson, Marine Corps University, USA

This is a study survey that combines an introductory view of this subject with fresh and original reference-level information. Divided into distinct periods, Uyar and Erickson open with a brief overview of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and the military systems that shaped the early military patterns. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 412 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9798765140796 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Dangerous Crossroads

Europe, Russia, and the Future of NATO

Hall Gardner

Gardner asserts that it is absolutely necessary to draw Russia into a concerted relationship with the United States and the European Union. He concludes by formulating a viable system of cooperative-collective security for all Central and Eastern European states backed by conjoint NATO, European, and Russian security guarantees. This is a thoughtful and provocative analysis of great interest to policymakers and students of international relations and contemporary defense issues.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9798765141915 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780275958572

ePdf 9781440823169 £68.65 / $68.65

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World English

Studies in Contemporary Warfare

Andrew Mumford, University of Nottingham, UK

US Counter-terrorism Operations in Afghanistan

Jackpots, Dry Holes, and Collateral Damage

Jonathan Schroden

For the first time, Jonathan Schroden captures the complete history of U.S. counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan. Building on existing scholarly research into US counter-terror operations, this book also features analysis of memoirs, news and investigative reporting, official U.S. government accounts and documents, as well as interviews with key leaders of U.S. counter-terrorism units and operations in Afghanistan. The result is a complete, detailed, nuanced, and objective understanding of the goals, approaches, and results of U.S. counter-terrorism operations during its war in Afghanistan.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350374188 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350374195 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350374201 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350374218 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: Studies in Contemporary Warfare • Bloomsbury Academic

Climate Change on the Battlefield

International Military Responses to the Climate Crisis

Erin Sikorsky, Center for Climate and Security, USA

Climate Change on the Battlefield examines how climate change is reshaping modern military operations, and the role of international militaries in responding to the effects of the climate crisis. The book takes an international case study approach, looking at specific geographies such as Afghanistan and the Arctic, as well as types of military operations, including firefighting and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions. The book also explores in detail how different countries from across every continent, and international institutions, are responding to these threats while also critically assessing their emissions and contributions to the climate crisis.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781350407657 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350407664 £65.00 / $90.00

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Series: Studies in Contemporary Warfare • Bloomsbury Academic

Christians in the City of Montréal

Glenn Smith, McGill University, Canada

Documents the roots of Christianity in Montréal, focusing on the present experience of Christians across the Census Metropolitan Area, 4.3 million. Explores: the indigenous roots of Montréal and what Christianity looks like the among the city’s indigenous peoples; “The Quiet Revolution” of intense socio-political and socio-cultural change in French Canada from 1960; immigration since the 1960s, and the ethnic diversity of Churches. Includes interviews with leading figures from Montreal and lay people from various traditions. Interludes between chapters bring to life key information about Montreal, including "Who are the Québécois", and the national sport or "religion" of Canada - hockey.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781350420144 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350420137 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350420168 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350420151 • £22.49 / $22.49

Series: Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity Bloomsbury Academic

Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies

Engaging the Scholarship of Rupert Gethin

Edited by Paul Fuller, University of Edinburgh, UK & Indaka Weerasekera, Independent scholar, UK

This volume brings together contributions from North America, UK, Europe and Asia into a single volume to advance the field of scholarship and to celebrate Rupert Gethin’s immense contribution to Buddhist studies. The essays include explorations of Buddhist teachings, Abhidharma and scriptural studies and cover the fields of research that engage Rupert Gethin’s scholarship: Buddhist cosmology, textual translations, Abhidharma and the interface between Buddhism and modern science.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 2 bw illus

HB 9781350506015 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350505988 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350505971 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Tibetan Magic Past and Present

Edited by Cameron Bailey, Independent scholar, USA & Aleksandra Wenta, University of Florence, Italy

This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both premodern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the volume aims to shed light on experiences, practices, and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350354982 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350354944

ePub 9781350354968 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350354951 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Evangelical Christian Responses to Islam

A Contemporary Overview

Richard McCallum, University of Oxford, UK

Drawing on over 300 texts written by more than 170 Evangelical authors, academics, leaders, missionaries and converts in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this book explores what the Evangelical micro public sphere has to say about key issues in Christian-Muslim relations today. This book looks at a variety of perspectives and considers where they may lead in the future.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 304 pages • 5 tables

PB 9781350418257 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350418219

ePub 9781350418233 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350418226 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism

The Skullward Leap Technique and the Quest for

Vitality

Flavio Geisshuesler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

This open access book argues that Dzogchen once belonged to a cult centered on the quest for vitality, which involved the worship of the sky as primordial source of life and endorsed the hunting of animals. The book also traces the historical development of the Great Perfection and advances an innovative model of meditation.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350428850 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350428812

ePub 9781350428836 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350428829 • £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Academic

On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan

Decline, Antipathy, and Aversion to Institutions

Ian Reader, The University of Manchester, UK & Clark Chilson, The University of Pittsburgh, USA

This book challenges the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution. Ian and Clark instead argue that many Japanese say they are nonreligious because they actually dislike religion and want to distance themselves from it. To support this argument, the book explores how religion is in decline in Japan today. Demonstrating how negative images of religion are produced in the mainstream media, in popular culture, and by various groups and people, this book also explores specific case studies such as anti-cult organizations, lawyers, government agencies, intellectuals, and religious organizations.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350541498 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350541511 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350541528 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

New Perspectives

Edited by Jamie Gilham, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This book brings together the work of sixteen leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Western Islam and the history of Christian-Muslim relations to offer fresh perspectives on Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain. The contributors reveal 19th-century attitudes and beliefs about Islam and Muslims to demonstrate the plurality of approaches to Islam and Muslims in Britain’s past – in politics, academia, literature, the press and other forms of popular culture. They also bring to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam to assess their experiences as Muslims in the Victorian period.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 13 bw illus

PB 9781350299672 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350299634

ePub 9781350299658 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350299641 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Islam of the Global West Bloomsbury Academic

Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam

Edited by Ayang Utriza Yakin, UCLouvain, Belgium, Adis Duderija, Griffith University, Australia & An Van Raemdonck, Ghent University, Belgium

The book examines various conceptions of hayâ, or feelings of shame, modesty and honor in Islam, and the practices associated with this concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts. It argues that hayâ’ or modesty is the result of social constructions in which ideas, objects and practices interact in social and cultural contexts. It then demonstrates how this concept has undergone profound transformations temporally and spatially.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350386143 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350386105

ePub 9781350386129 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350386112 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Edited by Christopher Partridge, University of Lancaster, UK & Marcus Moberg, Abo Akademi University, Finland

The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology and sociology. It comprises 33 updated essays, a replacement of one of the chapters (on Buddhism), and six new chapters. The Handbook continues to provide a guide to methodology, key genres, popular music subcultures, as well as an extensive updated bibliography. It remains the essential tool for anyone with an interest in popular culture generally and religion and popular music in particular.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 512 pages

PB 9781350286870 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350286979

ePub 9781350286993 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350286986 £126.00 / $126.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

Edited by Ruth Conrad, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, Roland Hardenberg, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, Hanna Miethner, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany & Max Stille, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and preachers in the past and present. In total, the volume brings together nine contributions by international experts in their respective fields.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350408883 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350408845

ePub 9781350408869 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350408852 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction

Sang-Keun Yoo, Marist College, USA

Sang-Keun Yoo highlights the underexplored connection between New Wave American science fiction and Asian religions, such as Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Bringing fresh perspectives to the works of William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K and Samuel R. Delany, this book offers an insightful examination of the role of Asian religions in American science fiction and their impact on the genre's history.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 9

HB 9781350447899 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350447936 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350447929 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Popular Fiction and Religious Dynamics • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and

Egypt

Edited by Nicola Laneri, University of Catania, Italy & Sharon R. Steadman, SUNY Cortland, USA

An essential survey of material religion in the ancient Near East and Egypt. This volume contains 29 contributions spanning from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion, and editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious architecture; the written words; sacred images; the spirituality of animals; and the sacred role of the landscape. Illustrated with over 100 images, chapters provide insight into every element of religion and materiality, from the largest building to the smallest amulet.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 526 pages 106 bw illus

PB 9781350398696 £54.99 / $74.95

Previously published in HB 9781350280816

ePub 9781350280830 • £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9781350280823 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Diversity in Australia Living Well with Difference

Edited by Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, Australia, Anna Halafoff, Deakin University, Australia, Greg Barton, Deakin University, Australia & Rebecca Banham, University of Tasmania, Australia

An examination of the variety of strategies used for the negotiation of Australian religious diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media, and interfaith. This book articulates the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other forms of privilege. It also articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement, and respectful engagement with difference.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350334489 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350334441

ePub 9781350334465 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350334458 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem

Emma O'Donnell Polyakov, Merrimack College, USA

Shedding light on contemporary conflicts, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim visions of the past and future of Jerusalem. The book offers multiple analyses of how the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif serves as a flashpoint for religious ideology and fervor.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages

HB 9781350505735 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350505759 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350505742 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place • Bloomsbury Academic

Anecdote Research Research Methods

Hans Karl Peterlini, University of Klagenfurt, Austria & Gabriele Rathgeb, University College of Teacher Education Tyrol, Austria

This open access book introduces anecdote research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical guidance on how to do anecdote research. Anecdote research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenologically-oriented research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of institutions, contexts and individuals. Anecdotes are concise, noteworthy stories in which particularly impactful events are condensed by the researcher from transcribed interviews, conversations and impromptu narratives. They can be used in a range of research contexts and are especially relevant for longitudinal studies.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 176 pages • 2 bw illus

PB 9781350336780 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350336797 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350336803 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350336810 • £00.00 / $00.00

Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods • Bloomsbury Academic

Examining Internet and Technology around the World

Edited by Laura M. Steckman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

This encyclopedia explores the importance and impact of emerging technologies on the world, showing that technologies do not form one-sizefits-all solutions for every nation and population. Even when nations develop similar technologies, human dimensions – from policy to social norms to culture –influence people and society across the world differently. This volume examines issues pertaining to the internet and technology, including access and censorship, alternative energy technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, cyberbullying, cybercrime, e-learning, GMOs, online privacy, and virtual and augmented reality.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 408 pages • 27 bw illus

PB 9798216194750 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440867217

ePub 9798216082231 • £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440867224 • £28.73 / $28.73

Series: Global Viewpoints • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Rethinking Feminism in Ireland

