Academic New Books Catalogue January-March 2024

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Vignette Research Research Methods

Evi Agostini, University of Vienna, Austria, Michael Schratz, University of Innsbruck, Austria & Irma Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa

This open access book introduces vignette research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical guidance on how to do vignette research. Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

• 208 pages

PB 9781350299375 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781350299382 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350299405 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350299399 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods • Bloomsbury Academic

Symbiotic Autoethnography Moving Beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Methodologies

Liana Beattie, Edge Hill University, UK

Drawing on the vast diversity of researchers’ opinions on autoethnographic praxes, this book presents a cogent analysis of the ongoing debates in the field. It discusses a new approach to both theorizing about and ‘doing’ autoethnography: a ‘symbiotic autoethnography’. This approach synthesizes central aspects from the diversity of existing arguments into one adaptable framework, organically combining all the key characteristic features of autoethnographic research. Beattie uses the concept of ‘symbiosis’ in its broader sense to denote close interdependence and interrelation between its suggested six attributes, including temporality, researcher’s omnipresence, evocative storytelling, interpretative analysis, political (transformative) focus, and reflexivity.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 232 pages • 5 bw illus

PB 9781350201637 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350201385

ePub 9781350201613 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350201606 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods

Edited

by Helen Kara, independent researcher, UK

This book provides both an overview of, and an insight into, the rapidly expanding field of creative research methods. The contributors range from doctoral students through independent and practice-based researchers to senior professors, providing a clear view of the applicability of creative research methods in all types of research work. Chapters offer examples of creative research methods in practice, and advice on how to transfer or adapt those methods for different disciplines and settings. Research ethics and research quality are considered throughout.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 352 pages

HB 9781350355743 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350355767 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350355750 • £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Student's Guide to Reflective Writing

Martin McMorrow, Massey University, New Zealand

Written in a supportive and inclusive tone, The Student's Guide to Reflective Writing is an ideal resource for anyone faced with reflective writing assignments. Reflective writing requires a different approach to essays or reports and McMorrow provides clear and practical advice on every step of the process. With a wealth of practice tasks, a glossary and detailed examples of reflective writing from a range of disciplines, this hands-on guide equips students with the skills to write critically and reflectively, incorporating theory and referring to professional skills and competencies.

UK March 2024 US May 2024 176 pages

PB 9781350323032 £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350323056 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350323049 • £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

Great Ways to Learn Anatomy and Physiology

Charmaine McKissock

Offering innovative techniques to help students with their learning, this user-friendly, accessible study skills text is the perfect accompaniment to any course or textbook. Complex processes are brought to life with imaginative diagrams and story lines which aid understanding, reinforce memory and also support students with memory, dyslexic or mathematical difficulties. This revised edition includes an updated wellbeing section which takes into account the latest research and techniques.

UK November 2023

PB 9781350417816

• US November 2023

• £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350417830 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350417823 • £17.99 / $24.29

• 192 pages • 168 colour illustration

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

Academic Writing Skills for International Students

Siew Hean Read, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

This engaging guide equips students who are non-native speakers of English with the tools and confidence to respond effectively and appropriately to written assignments at university. It helps develop essential writing skills, such as structuring paragraphs and building an argument, and provides practical guidance on the conventions of academic writing. It guides students systematically through a series of text analyses which bring out key linguistic and rhetorical features, making complex textual issues manageable and understandable for learners of all abilities. This restructured and updated edition includes a broader range of examples, more practical activities and more on plagiarism.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages

PB 9781350427877 • £17.99 / $24.95

ePub 9781350427907 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350427891 • £16.19 / $22.94

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

Writing for Nursing and Midwifery Students

Julio Gimenez, University of Westminster School of English Studies, London, UK

Combining a theoretical approach with practical activities, this book is invaluable for nursing and midwifery students and will help them to master the basics of writing at university. It equips students with the skills needed to examine cognitive processes such as reflection and critical thinking and includes essential information on referencing correctly and avoiding plagiarism. With support and guidance on producing care critiques, action plans, portfolios and journal article reviews alongside complex argumentative writing and undergraduate dissertation proposals, this is a comprehensive writing toolkit for students of nursing, midwifery, health and social care.

UK February 2024 • US April 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781350409187 • £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350409255 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350409248 • £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills • Bloomsbury Academic

STUDY SKILLS

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

POCKET STUDY SKILLS

FAVOURITES

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

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

African Possibilities

A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice

Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College, USA

Representing the culmination of over 40 years of ground-breaking work on notions of matriarchy at the intersection of the Igbo-African universe and the Western capitalist reality, Amadiume sets forth a blueprint for a bold new matriarchitarianism, critiquing all forms of social injustice with a shared matriarchal-relational humanism.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 240 pages

HB 9781350333802 • £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350333819 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350333826 • £18.00 / $25.64

Zed Books

Digital Disinformation in Africa

Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda

Edited by Tony Roberts, University of Sussex, UK & George Karekwaivanane, University of Edinburgh, UK

This open access book provides an insight into citizens’ digital protest in ten African countries and the repressive response of pro-government digital disinformation machines designed to disrupt democratic debate and drown-out dissent. Chapters include insights into how progovernment actors responded to the viral #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign; and how misogynists mobilized against the #AmINext campaign against gender-based violence in South Africa. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781350319202 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350319219 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350319226 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350319233 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Digital Africa • Zed Books

National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa

An Anti-Capitalist Perspective

Jane Duncan, University of Johannesburg

The author uses southern Africa as a backdrop, and its liberation history, to examine what an anticapitalist perspective on intelligence and security powers could look like. Southern Africa faces no major terrorism threats at the moment, which should make it easier to develop clearer anti-surveillance campaigns than in Europe or the US. Yet, because of tactical and strategic ambivalence about security powers, movements often engage in limited calls for intelligence and policing reforms, and fail to provide an alternative vision for policing and intelligence. National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa examines what that vision could look like.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9780755640218

• £28.99 / $39.95

Political Science in Africa Freedom, Relevance, Impact

Edited by Liisa Laakso, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden & Siphamandla Zondi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Bringing together African and international scholars, this book gives an account of the present state of the discipline of political science in Africa - generating insights into its present and future trajectories, and assessing the freedom with which it is practiced.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 288 pages

PB 9781350299498 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350299504 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350299511 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350299528 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Africa Now • Zed Books

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda

Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control

Edited by Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781350323537 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350323551 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350323568 • £81.00 / $110.69

Zed Books

The Peacekeeping Failure in South Sudan

The UN, Bias and the Peacekeeper's Mind

Mark Millar, Norwegian Refugee Council

Using firsthand accounts from senior UN officials, and referencing hitherto unseen UN documents, this book explores the role of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, and its ultimate failure. It challenges the resignation with which many in academia and the media greeted the underperformance of the peacekeepers. It suggests that, even while under-resourced, they could have done much more to prevent bloodshed in the new country and protected civilians from the chaos of the first years of the conflict.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages

• 248 pages

Previously published in HB 9780755640225

ePub 9780755640232

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755640249 • £76.50 / $103.94

Zed Books

PB 9781350273887 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350273849

ePub 9781350273856 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350273863 • £76.50 / $103.94

Zed Books

Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era

Edited by Gabriel Moshenska, University College London, UK

The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview of these pioneering practices through a specifically pedagogical lens, fostering an appreciation of the diversity and distinctiveness of contemporary archaeology and providing an evidence base for course proposals and curriculum design.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 264 pages 55 bw illus

PB 9781350335622 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350335639 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350335653 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350335646 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

The Tomb of Maya and Meryt, III

The New Kingdom Pottery

Edited by David Aston & Barbara Aston

Between 1986 and 1991, the joint mission of the Egypt Exploration Society and Leiden Museum excavated the tomb of Maya, an Overseer of the Treasury during the late 18th Dynasty, and his wife Meryt in the Saqqara necropolis. Two previous volumes have published the objects and skeletal remains (2001) and the reliefs and inscriptions (2012). This present and final volume is devoted to the pottery found in the tomb.

UK April 2023 • 426 pages • 96 colour and 111 bw illus

PB 9780856982453 • £65.00

Series: Excavation Memoirs Egypt Exploration Society World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Discovering Indian Philosophy

An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought

Jeffery D. Long, Elizabeth Town College, USA

Accessibly written for readers new to Indian philosophy, the book takes you through the main traditions of thought, including Buddhist, Hindu and Jain perspectives on major philosophical topics. Bringing insights from the latest research to bear on the key primary sources from these traditions and setting them in their full spiritual, historical and philosophical contexts, Indian Philosophy: An Introduction covers such topics as: Philosophies of action and knowledge; Materialism and scepticism; Consciousness and duality; Religious and cultural expressions.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 256 pages

PB 9781784536466 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781784536459 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350324824 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350324817 • £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

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

Nicky Nielsen, University of Manchester, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages • 36 bw illus, 4 colour illus

HB 9781350327368 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350327399 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350327382 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Egyptology • Bloomsbury Academic

Tracing Gestures

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication

Edited by Amy J. Maitland Gardner, University College London, UK & Carl Walsh, The Barnes Foundation, USA

This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily actions, and also how archaeologists can trace the symbolism and significance of ancient gestures, ritual practices and bodily techniques through the material remnants of past human groups. The diverse case studies included reveal the similarities and differences in gestures around the world, and offer new and valuable perspectives on the nature of bodily communication across both space and time.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages • 54 bw illus

PB 9781350276994 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350276987

ePub 9781350277014 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350277007 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: UCL World Archaeology Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Bringing Forth the New Visual Art and the World of Contemporary China

Michael Maizels, Harvard University, USA

Bringing Forth the New provides a headlong introduction into the world of Chinese contemporary visual art, opening from the art world onto the political, technological and economic vectors of recent Chinese history. Each chapter reads an important facet of recent Chinese history through the work of a significant artist. From examining trade war and intellectual property through the work of political pop painters such as Yu Youhan, to the development of gendered constructs in China through the work of Cui Xuiwen.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 248 pages

PB 9781350341579 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350341586 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350341593 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350341609 • £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Living Latin Everyday Language and Popular Culture

Charlie Kerrigan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Surveying the whole span of the language’s history, Kerrigan explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world. And of course Latin lived on: this book revisits what happened to the language after the Roman empire. Kerrigan's strong and attractive case for a new conception of Latin sends out a call to arms to reevaluate the place of Latin in history. On the one hand, an interesting and readable history of the language, on the other, this book sets out to provoke questions for readers, students and teachers of Latin, as well as anyone interested in the ancient Mediterranean world. Latin was and should always be for all

UK February 2024 US February 2024 144 pages

PB 9781350377035 £16.99 / $22.95

ePub 9781350377059 £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350377042 • £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Rubicon • Bloomsbury Academic

HB 9781350377028 £50.00 / $68.00

The Poems of Optatian Puzzling out the Past in the Time of Constantine the Great

Linda Jones Hall, St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian’s work during this period. Optatian was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor’s ascent to power in Rome in 313 AD. Hoping to receive pardon, Optatian sent a gift of probably twenty design poems to Constantine around the time of the ruler’s twentieth anniversary (325/326 AD).

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages • 23 bw illus

HB 9781350374379 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350374393 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350374386 • £76.50 / $103.94 Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies

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

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

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

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9781350379442 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350379473 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350379466

• £81.00 / $110.69

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

Bloomsbury Academic

Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740

Alejandro Coroleu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent. This vast textual corpus ranges from official documents, epic, satirical and panegyric poetry to defamatory pamphlets, letters, historiographical and juridical tracts, medals and ephemeral architecture.

UK December 2023

HB 9781350214897

De persecutione Anglicana by Robert Persons S.J.

A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation, Commentary and Introduction

Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa & Marianne Dircksen, North West University, South Africa

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons’s role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546–1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest and execution of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781350379343 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350379374 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350379367 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

Bloomsbury Academic

• US December 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350214910

ePdf 9781350214903

• 232 pages • 9 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin

• Bloomsbury Academic

Aristophanes: Cavalry

Rob Tordoff, York University, Canada

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 208 pages • 4 bw illus

HB 9781350065673 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350065697 • £63.00 / $86.39

ePdf 9781350065703 • £63.00 / $86.39

Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions • Bloomsbury Academic

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Kate Cook, University of St Andrews, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781350410497 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350410510 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350410503 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

Ancient and Early-Modern Perspectives

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

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages 3 bw illus

HB 9781350257221 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350257245 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350257238 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death

The Hellenistic Dynasties

Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter, UK

The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic infighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. This new enhanced and revised edition of a major study explores the intricate quarrels and violence within the ruling hellenistic families.

• 10 bw illus

UK May 2023

• 416 pages

• £30.00

PB 9781914535383

Classical Press of Wales

World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Combining the Greek–English Indexes from the Eponymous Series Spanning Works from the 2nd Century CE to Late Antiquity

Richard D. McKirahan, Pomona College, USA

An astounding project of analysis on translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series is a unique dictionary of philosophical terms and an essential reference tool for any scholar working on the meaning of ancient philosophical texts. McKirahan has combined each word entry from the ACA indexes and has analysed how many times particular translations occur, and shows how often each meaning has been used.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 352 pages

PB 9781350250475 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350250437

ePub 9781350250451 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781350250444 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Sparta in Plutarch's Lives

Edited by Philip Davies, University of Nottingham, UK & Judith Mossman, Coventry University, UK

Eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch’s understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his best-known work, the Parallel Lives

UK June 2023 • 232 pages

HB 9781910589854 • £60.00

Series: Sparta and its Influence • Classical Press of Wales

World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence

Edited by José Luís Brandão, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Cláudia Teixeira, University of Évora, Portugal & Ália Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights into how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of otherness, identity and culture.

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

UK December 2023 US December 2023

HB 9781350353985 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350354234 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350353992 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

400 pages

Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe Veterans, Masculinity and War

Obert Bernard Mlambo, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

"This remarkable and novel study highlights the potential for mutually illuminating comparison between Roman and African historical experiences." Dominic Rathbone, Professor of Ancient History, King's College London, UK

In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the 1st-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war. This study contributes to current efforts to decolonise knowledge construction by revealing that a non-Western perspective can broaden our understanding of veterans, war, violence, land and gender in classical culture.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350291898 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350291850

ePub 9781350291874 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291867 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World Studies in Honour of Matthew Freeman

Trundle

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

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 31 bw illus

HB 9781350283763 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350283787 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350283770 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Phryne A Life in Fragments

Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg, Canada

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

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350371873

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350371897

ePdf 9781350371880

Bloomsbury Academic

Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean

Edited by Antti Lampinen, Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece & Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

This volume advances a new and interdisciplinary understanding of what the sea as an environment and the pursuit of seafaring meant to Late Antique societies, drawing on a range of literary and archaeological evidence to explore the social, economic and cultural factors at play. The contributions are structured into three thematic parts which move from a broad consideration of the Mediterranean as an environment to specific questions of networks, mobility and the practicalities of travel, trade and warfare.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350201743 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350201705

ePub 9781350201729 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350201712 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Ancient Environments • Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Formalisms

Reading, Theory and the Boundaries of the Classical

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

• 18 bw illus

• 224 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

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

Women in Classical Video Games

The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination

Edited by Jane

Draycott,

University of Glasgow, UK & Kate Cook, University of St Andrews, UK

Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in video games set in classical antiquity.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 288 pages 40 bw illus

PB 9781350241923 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350241916

ePub 9781350241947 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350241930 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts • Bloomsbury Academic

John Talbot, Brigham Young University, USA

This book traces a neglected strand of English literary history and criticism: how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form – the stanza known as the Alcaic strophe – found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping it today. Talbot alters our view of literary history, exposing surprising connections between writers across five centuries, including Mary Sidney Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Blake, Tennyson, Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Bridges, Wilfred Owen, and W. H. Auden.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781350232532 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350232495

ePub 9781350232518 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350232501 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Object Lessons

Ian Bogost & Christopher Schaberg, both Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Air Conditioning

Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Davis

Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. Yet air conditioning isn’t for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 160 pages

PB 9781501377822 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501377839 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501377846 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Magazine

Jeff Jarvis, City University of New York, USA

For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy, until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. From TV critic and creator of Entertainment Weekly at Time, Inc, here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin’s press; through their boom — enabled by new technologies — as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the inter net.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781501394959 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501394966 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501394973 • £11.57 / $13.45

• 160 pages

Series: Object Lessons Bloomsbury Academic

Relic

Ed Simon

Every culture, every religion, every time period has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which gestures beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion; the exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance. Relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 144 pages

PB 9798765102282 £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765102299

ePdf 9798765102305

Bicycle

Jonathan Maskit, Denison University, USA

Bicycles promise safe, low-cost, environmentallyfriendly transportation for billions of people. But the bicycle can only be understood in relation to transit infrastructure and spatial planning. Jonathan Maskit looks at bicycles as environmental, urban, and everyday objects. The bicycle, a seemingly simple machine, quickly becomes complicated when it collides with public safety, politics, and the shape of cities.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 176 pages

PB 9781501338090 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501338106 £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501338113 £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Pencil

Carol Beggy, Freelance Writer, USA

The pencil, a cylinder of baked graphite and clay in wood case, creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, sharpen it, and destroy it. This book offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, and often overlooked utensil. Pencils are simple devices that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, as tens of millions of pencils are made and used annually. The lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 160 pages

PB 9781501392245 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501392238 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501392221 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons Bloomsbury Academic

Swimming Pool

Piotr Florczyk, University of Washington, USA

Swimming Pool looks at the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between mind and body. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the swimming pool’s prominent and iconic role in our society and culture.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 112 pages

PB 9781501394874 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501394881 £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501394898 £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

• £11.57 / $13.45

• £11.57 / $13.45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

The Alchemist

Edited by Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA

This newly annotated edition of Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist translates and illuminates the play's many pleasures. The introduction explores stage and critical history and alchemy while offering students information and guidance to fully understand and enjoy it. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's theatre but it is also notoriously difficult to study. By explaining the play’s alchemical language alongside its context-specific humour, the text is made accessible to students approaching it for the first time, without sacrificing scholarly depth or critical study.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

PB 9781472532596

• £15.99 / $21.95

• 416 pages • 15

• HB 9781472531995 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781472534866 • £14.39 / $20.24

ePdf 9781472526250

• £14.39 / $20.24

Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

• The Arden Shakespeare

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities

Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USA

How can Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals?

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

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350296428

• £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350296435 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350296442 • £67.50 / $91.79

Teaching and Learning Shakespeare through Theatrebased Practice

Edited by Tracy Irish, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Jennifer

Kitchen, University of Highlands and University of Glasgow, UK

Provides an overview of theatre-based teaching of Shakespeare and the educational principles underpinning the practice. Exploring how and why theatre-based practice in the classroom opens up the possibilities of Shakespeare study, it investigates how different understandings emerge from our experiences of language and culture. Drawing on the authors’ range of scholarly experience and practical work, this book empowers educators to support young people to interact critically, creatively and collaboratively with the cultural inheritance of Shakespeare’s texts.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350292048 • £21.99 / $29.95

• 256 pages

• HB 9781350292055 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350292079 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350292062 £19.79 / $26.99

The Arden Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing

Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

This book makes The Winter’s Tale accessible and exciting for you by providing expert guidance on understanding, interpreting and writing about Shakespeare’s language. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare’s complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. The book examines topics in the play, such as tragicomic genre; women’s assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 184 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9781350322523 £28.99 / $39.95

• 256 pages

Series: Shakespeare and Social Justice • The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Shakespeare Intersections

Previously published in HB 9781350175549

ePub 9781350175556 • £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781350175563 • £58.50 / $79.64

Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare

Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK & Sonia Massai, Lucy Munro & Gordon McMullan, all King's College London, UK

Shakespeare / Nature

Contemporary Readings in the Human and Nonhuman

Edited by Charlotte Scott, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK

Offering an expansive exploration of the intersections between the human and non-human worlds, chapters are grounded in close readings of Shakespeare's plays to focus on the rich and persuasive language of nature, both as organic matter and cultural conditioning.

Approaching ‘nature’ in all its diversity, contributors approach Shakespeare’s nature through the various lenses of philosophy, historicism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, cosmography, geography, sexuality, linguistics, environmentalism and feminism.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350259836

• 4 bw illus

• 352 pages

• £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350259843

ePdf 9781350259850

• £117.00 / $159.29

• £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections

• The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare / Space

Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama

Edited by Isabel Karremann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the cognitive, material and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, memory studies, theatre history and performance studies.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

• 400 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350282971 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350282988

ePdf 9781350282995

• £117.00 / $159.29

• £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Edited by Edel Semple, University College Cork, Ireland & Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick, UK

The first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life on modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare and his contemporaries in theatre, film and television. Exploring continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, it traces these developments through the 21st century. With contributions from scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines, and addressing topics including gender, nation, parody and performance, the collection presents a diverse account of Shakespearean biofiction.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9781350359208 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350359215 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350359222 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts

'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'

Edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA & Ariane Helou, UCLA, USA

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated, and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the diverse iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play’s dispersal into neighboring art forms and geographical locations. In Part One chapters explore adaptations ranging across ballet, opera, television, and architecture; in Part Two case studies explore the reception, adaptation and translation of Shakespeare's plays in Mexico, India and Korea and the diverse intents and effects these have had under differing regimes.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 304 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350343429 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350109209

ePub 9781350109216 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350109223 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Lockdown Shakespeare New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation

Edited by Gemma Kate Allred, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Benjamin Broadribb, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Erin Sullivan, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK

Theatre-makers turned to the Shakespearean canon repeatedly during 2020's global pandemic, just as they have over the centuries during times of crisis and historical significance. This collection offers the first in-depth academic analysis and sourcebook for 'lockdown Shakespeare', bringing together both established and new international voices from a range of disciplines. Combining scholarly analysis with interviews with theatre-makers and artists discussing their work, this is the definitive work on the evolution and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 296 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350247840 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350247802

ePub 9781350247819 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350247826 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Women and Indian Shakespeares

Edited by Thea Buckley, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK, Sangeeta Datta, Independent filmmaker & Rosa García-Periago, University of Murcia, Spain

This collection of essays explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18th century to the present. Uncovering a unique history of women as creators of Shakespeare in an Indian milieu, it spotlights the ways in which women are figured in Indian Shakespeares – as resistant agents, marital seductresses, redemptive daughters, fetishized objects, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 320 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350234369 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350234321

ePub 9781350234338 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781350234345 • £72.00 / $98.54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Student Editions

Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK, Chris Megson, Matthew Nichols, Manchester Grammar, UK & Sara Freeman

Posh

Laura Wade

Adults

Kieran Hurley

Edited

by

Henry Bell, University

of

the West of Scotland

The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell.

In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to 'rule'. Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the fraternity starts to fray rather when they discover they're a guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished. A spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, Posh is a satirical play about power, politics and privilege, and how these interact within British institutions.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 176 pages

PB 9781350235762 £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350235786 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350235779

• £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

The Mountaintop

Katori

Hall

Edited by Harvey Young, Boston College, US

The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving an acclaimed speech to a massive church congregation. When a mysterious young maid visits him to deliver a cup of coffee, King is forced to confront his past and the future of his people. Portraying rhetoric, hope and ideals of social change, The Mountaintop also explores being human in the face of inevitable death. It is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition, featuring notes and commentary by Harvey Young, Boston College, US.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 128 pages

PB 9781350187955 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350187979 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350187962 • £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Student Editions Methuen Drama

Revolt. She said. Revolt again

Alice Birch

Edited by Marissia Fragkou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

In her award-winning play, Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century. The play asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them? It is published here in a Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Marissia Fragkou, who considers the play's political and cultural context (including second- and third-wave feminism, and the #MeToo movement) plus interrogates the play's use of language, form and structure, and how the various productions have been critically received across the world.

Amongst a raft of anonymous Air BnBs in Edinburgh’s New Town, thirty-something Zara is running her own business and trying to make her way in the world. A new client has just arrived, but her colleague is running late. Tensions are high. Oh, and the business is a brothel, the client is her old teacher, and her colleague is having a panic about his fear of the inevitability of ageing. Kieran Hurley's ADULTS explores the growing gulf between the generations, the futility of blame culture, and how we need to make things better for those who will come after us.

UK August 2023 • US September 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350440296 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350440319 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350440302 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

A Brief List of Everyone Who Died

Jacob Marx Rice

Graciela would really like everyone to stop dying. After the scarring loss of her beloved dog Buster at the age of five, Graciela decides that no one she loves will ever die. But stopping death is easier said than done. Time rolls on inescapably and, as she grows, Graciela will, like everyone else, gain and lose the people most important to her to the eternal absence of mortality. Wickedly funny and deeply humane, Jacob Marx Rice's A Brief List of Everyone Who Died tells the story of all the deaths that make up a life.

UK May 2023 • US June 2023 • 72 pages

PB 9781350430099 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350430112 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350430105 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Moorcroft

Eilidh Loan

Garry’s turned 50 but doesn’t feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive ‘the glory days'. Inspired by true stories, Eilidh Loan's Moorcroft follows a group of young lads in search of an escape from their working class lives. But can playing football save them from the challenges they face and make them the men they want to be? With true friendship and the tenacity of working class people at its heart, Moorcroft tackles toxic masculinity in Scotland and asks ‘what is a real man?’

UK July 2023 US August 2023 88 pages

PB 9781350441637 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350441651 £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350441644 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

UK December 2023 US December 2023 96 pages

• £12.99 / $17.95

PB 9781350264403

ePub 9781350264427 • £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350264410 • £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar

Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Tommy Ross-Williams & Lucy Wray

Young Latinx women from South London stand on stage and dare you to call them invisible. Join Ale, Catalina, Lucia and Honey on The Heist as they try to expose one of the biggest banks in the world, challenging injustice and fighting for the representation they deserve. My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar is a formally innovative piece that weaves traditional playwriting with direct action and a live-art aesthetic, capturing the urgency of an activist rally and the celebration of a festival. This edition was published to coincide with the Brixton House production in London, June 2023.

UK June 2023 • US July 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350423251 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350423275 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350423268 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Salty Irina

Eve Leigh

After a series of racist murders in their European town, Anna and Eireni decide to infiltrate a far-right festival to identify the culprits. But when the nature of their relationship is uncovered, their safety is threatened. Salty Irina is a coming-of-age story set against the rise of the far-right, about two girls falling in love and fighting Nazis. Shortlisted for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize in 2019, Leigh’s play is an urgent, poetic, kick-ass thriller for queer women. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2023.

UK July 2023 • US September 2023

• 88 pages

PB 9781350435384 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350435407 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350435391 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Swell Isley Lynn

Annie is happy at last – she’s engaged to Bel, the love of her life, and counting down the days to their wedding. But then old friend, free spirit, and troublemaker Flo turns up unexpectedly, and announces she’ll be staying with them until the big day. Their surprise reunion turns into a complicated love triangle with dangerous consequences that threaten to destroy Annie’s Happily

Ever After... Isley

Lynn's thrilling romantic drama

The Swell is a gripping story spanning decades of love, sacrifice and betrayal, which was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020.

UK June 2023 US August 2023 88 pages

PB 9781350438835 £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350438859 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350438842 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Retrograde

Ryan Calais Cameron

The Golden Age of Hollywood. Behind closed doors, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier is offered a lucrative contract that could make him a superstar. But what is he willing to sacrifice? From the writer of award-winning For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Ryan Calais Cameron’s explosive play Retrograde explores identity, resilience, and integrity as it examines a true event in 1950’s Hollywood and the reality of a Black actor’s journey to stardom. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Kiln Theatre, in April 2023.

UK April 2023 • US June 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350419001 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350419025 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350419018 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama World English

STARS

Mojisola Adebayo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space… in search of her own orgasm. Her quest is sparked by three encounters: a young neighbour who discloses a secret, an old friend who reveals she is intersex, and a would-be lesbian lover in a launderette who offers Mrs two drops of her own pressed lavender and a smile that says, ‘I handle delicates with care’. STARS is a moving and joyful, sensitive yet funny, Afrofuturist odyssey. STARS is the latest play from internationally acclaimed theatre maker, Alfred Fagon award-winner and George Devine Award 2022 finalist, Mojisola Adebayo.

UK April 2023 • US May 2023 • 96 pages

PB 9781350411005 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350411029 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350411012 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

An Oak Tree

Tim Crouch

A man loses his daughter to a car accident. Nothing now is what it seems. It’s like he’s in a play - but he doesn’t know the words or the moves.

Tim Crouch’s critically acclaimed play playfully pushes the limits of theatre: a two-hander, where one of the actors walk on stage having neither seen nor read a word of the play they’re in… until they’re in it.

UK July 2023 • US August 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350437609 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350437616 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350437623 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Beneatha's Place

Kwame Kwei-Armah

1959. The first wave of independence is sweeping across Africa and Beneatha has left the prejudice of 1950s America for a brighter future with her Nigerian husband in Lagos. But on the day they move into their new house in the white suburbs, it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear, changing the course of the rest of their lives.

Inspired Lorraine Hansberry's ground-breaking modern classic, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha’s Place challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.

UK June 2023 • US September 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350437999 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350438019 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350438002 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Frank and Percy

Ben Weatherill

Ever seen a couple of old boys on a park bench and wondered what they are chatting about? In his new play Ben Weatherill lets us overhear Frank and Percy as they discuss the weather, then their dogs and then each other and so much more. Will the widowed schoolteacher and the elder statesman dare to risk changing their lives or let sleeping dogs lie?

Frank and Percy is a poignant and witty take on the unexpected relationship that blossoms between two men.

UK June 2023 • US August 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350438798 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350438811 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350438804 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Idle, They Yammer

Matthew Trevannion

What happens when the stories we inhabit begin to crumble? How can we still manufacture hope in a world that’s falling apart?

Matthew Trevannion's ode to hard graft, a metaphysical conversation between people trapped by the very thing they’ve spent their entire lives building.

KING

Pat Kinevane, Playwright/Actor, Ireland

UK May 2023

• US June 2023

PB 9781350423992

• 80 pages

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350424012 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350424005 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Effect

Lucy Prebble

Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? Lucy Prebble’s funny and intimate examination of love and ethics originally premiered in 2012, becoming an instant modern classic. This edition revised and updated edition is published to coincide with the production at the National Theatre, in August 2023.

UK August 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350439702

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350439719

• £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350439726 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 88 pages

KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Baw’s hero, Dr Martin Luther King Jr.. Luther only leaves his apartment for essential journeys, and to perform as an Elvis impersonator. The play explores oppression, privilege, and resilience, as Luther struggles to live life to the full. This is the fifth solo play by Pat Kinevane, following Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, and Before, which are the winners of many international awards, including the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Herald Archangel, and Scotsman Fringe Firsts.

UK February 2023

• US March 2023 • 48 pages

PB 9781350368798 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350368804 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350368811 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Three Poems

Northleigh, 1940; In Stereo; all of it

Alistair McDowall

A woman trapped at home during an air raid.

A mother who starts to see double.

A whole life in one breath.

Three new dramatic poems from award-winning writer Alistair McDowall published to coincide with the run at London's Royal Court Theatre in June 2023.

UK June 2023

• US August 2023

• 96 pages

PB 9781350427051 • £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350427068

• £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350427075 £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Plays for Young People

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

Tim Crouch, Sara Shaarawi, Bryony Kimmings, Lewis Hetherington, Robert

Josephine

Edited by Wonder Fools

Softley Gale & Leyla

Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume Three includes six exciting new plays by some of the best artists working in the UK today written with and for young people. Created as part of Wonder Fools' international participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, which has reached over 8000 young people from 16 different countries including UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden. Co-commissioned by Wonder Fools and the Traverse Theatre these six plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 10 to 25.

UK June 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350411104 • £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350411128 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350411111 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

World English

Five Children and It

Edith Nesbit

Adapted by Marietta Kirkbride

If you could have one wish what would it be? Sent away to live in the countryside with their reclusive uncle, five children discover a secret that’s been hidden away for centuries: a magical, mischievous but somewhat grouchy Sand Fairy called It with the power to grant spectacular wishes. There’s just one catch… Marietta Kirkbride's sparkling take on Five Children and It, the classic story by E. Nesbit, is published in Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series which offers suitable plays for young performers and audiences at schools, youth groups and youth theatres.

UK June 2023 • US July 2023

• 104 pages

PB 9781350423121 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350423145 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350423138 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

Our Town Needs a Nando's

Samantha O'Rourke

School is a nightmare, boys are infuriating and maccies is the only place open after 6pm. Growing up isn’t easy, but it’s even harder when you are from a place where no one expects anything of you - and especially if you’re queer or the new girl at school.

Beth, Rachel, Zahidah, Ellie and Chloe are stuck, stuck in their drama group, stuck in school and stuck in their small town which doesn’t even have a Nando's. Our Town Needs a Nando's is written by Samantha O'Rourke, alumni of the Young Everyman Playhouse programme.

UK July 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350434615

The Empress

Tanika Gupta

Through narrative, music and song, The Empress blends the true story of Queen Victoria’s controversial relationship with her Indian servant and ‘Munshi’ (teacher), Abdul Karim, with the experiences of Indian ayahs who came to Britain during the 19th century. With private romance being mapped onto world history, the action cuts between the ship and different royal residences, offering bright contrasts as well as surprising affinities. In doing so, the play uncovers remarkable unknown stories of 19th-century Britain and charts the growth of Indian nationalism and the romantic proclivities of one of Britain's most surprising monarchs.

UK July 2023 • US August 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781350428584 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350428591 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350428607 £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

200 Themes for Devising

Theatre with 11–18 Year Olds

A Drama Teacher’s Resource Book

Jason Hanlan, Colegio Las Candelas, Argentina

Following on from his successful book 200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance, author Jason Hanlan has once again solved one of drama teachers' most frequently encountered problems: how to unlock the best devised performance with their students. Here we have a unique resource for drama teachers providing 200 stimuli and ageappropriate individual topics within those to help inspire and guide young people in devising performance. Additionally, there is useful information on devising techniques; workshops, schemes and lesson ideas for introducing devising; and guidance on how to analyse the work and give feedback.

UK February 2024 US April 2024 192 pages

PB 9781350279636 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350279643 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350279650 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350279667 • £15.29 / $21.59

Methuen Drama

• 80 pages

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350434639

ePdf 9781350434622

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

World English

A spotlight on plays and drama

Research findings show:

In 2019 assessments, 0% of English Literature students answered a question on a play by a Global Majority writer

In 2022 assessments, 90% of drama

set texts available at GCSE English

Literature and 96% at A Level are written by white playwrights

By 2025, GCSE and A Level English

Literature students in England and Wales will have the option to choose from 10 new modern plays by writers of colour

Change is coming. Be part of it.

Download the research report and find out more at Bloomsbury.com/

We’re supporting representative and inclusive drama experiences within the English curriculum

I, Shakespeare

I, Malvolio; I, Cinna; I, Peaseblossom; I, Banquo; I, Caliban

Tim Crouch

Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest... in a way you’ve never seen them before.

Featuring an introduction from Crouch that explains the origin of the five plays and their performance processes, the I, Shakespeare collection provides a fresh perspective on some of theatre’s most well-known stories.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023

• 144 pages

PB 9781350439306 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350439313 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350439320 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350439337 • £17.99 / $24.29

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama

World English

Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices

Prah, Prime Location, The Dead Man, Sunday Lunch, The Bat

Krisztina Tóth, Janos Hay & György Spiró

Edited by Szilvi Naray, University of Salford, UK

Translated by Szilvi Naray, University of Salford, UK

A unique collection of five contemporary plays from 21st century Hungary, translated into English for the first time.

Written by some of Hungary’s most highly-prolific and commercially successful dramatic voices, these plays are being produced in their native Hungary by theatres that do not adhere to Viktor Orbán's values and offer a counter point to the commercial Boulevard Theatre scene of Budapest.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781350370722 • £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350370746

ePdf 9781350370753

Decadent Plays: 1890 to 1925

Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Drama Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and the Barbe

Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

Edited by Adam Alston, Goldsmiths University of London, UK & Jane

Desmarais

Decadent Plays is a selection of some of the most intriguing and challenging examples of Decadent drama, from the late 19th century; witty satire, political drama, transgressive social commentary, mystical meditation, which for many years were banned from being staged in public.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 440 pages

PB 9781350171831 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350171824 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350171855 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350171848 £26.99 / $36.44

Methuen Drama

World English

Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha; A Time Traveller's Guide to Donbas; Pilates Time; Bomb; House of Ghosts. Why. We. Fled. Donbas; I Don't Remember the Name; The Mother by Gorky; Tolyk the Diaryman

Natalka Vorozhbyt, Anastasiia Kosodii, Natalia Blok, Andrei Bondarenko, Maksym Kurochkin, Ekaterina Penkova & Olha Matsiupa

Edited by Molly Flynn

Translated by Sasha Dugdale, Jack Clover, Daisy Hayes, Daisy Gibbons, Uilleam Blacker, Olesya Khromeychuk & Nina Murray

In 2013, 2 million Ukrainians took to the streets in defence of democracy and human rights during the Euromaidan Revolution. In the months directly following the Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and war broke out in the Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists.

• 224 pages

• HB 9781350370739

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

World English

Edited

• Methuen Drama

• £75.00 / $100.00

Ukrainian New Drama after Euromaidan brings together key works from the country’s impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, published here in English for the first time.

UK October 2023

PB 9781350335912

Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Play Collection

Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight; The Revolutionists; Ada and the Engine; Silent Sky; Natural Shocks

Lauren

Gunderson

by Julie Felise Dubiner

Gunderson demonstrates why she has become one of America’s most produced playwrights. Weaving together the extraordinary stories of trailblazing women from various eras, Gunderson provides a unique and necessary perspective on modern American feminism, the beautiful humanism of science, and the power of the heartful heroine.

UK November 2023

PB 9781350401587

• US November 2023

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350401594

ePdf 9781350401600

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

World English

• 280 pages

• Methuen Drama

World

Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora

H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo, Tekle Hawariat, Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Athol Fugard, Derek Walcott & Michael Gilkes

Edited by Simon Gikandi & R. N. Sandberg, Princeton University, USA

The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora.

Decolonizing the Theatre Space A Conversation

Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Kwame Kwei-Armah & Olivia Poglio-Nwabali

This book includes 20 interviews with pioneering Black cultural leaders from a wide range of senior executive positions in the arts within the UK, US and Africa. It documents the sea of change in arts leadership post the height of the #Blacklivesmatter movement, the pressure on organizations to confront and change their racial and ethnic make-up, and shines a light on the guiding ambitions, strategic plans and visions for the future to support the ongoing decolonization of arts organizations across the world.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9781350205130 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350205123 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350205154 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350205147 • £17.99 / $24.29

Methuen Drama

World English

Acting Professionally

An Essential Career Guide for the Actor

Robert Cohen, University of California, Irvine, USA & James Calleri, New York, USA

Now in its 9th edition, Acting Professionally has become the leading book in the field since it first published in 1972. Filled with practical advice, the book gives a clear understanding of how acting careers are built and sustained. It includes an extensive brand new section on the industry to reflect the 21st century, considering the shifting landscape and new opportunities offered. Crucially, it reflects the vital changes in the industry as a result of the Black Lives Matter, Time's Up and Me Too movements, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 296 pages 12 bw illus

PB 9781350347724 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781350347717 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350347731 £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350347700 • £16.19 / $22.94

Methuen Drama

What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

James Harriman-Smith

Across five chapters, this book introduces readers to the eighteenth-century stage and the ideas that governed it before presenting a series of exercises developed in collaboration with professional actors and directors from the period’s vast corpus of writing about acting. These exercises can be employed singly or combined into an iterative rehearsal process; they are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350171961

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350171985

ePdf 9781350171978

Methuen Drama

The Accidental Producer How Anyone Can Get Their Show on Stage

Tim

Johanson

A practical guide to small-scale theatre producing, focusing on exactly what is required to make your show a success. It recognises that smaller-scale fringe theatre works differently from the commercial or subsidized sectors, and offers advice on how to embrace that. Readers might be creatives with a singular interest in producing, or they might be artists who haven't considered producing as a career, but aren’t getting the jobs they want and have the passion and drive to make the work happen themselves.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350338326 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350338333 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350338340 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350338357 • £17.99 / $24.29

Methuen Drama

World English

Acting is Your Business How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

Wendy S. Kurtzman, UCLA, Chapman University and Pace University, USA

While performing arts schools do a great job of teaching students how to act, most don’t teach them how to launch and sustain a career. This book addresses this fundamental aspect of the creative journey. It delivers a formula based on the syllabus Kurtzman has taught for years, arguing that if acting is your business, you must run it as a business. Positioning you as CEO of your own company, it uses a boardroom table as a visual model with 7 key positions, each representing an area of expertise that you must understand and manage to build a successful career. UK

ePub 9781350385818

/ $24.29

ePdf 9781350385801 £17.99 / $24.29

Series: Introductions to Theatre Methuen Drama

Theatre and the Threshold of Death

Lectures on the Dying Arts

Kathleen M. Gough

• 15 bw illus

• 256 pages

• HB 9781350171954

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £75.00 / $100.00

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

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350385511

• 208 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350385535

ePdf 9781350385528

• 15 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• Methuen Drama

Series: Thinking Through Theatre

World English

Social Media in Musical Theatre

Trevor Boffone

This book introduces the relationship between musical theatre and social media in the 21st century as well as methods to study social media’s influence on musicals through three in-depth case studies organized around marketing on YouTube, fan engagement on Twitter, and new musical development on TikTok.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 128 pages

PB 9781350358560 • £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350358577 • £9.89 / $13.49

ePdf 9781350358584 • £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

National Identity and the British Musical

From Blood Brothers to Cinderella

Grace Barnes

Through case studies and analysis of British musicals such as Blood Brothers, Cinderella, Half a Sixpence and Billy Elliot, this book examines the place of the British musical within a text-based theatrical heritage and asks what, or whose, Britain is being represented by home grown musicals. The sheer number of people engaging with shows bestows enormous power upon the genre and yet critics display a reluctance to analyse the cultural meanings produced by new work, or to hold work to account for production teams and narratives which continue to shun diversity and inclusive practices.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages

PB 9781350243576 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350243538

ePub 9781350243545 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350243552 • £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

Trish Arnold

The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors

Lizzie Ballinger, RADA, UK

A unique guide to Trish Arnold's pioneering movement training for actors, focusing on both the context and the practice. As the first and only recorded collection of her work, this book offers the reader a clear and concise explanation of movements developed by Arnold throughout her career and looks at where these came from and how they have been passed on to the next generation of practitioners. It documents Arnold's journey into theatre and is supplemented throughout by illustrations of her movements, notes and sketches by Arnold herself, and quotes from her contemporaries.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 264 pages 85 bw illus

PB 9781350264557 £25.99 / $35.95 HB 9781350264564 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350264588 • £23.39 / $32.39

ePdf 9781350264571 • £23.39 / $32.39

Methuen Drama

Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness’

Edited by Clare Chandler & Gus Gowland

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that perhaps aren’t given the critical insights they deserve.

