The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Original translation by James Strachey Revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms
Co-published with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, this Revised Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud offers a once-in-a-generation update and reframing of Freud, bringing together decades of scholarly deliberation concerning the translation of Freudian technical terms while retaining the best of Strachey’s original English translation.
These newly clarified translations reshape long held assumptions about Freud’s concepts, clinical sensibilities, and intellectual legacy, and set the new academic and professional standard for teaching, learning, research and professional practice.
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INTRODUCTION
We are delighted to present Bloomsbury’s new academic reference works publishing between January 2025 and April 2027. This catalogue brings together a selection of reference resources designed to meet the evolving needs of students, faculty and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.
At its core is the continuing expansion of the Bloomsbury Cultural Histories series, with new sixvolume sets (available in print and online) surveying the history of key topics, among them the environment, beauty, gender, higher learning, craft, poverty, violence, the media, and sleep and dreaming. Spanning antiquity to the present and written by leading international scholars, each set combines rigorous scholarship with a unique thematic structure that allows readers to follow ideas and their relationship with culture across time.
Alongside this flagship series, we are pleased to highlight a number of other major new reference titles, including The Bible and Violence, The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, and The History and Philosophy of Western Science. These resources - several of which are publishing online first, with print editions to follow - reflect Bloomsbury’s commitment to delivering authoritative and citable scholarship across formats.
Our broader reference programme continues to engage with key areas of teaching and research, including identity, power, culture and global change, with the growth of popular series such as the acclaimed Historical Dictionaries series (originally published by Rowman & Littlefield) and T&T Clark Handbooks and Bloomsbury Handbooks, while the Contemporary World Issues and Contemporary Debates series, offer concise, accessible, unbiased introductions to key topics.
All titles are available in print for lasting, on shelf access, and most are also accessible digitally via Bloomsbury’s digital platforms, offering flexible acquisition options for all libraries. We hope you enjoy browsing our portfolio and find this information useful for planning your holdings in the coming months!
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The Cultural Histories Series
“An extraordinary and intriguing book series” Reference Reviews
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 https://www.bloomsburyhistory.com/bloomsbury-cultural-history).
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Prostitution
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Nina Kushner, Clark University, USA & Daniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK
Transactional sex has been defined, experienced, and understood in many different ways across cultures and time, but it has always been concerned with more than pleasure. Prostitution has always been central to polarities at the heart of any culture.
A Cultural History of Prostitution presents the first comprehensive history of the subject. Themes (and chapter titles) are: the state; identity; the market; religion, and morality; medicine, health, and the body; the visual and performing arts; and literature.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: March 2027 | US: March 2027 | 1,536 pages | 300 bw illus
Hardback 9781350165786 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Solitude
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Julian Stern, Lincoln Bishop University, UK
How have our social and cultural perceptions of solitude changed across different cultures over the centuries?
In a work that spans 2,500 years, 60 experts illustrate the broad trends and nuances of the social and cultural nature of solitude globally from antiquity to the present, covering a whole range of forms of ‘aloneness’. These include the experience of healthy solitude and the suffering of loneliness, splendid isolation and alienation, exile and incarceration, meditative silence and oppressive silencing. Individual people grow and learn through both connection and separation, togetherness and individuation, so too do communities.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: February 2027 | US: February 2027 | 2,112 pages
Hardback 9781350352346 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Media
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, Hong Kong & Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield, UK
How has the creation and use of media evolved within 2,500 years of human history? What roles have technology, politics and entertainment played in its development?
Contextualising our current understanding of media within an expansive survey ranging from antiquity to the present day, 60 experts draw on perspectives from media and film studies, literary studies and classics, as well as history, to form a complete picture. Themes (and chapter titles) are: production; transmission; entertainment; consumers; control; identities; news and networks; and distance.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: December 2026 | US: December 2026 | 1,730 pages | 300 bw illus
Hardback 9781474282574 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Sleep and Dreaming
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Rafal Matuszewski, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Brigitte Steger, University of Cambridge, UK
Why do we sleep and dream? What happens during sleep? And how have attitudes to sleep and dreaming changed over time and across the continents? In a work that spans almost 3,000 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 56 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history.
This six-volume set treats sleep and dreaming as forces that actively shaped history, governance, medicine, religion, and everyday life, not just as biological functions. Rather than asking how people slept, A Cultural History of Sleep and Dreaming shows how the unavoidable need for sleep quietly structured societies, from household routines to systems of power, and how dreams were interpreted as medical symptoms, divine messages, or tools for decision-making across time and cultures. Themes (and chapter titles) are: sleep patterns and regulations; sleeping arrangements; health and the body; insomnia; dream theories, their meaning and interpretation; verbal representations; visual representations; and the impact of sleep and dreams.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: December 2026 | US: December 2026 | 2,016 pages
Hardback 9781350310001 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of the Environment
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Stephen Mosley, Lancaster University, UK & Greg Bankoff, University of Hull, UK
Spanning 5,500 years, this set of six periodized volumes explores the complexities of human-environment relationships since the emergence of the first civilizations.
A Cultural History of the Environment demonstrates that environmental problems like deforestation, soil degradation, population collapse and epidemic disease are not modern phenomena, but the long-term results of human actions stretching back millennia. It explains how and why human–environment relationships became unsustainable over time, and traces the long history of attempts to mitigate or respond to environmental damage, including disaster relief, flood control, and resource management.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: earth; skies, climate and the atmosphere; work, energy and power; water; forests; animals; cities and settlements; war; and disasters and resilience.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026 | 1,808 pages | 319 bw illus
Hardback 9781472575937 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Craft
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Clive Edwards†, Loughborough University, UK
These six volumes, spanning over 2,800 years from antiquity to the present, present a comprehensive survey of the complex cultural history of craft, both its objects and its makers.
Themes (and chapter titles) within each volume are: concepts and perceptions of craft; society and politics; trade and exchange; fibres, textiles and dress; building and construction; ceramics and glass; woodworking and furniture; metal and jewelry; painting, graphics, printing and paper; and representations of crafts.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: May 2026 | US: May 2026 | 1,916 pages | 300 bw illus
Hardback 9781350165342 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Beauty
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Paul R. Deslandes, University of Vermont, USA
How have shifting ideas about beauty related to the construction of social class, race, gender and other markers of difference? How have individuals sought to "improve" their bodies in order to enhance their status and attractiveness?
In a work that spans 2,500 years, these questions are addressed by 55 experts. Aided by a wide range of case material, they illustrate the practices and cultures of male and female beauty from antiquity to the present day.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: ideas of beauty; art and beauty; beauty, ugliness and ideas of difference; nakedness and beauty; grooming and hygiene; making the body beautiful; material culture, clothing and consumer practices; and desire, sexuality and beauty.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: February 2026 | US: April 2026 | 1,680 pages | 120 colour and 223 bw illus
Hardback 9781350071889 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Poverty
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Steven M. Beaudoin, Centre College, USA & Richard D. Axtell, Centre College of Kentucky, USA
What have been the causes and consequences of poverty in society through the ages? How has poverty been portrayed and understood? And how has this understanding differed according to time and place?
A Cultural History of Poverty presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2,500 years, examining why poverty has come about and who it has affected, how it has been understood and represented and what its consequences have been across different cultures and societies. It looks at poverty globally and crucially analyses this complex subject in its vital religious, social, economic and political contexts. Themes (and chapter titles) are: defining poverty; poverty, charity, and spirituality; representations of need and want; poverty, race, and ethnicity; poverty and gender; community and exclusion; poverty and economic thought; and poverty and the body politic.
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026 | 1,728 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350110663 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Gender
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia
This six-volume set traces the cultural history of gender from early civilization to the present day.
Structured around nine key themes, 54 experts contribute an overview of each topic within a specific period. Using case material and images they illustrate how gender has been created, understood and experienced in different cultures around the world over time.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: philosophy and science; the medical body; politics, law and military conflict; environment; economics and labour forms; visual arts and architecture; literature and the dramatic arts; belief and religion; and the individual, family and community.