Camilla Fitzsimons, Maynooth University, Ireland

Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. This open access book explores a number of topics including political activism, the world of work, queer and trans-rights activism, gender-based violence, and reproductive rights, the author sets out a fresh approach to the future of feminism using case studies in Ireland to illustrate global issues. Including interviews with 30 people involved in feminist activism in Ireland, this book uses Irish history and political developments to create a collaborative, collective feminist effort with a global outlook.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity

Forging A Home For Ourselves

Edited by Kit Heyam, Queen Mary, University of London, UK & Jon Ward, King's College London, UK

A diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners share their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ethically, including from a decolonial perspective. This open access book is an invaluable resource for academics, educators, performers and activists invested in finding new, trans-affirming, decolonial and anti-racist ways to engage with gender nonconformity in their work.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

UK July

HB

Bloomsbury Academic

Queer Generations

LGBTQ Growing Up, Belonging and Sexual Citizenship

Daniel Marshall, University of South Australia, Australia, Benjamin Hegarty, University of Melbourne, Australia, Rob Cover, RMIT University, Australia, Christy Newman, Centre for Social Research in Health, Australia, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University, Australia & Peter Aggleton, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Offers a groundbreaking study of sexual citizenship, based on the coming of age narratives of two social generations of LGBTQ people in Australia. The book’s assembly and analysis of narrative accounts demonstrates the differences contained in people’s experiences of LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship. It is the first book to provide a robust empirical account of the diverse ways in which sexual citizenship is experienced and understood by different social generations of LGBTQ people growing up.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350257283 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350257290 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350257306 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Academic

Race and Sports

A Reference Handbook

Rachel Laws Myers, Choate Rosemary Hall, USA

Access a wide-ranging overview of the history of race relations in American sports, from the nation's decades of segregation to today's thoroughly integrated teams and sports. The volume opens by providing extensive background on the topic of race and sports in American history, then moves on to extended discussion of specific controversies, problems, and events related to race and sports. Essays offering a variety of perspectives on the intersection of sports and race are also featured, as well as biographical profiles, a chronology, an annotated bibliography of sources for further study, and a glossary of terms.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 384 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9798765142059 £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440862823

ePub 9798216135036 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440862830 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf

Academic

Electronic Waste A Reference Handbook

Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University, Canada

The United Nations reports that the world is on track to produce over 180 billion pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) by 2030. This timely resource helps readers understand the myriad issues and controversies surrounding the collection, treatment, disposal, and recycling of electric and electronic products. It explores trends and challenges related to public health, social justice, and environmental protection and stewardship, and features perspectives on electronic waste issues from experts around the world to examine this global problem and potential solutions.

UK May 2025 US March 2025 272 pages 9 bw illus

HB 9798216170136 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216170150 • £54.28 / $67.50

ePdf 9798216170143 • £54.28 / $54.28

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Modern Sports around the World

History, Geography, and Sociology

David Asa Schwartz, Augustana College, USA

Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. This book provides readers with a global historical understanding of 50 of the world's most popular sports, from badminton to surfing. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Readers will learn about the ways in which people of the world are connected through sports, bridging economic class and geographic location.

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 408 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9798765140147 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440868795

ePub 9798216118800 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440868801 £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Racism in America A

Reference Handbook

Steven L. Foy, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, USA

This resource situates racism within America's structural foundations and institutions to consider how racial discrimination and segregation have changed the trajectory of the USA from its colonial beginnings to the present day. It provides readers with contextual background for better understanding the history and underpinnings of racism in America; an introduction to the most important and high-profile problems, controversies, and solutions related to racism in American life; and perspectives from scholars and activists. Other features include profiles of important people and organizations fighting for racial equality and reconciliation; a detailed chronology; and an annotated bibliography.

UK April 2025 US April 2025 368 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9798765141991 £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781440856402

ePub 9798216135326 • £47.09 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440856419 • £47.09 / $47.09

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Inequality in America Causes and Consequences

Edited by Robert S. Rycroft, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA & Kimberley Kinsley

This reference work provides an authoritative and comprehensive resource for both students and scholars who are interested in learning more about the rich-poor divide in the United States—a divide regarded by many lawmakers, researchers, pundits, and concerned citizens as one of the nation's most serious problems. The book provides important historical background for understanding how the nation has grappled with (or ignored) this issue in the past, examines specific causes of inequality identified by observers across the political spectrum, and summarizes the potential consequences (both present and future) of economic inequality.

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 416 pages

PB 9798765138854 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781440865145

ePub 9798216102410 £28.73 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440865152 £28.73 / $28.73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

T&T Clark Reader in Analytic Theology

Edited by Oliver D. Crisp, University of St Andrews, UK, Joshua Cockayne, University of St Andrews, UK & Jonathan C. Rutledge, University of Notre Dame, USA

The only volume in the field that offers a set of readings in analytic theology that are state-ofthe-art. Edited by leading scholars in the field, this reader focusses specifically on dogmatic issues rather than topics discussed within analytic philosophy of religion, and gives an extensive and versatile introduction to the field of analytic theology.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 544 pages

PB 9780567703842

• £33.99 / $46.95 • HB 9780567703859 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9780567721068

• £30.59 / $41.84

ePdf 9780567721051 • £30.59 / $30.59

T&T Clark

The Spirit of Polyphony

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Musical Pneumatology

Joanna Tarassenko, St Clement’s Church, UK

This book re-examines how Bonhoeffer employs musical patterns of thought and language to a theological end. It outlines how the significance of Bonhoeffer’s musico-theology has not been sufficiently recognised, and sets the stage for a rigorous reexamination. It becomes clear that through the lens of his musical metaphor of polyphony, Bonhoeffer demonstrates how his account of Christian formation contains a latent pneumatology. Here, Tarassenko demonstrates that incorporation of this pneumatology is key in deepening one’s understanding of Bonhoeffer.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 192 pages

PB 9780567713940 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567713575

ePub 9780567713599 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713582 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

Theology and Medicine in Conversation

How the Healing Happens

Benjamin R. Doolittle, University of Yale, USA & Mark Heim, Yale Divinity School, USA

Interdisciplinary in scope, rigorous in scholarship, with an approachable style, Theology and Medicine in Conversation is ideal for any who ponder broad questions of faith and medicine, illness and healing, pain and suffering. Key to this conversation is the recognition that healthcare providers, theologians, ministers, and chaplains share a common purpose: the healing of human beings.

UK November 2025

• US November 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9780567715357 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780567715364 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780567715371 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780567715388 • £19.79 / $19.79

T&T Clark

Resisting Theologies and the Everyday

Addressing Inequalities in Constructive, Practical, and Liberative Approaches

Edited by Wren Radford, University of Manchester, UK

This powerful volume provides dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation by engaging with the everyday practices of marginalised communities. In doing so, this collection of theological experts reject abstracted concepts of bodes and taxonomies of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Readers will find this a dynamic book with a variety of approaches that provide dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation. From Black theology to disabled activists on social media to queer clergy in South Africa, this volume holds together differences in contributors’ approaches, modelling the view that there is not just one form of resistance, nor a single approach to constructing theology.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9780567714053 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567714022 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567714060 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Rethinking Theologies: Constructing Alternatives in History and Doctrine T&T Clark

The Vows of Religious Life in a Secular Society

Touching Wholeness

Judith A. Merkle, Niagara University, USA

This book investigates religious vows, shedding light on the type of faith that can sustain humanity in secular times. Exploring the theological foundations of the vows as well as sociological and scientific contexts, it examines both the personal impact of religious life and its potential to foster a sense of completeness within society.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9780567715876 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780567715883 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780567715890 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9780567715906 £17.99 / $17.99

T&T Clark

Confidence in Life

A Barthian Account of Procreation

Matthew Lee Anderson, Baylor University, USA

Confidence in Life offers a theologicallyrobust evaluation of the good of procreation, which emerges out of both careful interactions with contemporary analytic philosophy and a reconstructed reading of Karl Barth’s doctrine of (pro)creation. Though primarily staged as an intervention in Protestant moral theology, Confidence in Life’s rehabilitation of the Virgin Mary’s role in Barth’s thought has promise for an ecumenical retrieval of the good of procreating within the economy of redemption.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages

PB 9780567710680 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567710635

ePub 9780567710673 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567710642 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Christology

Edited by Darren Sumner, Fuller Theological Seminary , USA & Chris Tilling, St Mellitus College, UK

A ground-breaking volume that gathers together both biblical scholars and systematic theologians to engage contemporary debates concerning the person of Christ. The structure of this book is unique: rather than divide the topics between the disciplines, each topic is addressed by a theologian and a biblical scholar to provide an explicit and overt dialogue. Includes an appendix with the text of ancient creeds in Greek and English parallel along with commentary on critical issues.

UK

T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology

Ian A. McFarland, Emory University, USA, Ivor J. Davidson, University of Aberdeen, UK & Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK & John Webster, University of St Andrews, UK

The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus

Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics

Austin Stevenson

In this book, Austin Stevenson argues that it is not the ‘divinity’ of Jesus that causes problems for historians, but his humanity. To insist that Jesus was fully human, as both theologians and historians do, still leaves us with the question of what it means to be human. It turns out that theologians and historians often have different answers to this question on both a philosophical and a theological register. This book offers a new path toward the reconciliation of these disciplines by focusing on human knowledge and subjectivity, which are central issues in both historical method and Christology.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9780567714428 • £29.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567714398

ePub 9780567714411 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780567714404 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark

Theandric and Triune

John Owen and Christological

Agency

Ty Kieser

This book draws from the theology of John Owen and advancements in philosophy of action in order to offer an account of divine and human agency in christological action from within the Reformed tradition. It provides clarity to the christological and trinitarian uses of the language of “agent/ agency” in Christ and attends to the theological (esp. trinitarian) entailments therein. While at first glance there may appear to be internal inconsistencies with accounts that subscribe to classically Reformed Christological agency, Ty Kieser argues that Owen helps us recover an understanding of christological agency that is internally coherent and theologically prudent.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9780567713711 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567713735

ePub 9780567713704 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713742 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology

Edited by Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK & R. David Nelson, Independent Scholar, USA

This comprehensive handbook to modern theology covers the major contexts, developmental trajectories, movements of thought, concerns, figures, and key texts which mark Christian theology from Enlightenment to the present.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 704 pages

HB 9780567687166 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9780567687180 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9780567687173 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology

Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK & Daniela C. Augustine, University of Birmingham, UK

Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology

A Convergence of the Word and the Spirit

Edited by Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University of Southern California, USA, Terry L. Cross, Lee University, USA & Andrew K. Gabriel, Horizon College & Seminary, Canada and Master's College and Seminary, Canada

The essays in this volume evaluate and build on Barth’s theology from the perspective of Pentecostal theology and, thereby, contribute to constructive Pentecostal systematic theology by using Barth as a valuable dialogue partner. At present, a theological conversation of Pentecostals with Barth does not exist and this volume fills this void. It will aid those who seek a convergence of the Word and the Spirit in theology.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9780567714657 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9780567686008

ePub 9780567686022 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567686015 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark

Faith as Life in the Spirit

A Pneumatology of Belief, Affection, and Works

Aaron Gabriel Ross, Museum of the Bible, USA

In Faith as Life in the Spirit, it is shown how faith does not need to be understood as what one believes, does, or feels when faith is understood as being in Christ by being in the Spirit. Faith is often defined as what people must do, whether that is to believe in a list of doctrines, to do “good” works, or to love properly, in order for God to respond with forgiveness and salvation. However, this work takes a new approach with a pneumatological trajectory in constructing a theology of faith understood as life in the Spirit.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9780567716293 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567716316 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567716309 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark

Organizing Spirit Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination

Jamie Pitts, Anabaptist Mennonite Seminary, USA

Pitts challenges readers to participate in the work of the Holy Spirit by taking the risk of getting involved in the work of global institutions. This work argues that Christian pneumatology written under neoliberal economic and cultural conditions perpetuates an anti-institutionalism that associates the Holy Spirit’s work in the world primarily with personal transformation, community formation, and movement politics.

