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History
A Cold War Escape
Stejarel Olaru Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth Drawing on secret police archive pages, secret service intelligence documents, and wiretap recordings, this book tells the compelling story of Nadia Comaneci’s life and career as a child prodigy and legendary gymnast using insights from the communist dictatorship which monitored her. It explores Nadia’s complex relationship with her sometimes abusive coaches, her mental struggles and 1978 suicide attempt, and her remarkable resurgence to Olympic gold in 1980. Olaru considers the impact of Nadia’s withdrawal from international activity and reflects on burning questions surrounding the defection to the United States that she successfully undertook in November 1989.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 368 pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781350321298 • £25.00 / $35.00 ePub 9781350321311 • £22.50 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350321304 • £22.50 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Academic World English
19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture
Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867
Edited by Ferenc Hörcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Beginning with an overview of 19th-century Hungary in a European context, this book explores the fundamental characteristics of the country’s political system and its geopolitical background at this time. The contributors reflect on the stories of some of the most influential voices, as well as their networks, impacts and legacies. Through this, the book offers novel insights into how Western political culture was perceived and adapted in a country long considered by many to belong to the European periphery.
UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350202917 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350202931 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350202924 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Dismembered Policing in Postwar Berlin
The Limits of Four-Power Government
Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Assessing the impact of Germany’s defeat on the policing of Berlin, this book addresses the reconstruction of the police force as a crucial component of fourpower government. Fenemore discusses how each occupation government sought to act as an advertisement for its country’s respective cultural values, mores and system of governance. As an international, multi-archival study, the book draws on evidence in French and German as well as in English. Using law enforcement as a lens, it examines issues like mass rape, the black market, interracial sex and political violence.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781350334168 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350334199 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350334182 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire
Revised Edition
Dionysios Stathakopoulos, King's College London, UK Stathakopoulos focuses on the Byzantine Empire’s political, social, economic and cultural history, providing a critical synthesis of cutting-edge scholarship. Authoritatively written and meticulously researched, this is the perfect companion for undergraduate students and scholars studying the Byzantine Empire as it conveys the complexities of Byzantine history in a solid and accessible way.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350233416 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350233409 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350233430 • £13.49 / $19.22 ePdf 9781350233423 • £13.49 / $19.22 Series: Short Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe
Edited by Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, Davide Rodogno, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland & Mona Bieling, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland Interwar European majority-minority questions have been predominantly discussed in the context of the East until now. This volume challenges that geographical emphasis by examining both Eastern and Western European experiences. It thus lays the foundation for a new comparative international history of the relations between national majorities and minorities in Europe after the Great War. Building on the assumption that nationalist conflicts are based on the dynamic interaction of multiple actors, this book brings together different perspectives and methodological approaches (political, social and transnational) to provide a comprehensive account of minority questions between the two World Wars.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350263383 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350263406 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350263390 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History
Contesting the Waters
James Pettifer, University of Oxford, UK & Miranda Vickers, Independent Scholar, UK Drawing from oral testimonies, this book tells the story of the Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece. In exploring its roots and confronting questions of national identity, international borders and movement of people, James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region. The result is a nuanced and sophisticated transnational account of Macedonia from prehistory to the 21st century which will be essential reading for all Balkan scholars.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350226173 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350226135 ePub 9781350226159 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350226142 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire
Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship
Edited by Nuno Domingos, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Elsa Peralta, University of Lisbon, Portugal Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s Portugal. Using an interdisciplinary agenda, with contributions from experts in the fields of history, anthropology, literature, and sociology, the several case studies included in the volume look at commemorative practices that feed on imperial mythologies, old colonial and racial classifications that condition citizenship rights, and post-imperial modes of culture consumption.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350289772 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350289802 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350289796 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Franco's Famine
Malnutrition, Disease and Starvation in Post-Civil War Spain
Edited by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, University of Granada, Spain & Peter Anderson, University of Leeds, UK At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways Spaniards tried to survive, the regime’s reluctance to accept international relief, the politics of cooking at a time of famine, and the memory of the famine.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 280 pages PB 9781350268340 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350174641 ePub 9781350174665 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350174658 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands
Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40
Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler, University of Cambridge, UK Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands is the first in-depth analysis of Swedish and Dutch fascism in the English language. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and focusing on two peripheral fascist movements (the Swedish National Socialist Workers’ Party and the Dutch National Movement), this sophisticated study de-centres contemporary fascism studies by showing how smaller movements gained a political foothold in liberal, democratic regimes and shining a spotlight on the movement’s performative process.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350192416 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350192331 ePub 9781350192355 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350192348 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain