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026 | 1,600 pages | 300 bw illus
Hardback 9781350336933 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Higher Learning
Volumes 1-6
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, 67 experts chart the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.
Each of the six illustrated volumes adopts the same thematic structure, covering: cultures; geographies; authorities; teaching; disciplines; communities; materialities; contestations and epitome.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
UK: October 2025 | US: October 2025 | 1,824 pages | 150 bw illus
Hardback 9781350232204 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
Read more from the editors in the Bloomsbury Academic blog article: Higher learning in the cross-hairs: is there hope in history?
https://www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/ featured/higher-learning-in-the-cross-hairs-is-there-hope-in-history/
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Translation
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Lieven D’hulst, KU Leuven, Belgium
Tracing the cultural history of translation through the ages, these six volumes explore how this major cultural practice has contributed to the shaping and transformation of human societies.
In a work that spans six periods, eight key themes within the history of translation are considered by 143 experts and can be followed through the ages, allowing readers to either dive deeply into one particular period, or trace a specific theme across history through each of the volumes.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: translators; global views; geographies; knowledges; literature; other cultural practices; sciences; and media and intermediality.
UK: October 2025 | US: October 2025 | 1,728 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350171800 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Violence
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, Australia
Tracing the cultural history of violence through the ages, these six volumes explore how it has been understood, created, carried out and controlled from the ancient world to the modern day.
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.
UK: October 2025 | US: October 2025 | 1,630 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350140462 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Magic
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark & Stephen A. Mitchell, Harvard University, USA
What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has magic been understood and represented? And how has this understanding differed according to time and place?
In a work that spans 2,800 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 57 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate broad trends and nuances of the culture of magic across the world from antiquity to the present, albeit with an emphasis on Western traditions.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: defining magic; magic, religion, and belief; practices and practitioners; authorities and control; geographies of magic; magic and material culture; magic and gender; and imagining magic.
UK: September 2025 | US: September 2025 | 1,728 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350124073 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Fame
Volumes 1-6
Edited by P. David Marshall, Deakin University, Australia, and University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
From antiquity to today, human culture has always been obsessed with fame, infamy, and celebrity.
Fame is essential to history itself, distilling what a culture remembers of the past, celebrates as significant in the present, and bequeaths as cultural memory to the future.
From emperors to film stars, from literary works to religious relics, and from natural catastrophes to scientific breakthroughs, fame is defined by cultural visibility and is created, communicated, and consumed through media and representation. A Cultural History of Fame examines the concept of fame and its manifestations - in ideas, places, artefacts, and people - across the last 3,000 years.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: the communication of fame; the arts, philosophy and attention; politics, leadership and power; religion, spirituality, and immortality; the visibility of events, places and things; infamy and scandal; innovation, science and its public expression; the construction and presentation of heroes.
UK: February 2025 | US: February 2025 | 1,536 pages | 275 bw illus
Hardback 9781350072596 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of War
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University, USA & Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA
What role has war played in the historical and contemporary formation of societies across the globe? How have different classes and communities been impacted, and how have different civilisations over the last 2,500 years commemorated and remembered war?
54 experts answer these ambitious questions in the first authoritative survey of the subject from antiquity to the present day.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: class, race and gender; immigration and integration; religion; environment; culture of war: high and popular; civil war and ethnic cleansing; confidence game: intelligence, deception, and subterfuge; ritual, commemoration, and memory.
UK: February 2025 | US: May 2025 | 1,652 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350052567 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Hinduism
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA
How has Hinduism been shaped over time? What are continuities and changes in its cultural history of textual, social, ritual, visual, political, philosophical, and theological perspectives and practices?
Spanning over 4,000 years, A Cultural History of Hinduism provides an authoritative survey of one of the world's oldest religious traditions in its social and cultural contexts, from ancient times to the present. With 55 experts from academic disciplines such as history, religion studies, art history, anthropology, and philosophy, the work represents inclusive narratives and aims to generate new cultural history questions.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: sources of authority; defining body and mind; social organization and everyday norms; identity, difference, and dialogue; politics and power; visual culture; lineages and emerging exemplars and movements; and Hinduism in global context.
UK: May 2024 | US: May 2024 | 1632 pages | 67 colour & 242 bw illus
Hardback 9781350024434 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Exploration
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Lauren Beck, Mount Allison University, Canada
What has driven humanity to expand across the globe? How was it achieved? And what has it meant to be on the receiving end - not the explorer, but the explored?
In a work that spans more than 5,000 years, these questions are addressed by 40 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: technologies of exploration; motivations and methodologies for exploration; ideal and idealized explorer typologies; the explored and their explorations; verbalizing exploration; visualizing exploration; and authority, finance, and exploration.
UK: September 2024 | US: September 2024 | 1,500 pages | 222 bw illus
Hardback 9781350101074 £450 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Love
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Katie Barclay, Macquarie University, Australia
What role has love played in social, political and cultural life over the centuries? How have normative values and beliefs about love affected different social groups in different cultures?
In a work spanning 2,500 years, 55 experts examine the meaning of love: what it feels like, how it should be expressed on the body and in language, its representation in art and literature, its explanation by theology and by science, and who should experience it (and towards whom).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: romantic love; love in families; friendship; love in communities; love and the divine; love in politics; physiologies of love; and love in art and material culture.
UK: December 2024 | December 2024 | 1,560 pages | 225 bw illus
Hardback 9781350119833 £440.00 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
Read more from the editor in the Bloomsbury Academic blog article Did our ancestors love more deeply?
https://www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/ featured/did-our-ancestors-love-more-deeply
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A Cultural History of Chemistry
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK & Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, USA
“Remarkable ... Learning about the history of chemistry through this outstanding set will also provide an interesting starting point for obtaining information regarding the origins of the associated disciplines.” CHOICE
This is the first detailed and authoritative survey of chemistry and its central role in society over the last 5,000 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; and art and representation.
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 1,728 pages
Paperback 9781350552296 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781474294928 £475 / $650
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity
Edited by Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Italy
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 312 pages
Paperback 9781350552036 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294539 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
Available open access on Bloomsbury Collections https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/ encyclopedia?docid=b-9781474203746
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 280 pages
Paperback 9781350552081 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294591 £80 / $110
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Peter J. Ramberg, Truman State University, USA
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 288 pages
Paperback 9781350552173 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294805 £80 / $110
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages
Edited by Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, UK & Sébastien Moreau, University of Louvain, Belgium
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 240 pages
Paperback 9781350552043 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294546 £80 / $110
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Durham University, UK & Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 256 pages
Paperback 9781350552142 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294652 £80 / $110
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age
Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 288 pages
Paperback 9781350552197 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474294812 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Education
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Gary McCulloch, University College London, UK
A Cultural History of Education is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the present day.
With six illustrated volumes covering 2,800 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; and life histories.
UK: June 2025 | US: July 2025 | 1,568 pages
Paperback 9781350537057 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350035560 £475 / $650
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity
Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 248 pages
Paperback 9781350536944 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035010 £80 / $110
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
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 264 pages
Paperback 9781350536999 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035096 £80 / $110
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
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 264 pages
Paperback 9781350537026 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035201 £80 / $110
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
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 272 pages
Paperback 9781350537002 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035034 £80 / $110
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A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Daniel Troehler, University of Vienna, Austria
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 264 pages
Paperback 9781350537040 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035157 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age
Edited by Judith Harford, University College Dublin, Ireland & Tom O’Donoghue, University of Western Australia, Australia
UK: June 2025 | US: June 2025 | 256 pages
Paperback 9781350537019 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350035508 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET | NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
“Duggan is a central figure in contemporary fairy tale scholarship and enlisted experts worldwide to provide a comprehensive treatise that belongs in every academic library concerned with a form of literature that has had broad appeal for centuries and continues to do so.” CHOICE
How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about our hopes and fears?
These ambitious questions are addressed by over 50 experts in a work that spans 2,500 years and six volumes.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: forms of the marvelous; adaptation; gender and sexuality; humans and nonhumans; monsters and the monstrous; spaces; socialization; and power.