UK June 2025 US June 2025 216 pages

PB 9780567712585 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780567712592 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780567712608 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780567712615 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Anabaptist Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

Quaker Theology

Jennifer M. Buck, Azusa Pacific University, USA

Discover an essential overview of Quaker practical theology Buck takes everyday issues in the Christian life and examines the particulars of how Quakers address those issues today. In doing this, this work extends the Quaker voice into the 21st century, converging Quaker tradition within our modern cultural context.

UK February 2026 US February 2026 224 pages

PB 9780567719065 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780567719072 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9780567719096 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780567719089 • £19.79 / $19.79

Series: Doing Theology • T&T Clark

The Glory of the Blessed Son An Approach to the Christology of Jonathan Edwards

Christina N. Larsen, Grand Canyon University, USA

Christina N. Larsen draws resources from Edwards’s Christology both for current discussion of the relationship between the divine being and economy and for current Reformed attempts to speak of the beauty of God and of God’s works. She demonstrates how Jonathan Edwards develops classical Reformed approaches to the relationship between the divine being and the divine economy. This is in order to emphasize the freedom of the Father and the Son within their blessed fellowship in the Spirit.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 200 pages

HB 9780567694188 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567694218 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567694195 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology T&T Clark

"Neither the Spirit without the Flesh"

John Calvin's Doctrine of the Beatific

Vision

Steven W. Tyra, Emory University School of Law, USA

This book shows that John Calvin engaged in substantial reflection and debate on the vision of God. The existing scholarship has both overstated the medieval consensus and underestimated the diversity of the early Reformation. Tyra argues that Bellarmine was correct: Calvin was indeed a “Greek” as that term was understood in the sixteenth century and bridges a significant gap in the literature on the beatific vision. To see the Calvinist God face-to-face, one first had to be clothed in flesh and blood, and the consequences of this insight for recent reflection on the beatific vision will be drawn out in the final chapter.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9780567714534 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567714497

ePub 9780567714527 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567714503 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Historical Theology T&T Clark

Exodus: An Introduction and Study Guide

Liberation and Divine Presence

M. W. Scarlata

M. W. Scarlata offers an authoritative overview of the current scholarship on Exodus, introducing the significance of Exodus within the Pentateuch and the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and addressing major critical issues around content, archaeology and historicity. Scarlata explores various theological approaches to Exodus in the light of recent scholarship, with suggestions for further reading; and his analysis also gives particular attention to the central role of Moses within the book and his theological import in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 144 pages

PB 9780567674678 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9780567693594 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9780567674692 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9780567674685 • £16.19 / $16.19

Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament T&T Clark

Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges

Edited by Keith Bodner, Crandall University, Canada & Benjamin J.M. Johnson, LeTourneau University, USA

How does our assessment of the characters of a story shape the way we read it? By analyzing the complex characterization in the Book of Judges, this book pays attention to an often neglected but important area of study in the Hebrew Bible. Its international group of contributors explore the implications of characterization on storytelling, situating their contributions within the context of literary studies of the Hebrew Bible, and offering multiple perspectives on the many and various characters one encounters in the Book of Judges.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025

• 288 pages

PB 9780567700537 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567700506

ePdf 9780567700513 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Unity in the Book of Isaiah

Edited by Benedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy and Hekima College, Kenya and University of Pretoria, South Africa & Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Santa Clara, USA

Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that points to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity. Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections, examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or readerorientated readings of the Book of Isaiah.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 312 pages

PB 9780567705969 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567705938

ePdf 9780567705945 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies

Laura

Quick, Princeton University, USA & Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA

Song, Prayer, Scripture

Aspects of the Reception of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible to the 21st Century

Edited by David Davage, Orebo School of Theology, Sweden & Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Örebro School of Theology, Sweden

Experts from the field of biblical studies shed light on the many ways in which the Psalter psalms have been used through the ages. The focus across the volume is on the role that these psalms play in scribal, liturgical, didactic, iconographic, and literary contexts. The book is structured in four parts, covering different styles/uses of the Psalms.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages • 12 bw

HB 9780567711830 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePdf 9780567711847 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies T&T Clark

'The Spirit of the Lord Came Upon Me'

Prophets in Ancient Israel from a CrossCultural Perspective

Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK Grabbe considers prophecy in the immediate context of ancient Israel before widening the cultural lens to consider it in more global environments, including Africa and the Americas, and more recent figures such as Joseph Smith. In the final part of the book Grabbe then analyses different prophetic types and their contexts, looking at continuing traditions of prophecy alongside their ancient roots.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 440 pages

PB 9780567710734 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9780567710703

ePdf 9780567710710 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Text as Revelation

Edited by Hanna Tervanotko, University of Helsinki, Finland & Jonathan Stökl, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

This volume analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how, why, and for whom texts became the locus of revelation. With subjects ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Sibylline oracles to Hellenistic writings and the books of Isaiah, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, the studies in this volume bring together established and new voices reflecting on the issues raised by the interplay between writing and (divinatory) revelation.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 168 pages

PB 9780567714015 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567689726

ePub 9780567714091 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567689733 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook to the Masoretic Text

Edited by George Athas, Moore College, Australia & David Davage, Orebo School of Theology, Sweden

A comprehensive guide to the key features of the Masoretic Text: its origins, transmission, history and textual forms. The companion traces the development of MT from ancient manuscripts found in the Judean Desert, through to the pointed medieval codices and the Second Rabbinic Bible. It outlines the main aspects of ancient and medieval scribal practice, including a brief history of the Tiberian School of scribes, the development of the vowel and cantillation system, introduction to the marginal Masorah notes, and describes the major codices.

UK October 2025 US October 2025 608 pages

HB 9781350082632 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350082656 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350082649 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild

Space, Fauna, and Flora

Edited by Mark J. Boda, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel Aviv University, Israel

An examination of the boundaries between the domestic and the wild in terms of the landscape of Israel and the Hebrew Bible. The book explores the Hebrew Bible with respect to plant and animal life, while offering a rare ecological perspective and including modern concerns such as the human ecological footprint.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 192 pages

PB 9780567712639 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567696359

ePub 9780567696380 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780567696366 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: DNI Bible Supplements • T&T Clark

The Formation of the Biblical Canon: Volume 1

The Old Testament: Its Authority and Canonicity

Lee Martin McDonald, Acadia Divinity College, Canada

In this comprehensive overview of the process of canon formation. Lee Martin McDonald reexamines issues of canon formation once considered settled, and sets the range of texts that make up the Hebrew Bible in their broader context. Each individual text is discussed at length, as are the cultural, political and historical situations surrounding them.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 584 pages

PB 9780567717207 • £34.99 / $47.95

Previously published in HB 9780567668769

ePdf 9780567668776 • £135.00 / $135.00

T&T Clark

Themes and Texts, Exodus and Beyond

Edited by Robert J. V. Hiebert, Trinity Western University, Canada, Jonathan Numada, Trinity Western University, Canada, Dongshin Don Chang, Trinity Western University, Canada & Kyung S. Baek, Trinity Western University, Canada

Engages with the work of Larry J. Perkins on four key themes relevant to the study of Exodus. These include particular focus on Exodus within later Second Temple Literature and Christian literature, and as it appears in the Septuagint.

The distinguished contributors include Emanuel Tov, Albert Pietersma, Daniela Scialabba, Craig A. Evans, James M. Scott, Martin G. Abegg Jr., and Wolfgang Kraus.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 384 pages

PB 9780567705525 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567705488

ePub 9780567705518 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567705495 • £117.00 / $117.00

Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark

A Trauma Theory Reading of the Book of Job

Michelle Keener

Michelle Keener incorporates advances in modern trauma theory in the interpretation of the book of Job. After an extensive introduction to the history and fundamentals of trauma theory Keener actively applies a trauma theory reading to the book of Job with special attention paid to the elements of a therapeutic trauma narrative, its role in the cognitive resolution of trauma, and how this is reflected in the biblical text.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 200 pages

HB 9780567719324 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9780567719355 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780567719331 • £81.00 / $81.00

T&T Clark

Texts @ Contexts

Athalya Brenner-Idan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA & Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, USA

Pauline Letters: Texts @ Contexts

Edited

by

Menghun Goh, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan

In this volume contributors from various social locations in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia analyse and interpret Pauline letters. Engaging both the biblical text and the lives and contexts from different sociocultural, religious, methodological perspectives, each contributor demonstrates the dynamic interaction between text and context in their understanding and explanation of the text.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 160 pages

PB 9780567711823 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567711786

ePub 9780567711816 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567711793 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Texts @ Contexts • T&T Clark

Psalms

My Psalm My Context

Edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA

This unique volume on the Psalms is the final Hebrew Bible installment of the Texts@Contexts series. As with former T@C volumes, it situates Psalms in various different contexts, whether geographical, or within certain political contexts and readings. In addition to these lengthier pieces, diverse contributors have been invited to write shorter reflections on Psalms that have had a particular meaning within their own contexts. As such the volume provides a sort of contextual commentary on the Psalms, gathering a wide range of voices and reflecting a diverse range of cultural afterlives of the Psalms.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 296 pages

PB 9780567710314 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567710284

ePub 9780567710307 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780567710291 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Texts @ Contexts • T&T Clark

