I.B. Tauris New General Books Autumn & Winter 2018-2019

NEW GENERAL BOOKS I.B. TAURIS AUTUMN & WINTER 2018-19

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This catalogue includes books to be published between August 2018 and March 2019.

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1-34 35 36 37 38 40 41

Subject Guide Ancient Egypt 38-39 Art & Visual Culture 7, 16, 36 Biography 3, 10, 18, 21-23, 28, 35 Current Affairs & Politics 1, 2, 4, 8-9, 14, 21, 23-24, 29 Fiction 37 Film & TV 25-28 History 2-8, 12-21, 23-24, 29-34 Literature 3, 8, 10-11, 32-33, 35 Travel 11, 30-33

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Women of Westminster The MPs Who Changed Politics

Rachel Reeves MP, with an afterword

by Harriet Harman MP The first century of women in Parliament, including firsthand interviews with current and former female MPs In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons.

In the past 100 years, a total of 489 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2015 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable – Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality.

Although names like Castle, Thatcher and more recently Harman and May are well-known, the stories of many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political histories. Few women MPs have written their own memoirs and even fewer have been the subject of official biographies. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings many forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster, from 1919 to 2019.

NEW February 2019 288 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK ÂŁ18.99 9781788312202 30 bw in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Rachel Reeves is the Labour MP for Leeds West and Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. She is the author of Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (I.B. Tauris, 2016)

CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS

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The Women in the Room Labour’s Forgotten History

Nan Sloane with a foreword by Harriet Harman MP The first history of the early Labour Party with the women written back in

NEW September 2018 264 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788312233 12 bw in 8pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Throughout the Labour Party’s history, even in its earliest years, women were present in the room, but they were not always recorded or remembered. They came from many different backgrounds and they worked for the causes they believed in as organisers, campaigners, negotiators, polemicists, public speakers and leaders. They took on the vested interests of their time – and sometimes they won.

Yet the vast majority of them have been forgotten by the Labour movement that they helped to found.

Women made real and substantial contributions to Labour’s earliest years and had a significant impact on the Party’s ability to attract and maintain women’s votes after World War I. In many of the rooms in which the Labour Party found its feet, remarkable women wait to be rediscovered. This book tells their story.

‘Finally we can see some of the hidden history of our women.’

Jess Phillips MP ‘Nan rightfully honours those women who helped to lay the foundations for other working class women to succeed.’

Dawn Butler MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Women & Equalities Nan Sloane is the Director of the Centre for Women and Democracy. She is Training Coordinator of the Labour Women’s Network, a former Labour councillor and Regional Director of the Labour Party. She is author of In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Women’s Political Quotations; A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After and lead author of Sex and Power 2014: Who Runs Britain?

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HISTORY / POLITICS

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Teffi A Life of Letters and of Laughter

Edythe Haber The first biography of one of Russia’s most celebrated authors Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, Teffi had many admirers – from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin – and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of War and Peace, and Rasputin tried (and failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing – and enjoying comparable fame – until her death in 1952.

Teffi’s best stories effortlessly shift from light humour and satire to pathos and even tragedy – ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile. While best known for her stories and feuilletons, she also moved over to other genres, from serious poetry to theatrical miniatures and even music.

In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi – recently ‘rediscovered’ in the West – to life, and provides an insight into the cultural world of early 20th-century Russia.

NEW September 2018 312 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788312585 25 bw in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi and Nabokov.

BIOGRAPHY / LITERATURE / HISTORY

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The Great Betrayal How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East

David L. Phillips Why does the US repeatedly sell out the Kurds?

Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen sources, The Great Betrayal provides a political and diplomatic history of the Kirkuk region of Iraq and its international relations from the 1920s to the present day.

The once Kurd-dominated region lies at the very heart of America’s foreign policy priorities in the Middle East.

NEW November 2018 272 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788313971 2 illus I.B. Tauris AC

Following the discovery of oil at Baba Gurgur in the 1920s, Kirkuk became a central priority for successive Iraqi rulers.

In the 1970s and 1980s plans for Kirkuk to be the capital of an autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan were decimated by the Baathist regime’s Arabization programme, which saw Arabs replacing the Kurds as the significant demographic majority. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. In September 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan held an independence referendum. Though the US, Turkey, and Iran opposed it, the referendum passed with 93% of the vote. Iraq’s Prime Minister Heider al-Abadi issued an ultimatum and then attacked the region. Iraq’s Kurdish population have been abandoned, once again, by their supposed allies in the US. David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State. His publications include An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan’s Dictatorship; The Kurdish Spring and Losing Iraq. He writes regularly for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs.

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HISTORY / CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS

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The Phoney Victory The World War II Illusion

Peter Hitchens Peter Hitchens debunks the myths about Britain’s role in ‘The Good War’ Was World War II really the ‘Good War’? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the ‘Good War’.

Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue. He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued. He questions the sentimental view of the Anglo-American relationship, arguing that the USA’s wartime aid to Britain was not as unselfish as Winston Churchill claimed at the time.

Peter Hitchens is a journalist and commentator. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

HISTORY

NEW August 2018 240 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £17.99 9781788313292 I.B. Tauris AC

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Citadel of the Saxons The Rise of Early London

Rory Naismith How Anglo-Saxon London became the most important town in England Following the collapse of Roman civilization in 4thcentury Britannia, darkness fell over the former province.

Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats.

NEW November 2018 552 pages 222 x 140 mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788312226 24 bw in 16pp plates, 5 maps I.B. Tauris AC

The history of the city’s phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings, is still virtually unknown. Rory Naismith vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions.

Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today’s metropolis, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as bulwark against the Danes and pivotal English citadel.