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026 | 1,536 pages | 300 bw illus
Paperback 9781350594098 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350095731 £475 / $650
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity
Edited by Debbie Felton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
256 pages | 20 bw illus
Paperback 9781350593862 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350093799 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous
Edited by Suzanne Magnanini, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
272 pages
Paperback 9781350594128 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350094659 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Naomi Wood, Kansas State University, USA
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
248 pages | 21 bw illus
Paperback 9781350594142 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350095366 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages
Edited by Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming, USA
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
248 pages
Paperback 9781350593879 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350094482 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
256 pages | 27 bw illus
Paperback 9781350594135 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350095229 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age
Edited by Andrew Teverson, Kingston University, UK
UK: November 2025 | US: January 2026
256 pages | 28 bw illus
Paperback 9781350594159 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350095717 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET | NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
A Cultural History of Furniture
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK
Furniture is an artifact, so what can it tell us about culture? Through 60 chapters written by 70 experts in six volumes, this authoritative survey explores 4,500 years of furniture, setting it in its physical, social and cultural context.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: design and motifs; makers, making, and materials; types and uses; the domestic setting; the public setting; exhibition and display; furniture and architecture; visual representations; and verbal representations. Each volume opens with a series preface, an introduction, and notes on contributors and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026 | 1,792 pages | 208 colour and 228 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595743 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781472577894 (out of print)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity
Edited by Dimitra Andrianou, National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Greece
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
296 pages | 40 colour and 41 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595484 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577764 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Sylvain Cordier, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, USA, Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK & Laura Houliston, English Heritage, UK
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
296 pages | 30 colour and 30 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595712 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577856 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry
Edited by Catherine L. Futter, Brooklyn Museum, USA & Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
336 pages | 43 colour and 41 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595729 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577870 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Edited by Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Canada & Stephanie Miller, Coastal Carolina University, USA
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
304 pages | 32 colour and 57 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595545 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577801 (out of print)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration
Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK & Elizabeth A. Carroll, San José State University, USA
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
264 pages | 31 colour and 30 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595699 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577849 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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Cultural
History of Furniture in the Modern Age
Edited by Claire I. R. O'Mahony, University of Oxford, UK
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
296 pages | 32 colour and 28 bw illus
Paperback 9781350595736 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781472577887 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Ideas
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Peter T. Struck, University of Pennsylvania, USA
“These six new volumes, stylishly presented and curated, often elegantly written, have been edited together as A Cultural History of Ideas … It makes for an interesting intellectual engagement, and a useful resource for those looking to track, say, different accounts of “nature” from Plato to the planetary scales of the Anthropocene.” The Times Literary Supplement
How has the nature of ideas evolved over time? How have ideas been shaped, employed and received in different social and cultural contexts?
This six-volume set presents historians, as well as students and scholars of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of ideas from ancient times to the present day.
It examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives including philosophy, religion, politics and art. Themes (and chapter titles) are: knowledge; the human self; ethics and social relations; politics and economies; nature; religion and the divine; language, poetry and rhetoric; the arts; and history.
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 1,568 pages | 240 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591745 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350007550 £475 / $650
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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, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
256 pages | 42 bw illus
Paperback
9781350591271 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007376 £75.00 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance
Edited by Jill Kraye, University of London, UK
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
272 pages | 40 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591431 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007413 £75.00 / $110
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
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
256 pages | 42 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591455 £25.99 | $39.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007482 £75.00 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age
Edited by Dallas G. Denery, Bowdoin College, USA
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
248 pages | 45 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591288 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007406 £75.00 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University, USA
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
280 pages | 50 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591448 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007475 £75.00 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age
Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, USA
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026
256 pages | 45 bw illus
Paperback 9781350591462 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350007499 £75.00 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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6-VOLUME SET | NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
A Cultural History of Plants
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Annette Gisecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK
“A most impressive collection of plants-and-people interactions from the beginnings of agriculture to the present day. I’d encourage anybody interested in the connections and interconnections between plants and people to give it a go.” Botany One
Covering the last 12,000 years, this global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture offers 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 wellbeing, 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; and the representation of plants.
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 1,576 pages
Paperback 9781350550643 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781474273596 (out of print)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity
Edited by Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 288 pages
Paperback 9781350550537 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273404 £80 / $110
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
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 264 pages
Paperback 9781350550605 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273435 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 256 pages
Paperback 9781350550629 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273510 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era
Edited by Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington D.C., USA
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 248 pages
Paperback 9781350550599 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273428 £80 / $110
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
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 256 pages
Paperback 9781350550612 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273497 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era
Edited by Stephen Forbes, Independent Scholar
UK: May 2025 | US: May 2025 | 264 pages
Paperback 9781350550636 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781474273534 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Race
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, UK
“In a contemporary moment afflicted by concocted culture wars that are also proxy race wars, this important collection of essays does what is urgently needed - by explicating the concept of race in a historical frame. Between them, these volumes show how concepts of ‘race’ and ‘an impressive racial edifice’ emerged in the West over several centuries, and became such a powerful political, scientific and cultural force. An important contribution to the historical literacy that is needed if we are to challenge race and racism effectively.”
Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history?
These ambitious questions are answered in this work by over 60 experts who deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: definitions of race; race, environment and culture; race and religion; race and science; race and politics; race and ethnicity; race and gender; race and body; and anti-race.
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 1,456 pages | 300 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519695 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350067578 £475 / $650
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity
Edited by Denise McCoskey, Miami University (Ohio), USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
248 pages | 45 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519534 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067424 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State
Edited by Marina Mogilner, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
232 pages | 44 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519633 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067530 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment
Edited by Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia, Canada
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
240 pages | 42 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519602 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067516 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in the Middle Ages
Edited by Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
256 pages | 44 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519541 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067431 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age
Edited by Kimberly Anne Coles, University of Maryland, USA & Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
248 pages | 41 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519626 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067455 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age
Edited by Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
232 pages | 46 bw illus
Paperback 9781350519688 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350067554 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Shopping
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
How has the activity of shopping changed over the centuries? And what does it tell us about the lives and interests of people living within different cultures? A Cultural History of Shopping presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present.
Covering a span of 2,500 years it traces how the activity of shopping has changed over the centuries and what it tells us about the lives and interests of people living within different cultures.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: practices and processes; spaces and places; shoppers and identities; luxury and everyday; home and family; visual and literary representations; reputation, trust and credit; and governance, regulation and the state.
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026 | 1,560 pages | 235 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650428 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350027060 £475 / $650
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A
Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity
Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK & Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
248 pages | 57 bw illus
Paperback 9781350649996 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350026964 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Tim Reinke-Williams, University of Northampton, UK
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
280 pages | 29 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650138 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350026988 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution and Empire
Edited by Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
272 pages | 41 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650251 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350027008 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Middle Ages
Edited by James Davis, Queen's University Belfast, UK
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
256 pages | 43 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650107 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350026971 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Belgium
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
256 pages | 38 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650190 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350026995 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age
Edited by Vicki Howard, University of Essex, UK
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026
248 pages | 25 bw illus
Paperback 9781350650268 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350027053 £80 / $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Death
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Douglas Davies, Durham University, UK
"These six volumes represent a solid introduction to death and dying across a range of subjects and will provide a useful reference point for students for many years to come."
Contemporary European History
Tracing 2,500 years of history, this authoritative survey examines how different cultures and societies worldwide have felt about, experienced, responded to and marked the occasion of death.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: dead and dying bodies; the sensory aesthetics of death; emotions, mortality and vitality; death’s ritual-symbolic performance; sites, power and politics of death; gender, age and identity; explaining death; and the undead and eternal.
UK: January 2024 | US: January 2024 | 1,352 pages | 300 bw illus
Hardback 9781472536266 £450 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity
Edited by Mario Erasmo, University of Georgia, USA
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
224 pages | 45 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537522 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in the Renaissance
Edited by Gordon D. Raeburn, University of Melbourne, Australia & Nathaniel A. Warne, Durham University, UK
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
192 pages | 39 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537560 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in the Age of Empire
Edited by Helen MacDonald, University of Melbourne, Australia
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
224 pages | 40 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537546 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in the Middle Ages
Edited by Ashby Kinch, University of Montana, USA
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
216 pages | 51 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537515 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Jeffrey Freedman, Yeshiva University, USA
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
272 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537539 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Death in the Modern Age
Edited by Douglas Davies, Durham University, UK
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
224 pages | 39 bw illus
Hardback 9781472537553 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Insects
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, USA
Human-insect interaction has always been part of our life on earth, yet insects remain the form of life most alien to us.