Imag(in)ing Jesus in the Universal or Particular

Cross-Cultural Bible Film Reception of The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark and Son of Man

Victoria Olaide Omotoso, University of Exeter and University of Southampton, UK

A critical exploration of cross-cultural Bible film reception presented through an analysis of the responses of UK and South African audiences to The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark (2014) and Son of Man (2006). Victoria Olaide Omotoso’s study seeks to fill the gap in existing research into the Bible and film by placing more emphasis on audience reception and highlighting the non-Western experience of biblical films. Through an examination of historic and cinematic debates, audience responses and filmmaker responses, Omotoso explores the ethnicity of Jesus, theological contexts and implications, and the presentation of Jesus in an androcentric world.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages

HB

Series:

The Library of New Testament Studies

Chris Keith, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway

Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels

Scott Brazil

Scott Brazil examines the Synoptic Gospels and the interplay between Christology and the YHWHtext phenomenon. He argues against the theory that the Synoptics evidence a low Christology in the primitive church, while John’s Gospel displays a high Christology developed in the decades to follow; instead stressing that the YHWH-text phenomenon in the Synoptics contradicts that theory by revealing an early and united Christian understanding of Jesus as YHWH.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 248 pages

PB 9780567713995 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567713957

ePub 9780567713988 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713964 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae

A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, University of Wales

Trinity Saint David, UK & Josep Rius-Camps

This book is a comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codex Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side by side translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, finally, a commentary that explores the differences in the message of the two texts. It is concluded that the Bezan text, with its interest in internal Jewish affairs and its focus on the struggles of the early disciples to free themselves from their traditional Jewish expectations and to achieve, despite their mistakes, a more accurate understanding of their master's teaching, is the earlier of the two texts.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 392 pages

PB 9780567723147 £28.99 / Previously published in HB 9780826470003

ePub 9780567114143 £153.00 / $207.89

ePdf 9780567613431 • £153.00 / $153.00

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible

The Importance of Context

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpretation and how a close collaboration between hermeneutics and linguistics can help to solve them. Porter focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts, suggesting that linguists can learn more from the philosophical questions around meaning that hermeneuts apply in their study of biblical texts, and that there is more fruitful work to be done in the field of hermeneutics using insights from linguistics.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9780567709943 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567709905

ePub 9780567709936 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709912 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek T&T Clark

T&T Clark

The Bible and Comics Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives

Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, Individual scholar, UK

This interdisciplinary volume traces the diverse ways in which creators of biblical comics present women, constructs of power and ideas of motherhood. Using examples from both secular and religious comic Bibles, and comic Bibles aimed at children and older audiences, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle fully considers contemporary remediations of biblical narratives and how the graphic novel medium affects the reception of the text in several ways. She investigates how the production, format and function of comic Bibles encourage the depiction of biblical characters from a contemporary perspective, while at the same time showing some fidelity to the text.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 168 pages • 13 bw illus

PB 9780567713902 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567687968

ePub 9780567713919 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567687975 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

Edited

by Alan Cadwallader, Charles Sturt University, Australia, James R. Harrison, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia, Angela Standhartinger, Phipps University Marburg, Germany & L. L. Welborn, Fordham University, USA

This is the first volume to articulate a methodology for studies of the ancient village in relation to the expansion of early Christianity. There editors give particular focus to the villages associated with biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 472 pages

PB 9780567714008 • £34.99 / $47.95

Previously published in HB 9780567695956

ePub 9780567695987 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567695963 £117.00 / $117.00

T&T Clark

Simon of Samaria and the Simonians

Contours of an Early Christian Movement

M. David Litwa, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Litwa provides a complete overview of the Simonians, the group depicted by second-century heresiologists as licentious followers of Simon Magus, the first "gnostic", who was thought to practice magic. Litwa examines the Simonians in their own literature, as well as in the work of the heresiologists and in novelistic accounts such as the Acts of Peter. As a result Litwa uncovers the theology of this early Christian movement and shows how they understood themselves. An appendix features Litwa's original translations of primary texts.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9780567712998 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567712950

ePub 9780567712981 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567712967 • £76.50 / $76.50

Moulton's Grammar of New Testament Greek

Volume 1: The Prolegomena: With a New Critical Introduction by Stanley E. Porter

James Hope Moulton, Wilbert Francis Howard, Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Nigel Turner

In four volumes, this classic work covers every aspect of New Testament Greek. The authors' analysis is supplemented by a multitude of invaluable charts and indices, and continues to act as an invaluable resource for advanced students. This new edition includes critical introductions by Stanley E. Porter, one of the leading scholars of New Testament Greek, who reflects on the style and approach used in this classic work and on how Greek is studied today. This first volume introduces the foundational premises upon which the subsequent three volumes build.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 360 pages

PB 9780567721556 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9780567147011

Series: Biblical Languages: Greek • T&T Clark

T&T Clark International Theological Commentary

Michael Allen, Reformed Theological Seminary, USA & Scott R. Swain

Revelation 1-11 (ITC)

Peter J. Leithart, Theopolis Institute, USA

Scholarship on the book of Revelation has captured the imagination of generations of Bible students, both professionals and laypeople alike. Revelation's characters and images are both real and symbolic, spiritual and material, and it is frequently difficult to know the difference between them. Peter J. Leithart, in this first of two insightful volumes on Revelation, offers systematic and thorough interpretation of the book of Revelation.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 512 pages

PB 9780567716569 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567100962

ePub 9780567683205 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780567664907 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek

Edited by Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, UK

This volume provides a critical introduction to Hellenistic Jewish Literature as related to the Bible. It provides serious students and scholars with an overview of the scholarly issues for each work (covering issues such as date, provenance, language, content, style, reception, contribution to ancient Judaism, etc.) as well as important information about critical editions and secondary literature and serving as a clear starting point for anyone who is interested in this corpus of literature.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 496 pages

HB 9780567692368 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9780567692399 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9780567692375 • £126.00 / $126.00

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

The Bible in Photography

Index, Icon, Tableau, Vision Sheona Beaumont, Diocese of Chichester, UK

This volume addresses the untold story of biblical subjects in photography. Sheona Beaumont argues that stories, characters, and symbols from the Bible are found to pervade photographic practices and ideas, across the worlds of advertising and tourist information, the book and the gallery, in critical reviews and artists’ reflections. Throughout her journey, she includes lively discussion of photographs dealing with the Bible in surprising ways, from images by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 19th century to David LaChapelle in the 21st.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 55 colour images

PB 9780567706577 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567706539

ePub 9780567706560 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9780567706546 • £99.00 / $99.00

Series: Scriptural Traces & The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Revelation 12-22 (ITC)

Peter J. Leithart, Theopolis Institute, USA

In this second of two volumes on Revelation Peter J. Leithart provides a systematic and thorough interpretation of the latter chapters of the book of the apocalypse. Focusing on theological content, Leithart gleans the best from both the classical and modern commentary traditions and shows the doctrinal development of Scriptural truths from this final book in the biblical canon.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 512 pages

PB 9780567716552 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567036452

ePub 9780567683212 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780567664921 • £90.00 / $90.00

Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls

Edited by George J. Brooke, University of Manchester, UK & Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham, UK

This companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging with the Dead Sea Scrolls. All of the key texts and documents are examined. A section on the complex methods used in analyzing the scrolls then follows, before the focus moves to consideration of the scrolls in their various contexts: political, religious, cultural, economic, historical. The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the scrolls and many crucial issues are then examined. Finally, appendices include: timelines, lists of kings, family trees of the Seleucids, Ptolemies, Hasmoneans, lists of places and scrolls, information on electronic resources and classified bibliographies.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 672 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9780567716798 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9780567352057

ePub 9780567684745 • £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9780567590220 • £162.00 / $162.00

Series: Bloomsbury Companions • T&T Clark

Variations in Christian Art

Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker, and Swedenborgian

Edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, USA

The artistic traditions of four major Christian denominations (Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker, Swedenborgian) are examined and outlined in detail in this groundbreaking volume that presents the first synthesis of the artistic contributions of those traditions. Diane ApostolosCappadona has curated a volume that presents four single-authored contributions in one place, broadening the study of Christian art beyond Roman Catholic, Orthodox and 'protestant' traditions to consider these more recent Christian approaches in close and expert detail.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 392 pages

PB 9780567714381 £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9780567698124

ePub 9780567698155 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9780567698131 • £126.00 / $126.00

T&T Clark

Beauty

in

Architecture Perspectives from Theory and Practice

Edited by Nele De Raedt & Maarten Delbeke

Pushing past its taboo status in architectural debates, this book brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can once more become an integral part of the discussion. With essays reflecting on the concepts that should be part of such a conversation, it shows how talking about beauty can help us reflect on what it involves: values, communities, collectives and shared histories, environment, identity, and political or legal mechanisms and institutions. A must read for designers and theorists alike, this volume allows readers to discover new ways of speaking on beauty in architecture.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 240 pages 39 color illus

HB 9781350477278 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350477292 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350477285 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences

Sensing Affective Spaces in Art and Architecture

Liana Psarologaki

Fusing atmosphere, sense, and experience,

Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to immersive spaces in art and architectural contexts. Broadening the conversation beyond the current horizon of VR and AR technologies and phenomenological accounts, it views ‘immersion’ instead as a human, environmental, and contemplative state. Case studies of contemporary practices such as Peter Zumthor, Mike Nelson, and Li Xiaodong serve to examine the role of art in spatial practice, bringing the discipline together with critical theory, affect theory, neuroscience, and new aesthetics. The result is an innovative framework for understanding immersive experiences within the realm of critical spatial practice.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages • 19 bw illus

HB 9781350466715 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350466739 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350466722 £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

PAGON

Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956

Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway

This book tells the story of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group’s projects, buildings, and approach. Despite its individual members achieving international recognition, PAGON has been overlooked in the history of modern architecture. This book demonstrates how PAGON’s architecture constitutes a unique continuity between late 1930s Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 312 pages 75 bw & 33 color illus

PB 9781350352889 £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350067981

ePub 9781350068001 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350067998 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design Portfolios

Presentation and Marketing for Interior Designers

Diane Bender, Arizona State University, USA

Design Portfolios: Presentation and Marketing for Interior Designers, Fourth Edition is a crucial resource for students of interior design, architecture, and landscape design looking to master the art of standing out in an evolving job market. It gives readers insight into aspects of portfolio development that often feel ambiguous. Reflecting contemporary portfolio practices, the book spans the basics of selecting and organizing portfolio materials through the final presentation of the work using a variety of print and digital formats. Readers will learn how to create a collection of design work and a unique marketing tool for a successful design career.