From the Spanish Civil War to the Present Day
Edited by Antonio Míguez Macho, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Centred around places of violence such as concentration camps and military courts, Antonio Míguez Macho and his team of expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an uncomfortable relationship with its own past, Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain shines an important spotlight on how and why sites of violence also became sites of forgetting.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 232 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350199248 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350199200 ePub 9781350199224 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350199217 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Power and Ceremony in European History
Rituals, Practices and Representative Bodies since the Late Middle Ages
Edited by Anna Kalinowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & Jonathan Spangler, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman empire from the medieval to modern era, showing how such performances were integral to the evolution of the state. This book is of immense value to both historians and art historians interested in representations of power and the political climate of Europe from 1450 onwards.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350268869 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350152182 ePub 9781350152205 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350152199 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
The Beginnings of Provençal Cuisine
Food, Cooking and Eating in 18thcentury Provence
Barbara Santich, University of Adelaide, Australia This book explores the development and evolution of Provençal cuisine, relying on a range of hitherto unexplored primary resources ranging from household accounts and manuscript recipes to local newspapers and gardening manuals to focus on the actuality of the 18th-century Provençal table. Taking wider historical contexts into consideration, and linking the coming-of-age of Provençal cuisine to post-Revolutionary culture, it offers a new understanding of the development and evolution of regional cuisines.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350329942 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350329966 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350329959 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic
Globalization in a Glass
The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire
Malcolm F. Purinton, Northeastern University, USA The spread of Pilsner beer from its inception in 1842 demonstrates the changes wrought by globalization in an age of empire. Its rise depended on technological innovations and faster supply chains, but also on the increased connectedness of the world and the political structures of empire. Utilising a wide range of archival sources from Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa, this study traces the spread of industrial beer brewing in Europe from the late 18th to the early 20th century to show how a single beer style became the global favourite through advances in science, business and imperial power.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350324374 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350324398 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350324381 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic
Champagne in Britain, 18001914
How the British Transformed a French Luxury
Graham Harding, University of Oxford, UK From its introduction to British society in the mid17th century champagne has been a wine of elite celebration and hedonism. Champagne in Britain, 1800-1914 is the first book for over a decade to study the production, consumption and marketing of this iconic drink in Britain.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350212930 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350202863 ePub 9781350202887 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350202870 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic
British Internment and the Internment of Britons
Second World War Camps, History and Heritage
Edited by Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge, UK & Rachel Pistol, University of Exeter, UK This edited volume presents a cutting-edge analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British across the British Empire. The book brings together a range of interdisciplinary specialists including archaeologists, historians, and heritage practitioners to give a full overview of the topic of internment internationally. This collection is the first to bring together the British experiences, as the common theme, in one study and offers updated statistics for the camps whilst considering the period between 1945 to the present day through related site heritage issues.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 304 pages • 51 bw illus HB 9781350266254 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350266278 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350266261 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
British Humour and the Second World War
Edited by Juliette Pattinson, University of Kent, UK & Linsey Robb, Northumbria University, UK In this original volume, Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson lead a stellar cast of academics to bring together the most recent scholarship examining the diverse modes of humour utilised in Britain during the Second World War and the unique way it has featured in Britain’s cultural memory in the years since. The result is a fascinating collection of focused case studies examining the often-neglected but important topic of humour in Britain in World War II and how it has been remembered in public consciousness since.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 19 bw illus HB 9781350201668 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350199484 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350199477 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History • Bloomsbury Academic
Mass-Observation
Text, Context and Analysis of the Pioneering Pamphlet and Movement
Edited by Jennifer J. Purcell, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA This book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation with expert commentary throughout. It also features essays by and interviews with prominent scholars of Mass-Observation which reflect on the organisation, its origins and its influence on multiple academic disciplines, including history, sociology and anthropology. There is also a chronology of Mass-Observation, its publications and major figures associated with it.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 160 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350226470 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350226463 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350226494 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350226487 • £17.99 / $24.72 Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Immigration and Exile ForeignLanguage Press in the UK and in the US
Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Edited by Bénédicte Deschamps, Paris Diderot University, France & Stéphanie Prévost, 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 June 2023 • US June 2023 • 384 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350107045 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350107069 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350107052 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Mercy and British Culture, 17601960