A Cultural History of Insects reveals how our relationship with insects - in life and in death – is one of our most productive and intimate.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: insect knowledge; insects and disease; insects and food; insect products; insects in mythology and religion; insects as symbols; insects in literature and language; and insects in art.
UK: January 2024 | US: January 2024 | 1,528 pages | 279 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003217 £450 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity
Edited by Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University, United States
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
248 pages | 46 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003057 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age
Edited by Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University, United States
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
248 pages | 56 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003064 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance
Edited by Sherilyn G.F. Smith, Le Moyne College, USA
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
272 pages | 36 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003071 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Industry
Edited by Carol M. Anelli & Susan W. Fisher, Ohio State University, USA
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
288 pages | 55 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003149 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Matthew S. Lehnert, Kent State University at Stark, USA
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
240 pages | 38 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003088 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age
Edited by Robert K. D. Peterson, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
232 pages | 48 bw illus
Hardback 9781350003156 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Leisure
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Peter Borsay†, Aberystwyth University, UK & Jan Hein Furnée, Radboud University, The Netherlands
A Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of leisure from ancient times to modernity.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: ideas of leisure; the performing arts and their audiences; the cerebral arts and their publics; sports and games; holydays, holidays and tourism; the world conviviality; the world of goods; the world of nature; and representations of leisure.
UK: February 2024 | US: February 2024 | 1,632 pages | 240 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057470 £450 | $610
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A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity
Edited by Jerry Toner, University of Cambridge, UK
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
256 pages | 49 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057227 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Renaissance
Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli, University of Verona, Italy
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
256 pages | 44 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057265 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Empire
Edited by Jan Hein Furnée, Radboud University, The Netherlands
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
296 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057388 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Medieval Age
Edited by Paul Milliman, University of Arizona, USA
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
264 pages | 40 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057241 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Peter Borsay†, Aberystwyth University, UK & Jan Hein Furnée, Radboud University, The Netherlands
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
280 pages | 46 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057326 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age
Edited by Brett Bebber, Old Dominion University, USA
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026
280 pages | 48 bw illus
Hardback 9781350057456 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Mathematics
Volumes 1-6
Edited by David E. Rowe, Mainz University, Germany & Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York, USA
Numeracy has shaped human history as much as literacy: mathematics has enabled us to measure the cosmos, control the Earth, and create all technological change.
A Cultural History of Mathematics presents the first comprehensive and global history from antiquity to today.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: everyday numeracy; practice and profession; inventing mathematics; mathematics and worldviews; describing and understanding the world; mathematics and technological change; and representing mathematics.
UK: February 2024 | US: February 2024 | 1,720 pages | 325 bw illus
Hardback 9781350063129 £450 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity
Edited by Michael Fried, Ben Gurion University, Israel
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
280 pages | 59 bw illus
Hardback 9781350062931 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Jeanne Peiffer, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) & Volker R. Remmert, University of Wuppertal, Germany
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
272 pages | 52 bw illus
Hardback 9781350062955 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Tom Archibald, Simon Fraser University, Canada & David E. Rowe, Mainz University, Germany
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
296 pages | 54 bw illus
Hardback 9781350063068 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age
Edited by Joseph W. Dauben & Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand & Kim Plofker, Union College, USA
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
288 pages | 63 bw illus
Hardback 9781350062948 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Maarten Bullynck, Université Paris 8, France
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
296 pages | 49 bw illus
Hardback 9781350063051 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age
Edited by Tom Archibald, Simon Fraser University, Canada & David E. Rowe, Mainz University, Germany
UK: February 2026 | US: February 2026
288 pages | 48 bw illus
Hardback 9781350063075 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A
Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona, USA
Bringing together an international cast of over 60 contributors, this is the first authoritative survey of the cultural history of slavery and human trafficking, with coverage extending from prehistory to the modern day.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: definitions and ideologies of slavery and trafficking; slavery, trafficking, and the law; political cultures; coercive laboring economies; social organization, culture, and ritual; gender, enslavement, and trafficking; age, enslavement, and trafficking; and anti-slavery, anti-trafficking, and abolition outcomes.
UK: November 2024 | US: November 2024 | 1,376 pages | 264 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053939 £440 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World
Edited by Grant Parker & David Cohen, Stanford University, USA
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
216 pages | 44 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053571 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Encounters
Edited by R.A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona, USA
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
248 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053779 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Global Conflict
Edited by Henrice Altink, University of York, UK
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
232 pages | 43 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053892 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Pre-Modern Era
Edited by Thomas J. MacMaster, Morehouse College, USA & Angela Zhang, Harvard University, USA
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
216 pages | 44 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053755 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire
Edited by Mariana P. Candido, Emory University, USA
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
224 pages | 36 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053793 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Globalization
Edited by Matilde Ventrella, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026
240 pages | 47 bw illus
Hardback 9781350053915 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
6-VOLUME SET
A Cultural History of Western Music
Volumes 1-6
Edited by Alexander Rehding, Harvard University, USA &, David Irving, Milà i Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities, Spain
“These impressive six volumes bring brilliantly into focus the preferred perspectives of the early twentyfirst century as applied to the cultural history of music – perspectives alert to racism, gender, colonial guilt, slavery, the marginalization of certain types and ‘classes’ of music, unconscious hierarchies and biases, and cross-cultural exchanges and appropriations … This is a history for a generation that has finally emerged from under the long shadow of Romanticism, that is not afraid to interrogate in depth the West’s self-serving grand narratives of its own past, and one that lives in a world where the ocean of knowledge is no longer construed as a fixed.” Music and Letters
Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today.
A Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms – ritual, classical, popular and commercial.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: identity, communities and society; changing philosophies and ideas about music; politics and power; musical exchange and knowledge transfer between the West and the non-West; musical education; popular culture and musical entertainment; the places, practices, and experiences of performance; and the development of music technologies and media.
UK: November 2023 | US: November 2023 | 1,680 pages
Hardback 9781350075634 £450 | $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
Edited by Sean A. Gurd, University of Missouri, USA & Pauline A. LeVen, Yale University, USA
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
256 pages | 28 bw illus
Hardback 9781350075511 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
Edited by Jeanice Brooks, University of Southampton, UK & Richard Freedman, Haverford College, USA
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
296 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350075559 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
Edited by Alexander Rehding, Harvard University, USA & Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
264 pages
Hardback 9781350075597 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
Edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford, UK & Helen Deeming, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
280 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350075535 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by David R. M. Irving, Milà i Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities, Spain & Estelle Joubert, Dalhousie University, Canada
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
288 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350075573 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Edited by William Cheng, Ohio State University, USA & Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Dartmouth College, USA
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026
296 pages | 50 bw illus
Hardback 9781350075610 £75 | $110
Series: The Cultural Histories Series | Bloomsbury Academic
2-VOLUME SET
The Making of Modern Atlantic
Monarchies
1770 to the Present Day
Edited by Carolina Armenteros, University of Cambridge, UK, Matthijs Lok, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Iason Zarikos, EKKE Centre for Social Research, Greece
This two volume study sees contributors from the UK, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Singapore and ten countries from across mainland Europe analyse how monarchy has been theorized and implemented in the Atlantic world from the birth of conservatism during the French Revolution to the present day.
Using monarchy as a lens, it also provides an original exploration of how conservatism, often branded as reactive, can be viewed as a continual response to, and reinterpretation of, pivotal social and political events over the longue durée. 33 chapters are included covering over 20 nations across the Atlantic world as well as parts of Asia.
UK: December 2025 | US: February 2026 | 584 pages
Hardback 9781350237278 £180 | $245
Bloomsbury Academic
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2-VOLUME SET
Inequality around the World
Understanding the Rich-Poor Divide from America to Zimbabwe
Edited by Deric Shannon, Oxford College, USA
This authoritative two-volume set studies key drivers and important aspects of inequality in nations and regions worldwide.