A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Medieval British History at King’s College London. His earlier books include Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (2012), which in 2013 won the Best First Book Prize of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.

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HISTORY

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House of Secrets The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

Allison Levy The untold story of one of Florence’s most magnificent and mysterious palazzos When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams – the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence – she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries and exploring the palazzo’s myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated façade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies and even a murder.

Entwining Levy’s own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai’s past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.

‘The story [Levy] weaves is rich in history and anecdote, scholarly erudition and private experiences.

The resulting book is as layered and multi-dimensional as the palazzo itself.’

Marina Belozerskaya, author of The Medici Giraffe and The Arts of Tuscany

NEW December 2018 248 pages 234 x 156mm HARDBACK £17.99 9781788313605 17 colour in 8pp plates, 40 bw integrated illus I.B. Tauris SI

‘A triumph of both story-telling and history-telling.’

Leonard Barkan, author of Michaelangelo: A Life on Paper Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian, educated at Bryn Mawr College, Allison has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. The author and editor of four books on early modern Italy and Europe, she is also General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.

VISUAL CULTURE / HISTORY

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The Promise Love and Loss in Modern China

Xinran A new spell-binding and magical story of modern China by the bestselling author of The Good Women of China At the start of the 20th century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children, though fate, and the sweep of 20th-century history, would later divide them: three children went to America or Hong Kong to protect the family line from the communists; three were married to revolutionaries, having come of age as China turned red; while three met tragically early deaths.

NEW November 2018 288 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £17.99 9781788313629 I.B. Tauris AC

With her trademark wisdom and warmth, Xinran describes the lives and loves of this extraordinary family over four generations. What emerges is not only a moving story of four people and their lives, but a crucial portrait of social change in China. Xinran begins with the magic and tragedy of one young couple’s wedding night in 1950, and goes on to tell personal experiences of loss, grief and hardship through China’s extraordinary century. In doing so she tells a bigger story – how traditional Chinese values have been slowly eroded by the tide of modernity and how their outlooks on love, and the choices they’ve made in life, have been all been affected by the great upheavals of Chinese history.

Praise for Xinran: ‘Unforgettable insights into the past and present of Chinese women’s lives.’

The Times, on The Good Women of China ‘Extraordinary ... told with generosity and warmth by a brilliant storyteller.’

Financial Times, on Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother ‘An absorbing, often startling, always persuasive exploration of contemporary China.’

The Spectator, on Buy Me the Sky Xinran is a Chinese author, journalist and activist. The Good Women of China was a literary sensation in the West and has now been published all over the world in more than 30 languages, becoming an international bestseller. She has written one novel, Miss Chopsticks, and four other non-fiction books: Sky Burial, China Witness, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother and Buy Me the Sky.

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LITERATURE / POLITICS / HISTORY

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The Shadows of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and the Persecution of the Rohingya

Poppy McPherson Inside one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest. Eloquent, educated in the West and clothed in white, there was worldwide adulation and celebration in 2015 when Kyi became the president of Myanmar as the military junta surprisingly stepped aside.

But the real story was just beginning. While the international community focused on her appearances on the world-stage, framing her as an icon of democracy and human rights, the persecution of the Rohingya – a minority Islamic community of many millions in Myanmar – began to worsen. In 2017, as journalist Poppy McPherson travelled through the west of the country, she began to document an unprecedented increase in violence, extra-judicial killings and deportations. The UN have now declared the situation to be a genocide. The true story – of villages burnt to the ground, torture and the murder of Rohingya men and their families – is only now coming to light.

NEW December 2018 272 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £17.99 9781788311519 1 map I.B. Tauris AC

Featuring harrowing frontline reporting from the Bangladesh border and Rakhine State – where most of the violence has taken place – this is a moving and powerful book about horror, devastation and the displacement of hope.

Poppy McPherson is a journalist based in Myanmar. She writes regularly on Asia for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the Economist, the Independent, the New Statesman and TIME magazine. She has extensive radio experience and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, the BBC World Service, Vice News and Channel News Asia.

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The Man Who Wasn’t There A Life of Ernest Hemingway

Richard Bradford Using previously unpublished letters and other unseen documents, this book reveals the truth behind this deeply flawed literary hero Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, selfdelusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness.

NEW October 2018 352 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788311588 I.B. Tauris SI

Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway’s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality.

Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity, but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature.

They are the writer’s private signature, their authorial fingerprint.

In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingway’s oeuvre, Hemingway’s unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.

‘This is revisionist biography at its best—well informed and fearless.’

Carl Rollyson, author of Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 25 books, including biographies of Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley and Martin Amis. Longlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, he has written for The Spectator and The Sunday Times, and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series ‘Writers in their Own Words’, and BBC TV’s ‘Through the Lens of Larkin’.

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LITERATURE / BIOGRAPHY

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Conan Doyle’s Wide World Sherlock Holmes and Beyond

Andrew Lycett The world as seen through the eyes of the inventor of the world’s greatest detective Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world’s greatest detective: he was also an intrepid traveller – and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures – which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between – are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place.

Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together.

Here Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.

Praise for Andrew Lycett’s biography of Conan Doyle: ‘Comprehensive and authoritative, it is undoubtedly the best account of Doyle to date.’

Sunday Times

NEW February 2019 256 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £18.99 9781788312066 10 bw integrated illus I.B. Tauris SI

‘Splendid, evocatively illustrated biography.’

Sunday Telegraph Andrew Lycett is a writer and broadcaster who has written acclaimed biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. As a journalist, Lycett has contributed regularly to The Times, Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

LITERATURE / TRAVEL

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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land The Modern History of Syria

James A. Reilly The complete story of modern Syria, from its roots in the Ottoman Empire to today The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan’s rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years?