UK September 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages • 264 colour illus

PB 9798765103647 • £69.99 / $94.95

ePub 9798765103661 • £68.65 / $85.45

ePdf 9798765103654 £68.65 / $68.65

Space Planning for Commercial Office Interiors

Mary Lou Bakker Space Planning for Commercial Office Interiors, Third Edition, provides a thorough and engaging look at the entire process of space planning, from meeting the client for the first time to delivering a beautifully rendered and creative space plan that addresses all of the client's needs. Covering issues such as circulation, spatial and square footage calculations, building codes, adaptation to exterior architecture, ceiling systems, barrier-free designs, and LEED requirements along the way, the text presents all of the key principles, processes, and tasks associated with laying out interior space to optimize the health, safety, and wellness of its occupants.

UK July 2025 • US April 2025 • 456 pages • 320 bw illus

PB 9781501387876 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501387852 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501387869 • £87.01 / $87.01

Fairchild Books

Humor in Global Contemporary Art

Edited by Mette Gieskes, Radboud University, The Netherlands & Gregory H. Williams, Boston University, USA

The first book to thoroughly examine the role of culturally specific humor in contemporary art from a global perspective, Humor in Global Contemporary Art pursues a new line of research in world art studies. Featuring a range of contributions by scholars from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, North America, and Europe, the volume examines the degree to which the humor in art created in the past five decades is culture-bound, as well as the tensions that arise when humorous artworks that are made in a particular socio-cultural context are viewed in another environment.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 352 pages 16 colour and 90 bw illus

PB 9781350415867 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350415829

ePub 9781350415843 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350415836 • £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Artist at Home

Studios, Practices and Identities

Edited by Imogen Racz, Independent Scholar, UK & Jill Journeaux, Coventry University, UK

This book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice. Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. The book comprises full-length chapters by artists, architects, art and design historians, interleaved with short interviews with artists to enrich and broaden the debates.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 35 bw illus

PB 9781350379053 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350379015

ePub 9781350379039 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350379022 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Cubism and Reality

Braque, Picasso, Gris

Christopher Green, Emeritus Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Lavishly illustrated and filled with rich new insights that are the product of decades’ worth of research, Cubism and Reality challenges the commonlyheld view of Cubism as a retreat from reality into abstraction, arguing instead that Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris wanted to find ways of intensifying and expanding painting’s capacity to give viewers more, not less, of their lived experience of the world. It explores how Cubist artworks ask us to reflect on visual art’s relationship to everyday visual experience, tackling a fundamental issue that has preoccupied artists and critics for over a century: the survival of hand-made representational artworks in the epoch of photography, film and, in the present age, digital reproduction.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 104 colour illus

PB 9781350453531 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350453524 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350453555 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350453548 • £26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art

Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero Rachel Warriner, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Offering a new reading of the relationship between affect and politics in visual art circa 1970, this is the first book to examine how emotional metaphors were politicised in the anti-Vietnam war and feminist New York art world. With special emphasis on the work of Nancy Spero (19262009), this volume presents it as exemplary of an activist turn to emotion, suggesting that Spero’s work acts as a compelling case study of a practice that—for ideological purposes—seeks to represent how politics feels.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 8 colour & 46 bw illus

PB 9781350286542 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788312608

ePub 9781786725950 • £87.01 / $108.00

ePdf 9781786735997 £87.01 / $87.01

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Women Art Dealers

Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940–1990

Edited by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Women Art Dealers Digital Archives (co-founder), USA & Caterina Toschi

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies about the women who ran galleries from the end of World War II until 1990. The chapters tell the stories of female dealers who anticipated the current global model by working to promote art across continents and develop an international art market. From the gallerists who contributed to neoAvant-Garde research to the dealers that advanced contemporary art by establishing such artistic genres as video art, this book charts the activities of professional women, analyses their role in shaping the modern art market as we know it, and highlights research on underrepresented regions.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 336 pages • 86 bw illus

PB 9781350292420 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350292451

ePub 9781350292444 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350292437 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Becoming Leonor Fini

Theatrical Self-Performances between Art and Life

Andrea Kollnitz, Stockholm University, Sweden

The self-fashioning and dressing-up practices of surrealist artist Leonor Fini were crucial not only to her art production, but also to her identity as a woman and an artist; yet until now these practices have been overlooked. Andrea Kollnitz explores the artist’s creative development – from painted artworks to her self-creation through costumes, masks and fashion – in photographs by some of the 20th century’s most prominent photographers. In contrast to Fini's representation in the celebrity press, this book showcases the artist's self-fashioning as a tool of empowerment as well as an intrinsic part of her art production.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages • 100 colour illus.

HB 9781350212589 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350212619 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350212602 • £85.50 / $85.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Frank O’Hara and MoMA

New York Poet, Global Curator

Matthew Holman

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O’Hara undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from 1950 to his death in 1966. It traces O’Hara’s distinguished curatorial career at home and abroad, situating his work for MoMA’s International Program within the Cold War politics of the day. Bringing together readings of O’Hara’s poems and letters with a selection of illustrations, it is perfect reading for anyone interested in American art in the mid-20th century, curatorial and museum studies.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 28 bw illus

PB 9781350398634 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781350398597 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350398610 £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350398603 £16.19 / $16.19

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Transnational Surrealism

Abigail Susik, Willamette University, USA & Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Norwich University of the Arts, UK

Duchamp Accelerated Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Julian Jason Haladyn

Written in the specific context of the 21st century, this bold new book pushes our understanding of Marcel Duchamp beyond the limits of existing criticism. Individual chapters present innovative ideas and use novel approaches to accelerate the histories, dialogues, visions and materialisms that define Duchamp's practice. By relating his art to a multitude of disciplinary and cultural perspectives, Duchamp Accelerated: Contemporary Perspectives not only sheds light on the cultural and political histories of his artistry, but shows how his work informs developments in the worlds of art and material culture even today.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 232 pages 82 bw illus

PB 9781350300415 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350300408

ePub 9781350300439 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350300422 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Transnational Surrealism • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Surrealism and Animation

Transnational Connections,

1920-Present

Edited by Abigail Susik, Willamette University, USA

The first book devoted to surrealism’s vivid engagement with the history, theory, and medium of animation on a transnational basis. Featuring seventeen essays by leading and emerging scholars, as well as interviews with contemporary artists Penny Slinger and Jacolby Satterwhite, this collection investigates a shimmering range of topics on animated surrealism, including black humor, queer subjectivities, ecofeminism, Afrosurrealism, and more.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages • 104 colour illus

HB 9781350475915 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350475922 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350475939 • £85.50 / $85.50

Series: Transnational Surrealism • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Deborah Ascher Barnstone, University of Sydney, Australia & Thomas O. Haakenson, California College of the Arts, USA

Curating Transcultural Spaces

Perspectives on Postcolonial

Conflicts in Museum Culture

Edited by Sarah Hegenbart, Technical University Munich, Germany

The first art historical English-language study of its kind, this book considers Germany's engagement with its colonial past and argues for the necessity of decolonial thinking when constructing museum spaces. With the 'scandal' of the Humboldt Forum at it's core, the book highlights how the display of world cultures in national collections reveals an insensitivity towards non-Western cultures. More widely, the book speaks to Germany's identity conflicts, bound up with its histories of colonialism, National-Socialism, the GDR, and reunification, as well as its current status as country shaped by immigration and multiculturalism.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 280 pages 78 bw illus

PB 9781350227767 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350227729

ePub 9781350227743 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350227736 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer

From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921–1938

Patrick Rössler, Universität Erfurt, Germany

This biographical account follows Austrian-born Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer, a key figure of 20thcentury avant-garde graphic design, from the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to his 1938 departure. Examining unseen documents, letters and photographs from Bayer’s estate, Patrick Rössler uncovers the ordeal experienced by this ingenious artist; he details Bayer’s struggles for freedom of expression whilst dependent on an authoritarian state’s tolerance of his survival, as well as his eventual escape from Nazi Germany facilitated by a network of friends already established at the Bauhaus, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 336 pages • 32 colour and 100 bw illus

PB 9781350229716 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350229679

ePub 9781350229693 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350229686 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

Ann Murray

This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (1891–1969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany during the years 1914-36. Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix’s war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 54 bw illus

PB 9781350354661 • £24.99 / $34.95

Previously published in HB 9781350354623

ePub 9781350354647 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350354630 • £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Manifesta, Art, Society and Politics

Creating a New Europe through Contemporary Art

Erdem Çolak

This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban, and societal relationships of Manifesta – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, a European nomadic biennial initiated in the post-Cold War era. Providing a comprehensive overview of the biennial, it also investigates the relationship between large-scale art exhibitions, culture-led regeneration, and urban transformation. It is essential reading for students and researches of exhibition and curatorial studies, art history, and cultural studies.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350375840 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350375802

ePub 9781350375826 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350375819 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Child Creativity and the Visual Arts: From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America

Megan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough, USA

This book reveals the unrecognised influence of émigré art pedagogy on progressive art education, from their establishment in early-20th century Vienna through to their widespread adoption in postwar America. Via three chapter length case-studies, combined with rich cultural and material analysis, we see how these teachings were received in postwar America through a focus on child-centered methods of ‘learning by doing’ in artistic practice, and as a means of nurturing creativity in childhood.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 70 colour illus.

HB 9781350456792 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350456815 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350456808 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Art in Orbit

Art Objects and Spaceflight

Barbara Brownie, Royal College of Art, London, UK

This book explores the contexts, questions, challenges and opportunities for creative exploration of form, materials, and the body, in space. Presenting 9 original case studies from artwork shaped by the unique physical and psychological conditions of space, and informed by exclusive interviews with artists working in the field, it highlights collaborations between artists, engineers, and theorists that have recontextualized the perception and use of weighted materials and subject positions in art practice.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 54 bw illus

HB 9781350451735 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350451759 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350451742 £81.00 / $81.00

Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Beyond the Feminine

The Politics of Skin Colour and Gender in Visual Culture

Ope Lori, University of the Arts London, UK How can current image makers challenge representations of race and gender in visual culture and produce alternate visions? At once delving into this question and offering a practical guide to subverting racial power relations and the politics of the ‘gaze’, Beyond the Feminine looks at the black and white female dichotomy. It examines how light skinned black and white women are privileged over dark skinned black women in music videos, advertising, and even in classic paintings. Focusing on race as implicit in constructions of gender, the works discussed deconstruct the links between race and gender to expose embedded power relations.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 192 pages 12 bw illus.