Inequality around the World presents 33 in-depth chapters on such issues as health care, environmental protection and pollution, women's rights, land policies, antisemitism, sexual orientation and gender diversity, race and racism, political representation, and access to higher education.
UK: February 2025 | US: February 2025 | 648 pages
Hardback 9781440876714 £190 | $270
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Europe's Welfare Traditions
Since 1500
Volume 1: 1500-1700
Thomas McStay Adams, Independent Scholar
This first volume of Thomas McStay Adams’ authoritative survey of the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700.
Exploring the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘tradition’, it looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity.
UK: November 2025 | US: November 2025 | 296 pages | 20 bw illus
Paperback 9781350580046 £28.99 | $39.95
Previously published as a 2-volume hardback set 9781350276284 £225 | $305
Bloomsbury Academic
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Europe's Welfare Traditions
Since 1500
Volume 2: 1700-2000
Thomas McStay Adams, Independent Scholar
In volume two, Thomas McStay Adams shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility.
UK: November 2025 | US: November 2025 | 464 pages | 20 bw illus
Paperback 9781350580053 £28.99 | $39.95
Previously published as a 2-volume hardback set 9781350276284 £225 | $305
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections
Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors Reigns, Allies, Enemies, and Legacies
James W. Ermatinger, University of Illinois Springfield, USA
This encyclopedia provides biographical information, further readings, and select primary documents on the Roman emperors.
The book is organized chronologically into major dynasties and intermediary periods. Within each dynasty, supporting figures - friends, families, and enemies - are arranged alphabetically for ease of the reader.
UK: August 2026 | US: August 2026 | 424 pages | 15 bw illus Hardback 9798765130131 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
2-VOLUME SET
Geography in the 21st
Century
Defining Moments that Shaped Society
Edited by Jayson J. Funke, Western Connecticut State University, USA, Waquar Ahmed, University of North Texas, Ipsita Chatterjee, University of North Texas, USA & Stephen M. McCauley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
“An excellent resource for readings in human geography, political geography, and other related courses. The further readings provided with each entry are valuable for those seeking to explore topics in greater depth. Overall, this is an excellent set for undergraduate institutions or any organization offering geography-related courses.” CHOICE
Landscapes, regions, cities, nature, society, development – our entire existence – is tied up with space and geography.
These 40 essays examine how 21st-century geographical events have transformed how people interact with the environment, from political and economic issues such as elections, market practice, and war, to cultural and social issues such as racism and gender stereotyping at work.
UK: June 2025 | US: April 2025 | 624 pages
Hardback 9781440873249 £250 | $340
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
Race and Ethnicity in America
An Encyclopedia of Culture, Society, and Politics
Edited by Russell M. Lawson, Tulsa Community College, USA & Benjamin A. Lawson, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, USA
An inclusive overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from European contact to the present.
Focusing on the American Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights Movement, this book explores the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups from the 1960s to the present.
UK: February 2027 | US: February 2027 | 416 pages | 34 bw illus
Hardback 9798765140055 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
Global Human Migration
An Encyclopedia of Causes and Consequences
Edited by Cynthia K. Pope, Central Connecticut State University, USA & Victoria Team, Monash University, Australia
Few other topics elicit such strong opinions and sensationalist headlines as international migration.
The entries in this volume provide a foundation to understand why that is so. Migration scholars examine the fundamental causes of modern migration, incorporating ideas and terms that help the reader understand types of migration that occur both within and between countries. It incorporates discussions of how these terms are reflected in different contexts throughout the world and help flesh out ideas that influence the decision, or necessity, to migrate.
UK: February 2027 | US: February 2027 | 416 pages Hardback 9798216493327 £130 | $175
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
LGBTQI+ Persecution and the Holocaust
An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance
Alexis Herr, Independent Scholar
This resource gives voice to the experiences of LGBTQI+ 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.
UK: October 2025 | US: October 2025 | 264 pages | 18 bw illus
Hardback 9798216169758 £95 | $130
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
The Afghanistan War Encyclopedia
Edited by Paul J. Springer & Ryan Wadle, Air Command and Staff College, USA
Discover the complexities of the Afghanistan War, the United States’ longest military operation and a conflict with far-reaching impacts in Afghanistan and around the globe.
More than 200 entries highlight key people, groups, battles, and concepts and provide valuable insights into the causes, course, and legacy of this lengthy conflict. Cross referencing and further readings accompany each entry, helping readers make connections and pointing them toward resources for additional study.
UK: May 2026 | US: May 2026 | 432 pages | 30 bw illus
Hardback 9781440870453 £130 | $175
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
2-VOLUME SET
Gun Politics in America
Historical and Modern Documents in Context
Second Edition
Harry L. Wilson, Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, USA
“This solidly unbiased, scholarly resource is a definite recommendation for any public, secondary-school, or college collection serving folks who seek a rational understanding of America's critical gun debate.” Booklist
Discover the history and evolution of gun rights and gun control in the USA from the colonial era to the present with this two volume collection of 129 primary sources.
Featuring important political speeches, Supreme Court opinions, agency reports, and congressional testimonials, all documents are further supplemented with explanatory headnotes and introductory materials to help readers understand the social and political context in which they appeared.
UK: May 2025 | US: February 2025 | 760 pages
Hardback 9781440881268 £190 | $270
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare
Second
Edition
Edited by Paul J. Springer, Air Command and Staff College, USA
Understand the historical context of cyber warfare and its rapid development into a potent technological weapon of the 21st century.
The second edition of this critically acclaimed encyclopedia features more than 35 new entries and primary source documents and comprehensive updating throughout. Special features include cross references following each entry, a chronology, bibliography, and guide to related topics that aid in discoverability of the content.
UK: February 2025 | US: February 2025 | 464 pages
Hardback 9781440881602 £130 | $175
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
2-VOLUME SET
The Harlem Renaissance
An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History
Edited by Venetria K. Patton, Purdue University, USA & Kwakiutl L. Dreher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Explore the artists, writers, and important historical figures that shaped this defining moment of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production in African American history.
This two-volume A–Z encyclopedia also features overview essays, a chronology of key moments, and important primary documents to help readers understand the environment that fostered this cultural renaissance.
UK: November 2027 | US: November 2027 | 944 pages
Hardback 9781440865107 £190 | $260
Bloomsbury Academic
Also available on Bloomsbury Collections and as an ebook
Youth Activism in America
An Encyclopedia of Ideals in Action
Edited by Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College, USA & Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College, USA
An accessible all-in-one resource that provides an illuminating overview of the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth.
Encyclopedic in scope, Youth Activism in America explores and explains how the beliefs, actions, and lives of key individuals, groups, and movements are shaping attitudes and dialogue about important political and social issues such as climate change, voting rights, gun policy, women's rights, education, LGBTQ+ rights, human rights, and foreign policy across the USA.
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026 | 368 pages | 25 bw illus
Hardback 9781440880810 £85 | $115
Bloomsbury Academic
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Research Databases
Bloomsbury / ABC-CLIO provides dynamic research databases that empower undergraduate research across the social sciences and humanities. Each database in the academic suite offers comprehensive coverage of its subject, from core disciplines like American history to specialized fields such as ethnic studies, global conflicts and genocide, and cultural history. Topics are explored through a full range of reference articles, a primary source library, and original perspectives from leading scholars.
Features:
• Thousands of historical primary sources – in the form of documents, photographs, le ers, speeches, archival audio and video, and more
• Academic Roundtables – original perspectives from practicing academics present different viewpoints on a key question, helping students develop and articulate their own argument
• eBooks – enable deep analysis of the subject in focus and features titles from the award-winning ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, and Praeger imprints for academic reference and research
• Research tools – advanced search, save, and citation tools are available to support and streamline the research process
• Language tools – text-to-speech functionality, as well as the ability to translate in 25 different languages, ensures text-based materials are accessible to all learners
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3-VOLUME SET
The History and Philosophy of Western Science
From Antiquity to the 19th Century
Edited by Daniel J. McKaughan & Holly VandeWall, Boston College, USA
How did we learn how to learn about the natural world?