NEW September 2018 312 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781784539610 8 colour illus in 8pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Across a diverse cast of individuals, James Reilly explores Syria’s fractious and formative periods of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule. He shows how these contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the Assad family, and to a civil war which produced the so-called Islamic State. In charting Syria’s history over the last five centuries in their entirety for the first time, Reilly demonstrates the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political factors that bind Syrians together, as well as those that have torn them apart.

Based on primary sources, recent historiography in English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years’ experience living and working in the region.

‘An epic history of modern Syria, this book is vital to understanding the roots of what has become the most devastating conflict of the 21st century. From Syria’s history under Ottoman Turkish and European rule up until its experience of military dictatorship, Reilly helps explain the roots of Syria’s tragedy and the possible futures that may await it.’

Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept James Reilly is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and specialises in the social history of Syrian cities. He travelled widely in Syria between 1974 and 2010, living there on two separate occasions, and is the author of A Small Town in Syria and The Ottoman Cities of the Lebanon (I.B. Tauris).

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Aleppo The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City

Philip Mansel A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria’s civil war Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria’s brutal civil war.

Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse.

At the crossroads of global trade, Aleppo drew merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra to the largest souq in the Middle East and it was from here that some of the world’s most enduring food, music and culture sprang.

‘Mansel is a profoundly civilised and civilising historian who has spent many years in the Levant.

Elegant and elegiac, Aleppo is a precious monument to a once-splendid city that has been reduced to abject ruin and misery. How did this once-celebrated city come to plumb such depths? It is a question Philip Mansel’s remarkable new history implicitly seeks to answer.’

The Spectator ‘This book will stand as a eulogy for the city.’

Literary Review

NEW IN PAPERBACK August 2018 288 pages 216 x 138mm PAPERBACK £9.99 9781784538477 14 bw illus in 8pp plates, 2 maps I.B. Tauris SI

‘Magnificent.’

William Dalrymple Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Middle East. He has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and often visited Aleppo. In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent publication is The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon (2015). Aleppo is his third book on cosmopolitan cities of the Middle East, after Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire (1995), on Istanbul, and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), on Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut.

HISTORY

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Dark Shadows Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan

Joanna Lillis The revealing story of life inside Central Asia’s mysterious, oil-rich superpower In Dark Shadows, journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, and travels across the length and breadth of this enigmatic country.

NEW January 2019 272 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £16.99 9781784538613 1 map I.B. Tauris AC

Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a vainglorious president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering oil-rich 21st-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life: from strutting oligarch to presidential son-in-law, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners.

Lillis explores how Kazakhstan grapples with its Russian imperial and Soviet past. One elderly woman recounts her forced march to China to escape famine as a child; another tells of her deportation to Central Asia as a newborn; a third recalls how Stalin’s Terror despatched her grandfather to the firing squad and her grandmother to the Gulag.

Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.

Joanna Lillis is a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia whose work has featured in outlets including The Economist, the Guardian and the Independent, the Eurasianet website, and Foreign Policy and POLITICO magazines. Prior to settling in Kazakhstan in 2005, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan between 1995 and 2005, and worked for BBC Monitoring, the BBC World Service’s global media tracking service.

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HISTORY / POLITICS

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The Exit Visa A Family’s Journey Through Wartime Europe

Sheila Rosenberg Moving Holocaust memoir telling the story of a unique journey across wartime Europe 6th September, 1942. A middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city’s Jewish population intensified. He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years.

Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back – and is lost forever.

This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the Franco-Swiss border – and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, this book tells a unique individual story of the Holocaust and sheds light on the lives of one family – caught up in, and ultimately separated, by the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II.

NEW January 2019 256 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788314954 15 bw illus in 8pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Sheila Rosenberg was a teacher of English Literature and English as a Second Language. She received an OBE in 2011 for her contribution to ESOL teaching.

HISTORY

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A Ransomed Dissident A Life in Art Under the Soviets

Igor Golomstock Translated by Sara Jolly & Boris Dralyuk. Afterword by Robert Chandler.

The extraordinary story of the man who introduced Western art into Soviet Russia

NEW October 2018 264 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781788312950 20 bw illus in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted ‘trusty’ prisoners – hardened criminals – and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union.

Golomstock’s writings on his 43 years in the Soviet Union offer a rare insight into life as a quietly subversive art historian and the post-Stalin dissident community. He shows the difficulties of publishing, curating and talking about Western art in Soviet Russia and, with self-deprecating humour, the absurd tragicomedy of life for the Moscow intelligentsia during Khruschev’s thaw and Brezhnev’s stagnation.

In 1972 Golomstock was given ‘permission’ to leave the Soviet Union, but only after paying a ‘ransom’ of more than 25 years’ salary, nominally intended to reimburse the state for his education. A remarkable collection of artists, scholars and intellectuals in Russia and the West came together to help him pay this astronomical sum.

Nominated for the Russian Booker Prize on its publication in Russian in 2014.

Igor Golomstock (1929–2017) was a distinguished Russian art historian. He spent 12 years working as researcher and curator at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and published books on Cézanne, Picasso, Hieronymus Bosch and the art of ancient Mexico, as well as the seminal study of ‘totalitarian art’. After emigrating to the UK, Golomstock taught at the universities of St. Andrews, Essex and Oxford, and worked for the BBC Russian Service and Radio Liberty.

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HISTORY / ART

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Mrs Petrov’s Shoe The True Story of a KGB Defection

Wilhelm Agrell Unique spy drama at the heart of the Cold War Two men are holding the woman between them in a firm grip. In one hand she is carrying her handbag, the other she places on her heart. The man on her right stares into the camera, his colleague stares resolutely ahead. But there is something else, something missing. The despairing woman is wearing only one shoe.