Through academic interrogation and industry insight, this unique collection of essays recognizes these works, shining a light on their creative achievements and long legacies. Touching on key, hit shows such as SIX, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Grinning Man and Bend it Like Beckham, each chapter discusses different theatrical elements, from dramaturgy and musicology to reception.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781350268036 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350268050 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350268074 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350268043 • £22.49 / $31.04

Methuen Drama

World English

Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

Legacy of the Silk Road

Laurel Victoria Gray, George Washington University, USA

The first comprehensive work in English on the 3 major regional styles of Uzbek women’s danceFerghana, Khiva and Bukhara - and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys their remarkable development from earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to their hidden life under Islam; and from liberation under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women’s dance.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 192 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781350249479 £18.99 / $24.95 HB 9781350249516 £60.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350249493 £17.09 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350249486 £17.09 / $24.29

Series: Dance in the 21st Century • Bloomsbury Academic

Theatre and Dramaturgy

Zoe Svendsen

What is a dramaturg?

Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatregoers. Theatre and Dramaturgy offers a working definition of what dramaturgy means, and asks how understanding theatre from the perspective of dramaturgy can help us understand the world around us.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 120 pages

PB 9781350332461 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350332485 £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350332478 £8.99 / $12.14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Theatre and Tourism

Margaret Werry

This volume offers insight into the historical and contemporary entanglement of theatre and tourism, and speculates about the future as emerging technologies reshape both industries, offering new experiences of presence, embodiment, and mobility. Theatre and Tourism begins by presenting the concept of the “touristic”, together with a brisk survey of tourism theory and relevant works in performance and theatre studies. It then offers three chapters, each contextualizing its central questions with a range of examples from geopolitically diverse sites, before closely reading an example based on original research.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

PB 9781350349957

• £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350349964 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350349971 • £8.99 / $12.14

Series: Theatre And • Methuen Drama

• 136 pages

Theatre and the USA

Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin

How is the individual and the ‘nation’ constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself?

Who are the ‘people’ in ‘We the People’?

This brief study examines the intersection of the USA’s sense of self with its theatre, revealing how the two have an entangled history and a shared identity.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350332775

• £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350332799 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350332782 • £8.99 / $12.14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Theatre and Travel

Fiona Wilkie

Theatre and Travel aims to persuade you that it is impossible to untether both the history and the contemporary experience of theatre from travel, and invites you to think about both the effects that travel has on theatre and the effects that theatre, because of its travels, can have on our understanding of the world.

The volume poses a number of questions: what is the relationship between touring and other kinds of theatre work? How should theatre circulate, and how are we to understand this circulation? What impact do touring routes and agendas have beyond the dissemination of what’s on stage? What frictions sometimes hinder theatre’s travels? Whose travel stories get told within the theatre, and by whom?

UK October 2023

• US October 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350331259 • £9.99 / $12.95

ePub 9781350331273 • £8.99 / $12.14

ePdf 9781350331266 • £8.99 / $12.14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA & Anja Hartl, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Theatre and its Audiences

Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis

Kate Craddock, GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, UK & Helen Freshwater, Newcastle University, UK

Written in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatregoing together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. The book combines historical and current cultural sector perspectives as it reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, this book offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350339170

• £19.99 / $26.95

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350339163

ePub 9781350339187 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350339194 £17.99 / $24.29

• £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances Methuen Drama

Theater in a Post-Truth World Texts, Politics, and Performance

Edited by William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. With contributions by scholars from around the world, Theater in a Post-Truth World considers a wide array of examples from American and British drama and politics, Australian theater, and the work of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Together these provide a glimpse into how the theater in its many forms provides a venue to raise awareness and encourage critical thinking about the contemporary ubiquity of post-truth.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350215894

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 240 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350215856

ePub 9781350215863

ePdf 9781350215870

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

• Methuen Drama

Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The Theatre and its Double Antonin Artaud

Edited by Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK

Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK

This new translation of Artaud's canonical text from 1938 retains the idiosyncratic nature of some of the author's writing while communicating the fervour and ambition that it contained. Translated into a contemporary English that accurately conveys the detail and impact of the original, this is the first English-language version of The Theatre and its Double to be at once faithful to the original and more easy for today's readers to understand. A welcome addition any theatre-lover's or student's bookshelf, this is a much-needed opportunity to gain clear and faithful insights into Artaud's theatre.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350288713

• £15.99 / $19.95

ePub 9781350288737

ePdf 9781350288744

• 280 pages

• HB 9781350288720

• £14.39 / $20.24

• £14.39 / $20.24

Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Engage

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

Spectatorship and the Real in French Contemporary Theatre

Amélie Mons

• £45.00 / $61.00

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350300835 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350300842 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350300859 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Postdigital Performances of Care Technology & Pandemic

Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK & Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK

A timely examination of the survival instinct of practitioners and audiences engaged in theatremaking and theatre-going in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores the paradoxical tension that has emerged between a disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on online modes of practice. It identifies blindspots and ethical dilemmas that the shift to online and technologized practices may be engendering by assessing performances from emerging theatre-makers and participatory online theatre productions. Performances discussed include Thaddeus Phillips’ Zoom Motel, Handle with Care and Tania

El Khoury’s As Far As Isolation Goes

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350272101

• 144 pages

• £50.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350272125

ePdf 9781350272132

• £45.00 / $62.09

• £45.00 / $62.09

Series: Performance and Digital Cultures • Methuen Drama

Theatre with a Purpose

Amateur Drama in Britain 1919-1949

Don Watson, Independent scholar

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781350232044

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350232051

ePdf 9781350232068

The Art Gallery on Stage New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting

Mariacristina Cavecchi

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

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 272 pages • 25 bw illus.

HB 9781350330702 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350330726 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350330719 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Theatre-Making Since the 1990s

Ashis Sengupta, University of North Bengal, India

None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the postdramatic, but many have used the theatre model in innovative, transnational ways. Essentially, they have adapted an originally European theatre paradigm to a different historical context and added new dimensions to it by crosspollinating it with indigenous cultural forms. This book balances theory, contextualisation and praxis, building a hitherto non-existing archive of scholarship in Indian theatre within a postdramatic framework and an argument for its place within contemporary Indian theatre. Interspersed throughout are Indian theatre-makers’ opinions about their contemporary performance theory and practices.

• 224 pages • 6 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance Methuen Drama

UK July 2023 • US September 2023 • 216 pages

PB 9781350284395 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350154087

ePub 9781350154094 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350154100 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

Erika Hughes, University of Portsmouth, UK

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350263338 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350263345 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350263352 £76.50 / $103.94

Methuen Drama

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1

From the Lab to the Streets

Edited by Vivian Appler, University of Georgia, USA & Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA

The first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book’s chapters variously trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, reenact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings.

• 9 bw illus

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

• 280 pages

PB 9781350234116 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350234062

ePub 9781350234079 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350234086 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Methuen Drama

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Edited by Sean Metzger, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Roberta Mock, University of Plymouth, UK

A guide to contemporary debates and practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. This volume examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 576 pages 35 bw illus

HB 9781350123175 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350123182 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350123199 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Methuen Drama Handbooks • Methuen Drama

A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity

Edited by Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Covering the period from 500 BCE to 1000 AD, this volume examines tragedy in antiquity, from its misty origins in Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts.

Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 232 pages • 36 bw illus

PB 9781350416529 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474287890

ePub 9781350154889 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350154872 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages

Edited by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland, USA, John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University, USA & Carol Symes, University of Illinois, USA

Spanning the period from 1000 to 1400, the 8 essays in this volume offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 240 pages • 19 bw illus

PB 9781350416765 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474287906

ePub 9781350154940 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350154957 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited

by Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA

Covering the period between 1400 and 1650, this volume includes eight lively, original essays which trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the Early Modern period and across geographic, political, and social references.

They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781350416789 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474287968

ePub 9781350155008 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350155015 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy

Covering the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume traces the metamorphoses of tragedy in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly defined by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its narrative focuses on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries.

The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350416802

• US September 2023

• £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474288071

ePub 9781350155060

ePdf 9781350155077

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• 216 pages

• 33 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University, USA

Covering the period between 1650 and 1800, this volume is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. This volume examines the way in which tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period of enormous political, social and economic changes, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 248 pages • 40 bw illus

PB 9781350416796 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474288057

ePub 9781350155084 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350155091 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age

Edited by Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK

Covering the period from 1920 to the present, this volume considers the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus, the essays also cover tragic representation in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. It also reflects increasing globalization, including intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations.

UK September 2023

PB 9781350416819

• US September 2023

• £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474288095

ePub 9781350155114 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350155107 £67.50 / $91.79

• 39 bw illus

• 232 pages

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

Early Childhood Studies A Multidisciplinary Approach

Jenny Willan, Cullompton

Fully updated in its 2nd edition this comprehensive and accessible book is a one-stop introductory text for those entering the field of early childhood studies and early years. Scholarly, and engagingly written, it covers all the key contemporary debates from child development, language acquisition and play to professional practice, health and wellbeing and diversity and inclusion. The new edition includes two new chapters on fostering creativity and sustainability.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 464 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350383715 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350383722 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350383739 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350383746 £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

The Induction of Early Childhood Educators

Retention, Needs, and Aspirations

Laura K. Doan, Thompson Rivers University, Canada

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350187221 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350187245 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350187238 £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood

Birth to Six

Lelia Green, Edith Cowan University, Australia, Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics, UK, Donell Holloway, Edith Cowan University, Australia, Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK, Brian O’Neill, Technological University Dublin, Ireland & Kylie Stevenson, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Including a glossary of key terms, this book draws on a three-year research project examining the realities of 0-5 years olds’ experiences of these technologies in the UK and Australia. The authors draw heavily on Vygotsky and engage with other thinkers including Bronfenbrenner and Bruner. It explores how parents of young children evaluate these opportunities and concerns, and how they try to work out ways to parent in relation to technologies they did not experience in their own childhood. The book examines how digital technologies fit in with other elements of children’s daily lives including their preferences, pleasures and sociability.

UK April 2024 US April 2024 272 pages

HB 9781350120273 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350120297 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350120280 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Education Conversations From Across the World

Edited by Mona Sakr, Middlesex University, UK & June O'Sullivan, Chief Executive, London Early Years Foundation, UK

This book shows how effective pedagogical leadership can create the right conditions for quality ECE provision, to increase motivation and engagement among staff and impact positively on staff recruitment and retention. Written by a team of international experts based in Australia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA this is the first book to study pedagogical leadership in-depth and through an international lens. The chapters address questions including 'what is pedagogic leadership?', 'what does it look like?' and 'what impact can pedagogic leadership have on the everyday work of nurseries and other ECE providers?'.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350250895 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350250482

ePub 9781350250505 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350250499 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

Emotion, Power, and White Saviours

Diane M. Hoffman

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

• £90.00 / $120.00

HB 9781350321335

10 bw illus

• 272 pages

ePub 9781350321359 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350321342

Bloomsbury Academic

• £81.00 / $110.69

The Asian Gang Revisited Changing Muslim Masculinities

Claire E. Alexander, University of Manchester, Manchester

The Asian Gang Revisited picks up the story of ‘the Asian gang’ over the subsequent two decades, examining the changing identities of the original participants as they transition into adulthood in the context of increased public and political concerns over Muslim masculinities, spanning the War on Terror, ‘grooming gangs’ and knife crime. A unique longitudinal study of this small, diverse but still close cohort of men, the book offers an intimate, rich and textured account of what it means to be a Muslim man in contemporary Britain.

PB 9781350384132

The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University, USA

Now in its 2nd edition, this book serves as companion to Freire’s seminal work, supporting the application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today. The new edition includes a new chapter called Teaching Pedagogy of the Oppressed with additional dialogue questions and activities designed to support students and instructors. It also includes an updated Bibliography and further reading list.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 288 pages

PB 9781350190061 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9781350190054 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350190030 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350190023 • £13.49 / $18.89

Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Politics and Education

Fascism on Trial

The Crisis of Politics, Education, and Agency

Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada & Anthony R. DiMaggio

This book interrogates rising fascism in America. It spotlights the major facets of fascism that increasingly characterize contemporary U.S. politics, in relation to political authoritarianism, the rise of anti-intellectualism, the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, the glorification of political street violence and state violence, rising white supremacy, and the militarization of U.S. political discourse. Alongside this, Giroux and DiMaggio show how the assault on critical education and pedagogy is central to the fascist program.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

PB 9781350421684 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350421677 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350421691 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350421714 • £15.29 / $21.59

Bloomsbury Academic

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

New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education

Curiosity’s Vital Potential

Cala Coats, Arizona State University, USA

With this open access book, Cala Coats develops a theory of “vital curiosity” as a transdisciplinary educational force that activates ecological flows of connection. In the book, curiosity becomes a critical learning disposition and creative process, tracing embodied encounters through aesthetic disruptions and attractions, activating questions and durational commitments toward affirmative complexity. Drawing on new materialist and posthuman theories, the book puts forward an image of educational life, as it extends from curiosity, as a radical pedagogical practice. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 208 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350278745 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350278769 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350278752 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic

The Necessity of Aesthetic Education

The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum

Laura D’Olimpio

Laura D’Olimpio argues that aesthetic education ought to be a compulsory part of education for all students, from pre-primary through to high school, as it is essential that young people have the opportunity to make art, experience and understand art and be informed as to the artistic history and aesthetic theories that have shaped their own culture and others. The book defends arts education on the basis of art’s distinctive value and centrality to human experience. It also engages with topics such as the art teacher’s role in the classroom, curricula concerns and gleaning moral meanings from artworks.

UK May 2024

• US May 2024

HB 9781350120907

Althusser and Education Reassessing Critical Education

David I. Backer, West Chester University, USA

In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s philosophy of education, presents its flawed reception in critical educational research, and draws out what the philosophy has to offer us today. Correcting the record about Althusser’s thinking in the traditional narrative of critical educational research becomes an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions for thinking about school in its social context. For students and researchers of education, critical theory, sociology of education, and critical pedagogy, this book will be a resource for rethinking the social foundations of education, both as a field and as a set of theoretical frameworks for educational research.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 228 pages

PB 9781350226845 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350101487

ePub 9781350101500 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350101494 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Pedagogies of Taking Care

Art, Pedagogy and the Gift of Otherness

Dennis Atkinson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

This book traces the notion of care and civic values in education that are largely devalued today by neoliberal economic concerns. Through a discussion of educators and philosophers including Arendt, Foucault, Guattari, Patocka, Simondon, Stengers and Whitehead Atkinson explores the ‘gift of otherness’ in relation to an ethico-politics of pedagogic practice and learning, including art education. He argues for pedagogical practices that facilitate and support each learner's pathways through what is called a pedagogy of taking care. This involves paying due attention, with empathy, to each learner’s pathway of learning and to the difference and divergence of such pathways.

• 256 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350120921

• £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350120914 £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education Bloomsbury Academic

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350288362 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350288324

ePub 9781350288348 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350288331 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

–Philosophy of Education / Critical Pedagogy

A Framework for Teaching Music Online

Carol Johnson, University of Melbourne, Australia

A Framework for Teaching Music Online defines the current online learning landscape of music in higher education and then presents a cyclical teaching framework that describes how to practically develop an online music course. Each part of the framework takes the reader through the three main components of developing an online music course: communication, design, and assessment. Practical ideas and tools for faculty and students to implement into their current or future online teaching practice are explored, drawing on research-informed practices and case study evidence. Johnson also considers future innovations, exploring knowledge sharing and professional learning networks.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 216 pages • 25 bw illus

PB 9781350201897 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350201866

ePub 9781350201873 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350201859 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Jeffrey S. Brooks, Curtin University, Australia, Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA, Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan, Chen Schechter, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Victoria Showunmi, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK

Women Navigating Educational Leadership

Jana L. Carlisle, Educational Support Consulting, USA

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350409989 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350410008 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350409996 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

Conflict, Education and Peace in Nepal

Rebuilding Education for Peace and Development

Tejendra Pherali, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK

This book provides a critical analysis of the contentious role of education in the emergence of conflict, as well as the effects of violence on education. The author engages with sociological and political theories to analyse the emergence and expansion of armed rebellion and discuss implications for peacebuilding and social transformation. He argues that education in Nepal played a complicit role in the conflict, primarily benefitting the traditionally privileged social groups in the society and hence, perpetuating the existing structural inequalities, which were the major causes of the rebellion.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781472988065 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350028753

ePub 9781350028777 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350028760 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Educational Leadership and Critical Theory

What Can School Leaders Learn from the Critical Theorists

Edited by Charles L. Lowery, Chetanath Gautam, Robert White & Michael E. Hess

This book shows how critical theory can help school leaders and administrators to prepare students for the ever-changing political, cultural, economic, and societal conditions of the world. The contributors use ideas from critical theorists including Adorno, Fromm, Marcuse and Habermas and connect them with contemporary theories and debates in educational leadership from moral education to critical theories on race, to culturally relevant practice. The book challenges the misconceptions of many present-day educators about the analytical lens offered by the Frankfurt School theorists which is often dismissed by policymakers and practitioners.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350353428 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350353442 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350353435 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

The Relational Leader Catalyzing Social Networks for Educational Change

Edited by Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan & Alan J. Daly, University of California, San Diego, USA

The social systems engaged in this volume cut across a wide array of stakeholder groups representing different levels of the educational endeavor, and diverse perspectives from multiple areas and international settings. This book not only builds on previous and ongoing research and practice, but also extends to cutting edge issues and practices around the use of social networks in education across different contexts and settings with a core intent to provide a perspective on leadership and connect it with leadership practice that works at these settings for change.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 320 pages 20 bw illus

HB 9781350336421 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350336445 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350336438 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

Series Editor: Viv Ellis

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Viv Ellis, Monash University, Australia

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Keywords in Teacher Education

Ken Zeichner, University of Washington, USA

As well as clarifying the landscape on including communities in teacher education, Ken Zeichner argues for a view of teacher education in which existing power hierarchies are disrupted and in which parents/carers, families and local communities play central roles in the preparation of teachers and teacher educators. He also argues for a vision of teaching that includes instruction, curriculum development, and community participation. He explores the links between equity and justice in education in schools in marginalized communities and shows how decolonial approaches to teacher education that access community expertise can help shift power relations resulting in culturally sustaining and revitalizing forms of education.

UK December 2023

PB 9781350173330

• US December 2023

• £14.99 / $19.95

ePub 9781350173354

ePdf 9781350173361

• 144 pages • 5 bw illus

• HB 9781350173347

• £13.49 / $18.89

• £13.49 / $18.89

• £45.00 / $61.00

Series: Keywords in Teacher Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Disadvantage

Keywords in Teacher Education

Jo Lampert, Monash University, Australia, Jane Wilkinson, Monash University, Australia, Mervi Kaukko, Tampere University, Finland & Rocío García-Carrión, University of Deusto, Spain

In this book, the authors draw together international perspectives to explore the subtle and complex differences produced by the keyword disadvantage in different geopolitical contexts, and look at the political, historical, social, and cultural significance of the word. The authors also showcase narratives from the subjects of disadvantage, including indigenous perspectives. They include standpoints from immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees and consider the intersectional nature of disadvantage, for instance, the experiences of LGBTQI+ groups who are living in poverty.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350259096 • £14.99 / $19.95

Understanding Buddhism

A Guide for Teachers

James D. Holt, University of Chester, UK

This book engages with Buddhist beliefs and practices and provides students and teachers with the confidence to address misconceptions and recognise the importance of beliefs in the lives of believers. Aspects of Buddhism explored include the concepts that form the central beliefs of Buddhism, and then the expression of these beliefs in worship, daily life, and the ethics of Buddhists in the modern day. Each chapter includes authentic voices of believers today and provides reflective tasks for the reader to consider the concepts and how they can be respected and taught and in the classroom.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 264 pages 20 bw illus

PB 9781350330276 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350330238 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350330252 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350330245 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Teaching Religions and Worldviews • Bloomsbury Academic

Teacher Education in Crisis

The State, The Market and the Universities in England

Edited by Viv Ellis, Monash University, Australia

In this open access book, leading teacher educators and researchers provide unique insights into a ‘great experiment’ in teacher education in England, sometimes insights from people who were in the room at critical junctures in the process. International researchers also contribute brief response chapters that highlight the distinctive approach England has taken is and why it is now an outlier in terms of education policy. It the relationship between ‘the state’ and ‘the market’ – where the state rejects the market if it doesn’t deliver the required ideological solution – that makes ITE reform in England so interesting and important for national and international readers. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Monash University.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350399655 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350399662 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350399686 • £0.00

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• 112 pages

• HB 9781350259102

ePub 9781350259126 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350259119 £13.49 / $18.89

• £45.00 / $61.00

Series: Keywords in Teacher Education Bloomsbury Academic

Knowledge

Keywords in Teacher Education

Steven Puttick, University of Oxford, UK, Victoria Elliott, University of Oxford, UK & Jenni Ingram

Key to teacher education is the knowledge base of the teacher educator, and the ways in which knowledge is conceptualised. This book explores how ideas about knowledge are used in teacher education to critically examine what knowledges are valued across research, policy and practice. The authors explore international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of knowledge (and what counts as knowledge) and how these perspectives on knowledge translate into teacher education, with a final chapter dedicated to exploring consequences for practice.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024

PB 9781350336537

• 20 bw illus

• 144 pages

• £14.99 / $19.95

• HB 9781350336544

ePub 9781350336568 £13.49 / $18.89

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Series: Keywords in Teacher Education

• £45.00 / $61.00

• Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury

How Schools Transform Practices, Research and Actions that Change Schools

Edited by Miranda Jefferson, Catholic Education Office, Parramatta, Australia & Michael Anderson, University of Sydney, Australia

How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation, with each chapter showcasing a school-based example of transformation. Assessment, pedagogy, curriculum, leadership, values and learning are explored before considering the key principles required across schools to make transformation a reality. Bringing together examples from around the world, the contributing authors give relatable insights into the mechanics, approaches and principles that drive authentic and sustainable transformation. Each chapter includes student voice, embedded cases, emerging themes, resonances and reflections and ways forward. Anderson and Jefferson skillfully weave together the chapters to relay the real stories and real approaches that make transformation the reality. UK

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Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges

Edited by Sophie-Lauren McPhee, Queen Mary’s Grammar School, UK & Victoria-Marie Pugh, University of Worcester, UK

This book explores quality PSHE education and why it is crucial for young people, along with a topic-bytopic overview as to what to cover in Key Stages 3-5 and how to cover it. It includes methods of assessing PSHE and providing extra-curricular opportunities as well as useful resources and reflection questions. With contributions from some of the country’s leading experts and practitioners with years of experience in this subject specialism, it is designed for anyone passionate about improving not only their provision of compulsory relationships, sex and health education, but also those aspects of PSHE not yet mandatory, such as financial literacy and careers education.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350336957

• £24.99 / $34.95

• 30 bw illus

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350336964

ePub 9781350336988 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350336971 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

• £75.00 / $100.00

Educational Assessment

The Influence of Paul Black on Research, Pedagogy and Practice

Edited by Christine Harrison, King’s College

London, UK, Constant Leung, King’s College

London, UK & David Pepper, King’s College

London, UK

This book explores the influence that Black has had across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects. The contributions are presented under three thematic sections, each of which reflects a set of shared educational concerns and values drawing on the natural and social sciences and developments in public policy. These concerns and values, with their emphasis on teacher assessment, provide a basis for a strategic, informed and coherent response to challenges in education, such as the cancellation of public examinations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023

HB 9781350288492 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350288515 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350288508 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Sustainability and Climate Change Curriculum Outdoors: Key Stage 2

Deborah Lambert, Sue Waite, Michelle Roberts & Alun Morgan

Promoting the inclusion of climate change and sustainability issues within the primary curriculum, this cutting-edge guide provides age-appropriate activities, curriculum links and opportunities for progression in knowledge and skills across lower and upper KS2. From the authors of the bestselling National Curriculum Outdoors series, the set of progressions include engaging and detailed lesson plans based around the Science National Curriculum throughout KS2. The book introduces essential curriculum concepts and teaches species identification, showing pupils how to encourage care and action for the natural world through outdoor activities linked to key curriculum goals.

UK March 2024 • 160 pages

PB 9781801992756 • £24.99

ePub 9781801992725 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781801992749 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Education

Rurality, Diversity and Schooling Multiculturalism in Regional Australia

Neroli Colvin, late of University of Technology

Sydney, Australia

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 240 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350368286 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350368309 • £81.00 / $110.69

• 304 pages • 10 bw illus

Nurturing ‘Difficult Conversations’ in Education Empowerment, Agency and Social Justice in the UK

Edited by Katarzyna Fleming & Fufy Demissie

This book offers critical discussion on the necessity for ‘difficult conversations’ to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK. The chapters cover a range of topics including: supporting children with SEND, parent and carer engagement, childhood trauma, race, disability, the climate emergency, research methods and draw on the theoretical work of Linda Martin Alcoff, Maurice Blanchot, Paulo Freire, and Maureen Lipman. The contributors argue against the prevailing deficitbased perspectives about marginalized communities and students, and invite deep thinking about the nature of oppression and the complicity of many education professionals in it.

UK April 2024 US April 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

• £90.00 / $120.00

HB 9781350332119

ePub 9781350332133

ePdf 9781350332126

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Critical Education

• Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781350368293 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 240 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350348011 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350348035 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350348028 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Solitude Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Teaching and Learning the English Language A Problem-Solving Approach

Richard Badger, University of Leeds, UK Offering a solid, research-based approach along with sound practical advice, this book equips teachers with skills needed to analyse their own contexts and develop their practice. Badger looks at the fundamentals of teaching English language, covering topics such as psychological and social learning process and TESOL teaching methods, supported by activities and online resources in the form of video case studies and multiple choice quizzes. Suitable for trainee and practising teachers where their first language is not English.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 336 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350177192 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350177208 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350177215 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350177222 • £26.99 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing

The Evolution of an Academic Genre

Brian Paltridge, University of Sydney, Australia & Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales, Australia

Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these impact on the nature of the doctoral thesis/dissertation itself. Covering theories of genre, the authors focus on the concepts of evolution, innovation and emergence in the context of the production and reception of doctoral theses and dissertations. Specifically concerned with this genre in the humanities, social sciences and visual and performing arts, this book paves the way for a new generation of doctoral students and asks 'what might the doctorate of the future look like?’.

UK

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Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change

Using Theories for Second Language Teaching and Learning

Dale T. Griffee, Texas Tech University, USA & Greta Gorsuch, Texas Tech University, USA

This book is about helping second language teachers understand and constructively use theories, rather than merely knowing about theories – usually a selected few from Second Language Acquisition. The authors explore in concrete and practical ways the intersections between teachers, learners, and institutions, and theories of teaching, theories of learning, and theories of language. These intersections provide language teachers with critical insights on how to deal with professional complexities and practical guidance on how to develop appropriate pedagogical practice.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 304 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781350258907 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350258914 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350258938 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350258921 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers • Bloomsbury Academic

Multilingual and Translingual Practices in English-Medium Instruction

Perspectives from Global Higher Education Contexts

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

This volume explores context-related ways in which the multilingual EMI model and translingual practices are seen and enacted in higher education contexts across the globe. Empirical, research-based studies as well as theoretical reviews that centre around multilingual and translingual practices in partial and full (i.e. English-only) EMI settings are elaborated, with case studies from Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA.

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Literacy in the Lives of WorkingClass Adults in Australia

Dominant versus Local Voices

Stephen Black, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

This book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a 40-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness.

UK December 2023

HB 9781350378100

• US December 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350378131

ePdf 9781350378124

• 240 pages

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change

World English

• 10 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

Migrant Workers' Education in China

Changing Discourses and Practices

Fusheng Jia, University of East Anglia, UK

This book presents a theoretical exploration of social and educational issues in the setting of an industrialised area in south China, based on an extended period of ethnographic research and observation of migrant workers’ educational programmes. It highlights the tensions existing between the traditional ideology stressing collectivism, selfless devotion and teacher-centred teaching, and the new social practices promoting commercialization, personal development and interactive teaching. The author provides firsthand descriptions and analyses of rural-urban migrant workers’ lives, work and education.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350287501

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 224 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350170728

ePub 9781350170735

ePdf 9781350170742

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change Bloomsbury Academic

Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia, UK & Alan Rogers, late of Universities of East Anglia and Nottingham, UK

Physical Language Learning Spaces in the Digital Age

Felix A. Kronenberg, Michigan State University, USA

This book explores the design of physical spaces intended for language learning specifically. With a focus on creating new awareness of the affordances and benefits of physical spaces as active agents in the language learning and teaching processes, this book takes a practical approach to introduce readers without any prior knowledge of design or architecture to the topic. As language learning spaces need to consider stakeholders from diverse cultures, Felix Kronenberg provides examples from language centers around the world, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, the USA. Readers will learn how to conceptualize and create supportive, resilient, flexible, inclusive, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and safe physical learning spaces.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350287150 • £90.00 / $120.00

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

ePub 9781350287433 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350287167 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Multilingualism in Mathematics Education in Africa

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

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350369207 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350369221 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369214 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Multimodal Discourses in English Language Teaching Textbooks Implications for Students and Practitioners

Christopher A. Smith, Carleton University, Canada

This book offers a useful framework for evaluating ELT textbooks from a critical discourse perspective: one that is based on sound current research but also offers practical guidance to teachers. Building from a foundational understanding of ELT textbooks, the author presents a systematic procedure to critically analyze their multimodal discourse, examine how those discourses are negotiated between teachers and students in class, and measure how those consumers privately value the lessons. The book provides teachers with the tools they need to select and adapt materials based on critical multimodal discourse analysis.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 248 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350256996 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350256958

ePub 9781350256972 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350256965 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts Global Higher Education Perspectives

Edited by Paul Breen, University College

London, UK & Michèle le Roux, University of Bath, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350351202 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350351226 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350351219 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education International Perspectives

Edited by Jim McKinley, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & Nicola Galloway, University of Edinburgh, UK

The book provides an in-depth understanding of evolving interpretations, challenges and current policies concerning the implementation of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education on a global level, through the exploration of case studies from Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey and Vietnam. Each case study outlines how EMI policy is implemented at the national, institutional and classroom level, using a variety of research tools, including policy analysis, stakeholders’ conceptualisations of EMI, observations of EMI in practice and context analysis.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350189607 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350167858

ePub 9781350167872 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350167865 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonial Underground Pedagogy

Unschooling and Subcultural Learning for Peace and Human Rights

Noah Romero, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

This book explores how minority-led skateboarding, punk rock, and unschooling communities engage in collective efforts to humanize education and construct kinder social frameworks. Noah Romero examines the roles of informal and community-embedded learning in actualizing transformative education and shows how decolonizing education can take place outside of school settings. Grounded in the author’s own experience in minority-led Filipino subcultures, the book introduces a conceptual framework of subcultural learning and decolonizing education centred on the Philippines and its diaspora in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

UK April 2024 US April 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350376120 • £90.00 / $120.00

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ePdf 9781350376137

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Series: Peace and Human Rights Education • Bloomsbury Academic

New

Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes

Alex Ding, University of Leeds, UK, Melinda Whong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong & Ian Bruce, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes

Expanding the Discourse

Edited by

Milada

Walková, University of Leeds, UK

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350300309 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350300323 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350300316 • £81.00 / $110.69

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

Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes

Foundations and Perspectives

Edited by Alex Ding, University of Leeds, UK & Michelle Evans, University of Leeds, UK

This book, written by pioneering architects of original social theory in educational/linguistic fields as well as expert practitioners, systematically exposes the sociological commitments of mainstream ideas and theories in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The contributions make the case for the centrality of social theory for EAP practitioners and praxis and the need to develop a sociological imagination to enhance knowledge and agency of practitioners. Topics covered include: social realism, legitimation code theory, critical realism, ethnography and feminism.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 248 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350229204 £28.99 / $39.95

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

Contextualizing English for Academic Purposes in Higher Education

Politics, Policies and Practices

Edited by Ian Bruce, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand & Bee Bond, University of Leeds, UK

This edited volume provides a contextual overview of the social, ideological, economic and governmental influences and policies that shape the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) with the aims of promoting awareness and debate among EAP practitioners as an academic community, and of enabling reasoned, collective community responses to the particular influences and issues that currently face EAP in higher education.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350230491 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350230453

ePub 9781350230477

ePdf 9781350230460

Bloomsbury Higher Education Research

Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK

Online Learning Futures

An Evidence Based Vision for Global Professional Collaboration on Sustainability

Eileen Kennedy, University College London, UK & Diana Laurillard, University College London, UK

To fully realise its transformative potential, this book argues the need for an evidence-based design approach. Drawing on the experiences of online learners who are professionals: educators, engineers and researchers., it demonstrates that open, online, collaborative learning experiences are not only feasible but effective for building professional community knowledge. The evidence shows how co-designed, transformative digital education can be mobilised to support professionals investigating renewable energy solutions, or medics adapting treatments to local conditions, and also scale up professional development in areas where expertise is urgently required.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350324237 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350324251 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350324244 £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Higher Education, State and Society

Comparing the Chinese and AngloAmerican Approaches

Lili Yang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The book explores the broad cultural and philosophical ideas underlying the public good of higher education in two traditions, reveals their different social imaginaries, and works through five areas where higher education intersects with the individual, society, the state, and the world, intersections understood in contrasting ways in each tradition. In exploring the similarities, Yang highlights important meeting points between the two world views, with the potential to contribute to the mutual understanding and cooperation across cultures.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350293472 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350293434

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ePdf 9781350293441 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

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

Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World

Edited by Rosa Reitsamer, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria & Rainer Prokop, University of Music and Performing Arts

Vienna, Austria

This open access book offers international and interdisciplinary insights into the learning cultures, curricula designs and emancipatory initiatives within higher music education institutions. Drawing together empirical case studies from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, the UK and the USA, the contributors look at the discourses surrounding employability and artistic standards that form the traditional foundation of conservatoire education. They also examine how gender, class and race/ethnicity pervade the creation and performance of music.

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

UK April 2024 US April 2024 208 pages 30 bw illus

HB 9781350266957 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350266988 • £0.00 / $0.00

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education

Edited by Jerusha Conner, Villanova University, USA, Rille Raaper, Durham University, UK, Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela, Universidad de Tarapacà, Chile & Launa Gauthier, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

This Handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The Handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university settings, but also to identify the common core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes associated with student voice work in higher education. It offers a broad understanding of the methodologies, current debates, history, and future of the field, identifying avenues for future research.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 448 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350342453 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350342477 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350342460 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa Policy, Research and Pedagogy

Edited by Samantha Curle, University of Bath, UK, Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali & Sergio Saleem Scatolini, Rustaq College of Education, Oman, & Awad Alhassan, Dhofar University, Oman

This book focuses on empirical research studies conducted on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in the Middle East and North Africa. The contributors are researchers with first-hand experience in countries in the region. Topics covered include investigating perceptions and attitudes of both students and lecturers, opportunities and challenges afforded by EMI, as well as the evolution of EMI practices. By exploring these issues, through the lens of a decolonial critical approach, this volume informs theory underlying research into the phenomenon of EMI.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350238589 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350238541

ePub 9781350238565 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350238558 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education

Edited by Manja Klemencic, Harvard University, USA

This open access Handbook offers a unique and unprecedented global comparative account of student representation in higher education. It re-examines and further develops the existing theoretical concepts and analytical lenses in existing research on systems of student representation and organisational models of student representative associations. The volume is unique in bringing together established scholars with a highly diverse group of current and former student leaders. It depicts empirical insights from 30 countries from all world regions, from 6 regional student federations and the Global Student Forum.

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 576 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350375970 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350375994 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350375987 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy

Edited by Lauren Leigh Kelly & Daren Graves

The first reference work to cover the theory, history, research methodologies, and practice of Hip Hop pedagogy. Including 20 chapters from activistoriented and community-engaged scholars, the handbook provides perspectives and studies from across the world, including Brazil, the Caribbean, Japan, Scandinavia, and the USA. The chapters reflect the impact of critical Hip Hop pedagogies and Hip Hop-based research for educators and scholars interested in radical, transformative approaches to education. Ultimately, the many voices included in the handbook show that Hip Hop pedagogy is a humanizing and emancipatory approach which is redefining the purposes and practices of education.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 368 pages

HB 9781350331815 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350331839 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350331822 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and Management

Edited by Victoria Showunmi, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, Pontso Moorosi, University of Warwick, UK, Charol Shakeshaft, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA & Izhar Oplatka, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Drawing together international research perspectives and theoretical underpinnings, this handbook explores gender as a social category and examines cultural and social differences. It sets out the gender and educational leadership and management field, providing a snapshot of the field as it stands, signalling its development and directions for future development.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781350244610 £39.99 / $54.95

• 25 bw illus

• 432 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350173156

ePub 9781350173163

ePdf 9781350173170

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education

Edited by Erin S. Corbett, CEO at Second Chance Educational Alliance, USA

Written by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global stateof-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons, including the history of the field and future directions for research. The range of topics covered include discussions of how gender, race, sexuality, indigeneity, age and faith impact incarceration rates around the world; educational leadership; STEM education; creative writing programs; distance learning; education after prison and education for correctional staff.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 416 pages

HB 9781350303478 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350303492 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350303485 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South

Edited by Yonah Hisbon Matemba, The University of the West of Scotland, UK & Bruce A. Collet, Bowling Green State University, USA

Including 24 chapters written by scholars from the Global North and South, this book presents new comparative perspectives on religious education (RE) and is the first authoritative reference work on the subject. The first five sections deal with provision, response to changes in contemporary society, decolonising RE, young people and RE, and perspectives on RE teachers. The last three sections cover RE in higher education, challenges and opportunities for RE and, finally comparative perspectives on RE in the Global South.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781350245310 • £39.99 / $54.95

Handbooks

• £117.00 / $159.29

• £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Continental Philosophy of Education

Edited by John Baldacchino, University of Wisconsin, USA & Herner Saeverot, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

This is the first reference work to explore and define what continental philosophy of education is and what its boundaries are. The book includes 28 chapters written by leading scholars based in Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, The UK and the USA. It is subdivided into three sections covering the metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics of education and the chapters focus on philosophical concepts such otherness, empathy, personhood and problems including political influences on education and the limits of education.

HB 9781350334106 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350334120 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350334113 £117.00 / $159.29

• 520 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350105829

ePub 9781350105836 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350105843 £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research

Edited by Garth Stahl, University of South Australia, Australia, Guanglun Michael Mu, Queensland University of Australia, Australia, Pere Ayling, University of Suffolk, UK & Elliot B. Weininger, SUNY Brockport, USA

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu in Educational Research is the first international reference work to map out how Pierre Bourdieu has been used in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA the handbook provides a unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used and adapted in educational research globally. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including educational leadership, teacher preparation, space/place, educational policy, literacy education, marginalised students, and student mobility.

Screenwriting The Sequence Approach

Paul Joseph Gulino, Chapman University, USA

In Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, Second Edition, Paul Gulino builds on analytical and writing tools in the first edition to explore the commonalities and differences. This book is expanded to include analyses, recent noteworthy films, and series with an eye to how they manage audience attention, convey vital information, and deliver their emotional payloads. The aim of the book is to help writers move readily from the feature film to the serial form, mastering both. It is perfect for both beginning writers and those with experience in the feature screenplay form.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024 • 304 pages

PB 9798765104613 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9798765104620 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9798765104651 £19.02 / $22.45

ePdf 9798765104644 £19.02 / $22.45

Bloomsbury Academic

Multi-Camera Cinematography

and Production

Camera, Lighting, and Other Production

Aspects for Multiple Camera Image Capture

David Landau, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA & Bruce Finn, USC School of Cinematic Arts, USA

Edited by David Landau, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

Multi-Camera Cinematography for TV/Video/Streaming provides practical lighting techniques and camera set-ups to enhance your own productions and keep viewers interested and focused on the content being presented.

Through clear instructions, assignments and exercises at the end of each chapter, readers can practice each style of lighting and camera work after learning about it in the book. Featuring genres including sitcom, news, reality, interview, talk show and corporate video, the book will leave readers feeling fully equipped to embark on a variety of multi-camera television projects.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 181 bw illus

PB 9781501374647 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781501374654 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501374630 £26.46 / $31.45

ePdf 9781501374623 • £26.46 / $31.45

Series: The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts • Bloomsbury Academic

The Sound of Silence

The Publishing Business A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On

Kelvin Smith & Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Glasgow University, UK

The Publishing Business is an illustrated guide to the book publishing process from writer to reader, passing through the essential publishing activities performed in editorial, rights, design, production, sales and marketing departments. International examples from across the industry, from children's books to academic monographs, demonstrate key responsibilities at each stage of the publishing process and how the industry is adapting to digital culture. This 3rd edition has been updated with more on the role of selfpublishing, independent publishers, audio books, the rise of poetry and non-fiction and how the industry is facing up to challenges of sustainability, inclusivity and diversity.

UK January 2024 US March 2024 256 pages 100 colour illus

PB 9781350259386 £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350260481 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350259393 £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350259379 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Creative Careers • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Feature Film Budgeting A Step-by-Step Manual

Ken Goldberg, Independent Scholar, USA

This step-by-step instruction manual guides film students, Line Producers, 1st Assistant Directors, and script writers alike through easy-to-follow steps on how to create a film budget.

This book walks the reader through how to:

- find current and future salary rates for every Hollywood Guild

- determine Prep and Wrap periods for all crew members

- navigate the Guild contracts for easy understanding

- analyze salary rates and how they were arrived at

- simplify the application of fringe rates (tax percentages).

Sample Budgets are presented to reinforce knowledge gained in each chapter through a comprehensive breakdown.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 400 pages

PB 9798765102954 £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765102992 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9798765102961 £29.77 / $35.95

ePdf 9798765102978 • £29.77 / $35.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Transnational Arab Stardom Glamour, Performance and Politics

Ryan Gosling,

Expressionism and the Silent Hero in 21st-Century Film

Nancy Epton, Independent Scholar, UK

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

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 208 pages 86 bw illus

HB 9798765108055 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765108086

ePdf 9798765108079

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

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

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

Sylvain Chomet’s Distinctive Animation From The Triplets of Belleville to The Illusionist

Maria Katsaridou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

This open access book provides the first in-depth analysis of Sylvain Chomet's animation films and contribution to contemporary animation. It examines important elements of the artist’s life, studies and previous works, along with his influences and important collaborations. Special attention is paid to the production processes, as well as the historical and socioeconomic context in which they were created, to provide a comprehensive study of the films. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages • 26 bw illus

HB 9781501363993 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501363986 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781501363979 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

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

Maria Chiara Oltolini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

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

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781501389900

• £90.00 / $120.00

• 272 pages • 30 bw illus

ePub 9781501389894 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501389887 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

International Screen Industries

Invisible Digital

What Animation and Games Tell Us about Software and Digital Culture

Aylish Wood, University of Kent, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781501390906 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501390890 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501390883 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Music Films

Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music

Neil Fox, Falmouth University, UK

Neil Fox assesses a broad range of music documentaries in terms of cinematic style and issues such as history, politics, race, gender, geography, innovation, fandom and the cultivation of myth. He explores famous films including A Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles), Dig! (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols) and Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin) and filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Penelope Spheeris and Jim Jarmusch He also makes critical space for neglected films, includes Avakian and Stern’s Jazz On A Summer’s Day through films about Devo and Ornette Coleman, to the early noughties indie punk nearly-men, The Parkinsons.