HB 9781350204843 £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350204867 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350204850 • £72.00 / $72.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Politics of Global Craft

Edited by D Wood, Independent Scholar, Canada

As climate change, war, social injustice, gender and racial inequality, unchecked technology and exploitative capitalism remain urgent issues, the worldwide craft community has responded in notable ways. In this follow-up to Craft is Political (Bloomsbury, 2021), D Wood and contributors demonstrate how global circumstances have given rise to additional craft scholarship that further interrogates the political agency of craft.

UK September 2025 US September 2025 400 pages 60 bw illus

PB 9781350433199 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350433205 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350433212 • £24.29 / $33.74

ePdf 9781350433229 • £24.29 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and Modernity in Asia

National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990

Edited by Yunah Lee, University of Brighton, UK & Megha Rajguru, University of Brighton, UK

This book critically examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990, focusing on the post-World War II and postcolonial years. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies, essays illuminate commonalities and particularities of the trajectories of Modernism and notions of modernity across Asia through design. Authors offer fresh perspectives on Modernism by examining exhibitions, architecture, interiors, printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and transnational networks of modern designers. They highlight the ways in which the production and discourses of modern design were underscored by economic advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic debates on modern design.

UK

ePub

• £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350091474 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and Science

Edited by Leslie Atzmon, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Design and Science addresses the inter-relationship, in both historical and contemporary contexts, between design thinking and design processes and scientific and medical research methods. Contributors address the parallels between research methodologies in design and the sciences, conceptualisation of ways to resolve it, and then the implementation of a viable solution.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 360 pages • 120 bw illus

PB 9781350276925 • £27.99 / $37.95

Previously published in HB 9781350061927

ePub 9781350061934 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350061941 • £81.00 / $81.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Irish Lacemaking

Art, Industry and Cultural Practice

Molly-Claire Gillett, Concordia University, Canada

Following the career of the Irish lace designer Emily Anderson (1856-1948), this book charts a path through the many institutions, organizations, philanthropic initiatives and government bodies that supported, promoted and monitored the crafting and design of lace in late-19th- and early-20th- century Ireland. This narrative highlights the craft’s development and cultural meaning in a pivotal time in Irish history. It explores the interconnectedness of lace with deeply politicized, gendered and class-based discourses surrounding design, education, taste and industry, and traces female professionalization in craft in Ireland.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 64 colour illus

HB 9781350465510 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350465534 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350465527 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Critical Craft Studies • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Place and Parametricism

Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design

Edited by Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Gini Lee, University of Melbourne, Australia, Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia, Stanislav Roudavski, University of Melbourne, Australia & Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Can qualitative ideas of place be adequately encompassed by the quantitative methods of digital and parametric design? This wide-ranging and multi-faceted book explores how designers and architects capture the deeper qualities of place though their practice. It provides a rigorous exploration of the nature of place and its role in design in parallel with a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism. Drawing on ideas and approaches from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, chapters explore the capabilities of digital design, place-making in other creative disciplines, the linguistic articulation of place and design’s potential to strengthen its engagement with place in the future.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 320 pages • 46 bw illus

HB 9781350329980 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350330009 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350329997 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Power of Maybes Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures

Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK

What if uncertainty isn’t a problem to solve, but a gift? This book reclaims hesitation, ambiguity, and not-knowing as powerful tools to resist the rigid control of digital systems and explores the radical idea that embracing uncertainty is essential in our age of planetary computation. Blending philosophy, design, and critical tech studies, Marenko challenges dystopian fears and utopian hopes about technology, and champions new ways of being.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages

HB 9781350377271 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350377295 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377288 • £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Beyond the Modern • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Empathic Service Design

Challenges

in design, analysis and services

Edited

by Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen & Titta Jylkäs

Through case studies from across the globe, this book helps designers understand how forwardlooking service prototyping, analysis and tools can promote and create empathic, emotion-oriented and relevant services. Case studies include mapping of children's services, wearable technologies for pandemics, understanding cultural sensitivity, emojis and chat bots, and AI used in care settings. Addressing problems within service delivery like empathy fatigue, poor collaboration, and siloed work experiences that lead to poorlyfunctioning systems, the authors suggest concrete solutions for developing empathetic approaches and tools with consideration for the needs of participants. The book critically examines the role of empathy, and explores how compassionate understanding of the end-user is key to success.

UK

PB 9781350510463

ePub 9781350476417 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350476400 • £26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Fashion Fictions

Imagining Sustainable Worlds

Amy Twigger Holroyd, Nottingham Trent University, UK

This open access book presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to an open-ended prompt that asked participants to dream up a new fashion system, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of responses received. Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely – in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These imaginings are fleshed out by the book’s contributors, before being brought to life.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages • 110 colour illus

PB 9781350435636 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350435629 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350435643 • £00.00 / $00.00

ePdf 9781350435650 £00.00 / $00.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Luxury and the Senses

Past, Present, and Future

Edited by Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon & Jo Norman

Tracing the relationship between luxury and the senses, this book looks at the history of luxury as a sensual experience. Bringing together leading international experts, it takes us from ancient Rome to modern California, exploring the importance of sensory triggers like scent, taste and texture to our experience of luxury. With case studies which range from whisky drinking to perfume making, the book examines the influence of luxury brands, and new possibilities opened by technology. Highlighting the emotional and sensuous aspects of creating and consuming luxury goods, this is essential reading for scholars of fashion, luxury studies, and brand management.

UK July 2025 US July 2025 176 pages 10 color and 12 bw illus

HB 9781350064218

£85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350064232 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350064225 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Art of Parisian Chic

Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris

Justine De Young

The Art of Parisian Chic explores how modern women and modern artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images, manipulating expectations surrounding five fashionable types — the mistress, the young widow, the equestrienne, the shopgirl, and the Parisienne — to exploit and subvert stereotypes, many of which are still powerful today. Looking at a rich array of visual sources, from portraits to modern-life paintings, photographs to fashion plates, the book reveals how women were seen, how they aspired to be seen, and how they navigated public life in Second Empire and Belle Époque Paris.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages • 150

£26.09 / $26.09

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dress and Fashion Research

B. Eicher, The University of Minnesota, USA

Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico

Taínos to Beauty Queens

José Blanco F., Fashion Institute of Technology, USA & Raúl J. Vázquez-López, Independent researcher, USA

As the last Spanish-speaking colony, Puerto Rico presents a unique opportunity to study national identity and nation formation through dress and fashion. Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico presents a combination of new material and previously published essays that discuss a variety of aspects related to different elements of visual culture in Puerto Rico—past and present. Featuring a number of revealing case studies, Jose Blanco F. and Raul Vazquez-Lopez shed light on national identity in Puerto Rico through analyzing littleexplored cultures of Latin American dress, fashion and costume.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 55 bw illus

HB 9781350341920 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350341944 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350341951 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Dress and Fashion Research Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dress and Identity in America

The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964

Daniel Delis Hill, Fashion Historian, UK

Dress and Identity in America 1946-1964 is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s—a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals. It looks at how American men sought to recapture a masculine identity from a generation earlier, that of the stoic patriarch, breadwinner, and dutiful father; and how American women were now expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers. Through these examples it analyses the sociocultural and socio-political causes for changes in dress and identity over the period, and how the baby-boom generation came to reject these trends.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 114 bw illus

PB 9781350373952 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350373914

ePub 9781350373938 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350373921 £76.50 / $76.50

Series: Dress and Fashion Research • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Joanne

Fashion and Motherhood Image, Material, Identity

Edited by Laura Snelgrove, Independent

Researcher, UK

Exploring the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, this collection interrogates their relationships to power, misogyny, temporality, longing and embodiment. 18 essays examine representations on film, in popular print and literature; using images, narrative and material evidence from the past to excavate how mothers have been expected to hide, display, share and sacrifice their bodies. An international range of scholars trace three centuries of how fashion and motherhood have operated as powerfully interdependent experiences and continue to determine how women are judged and corralled, yet also find meaning, connection and strength.

UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9781350276734 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350276697

ePub 9781350276710 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350276703 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Luxury Fashion and Media Communication

Between the Material and Immaterial

Edited by Paula von Wachenfeldt, Stockholm University, Sweden & Magdalena Petersson McIntyre, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Using image and film advertisements, interviews, social media and public and private archives, Luxury Fashion and Media Communication offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the value of the luxury object. An international range of scholars explore the material and immaterial value and meaning of luxury, how it is materialized and how it is communicated between the luxury industry and the consumer. Investigating French, Italian and Spanish luxury brands and their communication strategies on the global market, and including two chapters that focus specifically on the Chinese and American markets, the collection examines the ambiguity of the luxury commodity.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9781350291102 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350291065

ePub 9781350291089 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291072 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries

Stories from a Globe-Spanning

History

Edited by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, New York City College of Technology, USA

Explores the involvement of immigrant communities in the textile and apparel industries, from the early modern to post-modern periods in Asia and the Islamic World, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Essays focus on the role of migration and immigrant labor's relation to trade, politics, and socioreligious circumstances prompting relocation. By analyzing material, mythical, and technical aspects of textile and apparel production, contributors create a new narrative about textile- and apparel-making as a collective endeavor, requiring diversity of skill and methodology to thrive.

UK August 2025

• US August 2025 • 272 pages • 16 color and 25 bw illus

PB 9781350273276

£28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350273238

ePub 9781350273252

£76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350273245 • £76.50 / $76.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

On the Job

A History of American Work Uniforms

Heather Akou, Indiana University, USA

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, this book explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 304 pages • 111 bw illus

PB 9781350349421 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350349384

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Textiles on Film

Becky Peterson, University of New Mexico, USA

The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-enscène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and develop mood and character as dress and décor. A much-needed examination of the cultural and emotional impact of textiles as mediated through cinematic technology, Textiles on Film broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 28 bw illus

PB 9781350430723 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350026551

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing for Activewear

Heeju Terry Park, Cornell University

Designing for Activewear covers a variety of garments like swimwear, leggings, joggers, sports bras, crop tops, hoodies, cycling bodywear, and competition sports uniforms. The authors provide foundational information, detailed patterns with easy-to-follow instruction, photographs, and video tutorials. Industry case studies will offer opportunities for students to learn emerging issues directly from professionals who work in leading activewear companies. By emphasizing human factors, consideration of performance, and comfort, this book will help students understand how to implement specific design approaches for activewear design and how to further improve the design with their creative solutions. Printable electronic slopers are available with STUDIO access. UK

Patternmaking for Menswear

Classic to Contemporary - Studio Instant Access

Myoungok Kim, University of Cincinnati, USA & Injoo Kim, University of Cincinnati, USA

Filled with hundreds of two-color illustrations, this step-by-step book covers many different design elements and garment types including patternmaking techniques for both woven and knit fabrics. The text begins with patternmaking principles including basic sloper development for slim-fit and classic garments and how to take measurements and fit the male form, and then moves to design details and design variations for woven and knit fabrics. Finished pattern drafts and instructions for adding proper seam allowances to woven and knit patterns are also included. With many fashionforward and classic patterns, this book is an indispensable resource for creating modern and professional menswear designs.