Across a set of three volumes spanning more than 2,000 years of philosophical thinking in the West, this collection tells the story of invention and discovery. Approaching the history and philosophy of science chronologically, the volumes total more than 1,000 pages and bring together a team of over 50 experts to explore observations about the natural world. They chart the development of methods and disciplines alongside the appearance of new language, categories, mathematical models, and theories. By situating the practice of philosophy and science in their cultural and social contexts, Through this sustained reflection on the significance of historical events for scientific developments we see that centuries of advancements in the West have never simply been the work of individuals working in isolation.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £295 | $400 (full price: £325 | $440)
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026 | 1,000 pages
Hardback 9781350181694 £325 | $440
Bloomsbury Academic
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3-VOLUME SET
Portraits of Kant
Reflections from 18th and 19th-Century Europe
Edited by Steve Naragon, Manchester University, USA
“Filled with captivating images, pictures, maps, and indeed excerpts from letters, diaries, newspapers, biographies, and memoirs, the three volumes of Portraits of Kant depict the full life of the cosmopolitan philosopher from Königsberg in fascinating detail.” Robert Clewis, Professor of Philosophy, Gwynedd Mercy University, USA
Portraits of Kant is a rare collection of first-hand reflections of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Beginning with accounts of his childhood and early days as a student, this three-volume work is constructed from the observations of his family, friends, colleagues and contemporaries. This one-of-kind biographical reference resource is accompanied by an introduction, commentaries and packed with maps and illustrations. For anyone working on Kant or in the history of modern European philosophy, it brings 18th and 19th-century Germany to life and presents never before seen insights into one of the most influential individuals of all time.
UK: February 2025 | US: February 2025 | 1,200 pages | 90 bw illus
Hardback 9781350116511 £300 | $410
Bloomsbury Academic
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2-VOLUME SET
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.
Featuring portraits from more than 80 figures, this unique collection brings together the personal recollections of philosophers, students, friends and acquaintances. The set contains personal writings from G. E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey, 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 actually perceived.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £350 | $475 (full price: £389 | $532)
UK: April 2027 | US: April 2027 | 1,000 pages
Hardback 9781350085497 £389 | $532
Bloomsbury Academic
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Cutting-edge perspectives on perennial questions
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Access multiple products on one easy-to-use, crosssearchable interface
Theology & Religion Online is the digital home to an ever-growing range of resources designed for students and scholars of religion and related fields, from which libraries can create a bespoke product package to best serve their users.
Regular updates including specially-commissioned new articles ensure the resource reflects the latest research and new ideas
Exclusive Research and Teaching Resources including lesson plans, audio lectures from leading scholars, and subject guides, designed to support both educators and students
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BIBLICAL STUDIES
2-VOLUME SET AND ONLINE
The Bible and Violence
Edited by Chris Greenough, Edge Hill University, Johnathan Jodamus, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe, University of Botswana & Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK
A definitive, inclusive, and comprehensive two-volume reference work on the challenging and troubling theme of biblical violence.
In 100 specially commissioned contributions, the resource - the first to cover this topic - outlines the range, depth and varieties of violence in biblical texts, and the violent ramifications of uses and receptions of the bible in history and culture.
Volume One covers specific textual instances of violence within the bible, from the Hebrew Bible through to the New Testament, as well as issues relevant to biblical times, such as sacrificial violence, and Messianism and violence. The resource also provides articles on apocryphal and Gnostic texts.
Volume Two examines the ways biblical texts have been used to justify or perpetuate violence across historical and cultural contexts, as well as the harmful consequences that arise from particular interpretive traditions.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £500 | $680 (full price: £550 | $750)
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026 | 1,680 pages
Hardback 9780567709165 £550 | $750
T&T Clark
5-VOLUME SET AND ONLINE
The Bible and Western Christian Literature
Books and the Book
Edited by Stephen Prickett†, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK & Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University, UK
"Western literature in all periods has been influenced by the bible, yet the bible is a closed book to many readers today. They fail to pick up allusions obvious to earlier generations. This series, the brainchild of the late Stephen Prickett and inspired by his distinctive approach, shows how deep biblical influence on literature runs. It affects not only words and phrases, but the deep structures of stories and poems. This is an authoritative and massive resource for all students of Western literature, and a reliable guide to the history of the bible's reception in the West." John Barton, University of Oxford, UK
The Bible and Western Christian Literature is an authoritative 1.5 million word reference, resource covering the impact and influence of the bible upon the development of literature and bible’s role ‘as’ literature from the classical period to the modern day.
UK: August 2024 | US: August 2024 | 2,400 pages
Hardback 9780567682062 £750 | $1010
T&T Clark
Also available on Theology and Religion Online https://www.theologyandreligiononline.com/the-bible-and-western-christian-literature
3-VOLUME SET
A History of Catholic Political Philosophy
Michael J. Sweeney & Timothy Sean Quinn, Xavier University, USA
The three volumes of A History of Catholic Political Philosophy span the full compass of Catholic thought, from St. Augustine to Pope Francis I in the 21st century.
Each volume considers the various approaches taken in the great works of Catholic political philosophy to the central questions: the relation between church and state; the tension between reason and revelation; the origin of political life; the purpose and limits of political life; and whether Christians can be good citizens.
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026 | 656 pages
Hardback 9798216277538 £150 | $200
Bloomsbury Academic
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VISUAL ARTS / ARCHITECTURE
2-VOLUME
SET AND ONLINE
The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2020
Edited by Lori A. Brown, Syracuse University, USA & Karen Burns, University of Melbourne, Australia
With over 1,000 entries and 600 images across two volumes, this encyclopedia explores women’s history from 1960 to 2020.
Providing detailed coverage of key architects from over 135 countries, female designers from related fields (urbanism, landscape, and interiors), influential scholars, writers, and activists, as well as key terms, themes, books, and exhibitions.
Filling a void in architectural history, this magisterial work gives students, scholars, and professional architects an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture.
Special introductory price (valid up to 3 months after publication): £620 | $850 (full price £690 | £945)
UK: December 2026 | US: February 2027 | 976 pages | 600 bw illus
9781350059764 £690 | £945
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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3-VOLUME SET AND ONLINE
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art
Edited by Rachel Clarke, California State University, Sacramento, USA, Vince Dziekan, Monash University, Australia & Chris Meigh-Andrews, University of Central Lancashire, UK
New media art has become a global cultural phenomenon and is now the fastest growing and most challenging form of modern art.
Ranging across digital art, film and video, computer graphics and animation, video games, 3D printing, computer robotics, and virtual, internet and interactive art, new media art has revolutionised the role and impact of art in our technological times. The three-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art presents the first authoritative reference covering all aspects of new media art.
Volume 1: History and Theory
Volume 2: Artists and Practice
Volume 3: Curation and Culture
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £725 | $985 (full price: £795 | $1080)
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026 | 1,136 pages | 177 colour and 523 bw illus
Hardback 9781474280730 £795 | $1080
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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INTERDISCIPLINARY DOWN TO AN ART
Bloomsbury Visual Arts is an award-winning digital hub that brings together Bloomsbury’s leading visual arts resources. Enhance your research with this fully cross-searchable hub for all the major arts disciplines.
You can browse from over 1,600 titles, 5,000 discoverable images, and 1,200 key building pages — ideal for interdisciplinary study.
Collections are available across five key subject areas:
Applied Arts
Architecture & Interior Design
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MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES / FILM STUDIES
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 13
Genres: International. Part I, A-Ho
Edited by David Horn, Independent Scholar & John Shepherd, Carleton University, Canada
This volume, the first of two on international genres, features over 100 in-depth essays on genres and forms which have demonstrated an international character from their beginnings, as well as those with regional origins that subsequently took root elsewhere and are not covered extensively in the regional genre volumes.
Two examples of the former are film music and heavy metal: of the latter, country music. Exceptions to these norms are explained in the volume’s introduction.