UK

Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA & Paul McDonald, Kings College London, UK

The New Screen Ecology in India Digital Transformation of Media

Smith Mehta, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Germany

This open access book provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Mehta examines 13 social media platforms including Hotstar, Netflix, YouTube, and TVFPlay, investigating their impact on contemporary film and television production, arguing that they have fundamentally shifted the creator dynamics of these industries.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. This book has been published open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

PB 9781839025716 • £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781839025723 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781839025686 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: International Screen Industries

• 30 bw illus

• 184 pages

• HB 9781839025709

• British Film Institute

• £75.00 / $100.00

Supply Chain Cinema

Producing Global Film Workers

Kay Dickinson, Concordia University, Canada

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

UK February 2024

HB 9781839024627

• US February 2024

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781839024634

ePdf 9781839024641

• 256 pages

• 0 bw illus

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: International Screen Industries

• British Film Institute

On the Act of Looking

Reading Joshua Oppenheimer’s Diptych: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

Edited by David Denny, Portland State University, USA & Rex Butler, Monash University, Australia

This collection of essays by film scholars, art historians, historians, political scientists, philosophers, Indonesian human rights activists and creative writers looks at Joshua Oppenheimer’s diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as a cinematic event that opens up a host of interrelated questions on historical memory, truth and reconciliation, and the limits of documentary filmmaking. On the Act of Looking affirms Oppenheimer’s use of fiction and manipulation as a technique to expose not so much a reality behind the appearance of things, but how appearance as such can become a site of intervention, or truth-telling.

UK June 2024 US June 2024 240 pages 5 bw illus

HB 9781501347900 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501347917 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501347924 • £90.15 / $108.00

Costa-Gavras Encounters with History

John J. Michalczyk, Boston College, USA & Susan A. Michalczyk, Boston College, USA

Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History explores the life and work of the director intertwined with historical and socio-political events, from the early stages of his career: emigrating to France from Greece in 1955 and first studying at the Sorbonne, then focusing on filmmaking at IDHEC, now La Fémis. In this overview of the director’s films, the authors shed light on his encounters with history from his youth in war-torn Greece to his later films on immigration, unemployment, global capitalistic greed, and the abuse of political and economic power in Europe.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 304 pages 33 bw illus

PB 9781501390920 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501390951

ePub 9781501390944 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501390937 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Opera Cinema A New Cultural Experience

Joseph Attard, Kings College London, UK

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed shows to cinema screens all over the world – live. ‘Opera cinema’ is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric artform and the silver screen. But what is different about watching Massenet at the multiplex, compared to a traditional stage performance? Is opera cinema a new, hybrid artform in its own right? Is it bringing new fans into the fold? Is there a danger it could one day eclipse the stage? This book discusses these questions by charting the history of opera transmissions, exploring how digital media changes our relationship with culture.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781501370366

• £28.99 / $39.95

The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos Films, Form, Philosophy

• 248 pages

Previously published in HB 9781501370373

ePub 9781501370359

ePdf 9781501370342

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Edited

by Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UK

Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. This edited collection covers everything from an early career marked by experimentation with a range of different media to international festival hits including Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and the Academy Award-winning 'historical' epic The Favourite. His work demonstrates a fascinating contravention of aesthetic, thematic, and generic boundaries that forms the basis of some of the analyses in the volume. This is a timely compendium of critical approaches to one of the most distinct voices in contemporary film.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 13 bw illus

PB 9781501375507 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501375491

ePub 9781501375484 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501375477 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Legacy of The X-Files

Edited by James Fenwick, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The X-Files, this collection examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond. The collection serves as an all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary, contemporary account of The X-Files, reflecting upon critical, historical, political, and social contexts, and featuring an in-depth and comprehensive introduction making it a vital work for researchers and students alike.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 352 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781501387630 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781501387623 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501387616 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Vigilante Thriller Violence, Spectatorship and Identification in American Cinema, 1970-76

Cary Edwards, Boston College, USA

Cary Edwards offers a detailed examination of the rise of the vigilante thriller film in American cinema of the 1970s. Against the back-drop of New Hollywood experimentation, the box-office success of Vigilante films suggests a hunger for films that directly addressed problems of Law and Order. This book explores the contextual factors that led to the cycle of films (Joe [1970], The French Connection [1971], Dirty Harry [1971] and Taxi Driver [1976]) emerging and engages with the contemporaneous critical arguments that these were fascist texts likely to inspire copycat violence.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 26 bw illus

PB 9781501391736 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501364129

ePub 9781501364112 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501364105 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, KU Leuven, Belgium; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This book explores how contemporary films participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities are imagined, at a local, regional and global scale. The volume reviews the diversity of portrayals from a chronological, geopolitical, linguistic, epistemic-ontological, transnational and intersectional, paradigm-changing and selfrepresentational perspective, allocating one chapter to each theme. The author looks at the contexts in which Latin American films circulate and provides the foundations of histrionic indigeneity, a theory that explains how overtly dramatic proclivities play a significant role in depictions of an imagined indigenous Other in recent films.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 336 pages • 5 bw illus

PB 9781501384677 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501384707

ePub 9781501384691 • £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501384684 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Crisis Cinema in the Middle East

Creativity and Constraint in Iran and the Arab World

Shohini Chaudhuri, University of Essex, UK

Shohini Chaudhuri examines a broad scope of international films, ranging from award-winning, festival favourites such as Five Broken Cameras (2011), Persepolis (2007) and Farhadi’s About Elly (2009) to lesser-known films originating from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Using various regional film archives and interviews with filmmakers such as Yasmin Fedda, Ossama Mohammed, Leila Sansour and Sam Kadi, Chaudhuri identifies how witnessing, humour, animation and adaptation have become prevalent creative strategies for producing work under the sociopolitical and material limitations of crisis.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 328 pages • 19 bw illus

PB 9781350190559 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350190511

ePub 9781350190528 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350190535 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The New Wave Cinema in Iran A Critical Study

Parviz Jahed, Independent Scholar, UK

The New Wave Cinema in Iran is an historical and analytical study of the Iranian New Wave Cinema (Mowj-e No) as an artistic and intellectual movement that came to its best early productions between 1958 and 1978. Parviz Jahed focuses on the development and the early progression of the movement in the 1960s and explores its emergence and development in the context of the cultural and social conditions of Iran during this period.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 248 pages • 51 bw illus

PB 9781501369094 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501369124

ePub 9781501369117 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501369100 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Drive-In

Neon Knight Forever

The Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Duology

Tomasz Zaglewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

This book accounts for the initial rejection of Joel Schumacher's version of Batman and explores modern attempts to rehabilitate the 'Neon Knight' as yet another acceptable idea for Batman. By uncovering the formal foundations underlying both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, the criticism it received and a kind of renaissance of Schumacher's vision in recent DC Films projects, Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series and dares to ask the most heretical question for Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually an impressive artistic achievement in big-budget superhero cinema?

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 160 pages

HB 9798765100608 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798765100578 £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9798765100585 £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Non-Professional Actor

Outdoor

Cinema in 1950s America and the Popular Imagination

Guy Barefoot, University of Leicester, UK

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

UK December 2023 US December 2023

HB 9781501365928 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501365911 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501365904

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

272 pages 14 bw illus

Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond

Catherine O'Rawe, Bristol University, UK

Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors. This book provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in postwar Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 280 pages • 17 bw illus

HB 9781501394355

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501394362

ePdf 9781501394379

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

The History of Russian Literature on Film

Marina Korneeva, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia & David Gillespie, University of Bath, UK

Unlike most previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors, texts, or literary periods, David Gillespie considers the multiple functions of filmed Russian literature as a cinematic subject in its own right—one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In this first and only comprehensive study of cinema’s various engagements of Russian literature focusing on the large period 1895-2015, The History of Russian Literature on Film highlights the ways these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 384 pages • 72 bw illus

HB 9781501316883 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781501316906 • £130.68 / $157.50

ePdf 9781501316890 • £130.68 / $157.50

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

I’m Not a Film Star

David Bowie as Actor

Edited by Ian Dixon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Brendan Black, Independent scholar, Australia

For the first time, Bowie’s considerable filmography is systematically examined. Classic films such as The Prestige and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, cult hits Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, as well as lesser-known roles in The Image, Christiane F. and Broadway hit The Elephant Man are viewed, not simply through the lens of Bowie’s mega-stardom, but as the work of a serious actor with inimitable talent. Including tributes to Bowie’s performance craft in other media forms this compelling analysis celebrates the risk-taking intelligence and bravura of David Bowie: actor, mime, mimic and icon.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 336 pages • 56 bw illus

PB 9781501370489 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501368684

ePub 9781501368677 £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501368660 • £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Biopic and Beyond

Celebrities as Characters in Screen Media

Melanie Piper, University of Queensland, Australia

Using case studies such as Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network, Sarah Palin and Saturday Night Live, The Biopic and Beyond uncovers the process that turns the distant public figures that populate news and entertainment into screen characters that we can engage with and try to understand a little better. Biopics and docudramas are not the only places on screen that give us access to the fake person behind the real person, with media as varied as sketch comedy, fan fiction, and the celebrity cameo contributing to the ways we understand media figures.

UK February 2024

PB 9781501393990

Cinema and Secularism

Edited by Mark Cauchi, York University, Canada

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

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages • 14 bw illus

HB 9781501388873 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501388866 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501388859 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Screening the Crisis

US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash

Edited by Hilaria Loyo, University of Zaragoza, Spain & Juan A. Tarancón, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Screening the Crisis brings together film studies scholars to explore the ways in which new tendencies in US cinema enhance awareness of the complexity of the problems facing contemporary society. The issues addressed include economic inequality, shifts in gender roles, racial conflicts, immigration, surveillance practices, the environmental crisis, the politics of housing, and the fragility of nationhood. With its ample range of topics and perspectives, this collection provides an essential reference work for those who want to research how US cinema has responded to the manifold interconnected crises that characterize our current times.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 344 pages • 13 bw illus

PB 9781501388163 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501388125

ePub 9781501388132 £97.59 / $117.00

ePdf 9781501388149 £97.59 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis The Mechanism of Self

Laura Stephenson, University of Westminster, United Kingdom

• US February 2024

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 184 pages

Previously published in HB 9781501361494

ePub 9781501361487

ePdf 9781501361470

Bloomsbury Academic

• £82.70 / $99.00

• £82.70 / $99.00

This book explores psychological disorder as common to the human condition using a threeangled approach: psychoanalysis recognises the inherent suffering encountered by each subject due to developmental phases; psychology applies specific categorisation to how this suffering manifests; cinema depicts suffering through a combination of video and aural elements. Considering that origin, mechanism, affect and symptomatology are part of an interconnected group, it purports that psychological disorder is part of the human condition that contributes to and informs personal identity.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

HB 9798765105665

• 240 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765105634

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765105641 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

A Guide to Post-classical Narration

The Future of Film Storytelling

Eleftheria Thanouli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Building on the author's previous book, A Guide to Post-classical Narration argues that the classical Hollywood mode of storytelling and narrative construction has been superseded by innovations in film form and narrative conventions. Thanouli argues that these innovations demonstrate that previously held assumptions about the persistence of Hollywood’s classical narrative forms require updating to accommodate both changes in the blockbuster, as well as the emergence of new narrative types better suited to a post-cinematic environment.

UK December 2023

PB 9781501393075

• US December 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781501393099

ePdf 9781501393082

Bloomsbury Academic

• 320 pages • 297 colour illus

• HB 9781501393068 • £95.00 / $130.00

• £29.77 / $35.95

• £29.77 / $35.95

Film, Negation and Freedom

Capitalism and Romantic Critique

Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK

This book explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics. Using a variety of discursive fields and traditions, this book outlines a radical new interpretation of Romanticism in reference to the films of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson – cultural texts previously underexplored by academic studies, such as Mickey One, O Lucky Man! and The Missouri Breaks. This book offers an enriched and revitalised understanding of Romanticism’s relevance to both the filmic texts of the 20th century, and also the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of modern subjectivity and spectatorship

UK November 2023

HB 9798765105535

• US November 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765105573

ePdf 9798765105566

Bloomsbury Academic

• 264 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Library of Gender and Popular Culture

Film Figures An Organological Approach

Warwick Mules, Southern Cross University, Australia

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781501361210 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781501361234 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501361227 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Prison of Time

Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino

Elisa Pezzotta, University of Bergamo, Italy

Through the close analysis of Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay, and Quentin Tarantino’s oeuvre, Elisa Pezzotta discusses time in the cinematic medium. Pezzotta deploys and unpacks an impressive array of scholarly methods to interrogate film time, many of which are emerging areas of analysis with the humanities, and especially screen studies. Offering an innovative synthesis of these several areas conventionally regarded as outliers to film and media, such as philosophy, cognitivism, and quantum mechanics, Pezzotta skillfully draws from extant scholarly literature to make evident the narratology of cinematic ellipses, lacunae and analepses across a range of films and genres.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 272 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781501380570 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501380600

ePub 9781501380594 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501380587 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK & Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK

Globalized Queerness

Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture

Helton Levy, John Cabot University Rome, Italy

In Globalized Queerness, Helton Levy revisits popular media characters such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood. He argues that such characters have gradually blended in the public's perception and the assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases the personal complexities of immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion.

UK November 2023

HB 9781350292789

• US November 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350292796

ePdf 9781350292802

• 232 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

• 12 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

From the Margins to the Mainstream

Women in Film and Television

Edited by Marianne Kac-Vergne, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France & Julie Assouly, Université d’Artois, France

From the Margins to the Mainstream is a study of the conflicted relationship between women and film as they move from the margins into central focus. It examines women’s involvement with the film and television industry as actors, directors, critics and spectators. The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging film scholars.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 312 pages 17 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350331655

Previously published in HB 9781788312677

ePub 9781350120181

ePdf 9781350120174

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

Women in Popular Culture

The Evolution of Women's Roles in American Entertainment [2 volumes]

Laura L. Finley, Barry University, USA

Both in the spotlight and behind it, women have been central to the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. Essays address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap, and the over 300 encyclopedia entries present a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 784 pages

HB Pack 9781440874123 • £165.00 / $214.00

ePub 9798216172611 • £149.70 / $180.00

ePdf 9781440874130 • £149.70 / $180.00 Greenwood World English

Bloomsbury Podcast Studies

EA Sports FIFA Feeling the Game

Edited by Raiford Guins, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, Henry Lowood, Stanford University Libraries, USA & Carlin Wing, Scripps College, USA

EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game is the first scholarly book to address the importance of EA’s FIFA video game series. From looking at the cultures of fandom to analyzing the technical elements of the sports simulation, and covering the complicated relations that FIFA has with gender, embodiment, and masculinity, the collection provides a comprehensive understanding of a video game series that is changing the way the most popular sport in the world is experienced.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 35 bw illus

PB 9781501375385 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501375347

ePub 9781501375354 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501375361 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Lance Dann, University of Brighton, UK & Martin Spinelli, University of Sussex, UK

Podcast or Perish

Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century

Hannah McGregor, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Ian M. Cook, Central European University, Hungary & Lori Beckstead, Ryerson University, Canada

Podcast or Perish maps out a rationale for the deployment of podcasting as an outlet for open peer review and explores real-world workflows for such a practice. By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship, and the transformative potential of new modes of knowledge production, this book is a call to action, asking how podcasting might change the ways we think about scholarly work.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages

PB 9781501385209 • £19.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501385216 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781501385193 • £21.50 / $25.15

ePdf 9781501385186 • £21.50 / $25.15

Series: Bloomsbury Podcast Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Thinking Media

Podcasting in a Platform Age

From an Amateur to a Professional Medium

John L. Sullivan, Muhlenberg College, USA

This book explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form. It focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization. Through a close read of online and press discourse, analysis of podcasts, participant observations at podcast trade shows and conventions, and interviews with podcasters, Sullivan outlines how the efforts to transform podcasting into a profitable medium are challenging the definition of podcasting itself.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 17 bw illus

PB 9781501380693 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501380709 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501380686 £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501380679 £22.32 / $26.95

Series: Bloomsbury Podcast Studies Bloomsbury Academic

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

Frictionlessness

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

Jakko Kemper, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

This book examines imperfection as an aesthetic concept that highlights existential conditions of finitude and fragility as a particularly powerful counterweight to the dominant digital design philosophy of "frictionlessness". Through case studies, it underlines the value of technological aesthetics of imperfection and points to the need for a renewed ethics of care in relation to technology.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

HB 9798765104415

• 208 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765104453

ePdf 9798765104446

Series: Thinking Media

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

• Bloomsbury Academic

Brainmedia

One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020

Flora Lysen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies. Brainmedia outlines a new history of “live brains” and argues that practices of and ideas about mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. In five historical case studies, Flora Lysen shows the conceptual but also practical assembling of brains and media.

• US March 2024

UK March 2024

PB 9781501378720

• 304 pages • 38 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501378751

ePub 9781501378744 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501378737 £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Fringe to Famous Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

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

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781501334887 • £96.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501334894 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501334900 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Trumping the Media Politics and Democracy in the Post-Truth Era

Michael Mario Albrecht, University of WisconsinLa Crosse, USA

This book explores the shifts in the media environment that made the political career of Donald Trump possible. The author shows the ways that Trump was able to inhabit the new media and political landscape and take advantage of journalistic norms and practices that were susceptible to exploitation by a demagogue with no allegiance to the truth and no reverence towards the foundations of liberal democracy. Understanding the ways in which Trump was able to emerge as a powerful political force is essential to those invested in challenging the momentum of the alt-right and forwarding the project of democracy.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 232 pages

PB 9781501398063 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501364860

ePub 9781501364853 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501364846 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Invocational Media Reconceptualising the Computer

Chris Chesher, University of Sydney, Australia

This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 280 pages

HB 9781501363627 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501363610 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501363603 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Global Dishes

Favorite Meals from around the World Caryn E. Neumann, Miami University of Ohio Regionals, USA, Lori L. Parks, Miami University of Ohio Regionals, USA. & Joel G. Parks, Independent Scholar, USA

Food is a great unifier. It is used to mark milestones or rites of passage. It is integral to the way we celebrate, connecting a familial and cultural past to the present through tradition. The dishes in this text are those that have come to be known within a part of the world and culture, but also have moved beyond those borders and are accessible and enjoyed by many in our ever-smaller and more-interconnected world. Featuring more than 100 recipes and detailed discussions of dishes from across the globe, Global Dishes explores the history and cultural context surrounding some of the best-known and favorite foods.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 360 pages

HB 9781440876479 • £83.00 / $107.00

ePub 9798216171621 • £80.22 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440876486 £80.22 / $96.30

Bloomsbury Academic

Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating

Joanne Hollows, Independent Scholar, UK

Situated on the cusp of food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the impact of celebrity chefs in how we think about food, and how we feed ourselves and others. Hollows shows how digital media have enabled the emergence of new types of food personalities through blogs, YouTube and Instagram. Starting with an overview and history of celebrity chefs, Hollows outlines the key trajectories in scholarship on celebrity chefs to date and then moves on to explore the impact of celebrity chefs on discussions around gendered labour and foodwork, food activism and ethical consumption and culinary travelogues.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 232 pages 10 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350337442

Previously published in HB 9781350145726

ePub 9781350145696

ePdf 9781350145702

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics

• Bloomsbury Academic

Food in Memory and Imagination Space, Place and, Taste

Edited by Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America, USA & Greg de St. Maurice, Keio University, Japan

How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? Divided into seven sections, this expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, future and their alternative presents. Bringing together a variety of perspectives on an emerging area of study, Food in Memory and Imagination investigates how food can be explored through past experiences, as well as future and present imaginings, revealing that the previously drawn culinary dichotomy between memory and imagination is not clear-cut.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 384 pages

PB 9781350096158 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350096165

ePub 9781350096196 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350096172 • £117.00 / $159.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Food Insecurity

A Reference Handbook

William D. Schanbacher, University of South Florida, USA & Whitney Fung Uy, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, USA

Comprehensive and authoritative, this one-stop resource for exploring food insecurity in the United States explores the various economic, social, political, and cultural factors that drive the problem and pose obstacles to reform. Beginning with a comprehensive historical overview of food insecurity in America from the early colonies to the present day, the book pivots to provide insightful and incisive coverage of problems and controversies related to food insecurity and hunger, including food deserts, income inequality, and government nutrition programs for vulnerable citizens.

UK December 2023

• US September 2023 • 440 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781440878398 £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9798216171546 £51.27 / $61.20

ePdf 9781440878404 £51.27 / $61.20

Series: Contemporary World Issues • Bloomsbury Academic

Rape and Sexual Assault

A Reference Handbook

Alison E. Hatch, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Accessible and informative, this is a valuable one-stop resource for understanding the problem of sexual assault in the United States, including societal factors, notorious cases, laws and practices, victim advocacy and reform efforts, and keys to recovery. It discusses who is being victimized, who is perpetrating the offenses, and policies and reforms that have been enacted in an effort to reduce rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment in homes and communities across America.

The volume also explores the role that flawed law enforcement practices and the spread of rape culture have played in facilitating sexual assault and abuse, and what can be done to combat this devastating crime.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 344 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781440876790 • £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216183105 • £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440876806 • £48.79 / $58.50

Series: Contemporary World Issues • ABC-CLIO

Homes in Crisis Capitalism Gender, Work and Revolution

Marnie Holborow, Dublin City University, Ireland Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination.

Holborow analyses homes in crisis capitalism through a Marxist lens of capitalist social reproduction. This book charts the interwoven social and political effects and outcomes of work and care provided in the home, as well as the effects of the pandemic, and makes the case for a radical break with capitalism to give social reproduction the material resources and social recognition it deserves.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350379961 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350379978

ePdf 9781350379985

Bloomsbury Academic

Food Shortage Crisis Origins and Global Impact

Dawn M. Drake, University of Oklahoma, USA

Discover the history, causes, impacts, and potential future of global food shortages—a problem for all of humanity, not just the developing world.

The book begins with an introduction to the basics of global food shortages, moves through the history of the issue, and then explains the current state of affairs. From there, it examines root causes, proposes solutions, and takes a speculative look into the future. A selection of further readings at the end of each chapter points readers toward resources for additional research and discovery. The book concludes with a selection of perspective essays written by expert contributors.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 300 pages 8 bw illus, 19 bw maps, 2 bw figures, and 5 bw tables

HB 9781440858734 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798216171560 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440858741 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Women's Equality in America Examining the Facts

Nancy Hendricks, Independent Scholar, USA

Written in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail and relevant facts, Women's Equality in America is a valuable resource for anyone seeking greater understanding of the true state of women's rights and gender equality in America

This authoritative and accessible resource sorts through all the claims and counterclaims about the history and evolution of the women's equality movement in America to provide important context for understanding where the quest for women's rights and gender equality stands in the 21st century.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 208 pages

HB 9781440879463 £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9798216183785 • £51.27 / $61.20

ePdf 9781440879470 • £51.27 / $61.20

Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic

Navigating Womanhood in Contemporary Botswana

Stephanie S. Starling, Justice Defenders

This book explores what it means to be a woman today in Botswana, questioning how gendered expectations are shifting in the context of a rapidly changing environment. The author considers the multiple and often contradictory burdens women face, the strategies they employ, and the sacrifices they make to meet their obligations. Caught between traditional expectations and modern desires, women share stories of agency, creativity and struggle in defining their own paths.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 200 pages

HB 9781350356689 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350356696 £76.50 / $103.94

• 208 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350356702 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Plural Feminisms

Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis

Edited by Sohini Chatterjee, The University of Western Ontario, Canada & Po-Han Lee, National Taiwan University

Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. Chapters explore how individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 272 pages

HB 9781350332737 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350332720 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350332713 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Rape and Dating Violence

Your Questions Answered

Lee A. Ritscher, California State University–Monterey Bay, USA

Discover the facts about intimate partner violence and sexual assault, including how to identify them and what to do if they happen to you.

This book’s 43 questions cover definitions of rape and dating violence; how to recognize the signs of both; the short- and longterm impacts on both victims and perpetrators; the intersection of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, culture, and the media; and where and how to get help if you or someone you know has been affected. Augmenting the main text are case studies, a "Common Misconceptions" section, glossary, directory of resources, and "Guide to Health Literacy".

UK January 2023 • US January 2023

• 160 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9781440867675 • £35.00 / $45.00

ePub 9798216184560 • £33.90 / $40.50

ePdf 9781440867682 • £33.90 / $40.50

Series: Q&A Health Guides • Greenwood World English

Healthy Relationships

Your Questions Answered

Charles A. McKay, Licensed Psychotherapist, USA

Intended for young readers interested in creating and maintaining physically and emotionally healthy relationships, this book answers common questions and offers practical guidance.

The book’s 46 questions address concerns related to attractiveness, readiness for a relationship, building connection and trust, conflict, sexual health, setting boundaries, and breakups. Augmenting the main text are 5 case studies featuring relatable stories and insightful recommendations, a "Common Misconceptions" section, glossary, directory of resources, and a "Guide to Health Literacy". The text strikes a balance between theory and practice, offering clear explanations of foundational concepts in psychology and interpersonal communication, as well as useful suggestions.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

HB 9781440878916

• £35.00 / $45.00

ePub 9798216184447

• £33.90 / $40.50

ePdf 9781440878923 £33.90 / $40.50

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Protecting Health at Work and in the Community

Edited by Tee L. Guidotti

Providing a concise introduction to the field of occupational and environmental medicine, this book delves into what it does, how it protects workers, how it benefits employers, and how it is developing as an important field in health protection.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781440877117 £58.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216172154 £56.24 / $67.50

ePdf 9781440877124 £56.24 / $67.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Your Questions Answered

Paul Quinn, Dominican University, USA

Explore the many forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practiced today and discover their histories, guiding principles, purported benefits, and potential risks.

In addition to several foundational questions, the book profiles 38 forms of CAM, including alternative medical systems, mind-body interventions, biologically based therapies, manipulation- and body-based methods, and energy therapies. Each answer utilizes a standardized series of subheadings to examine the practice and balances respect for individuals’ beliefs with the rigor of modern science. Augmenting the main text are case studies, a Common Misconceptions section, Glossary, Directory of Resources, and Guide to Health Literacy.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 200 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9781440879784 • £35.00 / $48.00

ePub 9798216171027 • £36.38 / $43.20

ePdf 9781440879791 £36.38 / $43.20

Series: Q&A Health Guides Bloomsbury Academic

Epidemics and Pandemics

Your Questions Answered

Charles Vidich, Independent Scholar, USA

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

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

UK February 2024

HB 9781440881381

• 1 bw illus and 2 bw tables

• 168 pages

Series: Q&A Health Guides Greenwood

World English

• US February 2024

• £35.00 / $50.00

ePub 9798765110485

ePdf 9781440881398

• 1 bw illus

• 192 pages

• £38.04 / $45.00

• £38.04 / $45.00

Series: Q&A Health Guides

• Bloomsbury Academic

Q&A Health Guides

Sixteen Stormy Days

The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India

Tripurdaman Singh, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK

This book explores the contentious legacy of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India, following the sixteen days of debate that led up to it, the people that created it, the great battle waged against it and the immense consequences it has had for Indian democracy. It is a cautionary tale about an almost forgotten but hugely consequential piece of history that holds the key to understanding the position of civil liberties and individual freedoms in India today.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350384385 • £20.00 / $27.00

ePub 9781350384392 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350384408 • £18.00 / $25.64

Bloomsbury Academic

World All Languages (excluding Bangladesh/Bhutan/India/Maldives/Nepal/Pakistan/Sri Lanka)

Central Asia in World War Two

The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union

Vicky Davis, Independent Scholar, UK

This book examines how Central Asia, as part of the Soviet Union, experienced population displacements on a huge scale during the Second World War. It is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the conflict. Based on meticulous archival research, Vicky Davis considers the interactions of the individual citizen and the Soviet state, weaving together the experiences of over three hundred ordinary men and women in Central Asia as they coped with their new roles on the front line or in the rear. UK

ePub

ePdf

Bloomsbury Academic

Managing the Media in the India-Burma War, 1941-1945

Philip Woods, New York University in London, UK

This book reveals the impact that the media had in maintaining troop morale and how the military recognised that the media could be a valuable arm of warfare in the India-Burma war. Honing in on India and Burma at a turning point in their road to independence, this book offers a fresh angle on a well-known military conflict, unpicks the various constraints and influences on the media in wartime, and links the campaign to India’s crucial role in WWII.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

PB 9781350271678

The Making of the Modern Philippines

Pieces of a Jigsaw State

Philip Bowring, Independent Journalist and Author, Asia

Tracing the history of the Philippines from its precolonial era, through its Spanish and American occupations and up to the modern day, this book unravels the complex politics, culture, peoples and economy of this rich and unique nation. Engaging with challenges the Filipino people face today such as federalism, revolution, Mindanao, the diaspora, capitalism and relations with China, it rediscovers the struggles, culture and history of its past to understand the present.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781350427884 • £14.99 / $19.95

Previously published in HB 9781350296817

ePub 9781350296824 • £18.00 / $25.64

ePdf 9781350296831 • £18.00 / $25.64

Bloomsbury Academic

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War

Comparing North and South Korean Writing

Jerôme de Wit, University of Tübingen, Germany

This book considers the similarities and differences in the way that writers from both North and South Korea perceived and experienced the Korean War. Jerôme de Wit examines the social impact of major themes in the output of these writers to further our understanding of the wartime identities that were constructed by the two Koreas. The result is a nuanced and enlightening study which provides a base to explore the role of culture in the formation of North and South Korea.

UK March 2026

• US March 2026

HB 9781350106529

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350106543

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350106536 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: War, Culture and Society • Bloomsbury Academic

Modern Nigeria

Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi, IIE MSA, South Africa & Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi, Independent consultant and researcher, South Africa

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

• 256 pages • 10 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350271647

ePub 9781350271661

ePdf 9781350271654

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781440865565 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798216172093 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440865572 • £82.70 / $99.00

• 400 pages • 13 bw tables

Series: Understanding Modern Nations Bloomsbury Academic World English

Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain

Oral Histories 1930s to Present Day

Eithne Nightingale, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Expertly situated in its historical and political context, Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain is a carefully-curated and urgently-needed collection of oral testimonies from child refugees who arrived in Britain over the last 100 years. Most importantly, Nightingale links these rich stories of child migration from history with contemporary issues making it vital reading for both historians of modern Britain and scholars of migration and human rights more broadly.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350332607 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350332614 • £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350332621 • £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350332638 • £16.19 / $22.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Memory and Modern British Politics

Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy

Edited by Matthew Roberts, LABOUR HISTORY

REVIEW, Sheffield

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781350190719

• £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781350190481

Reflections on British Royalty Mass-Observation and the Monarchy, 1937–2022

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

In this original volume, Jennifer J. Purcell and Fiona Courage curate and contextualize Mass-Observation’s rich archival materials on the British popular imagination of the monarchy and the royal family between 1937 and 2022. From the coronation of George VI in 1937 to the to the wake of Elizabeth II's death – via war, weddings, a jubilee and a tragedy – this book incorporates everything from diaries and detailed responses to questionnaires, to children’s essays on royalty, internal organisational documents and published reports on popular attitudes to royalty in order to reveal the true nature of Britain’s relationship with its monarchy in the modern era.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages

PB 9781350107137 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350107144 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350107168 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350107151 • £22.49 / $31.04

Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Marquess of Londonderry

Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland, Revised Edition

N.C. Fleming, University of Worcester, UK

• 272 pages • 10 bw illus

• HB 9781350190467 • £85.00 / $115.00

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350190474 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

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

Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries

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

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

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350107045

• 304 pages • 10 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350107069

ePdf 9781350107052

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

This updated edition of The Marquess of Londonderry draws extensively from private Londonderry family papers and state papers, as well as existing secondary literature, to provide an illuminating biography of Londonderry. This book has been updated with additional primary source research to reveal details about Londonderry House, Londonderry’s travels and his radical rightwing beliefs as well as his infamous anti-Semitism. The Marquess of Londonderry examines Londonderry’s disastrous diplomatic visits during the war, which seriously damaged his credibility at home, alongside his achievements in the Royal Air force to provide a comprehensive biography of the Marquess.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 304 pages

PB 9781350351554 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781850437260

ePdf 9780857714619 • £108.00 / $147.14

Bloomsbury Academic

Wilma Mankiller A Life in American History

Tamrala Swafford Bliss, University of Maryland Global Campus, USA

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

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 216 pages

HB 9781440873867 • £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216184454 • £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440873874 £48.79 / $58.50

Series: Women Making History ABC-CLIO

American Slavery on Film

Caron Knauer, LaGuardia Community College, USA

In this study of ten films that depict slavery in America, Caron Knauer analyzes how African American slavery has been and continues to be portrayed in major studio blockbusters and independent films alike. In her analysis of such films as the early silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914), the groundbreaking television miniseries Roots (1977); and the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet (2019), Knauer separates the romanticized and unrealistic depictions of slavery from the more accurate but often unflinching portrayals of its horrors, delivering a comprehensive, readable, and timely examination of enslaved African Americans and slavery in America's film history.

UK February 2023

HB 9781440877513

• US February 2023

• £54.00 / $70.00

ePub 9798216184348

Forgotten African American Firsts

An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History

Hans Ostrom, University of Puget Sound, USA & J. David Macey Jr., University of Central Oklahoma, USA

While the achievements of such individuals as Barack Obama, Toni Morrison, and Thurgood Marshall are well known, many accomplished African Americans have been largely forgotten or deliberately erased from the historical record in America. This volume introduces students to those African Americans whose successes in entertainment, business, sports, politics, and other fields remain poorly understood. With nearly 150 entries across 17 categories, this book has been carefully curated to showcase the inspiring stories of African Americans whose hard work, courage, and talent have led the course of history in the United States and around the world.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 352 pages • 40 bw illus

HB 9781440875359 • £83.00 / $107.00

ePub 9798216171584 • £80.22 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440875366 • £80.22 / $96.30

Greenwood

Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia

The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans

Carol S. Lilly, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350285828 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350285842 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350285835

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 240 pages

• £52.93 / $63.00

ePdf 9781440877520 • £52.93 / $63.00

Series: Hollywood History • ABC-CLIO

The History of the United States

A.

Glenn Crothers

This latest addition to the Histories of the Modern Nations series explores the complex history of the United States from the nation's precolonial origins to the present day. The author highlights America's diverse populations and the myriad struggles over time that many, including millions of Indigenous peoples and African Americans, have historically faced in a country where freedom and opportunity have been promised, but not always delivered, to all Americans. From before the time of Christopher Columbus to the presidency of Donald J. Trump, the book introduces readers to the story of America both at home and abroad.

UK July 2024

• US July 2024

HB 9781440864872

• 344 pages

• £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216171799

ePdf 9781440864889

• £56.24 / $67.50

• £56.24 / $67.50

Series: The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations

• Bloomsbury Academic World English

Bloomsbury Academic

The History of Ukraine

Paul Kubicek, Oakland University, USA

The Russia-Ukraine war that began in 2022 turned the world's attention on Ukraine, the secondlargest country in Europe and one of the leading global exporters of wheat and other valuable commodities. Though some Russian leaders have long denied and continue to reject Ukrainian sovereignty, this book presents a comprehensive picture of Ukraine that is both intertwined with and distinct from Russian history. From its days as Kyivan Rus and its inclusion in the Russian Empire, to the Euromaidan demonstrations and the outbreak of war with Russia, Ukraine, as this book demonstrates, has developed its own identity, territory, and culture.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023 • 280 pages

HB 9781440880452 • £54.00 / $75.00

ePub 9798216171812

ePdf 9781440880469

• £56.24 / $67.50

• £56.24 / $67.50

Series: The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic

The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations

Frank W. Thackeray & John E. Findling, both Indiana University Southeast, USA

From Asgard to Valhalla

The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths

Heather O'Donoghue, University of Oxford, UK

From Asgard to Valhalla tells the stories of the Viking Gods and uncovers the histories and legacies of their myths. Containing 2 brand new chapters on post-medieval reception, 30 illustrations for a stronger visual context and pedagogical updates throughout to aid further study, this fully-updated and expanded 2nd edition is a vital resource for all students of Old Norse mythology.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350252806 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350252813 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350252837 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350252820 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

A Revolution in Colour Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800

Edited by Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK, Maria Hayward, University of Southampton, UK & Ulinka Rublack, Cambridge University, UK

Bringing together an international cast of scholars from a range of disciplines, this highly illustrated book traces the history of colour through its relationship with clothing in Europe over four centuries in the pre-modern period. It reveals how, during this era, dyes spurred on aesthetic experiment, new modes of empirical observation and an intensification of globally interconnected trade. The book demonstrates that merchants and craftspeople generated much of the social value for new aesthetic possibilities through dye tones, successfully arguing that this set off a ‘revolution in colour’ that intertwined with the first age of globalization and consumerism.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 50 colour illus

HB 9781350405622 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350405646 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350405639 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe

Edited by David de Boer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands & Geert H. Janssen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

This open access book traces how refugees transformed European politics. Topics explored include: the development of refugees as a political group in early modern societies; the role of displaced minorities in forging humanitarian networks; and the impact of refugees on migration management and imperialism. The result is a sophisticated comparative study of migration, identity, power and politics in early modern Europe.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350307681

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350307704 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350307698 £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

A Short History of the Weimar Republic

Revised Edition

Colin Storer, University of Warwick, UK

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, however, a vibrant cultural scene flourished. Incorporating original research and a synthesis of the existing historiography, this revised edition will provide students and a general readership with a clear and concise introduction to the history of the first German Republic.

UK May 2024 • US May 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350172364 £14.99 / $19.95 HB 9781350172357 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350172371 £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350172388 £13.49 / $18.89

Series: Short Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims

Asylums

and Internment, 1922 – 1943

Gabriella Romano, Independent Scholar, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781350377080 • £85.00 / $115.00

• 272 pages

ePub 9781350377110 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377103 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments

Icelandic Literacy Practices

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, University of Iceland, Iceland

This book investigates the autobiographical traditions of Iceland and what this reveals to us about egodocuments. Using the Icelandic context, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research. Magnússon also provides an insightful historiographical account of how the egodocument has been used in historical works both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world since the 19th century.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 304 pages 24 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781350413177

ePub 9781350413191

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 272 pages • 20 bw illus

ePdf 9781350413184

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

Eloise Florence, Western Sydney University, Australia

Drawing on extensive empirical and autoethnographic data, this interdisciplinary study considers Berlin and the deeply entrenched narratives of World War II in order to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the German and Anglo-American consciousness. In doing so, Eloise Florence shines an important light on both the dark legacy of the aerial bombing of Berlin and the ways in which we record and read violent histories more generally.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350268999 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350269019 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350269002 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

Colonialism and the Jews in German History

From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Edited by Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

This book brings together new studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany. It introduces German colonialism as a relevant context for GermanJewish history, and it expands the perspective on German colonial history significantly by considering Jews both as distinct objects and also as agents within the field of German colonialism. The volume includes studies on the pre-colonial era, the phase of active German colonialism, and the time after Germany lost its colonies in the First World War.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 320 pages • 17 bw illus

PB 9781350319301 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350155718

ePub 9781350155732 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350155725 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Holocaust Sites of Europe

An Historical Guide

Martin Winstone, Holocaust Educational Trust, UK

This book is the first comprehensive guide to the Holocaust sites of Europe. It is a thoughtful and indispensable guide for anyone seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves. It provide a survey of all the major Holocaust sites in Europe, from Belgium and Belarus to Serbia and Ukraine, and offers extensive insight into the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 464 pages 34 maps, 46 integrated bw

PB 9781350332027 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350332034 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350332058 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350332041 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe

Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars

Edited by Bastiaan Willems, Lancaster University, UK & Michal Adam Palacz, Oxford Brookes University, UK

This book is a vital exploration of the harrowing stories of mass displacement that took place in the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of forced migrants themselves. The volume brings together 15 interrelated case studies which show how the deportation, evacuation and flight of millions of people as a result of the First World War intensified rather than alleviated ethnic conflicts which culminated in population transfers on an even larger scale during and immediately after the Second World War.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 296 pages 4 bw illus

PB 9781350281080 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350281073

ePub 9781350281103 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350281097 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Perspectives on the Holocaust

Israel and the Holocaust

Avinoam J. Patt, University of Connecticut, USA Avinoam J. Patt examines the relationship between the two most significant events in modern Jewish history. Is there a causal relationship between these two events, separated by only three years? Put another way, was the creation of the state of Israel made more or less likely by the Holocaust? Patt carefully considers this question, not just from the perspective of historical causality, but also with regard to its major political implications. The book then goes on to document and analyse the changing nature of Israel’s relationship to the Shoah in the sixty years since the Eichmann trial.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages 12 bw illus

PB 9781350188341 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350188358 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350188372 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350188365 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust • Bloomsbury Academic

The Roma and the Holocaust

The Romani Genocide under Nazism

María Sierra, University of Seville, Spain

Half a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar to that suffered by the Jewish people. However, the persecution and torment of Roma in Hitler's Europe has little presence in the history books. This book places the Roma genocide in the context of the widespread violence of the Second World War, while offering an explanation that places it within a broader trajectory of anti-Roma persecution in modern societies. It brings together original analysis of the memories of Roma survivors and a critical synthesis of scholarship in the field.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages • 57 bw illus

PB 9781350333086 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350333093 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350333116 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350333109

• £20.69 / $28.34

Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust

• Bloomsbury Academic World English

Jews under Tsars and Communists

The Four Questions

Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College, USA Jews under Tsars and Communists explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes’ policies toward them. It traces the evolving and changing nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of Jews from the late 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Robert Weinberg’s examination of the ‘Jewish Question’ (and by extension antiSemitism) provides a fruitful way to investigate why and how social, economic, political, and cultural developments in Russia from the time of Catherine the Great led to prejudices and the discriminatory treatment of Russian and Soviet Jews.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

• 144 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350129153 £12.99 / $17.95 HB 9781350129160 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350129184 £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350129177 £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus

Periphery Unbound, 1920-29

Sara G. Brinegar, Independent Scholar, USA

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350286689 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350286702 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350286696 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Soviet Suppression of Academia

The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky

Petr A. Druzhinin, Russian Academic of Sciences, Russia

Translated by Sarah Vitali, University of Cambridge, UK

This book tells of an individual’s struggle with a highly repressive state machine. Based on the hitherto inaccessible Soviet Secret Police (KBG) archives and on personal recordings, the book traces Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1970s to his arrest and imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s to his struggle for rehabilitation in the 1990s. Here, for the first time in English, the KBG’s secret operations against prominent intellectuals is revealed in full, horrific detail, providing new insight into the lived experience of KBG control and into the relationship between intellectual and state power in Soviet Russia.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350333208

• £28.99 / $39.95

The Russian Military and the Creation of Empire

From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, USA

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350037182 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350037205 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350037199 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series Bloomsbury Academic

The Bolsheviks and Britain during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-24

Evgeny Sergeev, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World History, Russia

This book analyses the principal aspects of the relations between Soviet Russia (USSR) and Britain from 1917 to 1924. Using previously unavailable and largely unknown archival records and memoirs published by statesmen, diplomats and military commanders directly involved in the events, Evgeny Sergeev not only reconstructs the dynamics of the interaction between Moscow and London, but also strips its key episodes of common myths and stereotypes.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 296 pages 13 bw illus

PB 9781350273504 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350273511

ePub 9781350273535 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350273528 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Displaced Comrades

Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West

Ebony Nilsson, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Drawing on interviews, government records and surveillance dossiers from multiple contents, Displaced Comrades examines the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia. Exploring how they lived under constant suspicion and surveillance, it highlights the long-term effects of war and displacement, offering a new exploration of life as a Soviet ‘enemy alien’ in the West.