On 19 April 1954 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. A small, seemingly fragile woman, was being aggressively marched to an awaiting plane by two burly men. Evdokia Petrova was the wife of Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov who, two weeks earlier, had defected from the embassy in Canberra after a prolonged ‘cultivation’ by the Australian Security Service, supported by MI5. Evdokia was now being hurried back to Moscow by the KGB. The subsequent intervention

by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies kept the world’s media on tenterhooks. But who were the couple at the centre of this global news story? After the defection it turned out that Evdokia was, in fact, an even bigger catch than her husband. With a background both in cryptological work in Moscow and in field operations, she was able to supply Western intelligence with a wealth of information and insight into the workings of the Soviet intelligence system.

NEW February 2019 256 pages 216 x 138mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788314602 15 bw illus in 8pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

With access to newly-released archives and sources, this book sheds extraordinary new light on the two people at the heart of the Petrov Affair, one of the most bizarre stories of the Cold War era.

Wilhelm Agrell is Professor of Intelligence Analysis at Lund University and guest professor at the Swedish National Defence College.

HISTORY

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Among the Wolves of Court The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn

Lauren MacKay Dramatic new retelling of the Anne Boleyn tale, through the eyes of her father and brother

NEW September 2018 312 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £18.99 9781788310437 24 bw integrated illus, 8pp colour plates I.B. Tauris AC

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne’s life – her father Thomas and brother George – are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII’s turbulent reign. Well before Anne’s coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry’s most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne’s downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her and her brother their lives.

A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir.

In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren MacKay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and establishes their place in Tudor history.

Lauren MacKay is a historian of Tudor England. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court and a regular contributor to BBC History and All About History. She has lectured at the Tower of London, Hever Castle, Leeds Castle and the National Archives at Kew.

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Franco and the Condor Legion The Spanish Civil War in the Air

Michael Alpert Comprehensive study of the Condor Legion and Spain’s war in the air The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came at a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new techniques of air war were rehearsed including high-speed dogfights, attacks on ships, bombing of civilian areas and tactical air-ground cooperation. At the heart of the air war were the Condor Legion, a unit composed of military personnel from Hitler’s Germany who fought for Franco’s Nationalists in Spain.

In this book, Michael Alpert provides the first study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air. He describes and analyses the intervention of German, Italian and Soviet aircraft in the Spanish conflict, as well as the supply of aircraft in general and the role of volunteer and mercenary airmen. His book provides new perspectives on the air war in Spain, the precedents set for World War II and the possible lessons learnt.

NEW February 2019 288 pages 234 x 156mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788311182 11 bw illus in 8pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster. He is the author of A New International History of the Spanish Civil War and The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.

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Someone Else’s War Fighting for the British Empire in World War I

John Connor Untold story of British Empire at war World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world.

Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front.

NEW October 2018 352 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781784532703 20 bw integrated illus I.B. Tauris AC

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What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not? How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by ‘someone else’s war’ – dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.

John Connor is Senior Lecturer and History Discipline Head at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is one of Australia’s leading military historians and has published widely on World War I. His previous books include The Australian Frontier Wars.

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Titans Fox and Pitt

Dick Leonard & Mark Garnett

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T I TA NS FOX & PI T T DICK LEONARD AND MARK GARNETT

Giants of the Georgian Age ‘Book quotation

to go here’ Charles James Fox and Name William Pitt the Younger were the Here, Attributation two political giants of their day – the greatest of orators, and the fiercest of rivals. Each was a younger son of distinguished fathers and each came to prominence at a very young age. Temperamentally, however, they could hardly have been more different. Fox was genial, tolerant, gregarious, rash and a reckless gambler, whereas Pitt was cautious, self-controlled, calculating, ruthless and misanthropic.

Their fates were heavily influenced by their respective relationships with George III, who formed an insensate hostility to Fox, using unconstitutional means to exclude him from power, while favouring Pitt, whom he appointed as Prime Minister at the age of 24, and maintained in office for 17 years. The result was that Fox enjoyed only three very short periods as Foreign Minister, and was effectively Leader of the Opposition for a record 23 years. But he did achieve a late triumph when, following the death of Pitt, he became the dominant member of the ‘Government of All the Talents’ and lived long enough to be able to introduce the bill which abolished the slave trade.

NEW February 2019 336 pages 234 x 156mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781784533694 20 bw illus in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

Featuring a wide cast of characters, this book sheds new light on the political landscape of Georgian England and two of the leading political players of the age.

Dick Leonard is a historian, journalist and author and a former Labour MP. For many years he was Assistant Editor of The Economist, and headed their office in Brussels. His publications include The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli (I.B. Tauris).

Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He is co-author of Exploring British Politics and British Foreign Policy since 1945.

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In Search of Isaiah Berlin A Literary Adventure

Henry Hardy A revealing new portrait of one of Britain’s most famous public intellectuals Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas – especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today.

NEW September 2018 288 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £20.00 9781788312448 32 colour illus in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris SI

But who was the man behind such influential views? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin’s huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges.

This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work had for most of his life remained largely out of view.

‘An extraordinary book, In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the story of a twenty-five year collaboration between Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, told via previously unpublished letters that are as delightful as they are revealing of Berlin’s personality and ideas.’

Michael Ignatieff, author of Isaiah Berlin: A Life Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Isaiah Berlin’s principal editor, and one of his literary trustees. Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990 and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters.