UK: May 2026 | US: March 2026 | 1,600 pages
Hardback 9781501359965 £450 | $600
Series: Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World | Bloomsbury Academic
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Encyclopedia of Punk Rock and New Wave
1975–1985
David Luhrsson & Michael Larson, Independent Scholars, USA
“The notes direct readers to other essays related to a particular entry, exposing sometimes surprising connections between musicians and bands. The encyclopedia also includes unique information that might have eluded seasoned students of punk and new wave, making it an essential resource for enthusiasts and academics.”
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Explore the defining artists, music, and enduring social and cultural importance of the punk rock and new wave eras with this authoritative encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia covers notable recording acts whose debut albums were released from 1975 through 1985, including superstars (U2, Duran Duran), historically foundational acts (Sex Pistols, Ramones) and cult bands that amassed a significant legacy of recordings (Violent Femmes, X). Ranging across discography highlights and touring controversies alike, this resource covers all the reference bases for understanding the most influential and electrifying bands of this era.
UK: February 2025 | US: February 2025 | 408 pages
Hardback 9781440881480 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
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Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll 1944-1964
David Luhrsson & Michael Larson, Independent Scholars, USA
Who were the first giants of American rock and roll?
Which songs and labels and performers drove rock's emergence and explosive growth in the mid-20th century? In what ways did the rhythm and blues sound created by African-American composers, singers, and musicians between the world wars become the foundations of early rock and roll? How did radio and television boost the popularity of early rock and roll pioneers like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Wanda Jackson?
This wide-ranging encyclopedia answers these questions and many more, employing an informative blend of biographical profiles, overviews of noteworthy recordings and performances, and entries devoted to important record labels, concert venues, and milestones in related musical genres, including blues, folk, gospel, and Western swing.
UK: April 2026 | US: April 2026 | 360 pages | 23 bw illus
Hardback 9798765132296 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
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2-VOLUME SET
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 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: February 2026 | US: February 2026 | 584 pages | 78 bw illus
Hardback 9798765129012 £180 | $240
Series: Thinking Media | Bloomsbury Academic
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FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN, AND BEYOND
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform designed to support movingimage studies. It covers a broad range of content including books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press, Amsterdam University Press and Auteur (Liverpool University Press).
Inspire teaching, learning and research with collections which include:
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DRAMA O N LI N E
Explore over 4,000 plays, over 750 hours of video, 450 audio plays and over 500 books of theory, criticism, and performance practice on one award-winning digital library
Drama Online features esteemed video content from partners including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as playtexts from renowned drama publishers such as Bloomsbury’s own Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, and Oberon Books, as well as Faber and Faber, Nick Hern Books, TCG Books, and many others.
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• Interactive Transcript Player—Full transcripts for video plays, real-time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked text throughout for navigation to the relevant timestamp, ‘search transcript’ function
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2-VOLUME SET
The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre
Volumes 1 and 2, Second Edition
Edited by Colin Chambers, Kingston University, UK, Sara Freeman, University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA & James Reynolds, Kingston University, UK
“The book succeeds in making us aware of the multifarious aspects of modern theatre, political and sexual, as well as artistic” The Stage (of the previous edition)
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, now with more coverage than ever.
An A to Z of modern theatre, stretching from the late-19th century to the present day, this encyclopedia features both short entries and more in-depth articles contributed by a unique team of expert academics and celebrated practitioners. Combining factual, biographical and reflective articles and totalling around 3,000 entries, The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre gives the reader more texture of theatrical experience and insight than any other encyclopedia.
UK: November 2026 | US: November 2026 | 1,056 pages
Hardback 9781350586611 £500 | $680
Methuen Drama
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The Great Stage Directors Series
4-VOLUME SET AND ONLINE
The Great North American Stage Directors Set 1
Volumes 1-4: Establishing Directorial Terrains, pre-1970
Edited by James Peck, Muhlenberg College, USA
“Provides a valuable in-depth look into the development of a stage director’s work and how their efforts affected the development of the performative arts.” CHOICE
The Great North American Stage Directors: Set 1 offers an authoritative account of the work, lineage and legacy of the major theatre directors prior to 1970, where the role of the director is seen primarily as interpreter.
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 1,024 pages | 36 bw illus
Paperback 9781350525955 £85 | $115
Previously published in hardback 9781350045699 £395 | $540
Series: Great Stage Directors | Methuen Drama
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Great North American Stage Directors
Volume 1
David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster
Edited by Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 280 pages | 13 bw illus
Paperback 9781350525917 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045132 £90 | $120
Series: Great Stage Directors | Methuen Drama
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Great North American Stage Directors
Volume 3
Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lloyd Richards
Edited by Harvey Young, Boston University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 232 pages | 13 bw illus
Paperback 9781350525931 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045170 £90 | $120
Series: Great Stage Directors | Methuen Drama
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 2
Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, Margo Jones
Edited by Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 272 pages | 8 bw illus
Paperback 9781350525924 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045156 £90 | $120
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4
George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Prince
Edited by Henry Bial, University of Kansas, USA & Chase Bringardner, Auburn University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 240 pages | 2 bw illus
Paperback 9781350525948 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045231 £90 | $120
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The Great North American Stage Directors Set 2
Volumes 5-8: Directors and the Theatrical Avant-garde, post-1970
Edited by James Peck, Muhlenberg College, USA
The Great North American Stage Directors: Set 2 offers an authoritative account of the work, lineage, and legacy of the most important North American stage directors since 1970, where the role of the director is seen primarily as an auteur
UK: November 2021 | US: November 2021 | 1,000 pages | 66 bw illus
Paperback 9781350526143 £85 | $115
Previously published in hardback 9781350046023 £375 | $510
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 5
Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Anne Bogart
Edited by Joan Herrington, Western Michigan University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
272 pages | 16 bw illus
Paperback 9781350526105 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045330 £90 | $120
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 7
Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, Robert Lepage
Edited by Claudia Orenstein, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA & James Peck, Muhlenberg College, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
232 pages | 24 bw illus
Paperback 9781350526129 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045514 £90 | $120
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 6
Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson
Edited by Ann Shanahan, Purdue University, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
272 pages | 16 bw illus
Paperback 9781350526112 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045408 £90 | $120
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 8
Jesusa Rodriguez, Peter Sellars, Reza Abdoh
Edited by James Peck, Muhlenberg College, USA
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025
224 pages | 10 bw illus
Paperback 9781350526136 £21.99 | $29.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350045590 £90 | $120
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SHAKESPEARE
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
Series Editor: Jonathan Culpeper
The growing Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language series (available in print and now on Drama Online) brings scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st century. Comprising five volumes, it offers the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics. The series affords fresh insights into Shakespeare’s use of language at multiple levels - words, phrases, semantic themes, character profiles, and more. In particular, it reveals what Shakespeare’s language meant to the Elizabethans through the analysis of millions of words written by his contemporaries.
Also available on Drama Online www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/arden-shakespeare-play-collection-text-and-language
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Semantic Fields and Social Status
Dawn Archer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Alison Findlay & Sean Murphy, Lancaster University, UK
The fifth volume in this growing encyclopedia focuses on patterns of words in play genres (tragedy, history, comedy); socially defined character groups (e.g. male/female; noble/professional/servant; English/Welsh/Irish); and themes that are statistically characteristic of Shakespeare as a whole.
UK: March 2027 | US: March 2027 | 432 pages | 346 bw illus
Hardback 9781350261983 £225 | $305
Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language | The Arden Shakespeare
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Character Networks
Jakob Ladegaard & Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Aarhus University, Denmark
Volume four in The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language reveals the character networks and how words create social worlds. For each play, it shows that what matters in Shakespeare’s plays is not only the words characters speak, but also the company they keep.
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 284 pages | 38 colour and 206 bw illus
Hardback 9781350260276 £130 | $175
Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language | The Arden Shakespeare
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters
Dawn Archer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Alison Findlay & Sean Murphy, Lancaster University, UK
The third volume in The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language focuses on keywords in Shakespeare's plays. Play keywords are derived by conducting a statistical comparison between the words in one play with those in all the others. For characters, the comparison is made between the vocabulary of one character and that of all the others in the same play. These keywords are used to create 'linguistic profiles' of each play and main character, which show how patterns of words contribute to themes and the characterization of protagonists.