UK December 2023

HB 9781350378391

• US December 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350378414

ePdf 9781350378407

Bloomsbury Academic

• 10 bw illus

• 272 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 280 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350136137

ePub 9781350136151

ePdf 9781350136144

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

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New Approaches to International History

Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

A

Diplomatic

History of US

Immigration during the 20th Century Policy, Law, and National Identity

Benjamin Montoya, Schreiner University, USA

Comparing the immigration experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans and Vietnamese, this book highlights how the US viewed each group throughout the American century, the various factors that have shaped US immigration, and the ways in which these debates influenced relations with the wider world. Using a comparative approach, Montoya offers an insight into the themes that have surrounded immigration, its role in forming a national identity and the ways in which changing historical contexts have shaped and re-shaped conversations about immigrants in the United States.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350158238 £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350158252 £19.79 / $26.99

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Histories of Internationalism

David Brydan, King's College, London, UK & Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality

c.1910s-1960s

Leonie Wolters, Freie University Berlin, Germany

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350373150 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350373174 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350373167 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic

HB 9781350158245 £65.00 / $90.00

Series: New Approaches to International History

• Bloomsbury Academic

Climate Change and International History

Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice

Ruth A. Morgan

Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways in which climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and NGOs have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it. Developing amidst the Cold War, decolonization and a growing transnational environmental consciousness, it asks how this wider historical context has shaped our response to the greatest threat to humankind to date.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350240124 • £21.99 / $29.95

• 224 pages • 20 bw illus

• HB 9781350240131 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350240148 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350240155 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: New Approaches to International History

• Bloomsbury Academic

The Fear of Chinese Power An International History

Jeffrey Crean, Tyler Junior College, USA

The real and potential power of China, the world’s most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern. Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere.

UK January 2024 US January 2024

PB 9781350233942 £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350233966

ePdf 9781350233973

Dismantling the League of Nations

The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8

Jane Mumby, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

The League of Nations, one of the world’s first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation. This book unveils the last chapter in its story, showing how complex and time-consuming the end of this ‘great experiment’ truly was. Starting with the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 - the death knell of the League - Mumby traces the closure process that followed and highlights the lingering impact of the League on international organisations today.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350376892 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350376922 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350376908 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Histories of Internationalism Bloomsbury Academic

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

Edited by Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent, UK

Written in tribute to the work of Professor

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

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350227828 • £85.00 / $115.00

• 288 pages • 10 bw illus

ePub 9781350227842 • £76.50 / $103.94

272 pages

HB 9781350233959 £65.00 / $90.00

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £19.79 / $26.99

Series: New Approaches to International History

• Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781350227835 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Minorities in Global History Cultures of Integration and Patterns of Exclusion

Edited by Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history. Taking transnational, transregional and comparative approaches, it explores narratives of inclusion and belonging both conceptually and through case studies in postcolonial Africa and Asia. The chapters in this collection address the exposure to and challenge of historical and contemporary treatments of marginalization, exclusion, belonging and inclusion in global history.

UK May 2024 • US May 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350382213 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350382237 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350382220 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Citizen-driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War

Australian Aid during the 1971 Refugee Crisis

Rachel Stevens, Australian Catholic University, Australia

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

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350381445 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350381469 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350381452 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Creating the Cape Colony The Political Economy of Settler Colonization

Erik Green, Lund University, Sweden

This open access book offers a detailed study of the establishment and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, assessing specific characteristics of this settlement and comparing key insights of this study with the historiography of other settler colonies, this book demonstrates the need to revise our understanding of how settler economies operated and to rethink the long-term legacies of settler colonialism.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation grant.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350258310 • £28.99 / $39.95

The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia, 1890-1914

Mark Hearn, Macquarie University, Australia

This book explores the fin de siècle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer, to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities, philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era and permeated from Australia into the wider world.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 248 pages • 21 bw illus

PB 9781350291423 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350291393

ePub 9781350291416 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291409 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran

The End of Informal Empire, 1941-1953

Jack Taylor, Independent Researcher, UK

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350320581 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350321168 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350321199 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2023

John R. Vile

Now in its fifth edition, this two-volume encyclopedia by constitutional scholar Dr. John R. Vile offers authoritative history and analysis of all 27 ratified amendments to the Constitution, as well as insights and information on thousands of other amendments that have been proposed but never ratified from America's birth through 2023. The set also includes a rich bibliography of informative books, articles, and other media related to constitutional amendments and the amending process. A staple since its original publication in 1996, this thoroughly updated reference set remains an invaluable resource for research and education.

UK January 2024 US October 2023 384 pages

HB Pack 9781440879524

• £160.00 / $220.00

• 192 pages • 38 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350258235

ePub 9781350258259 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350258242 £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

ePub 9798216170662 • £164.59 / $198.00

ePdf 9781440879531 • £164.59 / $198.00

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Empire’s Other Histories

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

Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

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

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

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350292949 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350292963 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350292956 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions

Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century

Christina Petterson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Australian National University, Australia.

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

• 240 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350122086 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350122109 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350122093 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia

Regulating Mobility and Movement

1840-1920

Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle, Australia

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world.

UK May 2024 • US May 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350252691 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350252714 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350252707 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

The Raj A Journey through Ten Documents

Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India

This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India, examined through ten texts each of which embodies a particular attitude, ideology and development in the imperial process, besides being of singular significance for the Empire. The volume seeks to encapsulate the Raj’s progression, attitudes, ideological shifts and actions by presenting ten key non-literary texts. It details why and how the particular document constitutes a major cog in the imperial wheel, what it initiated or embodied in terms of ideological stance or form of thinking in the imperial process.

UK May 2023 • US July 2023 • 400 pages

HB 9789354355554 £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9789354355639 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Voices of an Era

Voices of World War I Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Priscilla Roberts

Bringing together a diverse collection of primary source documents, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War I from a variety of perspectives.

In addition to covering military turning points, documents explore how issues of gender, race, diplomacy, and empire-building impacted individuals’ experience of the war. Each of the 42 documents includes contextual information and thoughtprovoking questions to guide readers in their exploration of the text. Supplemental features include high-interest sidebars, in-text glossary definitions, biographical snapshots of key figures, a chronology, and a guide to evaluating and interpreting primary sources that bolsters readers' analytical and critical thinking skills.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 354 pages

HB 9781440873560 • £89.00 / $115.00

ePub 9798216172536 • £86.01 / $103.50

ePdf 9781440873577 • £86.01 / $103.50

Series: Voices of an Era • Bloomsbury Academic

Voices of the Afghanistan War Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Edited by Brian L. Steed, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, USA & Sheri Steed, Independent Scholar, USA

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States spent almost 20 years at war in Afghanistan until it officially withdrew its military forces in August 2021. This book tells the story of the war and its many controversies from varied perspectives, including documents from American and Afghan politicians, high-ranking military officers, diplomats, and the soldiers who did the fighting. The topics covered are even more diverse, ranging from the building and training of security forces and the use drones in modern warfare, to the importance of education and the evolving role of women in combat.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 390 pages

HB 9781440874437 • £89.00 / $115.00

ePub 9798216172512 • £86.01 / $103.50

ePdf 9781440874444 • £86.01 / $103.50

Series: Voices of an Era • Bloomsbury Academic

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science

Edited by Lukas M. Verburgt, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands

Debating New Approaches to the History of Science offers a unique overview of the history of science and explores how it has evolved and where it might progress to next. Edited by Lukas M. Verburgt, and written by a team of established and early-career academics, each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field to provide students with an overview of the field and encourage critical thinking.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 352 pages • 5 bw illus

PB 9781350326217 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350326224 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350326248 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350333857 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Academic

The Body Collected in Australia

A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge

Eugenia Pacitti, independent scholar

Offering an insight into 19th- and early 20th-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body over the past 200 years. Focusing on specimens collected in Australia, Pacitti asks how and why anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts, and explores the role Australia played in the global narrative of western medical development.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350373723 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350373747 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350373730 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Dogmatism On the History of a Scholarly Vice

Herman Paul, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Alexander Stoeger, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Analysing the use of 'dogmatism' from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, this open access book examines why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its meaning have evolved. Tracing the concept across decades and different disciplines such as psychics, biology, and psychology, Paul and Stoeger demonstrate how dogmatism has survived not only the passage of time, but changes in language and methodology.

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 144 pages

PB 9781350382633 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781350382640 • £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781350399556 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350399570 £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Thomas Garnett

Science, Medicine, and Mobility in Britain

Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350239296 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350239319 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350239302 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Medical Firsts Innovations and Milestones That Changed the World

Tish Davidson, Independent Scholar, USA

Profiling 60 medical milestones, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

Firsts are drawn from a wide array of medical fields and arranged chronologically. Readers can also focus on particular subject areas using the thematic listing of firsts. Each entry begins with a description of how the first came to be, followed by discussion of the historical context in which it emerged and its continued impact on the world of medicine. Sources for further information are provided at the end of each entry for further study.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 248 pages 14 bw illus

• £54.00 / $69.00

HB 9781440877339

ePub 9798216172031

ePdf 9781440877346

Bloomsbury Academic

• £52.10 / $62.10

• £52.10 / $62.10

Soviet SCI_BERIA

Novosibirsk Science City and the Politics of Expertise, 1957-1991

Ksenia Tartachenko, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Akademgorodok is regularly presented as evidence of the success of modern Russian innovation and yet, as Ksenia Tartachenko reveals, the history and legacy of this city is not so simplistic. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archive materials from across the globe, this book offers a new history of the science city from its foundations in 1957 to the present day. In doing so, Tartachenko not only fosters a conversation between history and science but also sheds new light on the late Soviet politics of expertise.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350165830 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350165854 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350165847 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

World All Languages (except Russian)

The Renaissance and the Wider World

Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University, USA

Award-winning historian Joanne M. Ferraro’s The Renaissance and the Wider World skillfully surveys the economic, political, social, and cultural history of Europe for the period between 1250 and 1600.

Vital and innovative themes that permeate the text’s discussions of the Renaissance are that:

* Global encounters helped shape the material, intellectual and artistic cultures of the age

* Both women and men contributed significantly to the advances made

* The daily lives of ordinary men and women are fundamental understanding this remarkable period

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 320 pages • 59 bw illus, 1 color illus

PB 9781350158955

• £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350158962 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350158986 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350158979 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture

Monika Barget, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century avoided revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process of constitutionalisation meant that groups from the aristocracy to the church, from the army to the people at large, were brought into the system in a way that negated the obvious, serious challenges that were posed to the Empire by the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late-18th century. Barget goes on to highlight the lasting political and legal repercussions of this process.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350377134 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350377165 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350377158 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe Bloomsbury Academic

Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India

Edited by Seema Bawa, University of Delhi, India

The volume examines the form of life and conception of time in premodern India. While leisure as a category became a prominent status marker in modernity especially industrialized west, leisure and recreational activities did exist and were often celebrated during pre-modern times. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and highlights the differences across religious ideologies like Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. It looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces like the elite, women, king in the bedchamber, and court with dancing girls, public such as orchards, garden and performance spaces.

UK September 2023

HB 9789394701274

The Renaissance of Feeling

Erasmus and Emotion

Kirk Essary, University of Western Australia

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350269798 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350269811 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350269804 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: History of Emotions Bloomsbury Academic

Early Modern Europe

Facts and Fictions

Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University, USA.

Many myths about early modern Europe originated in the 19th and 20th centuries and continue to appear today across popular media. In recent years, such popular documentaries and television shows as Game of Thrones have tended to reinforce what we think we know about the world during the early modern period.

This work uses primary sources to interrogate popular beliefs about early modern Europe and reveal the true story behind such movements and events as the Scientific Revolution, the Crusades, and the European witch hunts. Focusing on how perceptions of these events have shifted and evolved through history.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 9 bw illus

HB 9781440867453 • £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216171324 • £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440867460 £48.79 / $58.50

Series: Historical Facts and Fictions Bloomsbury Academic

All Things Ancient Rome

An Encyclopedia of the Roman World [2 volumes]

Anne Leen, Professor Emerita, Furman University, USA

Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. While other reference works typically examine battles and politicians, this book focuses on Roman social history and daily life, painting a detailed picture of the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. A timeline highlights key events, while an overview essay surveys the achievements of the Romans. Reference entries provide objective information about art, architecture, literature, commerce, transportation, government, religion, and other topics related to Roman life. Each entry provides cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and some provide sidebars of interesting facts along with excerpts from primary source documents.

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789394701281

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789394701342 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

• 320 pages

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

UK August 2023

• US June 2023

HB Pack 9781440862885

ePub 9798216170808

ePdf 9781440862892

Bloomsbury Academic World English

• 74 bw illus

• 712 pages

• £165.00 / $214.00

• £149.70 / $180.00

• £149.70 / $180.00

Josephus and the Church Fathers in the Early Middle Ages

How Wide is the Canon?

Richard Matthew Pollard, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

In the history of Christianity, the so-called ‘Church Fathers’ hold an immensely important place, with the title used from the 4th century onwards to designate particularly trustworthy authorities, whose opinions became the foundation of Western religious and intellectual culture. But who exactly were these Church Fathers? This book examines this fundamental question using a variety of novel techniques and ultimately enables us to understand and appreciate the foundational authorities of European Christian culture – some of whom were not Christian at all.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9781350182462 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350182486 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350182479 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in Early Medieval History • Bloomsbury Academic

A History of Bread

Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18th Century

Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This book delves into the history of bread to map out its defining moments and people since the 19th century. From the price revolution of the 1890s to the taste revolution of the 1990s it studies consumers, bakers and governments to explain how and why this food that once powered an entire continent has fallen by the wayside, and what this means for the modern age. From prices and consumption to legislation and technology it shows how bread, and in turn Europe, has been shaped by changes in agriculture, transport, production and policy.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350361768

• US February 2024

• £23.99 / $32.95

• 272 pages

• HB 9781350361775

ePub 9781350361782 £21.59 / $29.69

ePdf 9781350361799 £21.59 / $29.69

• £75.00 / $100.00

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

Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’

Historical representations of Human and non-Human interactions in India

Aloka Parasher-Sen, University of Hyderabad, India

Human interventions with living entities have had to be in a constant state of negotiating space necessary for co-habitation with animals, birds, trees, plants, grasslands, forests, hills, water bodies, etc. The book argues that negotiating this space meant sharing, which impacted economic strategies, religious experiences, cultural interactions and oral performances that humans have strategized and preserved. This intersectional theme, through individual case studies, provides the civilizational ethos of the Indian sub-continent on how human non-human relations informed it. Further how this relationship was represented in a variety of material and literary texts, visual representations, archival records, folklore and oral testimonies.

UK September 2023

HB 9789356402638

Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game of Thrones

The Keeper of All Our Memories

Edited by Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford, UK & Anna Czarnowus, University of Silesia, Poland

This book explores the connections between history and fantasy in George RR Martin’s immensely popular book series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ and the international TV sensation HBO TV’s Game of Thrones. Written by an international team of medieval scholars, historians, literary and cultural experts, bringing their own unique perspectives to the multiple societies, belief-systems and customs of the ‘Game of Thrones’ universe, Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game of Thrones offers original and sparky insights into the world-building of books and show.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350269637 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350269590

ePub 9781350269613 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350269606 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political

Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789356406902 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789356403055 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

• 320 pages

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Edited

by Bodie A. Ashton, Universität Erfurt, Germany

For almost forty years the Pet Shop Boys have shaped themselves and their work through politics, memory and history. From queer identities to the HIV/AIDs pandemic, Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of this band, offering a fascinating window into the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An archetypal ‘gay band’ coming of age at a time when sexual politics and awareness were points of deep socio-political tension, it shows how their overt queerness has, in turn, influenced generations of LGBTQIA+ music lovers and artists alike.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

PB 9781350331563 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350331570 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350331587 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350331594 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad

New Directions in the History of Giving

Edited by Ben Offiler, Sheffield Hallam

University, UK & Rachel Williams, University of Hull, UK

This collection sheds light on the history of charity and philanthropy in the United States since the Civil War. It explores the ways in which charities, local associations, religious organisations and philanthropic foundations have engaged and interacted with American politics, society and relations with the world. In highlighting the significant role that charitable works have played in American politics and society, and the ways in which the concept of philanthropy has evolved since the mid-19th century, this collection demonstrates their value as a lens through which to view American history.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 248 pages 3 bw illus

PB 9781350329829 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350151956

ePub 9781350151970 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350151963 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Social and Cultural History

Captive Fathers, Captive Children

Legacies of the War in the Far East

Terry Smyth, The University of Essex, UK

Captive Fathers, Captive Children focuses on a period and a social context underrepresented in the historiography of WW2. The book examines how the children of Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW) remembered their childhoods and how, through different forms of memory practice, they were able to revisit the relationships with their fathers.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350194298 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350194243

ePub 9781350196667 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350194267 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History Bloomsbury Academic

Three Yiddish Plays by Women

Female Jewish Perspectives, 1880-1920

Edited by Alyssa Quint, Yeshiva University, USA

This is an unprecedented collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women in the period from 1880 to 1920. Taken together, these plays provide a fascinating insight into female Jewish perspectives on a range of women’s issues prevalent at the time and, in some cases, still prevalent today. The works explore the Jewish law of the ‘chained widow’, pregnancy out of wedlock, and birth control. The volume includes an incisive contextual introduction which provides historical context for each individual work, summaries and discussion of the texts and stage histories for two of the three that have them. The introduction also engages an array of recent sources and angles on intersecting questions of theater and gender.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 280 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321014 £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781350321021 £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350321045 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350321038 • £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Yiddish Voices • Bloomsbury Academic

Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

New Essays on Power and Discourse

Rachel Bryant Davies, QMUL, UK

Edited by Rachel Bryant Davies, QMUL, UK & Erin Johnson-Williams, Durham University, UK

In this ground breaking study, a team of esteemed academics and early career scholars led by Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams contribute case-studies of their own archival encounters that grapple with critical intersectional questions about archival practice and the politics of access.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 328 pages • 20 b/w illus

PB 9781350200340 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350200333

ePub 9781350200364 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350200357 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History • Bloomsbury Academic

Bigfoot to Mothman

A Global Encyclopedia of Legendary Beasts and Monsters

Margo DeMello, Carroll College, USA

Comprehensive in its scope, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to know more about creatures of myth and legend. Rather than purport to prove or deny the existence of these creatures, however, this volume classifies them within their respective cultural, historical, and social contexts, allowing readers to appreciate cryptids as cultural artifacts important to societies around the globe. Finally, this book goes beyond the study of the unknown to investigate who believes in cryptids, why they do, and why the study of cryptozoology is as much about understanding cryptids as it is about understanding ourselves.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 368 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781440877254 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798216170860 • £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781440877261 • £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Lucy Noakes, University of Essex, UK, Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK & Sasha Handley, University of Manchester, UK

A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age

Edited by

Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK

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

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

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 248 pages

HB 9781350035010 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350239005 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239012 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance

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

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

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

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

• 264 pages

HB 9781350035096 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350239043 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239050 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

Edited by Heather Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK

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

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

HB 9781350035201

• 264 pages

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350239142

ePdf 9781350239159

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• Bloomsbury Academic

Edited

by Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Georgetown University, USA

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

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

UK April 2023 US April 2023 272 pages

HB 9781350035034 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350238763 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350238756 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by

Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna, Austria

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

UK April 2023 US April 2023

264 pages

HB 9781350035157 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350239111 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239128 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age

Edited by Judith Harford & Tom O’Donoghue

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

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

HB 9781350035508

• 256 pages

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350239166 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350239173 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Ancient World

Edited by Tristan S. Taylor, University of New England, Australia

This volume presents a range of views on the challenges of applying the modern concept of “genocide” to an ancient context, with a particular emphasis on the worlds of Greece, Rome and the Near East.

Contributors consider the causes, motivations, and justifications of ancient mass violence, as well as contemporary responses and critiques of violence and how mass violence was represented in ancient literature and iconography. Chapters analyse what drove the perpetrators of mass violence, and the processes of victimization, as well as the consequences of mass violence and ravaging warfare, including in particular mass enslavement and sexual violence.

UK May 2023

• US May 2023

HB 9781350034679

• 304 pages • 43 bw illus

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430235

ePdf 9781350430242

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Early Modern World

Edited by Igor Pérez Tostado, University Pablo de Olavide, Spain

This volume traces the roots of genocide in the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments of the early modern period. It examines different genocides which unfolded around the globe, emphasizing its gendered dimension and its disproportionate and enduring impact on indigenous populations and fosters debate on the early modern history of genocide, not as an insulated or secondary subject, but as a central issue of the era with profound implications for our own.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023

HB 9781350034839

• 264 pages • 48 bw illus

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430419 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350430402 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Era of Total War

Edited by Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Stockton University, USA

This volume examine the dynamics of genocide during the period between the two World Wars, when states could draw on new technologies, new identities, and new global ideologies of control to amplify the speed, size, and impact of their destructive impulses towards unwanted populations. Contributors explore the lasting consequences of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews as well as the genocide of Herero and Nama peoples in German South West Africa from 1904 -1914, and ongoing genocidal processes, in settler colonies such as the United States, Canada, and Australia.

UK May 2023

• US May 2023

HB 9781350034938

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Middle Ages

Edited by Melodie H. Eichbauer

Covering the period 800-1400, this volume considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term “genocide” did not yet exist. In considering rhetoric, discrimination, and political and legal marginalization that impacted the lives of particular peoples, the volume takes as its premise that genocidal practices and massacres can occur when social dynamism and political change challenges the identity of a community. Each contribution considers genocide as caused by settling national, religious, and ethnic differences; genocide as designed to enforce or fulfil an ideology; and genocide as designed to colonize.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023

• 248 pages • 44 bw illus

HB 9781350034754 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430266 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350430280 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century

• 49 bw illus

• 264 pages

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430570 £67.50

ePdf 9781350430563 £67.50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by

David Meola, University of South Alabama, USA

Covering the long 19th Century, this volume explores how this period of significant existential change for peoples across the globe made way for empire and the creation of the nation-state. It traces how European states primarily concentrated their aggressive colonization in the Global South, bringing mostly white metropolitans and settlers into intimate contact with diverse African, Asian, and American populations. Contributors unpick how the inherent violence of imperialism eventually ushered in flashpoints of conflict, as well as indentured servitude, racial segregation, ecological destruction, and genocide throughout Europe’s overseas empires.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 264 pages • 49 bw illus

HB 9781350034914 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430549 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350430532 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Modern World

Edited by Deborah Mayersen, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia

This volume examines the cultural history of genocide in the modern world, from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It explores the many genocides that have occurred during this period, including in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), East Timor, Indonesia, Guatemala, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Iraq, and elsewhere. Crucially, it examines the beliefs and actions that led to them, the local and international responses, and the changing way in which genocide has been understood. It chronicles key developments, including the creation of international legal and political mechanisms to address genocide.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023

• 264 pages

HB 9781350034952 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350430648 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350430631 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity

Edited by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Miami University, USA

This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups— including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians— as they came into contact with one another during the Classical era.

Drawing on a range of ancient evidence—literature, historical writing, documentary evidence, and ancient art and archaeology—this volume highlights both the complexity of ancient racial ideas and the often violent and asymmetrical power structures embedded in ancient racial representations and practices like war and the enslavement of other persons.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 45 bw illus

HB 9781350067424 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350299986 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350299979 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age

Edited by Kimberly Ann Coles & Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University, USA

Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore new analytical models, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches in attempting to reimagine the European Renaissance and early modern periods in terms of global expansion, awareness, and participation. Centering race in these periods requires that we acknowledge the people against whom social hierarchies and differential treatment were directed. This collection takes Europe as its focus, but White Europeans are not centred in it and the experiences of Black Africans, Asians, Jews and Muslims are not relegated to the margins of a shared history.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 272 pages 41 bw illus

HB 9781350067455 £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300026 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300019 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State

Edited by Marina B. Mogilner, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

This volume covers the cultural history of race in ‘the long 19th century’ – the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarchical imperial formations were challenged by the emerging national norm. The concept of race emerged as a dominant epistemology in the context of the conflicting entanglement of empire and nation as two alternative but quite compatible forms of social imaginary. It penetrated all spheres of life under the novel conditions of the emerging mass culture and mass society and with the sanction of anthropocentric and positivistic science.

• US June 2023

UK June 2023

HB 9781350067530

A Cultural History of Race in the Middle Ages

Edited

by Thomas Hahn

This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experienced, and enacted racializing differences. Addressing events, texts, and images from the 5th to the 16th centuries, these essays by ten eminent scholars provide broad, multi-disciplinary analyses of materials whose origins range from the British Isles, Western Iberia, and North Africa across Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 44 bw illus

HB 9781350067431 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300002 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350299993 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment

Edited by

Nicholas Hudson

The essays in this volume trace the complex pattern of intellectual and cultural change from popular bigotry in the Age of Shakespeare to the racial categories developed in the works of Buffon and Kant. These essays also link changes in racial thinking to other trends during this age. The development of modern ideas of race corresponded with emerging conceptions of the nation state; new acceptance of religious diversity became linked with speculations on racial diversity; transforming ideologies of gender and sexuality overlapped in crucial ways with developing racial attitudes.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 42 bw illus

HB 9781350067516 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300033 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300040 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age

Edited by Tanya Maria

Golash-Boza

This volume explores the cultural history of race during the period from the 1920s to the present. This era is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apartheid, the continuance of race pseudoscience, and the rise of human and civil rights discourse in response. As this volume makes clear, racism is an ideology that is adept at changing with the times, yet never dissipates.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

• 256 pages • 46 bw illus

HB 9781350067554 • £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300231

• £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300224 £67.50 / $91.79

• 44 bw illus

• 272 pages

• £75.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781350300163 £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350300156 £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• Bloomsbury Academic

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity

Edited by Paul Cartledge, Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK & Carol Atack, University of Oxford, UK

This volume explores democracy in antiquity through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis.

It surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies, examining the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considering how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781350439986 • £25.99 / $35.95

• 280 pages • 47 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350042728

ePub 9781350284333 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350284548 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance

Edited by Virginia Cox, New York University, USA & Joanne Paul, University of Sussex, UK

This volume explores democracy in the Renaissance through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty, liberty, and the “common good”; the relation of state and household; religion and political obligation; gender and citizenship; ethnicity, diversity, and nationalism; democratic crises and civil resistance; international relations; and the development of news culture. It makes a pressing case for a fresh understanding of modern democracy’s deep roots.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350440333 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350042810

ePub 9781350273283 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272835 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Tom Brooking, University of Otago, New Zealand & Todd M. Thompson, Biola University,

USA

This volume explores democracy in the nineteenth century through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis. Arguing that this period was the formative century in the modern history of democracy, it surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 288 pages 50 bw illus

• £25.99 / $35.95

PB 9781350440043

Previously published in HB 9781350042896

ePub 9781350272750

ePdf 9781350272767

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Medieval Age

Edited by David Napolitano, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. & Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America, USA

This volume explores democracy in the Middle Ages through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the common good; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the scalability of democracy beyond the limits of a single city. It argues that the Middle Ages deserve to be included in the history of democracy and highlights a variety of ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that played a significant role in that history.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 280 pages • 41 bw illus

PB 9781350440074 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350042759

ePub 9781350272811 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272828 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Michael Mosher, University of Tulsa, USA & Anna Plassart, The Open University, UK

This volume explores democracy in the European Enlightenment through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the transformations of sovereignty. It surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 296 pages 50 bw illus

PB 9781350440050 £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350042834

ePub 9781350272859 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9781350272842 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age

Edited by Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge, Cambridge & Gary Gerstle

This volume explores democracy in the 20th century through ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and democratic politics beyond the polis. Arguing that the history of democracy in the 20th century is paradoxical, it examines the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781350440166

• £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781350042919

ePub 9781350277373

ePdf 9781350272866

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• Bloomsbury Academic

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

Edited by Beate Dignas, University of Oxford, UK

A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.

This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity, explores memory in the period from 800 BC to 500 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the classical era.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 224 pages • 50 BW Illus

PB 9781350408579 £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273374

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli, University of Verona, Italy & Marek Tamm, Tallinn University, Estonia

This book provides a thorough exploration of memory in the period from 1450 to 1700 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Renaissance.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 224 pages • 50 BW Illus

PB 9781350408593 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273411

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Susan A. Crane & Peter Fritzsche

This edited volume explores memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in Nineteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350408623

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

Edited by Gerald Schwedler

This book explores memory in the years 500-1450. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Medieval era.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 232 pages • 37 bw illus

PB 9781350408586 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273381

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by

Patrick H. Hutton

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century, explores memory in the 1700s. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. This book is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in this era.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages • 50 BW Illus

PB 9781350408609 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273480

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century

Edited by Stefan

Berger, Ruhr University

Bochum, Germany & Bill Niven, Nottingham Trent University, UK

• US February 2024

• £25.99 / $35.95

• 50 BW Illus

• 240 pages

Previously published in HB 9781474273503

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

This book explores memory in the ‘long twentieth century’. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory since 1900.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages • 47 bw illus

PB 9781350408647 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781474273527

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity

Edited by Joanne Berry & Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge, UK

‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds of leisure and work; of the worlds of public and private life; of the world of practical structures and furnishings and the world of religion.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 232 pages • 41 bw

PB 9781350412224 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584229

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance

Edited by Amanda Flather, University of Essex, UK

This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 248 pages • 50 bw

PB 9781350412255 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584243

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire

Edited by Jane Hamlett

This volume explores how homes and homemaking were imagined and practiced across the globe in the 19th century. It looks at how the home was experienced differently according to class and race, different forms of identity and levels of socioeconomic resource fashioned a variety of home-making practices. While demonstrating the cultural importance of home, this book reveals the various ways in which home was lived in the 19th century.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

PB 9781350412262

A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age

Edited by Katherine L. French

The period covered by this volume, roughly 8001450, was one of enormous change in the way people lived in their houses. Medieval people could call a grand castle, a humble thatched hut, or anything in between home, but houses were more than physical spaces. They changed according to technological developments, climatic needs, geological limitations and economic resources. They were also moral units that were themselves symbolic, economic, gendered, and social. This volume argues that through a house and its uses, occupants created, sustained, and understood their relationship to each other and their society.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 240 pages • 50 bw

PB 9781350412231 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584236

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment

• 272 pages • 50 bw

• £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584298

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Edited

by Clive Edwards, Loughborough University, UK

During the period of the Enlightenment, the word ‘home’ could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat. The chapters in this volume therefore discuss and reflect upon issues relating to the home through a range of approaches. Enlightenment homes are examined in terms of signification and meaning; the persons who inhabited them; the physical buildings and their furniture and furnishings; the work undertaken within them; the differing roles of men and women; the nature of hospitality, and the important role of religion in the home.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 264 pages • 50 bw

PB 9781350412248 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584250

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age

Edited by Despina Stratigakos

This volume, A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age, explores the place of and the cultural practices associated with the home from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of the Home set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of home, family, the house as a physical space, furniture, work, gender, hospitality and religion. This book is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the home in the modern period.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

• 264 pages • 50 bw

PB 9781350412323 • £25.99 / $35.95

Previously published in HB 9781472584304

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

Circular Economies in an Unequal World Waste, Renewal and the Effects of Global Circularity

Edited by Patrick O’Hare, University of St Andrews, UK & Dagna Rams, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

This landmark first anthropological volume on the circular economy brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisms in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America, to examine the global implications of the concept on a diverse array of international actors including waste-pickers, traders and policymakers, and the global movement of materials like gold, plastic and textiles. What are the frictions that emerge as these concepts and materials travel across different geographic contexts? And what can an anthropological analysis contribute to a concept that is increasingly reshaping economies and restructuring global flows of virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste?

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350296633 • £21.99 / $29.95

• 256 pages

• HB 9781350296626 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350296640 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350296657 • £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Academic

Chinese Civil Code Specific Parts

Yuanshi Bu, University of Freiburg, Germany

This book provides readers with a systematic and in-depth analysis of the Civil Code of the PRC.

Following the Chinese Civil Code: The General Part, this book covers the six specific books of the Code. It designates a separate part for the security law and highlights the significant amendments brought about by the Code and its subsequent judicial interpretation. As contract law makes up nearly half of the Civil Code, this book puts an emphasis on this area and addresses six major contract types in detail: the sales contract, lease contract, guaranty contract, mandate contract, factoring contract and technology contract.

• US October 2023

UK September 2023

HB 9781509972913 • £225.00 / $305.00

Beck/Hart

A Taxing Journey

How Civic Actors Influence Tax Policy

Edited by Paolo de Renzio

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

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages

HB 9781350344617 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350344624 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350344631 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law

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

The Governance of Macroprudential Policy How to Build Regulatory Legitimacy Through a Social Justice Approach

Tracy C Maguze, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

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

• 400 pages

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

International Bank Crisis Management A Transatlantic Perspective

Marco Bodellini, University of Bergamo, Italy

This book analyses the legal regimes governing bank crisis management in the EU, UK, and US, discussing the different procedures and tools available as well as the regulatory architecture and the authorities involved.

The book provides a thorough discussion of bank liquidation vis-à-vis bank resolution; advances considerations on the impact on banks of the current crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic; and discusses the regulatory agenda of the EU commission on the adoption of a new bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework in the Union.

UK February 2024

PB 9781509961344

• US February 2024

• £42.99 / $58.95

• 304 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509961306

ePub 9781509961313

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509961320 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law Hart Publishing

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

• 288 pages

HB 9781509968398 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509968404 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509968411 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

The Future of High-Cost Credit Rethinking Payday Lending

Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit.

The book explores the theoretical grounding, policy initiatives and interdisciplinary perspectives associated with high-cost credit, making a novel and insightful contribution to the existing literature.

The findings will also be of interest to many academic disciplines, as well as for those working in public policy and ‘the third sector’.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages

• £42.99 / $58.95

PB 9781509961429

Previously published in HB 9781509939350

ePub 9781509939374 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509939367 • £76.50 / $103.94

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

Money Law, Capital, and the Changing Identity of the European Union

Edited by Gabriella Gimigliano, University of Siena, Italy & Valentino Cattelan, Birmingham City University, UK

This book addresses 3 questions: is money a way to create a European Union identity? If so, which type of identity is this? And in what ways is the EU identity changing?

Chapters cover the European framework for payment services users; the limits and challenges of the Banking Union; the digital euro; the policy and regulatory drivers of the EU's changing identity from the early modern roots to the regulatory strategy set in the Capital Markets Union; the fintech-based developments of payment systems; and the fiscal and monetary policies in the post-COVID phase.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 304 pages

PB 9781509956838 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509956791

ePub 9781509956807 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509956814 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Debates in Charity Law

Edited by John Picton, University of Liverpool & Jennifer Sigafoos, University of Liverpool

Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue. As society changes, so does the law which regulates nonprofits.

In this book, a team of internationally recognised charity law experts offers a modern take on a fast-changing policy field and identifies the links between law, social change and regulation.

Through the concept of policy debates it moves the field forward, providing an important reference point for developing scholarship in charity law and policy. Each chapter explores a policy debate, setting out the fault-lines in play, and offering proposals for reform.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781509974276 • £44.99 / $60.95

Studies in International Trade and Investment Law

• 328 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509926831

ePub 9781509926848 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509926855 £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Outcome-Based Cooperation In Communities, Business, Regulation, and Dispute Resolution

Christopher Hodges, University of Oxford, UK

How do we cooperate – in social, local, business, and state communities? This book proposes an Outcome-Based Cooperative Model, in which all stakeholders work together on the basis of trust and respect to achieve shared aims and outcomes.

The book examines recent systems and developments in local groupings, business organisations, regulation, and dispute resolution, and makes proposals of profound importance for reform. This is a new blueprint for liberty, solidarity, performance, and achievement.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

• 600 pages

PB 9781509962525 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509962488

ePub 9781509962495 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509962501

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Civil Justice Systems

• Beck/Hart/Nomos

Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration

A WTO, FTAs, and Competition Law Analysis

George A Papaconstantinou, European Commission, Belgium

This book provides a study of the regulation of financial infrastructure and international economic integration. It discusses how the liberalisation of financial market infrastructure is achieved within the WTO, Economic Integration Agreements, and EU competition law, exploring whether a more harmonious relationship between financial regulation and economic integration is feasible. The book demonstrates the existence of both structural barriers to trade and trade-facilitating tools that can impede and foster the integration of financial market infrastructure.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781509966752 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966769 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966776 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law Hart Publishing

International Trade Law and Global Data Governance

Aligning Perspectives and Practices

Neha Mishra, Graduate Institute, Switzerland

Neha Mishra, examines how international trade agreements apply to domestic regulations on cross-border data flows and then proposes a multi-layered framework to align international trade law with evolving norms and practices in global data governance.

The book will benefit scholars, practitioners and policymakers working on digital trade and data regulation.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 336 pages

HB 9781509961696 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509961702 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509961719 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law • Hart Publishing

International Investment Law

An Analysis of the Major Decisions

Edited by Hélène

Ruiz Fabri & Edoardo

Max Plank Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law

Stoppioni,

Written by over 40 international experts, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law. The book shows most notably that:

(1) international investment law has a longer history than generally considered and that this history is fundamental to understanding its development; (2) international investment law is crafted today by a large number of actors; and (3) the literature and case law in languages other than English and from different legal cultures is essential to grasp the essence of the development of the topic.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 664 pages

PB 9781509974320 £69.99 / $94.95

Previously published in HB 9781509929047

ePub 9781509929061

ePdf 9781509929054

• £126.00 / $171.44

• £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law • Hart Publishing

Gabrielle Marceau, Legal Affairs Division, WTO Secretariat, Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland, Federico Ortino, King's College London, UK & Gregory Shaffer, University of California, Irvine, USA

Court-Supervised Restructuring of Large Distressed Companies in Asia Law and Policy

Wai Yee Wan, City University of Hong Kong

This book provides an analysis of 4 Asian jurisdictions (Mainland China, India, Hong Kong and Singapore) that have recently reformed – or are considering reforming – their corporate restructuring laws to promote regimes conducive to restructuring financially distressed, but economically viable, companies. This study explains how corporate restructuring laws in these Asian jurisdictions have evolved due to the frictions in shareholder-creditor and creditor-creditor relationships, and the role of the state in resolving non-performing loans and financial distress of state-owned enterprises which are listed, or which issue public debt.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 400 pages

PB 9781509952373 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509952335

ePub 9781509952342 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509952359 £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law Hart Publishing

The World of Maritime and Commercial Law

Essays in Honour of Francis Rose

Edited by C Mitchell, University College

London, UK & Stephen Watterson, University of Cambridge

These 20 essays contain work by legal scholars, practitioners, and judges, all renowned for their expertise in the field. The book covers: the law governing maritime collisions; carriage of goods by sea; marine insurance; choice of law rules affecting the ownership of ships; the Privy Council’s role in resolving questions of private international law; the Sale of Goods Act 1979; the rules of contractual interpretation; negotiating damages for breach of contract; the illegality defence to private law claims; tracing misapplied funds; the application of private law rules to cryptocurrency disputes, and developments in the law of directors’ duties.

UK November 2023

PB 9781509974313

Intermediaries in Commercial Law

Edited by Paul S Davies, University College

London, UK & Tan Cheng-Han, City University of Hong Kong

This book is the first to examine intermediaries in a holistic and systematic manner. A wide range of jurisdictions and topical issues are discussed in order to illuminate the role intermediaries play in commercial law, including the role of websites and other platforms as intermediaries, or the prospect of intermediaries being non-human actors. All these issues are subject to rigorous analysis by the expert contributors to this book.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 480 pages

PB 9781509949137 £54.99 / $74.95

Previously published in HB 9781509949090

ePub 9781509949106 £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781509949113 • £99.00 / $134.99

Hart Publishing

The Digital Markets Act

A Guide to the Regulation of Big Tech in the EU

Edited by Konstantina Bania, Geradin Partners and University of Sheffield, UK & Damien Geradin, Geradin Partners, Belgium, and Tilburg University, the Netherlands

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It explains the rationale for the DMA, introduces the reader to the digital services falling within its scope, and provides insights into the interpretation issues and enforcement challenges that arise from the obligations it establishes.

Analysing the DMA in the broader legal and market context, the chapters examine tensions between the DMA and other (EU and national) rules governing the conduct of online platforms, compare the DMA to similar initiatives undertaken in other jurisdictions, and bring perspectives from other disciplines, such as data protection regulation.

UK March 2024 • US May 2024 • 432 pages

HB 9781509970018 • £180.00 / $245.00

• US November 2023

• £59.99 / $79.95

Previously published in HB 9781509932429

ePub 9781509932405 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509932412 • £108.00 / $147.14

Hart Publishing

• 432 pages

Digital Platforms, Competition Law, and Regulation

Comparative Perspectives

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

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

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

UK February 2024 US February 2024 320 pages

HB 9781509969388 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509969395 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509969401

Hart Publishing

• £0.00 / $0.00

ePub 9781509970025 • £162.00 / $220.04

ePdf 9781509970032 • £162.00 / $220.04

Beck/Hart/Nomos

Judicial Review in Northern Ireland

Gordon Anthony, Queen's University, Belfast, UK The third edition of this leading text provides a detailed account of the purposes of judicial review; the public-private divide in Northern Ireland law; judicial review procedure; grounds for review; and remedies. It focuses on case law that is unique to Northern Ireland, and identifies important differences between Northern Ireland and England and Wales, including differences resulting from the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol agreed as part of Brexit. This edition explains how and when EU law still applies in Northern Ireland, and considers key Human Rights Act decisions of Northern Irish courts and the House of Lords and the UK Supreme Court.