James Gregory, Plymouth University, UK Employing an innovative cultural-historical approach, James Gregory provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in modern Britain, spanning over two centuries. Split into 3 main parts, the first explores mercy's religious and philosophical aspects; the second, at the royal acts of mercy from the Hanoverian accession to Victoria's death; and the third, case studies of large-scale mobilization of mercy discourses in Britain, Europe, and the US.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350230040 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350142589 ePub 9781350142602 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350142596 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20thCentury Russia
Edited by Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond, USA & Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto, Canada This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the ‘new man’ was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the early 20th century, focusing on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences and countless cultural products. With contributions from scholars from across the globe, this volume brings to light the surprising historical trajectories of ‘new man’ visions, their often obscure origins, acclaimed and forgotten champions, unexpected and complicated results, and mutual interrelations.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 32 bw illus PB 9781350232846 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350232839 ePub 9781350232860 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350232853 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England
Cure, Redemption and Rehabilitation
Alison C. Pedley, Independent Scholar, UK Explores the experiences, treatments and regimes undergone by women who had been designated insane from 1850 to 1900 in three notorious institutions: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. Focusing particularly on patients who had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children, it shows how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes and how admission to a dedicated asylum was seen as the safest and most humane solution for the ‘madwoman’ and society as a whole.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350275324 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350275348 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350275331 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment • Bloomsbury Academic
Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
Patrick McDonagh, Independent Scholar, Ireland This thematically-arranged study traces the emergence of visible gay/lesbian communities across Ireland and their impact on public perceptions of homosexuals. Along the way it explores the critical and hidden activism of lesbian women, the unknown role of rural provincial activists, the importance of interactions with international gay and lesbian organizations and the extent to which HIV/AIDS impacted the gay rights campaign in Ireland. In doing so, this book also contextualizes the dramatic changes in perceptions of homosexuality that have taken place in recent years.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 9 colour illus PB 9781350197459 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350197466 ePub 9781350197480 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350197473 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Life Cycle of Russian Things
From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present
Edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Weber State University, USA, Alison K. Smith, University of Toronto, Canada & Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, USA In this innovative study, experts from across the globe come together to situate Russian material culture studies at an interdisciplinary crossroads, foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials, and re-orient commodity studies more generally. The Life Cycle of Russian Things presents a complex narrative, not only in terms of material consumption but also in terms of production and the secondary life of resale, inheritance, or even destruction. The book sheds new light on economic history and consumption studies by reflecting the diversity of Russia’s experiences over the last 400 years.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 264 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9781350186064 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350186026 ePub 9781350186040 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350186033 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of RussianAmerican Relations
Lee A. Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA Using a lively micro-historical approach and new archival material, this is the first full treatment of the Catacazy Affair, and its far-reaching implications for Russian-American relations. With a keen sense of the human interest, Farrow demonstrates that this affair was one of the earliest significant complications in the relationship between Russia and the USA and provides new insight into 19th-century politics and diplomacy.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 216 pages PB 9781350266315 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350107182 ePub 9781350107205 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350107199 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Library of Modern Russia • Bloomsbury Academic Kabardino-Balkaria from Tsarist Conquest to Post-Soviet Politics
Ian Lanzillotti, Bethany College, USA This book traces the history of Kabardino-Balkaria region from the extension of Russian rule in the late 18th century through to the ethno-nationalist mobilizations of the post-Soviet era. This region has witnessed some of the worst conflict in Europe since 1945; yet, amidst such turmoil, the Kabardino-Balkar Republic has remained relatively peaceful. This book examines how and why Kabardino-Balkar managed to maintain stability despite the tensions over religion, land, and identity in North Caucasus.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 328 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350267633 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350137448 ePub 9781350137462 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350137455 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Witnessing Stalin’s Justice
The United States and the Moscow Show Trials
Kelly J. Evans, Eastern Washington University, USA & Jeanie M. Welch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA This book provides an overview and analysis of contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and their impact on US-Soviet relations. Using eyewitness accounts by American diplomats and foreign correspondents for the American press as well as official US government sources, it documents the trials and highlights the wildly different reactions from liberals, radicals, intellectuals and the mainstream media. It shows how fractures of opinion ran through every level of society and divided political groups, especially between the American Communist party and other left-wing organisations.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350338180 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350338203 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350338197 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea
War, Travel and the Reimagining of History
Ryota Nishino, Nagoya University, Japan Translating a diverse range of Japanese sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of military action in Papua New Guinea. In bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans’ memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, this book explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. In doing so, Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350369269 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350139008 ePub 9781350139022 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350139015 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: War, Culture and Society • Bloomsbury Academic
Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan
(In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts
Edited by Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, USA & Asad Ali, Independent Scholar, UK After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centred on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. This book seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation to the history of its peoples. Based on the premise that the historiographical tradition in Pakistan has ignored the existence of people who actually make history, this book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists to shed light on the diverse histories of the people themselves.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350261198 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350261211 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350261204 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History • Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Urdu)
Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular
Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War
Edited by Kristin Roth-Ey, University College London, UK This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces.
Placing Internationalism
International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World
Edited by Stephen Legg, Mike Heffernan, Jake Hodder & Benjamin Thorpe, all of University of Nottingham, UK Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated process through international conferences, this edited collection studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society institutions and anti-colonial political networks used these events to realise their visions of internationalism. From Paris 1919 to Bandung 1955, this book shows how modern internationalism interacted with the ongoing influence of nation-states and imperial sovereignty through international conferences.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350302785 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350302808 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350302792 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350247215 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350247185 ePub 9781350247208 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350247192 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic
New Approaches to International History
Soldiers in Peace-making
Edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Frédéric Dessberg, Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, France & Thomas Vaisset, Havre Normandy university, France What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book explores that question, examining how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the process of peace-making. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, analysing subjects ranging from UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350345010 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350345034 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350345027 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Approaches to International History • Bloomsbury Academic
American-Iranian Dialogues
From Constitution to White Revolution, c. 1890s-1960s
Edited by Matthew K. Shannon, Emory & Henry College, USA American-Iranian Dialogues examines the cultural connections between Americans and Iranians from the constitutional period of the 1890s through to the start of the White Revolution in the 1960s. Through exploring the understudied cultural dimensions of US-Iranian relations, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in American history, international history, Iranian studies and Middle Eastern studies.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781350228139 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350118720 ePub 9781350118744 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350118737 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Approaches to International History • Bloomsbury Academic
New Directions in Medieval Studies
Andrew B.R. Elliott, University of Lincoln, UK; Adrienne Merritt, University of Colorado Boulder, USA; Helen Young, Deakin University, Australia
Playing the Middle Ages
Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games
Edited by Robert Houghton, University of Winchester, UK This volume addresses the many ways in which different formats and genre of games represent the Middle Ages. It considers the restrictions placed on these representations by the mechanical and gameplay requirements of the medium and by audience expectations of these products and the period. It highlights innovative attempts to overcome these limitations through game design and play.
UK June 2023 • US January 2023 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350242883 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350242906 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350242890 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
The Middle Ages in Modern Culture
History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism
Edited by Karl Alvestad, University of SouthEastern Norway, Norway & Robert Houghton, University of Winchester, UK This open access book considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media – ranging from TV and film to architecture – and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 27 bw illus PB 9781350266001 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788314787 ePub 9781350167469 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350167476 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Soldier and Diplomat
Alan Ogden, Lecturer for Martin Randall Travel In this meticulously-researched biography, Alan Ogden examines the life and times of General Adrian de Wiart. In drawing from a variety of primary sources and privately-owned family papers, Ogden sheds fascinating light on a figure that has often been confined to the margins of history.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 352 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350233133 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350233126 ePub 9781350233157 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350233140 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History
Avoiding 'Socialism' at All Costs
Philip B. Minehan, California State University, USA ‘Socialist’ and ‘socialism’ have been used as rhetorical weapons for political purposes against real and fictitious targets throughout modern history. Liberals, conservatives, nationalists, fascists and others have all come aggressively and sometimes violently into play against real or contrived ‘socialism’. In this book, Philip Minehan traces examples of anti-‘socialist’ hostility from around the world from the early 19th century.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781350229792 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350170643 ePub 9781350170667 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350170650 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University, USA Exploring the impact of violence on the religious beliefs of front soldiers and civilians in Germany during the First World War, this book argues that religion was the main prism through which men and women in the Great War articulated and processed trauma. Inspired by trauma studies, the history of emotions, and the social and cultural history of religion, it moves away from the history of clerical authorities and institutions at war and instead focuses on the history of religion and war 'from below.'