UK

PB 9798765106150 • £80.00 / $110.00

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Fairchild Books

Marketing Fashion

A Cross-Cultural Perspective - with STUDIO

Joseph H. Hancock II, Drexel University, USA, Penny Gill, Richard Petrizzi & Patricia Mink Rath

Marketing Fashion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Second Edition presents marketing theories and practices as they specifically relate to apparel, home goods, and other design-driven products. This includes topics such as: Research, Relationships and Branding, Products; Prices and Distribution; Sales, Promotion, and Communications; and Careers. A brand-new appendix on Careers helps students better identify potential jobs in the ever-evolving division of marketing. This book explores in depth contemporary issues such as technology, social media, virtual reality, social responsibility and ethics, ecological production, and considers effective strategies for various economic climates.

UK September 2025 US August 2025 528 pages 250 colour illus

PB 9798765109359 £100.00 / $135.00

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Fairchild Books

Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics with STUDIO

Julie Cole, Harper College and Mount Mary College, USA

Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics, Second Edition provides emerging fashion designers with comprehensive information on how to draft patterns for popular cut-and-sew stretch knit fabrics such as jersey and knits with spandex. After covering the basics of knits and techniques for gauging stretch capacity, Julie Cole provides a clear and unique explanation of drafting slopers using hip and top foundations. She then provides information on converting, drafting, grading, and reducing patterns for proper fit in four categories of stretch. The book proceeds to drafting slopers and patterns for tops, dresses, jackets, sweaters, cardigans, skirts, pants, lingerie, swimwear, and activewear.

UK September 2025 US August 2025 480 pages 675 2-color illus, 130 bw illus, 30 color illus

PB 9798765101568 £90.00 / $120.00

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Fairchild Books

The Cultural Histories Series

Each multi-volume set in the critically-acclaimed Cultural Histories series looks in depth at a subject through the lens of six historical periods, broadly: Antiquity | The Medieval Age | The Renaissance | The Age of Enlightenment | The Age of Empire | The Modern Age Each volume covers the same topics so readers can either dive deeply into a particular era or follow a theme across history. Sets are available first in print for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, and subsequently added to Bloomsbury Cultural History online as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www. bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).

A Cultural History of Higher Learning

6-Volume Set

Edited by Ning de Coninck-Smith, Aarhus University, Denmark, Julia Horne, University of Sydney, Australia & William Whyte, University of Oxford, UK

How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 54 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.

Each of the 6 illustrated volumes, divided by period, adopts the same thematic structure, covering: cultures; geographies; authorities; teaching; disciplines; communities; materialities; contestations and epitome. This enables readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as providing them with a thorough overview of each individual period. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)

UK July 2025 / US: July 2025 • c.1,824 pages • 150 bw illus

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Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Violence

6-Volume Set

Edited by Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, Australia

Tracing the cultural history of violence through the ages, these 6 volumes explore how it has been understood, created, carried out and controlled from the ancient world to the modern day.

This magisterial work asks questions about the history of violence, considers how violence can offer an insight into societies of the past, and presents rich case materials to illustrate broad trends and nuances of the culture of violence over most of human history. 8 key themes within the history of violence are considered by 54 experts and can be followed through the ages. Themes (and chapter titles) are: understanding and defining violence, sacred violence, spaces of violence, authority and violence, persecution, oppression and subjection, emotion and violence, representations of violence, and technologies of violence.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)

UK September 2025 / US: September 2025 • c.1,630 pages • 240 bw illus

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A Cultural History of Plants

6-Volume Set

Edited by Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK and Macquarie University, Australia

Winner of the 2022 Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin Award

How have plants have shaped human culture? Covering the last 12,000 years, these 6 volumes together provide the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture.

Themes (and chapter titles) are: plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.

UK May 2025 / US: May 2025 • c.1,744 pages • 343 bw illus

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Bloomsbury Academic

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A Cultural History of Education

6-Volume Set

Edited by Gary McCulloch, University College of London, UK

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the present day.

With six illustrated volumes covering 2800 years of human history. Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; life-histories. This enables readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as providing them with a thorough overview of each individual period.

UK June 2025 / US: June 2025 • 1,504 pages • 150 bw illus

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A Cultural History of Chemistry

6-Volume Set

Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK & Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, USA

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2022

From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. This is the first detailed and authoritative survey of chemistry and its central role in society over the last 5000 years. The expert contributors focus on the West but integrate key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires.

Themes (and chapter titles) are: theory and concepts; practice and experiment; sites and technology; culture and knowledge; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation.

UK May 2025 / US: May 2025 • 1,728 pages • 220 bw illus

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Aarhus

Acosta-Hughes,

Adapting

Agé,

Aggleton,

Agnew,

AlRamadhani, Nahedh

Al-Rawi, Ahmed

Alrefai, Eyad

al-Rubai, Abdul Razaq

Alston, Philip

Altaee, Faten

Altay, Mehmet

Antiracism

Apostolos-Cappadona,

Applied

Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

Arens, Katherine 95

Arhestey, Rajkiran

Aristophanes: Cavalry 12

Armonda, Alex J.

Armstrong, David

Armstrong, Don

Armstrong, Jeremy

Arnaiz, Alejandro Saiz

Arnaut, Ana Paula 94

Arshad, Yasmin 18

Art Gallery on Stage, The 30 Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline 12 Artificial Dispositions 119 Art in Orbit 143 Artist at Home, The 141 Art, Literature and Music of Solitude, The 39 Art-Making as Spiritual Practice 116 Art of Parisian Chic, The 145 Asakitikpi, Alex Egodotaye 66

Asakitikpi, Aretha Oluwakemi 66

Asghari, SeyedAmirHossein

Athas, George

Atherton, Sophie

Attah, Tom 110

Attuel-Hallade, Aude

Atzmon, Leslie 144

Augenstein, Christof 80

Autism and the Empathy Epidemic 99

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda 5 Autonomy, Care and Family Law 79

Avignon Popes and the Eastern Mediterranean, The 58

Azad, Shirzad 9

Azemi, Jakup 121

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B-52s' Cosmic Thing, The

Babbage, Frances

Badarin, Emile

Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Badoni, Georgina

Baek, Kyung S.

Bailey, Cameron

Bajon, Philip

Baker, William

Bakker, Mary Lou

Balkan Muslims and the Middle East

Bamsey, Victoria

Banquet of the Brethren, The

Bantinaki, Katerina

Barbe, Katharina

Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, The

Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures, The

Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music, The

Handbook of Saussure, The 89 Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil, The 116 Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer, The 115

Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary

and Film, The

Book of Experience, The 113

Borg-Barthet, Justin 85

Boskani, Shene 93

Bourderionnet, Olivier 109

Bowie, Beckett, and Being 111

Boyce, Rosalind 97

Boys Smith, Stephen 104

Brandow-Faller, Megan 143

Brato, Thorsten 3

Brazil, Scott 136

Breen, Paul 36

Brenner-Idan, Athalya 136

Breton, Stanislas 113

Bright, Susan 84

Brinegar, Sara G. 55

British First World War Propaganda 68

British Settler Colonialism since 1530 59

British ‘Spy Fever’ in the First World War 68

Britton, Philip 76

Broadway Nation 28

Brooke, George J. 138

Brown, Christopher C. 87

Brownie, Barbara 143

Bruun, Niklas 82

Buck, Jennifer M. 133

Building Bridges in European and Human Rights Law 79

Bulgrin, Eva 39

Burden of Conscience, The 37

Burgess, Paul 76

Burnett, Charles 64

Burns, William E. 58

Burry, Mark 144

Buseyne, Bart 120

Butler, Maia L. 37

Büttner, Urs 95

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law 73

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Cadwallader, Alan 137

Cajete, Gregory 70

Cambodian Private International Law 85

Campbell, Nakissa 34

Can Higher Education be Decolonised? 33

Canning, Elaine 98

Care Proceedings in England with an International Element 85

Carlisle, Jana L. 37

Carlson, Amy 101

Carrapico, Helena 77

Casey, Jeffery P. 24

Castellani, Luca G 72

Castration Desire 95

Castryck-Naumann, Katja 123

Cauchi, Mark 44

Cauffman, Caroline 73

Cavanagh, Sheila T. 17

Cavatorta, Francesco 104

Cavecchi, Mariacristina 30

Cedillo Lazcano, Israel 72

Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia 9

Celeste, Edoardo 81

Censer, Jack R. 65

Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction 96

Chagnon-Burke, Véronique 141

Chakrabarty, Bidyut 123

Chang, Dongshin Don 135

Chantal Akerman 113

Chapman, Bert 124

Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges 134

Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain 51

Chekhov, Anton 22, 24

Che Neba, Divine 3

Child Creativity and the Visual Arts: From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America 143

Children’s Literature Selection Handbook, K-8, The 87

Chilson, Clark 125

China in Iraq after the War 9 China Resurrected 57

Chmielewski, Krzysztof 48

Choe, Youngmin 41

Chorell, Torbjörn Gustafsson 67

Christians in the City of Montréal 125

Cinema and Secularism 44

Cinematic Enfant Terrible, The 42

Cinotto, Simone 59

Cinquemani, Shana 34

Citizen-Driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War 60

Citizenship and Human Rights 80

Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson 11

Clements, Charles 93

Clifton, Michael-James 79

Climate Change on the Battlefield 124

Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan 4

Cline, Ruby 3

Closet Drama in Early Modern England 18

Coats, Cala

Coats, Steven

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 99

Cockayne, Joshua

Coe, Kathryn

Coen, Mark

Cohan, Steven

Cohen, Joseph

Çolak, Erdem 143 Cole, Julie 147

Coleman, Stephen 83

Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century, A 64

Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages, A 64

Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age, A 64

Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, A 64 Cultural History of Education, A 149