UK February 2024 US April 2024 400 pages

HB 9781509933150 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781509933167 • £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781509933174 • £58.50 / $79.64

Hart Publishing

Pandemocracy in Latin America Revisiting the Political and Constitutional Dimension of the Pandemic

Edited by Pablo Riberi, National University of Cordoba, Argentina

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 384 pages

HB 9781509965274 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509965281 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509965298 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Constitutional Courts, Media and Public Opinion

Angioletta Sperti, University of Pisa, Italy

This book analyses how the recent information revolution has radically changed the way courts communicate with the public. It focuses on the consequences of the communication revolution of courts both in terms of their relationship with public opinion and of the legitimacy of judicial review of legislation. The book will interest scholars in constitutional law and public comparative law, sociologists, historians, political scientists, and scholars of media law and communication studies.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023

HB 9781509953608 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509953615

• £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509953622 • £85.50 / $116.09

• 304 pages

Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law • Hart Publishing

Equality Before the Law Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

Michael P Foran, University of Glasgow, UK

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an all-things-considered theory of justice. The book argues that equality is grounded in the principle of equal moral status of all subjects of the law and that individuals be treated in accordance with the principle of equality before the law, that they not be treated in ways that would deny their equal moral standing. It explores the argument that this principle of moral equality is the fundamental normative basis of the common law constitution and essential for the rule of law.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 272 pages

HB 9781509964949 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509964956

ePdf 9781509964963

Referendums as Representative Democracy

Leah Trueblood, University of Oxford, UK

In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. In this way, the book argues that referendums are better understood as exercises in representative democracy.

Challenging the current treatment of referendums in processes of constitutional change both in the United Kingdom and around the world, the book strengthens the case for referendums by showing how they can support, rather than undermine, institutions of representative democracy.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 144 pages

HB 9781509940806 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781509940813 • £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781509940820 £58.50 / $79.64

Hart Publishing

Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia

Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement

Andrew Edgar, University of Sydney, Australia

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

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

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781509972241 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509972258 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509972265 £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Demoicratic Authority

Nature and Ground of the EU’s Right to Rule

Josef Weinzierl, the Landgericht, Germany

What is the nature of EU’s authority? This fascinating book explores this question, and is much needed given its increased scrutiny in the face of growing nationalism.

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

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

UK January 2024 US January 2024 224 pages

HB 9781509965045 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509965052

ePdf 9781509965069

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

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

Nationhood, Executive Power and the Australian Constitution

Peta Stephenson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

The first comprehensive study of the nature and scope of the nationhood power, this book brings a fresh perspective to the scholarship on the powers of the executive branch in Australia.

The book analyses and evaluates judicial observations about the operation of the nationhood power in different contexts and its relationship with the other categories of federal executive power in s 61 of the Australian Constitution. It will appeal to constitutional lawyers, scholars and practitioners, as well as those who are involved in the administration of government.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781509942367 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509942329

ePub 9781509942336 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509942343 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law • Hart Publishing

Law and the Whirligig of Time

Stephen Sedley, retired Lord Justice of Appeal

This book contains articles by Stephen Sedley on the law, many of them from the London Review of Books, and lectures given to a variety of audiences. The first part is concerned with law as part of history - Feste’s ‘whirligig of time’; the second part with law and rights. The third part is a group of biographical sketches of well-known and less well-known judges and jurists. The final part of the book is more personal: it goes back to the author’s days at the Bar, then forward to some parting reflections.

UK November 2023

PB 9781509974221

• US November 2023

• £21.99 / $29.95

Previously published in HB 9781509917099

ePub 9781509917112 • £40.50 / $55.34

ePdf 9781509917105 • £40.50 / $55.34

Hart Publishing

• 304 pages

Constitutionalism 2030

Parliament and the Law

Edited by Alexander Horne, Hackett & Dabbs LLP, UK, Louise Thompson, University of Manchester, UK & Ben Yong, Durham University, UK

The new edition of this popular book explores the way in which the law applies to, and impacts upon, the UK Parliament. It explains how Brexit, the #MeToo movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic all presented Parliament with a series of challenges. This edition includes new chapters on legislation and scrutiny, the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster treaty scrutiny, Brexit, votes of confidence and the Fixed Term Parliament Act, and the financing of Parliament.

This is a multi-disciplinary work authored by lawyers, political scientists, parliamentary officials and practitioners, and is supported by the Study of Parliament Group (SPG).

UK March 2024 US March 2024 464 pages

PB 9781509962747 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509934096

ePub 9781509934102 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509934119 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law • Hart Publishing

Common Law Constitutional Rights

Edited by Mark Elliott, University of Cambridge & Kirsty

Hughes, University of Cambridge

This book offers the first detailed and comparative analysis of the content and role of common law constitutional rights in judicial decision-making. There is a developing body of legal reasoning in the United Kingdom Supreme Court that has championed common law constitutional rights. Indeed various members of the senior judiciary have asserted the primary role of common law constitutional rights and critiqued legal arguments based first and foremost on the Human Rights Act 1998.

This collection brings together leading constitutional scholars to systematically analyse this significant shift in legal reasoning, described by Lady Hale as ‘UK Constitutionalism on the march’, for the first time.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023 • 352 pages

PB 9781509974252 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509906864

ePub 9781509906888 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509906871 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Edited

by Christoph Bezemek, University of Graz, Austria

How will the 'crisis of constitutionalism' unfold in the years to come? Nobody knows, but at the same time, nobody is too keen to make an educated guess. This volume remedies that.

The book brings together 9 eminent scholars in law and political science to predict where constitutionalism will stand in 2030. It creates a forum of deliberation that not only aims to anticipate the developments in question but also shape academic discourse on constitutionalism.

The contributors will reconvene in 2030 and 2040 to reflect and consider how the issues have evolved and whether their predictions have been realised.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781509942749

• £44.99 / $60.95

• 304 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509942701

ePub 9781509942718

ePdf 9781509942725

Hart Publishing

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

The Constitutional Balance John Laws

In The Constitutional Balance Sir John Laws has left a vivid and timely commentary on one of the most pressing issues in the legal world today. Constitutional fundamental values can compete with each other, giving rise to tensions within and between key state institutions, in particular the executive and the judiciary. A 'constitutional balance' between them must be found if the constitution is to function properly. Sir John draws on his life-long experience as a barrister, judge and academic, and on case-law and learning, to explain in vibrant and engaging terms how such a 'constitutional balance' might be achieved.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 168 pages

PB 9781509974337 • £19.99 / $26.95

Previously published in HB 9781509935451

ePub 9781509935468 • £36.00 / $49.94

ePdf 9781509935475 • £36.00 / $49.94

Hart Publishing

The Constitutional Legitimacy of Law Officers in the United Kingdom

Conor McCormick, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

This book provides a detailed account of each law officer’s functions and draws on that account as the basis for a broader conceptual analysis of their constitutional legitimacy.

The constitutional legitimacy of law officers has been questioned repeatedly in recent years, on account of recurring controversies surrounding the discharge of their varied functions. This book argues that the most persuasive framework for analysing the offices which make up this diverse regime involves concentrating on the constitutional values of independence, accountability and trust which underpin it.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 336 pages

PB 9781509944156 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509944118

ePub 9781509944125 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509944132 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

The Rule of Law in Brazil

The Legal Construction of Inequality

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília, Brazil

This book offers a broad perspective of the functioning, evolution, and dynamics of the rule of law in Brazil.

In the context of a rising crisis of liberal principles and ‘democratic decay’ in global constitutionalism, the book explores how Brazilian democracy has dealt with the authoritarian mindset which still plays a big role in the fate of the country.

It considers whether the democratic achievements and institutional framework that have strengthened over the years are capable of defending the rule of law as an imperative for Brazil’s development, especially in times when the country seems most in need of them.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 304 pages

PB 9781509961900 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509934959

ePub 9781509934966 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509934973 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Rule of Law in Context Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases

Paul Mitchell, University College London, UK

Landmark Cases in Consumer Law

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

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

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

UK December 2023

HB 9781509952298

Revolutionary Constitutionalism

Law, Legitimacy, Power

• US December 2023

• £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781509952304

ePdf 9781509952311

• 576 pages

• £99.00 / $134.99

• £99.00 / $134.99

Series: Landmark Cases

• Hart Publishing

Edited

by Richard Albert, University of Texas at Austin, USA

This book contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman’s path-breaking book Revolutionary Constitutions. The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributions.

Some contributors advance Ackerman’s theory, others attack it, and others refine it—but all agree that the ideas in the book reset the terms of debate on important subjects in constitutionalism: from the promise and perils of populism to the causes and consequences of democratic backsliding, from the optimal models of constitutional design to the forms and limits of constitutional amendment, and from the role of courts in politics to how we identify when the mythical “people” have spoken.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 432 pages

PB 9781509974245 • £29.99 / $40.95

Previously published in HB 9781509934577

ePub 9781509934584 • £54.00 / $74.24

ePdf 9781509934591 • £54.00 / $74.24

Hart Publishing

Consumer Protection in Asia

Edited by Geraint Howells, Hans-W Micklitz, European University Institute, Italy, Mateja Durovic, City University of Hong Kong & André Janssen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

This seminal work explores consumer law in Asia. In it internationally renowned scholars make comparative surveys of the substantive themes, charting the different approaches adopted to the law within Asia, as well as the influences on the its development and relative levels of consumer protection. It places that development within a broader regional context, with comparisons to similar protections in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America as well as broader global perspectives.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024 • 624 pages

PB 9781509957576 • £59.99 / $79.95

Previously published in HB 9781509957538

ePub 9781509957545 £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509957552 £108.00 / $147.14

Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in the Law of Punitive Damages

Edited by James Goudkamp, University of Oxford, UK & Eleni Katsampouka, King's College London, UK

Punitive damages are private law’s most controversial remedy. This book traces the development of the jurisdiction from the foundational decisions of Huckle v Money and Wilkes v Wood in England, to leading modern cases such as Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd in Australia, Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co in Canada, Couch v AG (No 2) in New Zealand, PH Hydraulics and Engineering Pte Ltd v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd in Singapore and Mathias v Accor Economy Lodging, Inc and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co v Campbell in the United States.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 496 pages

HB 9781509967001 £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509967018 £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509967025

• £108.00 / $147.14

Series: Landmark Cases

• Hart Publishing

Data Rights and Private Law

Edited by Damian Clifford, Australian National University, Australia, Kwan Ho Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore & Jeannie Marie Paterson, The University of Melbourne, Australia

This collection moves debates about data beyond data and privacy protecting statutes, asking what private law has to say about these issues and exploring how private law influences the interpretation and the form of legislation dealing with data.

Over five parts it: sets out an overview of the themes and problems; explores theoretical justifications and challenges in understanding data; considers data through the perspective of cognate private law doctrines; assesses the contribution of private law in understanding individual rights; and finally examines the potential of private law in providing individual remedies for wrongful data use, supplementing the work of regulators.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 336 pages

HB 9781509966028 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509966035 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509966042 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Politics, Policy and Private Law

Tort, Property and Equity

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Amy Goymour, Janet O'Sullivan & Sarah Worthington, all University of Cambridge, UK

This is a landmark and ambitious research project looking at private law through the policy prism undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields. This first volume explores tort law, property law and equity, with chapters looking at the Grenfell disaster, compensation of medical injuries post COVID-19, the gig economy and co-ownership. The volumes also explore traditional private law areas, such as psychological injury and the impact of fairness and/or equality obligations. They highlight the similarities and differences across many aspects of private law, allowing for a richer analysis across all the strands of private law.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 320 pages

HB 9781509960965 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509960972 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509960989 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

The Scope and Structure of Unjust Enrichment

Duncan Sheehan, University of Leeds, UK

This ambitious book grapples with ongoing debates on the structure of unjust enrichment. It argues that while unjust enrichment has the function of reversing defective enrichments, there is scope for normative pluralism in how the law achieves this. Drawing on comparative material from Germany, Scotland and South Africa the book argues for a legal framework which combines elements of the absence of basis and unjust factors approaches. It assesses how that structure can be mapped against the causes of action that make up unjust enrichment, and concludes with a treatment of defences.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 304 pages

HB 9781509942442 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509942459 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509942466

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

Contract Law

An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer

John Cartwright, University of Oxford, UK

The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook introduces the lawyer trained in a civil law jurisdiction to the method of reasoning in the common law, and in particular to the English law of contract. It is written for the lawyer - whether student or practitioner - from another jurisdiction who already has an understanding of a (different) law of contract, but who wishes to discover the way in which an English lawyer views a contract. However, it is also useful for the English law student: setting English contract law generally in the context of other European and international approaches, the book forms an introductory text, not only demonstrating how English contract law works but also giving a glimpse of different ways of thinking about some of the fundamental rules of contract law from a civil law perspective.

UK August 2023 US October 2023 448 pages

PB 9781509971800 • £34.99 / $47.95

ePub 9781509971817 • £31.49 / $43.19

ePdf 9781509971824 • £31.49 / $43.19

Hart Publishing

Regulating Boilerplate Resolving the Issues of Imposition and Unfairness in Standard Form Contracts

Marcus Moore, University of British Columbia, Canada

This book analyses what elements of legal regulation would best resolve the longstanding issues of imposition of terms and unfair terms in boilerplate ‘contracts of adhesion’. It adopts a ‘law in context’ methodology to offer solutions.

The methodological approach is combined with insights from global regulatory theory and cutting edge solutions such as private collectivised proceedings and remedies, streamlined adjudication, and administrative enforcement systems. It looks at models in the US, Canada, the UK, and the EU. As the use of boilerplates is set only to increase as privatisation and globalisation spread, the answers provided are much needed.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781509951208 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509951215 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951222 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: International Studies in the Theory of Private Law Hart Publishing

Judicial Reasoning in Tort Law

English and French Traditions Compared

Dorota Leczykiewicz, University of Oxford, UK

This book examines the practice of judicial reasoning in tort law, understood as a process of justification, consisting of both deductive and non-deductive elements, and therefore involving a significant element of choice or discretion. The book divides the elements of judicial reasoning into four conceptual categories: factual assessments, application of legislative and judgemade rules, reliance on reasonableness and policy considerations. To discuss these elements in a comparative perspective the book uses the English and French judicial traditions of tort law as case studies. By closely examining selected tort judgments from both jurisdictions, the book elucidates the phenomenon of law-making through adjudication in both a non-codified and a codified system of liability It offers a reflection on different approaches that legal systems may adopt to the importance in the process of judicial justification. UK

Male Violence Against Women Law, Ethics, and Policy

Jonathan Herring, University of Oxford, UK

This book provides an overview of male violence against women.

Male violence against women is pervasive. From the bedroom to the boardroom; from the home to the hospital; from the court to the care home, women are subject to male violence. The legal response to this is weak. The violence is either invisible or downplayed. This book explains why and how the law can do better. It claims that the legal response to male violence against women downplays the severity of the harm or even fails to recognise it.

UK August 2024 • US August 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781509965083 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509965090 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509965106 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Sentencing Rape A Comparative Analysis

Graeme Brown, University of Aberdeen, UK

This book presents an in-depth comparative study of sentencing practice for rape in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.

It provides a thorough review of the literature on the physical and psychological effects of rape; the literature on the seriousness of the offence; and the victim’s role in sentencing and examines recent socio-legal research on technology-facilitated sexual violence and considers the implications for sentencing.

The book critically analyses judicial approaches to rape sentencing and suggests possible reforms to rape sentencing in ‘non-guideline’ jurisdictions, with the aim of establishing general principles for sentencing rape.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 328 pages

PB 9781509974283 £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509917570

ePub 9781509917587 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509917594 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

An Environmental Court in Action Function, Doctrine and Process

Edited by Elizabeth Fisher, University of Oxford, UK & Brian Preston, Land and Environmental Court of New

South Wales, Australia

Effective adjudication has become a key consideration for environmental lawyers. One of the most important questions is whether environmental law frameworks need their own courts. Here, a pioneer of such a court, the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court (NSWLEC) is forensically examined to see what it might teach other similar courts. Showing a court ‘in action’, it suggests models that practitioners and policy makers might follow. It also speaks to the environmental law scholars, setting out a conceptual framework for studying these courts as legal institutions. This multi-faceted collection is invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

PB 9781509961245

Contemporary Challenges to Criminal Justice Liber Amicorum for Ralph Henham

• 360 pages

• £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509941032

ePub 9781509941049

ePdf 9781509941056

Hart Publishing

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Edited

by Paul Behrens, University of Edinburgh, UK

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

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 512 pages

HB 9781509948628 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781509948635 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781509948642 £90.00 / $122.84

Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law Hart Publishing

The Aarhus Convention Coming of Age?

Edited by

Gregory Jones KC, Francis Taylor Building,

UK & Aine Ryall,

Cork, Ireland

University College

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

UK October 2023 US October 2023 448 pages

HB 9781509946518 £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781509946525 £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781509946532 • £99.00 / $134.99

Hart Publishing

The Practical Guide to EU Law Litigation before National Courts

Zsófia Varga, European Parliament, Luxembourg

This book provides practical and comprehensive guidance for national practising lawyers on the application of EU/EEA law before national courts. It describes the essential rules regarding the application of EU/EEA law before national judicial instances and structures them systematically, to enable national judges and litigation attorneys to comprehend the main standards.

The book is divided into 6 chapters, each dealing with a specific topic. For pragmatic purposes, the structure of the chapters is uniform and each chapter can be read individually. The book’s unique practical focus makes a great addition to any national lawyer’s and EU law expert’s library.

UK March 2024

• US May 2024

• 592 pages

HB 9781509964895 £250.00 / $340.00

ePub 9781509964901 £225.00 / $305.09

ePdf 9781509964918

Hart Publishing

• £225.00 / $305.09

Free Movement Rights for Atypical Workers

Alice Welsh, York Law School, UK

This book challenges the existing focus in EU citizenship scholarship which looks only at the economically active. Arguing that the deliberately vague EU concept of ‘work’ allows for its restricted application in Member States, it shows how many workers and economic contributors are left out of the free movement regime. Relying on both qualitative case studies and legal analysis of both EU and UK legislation, case law, and decision maker guidance, it argues that, if EU free movement rights are awarded on the basis of market credentials, more must be done to ensure a contemporary, accurate and inclusive market citizenship.

UK May 2024 • US May 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781509966608

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509966615 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509966622 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Modern Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

The Evolving Governance of EU Competition Law in a Time of Disruptions

A Constitutional Perspective

Edited by Carlo

Maria Colombo

&

Mariolina

Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands & Kathryn Wright, University of York, UK

This book analyses the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times.

Economic crises, the climate emergency, digitalisation, and geopolitical and democratic threats all have societal and economic effects on the EU. This brings about significant governance and constitutional challenges by questioning how the governance of EU competition law is being transformed to respond and adapt.

The essays in this collection focus on the substantive and procedural developments across the three main policy areas of EU competition law: antitrust, merger control and State aid.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

• 416 pages

PB 9781509951833 • £41.99 / $57.95 • HB 9781509951796 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509951802 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951819 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Modern Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

The EU as a Global Digital Actor Institutionalising Global Data Protection, Trade, and Cybersecurity

Elaine Fahey, City Law School, City, University of London, UK

This book examines EU global data flows and digital trade through the framework of European institutionalisation. Drawing on case studies of EU-US, EU-Japan and EU-China relations it charts the theoretical and empirical approaches at play. The book marks a major shift in how institutionalisation and the EU should be viewed as it relates to 2 of the more extraordinary areas of global governance: trade and data flows. This significant book will be of interest to EU constitutional lawyers, as well as those researching in the field of IT and data law.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 264 pages

PB 9781509957088 £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509957040

ePub 9781509957057 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509957064 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Modern Studies in European Law

• Hart Publishing

Migrant Rights and the European Integrated Border Management

At the Frontiers of International Responsibility

Giulia Raimondo, University of Luxembourg

European international border management (EIBM) is at the coal face of effective implementation of the Union’s refugee policy yet it is arguably under-examined. This important new work addresses that gap by examining the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), which coordinates and supervises the action of various actors involved in the EIBM. With impressive analysis, it clearly illustrates how the development of Frontex has resulted in tensions between territory and public power. It charts cooperative challenges faced, and the human rights obligations that such cooperation gives rise to.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 400 pages

HB 9781509964543 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509964550 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509964567 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Nordic Cooperation and the European Union

50 Years of Legal Integration

Edited by Graham Butler, University of Southern Denmark & Helle Krunke, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This collection explores the cooperation between the European Union and the Nordic states.

It tracks its evolution from informal arrangements to highly legalised arrangements. Drawing on expert contributions, it gives a full understanding and elucidation of the impact of the interplay of these legal regimes and cultures. Each chapter takes a comparative Nordic perspective, combining it with the EU legal perspective. Drawing on both academic and practitioner perspectives, this important work offers fascinating insights into this unique relationship.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

HB 9781509965700

• 416 pages

• £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509965717

ePdf 9781509965724

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Modern Studies in European Law Hart Publishing

Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism

Parliamentary Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation

Giovanni Rizzoni, LUISS University of Rome, Italy

This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge.

The book argues that the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does so by studying the ‘encyclopaedic patterns’ underlying modern parliamentarism. Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and democratic decision-making.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781509963911

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509963928

ePdf 9781509963935

• 240 pages

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Parliamentary Democracy in Europe • Hart Publishing

Building Bridges in European and Human Rights Law

Essays in Honour and Memory of Paul Heim

CMG

Edited by Michael-James Clifton, EFTA Court, Luxembourg, Suzanne Rab, Serle Court Chambers, UK & David Scorey KC, Essex Court, UK

This unique book, formed as a series of essays, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European and human rights law. Drawing on the contributions of international judges, leading practitioners, and officials, the collection provides personal reflections and expertise on selected aspects of European and human rights law. In so doing, it provides multi-level perspectives on the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EFTA Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court, and the interaction of their jurisprudence with domestic law.

UK February 2024 US February 2024

HB 9781509952588 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509952595 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509952601 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

EU Trade Mark Regulation

Article-by-Article Commentary

Edited by Ulrich

Hildebrandt, Hildebrandt

Legal, Germany & Olaf Sosnitza, University of Würzburg, Germany

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR).

The book comments in detail on all provisions of the EUTMR, taking into account the case law of the European Court of Justice and domestic courts as EU Trade Mark courts. It then goes on to look at the decisions of the General Court, the Boards of Appeal and the first instance practice of the EUIPO.

UK September 2023 • US October 2023 • 1408 pages

HB 9781509972937 • £400.00 / $545.00

Beck/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

336 pages

National Constitutions and EU Integration

Edited by Stefan Griller, University of Salzburg, Austria, Lina Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & Roman Puff, Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, Austria

Do individual constitutions, and the legal cultures underlying them, pose an obstacle to future EU integration?

This ambitious collection brings together reports from all the European Member States, systematically setting out their individual constitutional guarantees. In doing so, it tracks possible roadblocks to the future evolution of European integration. Written by recognised authorities in each Member State, it offers an authoritative and rigorous overview of the European Union's constitutional landscape. Its single-structure approach allows for comparison while maintaining consistency. It will become the standard reference work for academics, students and practitioners in the field of European Union law and integration.

UK February 2024

PB 9781509942626

• US February 2024

• £74.99 / $100.00

• 864 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509906765

ePub 9781509906758 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509906741 • £135.00 / $183.59

Hart Publishing

The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights Moving Beyond Criminalisation

Amanda Spalding, University of Leeds, UK

As immigration in Europe has increased, so has its criminalisation. This is a multi-faceted phenomenon, with criminal justice and harsh use of immigration measures becoming more and more entwined. This book asks: how has the European Court of Human Rights responded? Drawing on case law from across the spectrum of rights, it explores how effective it has been in countering detention and deportation, if at all. This makes an original contribution to the growing focus on ‘crimmigration’.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781509947447

• £39.99 / $54.95

Sovereignty, Technology and Governance after COVID-19 Legal Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Europe

Edited by Francisco de Abreu Duarte, European University Institute, Florence, Italy & Francesca Palmiotto Ettorre, European University Institute, Italy

This book imagines how Europe might re-organise and re-group after the COVID crisis by assessing its effectiveness when responding to it. It focuses on: i) sovereignty challenges; ii) technological challenges and iii) governance challenges. The book shows how these challenges intersect by examining the relationship between public and private power, and illustrating how the rise of technocratic authority is connected to the choice of technological solutions. It illustrates how constitutional decisions taken during states of emergency give rise to private governance challenges related to cybersecurity and data protection by experts in the fields of EU governance, data protection, and technology.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

• 264 pages

PB 9781509956029 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509955985

ePub 9781509955992 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509956005 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Autonomy, Care and Family Law

Anna Heenan, University of Cambridge, UK

This book combines doctrinal, theoretical and original empirical data to consider different approaches to balancing paid work and caretaking. The book considers how, given changing social trends, family law and policy should take account of caretaking responsibilities on parental separation. Crucially, it suggests that we need to rethink family law and policy by reference to a principle of care.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781509959334 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509959341 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959358 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

• 232 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509947409

ePub 9781509947416

ePdf 9781509947423

Hart Publishing

• £72.00 / $98.54

• £72.00 / $98.54

What Is a Family Justice System For?

Edited by Mavis Maclean, University of Oxford, UK, Rachel Treloar, Keele University, UK & Bregje Dijksterhuis, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

This book explores the role of the family justice system and asks whether it has a function beyond decision-making in dispute resolution. It is divided into 4 parts:

- Part 1 asks what constitutes a family justice system in different jurisdictions, and how a welfare element is included in the legal framework.

- Part 2 looks at those engaged with a family justice system as professionals and users.

- Part 3 evaluates new ways of working within a family justice system.

- Part 4 explores recent major changes of direction for the family justice systems of Australia, Argentina, and Germany.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

PB 9781509951017 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509950973

ePub 9781509950980 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509950997 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Oñati International Series in Law and Society • Hart Publishing

Citizenship and Human Rights

From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: A New Framework

Christian Kälin, Henley & Partners, UK

Can universal human rights and different national citizenship regimes be compatible? This book argues that they can’t. It explores whether the emergence of postnational models of citizenship that aim at decoupling human rights and citizenship succeed in overcoming tensions between the universal (multiculturalism; universal human rights; postnational values) and the particular (citizenship; borders; national values and diverse local narratives). The author argues that it is illegitimate to speak of universal human rights, universal human dignity, or universal social justice. It is only by recognising this reality that transformation of human rights and citizenship can be meaningfully undertaken.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 384 pages

HB 9781509950249 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509950256 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509950263 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Quiet Revolutionaries

The Married Women's Association and Family Law

Sharon Thompson, Cardiff University, UK

This book provides a unique analysis of how our current law has been shaped by feminist activism, exploring the attempts of the Married Women's Association (MWA) to achieve economic and legal equality between spouses.

It focuses on the MWA’s defeats as well as its successes, placing particular emphasis on the Association’s failed Bills. It demonstrates how and why law is reformed, and the limitations of law in achieving gender equality. This in turn provides vital insight into processes of family law reform and into questions about marriage and divorce that are proving newsworthy and provocative today.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 280 pages

PB 9781509962532 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509929412

ePub 9781509929429 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509929436 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe

Edited by Mark Hill KC, Cardiff University, UK & Lina Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

This edited collection examines the challenges, both apparent and real, faced by Muslim practice and Islamic belief within the legal and political framework of Europe.

The volume’s contributors range from academics at leading universities to former judges and politicians. Its twenty chapters focus on constitutional challenges, human rights with a focus on religious freedom, and securitisation and Islamophobia, while adopting supranational and comparative approaches.

This book will appeal not merely to law students in the United Kingdom and the European Union, but to anyone involved in diplomacy and international relations, including political scientists, lobbyists, and members of NGOs.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 352 pages

HB 9781509966950 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781509966967 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781509966974 • £85.50 / $116.09

Hart Publishing

The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales

Andrew Boon, City, University of London, UK

The fourth edition of this respected textbook examines the regulation and conduct of lawyers in England and Wales and addresses new developments in the field, including those in international practice, sexual misconduct and environmental issues. Focusing on the practice of, and interrelationship between, solicitors and barristers, it provides background to current arrangements while exploring contemporary rules of conduct, systems of regulation, and controversies.

The four main parts cover client duties, wider obligations, key contexts, and regulation. The approach throughout is socio-legal. While the essential law is described, relevant social science research informs consideration of issues and debates.

UK November 2023

PB 9781509971763

• US January 2024

• £44.99 / $60.95

ePub 9781509971770

ePdf 9781509971787

Hart Publishing

• 432 pages

• HB 9781509971848

• £40.49 / $55.34

• £40.49 / $55.34

• £90.00 / $120.00

Habitual Ethics?

Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham, UK

This open access book develops an in-depth account of habit in order to understand its impact upon the way moral decisions are made in a professional context. It calls for renewed attention to be paid to habits and their relationship to ethical agency. Mostly neglected in moral and legal theory, such an inquiry is essential if we are to come to grips with the challenges raised by the profession's growing reliance upon automated systems.

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

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781509961894

• £42.99 / $58.95

• 208 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509920419

ePub 9781509920426

• £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509920433 £0.00 / $0.00

Hart Publishing

Unified Patent Court Procedure A Commentary

Christof Augenstein, Preu Bohlig & Partner, Sabine Agé, Véron VA & Associés & Alex Wilson, Powell Gilbert

This commentary is focused on the procedure of the Unified Patent Court, and covers infringement and defences; proceedings and the UPC; the statutes of the UPCC; financial provisions and general provisions. It also explores languages of proceedings; proceedings before the Court; powers of the Court; appeals; decisions, implementation and operation of agreement. All patent lawyers will welcome this magisterial commentary.

UK March 2024 • US April 2024 • 1000 pages

HB 9781849464932 • £300.00 / $410.00

Beck/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Fragmentation and the European Patent System

Karen Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland

The European patent system (EPS) is undoubtedly fragmented, which is generally seen as a negative aspect of the system that needs to be removed. This book questions that viewpoint and takes the unique perspective that fragmentation is in fact inherent in the EPS and can, in certain circumstances, be a positive feature.

The book proposes a theoretical analysis of fragmentation as a feature of supranational law-making and legal systems. It draws on jurisprudence from international law, in which fragmentation is inherent, and uses that analysis to propose alternative methods of harmonising the EPS, while ensuring national diversity.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781509961436 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509939312

ePub 9781509939329 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509939336 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Intellectual Property Excesses Exploring the Boundaries of IP Protection

Edited by Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London, UK & Aislinn O’Connell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This book highlights the sometimes absurd outcomes which an unjustified overprotection of intellectual property (IP) may lead to. It collects and comments on a series of IP disputes which have taken the notion of IP protection to extremes.

The aim of the book is to criticise these excesses because they contribute to creating an environment where more and more people are led to ‘hate’ IP. This is not a book against IP, it is instead a call for change and an attempt to ‘save’ IP from continuing to be an easy target for criticism.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024 • 448 pages

PB 9781509944927 • £44.99 / $60.95

Previously published in HB 9781509944880

ePub 9781509944897 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509944903 £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

New Data Governance Act

A Practitioner's Guide

Edited by Kristina Schreiber, Loschelder Rechtsanwälte, Germany, Patrick Pommerening, Loschelder Rechtsanwälte, Germany & Philipp Schoel

This guide serves as the first point of reference for all those who have to comply with or apply the Data Governance Act (‘DGA’).

Tightly structured within a clear framework it provides an overall view of the DGA as well as offering more detailed information on the individual articles. It goes further, addressing pressing follow up questions such as legal protection. This will be invaluable to companies, public authorities, and consultants as well as courts and research institutions coming to grips with the DGA.

• US October 2023

UK August 2023

HB 9781509969968

Nomos/Hart

Space Law

Edited by Stephan Hobe, University of Köln, Germany

The second edition of this comprehensive handbook describes the legal grounds for human activities in outer space and on celestial bodies, including recent developments such as:

-Space travel by private companies

-NASA's Artemis programme

-Concrete considerations for colonising the moon and Mars

-Resource mining on celestial bodies

-Traffic rules for space

UK July 2023 • US September 2023 • 320 pages

HB 9781509972586 • £250.00 / $340.00

Nomos/Hart World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

New Digital Services Act

A Practitioner's Guide

Edited by Torsten Kraul, Noerr PartGmbB, Germany

This book provides clarity, both for companies offering online services and for users of digital services, on the New Digital Services Act. The new Act includes obligations for providers of digital services in order to ensure that activities that are illegal offline are also prohibited online.

The book takes a comprehensive look at:

- Which providers are affected under which conditions

- Which obligations they must comply with

- Which innovations apply to liability on the internet and

• 224 pages

• £140.00 / $190.00

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

- What are the consequences of breaches of law.

UK November 2023 US December 2023 240 pages

HB 9781509969982 £140.00 / $190.00

Nomos/Hart

World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 11

The Internet of Bodies

Edited by Ronald Leenes, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Rosamunde van Brakel, Serge Gutwirth & Paul De Hert, all Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection.

The book explores the following topics: biometrics and data protection in criminal justice processing; privacy, discrimination and platforms for men who have sex with men; mitigation through data protection instruments of unfair inequalities as a result of machine learning; privacy and human-robot interaction in robotized healthcare; privacy-by-design; personal data protection of deceased data subjects; large-scale face databases and the GDPR; the new Europol regulation, rethinking trust in the Internet of Things; fines under the GDPR; data analytics and the GDPR; and the essence of the right to the protection of personal data.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 344 pages

PB 9781509974290 • £31.99 / $42.95

Previously published in HB 9781509926206

ePub 9781509926220 £58.50 / $79.64

ePdf 9781509926213 £58.50 / $79.64

Series: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection • Hart Publishing

Applying International and European Anti-Discrimination Law to the Housing Context

Juan Carlos Benito Sanchez, UCLouvain, Belgium

This is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe. Legislative discussion looks at EU law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and related case law. The book goes further to examine United Nations human rights instruments and related practice of UN committees. This unique focus allows for a fuller understanding of anti-discrimination law’s implications, potential, and challenges.

UK August 2023 • US October 2023 • 304 pages

HB 9781509971374 • £120.00 / $160.00

ePub 9781509975280 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509975297 • £108.00 / $147.14

Editions Pedone/Hart

World All Languages (except French)

Re-Inventing Labour Law Enforcement

A Socio-Legal Analysis

Louise Munkholm, University of Southern Denmark

The monograph investigates labour law enforcement from a socio-legal perspective. It analyses how local Italian enforcement actors promote the protection of workers in Prato – a city that has seen a significant influx of Chinese migrants who run small workshops as part of the local clothing industry. Many of the Chinese firms fail to live up to core labour standards, such as maximum working hours, safety and health at work and payment of social security contributions. Based on interviews, observations and document material, the book analyses the strategies and practices employed by three types of local enforcement actors (inspectors, unionists and consultants) in their efforts to assist Chinese firms in improving their level of labour law compliance.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781509974306

• £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781509926374

ePub 9781509926381 £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781509926398 £72.00 / $98.54

Hart Publishing

The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages Context, Commentary and Trajectories

Edited by Luca Ratti, University of Luxembourg, Elisabeth Brameshuber, University of Vienna, Austria & Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni, Lund University, Sweden

This book analyses the EU regulatory framework deriving from the enactment of Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages.

In the first part, the book discusses the function of minimum wage policies in contemporary labour markets and the role of social partners and collective bargaining in governing minimum wage determinants and trends. The second part provides an article-byarticle commentary of the Directive. The third part assesses the main systemic implications of the Directive on Member States.

UK March 2024 US May 2024 704 pages

HB 9781509968725 • £150.00 / $200.00

ePub 9781509968732 • £135.00 / $183.59

ePdf 9781509968749 • £135.00 / $183.59

Hart Publishing

Effective Enforcement of EU Labour Law

Edited by Zane Rasnaca, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium, Aristea Koukiadaki, University of Manchester, UK, Niklas Bruun, Hanken School of Economics, Finland & Klaus Lörcher, Former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation, Belgium

This book by the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights Expert Network analyses enforcement as a key element making EU labour law effective or ineffective.

The book takes a threefold approach by exploring the idea of effective enforcement and the classic types of enforcement from the perspective of EU labour law. It then analyses how enforcement operates in particular contexts, including non-discrimination, health and safety, information and consultation rights, and the rights of migrating workers, before finally turning to specific actors (whistleblowers, the European Labour Authority) and settings (public procurement, economic and monetary policy).

UK January 2024 • US February 2024 • 672 pages

PB 9781509944453 • £59.99 / $79.95

Previously published in HB 9781509944415

ePub 9781509944422 • £108.00 / $147.14

ePdf 9781509944439 • £108.00 / $147.14

Hart Publishing

Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Volume 2 Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania

Edited by Paul Wragg, University of Leeds, UK & András Koltay, University of Public Service, Hungary

In this ground-breaking two-volume set, worldleading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world’s press, its freedom, and its limits. The contributions in Volume 1 look at key jurisdictions in Europe; whereas Volume 2 goes beyond Europe to analyse the situation in key jurisdictions in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. Each volume can be used independently or as part of the complete set.

This work will be incredibly valuable to policy makers and academics.

• 208 pages

UK February 2024 US February 2024 416 pages

HB 9781509950393

ePub

ePdf

Hart Publishing

Liberal Democracy, Law and the Citizen Speaker

Regulating Online Speech

Ian Cram, University of Leeds, UK

This book delivers an original analysis of the legal regulation of online speech and defends a participatory account of speech in non-deliberative settings. The legal and policy implications for governments and social media platforms of this inclusive envisioning of public discourse are then elaborated upon. Speech on public platforms has become democratised. At the same time, concerns exist about disinformation. The downsides of democratised speech are said to undermine the integrity of democratic processes and institutions.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

PB 9781509945863 • £42.99 / $58.95

Previously published in HB 9781509945825

ePub 9781509945832 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509945849 £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Studies in International Law

Marine Bioprospecting, Biodiversity and Novel Uses of Ocean Resources

New Approaches in International Law

Edited by David Langlet, University of Uppsala, Sweden & Niels

Krabbe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

This open access book explores how developments in marine biodiversity and other resources challenge the foundations of the law of the sea and its domestic implementation. It does this by examining different perspectives and case studies. The contributors also examine international environmental law, intellectual property rights, and contract law. The team of experts broaden the scholarly debate on marine genetic resources and provide a timely reflection on ongoing policy developments.

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

UK March 2024 US March 2024 352 pages

HB 9781509968275 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509968282 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509968299 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

International Agreements between Non-State Actors as a Source of International Law

Melissa Loja, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This book adopts postmodern legal positivism, departing from the more usual state-centric analysis, to explore whether agreements with non state actors can be considered sources of law. It acknowledges that international law-making takes place in subjective social landscapes. It moves beyond a conceptual discussion, and looks at the question in an applied context, taking as its case study petroleum agreements allowing two or more states to exploit disputed resources across boundaries.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

PB 9781509951147

Islands and International Law

Donald R Rothwell, Australian National University, Australia

Islands and their status in international law have become one of the more contentious issues in public international law. However, despite this, there is no rigorous book-length study on the question. This book fills that gap. Written by one of the world’s leading public international lawyers, it offers an authoritative overview of how public international law operates in relation to islands. Key issues such as sovereignty, territorial rights, and governance are explored in depth. This will become a classic text in the field of international law.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 328 pages

PB 9781509955466 • £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509955428

ePub 9781509955435 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509955442 • £76.50 / $103.94

Hart Publishing

Territorial Status in International Law

Jure Vidmar, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the concept of statehood, illustrating that statehood (rather than the statehood criteria) is territorial legal status established in the formal sources of international law; and (iii) grounds non-state territorial entities in the sources of international law to explain their international legal status. This fresh new theoretical perspective has both scholarly and practical importance, providing a tool helping decision-makers and judges in the practical application of international law.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781509959488 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509959495 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509959501 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

State Responsibility for NonState Actors

Past, Present and Prospects for the Future

Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott, University of Oxford, UK

This book investigates how state responsibility is determined for the wrongdoing of non-state actors. People, businesses and societies pay a price for interactions between states and non-state actors. From insurrections that attempt to create new governments, to states arming belligerent proxies, to companies damaging natural environments or providing suspect services, their impact are felt in numerous ways. They also give rise to many questions relating to responsibility. In answering these, this book provides a picture of what the law governing this area is, what it could be, and what it should be in light of the past, present, and future.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

• 240 pages

• £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951109

ePub 9781509951116

ePdf 9781509951123

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Law

• Hart Publishing

PB 9781509951635

• 304 pages

• £41.99 / $57.95

Previously published in HB 9781509951543

ePub 9781509951550 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781509951567 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Studies in International Law Hart Publishing

European Private International Law Commercial Litigation in the EU

Geert van Calster, KU Leuven, Belgium

This classic textbook provides a thorough overview of European private international law. It is essential reading for both practitioners and students of private international law and transnational litigation, wherever they may be located: the European rules extend beyond European shores.

Opening with foundational questions, the book clearly explains the subject’s central tenets: the Brussels I, Rome I and Rome II Regulations (jurisdiction, applicable law for contracts and tort). Drawing on the author’s rich experience, the new edition retains the book’s hallmarks of insight and clarity of expression ensuring it maintains its position as the leading textbook in the field.

Studies in Private International Law - Asia

From Theory to Practice in Private International Law

Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen

Edited by Justin Borg-Barthet,

Katarina Trimmings, Burcu Yüksel Ripley & Patricia Živkovic, all University of Aberdeen, UK

This book is compiled in honour of the work and life of Professor Jonathan Fitchen. The chapters provide consideration of contemporary developments in the discipline, from analyses of the evolving nature of private international law to problems across issues such as migration, environmental protection, genderbased discrimination, the proper delineation of public and private intervention, cryptocurrencies, the treatment of foreign judgments in major economies, and the post-Brexit evolution of private international law, as well as definitional concerns in family law.

UK January 2024 US March 2024 464 pages

HB 9781509956647 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509956654 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509956661 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan & Paul Beaumont, University of Stirling, UK

Private International Law in East Asia

From Imitation to Innovation and Exportation

Edited by Olivier Gaillard & Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland

This open access book examines the conflict of law rules in East Asian states. Parts one and two give a contextual overview of the legal regimes of China, Japan, and South Korea. Part three offers a detailed look at the conflict rules relevant to commercial law, while Part four examines the rules applying to family law and succession law. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781509970100 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509970117 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781509970124 £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia Hart Publishing

Modern Studies in Property Law

Hong Kong Private International Law

Wilson Lui, University of Hong Kong & Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan

This book is a one-stop reference guide to Hong Kong private international law. It focuses on practical issues with an emphasis on the choice of law, arbitration, and rapidly developing local jurisprudence. It systematically analyses the private international law issues arising out of inter-regional cases between Hong Kong and Mainland China, Taiwan, and Macao SAR. The book will be indispensable to judges, practitioners and scholars in Hong Kong and worldwide.