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Mugabe A Life of Power and Violence

Stephen Chan “Only God, who appointed me, will remove me – not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!” - Robert Mugabe Is Robert Mugabe modern Africa’s Stalin? Or was he a patriot fighting to reverse the effects of colonialism and white domination? Stephen Chan seeks not to demonize Mugabe but to explain and interpret him in his role as a key player in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait, we follow the triumphant nationalist leader, who had reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness.

In this revised and updated edition of a classic biography, Mugabe’s character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe’s story is Zimbabwe’s – from the post-independence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa’s policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

NEW UPDATED EDITION September 2018 288 pages 234 x 156mm PAPERBACK £12.99 9781788314282 I.B. Tauris AC

Stephen Chan’s biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. We follow the triumphant nationalist leader who reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and ultimately face an ignominious endgame at the hands of his own army.

Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of London and Honorary Professor of Humanities at University of Johannesburg.

He received an OBE in 2010 for services to Africa and Higher Education. He has also received the International Studies Association’s Eminent Scholar in Global Development award.

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Women in Britain Voices and Perspectives from Twentieth Century History

Janet H. Howarth

NEW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL August 2018 280 pages 234 x 156mm PAPERBACK £15.95 9781850434566 8 bw illus Series: Tauris History Readers I.B. Tauris AC

20th-century developments have altered the position of women beyond all recognition. Women’s suffrage and equal rights, the consumer society, control of fertility, the sexual revolution, and the millennium’s new breed of female breadwinners have made this a transformative period for women. This anthology of original sources is accompanied by state-ofthe-art historiography, and includes an introductory survey providing an accessible overview and analysis of key questions, including the relationship between ‘first’, ‘second’ and ‘third’ wave feminism in Britain.

Janet H. Howarth is Fellow in Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, specialising in the history of the women’s movement, women’s education and feminist biography.

The Crisis of Globalization Democracy, Capitalism and Inequality in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Patrick Diamond

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In recent years, the effects of economic globalization and technological change in driving dissatisfaction with established political systems has led to the rise of new forms of political populism that seek to exploit the economic and political polarisation and resentment created by globalization. This book examines the challenges that the new era of globalization poses for centre-left parties across the world. It brings together leading thinkers and experts from across the world to debate the structural causes and political consequences of this new wave of globalization.

Patrick Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of Policy Network. His publications include Endgame for the Centre Left? The Retreat of Social Democracy across Europe and Can Labour Win? The Hard Road to Power.

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Some Things You Should Know Confessions of a TV Executive

Truman Locke Gripping first-person insider story of a year in the life of a TV producer Truman Locke is a television executive. His job – to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV – gives him a license for adventure; freedom to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, so long as he’s successful. In the past, he always has been. Now, things are going wrong. Under mounting pressure, his manoeuvring and risk-taking start to slip out of control, bringing trouble and danger to his ordered world, jeopardizing everything.

In Some Things You Should Know, this talented but flawed anti-hero tells his own story – one of lies, crime and complex relationships. It’s a page-turning thriller, inspired by the realities of life in a glamorous but treacherous industry, exposing them in a way no book ever has before.

Truman’s experiences show what it’s like to work at TV’s cutting edge: what motivates TV producers, how they think and behave, and what it takes to succeed in a cutthroat creative business.

NEW November 2018 304 pages 198 x 129mm PAPERBACK £12.99 9781788311175 I.B. Tauris AC

Truman Locke is the pen name of a leading producer of factual television.

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Doctor Who: Twelfth Night Adventures in Time and Space with Peter Capaldi

Edited by Andrew O’Day A celebration of the Peter Capaldi era Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who – unpredictable, embattled, mercurial – has raised many fresh issues for followers of the Timelord. In this book, international experts on the show have been brought together to explore the era of Capaldi and Steven Moffat.

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They evaluate the effect of Capaldi’s older age on the series’ pace and themes; his Scottishness and representations of Scotland in Doctor Who’s history, and the roles of the Doctor’s female companions. The politics of war are addressed, as is the development of UNIT in the show, as well as controversial portrayals of the afterlife and of immortality. There’s discussion of promotional discourses in the public sphere worldwide, of imagining the 12th Doctor in fan fiction and fan art, fan responses to the re-gendering of the Master as female, and Christmas television and the uncanny.

Andrew O’Day is co-author with Jonathan Bignell of Terry Nation (2004) and editor of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour (I.B. Tauris, 2014). He has contributed chapters on the Doctor to a range of edited collections. He received his PhD in Television Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Once Upon a Time Lord The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who

Ivan Phillips ‘We’re all stories in the end’, said the Doctor in ‘The Big Bang’.

Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new Who’, Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord’s story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production.

He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. The book offers an original take on this popular hero’s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has encountered across more than half a century.

Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on popular culture, science fiction and horror.

NEW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL December 2018 256 pages 216 x 138mm PAPERBACK £12.99 9781784532673 I.B. Tauris AC

Death in the Desert The Complete Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Howard Hughes In over 500 detailed film reviews covering 20 years of westerns in Europe, Howard Hughes takes a fascinating snapshot of European western films and filmmaking during their frenzied, popular heyday. He narrates the spaghetti western story from the genre’s early, tentative days to its explosive golden era following the success of A Fistful of Dollars and the mass-produced scramble of films that swamped cinemas in the late 1960s, before the gradual falling off of enchantment with the genre.

Death in the Desert also looks at other westerns made in Europe in the 1960s and ’70s: the early West German ‘Winnetou’ westerns, swashbuckling Spanish ‘Zorro’ movies, kung-fu westerns, German musical and comedy westerns, American and British westerns filmed in Spain, and the then East Germany. Illustrated with rare posters and stills.