Cultural History of Education in Antiquity, A 63

Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire, A 63

Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment, A 63

Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age, A 63

Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age, A 63

Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance, A 63

Cultural History of Higher Learning, A 148

Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity, A 65

Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire, A 65

Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment, A 65

Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age, A 65

Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age, A 65

Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance, A 65

Cultural History of Plants, A 149

Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity, A 49

Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era, A 49

Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era, A 49

Canada,

Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century, A 49

Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era, A 49

Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, A 49

Cultural History of Violence, A 148

Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity, A 62

Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire, A 62

Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment, A 62

Cultural History of Youth in the Middle Ages, A 62

Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age, A 62

Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance, A 62

Curating Transcultural Spaces 142

Curle, Samantha 36

Currier, James D. ("Kip") 87

Curthoys, Ned 94

Curzon, Lucy D. 51

Cusco, Andrei 60

Cvorovic, Jelena 97

Cyberbullying and Sexting 86

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Dalby, Andrew 49

Dallywater, Lena 123

Danesi, Marcel 89

Dangerous Crossroads 124

Daniele, Luigi 77

Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 17 81

Dattini, Mahesh 24

Davage, David 134, 135

Davey, Nicholas 114

David Bowie and the Moving Image 109

David Lean 113

Davies, Ann 46

Davies, Gemma 77

Davies Hayon, Kaya 45

Davies, Paul S 82

Davies, Peter 92

Davis-McElligatt, Joanna 37

Dead Centre 24

Dearborn, Keri F. 56

De Arcangelis, Alessandro 53

Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia 60 de Araujo, Valdei Lopes 67 de Cogan, Dominic 86 de Coninck-Smith, Ning 148

Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work 70

Decolonizing Western-Indigenous Dialogues 70

De Hert, Paul 81

Dekker, Jeroen J. H. 63

Delaney, Shelagh 26

Delbeke, Maarten 139

Deleuze and Slowness 119

Deleuze and the Problem of Experience 118 de Medeiros, Paulo 94

DeMello, Margo 10

de Miranda, Luis 114

Demoicratic Authority 75

Denery, Dallas G. 65

Deng, Mark A W 74

Depoorter, Gaël 81

Depraetere, Ilse 89

De Raedt, Nele 139

Derclaye, Estelle 80

de Renzio, Paolo 71

Deschamps, Bénédicte 51

Design and Modernity in Asia 144

Design and Science 144

Designing for Activewear 147

Designing Learning with Multimodality in English Medium of Education (EME) Classrooms Across Asia 36

Designing the BBC 48

Design Portfolios 140

Destruction of Dubova, The 61

Determann, Jörg Matthias 105

Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs 89 Developmental Psychology of Personal Identity, The 117

De Visser, Maartje

De Young, Justine

Dhont, Marieke

Dickinson, Kay 46

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History 52

DiEdoardo, Christina Ann-Marie 122

Dieterle, David A. 33

Digital Platforms, Competition Law, and Regulation 73

Digital Sovereignty and the Green Transition

Digital Surveillance in Africa

Digitising Cultural Heritage

Dinka, Etana H.

DiPrizio, Robert C.

Disabling Criminal Justice

Displacement of (M)others in Twenty-First Century U.S. Films

Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound

Disruptive Information in Canada

Distant Memories of the Near Future

Rosalind

Esaïe

Failure of Competence-Based Education and the Demand for Bildung, The 37

Fairclough, Kirsty

Faith as Life in the Spirit

Falcus, Sarah

Faldalen, Jon Inge

Falque, Emmanuel

Fancher, Keli

Fanon, Žižek, and the Violence of Resistance

Fardy, Jonathan

Farnell, Ian

Farrier, Stephen

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

Favaro, Tamara

Fay, Elizabeth A.

Faygnberg, Rokhl

Feifer, Megan

Feldman, Daniel

Ferri, Delia

Fhloinn, Deirdre Ní

Finley, Laura L.

Fitzsimons, Camilla

Foy, Steven L.

Franck, Kaja

Freeman, Makenzie

Freer, Scott

Frege's Pragmatics

Funke, Melissa

Furtak, Rick Anthony

Gaming

Gandour, Jackson

Garber, Elizabeth

García-Ramírez, Paula

García-Sánchez, Inmaculada M.

Gardner, Hall

Gardner, Jodi

Garnham, Sir Neil

Gaspar, Martín L. 102

Gastrofascism and Empire 59

Gayle, Sutara 20

Geisshuesler, Flavio 125

Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America 48

Genealogical History in the Persianate World 104

Genre of Her Own, A 102

German Democratic Republic, The 52

Geroulanos, Stefanos 65

Ghazal, Elias 107

Gholami, Rahim 104

Gibson, Mark 47

Giesecke, Annette 49, 149

Gieskes, Mette 141

Gilham, Jamie 126

Gillett, Molly-Claire 144 Gill, Penny 147

Giroux, Henry A. 37

Gliszczynska-Grabias, Aleksandra 86

Global Economy, The 33 Globalizing Eastern Europe 123

Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Volume 2 84

Global Screen Worlds 44

Global Theatre Anthologies: Classical and Modern Plays from India 24

Gloria Steinem

Glorious French Revolution, The 20 Glory of the Blessed Son, The 133

Gock, Damien P.

God and the Liberation of Reason in French Philosophy 116

Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana

Goehr, Lydia 113 Goh, Menghun

Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn

Gomberg, Paul

Gonçalves, Maria do Carmo dos Santos

Sandor

Gough, Kathleen M.

Gaikis, Lona

Gaillard, Olivier

Gajarawala, Toral Jatin

Heyam, Kit 129

Hiebert, Robert J. V. 135

Hillary Clinton

Hill, Daniel Delis 145

Hill, James 58

Hill KC, Mark 83

Hill, Matthew

Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader, The 57

Hodges, Richard 8

Hoffman, Diane M. 39

Holborow, Marnie 50

Holdsworth, Roger 17

Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War 43

Holman, Matthew 142

Holmes, Vicky 51

Holocaust Cinema Since 2000 42

Holocaust in Eastern Europe, The 52

Holocaust in Paris, The 67 Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance 31

Holroyd, Amy Twigger 145

Home, I'm Darling 27

Homes in Crisis Capitalism 50

Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction 96

Hope, Valerie M. 13

Horne, Julia 148

Horn Engaging the Gulf, The 123 Horton, Emily 93, 97

Howard, Frances 33

Howard, Wilbert Francis 137

How Russia Got Big 54 Hubbard, Phil 111 Hubble, Nick 93

Hubick, Joel 114

Hughes, Erika 31

Hughes, Jon 41

Huland, Gabriel 107

Humor in Global Contemporary Art 141

Hussain, Emteaz 21

Hutchinson, Allan C 74

Hyperbolic Realism 98

Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal, The 94 I

Ideology and Interpellation 114

Idziak-Smoczynska, Urszula 118

Ihalainen, Pasi 67

Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc 101

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction 94

Imag(in)ing Jesus in the Universal or Particular 136 Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US 51

Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan, The 9

Importance of Being Earnest, The 21

Incomputable Earth 113

Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law 77

Induction of Early Childhood Educators, The 34

Inequality in America 130

Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise 83

Inquest Book, The 77

Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789-1870, An 53

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation, The 82

Internet Shutdowns in Africa 4

Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 92

Interwar Salzburg 95

In the Mood for Love 41

Invention of the Eastern Question, The 103 Invisible Digital 48

Iphigenia in Splott 26

Irish Court of Appeal, The 75 Irish Lacemaking 144

Irudayaraj, Dominic S. 134

Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain 126

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life 105 Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe 83

Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture 97

Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims 53

JJabiri, Afaf

Jackson, Lucy

Jacobowitz, Seth

Jacobs Claydon, Annaliese

Jahan, Rashid

James, Nick

James Tenney

Jangfeldt, Bengt

Japanese Linguistics in Use

Jappy, Tony 89 Jenkins, Gary 42

Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology 127

Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels 136

Jiwa, Shainool 104

Johanna, Ditlhake Kefilwe 70

Johnsen, Espen 139

Johnson, Benjamin J.M. 134

Johnson, Gaynor

Johnson, James H.

Johnson, Wendell G.

Jokes in Greek Comedy

Jones Hall, Linda

KC, Gregory

Alley Marie

John E.

Joudrey, Daniel N.

Journeaux, Jill

Judicial Review and

Laneri, Nicola 127

Langford, Chad 89

Langlet, David 86

Lang, Martin 114

Language and Social Justice 91

Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa 3

Language of Comparative Constitutional Law, The 75

Language Teacher Agency 35

Language Testing and Assessment 35

Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities 94

Laoutaris, Chris 18

Larsen, Christina N. 133

Last, Cassice 42

Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond 121

Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation 102

Lawson, Kathryn 119

Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On 5

Lee, Gini 144

Lee, HP 74

Lee, Yunah 144

Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution 3

Legal History of the Church of England, The 83 Legends of Them, The 20

Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. 3, 89

Leithart, Peter J. 138

Lemercier-Goddard, Sophie 18

Lenaerts, Koen 79

Lepawsky, Josh 129

le Roux, Michèle 36

Leruth, Michael F. 66

Lesger, Clé 54

Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women 97 Leuckert, Sven 89

Levinas Dictionary, The 116 LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust 67 Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, The 110 Lilly, Carol S. 60

Limb, Rebecca 84

Lim, Fei Victor 36

Lindholm, Johan 79

Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes 36

Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders 90

Linguistics and Oral History

Listening to Landscape

Listen to Jazz!

Li, Stephanie

Literary Lifeline, The

Literature as Sound Studies

Littlejohn, Murray

Litwa, M. David

Livingstone, Joshua

Lloyd, Christian

Lloyd, Robert

Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines 35

Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture 61

London 51

Longley Arthur, Paul 98

Lörcher, Klaus 82

Lori, Ope 143

Louis, Anja 48

Loxham, Abigail

Lutz,

Mabberley, David

Macchia, Frank D.

Macdonald, Iain

Mace, Darryl

Macedo, Eunice

MacKay, Ross

Maclean, Gülberk

Madaio, James

Mad Max: Fury Road

Magued, Shaimaa

Maguze, Tracy

Mahadevan, Sheela

Majewski, Jakub

Making

Marenko, Betti

Marine Bioprospecting,

• USA, Canada, Latin America

Mons, Amélie 30

Moore, Aaron William 57

Moore, Karenza 33

Moore, Marshall 14

Moore, Randy 59

Moore, Tony 47

Moors, The 27

Moral Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence 83

Moran, Bruce T. 64

Moran Cruz, Jo Ann 63

Morello, Stefano 111

Moretti, Luca 37

Morgenstern, John D. 100

Morisseau, Dominique 27

Morris, Peter J. T. 64, 149

Morrow, John 68

Mostacci, Edmondo 75

Mother of Yiddish Theatre, The 61

Moulton, James Hope 137

Moulton's Grammar of New Testament Greek 137

Moureau, Sébastien 64

Mules, Warwick 44

Müller, Richard 47

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