UK February 2024 US April 2024 480 pages

HB 9781509956470 £160.00 / $220.00

ePub 9781509956487 • £144.00 / $195.74

ePdf 9781509956494 • £144.00 / $195.74

Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing World All Languages (except Chinese)

Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK & Sinéad Agnew, University of Cambridge, UK

Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 10

Edited by Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK & Sinéad Agnew, University of Cambridge, UK

This book contains a collection of papers presented at the Twelfth Biennial Modern Studies in Property Law Conference held at University College London in April 2018. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate the vibrancy, diversity and importance of property law and of current research in the subject.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781509974238

• £54.99 / $74.95

Previously published in HB 9781509921379

ePub 9781509921386

• £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781509921393 £126.00 / $171.44

• 464 pages

Series: Modern Studies in Property Law Hart Publishing

Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 11

Edited by Sue Farran, Newcastle University, UK, Russell Hewitson & Adam Ramshaw, Northumbria University, UK

This book considers the contemporary challenges faced by property law.

It considers comparative perspectives, Taking and alienating property, Modern dilemmas; Old chestnuts – new challenges, and Wills, death and other morbid topics, with chapters on English succession law and the role of knowledge and approval in retrospective assessments of capacity.

UK December 2023

PB 9781509974344

• US December 2023

• £59.99 / $79.95

• 368 pages

Previously published in HB 9781509939275

ePub 9781509939282

ePdf 9781509939299

• £108.00 / $147.14

• £108.00 / $147.14

Series: Modern Studies in Property Law

• Hart Publishing

Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Essays

in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

Edited by Victoria Barnes, Brunel University, UK, Nora Honkala, University of Reading, UK & Sally Wheeler, Australian National University, Australia

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women’s academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including samesex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside. The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women’s lives.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 352 pages

HB 9781509962082 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509962099 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509962105 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Cyberbullying and Sexting Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age

Elizabeth Agnew, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Drawing on empirical research and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory issues concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people. The author draws out a range of definitional and regulatory tensions associated with the peer-based behaviours by providing an in-depth analysis of the legislative frameworks and policies used to govern cyberbullying and sexting, both within the UK and internationally.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781509951345

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781509951352

ePdf 9781509951369

Hart Publishing

Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Legal and Policy Perspectives

Edited by Ilias Trispiotis, University of Leeds, UK & Craig Purshouse, University of Liverpool, UK

This book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTIQ+ ‘conversion therapy’. Few states have legislated against LGBTIQ+ ‘conversion therapy’, with many currently considering its legal ban.

Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ brings together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of ‘conversion therapy’ in different contexts.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 320 pages

HB 9781509961153 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781509961160 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781509961177 • £81.00 / $110.69

Hart Publishing

Spaces of Care

Edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge, Perveez Mody, University of Cambridge & Brian Sloan, University of Cambridge

Coordinated by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group this edited collection interrogates the ways in which the interdisciplinary study of care challenges and provokes a reassessment of the points of connection and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities.

Leading lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and criminologists reflect on specific aspects of conceptualising caring relations in ‘spaces’ including: Communities of care and abandonment; Selfcare and kinship care; Spaces as ‘gaps’ in care; The meanings of marketised care and the ways in which care is constructed and constrained in different ways in venues such as homes, prisons, workplaces and virtual spaces.

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Political Control of America's Courts

Examining the Facts

Helena Silverstein, Lafayette College, USA

A deeply researched and even-handed account of the relationship between America's judicial branch—which is supposed to view law through a nonpartisan lens—and the partisanship that is such a notorious force in the operations of the nation's other two branches of government. Is political combat over judicial nominations worse than ever? What impact has the politicization of the courts had on public faith in our judicial system and the laws we all live by? What reforms have been proposed to address the alleged politicization of American courts? This work will provide insights into all these questions and more.

UK January 2023

• US January 2023

HB 9781440878053

• 224 pages

• £54.00 / $70.00

ePub 9798216184553

• £52.93 / $63.00

ePdf 9781440878060 £52.93 / $63.00

Series: Contemporary Debates ABC-CLIO

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 288 pages

PB 9781509974269 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781509929634

ePub 9781509929641 • £72.00 / $98.54

ePdf 9781509929658 • £72.00 / $98.54

Hart Publishing

Capital Punishment A Documentary and Reference Guide

David

L. Hudson Jr.

Each primary source in this carefully curated collection on capital punishment features an introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the death penalty from colonial times to the present.

Showcasing key primary documents that illuminate the ongoing debate and turbulent history of capital punishment in the United States, this collection gathers a wide range of fascinating and momentous sources including court decisions and transcripts, legislation, personal accounts and perspectives, congressional testimony, and government documents. The wide-ranging collection also reflects a wide range of political perspectives and messaging, giving readers valuable insight into the evolution of public opinion, law, and government policy pertaining to the death penalty in America.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

HB 9781440875779

• 318 pages

• £94.00 / $122.00

ePub 9798216170921

ePdf 9781440875786

• £90.97 / $109.80

• £90.97 / $109.80

Series: Documentary and Reference Guides

• Bloomsbury Academic

Library Programs and Services The Fundamentals

Stacey Greenwell, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky, USA & G. Edward Evans

The ninth edition of this popular overview of the various programs and services offered by libraries offers best practice and useful tips for implementing them effectively. This edition incorporates the concept of "library social work" through "Social Work Connections" sidebars in each chapter. Anecdotes throughout the text and "Career Connections" sidebars offer practical advice and specific current examples. Greenwell and Evans have combined several chapters from the previous edition and expanded discussions of new trends while retaining and updating the fundamentals. The ninth edition is a welcome update for library and information science courses and a valuable handbook for public services librarians.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 360 pages

PB 9781440878695 • £54.00 / $74.95 • HB 9781440879982 • £89.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798216171911 • £56.24 / $67.45

ePdf 9781440878701 • £56.24 / $67.45

Series: Library and Information Science Text Series • Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited World English

Crash Course in Collection Development

Wayne Disher

Focusing on collection development basics, this third edition now covers all aspects of collection development and management in all library environments including public, academic, and school libraries. It offers information on gathering statistics and analyzing community needs to design a collection that meets user needs and guides users in writing a collection development policy, budgeting, selecting materials, managing vendor relations, understanding the publishing industry, merchandising and promoting the collection, and handling complaints. Newly included are such new trends as libraries as spaces for users, collection diversity issues, makerspaces, nontraditional collections, pop-up libraries, the digital divide, and noncirculating collections.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9781440880438 • £47.00 / $60.95 • HB 9798216170082 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9798216171126 • £45.48 / $54.85

ePdf 9781440880445 • £45.48 / $54.85

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

The School Library Manager Leading through Change

Blanche Woolls, Joyce Kasman Valenza, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA & April M. Dawkins, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

This revised and updated edition of a classic text adds two well-known authors to help lead readers through the many essential management tasks and skills required to administer the successful school library program. It emphasizes the importance of the school librarian in providing digital access to information for teachers and students, describes how facilities are being modified to accommodate new resources and programming, and offers new ways to use AASL standards to evaluate programs. All chapters are updated, and a new chapter highlights the importance of the school librarian's leadership in schools, districts, and communities.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 408 pages

PB 9781440879296 • £54.00 / $74.95 • HB 9781440879999 • £89.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798216172352 • £56.24 / $67.45

ePdf 9781440879302 • £56.24 / $67.45

Series: Library and Information Science Text Series • Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited World English

Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan

A Practical Guide for Libraries

Katy B. Mathuews, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio, USA & Ryan A. Spellman, Ohio University Libraries' Alden Library, Athens, Ohio, USA

Taking a step-by-step approach, this book guides grassroots strategic planning for libraries of all types. Topics include aligning with institutional and community values, creating vision and mission statements, researching stakeholder needs, conducting environmental scans, collaborative drafting of the plan, communication strategies, and implementation and assessment of the plan. The information is valuable for K–12, post-secondary, public, and special libraries. A unique feature is the book’s emphasis on the ways different library types can collaborate to meet shared goals. This book is a one-stop-shop, providing everything library staff will need to create a strategic plan without searching for additional sources.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 232 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9781440879111 £54.00 / $74.95

ePub 9798216171164 • £56.24 / $67.45

ePdf 9781440879128 • £56.24 / $67.45

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

Making Virtual Reality a Reality Designing Educational Initiatives in Libraries with Emerging Technologies

Alison Valk, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Ximin Mi, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA & Ashley L. Schick, artist and art educator, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Valk, Mi, and Schick offer readers tools for assessing their level of organizational readiness to begin virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) programs and how to sustain them with limited budgets, expertise, and resources. They teach readers how to develop technology-rich classes, assess student projects, and overcome technical hurdles. Readers will learn how to adapt and design programs or initiatives in which the necessary technologies are rapidly changing, in both higher education institutions and in schools. Worksheets and resources help readers reflect on their own work and develop educational programming to suit their organizational needs.

• 14 bw illus

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

• 200 pages

PB 9781440878978 £47.00 / $60.95

ePub 9798216171959 £45.48 / $54.85

ePdf 9781440878985 £45.48 / $54.85

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited World English

The Fight against Book Bans Perspectives from the Field

Edited by Shannon M. Oltmann, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

This volume captures the views of dozens of librarians and library science professors regarding the recent flood of book challenges across the United States, gathered in a comprehensive analysis of their impact and significance. It also serves as a guide to responding to challenges. Chapter authors provide first-hand accounts of facing book challenges and describe how they have prepared for challenges, overcome opposition to certain books, and shown the value of specific library materials. Library science faculty with a range of specialties provide relevant background information to bolster these on-the-ground views.

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

PB 9781440879760

• 256 pages

• £47.00 / $60.95

ePub 9798216171485

ePdf 9781440879777

• £45.48 / $54.85

• £45.48 / $54.85

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

New Standards-Based Lessons for the Busy Elementary School Librarian Science

Joyce Keeling, Former Elementary School Librarian, USA

In this book, you will find immediately available standards-based lessons to help today's busy elementary school librarian. Standards-based learning allows clear measurable goals to be set, as well as help teachers reach the necessary outcomes. Easy-to-use reproducible lessons to encourage collaboration with your science teachers to apply the new AASL standards, as well as the Next Generation Science Standards.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 220 pages 50 bw illus

PB 9781440876455 • £39.00 / $49.95

ePub 9798216172116 • £37.21 / $44.95

ePdf 9781440876462 • £37.21 / $44.95

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

Conducting Original Research for Your Library

Caitlin Gerrity & Scott Lanning

A concise manual for professionals in the field, this book helps librarians master the skills to conduct, interpret, and analyze their own original research. This guide combines elements of multiple traditional text topics into one concise manual for professionals in the field, teaching types of research methods, how to do research in the field, and how to run and interpret statistical tests. From research ethics to statistical significance and everything in between, this primer is the point-of-need resource for librarians in public, academic, and school libraries who wish to use original research to support the profession.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781440880216 • £37.95 / $39.95

ePub 9798216171041 • £29.77 / $35.95

ePdf 9781440880223 £29.77 / $35.95

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

Literature and Primary Sources The Perfect Pairing for Student Learning

Tom Bober, Elementary librarian, USA & Rebecca Newland, High School Librarian, USA

When educators pair primary sources with literature, it not only enriches students' reading experiences, it deepens learning. Experts Bober and Newland offer foolproof techniques and strategies to integrate primary sources and literature with learners from kindergarten through high school.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages

PB 9781440880414 • £47.95 / $49.95

ePub 9798216183211 • £37.21 / $44.95

ePdf 9781440880421 • £37.21 / $44.95

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

Fostering Inclusive School and Public Libraries

Claire Bartlett & Maegen J. Rose

• 176 pages

This book offers guidance on building diverse programs, marketing, and staff to librarians working with children in school and public libraries. Public librarians will learn how to engage with the diverse backgrounds in their communities and make their services and in-house and outreach programs more inclusive and equitable. School librarians will learn how to enhance school culture through intentional instruction, collection development, and school-wide partnerships. Attempting to be as inclusive as possible, the book provides information about serving people from different cultures and socioeconomic statuses; with differing abilities and gender identities/expressions; and with varying levels of English fluency.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 200 pages

PB 9781440877582 £47.95 / $49.95

ePub 9798216169819 £37.21 / $44.95

ePdf 9781440877599 • £37.21 / $44.95

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

Information Literacy for Science and Engineering Students

Concepts and Skills

Mary DeJong

This book teaches students majoring in science and engineering disciplines basic information literacy skills. It also gives students the strong foundation they need to absorb more advanced concepts in scientific communication. Mary DeJong provides students with a compelling context and rationale for the skills they are being asked to learn, helping them learn to appreciate the value of these skills for career success. Explicit connections are made between practical information literacy skills and the threshold concepts outlined by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Most important, the book is written specifically for students.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 160 pages

PB 9781440878763

• £57.95 / $60.95

ePub 9798216171850

• £45.48 / $54.85

ePdf 9781440878770 • £45.48 / $54.85

Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

World English

An Introduction to English Language

Word, Sound and Sentence

Koenraad Kuiper, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Honorary Professor, University of Sydney, Australia & W. Scott Allan

Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language. Packed full of exercises to help consolidate learning, and equipped with examples and illustrations throughout, this book is essential reading for undergraduate students of English language and linguistics and a valuable resource for students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language. It is accompanied by a wealth of online resources, further supporting readers in achieving their learning goals.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350380127

• US February 2024 • 400 pages • 150

• £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350380134 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350380158 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350380141 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

English Syntax and Argumentation

Bas Aarts, University College London, UK

This book provides a complete and detailed overview of English Syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Equipped with key concept lists, exercises and further reading suggestions in each chapter, as well as a detailed answer key at the end of the book, this highly accessible and supportive text is the only book needed for a full understanding of this subject area.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9781350355361 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 432 pages • 242 bw illus

• HB 9781350355354

ePub 9781350355385 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350355378 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.00 / $120.00

Linguistics: An Introduction

Multispecies Discourse Analysis

The Nexus of Discourse and Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism and Conservation

Gavin Lamb

This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism in Hawai‘i. It offers researchers in ecolinguistics and related fields in discourse analysis an integrative theoretical and methodological approach to empirically investigate multispecies discourses and practices, and how they can help ethically shape human-wildlife interaction.

• 15 bw illus

UK April 2024

• US April 2024

• 256 pages

HB 9781350229617 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350229631 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350229624 £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics

• Bloomsbury Academic

William

B.

McGregor, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Outlining the core ideas and approaches in linguistics, this book traces their development and discusses the most recent trends in the field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and contains a host of pedagogic features. Revised and updated, the third edition includes a new chapter on corpus linguistics, new topics (including theories of syntax, text typology and the evolution of languages) and updated examples drawn from a variety of global perspectives and contexts. It is an essential introduction to the study of linguistics, with a comprehensive companion website.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 528 pages • 50 bw illus.

PB 9781350164253 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350164260 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350164277 • £23.39 / $32.39

ePdf 9781350164284 • £23.39 / $32.39

Bloomsbury Academic

Econarrative Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By

Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire, UK Through examining a wide range of examples, including creation myths, environmental reports, fairy tales, animal narratives, Japanese haiku, indigenous writing, films, speeches, advertisements and campaigns, Econarrative provides and illustrates a linguistic theory of econarrative, drawing from ecolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, positive discourse analysis and traditional narratology. In doing so, the book raises awareness of the powerful role that econarratives play in structuring our lives and society.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350263116

ePub

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Bloomsbury Academic

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy

Edited by Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK, Ruth Breeze, University of Navarra, Spain, Kayo Kondo, University of Sheffield, UK & Sara Vilar-Lluch, King’s College London, UK

Analysing the discursive strategies used during the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume explores how crisis discourse became a central part of public health management across the globe. Using corpus-based data, chapters focus on the communicative tasks and challenges across a number of different contexts and countries. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about the pandemic, this book is an important intervention from language experts on the global response to COVID-19.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350232723

• US February 2024

• £39.99 / $54.95

• 512 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350232693

ePub 9781350232716

ePdf 9781350232709

Bloomsbury Academic

• £117.00 / $159.29

• £117.00 / $159.29

Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

Paul Bouissac, University of Toronto, Canada

Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs

Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France

In his career as a logician, Charles Sanders Peirce introduced a number of highly innovative semiotic concepts that he never fully developed. This book takes a detailed look at the most important of these undeveloped concepts, including hypoiconicity and semiosis, and highlights their theoretical interest for a general semiotics. In doing so, it also identifies and explains the changing theoretical background to these developments.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 240 pages 40 bw illus

HB 9781350288812 £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350288836

ePdf 9781350288829

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

• Bloomsbury Academic

Semiotics with a Conscience Decoding Dangerous Discourses

Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Canada

Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book confronts negative perceptions of semiotics and explores how it can be used as a potentially powerful science of conscience. Identifying key issues of concern, such as climate change and anti-science discourses, it describes the semiotic notions and methods that can be used to analyze misrepresentations, propaganda, or meaning collapses, developing awareness of hidden meanings and their harmful effects on society.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781350362086

• £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350362109

ePdf 9781350362093

• 208 pages • 10 bw illus

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

• Bloomsbury Academic

The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games

Gabriele Aroni, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles. Examining both the aesthetic aspects and symbolic roles of video game architecture as they relate to gameplay and storytelling, Gabriele Aroni explores the relationship between digital and real architecture, and the inspirations for digital gaming architecture. Combining semiotics and architecture theory and using case studies from NaissanceE, Assassin’s Creed II and Final Fantasy XV, The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games discusses the techniques used to create successful virtual spaces and proposes a framework to analyse video games architecture.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 192 pages 35 bw illus

PB 9781350341722 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350152311

ePub 9781350152335

ePdf 9781350152328

The Patterns of Comics

Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America

Neil Cohn, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Seeking evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States, including Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, The Patterns of Comics reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages. UK

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Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds, UK

Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction

Affect, Behaviour and Cognition

Edited by Claire Y. Shih, University College

London, UK & Caiwen Wang, University of Westminster, UK

A timely contribution to the field of Translation

Process Research, this book advocates that the three components of social interaction – affect, behaviour, and cognition – underpin the daily activities of translators and interpreters. Exploring the intertwining nature of these components, it examines them theoretically, empirically, and methodologically, including coverage of literary translation, translator training, and interpreters’ practice.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350279315 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350279339 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350279322 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Islamic State in Translation

Four Atrocities, Multiple Narratives

Balsam Mustafa, University of Warwick, UK

Offering an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of Arabic and English language narratives of the Islamic State terrorist group, this book investigates how these narratives changed across national and media boundaries. Utilising insights and methodologies from translation studies, communication studies and sociology, Islamic State in Translation explores how multimodal narratives were fragmented, circulated and translated in the context of the terrorist action carried out by Islamic State against the people and culture of Iraq, as well as against other Arab and western victims.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 224 pages

PB 9781350280212 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350151987

ePub 9781350152007 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350151994 • £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics • Bloomsbury Academic

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Studies in Linguistics

Li Wei, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK

Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space

Kinga Kozminska, University of Oxford, UK

In a world dominated by the visual, this book highlights how a focus on the sounded sign may bring us closer to the ways in which bodies and meanings are (re)made, and collective doing and thinking are formed in the globalised world. Examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group belonging to the first generation of UK Polish migrants, the book focuses on the semiotic processes through which contemporary moving bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes and considers how they develop metrics to account for sociolinguistic change and authenticate their projects and practices in transnational timespace.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350331303 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350331327 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350331310 £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Applied Linguistics and Politics

Edited by Christian W. Chun, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Applied Linguistics and Politics explores how innovative theories, methodologies and pedagogies in applied linguistics can address the political challenges and issues arising in the 21st century. The volume focuses on the various ways in which the political is discursively and materially realized in its dialogic co-constructions within the media, the economy, culture, affect and education. Examining the power instantiations of sociolinguistic and semiotic practices in society from a variety of critical perspectives, chapters question how applied linguists can respond to, and challenge, current discourses of militarism, nationalism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism and the free market.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 320 pages

PB 9781350247321 £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350098237

ePub 9781350098251 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350098244 • £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders

The March of Data

Edited by Steven Coats, University of Oulu, Finland & Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland

Highlighting the ways in which new developments in natural language processing, machine learning, and data analytics can engage with topics across linguistics, humanities, and social science disciplines, this volume provides insight into the diversity of methods, approaches and corpora that inform our understanding of the “border regions” between the realms of data science, language/ linguistics, and social or cultural studies.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781350362260

• £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350362284

ePdf 9781350362277

Language and Social Justice Global Perspectives

Edited by Kathleen C. Riley, Rutgers University, USA, Bernard C. Perley, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, USA & Inmaculada M. GarcíaSánchez, Temple University, USA

The first reference resource to specifically explore the interface between language and social justice, this volume examines how language symbolizes, frames, and expresses political, economic, and psychic problems in society, and contributes to visions for social justice.

Investigating specific case studies in which language is used to challenge and negotiate social injustices, each chapter provides a unique perspective on how language carries value and enacts power. Case studies are drawn from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America and the Pacific Islands, with leading experts tackling a broad range of themes.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 560 pages

HB 9781350156241 £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350156265 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350156258 • £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Diversifying Family Language Policy

Edited by Lyn Wright, University of Memphis, USA & Christina Higgins, University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA

Expanding the scope of research in Family Language Policy (FLP), this volume investigates language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Taking a global perspective, chapters use innovative methodologies to explore diverse family configurations, modalities, speakers, and contexts. A state-of-the-art reference, this book highlights the important role that multilingualism plays in family members’ negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, presenting key theoretical, methodological, and ethical advances in the field of FLP.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 338 pages

PB 9781350247260 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350189898

ePub 9781350189904 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350189911 • £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities

Research Methods and Applications

Edited by Stefania M. Maci, University of Bergamo, Italy & Michele Sala, University of Bergamo, Italy

Setting out methodological approaches and practical applications for digging into data, this book provides an original framework to triangulate research for pursuing both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 248 pages 18 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350275263

• 288 pages • 45 bw illus

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities Bloomsbury Academic

Previously published in HB 9781350275225

ePub 9781350275249

ePdf 9781350275232

Bloomsbury Academic

• £85.50 / $116.09

• £85.50 / $116.09

Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics

A Metafunctional Approach

Luke A. Rudge, University of the West of England, UK

Presenting a description and analysis of British Sign Language (BSL) from the perspective of Hallidayean Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke A. Rudge explores how BSL users make meaning from three different perspectives:

- How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the interpersonal metafunction)

- How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction)

- How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual metafunction).

Examining these perspectives Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics, this provides a complementary viewpoint on how visual-spatial communications may be understood as social semiosis.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 184 pages

PB 9781350334304 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350148949

ePub 9781350148963 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350148956 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

Edited by Annalise Grice

Serving as an overview of Lawrence Studies at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions, this handbook features essays on interdisciplinary topics like animal studies and mental health alongside essays on race, empire, and gender. In doing so this book showcases the most exciting work currently being carried out on D. H. Lawrence.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 496 pages

HB 9781350253742 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350253766 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350253759 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle, Oregon State University, USA, Amanda Golden, New York Institute of Technology, USA & Maeve O'Brien, Ulster University, UK.

With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work.

Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this book provides new approaches to Plath’s life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath.

UK December 2023

PB 9781350419667

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography

Edited by Howard Jackson, Birmingham City University, UK

Featuring key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning and developing research in the field, this handbook provides both a survey of current research and more practical guidance for advanced study. Fully updated and revised to take account of recent developments, in particular innovations in digital technology and online lexicography, this second edition features new coverage of metalexicography, lexicography for Asian languages, lexicography for endangered and minority languages, onomasiological lexicography, collaborative lexicography and internet dictionaries, as well as an expanded glossary of terms.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 512 pages

PB 9781350247437 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350181700

ePub 9781350181724 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350181717 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

Edited by Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University, USA & Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Uniting scholars and artists who have built up the field of Philip Roth studies along with emergent scholars from around the world, this handbook presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions in Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his novels but uncannily anticipated our American future. The volume includes chapter summaries, study questions, and an author biography and timeline with key dates in Roth’s life and publication history. It also contains a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading and an overview of film and television adaptations.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 592 pages

HB 9781501380242 • £150.00 / $200.00

ePub 9781501380259 • £149.70 / $180.00

ePdf 9781501380266 • £149.70 / $180.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA & Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended to a particular form of humanistic or scientific inquiry? How exactly does “worlding” bear on the theoretical operating system and the history of that field? What is the theory or theoretical model that allows “world” to function in a meaningful way in coordination with that knowledge domain?

UK January 2024

• US December 2023

• 528 pages

• US December 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 392 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350119222

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A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

Juliette Wells, Goucher College, USA

Completing Juliette Wells’ ground-breaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Britain's best loved novelist entered the canon, asserting that the roots of her enduring literary significance originated not in the UK, as is commonly believed, but in America. Engagingly written and extensively illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023

PB 9781350365506

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• 272 pages • 35 bw illus

• HB 9781350365513 • £55.00 / $75.00

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Cultures of London

Legacies of Migration

Edited by Charlotte Grant & Alistair Robinson

One of the most international, culturally diverse cities in the world, London's social and cultural history is steeped in centuries of migration. This book places migrants at the centre of London's story, with essays on a wide variety of topics that discuss, explore and celebrate the contribution that migrants have made to the city from the medieval period to the present day.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 352 pages 50 bw images

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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Douglas RJ. Small, Edge Hill University, UK

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Reading texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley, it examines the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period.

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

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 11 bw illus

HB 9781350400092 £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Jane Austen and Lord Byron Regency Relations

Christine Kenyon Jones, King's College London, UK

The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense of humour of two of Britain's most celebrated writers - Jane Austen and Lord Byronoften intersected, this study shows that these two great authors were closer than you might think, even in their own day.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

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• 25 bw illus

• 256 pages

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The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology

Challenging the Nation

Charles Andrews, Whitworth University, USA

Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology—works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today. Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350362031 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350362055 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry

Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague Eve Salisbury

Filling a gap in what we know about medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book calls attention to a discourse that privileges illness narratives, strategies of self-care, and the voices of poets, patients, and practitioners. When read in conjunction with medical treatises, plague tractates, and verse remedies, literary narratives disclose an experience of illness that other genres of medical writing lack, thus enabling us to see the kinship between poetry and the healing arts.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350249837 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350249790

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The 2010s A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Edited by Emily Horton, Nick Hubble, Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK and Nick Bentley, Keele University, UK

Relating the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received, this book covers the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors including Jonathan Coe and Zadie Smith, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 336 pages

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Attention Spans

Garrett Stewart, a Reader

Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA

Edited by David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

Half a century of analytic practice in literary style and image-media analysis is distilled here by the sampled work of the most prolific and broadly interdisciplinary critic of his generation. Excerpts from his 20 books are framed by editorial retrospect and overview before being linked by Stewart’s own commentary on the variety – and underlying vectors – of his interpretive career across media. Accompanied by a glossary of his influential coinages, this cornucopia of eye-opening analyses is also a chronicle of evolving paradigms in the work of intensive reading.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 368 pages

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

Lisa Sainsbury, University of Roehampton, UK

Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development

Mapping the Connections

Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta, Canada

This open access book explores how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of what they read. Based on qualitative research, it focuses on digital maps study participants created that represent their literate youth, and the discussions that followed and their experience as young readers.

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781350275997 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350275959

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Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature Bloomsbury Academic

Psychoanalytic Horizons

British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour

Karen Sands-O'Connor, Newcastle University, UK

This open access book explores some of the activists producing work from the 1960s onwards, such as Chris Searles and Rosemary Stones, and contemporary advocates for people of colour including Farrukh Dhondy and Benjamin Zephaniah. Tracing how they translated their values for children of colour, from the first cultural products for children up to the mainstream presses publishing figures like Stormzy, this book analyses the choices, struggles and successes of writers of activist literature for children. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 216 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350196124 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350196032

ePub 9781350196056 • £0.00 / $0.00

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Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada, Esther Rashkin, University of Utah, USA & Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida, USA

Analyzed by Lacan

A Personal Account Betty Milan

Translated by Chris Vanderwees & Clifford E. Landers

Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor. The book provides a unique and valuable perspective on how Lacan worked as psychoanalyst as well as on his approach to psychoanalytic theory.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023

• 144 pages • 2 b&w illustrations

PB 9798765106198 £14.99 / $22.95 HB 9798765106204 £60.00 / $80.00

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Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Ethics of Immediacy

Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty

Jeffrey McCurry, Duquesne University, USA

Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf's criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 224 pages

HB 9798765107249 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765107225 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765107218 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic

Comparative Jewish Literatures

Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA

Kabbalah and Literature

Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA

This study examines the intersection of Kabbalah with secular Jewish literatures to point to how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah’s conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets and signifiers to demonstrate how literature’s absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function and the tasks it sets for itself. In this way, Kabbalah and Literature proposes a novel, intuitive approach, shifting focus away from the Jewish text’s epistemological elements to embrace its 'secrets'.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 1-2 b&w images

HB 9781501359682 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501359699 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501359705 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction

Essays on the Moral Imagination

Poesis in Extremis Literature Witnessing the Holocaust

Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the Holocaust. Framed by discussion of truth in fiction and fiction as truth, with Wiesel’s Night as an entry point, this innovative book explores the blurred boundary of fact and fiction in Holocaust literature, asking to what extent poetry and fiction can serve as testimony and what might be the criteria for literary witnessing.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9798765100189 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765100196 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765100202 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic

Castration Desire Less Is More in Global Anglophone

Fiction

Edited

by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett & Matthew Bardowell, Missouri Baptist University, USA

In contrast to other studies that examine morality in crime fiction through the lenses of personal guilt and personal justice, this book draws together threads that are often treated separately: personal guilt and social guilt. In recent years public awareness has attended to the relationship between social structures and justice, and this collection centers on how personal and social ethics are bound together amidst the shifting moral landscapes of mystery fiction. Featuring essays on Japanese, Filipino, Indian and Colombian mystery fiction as well as American and British fiction, this volume also analyzes social guilt and justice across cultures.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9798765105795 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765105801 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765105818 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction

Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging

Gero Bauer, University of Tübingen, Center for Gender and Diversity Research, Germany

This book investigates dimensions of temporality and belonging in contemporary novels, films and television series – including The Road, The Walking Dead, Cloud Atlas, Sense8 and A Little Life – as they find their expression in the interplay between hope and kinship. Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as an organising temporality, often presumed to be in the future, Bauer challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of kingship in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9798765104194

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765104200

ePdf 9798765104217

Bloomsbury Academic

• 272 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Robinson Murphy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

As the #MeToo movement made clear, we require new tools for imagining alternative masculinities. Enter Castration Desire, which examines an array of contemporary novelists and filmmakers who are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire.” Figures such as Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, IrishCanadian Emma Donoghue, Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, and South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment. Castration Desire examines how, in promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these transnational artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented relationality.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 240 pages 23 bw illustrations

HB 9798765102176 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765102190 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765102206 • £90.15 / $108.00

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The Political Uses of Literature Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020

Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann & Ivana Perica, University of Vienna, Austria

Analysing the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing, this volume reopens discussion of literature’s political and activist genealogies, drawing attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and tracing the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across subsequent historical moments, most notably the 1960s and our own present – including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia. In mapping out these diverse traditions, contributors advance critical discussions in the field, but most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature’s political uses today.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781501399336

• 288 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501399329

ePdf 9781501399312

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

• 3 bw illus

The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature

Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions

Edited by Silvia Anastasijevic, Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany., Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Saarland University, Saarbrücken & Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational and planetary connections articulated in it.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350374072 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350374096 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350374089 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Bloomsbury Academic

Derivative Lives

Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative

Virginia Newhall Rademacher, Babson College, USA

The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one’s way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. It is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical truth teeters between the real and the imaginative. The title points to the prolific market of biographical novels that openly and intentionally play in the speculative space between the real and the fictional. Drawing on theories of risk and uncertainty, Derivative Lives considers the surge in biofiction in Spain and globally, relating literary expression to circumstantiality, derivatives, speculation, and game studies.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 248 pages

PB 9781501386947 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501386909

ePub 9781501386916

ePdf 9781501386923

The Geschlecht Complex Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology

Edited by Oscar Jansson, Lund University, Sweden & David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

The notion of Geschlecht – denoting gender, genre, kinship, and more – exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the transnational and transdisciplinary structures of contemporary humanities. What happens in the transference from one language, tradition, or form to another? Combining detailed case studies of “category problems” in literature, philosophy, theatre, media, cinema, and performing arts, with excerpts from canonical texts—by field-defining thinkers such as Derrida, Malabou, Nancy, and Irigaray—the volume presents “the Geschlecht complex” as a fulcrum for any interpretive endeavor, as an invaluable mode of thought for the present and inevitable complexities of theorizing in the 21st century.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 368 pages

PB 9781501381966 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501381928

ePub 9781501381935 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501381942 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA & Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is an assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980, covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980), as well as his posthumously published material and the legacies of his work after his death. Culminating with a glossary of terms and concepts in Barthes’ writing, the volume is both broad and thorough in its exploration of Barthes.

• £82.70 / $99.00

• £82.70 / $99.00

Series: Biofiction Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Print Culture Studies

Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 9 bw illus

PB 9781501393518 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501367403

ePub 9781501367410 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501367427 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism Bloomsbury Academic

Open Scholarship in the Humanities

Edited

by Jesse W. Schwartz, LaGuardia Community College, USA & Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

From work in early and 19th-century American literary studies to the revisions of 20th-century literary studies occasioned by the rise of periodical studies, ways of conceptualizing American literary history have recently undergone significant revision. This collection features new approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America. These essays focus on the materials and archives that highlight not a canon of “major” literary works but dialogues and tensions that define print cultures in various moments and movements.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 320 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781501393020

Previously published in HB 9781501359736

ePub 9781501359743

ePdf 9781501359750

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Paul Arthur & Lydia Hearn

Offering new insights into promising ways to facilitate the uptake of open scholarship in the humanities, this open access book gives further shape to the digital humanities and the prospects of their future as part of a far more open and public world of scholarship.

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

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350232273 £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350232297 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350232280 • £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic

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• 128 pages

Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies

Sean Prentiss, Norwich University, USA & Joe Wilkins, Linfield College, USA

Advanced Poetry A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Kathryn Nuernberger, University of Minnesota, USA & Maya Jewell Zeller, Central Washington University, USA

A text for practicing poets, this book offers them a springboard into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. This book introduces the reader to modern poetics, guiding them through the context and principles of these forms through a range of examples, before prompting the reader to write themselves. Bringing together a craft guide with a wide-ranging anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text includes a companion website, writing prompts and interviews with contemporary poets. It covers a diverse range of forms including confessional, epistolary and surrealist poetry, eco- and ethnopoetics, writing the body, and docuand digital poetics.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781350224582 • £22.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350224575 • £70.00 / $95.00

ePub 9781350224599 • £20.69 / $28.34

ePdf 9781350224605 • £20.69 / $28.34

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Poetry

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Amorak Huey, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA & W. Todd Kaneko, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA

Now fully revamped and expanded, this second edition is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out nearly 40 elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement, authors Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. Focusing on contemporary poems, the anthology is now globally diverse and fully conversant with the craft section. Featuring 3 new chapters on fixed forms, Kairos and the value and ethics of imitation, this is the ultimate companion to poetry writing.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350325890

Experimental Writing A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Lawrence Lenhart, Northern Arizona University, USA & William Cordeiro, Northern Arizona University, USA

A guide to the practices of contemporary experimental writing, this book explores experimentation within traditional and 'postgenre' modes. Combining practices, history, social context, and philosophical backgrounds of experimental work with a broad anthology of models in-book and online, Experimental Writing gives writers the toolkit of techniques and skills to confidently engage with forms previously perceived as intimidating. It includes new approaches to the workshop model, emphasis on community and collaboration, and institutional critique providing writers with a “big picture” perspective, motivating them to question the templates they work within and enabling them to more conscientiously fashion their ideals for writing.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 336 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781350240971 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350240964 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350240995 • £21.59 / $29.69

ePdf 9781350240988 • £21.59 / $29.69

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Fantasy Fiction

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Jennifer Pullen, Ohio Northern University, USA

The first all-in-one fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section acquaints readers with the canon and sub-genres of existing fantasy fiction before a craft guide equips students with the key concepts of story as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical lens. The third section guides students through the styles in fantasy fiction including Epic and high fantasy, Lovecraftian and Weird fiction, magical realism and hybrid fantasy. Includes an extensive accompanying anthology.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350166929 • £25.99 / $35.95

• US February 2024

• £17.99 / $24.95

ePub 9781350325913

ePdf 9781350325906

• 304 pages • 4 bw illus

• HB 9781350325883

• £16.19 / $22.94

• £16.19 / $22.94

• £55.00 / $75.00

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Story Mode

The Creative Writer's Guide to Narrative Video Game Design

Julialicia Case, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, USA, Eric Freeze, Wabash College, USA & Salvatore Pane, University of St Thomas, USA

The first textbook to combine game design with creative writing techniques, it makes attainable the skills needed to consume and create digital and multi-modal stories. Appealing to the growing calls for greater inclusivity, it offers low-cost, accessible tools and instruction that show writers how they can merge their skill-set with the fundamentals of game creation and produce their own games. Broken down into 4 sections to best orient writers from any technological background, it features detailed craft lessons, hands-on exercises and case studies.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350301375

• £18.99 / $25.95

ePub 9781350301399

ePdf 9781350301382

Bloomsbury Academic

• 17 bw illus

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350301368 • £60.00 / $80.00

• £17.09 / $24.29

• £17.09 / $24.29

• 352 pages

• HB 9781350166936 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350166950 £23.39 / $32.39

ePdf 9781350166943 £23.39 / $32.39

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies Bloomsbury Academic

Teaching Creative Writing

The Essential Guide

Stephanie Vanderslice, University of Central Arkansas, USA

The only textbook of its kind, this is an all-in-one introduction to the history, theories and practices of teaching creative writing in higher education, covering such topics as: damaging myths and pervasive lore; the use of revision; inclusive spaces and workshops; genre in creative writing; working multi-modally; assessing and grading work; and teaching creative writing online. This book will lead teachers through creating their own syllabi, course plans, and statements of teaching philosophies, and features capsule interviews with experts of key topics and teacher guides to using the book in an online companion resource.

The Yogic Writer

Uniting Breath, Body, and Page

Jennifer Sinor, Utah State University, USA

Fusing the craft of writing and the philosophy and practice of yoga, this book charts a path to the heart of creativity through yogic breathing, somatic exercises and meditations that concentrate on the body and champion process over product. Through a series of personal insights offered in essays, it considers both practical craft advice and meditates on deeper subjects: who is writing, and how to listen to our bodies. With ideas owed to ancient wisdoms, personal experience and knowledge informing creative writing and composition, it offers a unique, alternative approach to finding inspiration that forsakes external validation for internal knowledge.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages

PB 9781350371965 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350371958 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350371989 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350371972 • £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Maggie O'Farrell

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK

Covering all of her 8 novels and her memoir I am, I am, I am, Maggie O’Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the first full-length study of O’Farrell’s work, offering a critical guide to her full oeuvre, from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet. Covering such topics as narrative, grief and sacrifice, hauntology, marriage, intertextuality and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic, this book also features a new and exclusive interviewer with O’Farrell herself, a timeline of her life and works and suggested further reading.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 208 pages

HB 9781350325005 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350325029

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350325012 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

Anthony Mandal & Jenny Kidd, both Cardiff University, UK

Ambient Stories in Practice and Research

Digital Writing in Place

Edited

by Amy Spencer

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary experiences delivered through text, audio and sensor-based delivery offer distinctive new forms of reading and listening and lay the ground for a new poetics of situated writing practices.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

• 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350234130 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350234154 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350234147 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

• Bloomsbury Academic

The Scholarship of Creative Writing

and Practice

Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy

Edited by Marshall Moore, Falmouth

University, UK & Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar

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

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781350290990 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350291010 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350291003 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

What Readers Do Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a PostDigital Age

Beth Driscoll, University of Melbourne, Australia

Looking at everyday 21st-century readers of anglophone fiction, Beth Driscoll explores reading culture through three dimensions: aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care. It probes at how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice for its synthesis of both print and digital modes and on-and offline behaviors, Driscoll puts forwards a methodology for studying readers that connects sociology, literary studies and actor-network theory. Covering practices such as book clubs, reader involvement with broadcast and social media, this book drives forward debates about the significance of recreational reading.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 208 pages

PB 9781350375185 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350375147 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350375161 • £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350375154 • £17.99 / $24.29

Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Audio Readers

Book Consumption in the Streaming Age

Karl Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden

The first computational study of readers and reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data, to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: When it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 232 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350358362 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350358386 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358379 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in German Studies

Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

The "German Illusion" Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA

As of January 2021, Hélène Cixous has published at least 1116 pages of texts related to “Germany.” These texts are written, in one way or another, under the name, under the signs or influence of “Germany,” “German,” “Osnabrück,” and read together they offer a unique literary meditation on the Holocaust. The study of Cixous’s “German trope” helps us refine our understanding of an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity’s genocidal history in a new way. It sheds light on under-researched dimensions of Cixous’s publications on gender while providing insights into a major creator of our time.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 208 pages • 33 b&w illustrations

HB 9798765107379 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765107393 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765107416 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Authors and the World Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

Rebecca Braun, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

How do authors relate to the wider world in which they live and work? What are the mechanisms that make one bestselling author famous well beyond her lifetime while another sinks without trace while still alive? Authors and the World traces how four core modes of authorship have developed and inflect one another in the particular contexts of late 20th- and early 21st-century Germany. It provides not just a radically new approach to German literary history but a new paradigm for thinking about how literary authorship differs by place and draws in different people from across the Western world.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 368 pages

PB 9781501391064 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501391026

ePub 9781501391033 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501391040 • £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft

White Fragility in the Weird Tales

John L. Steadman, Independent Scholar

Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," this book argues that his fiction reflects feelings of resentment and anger towards non-white persons and was used to advocate for his racist, xenophobic political beliefs. The familiar image of Lovecraft as a creative genius and mentor to young writer-friends is dismantled through close examination of his fiction, nonfiction, and early biography. While some will dismiss the author outright and others will read his tales but ignore the racism, this book helps readers navigate the author’s disturbing biography while also getting a better sense of the stories.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9798765107690

• £17.99 / $26.95

ePub 9798765107706

ePdf 9798765107713

Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Life Narrative

Kate Douglas, Flinder's University, Australia, John David Zuern, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA & Anna Poletti, Utretch University, Netherlands

Children and Biography

Reading and Writing Life Stories

Kate Douglas, Flinder's University, Australia

The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children. By analyzing works like Women in Science, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls and testimonies and diaries written by children alongside empirical studies into childreaders and writers, this book provides new knowledge on how such texts are produced and read. Comprehensive and original, Children and Biography, presents an ethical methodological framework for scholarly practice when reading, witnessing and analyzing children’s life narratives so that future researchers might place children’s voices and writing at the centre of future inquiries in ways that facilitate genuine agency for child authors.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 232 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350236400 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350236363

ePub 9781350236387 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350236370 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Life Narrative Bloomsbury Academic

Life Writing and the End of Empire Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives

Emma Parker, Keele University, UK

Exploring how legacies of British colonialism have shaped modern life narrative, this book compares the autobiographical writings of Penelope Lively, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing and Janet Frame. Emma Parker illuminates unrecognized connections between them as they travelled to London from their respective childhood homes in Egypt, Shanghai, Southern Rhodesia, and New Zealand. This book asks what it means to be ‘at home’ in the former British Empire; scrutinizes the spaces of habitation through which the authors remember colonialism; coins the term speculative life writing; and examines material possessions that emblematize the legacies of the colonialism.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350353794 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350353817 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350353800

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Mediated Life Narratives

Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives

Amy Carlson, University of Hawai'i, USA

Calling attention to the unseen mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this book uncovers strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/ biographical in the material book, the museum gallery and its associated online counterparts and archives. Carlson exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

• 240 pages

• 256 pages

• HB 9798765107683

• £20.67 / $24.25

• £20.67 / $24.25

• £60.00 / $90.00

HB 9781350324664

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350324688

ePdf 9781350324671

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Assured Self, Restive Self Encounters with Crisis

Prasanta Chakravarty, University of Delhi, India

Through the rubrics of the assured and the restive, the volume addresses how selfhood encounters and negotiates crisis in life and literature. Does the idea of crisis allow us to formulate the idea of self in a particular way? How do certain sources and resources within the self – stoic or heroic, political and creative – come into being during crisis? It explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times.