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350270480 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350083707 ePub 9781350083721 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350083714 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Perversion of Holocaust Memory
Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989
Judith M. Hughes, University of California San Diego, USA This innovative study explores the perversion of Holocaust remembrance since 1989. Here, Judith Hughes shows how what began as acceptance and accountability in the 20th century shifted to evasiveness and doubt in the 21st. The four countries analyzed in this study – France, Germany, Hungary, and Poland – could all claim to be victims of Nazi Germany, the Allies or the Communist Soviet Union but they were also all perpetrators. It is this complex legacy which Hughes adroitly untangles in her sophisticated study of Holocaust memory in modern Europe.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 160 pages PB 9781350281912 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350281875 ePub 9781350281899 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350281882 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Propaganda and Neutrality
Global Case Studies in the 20th Century
Edited by Edward Corse, University of Kent, UK & Marta García Cabrera, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, Propaganda and Neutrality explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Ireland, France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India and Sweden. The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, and magazines. The book also highlights the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 320 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781350325531 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350325555 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350325548 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Photography in the Great War
The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War
Jason Bate, History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK This book draws on a rich set of materials to examine postwar experiences of ex-servicemen who were facially-disfigured during the First World War. Weaving together medical, institutional and family photographic albums under a social history framework, Jason Bate underscores overlooked aspects of these men's continued hardships after returning home from the front. In particular, a focus is taken on the private sphere of the family and the complex world of employment that disfigured veterans had to navigate after the war.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 36 bw illus PB 9781350271937 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350122048 ePub 9781350122062 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350122055 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face • Bloomsbury Academic
Science, Medicine, and 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 June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350239296 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350239319 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350239302 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century
María Bjerg, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Revealing the lives of migrant couples and transnational households, this book explores the dark side of the history of migration in Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Focusing primarily on the emotional lives of Italian and Spanish migrants, it explores bigamy, adultery, domestic violence and murder within official and unofficial unions. It reveals the complexities of obligation, financial hardship and distance that came with migration, and explores how shame, jealousy, and disobedience led to the breaking of marital ties.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 184 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350194168 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350193949 ePub 9781350193963 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350193956 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: History of Emotions • Bloomsbury Academic World English William Tullett, Anglia Ruskin University, UK What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage, arguing that we should use smell as a research tool for articulating the past. Assessing how we approach and conceptualise smell, Tullett shows how archives can be ‘re-odorized’ to uncover narratives that are obscured by the historical record. 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 Union’s Horizon 2020 program project ODEUROPA under grant agreement number 101004469.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350367524 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350367548 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350367531 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity
Edited by Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge, UK A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 280 pages • 35 b/w HB 9781474298650 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226616 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226609 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age
Edited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway & Sarah Semple, Durham University, UK A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 296 pages • 47 b/w HB 9781474298681 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226630 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226623 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance
Edited by James Symonds, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense was expressed through a fascination with materiality and the natural world, and a growing attachment to things.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 296 pages • 47 b/w HB 9781474298735 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226647 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226654 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Carolyn White A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine-made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale – from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 224 pages • 50 b/w HB 9781474298797 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226708 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226692 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Audrey Horning, Queen’s University Belfast, UK A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. Particular objects encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age – from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages • 47 b/w HB 9781474298780 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226678 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226661 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age
Edited by Laurie Wilkie, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, USA & John Chenoweth, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions – from plastics to the digital to biotechnology – have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th Century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st Century take us?