Howard Hughes is a film writer and historian. His books include Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood and several I.B. Tauris Filmgoers’ Guides.

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NEW March 2019 400 pages 246 x 189mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781784537746 45 bw integrated illus I.B. Tauris AC

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Dark Star A Biography of Vivien Leigh

Alan Strachan Major new biography of the most iconic actress of the 20th century As Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Du Bois, Vivien Leigh took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name.

NEW October 2018 336 pages 226 x 155mm HARDBACK £25.00 9781788312080 24 bw illus in 16pp plates I.B. Tauris AC

In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously-unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behindthe-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the 20th century’s greatest actresses.

‘A wonderful tribute to a great actress and a fascinating insight into her troubled life and the machinations of the West End theatre during the middle of the 20th century. Unputdownable.’

Dame Penelope Keith DBE, DL Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In the West End he has directed over twenty-five productions, and overseas he has worked in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York. He has directed such actors as Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Penelope Keith, Maureen Lipman, Dorothy Tutin and Pauline Collins; and plays by authors ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting it On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.

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Berlin Rules Europe and the German Way

Paul Lever New insights into Germany’s role as the dominant player in Europe In the second half of the 20th century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe – and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany’s leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world.

Beyond that there is no underlying vision or purpose.

In this book, former British ambassador in Berlin Paul Lever provides a unique insight into modern Germany. He shows how the country’s history has influenced its current economic and political structures and provides important perspectives on its likely future challenges and choices, especially in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis which saw over 1 million immigrants offered a home in Germany.

As Britain prepares to leave the EU, this book suggests the future shape of a Germany-dominated Europe.

‘Timely and enlightening, Paul Lever’s insightful book tells us why Germany is vital to Europe and why Europe is so essential to Germany.’

Peter Mandelson

NEW IN PAPERBACK August 2018 288 pages 198 x 129mm PAPERBACK £10.99 9781788314138 I.B. Tauris AC

A Daily Mail and Telegraph Book of the Year, 2017 Sir Paul Lever was British ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2003.

During his earlier diplomatic career he specialised in European political, economic and security issues. His postings included service in NATO, in the European Commission, as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and as EU and economic director in the Foreign Office. From 2004 to 2010 he was chairman of the Royal United Services Institute.

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Spain Between Hopes and Memories

Michael Jacobs One of the best portraits of Spain to be written in the last century: a classic In this classic and much-loved portrait of Spain, acclaimed author Michael Jacobs travels far off the beaten track and in the footsteps of some of Spain’s most iconic literary figures – Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán – to some of the country’s most undiscovered places. In so doing, he discovers the very heart of Spain.

‘Jacobs is an engaging, wonderfully informative and ever-surprising companion.’

Jan Morris, Independent

NEW EDITION November 2018 448 pages 198 x 129mm PAPERBACK £11.99 9781788314978 I.B. Tauris SI

‘Jacobs has a gift for finding exotic corners in a familiar city and of resuscitating the forgotten with colourful intensity ... a worthy companion to the best of modern books on the subject.’

Times Literary Supplement ‘Few modern books on Spain have succeeded in going beyond all the clichés and giving a portrait of the real country ... Jacobs has managed to do so.’

El Pais ‘What a curious and fascinating book ... a true page turner.’

Guardian Michael Jacobs (1952-2014) was a writer, art historian and renowned Hispanophile, who wrote several books on European and British art, as well as many highly acclaimed travel books on Spain and South America, including The Factory of Light: Tales from My Andalucian Village, Alhambra, Ghost Train through the Andes and The Robber of Memories: A River Journey through Columbia.

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Lisbon: City of the Sea A History

Malcolm Jack Portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day Malcolm Jack vividly captures the history of this haunting and attractive port whose prominent position on the Tagus estuary has inextricably bound its character with the sea.

Beginning with its earliest inhabitants, Jack traces the city’s life through its imperial success in the 16th century and the devastating earthquake that humbled the city and shocked Europe in 1755 to its current position as a vibrant and successful European capital. Lisbon’s romantic atmosphere has captured the imaginations of foreigners through the ages.

Poets, writers and musicians have all drawn inspiration from different parts of Lisbon. This sensitive exploration of the city’s many aspects draws out its cosmopolitan nature, as well as its colourful culture and self-image and brings us closer to understanding its true spirit.

Malcolm Jack has written about 18th-century philosophy and literature and has edited the works of both Lady Wortley Montagu and William Beckford.

His most recent book, Sintra: A Glorious Eden, was published in 2002. He has had a home in Portugal for many years.

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Madrid A Literary Guide for Travellers

Jules Stewart

NEW October 2018 288 pages 198 x 129mm HARDBACK £16.99 9781788310994 15 bw illus, 2 maps Series: Literary Guides for Travellers I.B. Tauris SI

Hemingway called Madrid ‘the most Spanish of all cities’ and the ‘centre of the world’; it was a place that drew him back again and again. But he wasn’t the only writer to have been inspired by this proud city which fizzes with energy and is so infused with art and literature. From the Café Gijón, favourite hang-out of Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel, and the Bar Chicote, Hemingway’s preferred watering hole and a popular haunt for bohemian Madrid during the Civil War, to the Hotel Florida where John Dos Passos and Antoine de Saint Exupéry used to stay, to the grave of Lope de Vega and the house in which Cervantes took his last breath, this unique guide takes the reader on a colourful journey that spans four centuries and brings to life the people and places that make Madrid the heart of literary Spain.

Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan’s Plains: The Story of Britain’s Afghan Wars and Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s (all published by I.B. Tauris).

Barcelona A Literary Guide for Travellers

Mike Gonzales Step into the heart of one of the world’s most alluring cities through the imaginations of over 50 writers and artists.