UK August 2023 • US September 2023 • 336 pages

HB 9789354359927 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9789354359811 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9789354359415 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez, Sam Sharpe Teacher’s College, Jamaica

Breaking with linearity – the previously ruling narrative model – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. This study shows how this trend – among authors such as Strindberg, Stein, Queneau, Nabokov, Joyce, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Calvino and Blanchot – was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically, using circular structures to express similar ideas. It also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche’s critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 248 pages

PB 9781501384912 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501384875

ePub 9781501384882 £82.70 / $99.00

ePdf 9781501384899 £82.70 / $99.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Comics Form

The Art of Sequenced Images

Chris Gavaler, Washington and Lee University, USA

Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. Drawing from the worlds of art criticism and literary studies to put forward innovative new ways of thinking and talking about comics, this book also challenges terminology and established theorizing terms to show how their definitions could be tightened up in the contexts of comics studies.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 248 pages 47 bw illus

PB 9781350245952 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350245914

ePub 9781350245938 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350245921 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Faulkner’s Fashion Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Christopher Rieger, Southeast Missouri State University, USA

Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner’s fiction. This book analyzes the writer’s use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner’s novels and short stories. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 192 pages 15-20 B&W photographs

HB 9798765103944 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765103968 £75.26 / $90.00

ePdf 9798765103975 • £75.26 / $90.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry

Politics of Poetic Experimentation

Farshad Sonboldel, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

This book analyses the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in the Constitutional Revolution (1900–1920), the post-constitutional era (1920–1940) and the ascendency of modernism (1940–1960) in Iran. Dominant narratives portray modern Persian poetry as a gradual and moderate change as well as a response to – and reflection of – cultural and socio-political changes within Iranian society. Examining formal and thematic aspects of radical experiments by alternative poets, this study reformulates the story of modern Persian poetry and their role in the initiation and progress of the 'literary revolution'.

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction

Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity

Christopher Weinberger, San Francisco State University, USA

Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we accountable for how we read fiction? This book takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects often ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics, to discover answers to these and other questions. Offering new readings of works by Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Weinberger shows how they address key issues in new ethical theories. Finally, the author identifies a continuity between the methods of Japan’s modern novel progenitors and those of novelists at the forefront of global literature today.

Historicizing Modernism

James Joyce and Cultural Genetics

The Joycean Genome

Wim Van Mierlo

As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity. It examines Joyce's oeuvre, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake

Based on evidence from his personal library and the extensive archive of reading notes, ideas, sketches and drafts, this book investigates how Joyce used, absorbed and repurposed these materials creatively in his writing.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 248 pages • 4 b/w illus

HB 9781350169883 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350169906 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350169890 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Modernism in Wonderland

Legacies of Lewis Carroll

Edited by John D. Morgenstern & Michelle Witen, University of Basel, Switzerland

Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentiethcentury writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll’s fictions and discovered there the quintessence of their own modernity, this book demonstrates that Carroll’s influence extended far beyond literary style, pervading all aspects of modern life from commercial culture to politics, from philosophy to the new physics. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350248717 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350248731 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350248724 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Historicizing Modernists Approaches to ‘Archivalism’

Edited by Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK, Anna Svendsen & Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway

Focussing upon both canonical figures such as Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Stein and emergent themes such as Christian modernism, intermedial modernism and queer Harlem Renaissance, this volume brings together previously unseen materials, from various archives, to bear upon cutting-edge interpretations of modernism. It provides an overview of approaches to modernism via the employment of various types of primary source material: correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, memoirs and production notes, reading notes and marginalia, and all manner of useful contextualising sources like news reports or judicial records.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 264 pages 8 bw illus

PB 9781350215085 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350215047

ePub 9781350215061

ePdf 9781350215054

The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959

Ezra Pound

Edited by Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era. These letters reveal the extent of the impact of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political writings during this period and his growing engagement with the culture of Nazi Germany.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 352 pages

HB 9781472506511 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781472508485 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781472512017 • £90.00 / $122.84

Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic

The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature

Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World

Allan Kilner-Johnson

Exploring the relationship between occultism and modernist literary experimentation, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 184 pages

PB 9781350255340 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350255302

ePub 9781350255326 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350255319 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Distance of Irish Modernism Memory, Narrative, Representation

John Greaney, Goethe University,

Germany

Interrogating how Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories, this book launches a meta-critical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, Flann O’Brien and Kate O’Brien, Greaney analyses the complex representational strategies of modernist fictions and how they provide a window on historical events and realities. Emphasizing the proximities and the distances between modernist aesthetic practice and the history of modernity in Ireland and beyond, this book enables a new model for narrating Irish modernism.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781350328464

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 248 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350125261

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

ePub 9781350125285

ePdf 9781350125278

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK & Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway

Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature

Love and Russian Literature

From Benjamin to Woolf

Tolstoy,

Dostoevsky,

Chekhov

and the Case for Big Books

Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University, USA

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. This book uses a number of Russian authors, from the familiar names of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to less widely known writers like Goncharov, Bunin and Erofeev, to connect readers with these experiences.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350242142

• £12.99 / $17.95

ePub 9781350242173

• 144 pages • 10 bw illus

• HB 9781350242159

• £11.69 / $16.19

ePdf 9781350242166 • £11.69 / $16.19

Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

• £45.00 / $61.00

Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia, Canada

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira B. Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 264 pages

HB 9781350115019 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350115033 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350115026 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Victoria N. Morgan

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion are the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to see current critical trends.

UK September 2023

HB 9781350380110

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350380097

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350380103 • £76.50 / $103.94

• 232 pages • 10 bw illus

Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic

Hyperbolic Realism

A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction

Samir Sellami, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781501360497

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501360503 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501360510 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal

Latino Literature An Encyclopedia for

Students

UK February 2024

HB 9798765100318

Fictional Aesthetics and Memory

after Postmodernism

Edited by Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK & Ana Paula Arnaut, University of Coimbra, Portugal

This is first critical assessment of the contemporary novel in Portugal available in English. The works under analysis are varied and representative of the most vibrant work in Portugal since 2000, and the editors’ introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the Novel after its postmodern period – especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity. Readings also discuss new topics and writing strategies as well as the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks.

• US February 2024

• £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9798765100325

ePdf 9798765100332

Bloomsbury Academic

• 10 bw illus

• 192 pages

• £75.26 / $90.00

• £75.26 / $90.00

Edited by Christina Soto van der Plas, Santa Clara University, USA & Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham, Defense Foreign Language Institute, USA

More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico have and continue to be overlooked by critics and general audiences alike. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students gathers the best from these authors and presents them to readers in an informed and accessible way. Intended to be a useful resource for students, this volume introduces the key figures and genres central to Latino literature.

UK March 2023

• US March 2023

• 328 pages

HB 9781440875915 £83.00 / $107.00

ePub 9798216183907 £80.22 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440875922 £80.22 / $96.30

Greenwood

World English

Mapping Middle-earth Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies

Anahit Behrooz, Independent Researcher

This book demonstrates how Tolkien’s corpus of maps are crucial to understanding broader narratives between humans and their environment within his legendarium. It examines how cartography has traditionally represented displays of power and undertakes a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth’s own cultural output that reveal a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates both the specific power dynamics between the map maker, the map reader, and what is being mapped, and the human/nature binary that represents the control that humans attempt to enact over the natural world.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350290808

• US February 2024

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350290785

• 224 pages

• HB 9781350290761

• £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350290778 £22.49 / $31.04

Series: Perspectives on Fantasy Bloomsbury Academic

• £75.00 / $100.00

Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words

Conversations with Authors and Editors

Edited by Sébastien Doubinsky & Christina

Kkona, Aarhus

University, Denmark

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? This collection of interviews elicits honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon and Cat Rambo.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781501384455 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501384462 • £80.00 / $110.00

ePub 9781501384479 • £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501384486 • £22.32 / $26.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel

Hilary Thompson, Bowdoin College, USA

Engaging contemporary Anglophone literature from the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works invoke spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings such as positive forces that present visions of the Earth as agentive and animate. Rejecting notions that these are uncanny hauntings or products of an exotic East or global South, this book builds a critical framework for analysing worldly spirits that draws upon anthropological discussions of animism, the art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals’ diverse perceptual worlds. A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles conceptualizations of Anglophone and Anthropocene literatures.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

HB 9781350373815 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350373839 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350373822 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• 240 pages

Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales Reconsidering the Short Fiction

Edited by Joan Passey, University of Bristol, UK &

Robert Lloyd, Cardiff University, UK

The first exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, this volume digs into the lasting impact of her work and offers new methodologies to study it. Calling upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis, it examines a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works such as 'The Lottery' alongside later works that received lesser critical attention, this book promises a rich expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in Horror fiction.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350361119

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350361133

ePdf 9781350361126

Bloomsbury Academic

Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

Thinking with Embodied Estrangement

Kaisa Kortekallio, University of Helsinki, Finland

Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields - feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies - this book offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 232 pages

HB 9781350296848 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350296787 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350296770 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Posthumanism in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic

Anthropocene Realism

Fiction in the Age of Climate Change

John Thieme, University of East Anglia, UK

Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet.

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

UK March 2024 US March 2024 224 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350296077

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ePub 9781350296053

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• 272 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350296046

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Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein

The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Peggy Webling

Edited by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum & Bruce Graver, Providence College, USA

The 1931 film adaptation of Frankenstein claims to be ‘Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling’. With the script buried in a private archive, scholars have never been able to fully trace the evolution of Frankenstein from novel to stage to screen. This critical edition presents the 'missing link' in the novels extensive transmedia cultural history and includes: the full text of Webling’s unpublished play; Webling’s private correspondence about the play with theatrical and studio executives; the chapter ‘Frankenstein’ from Webling’s unpublished literary memoir; the play's writing and production history; and exploration of James L. Balderson’s changes to Webling’s play.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350371651 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350371644 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Bloomsbury Academic

The Fiction of Dread

Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse

Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University, USA

Drawing on literature such as varied as H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of the present cultural climate and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice in a moment in which, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

ePub 9781501375866

ePdf 9781501375873

Bloomsbury Academic

The Afterlives of Frankenstein Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

Edited by Robert Lublin, University of Massachusets, Boston, USA & Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

An exploration of adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in film, comics, theatre, art, videogames and more, this book illuminates how the novel's myth has evolved since its publication. Divided into four sections, it considers the cultural dialogues the novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

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• 272 pages

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

Edited

by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK

Though there was no word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative anthropology, this volume uniquely examines contexts and conditions of disability in the ancient world.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, this book explores atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 208 pages • 6 bw illus

PB 9781350436282 • £25.99 / $35.95

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

Edited by Susan Anderson, Sheffiled Hallam University, UK & Liam Haydon, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this covers themes and topics such as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024

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PB 9781350436749

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• 216 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350028876

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edited by Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA & Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University San Marcos, USA

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this covers themes and topics such as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350436725

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• 232 pages

• 37 b/w

Edited by Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA, Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, USA & Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this covers themes and topics such as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 200 pages • 19 b/w

PB 9781350436756 • £25.99 / $35.95

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited by D. Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA & Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 200 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350436732 • £25.99 / $35.95

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

Edited by David T. Mitchell, George Washington University, USA & Sharon L. Snyder

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this covers themes and topics such as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781350436671

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• 208 pages

• 6 b/w

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• Bloomsbury Academic

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• Bloomsbury Academic

40 years of publishing on the Middle East

I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury, publishes radical, insightful and representative books on the Middle East and the Islamic World.

All I.B. Tauris books are accessible via www.bloomsbury.com, and through the Bloomsbury Academic sales team.

Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan

Government

and Diplomacy by Sir Henry Dobbs at the Apex of Empire

Ann

Wilks

While little known today, Henry Dobbs was a key architect of the treaties that secured British India’s borders with restive Afghanistan and the Mandatory Iraq. This book brings Dobbs’s role in these events at the apex of the British Empire to light, drawing on previously untapped sources made up of Dobbs’ private records and letters and official sources to do so. Revealed are Dobbs’s interactions with other members of the colonial administration and its advisors, including Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell, combined with the personal reflections of a ‘man on the spot’ which show the contingency that attended the twilight decades of the British Empire.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 208 pages

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I.B. Tauris

Egypt under El-Sisi A Nation on the Edge

Maged Mandour

This book is the first dedicated to President Al-Sisi’s leadership. It is a chronology of the devastating political, economic and social consequences of direct military rule. Written by Maged Mandour, an expert on Egypt’s politics who took part in the 2011 revolution, it is a compelling account built on years of writing and research. This includes analysis of primary sources, such as laws, constitutional amendment issued by the regime, statements made by regime officials, and local media. Mandour explains exactly how Al-Sisi operates and what makes his regime so different, and so dangerous, compared to those that came before.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

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• 224 pages

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The Egyptian Revolution of 1919

Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence

Edited by H.A. Hellyer, Royal United Services Institute, UK & Robert Springborg, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt’s nation state and is imprinted in the country’s collective memory. This is the first text that brings together chapters examining the causes, consequences and legacies of the revolution. Egyptian and non-Egyptian scholars examine a range of topics linking back to that crucial event in Egyptian history, including the causes and course of the 1919 revolution, its impacts on subsequent political beliefs, practices and institutions, and its legacy today.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

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Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century Building Political Legitimacy

Tarek Abou Jaoude, Independent Scholar

In this book Tarek Abou Jaoude looks at the relation between legitimacy and stability in Lebanon throughout the 20th century, explaining statebuilding failures through a focus on the role that political legitimacy plays in forming states.

Based on primary sources including national archives and collections, institutional documents, personal memoirs, newspapers and journals, this book provides a rich survey on the development and functioning of Lebanese political institutions.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 248 pages

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Egypt

Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution

Azmi Bishara, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

This groundbreaking book documents in granular detail the lead up to the momentous Egyptian uprisings and the subsequent transition and coup. Part One covers the ‘1952 revolution’ up to the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt. Part Two covers the military take over and election of Morsi up until the coup to overthrow his presidency. Written while the revolutions were taking place, the book conveys the immediacy and urgency of the political moments as Bishara makes wide-ranging assessments with many of his forecasts corroborated in later years.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 744 pages

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States of Exception or Exceptional States

Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East

Edited by Simon Mabon, University of Lancaster, UK, Sanaa Al Sarghali, An-Najah UniversityNablus, Palestine & Adel Ruished, Lancaster University, UK

This book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the application of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately erupted in violence in the early months of 2011. Agamben’s ideas of the state of exception and bare life provide important intellectual tools to understand the nature of sovereignty and the regulation of life, which has largely been missing in the study of the region.

• 232 pages

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UK February 2024

PB 9780755642557

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• 248 pages

Previously published in HB 9780755626427

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ePdf 9780755626434 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Energy Transitions in the Middle East Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by Katherine Wolff, Middle East Institute, USA & Karen E. Young, Columbia University, USA

In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region’s access to finance, combined with the global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region’s energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that will determine the success in each country and the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9780755650378 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780755650385 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Series: Middle East Institute Policy Series I.B. Tauris

Atatürk Father of the Republic of Turkey

George W. Gawrych

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, George Gawrych studies Atatürk’s career in detail, showing how Atatürk married the traits of the classic military man-of-action with those of the intellectual, theorist and pragmatist as a statesman. Gawrych places Atatürk in the context of his times to reveal how he harnessed wider forces to set Turkey on a path of secular nationalism and comprehensive modernization. His legacy can be seen everywhere in Turkey today, from the role and rights of women in society to the struggle for developing a democracy in the Republic. Gawrych addresses the costs of Atatürk’s policies, including the suppression of minorities and the imposition of a cult of personality and authoritarian rule in the name of ‘Turkification’. The book presents a nuanced analysis of a complex figure who consciously created a living legacy that still casts a shadow over Turkey’s political and intellectual discourse.

UK October 2023 US October 2023 296 pages 35 bw illus

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American Diplomacy Toward Lebanon Lessons in Foreign Policy and the Middle East

David Hale, Wilson Center, USA

David Hale examines several key episode in US diplomatic history with Lebanon, starting with Lebanon's independence in 1943, and bringing the themes to the present. Crucial events such as the Lebanese Civil War, the Cedar Revolution, and more recently the spillover from the Syrian Civil War, are examined within the context of the respective US government administrations of the time and their foreign policy strategies. This study focuses on how, during these critical periods, American diplomacy toward Lebanon had consequences beyond the country itself, and on the narrative lines and lessons for the broader conduct of American foreign policy.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

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Series: Middle East Institute Policy Series • I.B. Tauris

Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations

Making the Vulnerable Partnership

Kilic Bugra Kanat

While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief “golden era” in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current crises in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand this partnership: the “vulnerable partnership”. It is the only book in English dedicated to the history of Turkish-American relations.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9780755650767 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780755650750 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9780755650781 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9780755650774 • £22.49 / $31.04

I.B. Tauris

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty

Malissa Taylor, University of Massachusetts

Amherst, USA

Published in association with the British Institute at Ankara this book uses Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that the rising consensus of the early modern jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 216 pages

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Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World • I.B. Tauris

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement

Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University, Denmark

Spoils of War in the Arab East Reconditioning Society and Polity in Conflict

Edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh, Harout Akdedian, Central European University & Haian Dukhan

Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation – this book examines Kurdish women fighters’ motivations to join The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The book is the largest ethnographic study on this Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement to date. It discusses Kurdish women’s personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. It reveals for the first time that Kurdish women fighters join the PKK to improve conditions for themselves but also to improve conditions for

across the entire region.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9780755648368 £85.00 / $115.00

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Series: Kurdish Studies • I.B. Tauris

Religious Minorities in Iraq

women

This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground. It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of ‘conflict transformation’ rather than of ‘conflict termination’, because the extreme changes that accompanied these countries into war continue long after the conflicts end. A critical analysis of existing post-conflict frameworks, their applicability and their potential outcomes in Iraq and Syria, the book is a vital contribution to post-conflict studies.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 320 pages

HB 9780755649082 • £95.00 / $130.00

I.B. Tauris

Co-Existence, Faith and Recovery after ISIS

Maria Rita Corticelli, International University of Erbil, Iraq

The religious minorities of Iraq suffered immense violence at the hands of ISIS and are now trying to rebuild their lives. In their own words, and based on interviews with over 100 people, this book tells their stories. Covering the experiences of the Christians, Kakais, Yezidis, Sunni Muslims and Shabaks, amongst others, the research reveals how the different communities narrate their beliefs and deal with life in the aftermath of ISIS. This is the first book to illustrate how a strong network between the minorities operates in an effort to peacefully coexist, based on their shared experience of persecution and oppression.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 216 pages

PB 9780755641369 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

Afaf Jabiri, University of East London, UK

In this book Afaf Jabiri examines the experiences of Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan and argues for a feminist analysis of settler-colonialism, particularly in the case of second displacement. Based on four years of field research in camps in Jordan - including interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book highlights how local women’s groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. The book reveals how these groups have challenged state politics, the selectivity of aid, and the politics of the gendered development approach in humanitarian settings.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages

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ePub 9780755644827

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Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Exploitation and Resistance from the 19th Century - Present Day

Edited by

Elena Andreeva & Kevin McNeer

How have practices of slavery existed over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa? This book argues that in spite of the great regional diversity between and within the states studied, clear commonalities exist in the practices of slavery across this super-region. The book is the first to focus on slavery from the 19th century to the present day and the authors focus on the unheard voices of slaves. The chapters are based on sources in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and materials in minor and endangered languages, such as Soqotri, Balochi and Sorani Kurdish.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

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Series: Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East I.B. Tauris

The Formation of the UAE State-Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East

Kristi Barnwell, University of Illinois, USA

Based on primary source materials from British and American government archives, speeches, government publications from the Arab Emirates - as well as memoirs and secondary sources - the book sheds light on the processes and problems surrounding the creation of the UAE. Kristi Barnwell demonstrates that Arab rulers in the Persian Gulf strove to create their new state with close ties to Great Britain, which provided technical, military and administrative assistance to the Emirates; while also publicly embracing the popular ideologies of anti-imperialism and Arab socialism that were still dominating the political discourse in the Arab world.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 224 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

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Power Couple

Russian-Iranian Alignment in the Middle East

Ghoncheh Tazmini, London School of Economics, UK

To understand the Russia-Iran relationship, this book assesses the foundation upon which Moscow and Tehran have built their strategic partnership. Ghoncheh Tazmini argues for a Russia-Iran ‘alignment’, which is based on their shared narratives of the international order. She shows that to counteract US unilateralism, and with both states feeling internationally isolated, the Kremlin needs Tehran as much as Tehran needs the Kremlin. The book shows that despite their differences, Russian-Iranian relations are a lot more durable than many in the West and the Middle East may believe.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 248 pages

PB 9780755640454 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780755640416 • £65.00 / $90.00

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Representing PostRevolutionary Iran

Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian–American Life

Writing

Hossein Nazari, University of Tehran, Iran

This book analyses the processes of production, promotion, and reception of memoirs of diasporic Iranian-American authors. It provides new perspectives on key examples of the genre such as Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter, Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Hossein Nazari places these texts in their social and political contexts, tracing their origins within the trope of the America captivity narrative, and critically unearths their neo-Orientalist tendencies within. The book analyses the structural means by which stereotypes about Islam and women in the Islamic Republic in these narratives are privileged by news media and the creative industries, while also charting a growing number of counterhegemonic memoirs which challenge these narratives by representing more nuanced accounts of life in Iran after 1979.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 232 pages

PB 9780755648085 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Rebels with a Cause The Failure of the Left in Iran

Maziar Behrooz

The author here unearths new details and provides fresh insights into an enduring puzzle of modern Iranian political history, concluding that the Left’s demise came from a combination of Iran’s geopolitical setting, where both the Soviet and western worlds saw advantage in the stability of Iran during the Cold War, as well as internal factors such as splits and factionalism, and - not least - the Iranian Left’s over-enthusiastic devotion to a barren Stalinism with its poverty of philosophy and ideas. Based on primary and secondary Persian-language sources never before published in English, this book is a crucial addition to the literature on modern Iranian history and the study of communist and socialist history in general.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023

PB 9780755652013 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Ethos A Critique of Eurocentric Modernity

Ahmad Kasravi

Translated by Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Humber College, Canada

Ethos is a radical critique of Eurocentrism. In it, prolific Iranian critic and intellectual Ahmad Kasravi unleashes a scathing attack on Europe’s selfperceived superiority as well as on Eastern promoters of the idea. Kasravi proceeds to outline the ills of post-Enlightenment European civilization: imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, Orientalism. Embedded in Europe’s notions of “progress,” these phenomena have in reality brought about social Darwinism, racism, war-mongering, materialism, mindless consumerism, inequality and immorality in the world. Disputing the rationality or civility of these Western tokens, Kasravi warns Euro-enthusiasts in his country of the consequences of wholesale Westernization and instead advocates for a vernacular modernity premised on the noble virtues of Iranian culture and of rationalist Islam. The book presents an embryonic articulation of postcolonial discourse which would, decades later, come to maturity and international recognition in the works of Edward Said and others.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 224 pages

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Iranian-Saudi Rivalry since 1979 In the Words of Kings and Clerics

Talal Mohammad, University of Oxford, UK

This book examines Saudi-Iranian rivalry through the lens of discourse analysis. It tracks how each country represents ‘the Other’ in their official statements, media and sermons. The author, fluent in both Arabic and Persian, provides original insights by examining in parallel how the process of Othering functions in the pursuit of their political rivalry and religious conflict. Looking at speeches and pronouncements of the political elites, state-sponsored media and leading clerics in both countries since 1979, it explores the tropes and narratives adopted by each to (mis) represent the Other and identifies a pattern of power plays and mutual provocations.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 480 pages

PB 9780755634767 • £28.99 / $39.95 • / $135.00

ePub 9780755634743 • £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780755634736 • £90.00 / $122.84

I.B. Tauris

The Renaissance of Islam History, Culture and Society in the 10th Century Muslim World

Adam Mez

In this important study, Adam Mez draws upon a vast range of sources to produce a detailed account of all aspects of Islamic culture and society in the tenth century - finance, religion, geography, industry and trade, law, morals, navigation, etc. The result is a lucid and engaging work that even today remains a key resource for researchers and students alike. The original edition is now very rare. This new edition, introduced by Hugh Kennedy, one of the leading scholars of the period, makes the work available once again and includes a bibliography and index specially prepared for this edition.

• £18.99 / $25.64

• £18.99 / $25.64

• 232 pages • 8 bw illus

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781784538910

• 560 pages

• £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781838603588

ePdf 9781838603571

I.B. Tauris

World English

• £90.00 / $122.84

• £90.00 / $122.84

Muhammad ‘Abduh

Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity

Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Birmingham, UK Provides a complete intellectual biography of Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905), one of the most influential Muslim modernist reformers of the 19th century. The book adopts a biographical approach in order to delineate his intellectual formation as a reformer and to illustrate significant developments and breaks throughout his life. By using new sources – in particular his writings from his early politically activist career – the book illustrates ‘Abduh’s complex intellectual formation and the various traditional religious, philosophical and cultural influences that shaped him.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 280 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9780755648146 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781838607302

ePub 9781838607326 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781838607333 £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

Becoming Pro-Palestinian Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement

Edited

by Rosemary Sayigh

Representing activists from over 40 countries, this book brings testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are proPalestinian. A chapter is dedicated to each country and contributors are asked to reveal how they ‘discovered’ Palestine, what specific forms their engagement has taken, and what their hopes are for the international solidarity movement. With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for Palestine.

UK February 2024

PB 9780755692095

• US February 2024

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9780755692118

ePdf 9780755692101

I.B. Tauris

State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara Regional Interactions and Social Change

Edited by Francisco Freire, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal

This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective on the Hassaniya speaking peoples’ struggle for self-determination in the Western Sahara. So far, in-depth understanding and analysis remains neglected and little work has been undertaken on the diverse experiences of the Hassaniya and the contrasting political regimes under which they live. This book examines the complex and ambiguous relations between statehood, Islam, nation building and identity formation in hassanophone northwest Africa. Contributors present new analysis and up-to-date fieldwork to provide an inside perspective on these populations and their regional interactions, shedding new light on the region.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 376 pages

PB 9780755643486 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755643479

ePub 9780755643509 £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9780755643516 £0.00 / $0.00

I.B. Tauris

Resisting Domination in Palestine Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism

Edited by Alaa Tartir, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, Timothy Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University, USA & Tariq Dana

• 352 pages

• HB 9780755692088

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £75.00 / $100.00

British Jews and Imperial Service

Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India

Stephanie M. Chasin

In the aftermath of WWI, the British empire sent a new generation of officers to govern the increasingly tumultuous colonial territories. Among them were three British-Jewish men, whose careers went on to defy the antisemitism of their time. This book explores the lives of these men, charting the way they navigated the landmark events and policies that set the course for the instability and ultimate collapse of British imperial rule. Investigating to what extent their Jewish backgrounds impacted their careers, this book sheds new light on the controversies of British imperial rule in the inter-war period and its damning legacies.

UK December 2023

HB 9780755603183

• US December 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755603206

ePdf 9780755603190

I.B. Tauris

• 240 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 20 bw illus

Israel is exerting control on Palestine in ways that have never been seen before. This book identifies these sites of control and domination and how they operate across intellectual, ecological, political and economic levels. It also demonstrates how these sites of control are resisted. Split into four themed parts, the book offers readers critical, interdisciplinary and decolonial perspectives that are based on fieldwork. It provides an understanding of how neoliberalism, imperial histories, and settler colonialism foster exploitation and dispossession.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9780755650835 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9780755650859 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9780755650842 • £85.50 / $116.09

Series: Unsettling Colonialism in our Times • I.B. Tauris

The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment

Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East

Edited by Hala Auji, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Raphael Cormack, Columbia University, USA & Alaaeldin Mahmoud, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century’s transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely considered the moment’s concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups. This collection shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences, exploring music, visual media, theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, the ‘translocal/transnational’ cultural histories in the book also contribute to global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

HB 9780755647408

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755647422

ePdf 9780755647415

I.B. Tauris

• 25 bw illus

• 256 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Desert Voices

Bedouin Women's Poetry in Saudi Arabia

Moneera Al-Ghadeer

The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women's oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women's lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and - most significantly - the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulating and an eternal freedom. As the first English translation and analysis of this poetry, Desert Voices is both a gesture to preserving the oral poetic tradition of Bedouin women and a radical critique addressing the exclusion of their poetry from current academic literary studies. The book provides invaluable material for reflection in the debates around oral culture and women's poetic composition while it translates, presents and critically examines a genre, which opens Arabic poetry and literature to contemporary theory and criticism.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9780755652990 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781845116668

ePdf 9780857711960 £99.00 / $134.99

I.B. Tauris

Theodore Metochites

Patterns of Self-representation in Fourteenth Century Byzantium

Ioannis Polemis, University of Athens, Greece

In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Byzantine statesmen and philosopher Theodore Metochites’ oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of ‘logos’. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire’s most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.

UK December 2023

HB 9780755651429

Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan

Edited by Jonathan Shepard, University of Cambridge, UK & Luke Treadwell, Oxford University, UK

The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-toface encounters in the Central Asian steppes. Ibn Fadlan, an emissary from the Baghdad caliphate to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars, gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon en route. This unprecedented interdisciplinary study of Ibn Fadlan’s text and the world he surveyed draws on a variety of specialists to give readers both ‘the bigger picture’ of cultural and economic change in Eurasia, Byzantium and the Muslim world, and hard facts, in the form of archaeological and numismatic data.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 440 pages

HB 9781784539337 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9780755618187 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755618170 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Library of Medieval Studies • I.B. Tauris

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire

Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098

Toby Bromige, City University of London, UK

This book investigates the relationship between Armenians and the Byzantine Empire, arguing that up until the eleventh century migrants of Armenian background were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, recognized fully as Romaioi (Byzantine Romans). It uses the extant sources from a number of traditions and material culture in a chronological approach to reveal issues of migration, religion, ethnic stereotypes, and cultural assimilation, bringing to life the experiences of Medieval Armenians in the Empire, including their ultimate alienation at the onset of the Turkic migration to Anatolia.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9780755642427 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755642441 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755642434 £76.50 / $103.94

I.B. Tauris

• US December 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755651405

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755651412 • £76.50 / $103.94

• 256 pages

Series: New Directions in Byzantine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Sufis in Medieval Baghdad Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate

Atta Muhammad, Talim-ul-Islam College, Pakistan

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258, arguing that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor, revealing the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

HB 9780755647583

• £85.00 / $115.00

• 192 pages

Forced Migration in Jordan Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies

Edited by Jalal Al Husseini, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Jordan, Norig Neveu, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France & Valentina Napolitano

Jordan sheds important light on key issues around forced migration in the Middle East. This book is the first to study the long-term impact of multiple immigration flows on Jordanian society from 1948 to the present day. Part One investigates the criteria for integration and exclusion imposed by Jordan and international humanitarian organisations on different groups of refugees. Part Two analyses how state policy impacts the solidarity networks between different migrant communities and the different political, social, religious and family networks that are set up in camps and urban settings. Part Three turns to how migrants shape the Jordanian cityscape and geography themselves.

Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World

Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century

Edited by Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian & Tsolin Nalbantian

How has the Armenian diaspora formed and maintained a sense of collective identity despite the challenges of the 20th century? Historians, cultural theorists, literary critics, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists here probe the history and experience of the Armenian diaspora, examining literary and cultural production as well as case studies from the genocide of 1915 to the present day. The book shows that a diaspora’s statelessness can not only be evidence of its power, but also how this “stateless power” acts as an alternative and complement to the nation-state.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9780755648214

• £21.99 / $29.95

• 336 pages

• HB 9780755648207

ePub 9780755648238 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9780755648221 • £19.79 / $26.99

• £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World I.B. Tauris

The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party

Politics, Ideology and Transnational History

Edited by Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Divided into sections which cover the origins, ideology, and regional history of the revolutionary Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, this book situates the history of the Hnchaks within debates around socialism, populism, and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The SDHP was not only an Armenian party but had a global Marxist outlook, and scholars in this volume bring to bear expertise in a wide range of histories and languages including Russian, Turkish, Persian and Latin American to trace the emergence and role this influential party played from their split with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the events of the Armenian genocide to the formation of the first Armenian Republic and then Soviet Armenia.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

HB 9780755651375

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9780755651351

• £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755651368 £81.00 / $110.69

Ararat in America

Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology, USA

This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group’s population. It explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and shows that, rather than simply acting as an impediment to Armenian unity, it played a role in keeping certain community institutions alive. He analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 264 pages • 16 bw illus

HB 9780755648818 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755648832 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755648825 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World

Photography in Erzerum, Harput, Van and Beyond

David Low, AGBU Nubar Library, Paris, France

This book examines photographic activity in three cities on the Armenian plateau: Erzurum, Kharpert and Van. It explores how indigenous photography was rooted in the seismic social, political and cultural shifts that shaped Armenian lives during the Ottoman Empire’s last four decades. Arguing that photographic practice was marked by the era’s central movements, it shows how photography was bound-up in Armenian educational endeavours, mass migration and revolutionary activity. Photography responded to and became the instrument of these phenomena, so much so that they were responsible for the spread of the medium through the Armenian communities of the Ottoman East and the rapid increase in photographic studios.

• 296 pages

Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World I.B. Tauris

Bloomsbury Master Series (Languages)

Mastering Arabic 1

Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar, G-and-W Publishing, Haddenham

Mastering Arabic 1 is suitable for all beginners, whether they are learning as part of a class or pursuing independent study. The text uses a communicative approach to language acquisition, focusing on speaking and listening skills to practice Arabic in everyday, real-life contexts. Mastering Arabic 1 has an attractive, full-colour design featuring a rich array of activities, photos and bespoke cartoons. It is accompanied by a comprehensive website which includes free audio, video, worksheets and interactive exercises to enrich any student's learning experience.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350367265

• US February 2024

• £36.99 / $49.95

ePub 9781350367289

ePdf 9781350367272

• 384 pages

• £33.29 / $45.89

• £33.29 / $45.89

Series: Bloomsbury Master Series (Languages)

• 50 photos, 100 cartoons

• Bloomsbury Academic

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages • 45 bw illus

PB 9780755600380 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755600397

ePub 9780755600403 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780755600410 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I.B. Tauris

Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book

Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar, G-and-W Publishing, Haddenham

Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book is a perfect companion to Mastering Arabic 1, extending the reach of the main book and allowing students to develop reading and writing skills through engaging and highly illustrated exercises. It is easy-to-use, affordable and replicates the accessible pace of Mastering Arabic 1. Suitable for all beginners, whether in the classroom or pursuing independent learning, it is usable alongside any introductory Arabic course.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 96 pages

PB 9781350370685 £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350370692 £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350370708

• £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Bloomsbury Master Series (Languages) • Bloomsbury Academic

Depeche Mode's 101

Mary Valle, Freelance Journalist, USA

Depeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and ascended to the rare air of stadium rock. On June 18, 1988, 65,000 screaming, singing Southern Californians flocked to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl to celebrate DM’s coronation. Eight years after its founding in Basildon, Essex, Depeche Mode, rooted in 1970s Krautrock, combined old-fashioned touring, well-crafted songs, and the steadfast support of KROQ to dominate Southern California, the United States, and then the world, kicking open the doors for the likes of Nirvana in the process. 101 is the hidden-in-plain-sight hinge of modern music history.

UK May 2024 US May 2024 152 pages

PB 9781501390326 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501390333 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501390340 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

Pulp's This Is Hardcore

Jane Savidge, PR Representative, UK

This is Hardcore is Pulp’s cry for help. The musical equivalent of Reggie Perrin’s Grot shops; the album was designed to fail, yet only succeeded in securing the band’s position as Britain’s-Most-Wanted. This Is Hardcore is a sleazy run through porn and mental demise, that simultaneously chronicles Cocker’s disillusionment with his long-desired wish for fame. Appropriately enough, it should be seen as the final nail in Britpop’s coffin.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

• 176 pages

PB 9798765106952 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9798765106969 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9798765106976 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

Krautrock

Marshall Gu, Writer, Canada

In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the European front of World War II and the Third Reich. In the immediate aftermath, German youth were tasked to create their own culture. Krautrock is this unlikely success story, a unique and experimental sound distinct from American or British rock. Krautrock explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its influences and innovations, its more mainstream acts (Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can) as well as the less universally known (Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Embryo, and Ash Ra Tempel), how the genre developed in post-war Germany and what it means to today's listeners.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

• £14.99 / $19.95

PB 9798765103296

ePub 9798765103302

ePdf 9798765103319

Little Richard's Here's Little Richard

Jordan Bassett, NME, UK

Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957, when his debut album was being created. Featuring new interviews with Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl, Joan Jett and Nile Rodgers, this is the first in-depth look at Here’s Little Richard since Richard Penniman’s death in May 2020. This book explores his roots in the American South's surprisingly progressive queer underground as well as early rebel music, like jump blues, which would collide with the then-emerging rock’n’roll.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 160 pages

PB 9781501389115 • £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501389122 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501389139 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

The Clash's Sandinista!

Micajah Henley, University of Chicago, USA

Sandinista! consists of 36 songs divided on six sides of vinyl, delivering their message through genres ranging from hip hop, reggae, dub, jazz, gospel, calypso, and punk. The result is exceptional piece of socialist art unlike any other, but despite being counted among the greatest albums of all-time, critics and fans have spent over 40 years debating whether the album would be better as a 12-track LP. This book entertains that idea, then considers what is lost or gained in the process. Apart from the other 24 tracks, you lose the story of a band sacrificing their royalties to have a politically subversive triple LP available to their listeners for the price of one to tell them what the news, their schools, and their governments will not.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 152 pages

PB 9781501390364 £9.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781501390371 • £11.57 / $13.45

ePdf 9781501390388 • £11.57 / $13.45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon

Nicholas Tochka, University of Melbourne, Australia

Projekt Jon—the Ionian Project—announces itself with the frenetic beating of the tupan and the traditional cries of Albania’s highland shepherd. The sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, traditional singer Hysni Zela, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had an outsized ambition: to transcend Albania’s borders, imaginatively crafting in sound a new home in Europe for the postsocialist citizens of the embattled nation-state. But as Gjebrea prepared to take the album on tour, the homeland itself verged on the cusp of complete collapse. The tour became—at least for Gjebrea and other urban intellectuals—a referendum on the future of Albania.

• 168 pages

• £14.88 / $17.95

• £14.88 / $17.95

Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic

UK February 2024 US February 2024 144 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781501363061 £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781501363078 £60.00 / $80.00

ePub 9781501363085

ePdf 9781501363092

• £17.36 / $20.65

• £17.36 / $20.65

Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yellow Magic Orchestra

Toshiyuki Ohwada, Keio University, Japan

Widely recognized as the most innovative and influential Japanese group since the Second World War, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is seeing a revival among music listeners around the world, along with the individual works of its three members. This is the first book in English on Yellow Magic Orchestra, positioning its first album as the nexus of jazz fusion, new wave and hip hop music. Examining the cultural negotiations between African American and Japanese musicians since the 1970s, this book considers the album as a nascent work of Afro-Asian futurism.

UK October 2024

• US October 2024

PB 9781501381829

• £16.99 / $22.95

• 128 pages

• HB 9781501381812

ePub 9781501381836 • £17.36 / $20.65

ePdf 9781501381843

Series: 33 1/3 Japan

• £60.00 / $80.00

Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music, from The Beatles to Beyoncé

Eric

Wolfson

This is the first book to look at one of popular music’s most celebrated—and misunderstood— achievements, the concept album. The roots of the concept album are nearly as old as the long-playing record itself. Featuring the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Who’s Tommy, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going on, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, and Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, this book is grouped into five distinctive stages of the concept album’s evolutionary development. 25 albums are studied alongside pivotal cultural touchstones over 50 years.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781501391804 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501391811 • £75.00 / $100.00

• £17.36 / $20.65

• Bloomsbury Academic

Bowie, Beckett, and Being

The Art of Alienation

Rodney Sharkey, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar

An exploration of the artistic practices of Samuel Beckett and David Bowie illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation. By documenting their shared passion for literature, art, and music, the book shows how Beckett and Bowie used the arts in all forms (painting, drama, film etc.) to produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs. Through the creation of alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined and punished by an implicitly repressive social order, which Beckett and Bowie transgress, opening up new spaces beyond conventional identities.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

HB 9781501391248

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501391255

• 240 pages • 2 bw illus

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501391262 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Dispatches from the Front

Don Armstrong, Independent Scholar, USA

Ralph J. Gleason worked behind the scenes as well as in print. From John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie to Bob Dylan and the Fillmore’s Bill Graham, Gleason acted as their confidant and advisor. This book tells the story of Ralph J. Gleason, the trailblazing music writer who created the first popular music newspaper column, and cofounded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason covered the remarkable succession of musicians who innovated popular music from the 1930s to the 1970s. It draws on never-before-published letters, anecdotes, family accounts and exclusive interviews to reveal one of the 20th century’s most fascinating individuals; one who not only reported on but shaped the direction of popular music.