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 280 pages • 43 b/w HB 9781474298803 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350226715 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350226722 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity
Edited by Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College, USA & Charles H. Stocking, Western University, Canada From the founding of the Olympics and Rome’s celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity. Gymnasiums, monumental arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects were popular, whilst the exploits of individual athletes and gladiators were celebrated in poetry and sculpture. This rich sporting culture attests to the importance of leisure among the middle and upper classes of antiquity. But rising costs, barbarian invasions, and Christianity would sweep it all away. A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 272 pages • 34 b/w illus HB 9781350023963 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350282964 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350282957 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance
Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli, University of Verona, Italy Shaped by new scientific thinking, sport was incorporated into the educational curriculum of the Renaissance and became the object of intellectual analysis. Texts proliferated on the medical benefits of sport and on the best way to joust, fence, ride, play ball games, swim, practice archery, wrestle, or become an acrobat. Sport became the visible sign of the mind’s control over the physical body, such control and decorum often becoming an end in itself. A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages • 46 b/w illus HB 9781350023987 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350283039 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350283046 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age
Edited by Noel Fallows, University of Georgia, USA A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle. Meanwhile, simpler sports provided recreational distraction from the dangerously unsettled conditions of everyday life. Running, jumping, wrestling, and many ball games - soccer, cricket, baseball, golf, and tennis – had their often violent beginnings in this period.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 47 b/w illus HB 9781350023970 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350283015 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350283022 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, University of Bremen, Germany A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800, a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact, a rich sporting culture existed and sports were practised by both men and women at all levels of society. The Enlightenment called into question many of the earlier notions of religion, gender, and rank which had previously shaped sporting activities and also initiated the commercialization, professionalization and associativity which were to define modern sport.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages • 47 b/w illustrations HB 9781350023994 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350283053 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350283060 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Mike Huggins, University of Cumbria, UK A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920 – a period of cultural and political tensions. The changing roles of women, social class, ethnicity and race, imperial relationships, nation-building, and amateur and professional approaches all shaped sport. New sports were invented and team games were regulated, institutionalized, commercialized, and professionalized. Sport became increasingly global. At the same time, increasing urbanization, population, wages, and leisure time drove demand for sport ever higher.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 280 pages • 49 b/w illus HB 9781350024045 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350283084 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350283077 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
Edited by Steven A. Riess, Northeastern Illinois University, USA A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global cultural force and one of the deepest ways in which individual nations express their myths, beliefs, values, traditions and realities.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 43 b/w illus HB 9781350024052 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350283107 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350283091 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity
Edited by Karen Klaiber Hersch, Temple University, USA Marriage is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts a lifetime. But is marriage a blessing, or curse? This volume shows that the people of the ancient Mediterranean were divided on such questions, and reveal ancient Greek and Roman opinions on marriage were as varied and complex as today. A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 216 pages • 37 Bw illus PB 9781350355583 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001800 ePub 9781350179646 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350179653 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University, USA Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes, as this volume explores. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9781350355637 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001831 ePub 9781350103191 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350103184 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Paul Puschmann, Radboud University, the Netherlands This volume looks at how marriage was a key life course transition during the age of empires (1800–1900), and rite of passage with major cultural significance. While in some ways the institution of marriage became threatened – for instance through rising divorce rates in Western societies – in others it became more anchored than ever before. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; Family Economy; Love and Sex; Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9781350355651 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001893 ePub 9781350179745 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350179752 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University, USA & Frederik Pedersen, University of Aberdeen, UK This volume traces the medieval discussion of marriage in practice, law, theology and iconography. It provides an examination of the wider political and economic context of marriage and offers an overview of the ebb and flow of society’s ideas about how expressions of human sexuality fit within the confines of a clearly defined social structure and ideology. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages • 43 bw illus PB 9781350355613 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001824 ePub 9781350179714 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350179721 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Edward Behrend-Martínez, Appalachian State University, USA A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment explores the ways that new ideas, cultural ideals, and economic changes, big and small, reshaped matrimony into the institution that it is today, allowing love to become the ultimate essential ingredient for modern marriages. The volume presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 192 pages • 31 bw illus PB 9781350355644 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001886 ePub 9781350103214 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350103207 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age