UK: January 2025 | US: January 2025 | 728 pages | 344 bw illus
Hardback
9781350261938 £225 | $305
Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language | The Arden Shakespeare
2-VOLUME SET
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Dictionary A-Z
Jonathan Culpeper & Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University, UK & Jane Demmen, Independent Scholar
Taking a dictionary format, Volume one in The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language covers A-M, Volume two N-Z. Each focuses on the use and meanings of Shakespeare's most-commonly used words, both in the context of what he wrote and in the context in which he wrote. Internal comparisons reveal how Shakespeare's language varies dynamically across his works, while external comparisons - including a 380-million-word corpus of wider English genres - show the stylistic flavour of words.
UK: August 2023 | US: August 2023 | 896 pages
Hardback 9781350017955 £500 | $725
Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language | The Arden Shakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language
Explore The Arden Shakespeare Third Series of 42 plays alongside the landmark fivevolume The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language in this comprehensive digital guide to Shakespeare’s dramatic works. Seamlessly look up meanings of words in the Encyclopedia whilst reading a world-leading Arden Shakespeare edition of a play, using the new ‘look up’ tool on the playtext page. Navigate between the play texts and accessible, evidence-based accounts of Shakespeare’s words for a richer understanding of the plays and the period in which they were first wri en and performed.
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LITERARY STUDIES / LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement
Second Edition
Cynthia Davis, San Jacinto College, USA & Verner D. Mitchell, University of Memphis, USA
An essential reference for students and scholars of 20th-century American Literature and African American Cultural Studies, this volume compiles current scholarship on the Black Arts Movement.
Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement includes essays on well-known artists and activists like Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, as well as lesser-known groups and individuals.
UK: June 2026 | US: June 2026 | 626 pages | 30 illus
Hardback 9798216391616 £130 | $175
Bloomsbury Academic
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Angels, Demons, and Demigods
An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen
David A. Salomon & Kelly A. O'ConnorSalomon, Christopher Newport University, USA
This authoritative resource surveys how angels, demons, and demigods – powerful archetypes rooted in religious faith and ancient mythology –have been presented in film, television, literature, and music.
Each entry provides essential information about the work in question (plot, primary characters, and critical reputation) as well as perspectives on how these non-human characters have been used by their creators to comment on a wide array of issues related to human nature, religious belief, and the triumphs and tribulations of human existence.
UK: January 2026 | US: January 2026 | 376 pages | 23 bw illus
Hardback 9781440874413 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
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Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
The Past, Present, and Future of AI
Second Edition
Edited by Philip L. Frana & Michael J. Klein, James Madison University, USA
This revised and expanded second edition guides users through the many complex issues and controversies surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its growing impact on business, technology, medicine, and everyday activities in America and around the world.
This resource explains theories and innovations driving AI research and debate; presents criticisms and defenses of the development, regulation, and real-world implications of AI technology in its many forms; and gives readers the information they need to make informed evaluations of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence and related technologies.
UK: December 2026 | US: December 2026 | 320 pages | 1 bw illus
Hardback 9798765140109 £95 | $130
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American Indian Literature
An Encyclopedia for Students
Edited by Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe, University of Oklahoma, USA
“Native American literature has a rich and complicated history, illuminated in this readable encyclopedia ... useful not only to Native American Studies departments but to the general public as well.” Booklist
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: August 2025 | US: August 2025 | 448 pages
Hardback 9781440874956 £75 | $100
Bloomsbury Academic
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Encyclopedia of Archival Science
Second Edition
Edited by Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia, Canada & Patricia C. Franks, San Jose State University, USA
The first-ever comprehensive guide to archival concepts, principles, and practices, now updated and expanded.
Encyclopedia of Archival Science features 168 entries, which address every aspect of archival professional knowledge. These entries range from traditional concepts (e.g. record, principle of provenance) to today’s challenges (e.g. digital preservation and Artificial Intelligence). They present the thoughts of leading luminaries like Hilary Jenkinson, Margaret Cross-Norton and Giorgio Cencetti as well as those of contemporary authors and rising scholars. Historical and ethical components of practice are infused throughout the work.
UK: December 2026 | US: December 2026 | 400 pages | 16 bw illus
Hardback 9798216196105 £110 | $140
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Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics
Research Issues and Methods
Edited by Alessandro G. Benati, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
A state-of-the-art overview of the key research concerns and methodologies within the field of applied linguistics.
In five volumes focusing on multilingualism, language policy and management, second language acquisition, language teaching and pedagogy, and language assessment, each chapter considers a key research topic, providing an overview of how the area has developed and detailing the most important research methodologies.
Written by leading international experts across the specialisms, this reference set presents a clear picture of the contemporary research landscape in applied linguistics and casts a vision for future research priorities.
UK: December 2025 | US: December 2025 | 1,752 pages | 131 bw illus
Hardback 9781350213586 £660 | $890
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Bloomsbury Semiotics
Volumes 1-4
Edited by Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this set emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields.
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 1,392 pages
9781350641884 £130 | $175
Previously published in hardback 9781350139442 £575 | $780
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 1
History and Semiosis
Edited by Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 368 pages
Paperback 9781350641846 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350139282 £150 | $200
Bloomsbury Academic
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3
Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Edited by Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, Susan Petrilli, Middlesex University, London, UK & Sophia Melanson Ricciardone, York University, Canada
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 312 pages
Paperback 9781350641860 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350139367 £150 | $200
Bloomsbury Academic
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 2
Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Edited by Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Stéphanie Walsh Matthews, Middlesex University, London, UK
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 368 pages
Paperback 9781350641853 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350139329 £150 | $200
Bloomsbury Academic
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 4
Semiotic Movements
Edited by Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, London, UK
UK: September 2026 | US: September 2026 | 344 pages
Paperback 9781350641877 £25.99 | $35.95
Previously published in hardback 9781350139404 £150 | $200
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PSYCHOLOGY / HEALTH & WELLBEING / FOOD
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Biases
The
Psychology behind Distorted Perceptions and Irrational Behavior
Helen Colby, Indiana University, USA & Tish Davidson, Medical Writer
Most people pride themselves on being logical, rational individuals, but we all fall prey to cognitive biases - errors in reasoning, perception, memory, and decision-making.
This book examines 150 of these psychological phenomena, allowing readers to better understand themselves and the people around them. In addition to providing a clear explanation of the psychological principles behind these cognitive biases, the text offers relatable real-world examples that bring the material to life. Alphabetical and thematic entry lists help readers find the information they’re most interested in quickly.
UK: December 2026 | US: December 2026 | 288 pages
Hardback 9798765132159 £75 | $100
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Student Encyclopedia of Psychology
Exploring the People and Ideas That Shaped a Science
Romeo Vitelli, Independent Scholar
Explore the individuals and concepts that laid the foundation for our modern understanding of the human mind and behavior.
Designed to support undergraduate students embarking on the study of psychology and aligned closely with APA curriculum standards, this A-Z encyclopedia features more than 150 ready reference entries. Readers will discover the people, ideas, and experiments that shaped the field into what it is today. Coverage includes such diverse areas as cognition, development, learning, emotion, personality, and group dynamics, as well as entries on the biological, ethical, and methodological principles underlying the science of psychology. Cross references and further readings are included with each entry, helping readers make connections and pointing them toward resources for additional study.
UK: March 2027 | US: March 2027 | 320 pages
Hardback 9798765139912 £95 | $130
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of Spices and the Spice Trade
History, Cuisine, and Culture
Victoria R. Williams, Independent Scholar
Discover the rich history and deep cultural significance of spices, from defining the flavors of regional cuisines to spurring Western exploration and colonialism.
This book examines spices from a variety of perspectives, including their impact on culinary traditions, role in health and medicine, and influence on world economics and geopolitics for hundreds of years. More than 125 entries profile individual spices, influential locations and trade routes, key time periods in the history of the spice trade, and much more.
UK: November 2025 | US: November 2025 | 376 pages Hardback 9798765114827 £75 | $100
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