NEW October 2018 272 pages 198 x 129mm HARDBACK £16.99 9781788311229 30 bw integrated illus Series: Literary Guides for Travellers I.B. Tauris SI

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City of outlandish cathedrals, eccentric parks, elegant plaças and atmospheric barrios, Barcelona is ‘haunted by history’, yet alive with the ghosts of those it has inspired, from Cervantes, Zafon and Montalbán, Gaudí, Miró and Dalí to Jean Genet, George Sand, Auden and Orwell.

Perhaps more than any other Spanish city, Barcelona is synonymous with literature, art and creativity; it is the distilled essence of Catalonia – a region that has always marched to the beat of its own drum.

Mike Gonzalez, a historian and literary critic, is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He writes extensively on Latin America and is the author of The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth Century Poetry of Latin America, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, Tango: Sex and Rhythm of the City and A Rebel’s Guide to Marx.

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Iceland A Literary Guide for Travellers

Marcel Krueger As much shaped by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland’s literary heritage is one of Europe’s richest – and most ancient. Its stories have been passed down through the generations. From the captivating Norse myths, which continue to inspire contemporary authors such as A.S. Byatt, to gripping Scandinavian crime fiction and Game of Thrones, via Jules Verne and J.R.R Tolkien, W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney, Iceland’s influence has spread far beyond its frozen shores. Taking the reader and traveller from Reykjavik and the Bay of Smokes to the remote Westfjords and desolate highlands, this is an enthralling portrait of the Land of Ice and Fire.

Marcel Krueger is a writer, translator and editor. His articles and essays have been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and CNN Travel. He is author of Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps and, together with Paul Sullivan, Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers – both published by I.B. Tauris.

NEW February 2019 288 pages 198 x 129mm HARDBACK £16.99 9781788311489 15 bw illus, 2 maps Series: Literary Guides for Travellers I.B. Tauris SI

A Short History of the American Civil War Paul Christopher Anderson Paul Christopher Anderson shows how and why the American Civil War remains the nation’s defining moment, arguing that it was above all a struggle for power and political supremacy. Melding social, cultural and military history, the author explores iconic battles like Shiloh, Chickamauga, Antietam and Gettysburg as well as the bitterly contesting forces underlying them. He shows that while both sides began the war in order to preserve – the integrity of the American state in the case of the Union, the integrity of a culture and value system in the case of the Confederacy – it allowed the South to define a regional identity that has survived into modern times.

Paul Christopher Anderson is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, South Carolina. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).

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NEW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL December 2018 272 pages 216 x 138mm PAPERBACK £10.99 9781780765983 40 integrated bw illus, 10 maps Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories I.B. Tauris AC

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A Short History of the Crimean War Trudi Tate The Crimean War (1853–1856) was the first modern war: reported firsthand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern ‘war machine’. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses.

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At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it.

Trudi Tate is an Affiliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. She has written and broadcast about Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade and is the author of Modernism, History and the First World War (1998).

A Short History of the Reformation Helen L. Parish When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther’s seismic action fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities.

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Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L. Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts.

She assesses the Reformers’ impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and – reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas – on oral, print and written culture.

Helen L. Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).

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Vita The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Glendinning The classic, Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman.

A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita’s extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman and mother; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.

‘What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present.

Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude.’

Sunday Telegraph

NEW UPDATED EDITION August 2018 480 pages 198 x 129mm PAPERBACK £11.99 9781788312431 18 bw illus in 8pp plates Tauris Parke Paperbacks SI

‘Superb … much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience.’

The Times Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize).

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Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland Emile de Bruijn Lavishly illustrated overview of some of the most significant Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of European interior decoration for 300 years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the 17th century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as ‘Chinese wallpaper’ were developed by Chinese painting workshops in response to western demand.

NEW IN PAPERBACK January 2019 272 pages 280 x 230mm PAPERBACK £20.00 9781781300732 170 colour illus Philip Wilson Publishers SI

In spite of their spectacular beauty, Chinese wallpapers have not been studied in any depth until relatively recently. This book provides an overview of some of the most significant Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles. Sumptuously illustrated, it shows how these wallpapers became a staple ingredient of high-end interiors while always retaining a touch of the exotic.

Emile de Bruijn studied Japanese and museology at the universities of Leiden and Essex. He worked in the Japanese and Chinese departments of the auctioneers Sotheby’s in London before joining the National Trust, where he is now a member of the central collections management team.

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VISUAL CULTURE

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The Watermelon Boys Ruqaya Izzidien It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign.

Carwyn’s and Ahmad’s paths cross, and their fates are bound together.

Both are forever changed, not only by their experience of war, but also by the parallel discrimination and betrayal they face.

This debut novel is rich with the heartbreak and passion that arise when personal loss and political zeal collide, and offers a powerful retelling of the history of British intervention in Iraq.

Ruqaya Izzidien is an Iraqi-Welsh freelance journalist and writer currently based in Morocco.

Since graduating from Durham University she has also lived and worked in Cairo and the Gaza Strip.

NEW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL September 2018 360 pages 205 x 130mm Paperback £9.99 9789774168802 Hoopoe AC

Sarab Raja Alem. Translated by Leri Price An unlikely love affair between two insurgents on opposing sides of a religious revolt November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a young woman, Sarab, disguised as a man. As the horror and chaos of the siege reach their peak, she escapes and encounters a French officer from the opposing side. They form an unexpected bond, as hostility turns to attraction, but the violence of both of their pasts will return to haunt them.

Award-winning writer Raja Alem’s extraordinary narrative stretches from Saudi Arabia’s Najd desert to the heart of Paris.