Edited by Christina Simmons, University of Windsor, Canada Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages • 42 bw illus PB 9781350355668 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001909 ePub 9781350179776 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350179783 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity
Edited by Julen Etxabe, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada From the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BCE) to Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis (529-534 CE), this volume draws upon legal texts and nontextual forms (such as vase-painting, sculpture, and architecture) to uncover the diverse and rich legal traditions of societies ranging from the Ancient Near Eastern cities of Assyria and Babylon in Mesopotamia to the Ancient Israelites, and from Ancient Greece to Rome of the Archaic and Classical Periods. With a wealth of textual and visual sources, it presents key cultural case studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 216 pages • 44 bw illus PB 9781350368262 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212298 ePub 9781350079243 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079236 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, USA Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. This volume explores the war of jurisdictions and the emergence of national legal traditions in continental Europe and in Britannia. Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources, this volume presents key cultural case studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 280 pages • 46 bw illus PB 9781350368675 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212649 ePub 9781350079304 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079298 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform
Edited by Ian Ward, Newcastle University, UK The Age of Reform is synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also deeply conservative and cautious - alongside Great Exhibitions and Great Reform Acts came systemized police forces, courts and prisons. This volume focuses on human stories caught between legal formality and social reform: a newly uniformed police, criminal mugshots, judge and jury, child labor, and neighborliness in the crowded urban landscapes of Europe and the United States. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, it presents key studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 208 pages • 38 bw illus PB 9781350368699 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212748 ePub 9781350079328 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079311 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages
Edited by Emanuele Conte, Roma Tre University, Italy & Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley, USA In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic change, new methods of farming and economic expansion had transformed the social and political landscape and had wrought radical change upon legal practices and systems throughout Western Europe. This volume explores this change and the encounters between Christianity and Roman legal thought which shaped the period. Drawing upon both textual and visual sources, this volume presents key case studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 184 pages • 34 bw illus PB 9781350368330 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212533 ePub 9781350079281 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079274 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, UK & John Snape, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, UK The Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas and many viewed Britain as an exemplar of a state governed by moderate laws under a moderate constitution. This work explores the place of law in a range of creative and artistic media, all of which flourished in a commercial society with law at its center and enlightenment as its aim. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents key cultural case studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 216 pages • 37 bw illus PB 9781350368682 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212656 ePub 9781350079250 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079267 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age
Edited by Richard K. Sherwin, New York University Law School, USA & Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney, Australia The period since the First World War has been distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate authority of law. With the emergence of radical pluralism, law has become a site of creativity, a source of rights for those historically excluded from its protection, and a mechanism for confronting state authority and corporate power. Drawing upon a wealth of visual, textual and sound sources, this volume presents key cultural case studies on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 248 pages • 38 bw illus PB 9781350368705 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474212779 ePub 9781350079342 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350079335 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity
Edited by Stefan Krmnicek, University of Tuebingen, Germany The modern, Western concept of money began with the electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE. The introduction of coinage prompted momentous economic, political, and social developments: long-distance trade, wealth creation, and the financing of military and political power. It became a marker of identity and became embedded in religious practice and superstition. The problems of money also emerged: inflation, monetary instability, and the breakup of monetary unions. This volume examines key case studies on money covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 216 pages • 48 bw illus PB 9781350363816 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237024 ePub 9781350253469 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253384 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance
Edited by Stephen Deng, Michigan State University, USA Money during the Renaissance meant coinage and local credit systems. These monetary forms shaped ideas on monetary value, the economic, political, religious, and aesthetic uses of coinage, and the moral implications of usury and credit systems. There was a growing awareness that individuals, up to and including the monarch, were powerless to overcome the market forces that determined value and directed the movement of goods and money. This volume examines key cultural case studies on money in the early modern period covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 216 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350365483 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237093 ePub 9781350253506 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253490 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age