Raja Alem was born in Mecca and now lives in Paris. Her works include 10 novels, two plays, biography, short stories, essays, literary journalism, writing for children, and collaborations with artists and photographers.

FICTION

NEW PAPERBACK ORIGINAL August 2018 288 pages 200 x 135mm PAPERBACK £9.99 9789774168765 Hoopoe AC

38 AUCP

Sethy I, King of Egypt His Life and Afterlife

Aidan Dodson The first comprehensive treatment of one of Egypt’s most iconic pharaohs

NEW October 2018 200 pages 240 x 190mm HARDBACK £29.95 9789774168864 130 illus The American University in Cairo Press AC

King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early 13th century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and heralding the last phase of Egypt’s imperial splendour. As the second scion of a wholly new royal family, his reign did much to set the agenda for the coming decades, both at home and abroad. Sethy was also a great builder, apparently with exquisite artistic taste, to judge from the unique quality of the decoration of his celebrated monuments at Abydos and Thebes.

This richly illustrated book tells the story of Sethy’s career and monuments, not only in ancient times, but in modern history, and the impact of his legacy on today’s understanding and appreciation of ancient Egypt.

Aidan Dodson is a senior research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, UK, where he teaches Egyptology. He is the author of twenty books and over 300 reviews and articles.

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ANCIENT EGYPT

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Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples A New Traveler’s Companion

Nigel Fletcher-Jones Packed with illustrations, insights, and practical advice, this is the ideal travel companion to one of the world’s great regions of archaeological splendour.

The 3000-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of Tutankhamun. Yet the temples are some of the least understood by the visitor. Fletcher-Jones places them in their historical context, telling the story of their discovery, why and how they were moved, and what the Nubian temples teach us about ancient Egypt.

NEW January 2019 190 pages 240 x 190mm HARDBACK £24.95 9789774168789 150 colour and bw illus The American University in Cairo Press AC

Nigel Fletcher-Jones has been director of the American University in Cairo Press since 2012.

Nubian Gold Ancient Jewelry from Sudan and Egypt

Peter Lacovara & Yvonne J. Markowitz The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name means ‘gold,’ was famous in ancient times for its supplies of precious metal, exotic material, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces of the jeweller’s art.

Illustrated with 175 photographs, many never before published, Nubian Gold places the jewellery within the cultural contexts in which it was manufactured and employed. It tells the story not only of the treasures themselves but of the exciting tales of their discovery and the rich background of the exotic and remote civilizations that produced them.

Peter Lacovara is senior curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. He is co-editor of Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (AUC Press, 2012).

Yvonne J. Markowitz is the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry in the David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

ANCIENT EGYPT

NEW September 2018 224 pages 250 x 250mm HARDBACK £39.95 9789774167829 175 illus including colour, bw and line drawings The American University in Cairo Press AC

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Author / Title Index A

Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples 39 Agrell, Wilhelm 17 Alem, Raja 37 Aleppo 13 Alpert, Michael 19 Among the Wolves of Court 18 Anderson, Paul Christopher 33

B

Barcelona 32 Berlin Rules 29 Bradford, Richard 10

C

Chan, Stephen 23 Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland 36 Citadel of the Saxons 6 Conan Doyle’s Wide World 11 Connor, John 20 Crisis of Globalization, The 24

D

Dark Shadows 14 Dark Star 28 Death in the Desert 27 de Bruijn, Emile 36 Diamond, Patrick 24 Doctor Who: Twelfth Night 26 Dodson, Aidan 38 Dralyuk, Boris 16

E

Exit Visa, The 15

F

Fletcher-Jones, Nigel 39 Fragile Nation, Shattered Land 12 Franco and the Condor Legion 19

G

Garnett, Mark 21 Glendinning, Victoria 35 Golomstock, Igor 16 Gonzales, Mike 32 Great Betrayal, The 4

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I

R

Haber, Edythe 3 Hardy, Henry 22 Hitchens, Peter 5 House of Secrets 7 Howarth, Janet H. 24 Hughes, Howard 27 Iceland 33 In Search of Isaiah Berlin 22 Izzidien, Ruqaya 37

J

Jack, Malcolm 31 Jacobs, Michael 30 Jolly, Sara 16

K

Krueger, Marcel 33

L

Lacovara, Peter 39 Leonard, Dick 21 Lever, Paul 29 Levy, Allison 7 Lillis, Joanna 14 Lisbon: City of the Sea 31 Locke, Truman 25 Lycett, Andrew 11

M

MacKay, Lauren 18 Madrid 32 Man Who Wasn’t There, The 10 Mansel, Philip 13 Markowitz, Yvonne J. 39 McPherson, Poppy 9 Mrs Petrov’s Shoe 17 Mugabe 23

Parish, Helen L. 34 Phillips, David L. 4 Phillips, Ivan 27 Phoney Victory, The 5 Price, Leri 37 Promise, The 8 Ransomed Dissident, A 16 Reeves, Rachel 1 Reilly, James A. 12 Rosenberg, Sheila 15

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Sarab 37 Sethy I, King of Egypt 38 Shadows of Myanmar, The 9 Short History of the American Civil War, A 33 Short History of the Crimean War, A 33 Short History of the Reformation, A 34 Sloane, Nan 2 Some Things You Should Know 25 Someone Else’s War 20 Spain 30 Stewart, Jules 32 Strachan, Alan 28

T

Tate, Trudi 34 Teffi 3 Titans 21

V

Vita 35

W

Naismith, Rory 6 Nubian Gold 39

Watermelon Boys, The 37 Women in Britain 24 Women in the Room, The 2 Women of Westminster 1

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O’Day, Andrew 26 Once Upon a Time Lord 27

Xinran 8

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