Edited by Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, UK Money in its many forms - coin, metal, commodity, and concept - played a central role in shaping the character of medieval society. Money had economic, institutional, social, and cultural dimensions which developed the legacy of antiquity and set the scene for modern developments including the rise of capitalism and finance and a moralized discourse on the proper and improper uses of money. This volume examines key cultural case studies on money in the medieval age covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 232 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350363946 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237109 ePub 9781350253483 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253476 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Christine Desan, Harvard University, USA The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe with new ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress, efforts to reframe divinity in terms compatible with market exchange, new instruments of credit, and innovative institutions such as national banks and capital markets. These changes sparked debates on the sources of value, the morality of the market, and the very nature of money. This volume examines key cultural case studies on money in the period of the Enlightenment covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages • 46 bw illus PB 9781350365674 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237079 ePub 9781350253513 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253520 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire
Edited by Federico Neiburg, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were created. Money became a central issue in politics, the arts, and sciences - and the modern discipline of economics was born. This volume examines key cultural case studies on money in the Age of Empire covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 208 pages • 24 bw illus PB 9781350365797 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237406 ePub 9781350253537 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253544 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age
Edited by Taylor C. Nelms, Filene Research Institute, USA & David Pedersen, University of California, San Diego, USA Bracketed by global financial crises and economic downturns, the modern age has been defined by debates about, and transformations of, money. The period witnessed the consolidation of national currencies and monetary policies as well as the diversification of payment technologies and the proliferation of financial instruments. And modern money has remained deeply unsettled into the 21st century. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine cultural case studies of the period covering technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 280 pages • 63 bw illus PB 9781350366497 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237116 ePub 9781350253551 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350253568 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Carlos F. Noreña, University of California Berkeley, USA A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. This volume explores the cultural history of empire in antiquity, covering: War, Trade, Natural worlds, Labor, Mobility, Sexuality, Resistance and Race.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages • 45 bw illus PB 9781350358201 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242585 ePub 9781350290334 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290341 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech, USA A Cultural History of Western Empires provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity through six volumes. This volume explores the cultural history of western empires in the middle ages, from 800-1450 CE. Guiding the reader through eight thematic chapters; war, trade, natural worlds, labor, mobility, sexuality, resistance and race, it asks if there was such a thing as ‘medieval empire’ and explores how the culture and human experience of this era was ruled, shaped and redirected by imperial powers.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages • 48 bw illus PB 9781350358218 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242592 ePub 9781350290365 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290372 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, USA A Cultural History of Western Empires provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity through six volumes. This volume explores the cultural history of western empires during the Renaissance through eight thematic chapters; war, trade, natural worlds, labor, mobility, sexuality, resistance and race. It explores the different ways in which the cultures of the Renaissance were shaped by imperial powers, and how Renaissance empires foreshadowed later imperial dynamics.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages • 45 bw illus PB 9781350358225 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242608 ePub 9781350290273 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290280 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Kirsten McKenzie, University of Sydney, Australia A Cultural History of Western Empires provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity through six volumes. This volume explores the cultural history of western empires during the ‘age of empire’, the long 19th century when western empires claimed more territory and global influence than ever before or since. It guides the reader through eight thematic chapters; war, trade, natural worlds, labor, mobility, sexuality, resistance and race.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages • 42 bw illus PB 9781350358256 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242615 ePub 9781350290402 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290419 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Ian Coller, La Trobe University, Australia A Cultural History of Western Empires provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity through six volumes. This volume explores the cultural history of western empires during the Enlightenment, a time when European thought was transformed, and the foundations of many fundamental structures of our modern world were laid. It guides the reader through eight thematic chapters; war, trade, natural worlds, labor, mobility, sexuality, resistance and race, exploring the cultural history of this age of empires, both old and new.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages • 48 bw illus PB 9781350358249 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242622 ePub 9781350290389 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290396 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota, USA A Cultural History of Western Empires provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity through six volumes. This volume explores the cultural history of western empires in the modern age through eight thematic chapters; war, trade, natural worlds, labor, mobility, sexuality, resistance and race across eight chapters. Richly illustrated, it explores the cultural history of empire during the war-torn 20th century when European empires were undone and the United States rose to prominence.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages • 41 bw illus PB 9781350358263 • £25.99 / $35.95 Previously published in HB 9781474242639 ePub 9781350290426 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350290433 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