UK February 2024

HB 9781501366987

• US February 2024

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501366994

ePdf 9781501367007

Bloomsbury Academic

• 288 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePub 9781501391828 • £22.32 / $26.95

ePdf 9781501391835 • £22.32 / $26.95

Bloomsbury Academic

Serge Gainsbourg

An International Perspective

Edited by Olivier Julien, Universite ParisSorbonne, France & Olivier Bourderionnet, University of New Orleans, USA

Bringing together a large selection of established scholars from across the world Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective emphasizes his unique position in French popular culture. The 27 chapters address issues such as his musical influences and collaborations, esthetics and form, his experimentations with disciplines other than music (mainly film and literature) and his multifaceted identity, not to mention the relationship between highbrow and lowbrow culture in the French context.The interdisciplinary approach of the volume engages in a dialogue between musicology, film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and more, revealing the broad scope of Gainsbourg’s impact in and outside of France, from the early 1960s through today.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781501365669 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501365676 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501365683 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Lit-Rock Literary Capital in Popular Music

Edited by Ryan Hibbett, Northern Illinois University, USA

Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper’s, meaning the very same band who represents the mass-consumed, “mindless” music of adolescents simultaneously enjoys status as among the best that Western culture has to offer. The chapters in this book track the uses of literature, specifically, in the relationship between high and low art, helping to showcase collectively its fundamental role in the emergence of the “pop omnivore.”

• US March 2024

UK March 2024

PB 9781501392856

• 256 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501354694

ePub 9781501354700

• £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501354717 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Troubling Inheritances Memory, Music, and Aging

Edited by Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, Line Grenier, Université de Montréal, Canada & Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK

This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781501369544 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501369506

ePub 9781501369513 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501369520 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Traveling Music Videos

Edited by Tomáš Jirsa, Palacký University, Czechia & Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark

Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries. With the onset of digital technologies and the proliferation of global video-sharing websites at the beginning of the 21st century, music video migrated from TV screens to turn instead to the internet, art galleries, concert stages, and social media. As a result, its aesthetics, technological groundings, and politics have been radically transformed.

UK November 2023

HB 9781501397998

• US November 2023

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501398001

ePdf 9781501398018

Practical Musicology

Simon Zagorski-Thomas, University of West London, UK

Practical Musicology is the—rapidly expanding— study of how music is made. The book explores various forms of practice, from performance and composition to listening and dancing, from historically informed performances of Bach in the USA to Indonesian Dubstep, from Irish traditional music played by French musicians from Toulouse to K-Pop. Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, ecological approaches in anthropology, and the social construction of technology and creativity, Zagorski-Thomas investigates how practice is already being studied and suggests a principle for how it might continue to develop, asserting that musicking cannot be treated as a culturally or ideologically neutral phenomenon.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781501392870 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501357794

ePub 9781501357800 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501357817 £90.15 / $108.00

Series: 21st Century Music Practices • Bloomsbury Academic

A Sound Word Almanac

Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

• 288 pages

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Performing Folk Songs Affect, Landscape and Repertoire

Elizabeth Bennett, University of Essex, UK

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire, and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs ‘by heart.' Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on British folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781501390180

• 256 pages

• £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501390197

ePdf 9781501390203

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90.15 / $108.00

• £90.15 / $108.00

An assemblage of nearly 70 practitioners and theoreticians, artists and scholars, write short and slightly longer entries on their favorite ‘sound word’ – words related to sound: onomatopoetical, mythological, practical, etc., words of personal importance to the artists and their craft, words from their memory, related to sound. This almanac has mainly collected sound words from contributors for whom English is not the first language, to contribute such a word or concept in their own mother-tongue (maybe even untranslatable) with a personal, explanatory, poetic entry, and also English-speaking artists, to contribute with nonstandard English--for example Gaelic Irish, different dialects words-words that have the potential to maybe even change our perspective on listening-musicking-thinking.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 162 pages

HB 9798765109052 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9798765109069 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9798765109076 • £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Academic

Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music

Ann Werner, Södertörn University, Sweden

What does it mean that feminism is popular in mainstream pop? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender, feminism and womanidentified artists in mediated popular music. The examples discussed throughout the book include Netflix documentaries by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, the Swedish music industry #MeToo petition #närmusikentystnar, music streaming services’ gender equality work and the project Keychange striving to bring underrepresented genders to the stage. The volume analyzes the position of women, gender politics and feminisms in popular music.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 176 pages 12 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781501369650

Previously published in HB 9781501368509

ePub 9781501368516

ePdf 9781501368523

Bloomsbury Academic

• £82.70 / $99.00

• £82.70 / $99.00

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art

Edited

by Geoff Stahl, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & J. Mark Percival, Queen Margaret University, Scotland

This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography, ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters (queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-tothe-moment overview of central discussions about place and music.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 480 pages

PB 9781501390678 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781501336287

ePub 9781501336294 • £149.70 / $180.00

ePdf 9781501336300 £149.70 / $180.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism

Edited by Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA & Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

This volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology, and multi-media practice. Organized around ways of perceiving, experiencing and creating, the book outlines the state of the field through cutting-edge research case studies. Cross or inter-media works are not thought of in isolation but in a global historical context that shows our cultural existence to be complex, conflicted, and entwined.

UK October 2023 US October 2023 400 pages

HB 9781501377716 £150.00 / $200.00

ePub 9781501377723 • £149.70 / $180.00

ePdf 9781501377730 • £149.70 / $180.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer

Edited by Sami

Pihlström, University

of

Helsinki, Finland

Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world. Approaching this philosophical tradition as a diverse set of philosophies, contributors introduce many of the ideas and debates at the centre of the field today. This up-to-date handbook covers current research in aesthetics, education, ethics, metaphysics, politics, race, religion, science and technology, language, and social theory. Supported by an introduction to research methods and problems, as well as a guide to past and future directions in the field, chapters are enhanced by a glossary and a research guide.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 496 pages

HB 9781350324008 • £140.00 / $190.00

ePub 9781350324022 • £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350324015 £126.00 / $171.44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism

Edited by Jack Reynolds, Deakin University, Australia, Ashley Woodward, Dundee University, UK & Felicity Joseph, University of Melbourne, Australia

This 2nd edition reference guide to existentialism expands its focus of thinkers and subject areas to capture contemporary developments in the field through 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, with a 5th new chapter on analytic philosophy and existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, it includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright. With fully updated further resources at the end of the book, this is the go-to text for students and scholars of existentialism.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 496 pages

HB 9781350227446 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350227460 £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350227453 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Lona Gaikis, Academy of Fine Arts

Vienna, Austria

Featuring an extensive collection of major scholars on Susanne K. Langer, this open access book elucidates her transdisciplinary connections and insights across philosophy, psychology, literature, aesthetics, history, architecture and other arts. Divided into two approaches to Langer's philosophy, Part I places her historically and Part II situates her work in conversation with current scholarship. The contributors position her firmly in mainstream theory and assert Langer’s ongoing importance to intellectual histories. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 336 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350294646 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9781350294653 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350294677 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy Around Logical Empiricism

Edited by Adam Tamas Tuboly, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Taking a historically orientated approach, this collection offers a fresh take on the development of understanding within analytic philosophy before, during and after logical empiricism, reinvigorating debates on the role of the social sciences within contemporary epistemology. Along with systematic historical coverage, the book situates verhesten within contemporary interdisciplinary developments in the field, shedding light on the 21st-century ‘turn’ to understanding among analytic philosophers and opening further lines of inquiry for philosophy of social science.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages

PB 9781350290266 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781350159204

ePub 9781350159228 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9781350159211 • £117.00 / $159.29

Bloomsbury Academic

A Poetic Philosophy of Language

Nietzsche and Wittgenstein’s

Expressivism

Philip Mills, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Connecting poetry and the philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an expressivist philosophy of poetry, he argues that we can understand some of the core questions in the philosophy of language. By tracing the expressivist tradition of the philosophy of language, this study locates its roots in German Romanticism right through to the work of contemporary expressivists such as Huw Price and Robert Brandom. Mills’ study operates at the crossroads between philosophy of art and language, proposing a new philosophy of poetry with wide-ranging potentialities.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 184 pages

PB 9781350300149 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350300088

ePub 9781350300125 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350300118 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

Militant Aesthetics

Art Activism in the 21st Century

Martin Lang, University of Lincoln, UK

Bringing together political and aesthetic theory, Martin Lang provides a comprehensive examination of militant art. Through first-hand interviews and experiences, this book sheds light on numerous international case studies, from Grupo Etcétera who are prepared to risk arrest for their art to others like Thomas Bresolin, who utilises military uniforms in violent performances that connect with public anger. Combining these examples with the thought of Badiou, Žižek, Rancière and Mouffe, as well as up-to-date scholarship from Bishop, Léger and others, Lang investigates the instances, attributes and rules of militant art, to propose a new overall theory of 21st-century militant aesthetics.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages 16 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781350346741

ePub 9781350346765

ePdf 9781350346758

The Problem of Free Will and Naturalism Paradoxes and Kantian Solutions

Christian Onof, Birkbeck College, UK

Christian Onof reviews contemporary approaches surrounding free will and argues that their main shortcomings are ultimately due to paradoxical requirements on free will imposed by the naturalistic framework. Onof singles out Kant’s critical solution as one that stands out among historical approaches and offers a coherent picture of free will. Drawing on unpublished notes and key publications of Kant's critical period, Onof addreses several debates which loom large in contemporary Kant literature. His exegetical work puts Kant’s theory into conversation with contemporary analytic theories of free will and leads to defining a Kantian position that overcomes the issues plaguing existing approaches to the problem of free will.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages

HB 9781350425361 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350425385 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350425378 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Making Meaning in Popular Song

Philosophical Essays

Theodore Gracyk, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA

Arguing against prevailing theories of meaning in popular music studies that ignore the power of the performance, Theodore Gracyk argues for the contextual relevance of the performer. Extending his doctrine of meaning as use, Gracyk explains how both the performance persona and the personal life of a song’s performer can contribute to (or undercut) ethical and political aspects of a performance or recording. Informed by a mix of philosophy of art and philosophy of language, Gracyk's entertaining study of popular music constructs the first theory for philosophy of meaning for songs.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781350249134 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350249097

ePub 9781350249110 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350249103 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice

Nicholas Davey, University of Dundee, UK

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more, Nicholas Davey develops the hermeneutical foundations of creative practice. With Gadamer’s language ontology as his cue, he takes Gadamerian thinking beyond Gadamer himself, investigating in particular the productive value of negativity that is central to hermeneutics and to wider spheres of creative learning. In doing so, this pioneering volume not only uncovers the significance of philosophical hermeneutics for the arts and the humanities, but defends the humanities as a whole from the current scepticism inspired by deconstruction and post-structuralism.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 320 pages

HB 9781350347656 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350347670

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art • Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781350347663

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

• £76.50 / $103.94

Heidegger's 'Being and Time' A Reader's Guide

William Blattner, Georgetown University, USA Heidegger’s Being and Time is one of the most influential and controversial philosophical treatises of the 20th century. But what exactly are the ideas that so profoundly influenced continental philosophy as we know it? And what is ‘Dasein’? Answering these questions and more, this introduction is the ideal companion to studying this notoriously difficult text. Now with over 25% new material, it features: examination of the work’s contemporary reception in light of the Black Notebooks; expanded coverage of Division II, elucidating Heidegger’s thinking on time, history, and space; updated study questions; and an extended and easy-to-use glossary of key terms.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350328099 • £21.99 / $29.95

• HB 9781350328105 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350328129 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350328112 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Reader's Guides • Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophy of the Medium The Age of McLuhan in Question

John Lechte, Macquarie University, Sydney

Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and technical qualities. It offers a deeper understanding of what we mean by the term ‘media’: it is that which comes ‘between’ and which facilitates the transmission of content, essentially a creator of possibilities, yet never present as such in the light of its success as a vehicle for meaning.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 240 pages

HB 9781350299184 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350299207 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350299191 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Ideology and Interpellation

Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy

Jonathan Fardy, Idaho State University, USA

Bringing Althusser into dialogue with Laruelle, Rancière, and Baudrillard, Jonathan Fardy examines the ground-breaking Althusserian theory of ideological interpellation through three of its key critics. From Laruelle’s dismissal of Althusser’s presumption that “standard philosophy” is guarded against the lures of ideology to Rancière’s contention that employers’ failure to “interpellate” or recruit workers was due to their failure to understand the workers’ dreams of unwaged aesthetic and philosophical labour, this book reveals the continuing relevance of post-Althusserian Marxist thought. Importantly, it also demonstrates the need today for a rigorous theory of ideology, traces of which can be found in Althusser’s legacy.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350358911

Philosophical Health Thinking as a Way of Healing

• 208 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350358935

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358928 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Edited

by Luis de Miranda, Uppsala University, Sweden

Drawing on the history of philosophy, from the ancient concept of flourishing to Kant, Nietzsche, and Foucault, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care. Going beyond physical and psychological health, one may envision philosophical health as a state of creative coherence between a person’s way of thinking and their way of acting, such that the possibilities for a good life are increased. Advocating philosophy as a lived practice, this international volume uncovers the increasing relevance of philosophical health to contemporary debates on well-being, counselling, and personal development.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages

HB 9781350353046 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350353060 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350353053 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life • Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophy of the Short Term

Jay Lampert, Duquesne University, USA

Jay Lampert explores the question of time in depth using the resources of short (as well as long) term processes in order to develop best temporal practices in ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical activities, both theoretical and practical. The methodology develops ideas based on the history of philosophy (from Plato to Hegel to Husserl to Deleuze), interdisciplinary studies (from cognitive science to poetics), and practical spheres where short term practices have been studied extensively. Philosophy of the Short Term is the first book to deal systematically with the concept of the short term.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781350347960 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350347984 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350347977 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Phenomenology of Questioning

Husserl, Heidegger and Patocka

Joel Hubick, KU Leuven, Belgium

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the central role that questioning plays in phenomenology. Joel Hubick not only offers a phenomenological analysis of the activity of asking questions, but further traces the development of this form of questioning in the early stages of the phenomenology movement, from Husserl to Heidegger and Patocka. In doing so, this volume affords a crucial insight into the history of phenomenological reasoning, as well as a reminder to today’s phenomenologists to continue asking questions.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages

HB 9781350358157 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350358171 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350358164 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Fascism of Ambiguity A Conceptual Essay

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University, Sweden

Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes

This book contributes to the work of elucidating the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today in intimate relation with new mediatic and information technologies. It presents elements of the connection between capitalism and fascism, and makes clear how fascism today uses the ambiguity of senses and meanings as its most efficient way of infiltrating our reality and thereby becoming unequivocal.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 168 pages

PB 9781350268654 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350268616

ePub 9781350268630 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350268623 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Beyond Nihilism

The Turn in Heidegger’s Thought from Nietzsche to Hölderlin

Dominic Kelly, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Dominic Kelly investigates the ‘turn’ in Heidegger’s thought and shows how in the 1930s Heidegger began to think in a way that was not entirely philosophical. Kelly shows how this shift occurred in Heidegger’s notion of history. This is revealed by his engagement with Friedrich Nietzsche, who he analysed purely philosophically, and the poet, Friedrich Hölderlin, whose writing allowed him to think outside of a solely metaphysical framework and move beyond nihilism. By exploring the intellectual vicissitudes of this concept, Kelly has illustrated the trajectory of one of the most important debates in 20th-century continental philosophy.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 200 pages

PB 9781350331099 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350133754

ePub 9781350133778 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350133761 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Structure Phenomenology

Preconscious Formation in the Epistemic Disclosure of Reality

Herbert Witzenmann

Edited by Johannes Wagemann, Alanus University, Mannheim, Germany

This open access book is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann’s Strukturphänomenologie, which introduces a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. Unlike many philosophers advocating pre-reflective consciousness, Witzenmann contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one’s own preconscious rootedness in reality which can be made conscious. With a comprehensive introduction, this translation also explores Witzenmann’s central sources of inspiration, Rudolf Steiner and Goethe, and situates his theories within the development of phenomenology. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

• US March 2024

UK March 2024

PB 9781350270473

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language

The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer Volume II

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde, Marquette University, USA & Arun Iyer, Seattle University, USA

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language assembles Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, the book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and practical philosophy. In the final section are Gadamer's writings on art and language, including his examination of such forms as poetry, opera and painting, and topics including artistic language and translation.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 328 pages

PB 9781350237650 • £39.99 / $54.95

Previously published in HB 9781441164902

ePub 9781350278349 £126.00 / $171.44

ePdf 9781350278332 £126.00 / $171.44

Series: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer • Bloomsbury Academic

Lyotard and Critical Practice

Edited by Kiff Bamford, Leeds Beckett University, UK & Margret Grebowicz, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Jean-François Lyotard helps us to think against the pervasive dismissal of creative activity, not by defending the honor of the humanities, but by inviting critical practices which aggravate this irritation. Critical practices trouble what counts as critique, embrace incertitude, and listen for silenced voices.

Accompanied by four original writings by Lyotard, published here in English for the first time, 12 chapters by artists and researchers take up Lyotard's invitation and begin to develop the idea of critical practice in the contemporary context.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 248 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781350201903 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350192027

ePub 9781350192041 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350192034 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology

Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age

Daniel O'Shiel, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

• 176 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350270435

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ePdf 9781350270442 £0.00 / $0.00

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Daniel O'Shiel provides the first comprehensive phenomenology of virtual technology in order to show how the previously well-established experiential lines and structures between three basic categories of phenomenal experience – our everyday perceptions of reality; our everyday fantasies of irreality; and our everyday engagements with external images, not least digital ones – are becoming blurred, inverted or are even collapsing in a new era where a specific type of virtuality is coming to the fore. O’Shiel examines in depth just what this means for the phenomenology behind it, as well as the concrete practical consequences going forward.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350245549

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 264 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350245501

ePub 9781350245525

ePdf 9781350245518

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

The Philosophy of Mario Perniola From Aesthetics to Dandyism

Enea Bianchi, University of Galway, Ireland

In the first introduction to the pioneering philosophy of Mario Perniola, Enea Bianchi provides a comprehensive examination of Perniola’s entire oeuvre, whilst also pushing his thought into new directions by investigating the connection between his aesthetics and the philosophical underpinnings of dandyism. Highlighting numerous notions pivotal to understanding Perniola’s thought, including the “sex appeal of the inorganic”, the “enigma” and the “artistic shadow”, this book combines these with three exemplar dandies –George Brummell, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde – to uncover the close relationship between their principles and aesthetics, and their shared, and timely, opposition to the status quo.

UK February 2024 US February 2024

PB 9781350281516 £28.99 / $39.95

272 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350281479

ePub 9781350281493 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350281486 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Joy and Laughter in Nietzsche’s Philosophy

Alternative Liberatory Politics

Edited by Paul E. Kirkland, Carthage College, USA & Michael J. McNeal, University of Denver, USA

Analyzing the importance of joy, laughter, and cheerfulness in Nietzsche’s thought, this volume addresses an underexamined topic in the secondary literature. Among other topics, scholars assess the Übermensch and shared joy, learning to laugh at oneself, Schopenhauer’s jokes, Pascal’s cheerfulness, and the Dada movement’s subversively playful aesthetic. By contemplating Nietzsche’s emphasis on joy and laughter, the volume reveals a thinker who, far from being a caricature of hopeless nihilism, is in fact the hitherto unrecognised champion of an alternative liberatory politics.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781350225275 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350225237

ePub 9781350225251 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350225244 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity

Bradley H. McLean, University of Toronto, Canada

Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophy on Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through key Deleuzioguattarian ideas about machines and multiplicity, using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so. Situating the historical emergence of early Christianity as constrained by traditional assumptions that deny the genesis, change and transformation that characterises early Christianity, Bradley McLean argues that machines are both an unnoticed dimension of early Christianity, as well as a major analytical tool for the discipline.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 262 pages

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Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil Political Thinkers in Dialogue

Edited by Kathryn Lawson, University in Kingston, Canada & Joshua Livingstone, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century, who, despite bearing similar lifeexperiences, developed radically unique political philosophies. The writings here respect the profound differences between Arendt and Weil whilst pulling out the shared preoccupations of power, violence, freedom, resistance, responsibility, attention, aesthetics, and vulnerability. Without shying away from exploring the more difficult concepts in these philosophers' works, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil also aims to pull out the relevance of their writings for contemporary issues.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 288 pages 2 bw illus

HB 9781350344464 £85.00 / $115.00

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Introducing Dewey

Paul Fairfield, Queen’s University, Canada

This introduction to one of the most influential philosophers in American history examines every major dimension of John Dewey’s philosophy, from his early post-Hegelian idealism to pragmatic experimentalism, as well as his views on ethics and political theory, philosophy of education, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. It situates Dewey’s thought in the context of his time (1859-1952) and personal biography while also discussing his considerable work as America’s foremost public intellectual through the first half of the 20th century.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350297845

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• 256 pages

• HB 9781350297838

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• £55.00 / $75.00

Ethics Within Engineering An Introduction

Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Exploring key ethical concerns in engineering, this 2nd edition textbook is fully revised and updated to educate a new generation of engineers in ethical decision-making. By focusing on critical issues such as tracking harm and contract work, Robison provides educational tools that match the complexity of today’s engineering landscape. Including two new chapters on the responsibility of the engineer and the ethical issues that arise when teams solve design problems collectively, together with numerous contemporary examples, such as the Boeing 737-MAX, Ethics Within Engineering encourages students to work through engineering problems and solutions with a strong evidence-based approach.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages

PB 9781350340435 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350340442 £65.00 / $90.00

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Baumgarten’s Philosophical Ethics

A Critical Translation

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Edited by John Hymers, La Salle University, USA

Translated by John Hymers, La Salle University, USA

This is the first English translation of Alexander Baumgarten’s Ethica Philosophica (1740), a text used by Immanuel Kant for his lectures on moral philosophy between 1759 and 1794. Accompanied by an introduction to Baumgarten and his work, it features an explanation of the general importance of the Ethica Philosophica and its relation to Christian Wolff and G.F. Meier’s practical philosophy, together with its role in Kant’s lectures. Based on a thorough knowledge of the original text, John Hymer's clear translation and supporting material is a much-needed contribution to the field.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 304 pages

HB 9781350192614 • £130.00 / $175.00

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Series: Kant’s Sources in Translation Bloomsbury Academic

Eliminativism in Ancient Philosophy

Greek and Buddhist Philosophers on Material Objects

Ugo Zilioli, University of Oxford, UK

A comparative investigation in the metaphysics of material objects and persons in ancient philosophy, this book provides radically new insights into key themes and areas of ancient thought by drawing on Greek and Buddhist philosophies. Chapters cover concepts such as nihilism, elusive objects and the emergence of the self, demonstrating how the philosophy of major thinkers Protogoras, Vasubandhu, Gorgias, Nagarjuna, Democritus, Pyrrho, Epicurus and the Cyrenaics advance our understanding of eliminativism.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages

HB 9781350105164

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From Action to Ethics

A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility

Constantine Sandis, University of Hertfordshire, UK

In this collection of Constantine Sandis' best essays in the philosophy of action, he brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology, and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350235113 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Artificial Dispositions Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical Issues

Edited by William A. Bauer, North Carolina State University, USA & Anna Marmodoro, Durham University, UK

How do artificial dispositions, found in automation, computation and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350336117 • £85.00 / $115.00

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The Metaphysics of Contingency

A Theory of Objects’ Abilities and Dispositions

Ferenc Huoranszki, Central European University (Vienna Campus), Austria

Providing a novel account of dispositions, abilities and their capacity to explain modality, Ferenc Huoranszki develops a theory of contingent possibilities grounded in a clear distinction between abilities and dispositions as real, first-order modal properties of objects. By linking such modal properties to counterfactual conditionals, Huoranszki argues we can distinguish between variably generic or specific abilities and identify more or less abstract possibilities in a world. In doing so, he furthers our understanding of how we reason with possibilities both in ordinary and theoretical contexts.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 248 pages

PB 9781350277182 £28.99 / $39.95

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Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy

Courtney D. Fugate, Florida State University, USA & Anne Pollok, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

Kant and the Problem of Nothingness A Latin American Study and Critique

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla

Translated by Addison Ellis, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, a highly respected Latin American philosopher, published the first study of Kant’s concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla’s groundbreaking work makes it available in English for the first time. Mayz Vallenilla’s interpretation has much in common with Heidegger’s own approach to Kant, as well as the neo-Kantian tradition in the early 20th century. Accompanied by translator’s notes and a glossary, the translation includes commentary and an introduction providing historical context and references to the original sources in German.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages

HB 9781350277786 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350280755

ePdf 9781350277793

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates

Anna Tomaszewska, Jagiellonian University, Poland While Kant’s attempts to reconcile faith with reason have positioned him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in predominating scholarship, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on the affinities of his theology with the radical Enlightenment. She shows how Kant’s defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. Revealing the significance of Kant’s theology for contemporary political philosophy, this book furthers the understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 232 pages

PB 9781350195912 £28.99 / $39.95

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ePub 9781350195868

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Rethinking European Modernity Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought

Hans Schelkshorn, University of Vienna, Austria

This open access book undertakes a selfcritical reinterpretation of European modernity. Hans Schelkshorn presents modernity as a complex process of ‘de-limitations’ instigated by Renaissance thought, which laid the foundations of modern science, politics and economies in the 17th century. By reassessing the origins of modernity and bringing neglected Renaissance thinkers into the narrative, Schelkshorn paves the way for a more cosmopolitan account of European thought. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 480 pages • 2 bw illus

HB 9781350266773 • £85.00 / $115.00

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The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy

From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy

Edited by Luca Illetterati, University of Padua, Italy & Giovanna Miolli, University of Padua, Italy

In the first systematic treatment of Hegel’s concept of philosophy and the different aspects related to it, this collection explores how Hegel and his understanding of his discipline can be put into dialogue with current metaphilosophical inquiries and shed light on the philosophical examination of the nature of philosophy itself. Reflecting the renewed and widespread interest in Hegel seen in analytic philosophy and continental thought, this volume advances the study of Hegel’s conceptual tools and provides new readings of traditional philosophical problems.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 536 pages

PB 9781350281172 • £39.99 / $54.95

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Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy

• Bloomsbury Academic

Tetens’s Writings on Method, Language, and Anthropology

Edited by Courtney D. Fugate & Curtis Sommerlatte, Florida State University, USA & Scott Stapleford, St. Thomas University, Canada

Containing the key writings leading up to the publication of his Philosophical Essays in 1777, this volume presents complete works by Johann Nicolaus Tetens in English for the first time. Essays focus on method in metaphysics and mathematics, the analysis of language, and various anthropological questions that occupied thinkers of the period. Featuring accurate translations, scholarly notes, a GermanEnglish glossary, and an introduction situating Tetens’s works in historical context.

UK January 2024

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PB 9781350283992 £39.99 / $54.95

• 312 pages

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy

• Bloomsbury Academic

Portraits of Wollstonecraft

The Making of a Feminist Icon, 1785 to 2020

Edited by

Eileen M. Hunt, University of Notre Dame, USA

Bringing together illustrated portraits and individual responses to Mary Wollstonecraft's life and work, this collection traces her emergence as an international public figure of women’s rights from 1785 to 2020. Arranged chronologically, landmark images are followed by the reviews of Wollstonecraft's books that appeared during her lifetime. With never before-seen accounts of Wollstonecraft and pieces by major thinkers (including Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir) this one-of-a-kind collection charts the depth and breadth of her legacies for philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics, and political theory on a global scale.

UK October 2023 US October 2023 744 pages 31 colour images

PB 9781350378711 £90.00 / $120.00

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Bernard Stiegler Memories of the Future

Edited by Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis, Lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands & Paul Willemarck, Junction Phenomenology

Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Bernard Stiegler's thought which reached beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where he had been originally received.

Stiegler was a contemporary philosopher whose work reflected multiple different facets including theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, as well as aesthetics. The essays here provide a detailed examination of Stiegler’s remarks on spirit, philosophy and technicity, whilst simultaneously offering a comprehensive account of its unifying themes.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350410442 £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Beyond Language

Emanuele Severino

Translated by Damiano Sacco, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany

Beyond Language (Oltre il Linguaggio) is one of Italian philosopher Emmanuele Severino’s major works, wrestling with whether it’s possible to think meaningfully outside of the restrictions of language. Increasingly recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory, Severino’s ideas around selfexpression, forms of communication and the limitations of language are to the fore in this book. Beyond Language specifically opens the door to the themes that Severino developed in his later works, including the concrete meaning of self-being and the decline of language. This first English translation of a key work in the history of continental philosophy is crucial reading for those engaged with contemporary theory.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350285248

• £19.99 / $26.95

ePub 9781350285255

ePdf 9781350285224

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Advances in Experimental Philosophy

Justin Sytsma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & James R. Beebe, University at Buffalo, USA

Advances in Neurophilosophy

Edited by Nora Heinzelmann, University of Erlangen, Germany

Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers to a range of experimental methods from neuroscience. Chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the discipline, covering neuroimaging, causal interventions and advanced statistical methods. A team of experts combine clear explanations of complex methods with reports of cutting-edge research, advancing our understanding of how these tools can be applied to further philosophical inquiries into agency, emotions, enhancement, perception, personhood and more.

UK February 2024

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HB 9781350349483 £85.00 / $115.00

• 256 pages • 15 bw illus

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Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation

Edited by Pascale Willemsen, University of Zurich, Switzerland & Alex Wiegmann, RuhrUniversity Bochum, Germany

Bringing together interdisciplinary research from experimental philosophy, traditional philosophy and psychology, this collection showcases the most recent developments and approaches to questions about causation. Chapters discuss the theoretical ramifications of empirical findings, providing a comprehensive survey of key issues such as the perception and learning of causal relations, omission, normative considerations, mechanism, voluntariness and legal theories of causation. With novel contributions from both experts and rising stars, this book demonstrates the value of empirical work in causation and opens new domains of inquiry at the cutting edge of the field.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781350235847 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 10 bw illus

• 224 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350235809

ePub 9781350235823 £76.50 / $103.94

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350285231

• £17.99 / $24.29

• £17.99 / $24.29

• £65.00 / $90.00

The Human Mind through the Lens of Language

Generative Explorations

Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India

Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and wheels, navigates with maps and tells stories to other conspecifics. This book introduces, defends and develops a novel philosophical approach to the study of the generative mind. Nirmalangshu Mukherji argues for a single, speciesspecific generative principle that accounts for the human ability to combine symbolic forms without bound in each domain that falls under the generative mind.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350325319

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• 280 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350062689

ePub 9781350062702

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Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self

Edited by Kevin Tobia, Georgetown University, USA

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity. Chapters foster dialogue between experimental and traditional philosophical approaches to identity, covering the moral self, dual character concepts, true self, transformative experience and the identity conditions collective entities. With novel experiments and thoughtprovoking applications to practical concerns including law, immigration, bioethics and politics, this collection highlights the value and implications of empirical work on personal identity.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350246935 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 264 pages • 10 bw illus

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The Developmental Psychology of Personal Identity

A Philosophical Perspective

Edited by Massimo Marraffa, Roma Tre University, Italy & Cristina Meini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy

Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini re-connect the psychology of identity with its philosophical roots in this study. They trace the contemporary problem of the self to John Locke and William James’ foundational theories on personal identity. By integrating the philosophy of identity with empirical and neuropsychological research, Marraffa and Meini provide an original synthesis of multidisciplinary conceptions of the self. The combination of philosophy and neuropsychology makes an important contribution to the multiple disciplines that are concerned with personal identity. It provokes new routes to understanding identity and self, personality, and autobiographical memory.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781350368996 • £85.00 / $115.00

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The Notions of George Berkeley Self, Substance, Unity and Power

James Hill, Charles University, Prague

In a systematic interpretation and positive reconstruction of George Berkeley’s doctrine of notions, James Hill considers his understanding of the inner sphere and self-awareness, and invites us to treat Berkeley’s philosophy of mind as distinct from the empiricist tradition. Weaving together Berkeley’s conception of the intellect, conceptual thought, mathematics, ethics and theology, this volume examines the development of Berkeley’s philosophy from the early notebooks to the late Siris. This cutting edge reflection on the doctrine of notions is essential reading for students and scholars specialising in Berkeley as well as early modern accounts of the self, perception and God.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024

PB 9781350299726 • £28.99 / $39.95

Explorations in Philosophy and Theology

Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA & Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA

Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology

The Apophatics of the Sensible

William C. Hackett, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, USA

Through this theological history, Hackett addresses the fear of anthropomorphism that prompted early philosophers and theologians to adopt abstract understandings of God. Hackett charts its wide-ranging importance to theology through figures including Balthasar, Bultmann, Dionysius the Areopagite, and Cyril of Alexandria. By exploring the turn away from embodied views of God in Scripture, this book focuses on anthropomorphic views of God in symbols, images, and narratives. Emphasising these forms promotes an intellectual vision of Christianity that challenges theoretical and conceptual abstraction.

UK January 2024

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The Book of Experience

From Anselm of Canterbury to Bernard of Clairvaux

Emmanuel Falque, Catholic University of Paris, France

Translated by George Hughes

• 184 pages

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ePub 9781350299702

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Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

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Philosophers on God

Talking about Existence

Edited by Jack Symes, Durham University, UK

Philosophers on God examines one of the most discussed topics in philosophy through conversations with a dozen of world leading philosophers of religion. Each chapter centres around a thinker’s explanation and defence of their position, accompanied by overviews of why they matter and what they believe. Allowed to defend their response to whether or not God exists, philosophers test and challenge their rivals. Their debates and arguments bring theories and arguments to life, offering compelling insights into major positions about atheism, evil, suffering, secularism, and theism.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350227309

• US February 2024

• £10.99 / $14.95

ePub 9781350227286

ePdf 9781350227316

• 208 pages

• HB 9781350227293

• £9.89 / $13.49

• £9.89 / $13.49

Series: Talking about Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Emmanuel Falque takes us into the heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality. Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Experience weaves together contemporary phenomenological questions with medieval theology, revealing undiscovered dialogues already underway between Hugh of St. Victor and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, between Richard of St. Victor and Emmanuel Levinas, between Aelred of Rievaulx and Michel Henry, and not least between Bernard of Clairvaux and the trio of Descartes, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion, consummating in a masterful phenomenological reading of Bernard’s sermons on the Song of Songs

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350386495

• 304 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350386518 £76.50 / $103.94

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World English

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The Poetics of the Sensible

Stanislas Breton

Translated by Sarah Horton, Youngstown State University, USA

In the first English language translation of this classic text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insights from Neoplatonism and phenomenology. Taking a stance within the generative conception of human language, Stanislas Breton expands the sense of the “poetic” to include the body and its senses phenomenologically intertwined with the world. Illuminating Breton’s poetic and allusive discourse, this translation showcases his unique voice in French philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion.

• £40.00 / $55.00

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350386853 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350386877

• 208 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350386860 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology • Bloomsbury Academic World English

An Apostle for Atheists Paul and the Quest for Radical Philosophy

Ole Jakob Løland, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Confronting the readings of Freud, Nietzsche and Spinoza with insights not only from the more recent philosophical readings of the letters of Paul but also from historical-critical scholarship on the Bible, this book lifts the veil over a new picture of the apostle as a figure with potential value for non-Christians and atheists.

An Apostle for Atheists leaves us with ideas that compel us to reconsider Paul’s negative reputation for secular modernity and appreciate him as a figure of a radically new politics as well as a renewed psychoanalysis.

UK November 2023

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HB 9781350420076 • £85.00 / $115.00

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• 224 pages

Critical Theory and the Critique of Society

Chris O’Kane, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA & Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK

The Adventures of the Commodity For a Critique of Value

Anselm Jappe, Fine Arts Academy, Italy

Jappe explores critical conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour.

A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour. Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, the book highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal.

UK November 2023

• US November 2023 • 232 pages

HB 9781350381193 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Hormonal Theory A Rebellious Glossary

Edited by Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Lisa Raeder & Celia Roberts

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science, but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political, and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex entities that permeate every sphere of our lives.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

PB 9781350322981

• 272 pages

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350323018

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Why Human Nature Matters Between Biology and Politics

Matteo

Mameli

Does human nature constrain social and political change? Or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that instead of being mutually exclusive, the answer to both questions is yes! This philosophical account of human nature explores the relation between biology and politic, explaining clearly what is at stake in issues like climate change and the sociopolitical consequences of the technological revolution. Appeals to human nature are often used in support of a politics of exclusion. By demolishing these existential biases and building on advancements in biological theory, this book explores the philosophical significance of those developments and offers new conceptual tools for linking a biological understanding of humanity to a politics of inclusion and freedom.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350189751

• US February 2024

• £21.99 / $29.95

ePub 9781350189775

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• 208 pages

• HB 9781350189744

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Why Philosophy Matters

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World All Languages (except Italian)

• £65.00 / $90.00

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Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Adorno and Marx

Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy

Edited by Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK & Chris O’Kane, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno’s negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx’s critique of political economy. It highlights the intersection between Adorno’s critical theory and Marx’s critique of political economy that produces a critical theory moving beyond Marxian economics and Adornoian social theory.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

PB 9781350193673 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy A New Historical Materialism

Duy Lap Nguyen, University of Houston, USA

Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and a Marxian critique of political economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin’s early writings and their development into a specific theory of historical materialism. Benjamin’s own theory of revolution and redemption in capitalist society is understood in relation to the materialist critique of progress he advanced. Essential to this critique is the potential to overturn the political and economic catastrophes which historically characterise capitalism and enable fascism to thrive. Nguyen combines this critique with other aspects of Benjamin's historical materialism to demonstrate his unique contribution to Western Marxism.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 312 pages

PB 9781350331051 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350180420

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Freedom A Disease Without Cure

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

Freedom is a concept that appears deceptively simple but the moment we try to define it, we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek draws on philosophers including Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Edith Wharton, and counters the idea of libertarian individualism, to argue that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and fragile. Tracing its connection to a variety of issues, including environmental breakdown, capitalism, and war, he shows through this entertaining and illuminating journey how a deeper understanding of freedom can offer hope in dark times.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023 • 328 pages

HB 9781350357129 • £20.00 / $27.00

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How We Became Post-Liberal The Rise and Fall of Toleration

Russell Blackford, University of Newcastle, Australia

Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this post-liberal climate, Russell Blackford asks whether liberalism is truly over and, if not, if it's worth saving.

The political and philosophical story of liberalism culminates in the recent development – over the past 30 to 50 years – of post-liberal ideologies in the West. At each stage, he raises arguments for and against liberal principles, identifying why no argument to date has been totally successful in convincing opponents.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023

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• 256 pages

• HB 9781350322936 • £65.00 / $90.00

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The Good Robot Why Technology Needs Feminism

Edited by Eleanor Drage, University of Cambridge, UK & Kerry McInerney, University of Cambridge, UK

What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict.

UK February 2024 US February 2024

• £21.99 / $29.95

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Surplus-Enjoyment A Guide For The Non-Perplexed Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

Contemporary life is defined by excess. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) argues that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Engaging with everything from The Joker to pop songs, Aquinas and the history of pandemics, Žižek claims that recognising our society of enjoyment for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses of today.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 400 pages

PB 9781350409392 • £12.99 / $17.95

Previously published in HB 9781350226258

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On Bernard Stiegler Philosopher of Friendship

Edited by Jean-Luc Nancy

Bernard Stiegler invites us to question the relationship between a thinker's life and their thought. For Stiegler, they were inextricable. His life was one focused on friendship, but not friendships at a purely social level but ones that produced philosophy, politics, and existential truths. Bringing together scholars who knew Stiegler, including Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, Divya Dwivedi, and Emily Apter, this volume provides an original, and personal, insight into his life and philosophy. Each piece gives a sense of the wide range of Stiegler’s work and how it affected the praxis of the philosopher in different parts of the world.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 176 pages 5 bw illus

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ePub 9781350329058

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• £13.49 / $18.89

• £13.49 / $18.89

With Power Comes Responsibility

The Politics of Structural Injustice

Maeve McKeown, University of Cambridge, UK Does buying clothes from a high street shop make me morally responsible for sweatshop labour? Can anyone bear responsibility for a “structural” injustice?

McKeown argues that there are moral agents, more responsible than others, for global structural injustice and recognising this is crucial to powerful institutions and individuals taking on the responsibility to change things for the better.

McKeown uses case studies from around the world, including the Nike Corporation and Facebook, and explores world events such as the COVID-19 crisis and the toppling of slave trader statues as moments when the power and ubiquity of structural injustice is revealed.

272 pages 46 bw illus

• £65.00 / $90.00

• HB 9781350399969

• £19.79 / $26.99

• £19.79 / $26.99

A Philosophical History of Police Power

Melayna Kay Lamb, University of Sussex, UK

This book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex relationship with sovereignty and law, in a form which is not reducible to implementation. It argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as ‘artificial’ is replaced by a liberal, non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a ‘natural’ order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book shows the an-archic character of police power.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 1 b/w illus

HB 9781350204041 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Philosophical Filmmakers

Costica Bradatan, Texas Tech University, USA

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Filmmaker and Philosopher

William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Incorporating surrealism and thinkers including Lacan, Bataille and Bachelard into his interpretation of Jodorowsky's work, Egginton shows how his diverse films are connected by interpretive practices similar to Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using case studies of Jodorowsky's cult films, El Topo, Fando y Lis and Holy Mountain and more, this book provides a unique perspective on a filmmaker whose work has been notoriously difficult to analyse.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350144774 • £19.99 / $26.95

• 208 pages

• HB 9781350144767

ePub 9781350144798 • £17.99 / $24.29

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Series: Philosophical Filmmakers Bloomsbury Academic

Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force A War of One’s Own

Sean Erwin, Barry University, USA

This book sheds light on Machiavelli’s critiques of military force and provides an important reinterpretation of his military theory. Sean Erwin argues that the distinction between arma propriis and arma alienis poses a central problem to Machiavelli’s case for why modern political institutions offer modes of political existence that ancient ones did not. Starting from the influence of Lucretius and Aelianus Tacticus on the Dell'arte della guerra, he examines Machiavelli’s criticism of mercenary, auxiliary, and mixed forces.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 208 pages • 5 bw illus

PB 9781350323810 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350115712

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Bloomsbury Academic

István Szabó

Filmmaker of Existential Choices

Susan Rubin Suleiman

István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. István Szabó explores the most urgent philosophical question posed by his films: how do individuals attempt, and often fail, to create a viable self and a life in extreme historical situations over which they have no control? This urgent central question juxtaposes the individual and the state, public and private lives, the communal and the political, and what these ideas mean to the lived reality of those faced with emigration, assimilation, and the machinations of state authority.

• US February 2024 • 224 pages

• £65.00 / $90.00

Comparative Approaches to Compassion

Understanding Nonviolence in World Religions

and Politics

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Jindal Global Law School and O.P. Jindal Global University, India

Ramin Jahanbegloo develops the concept of compassion as a practical and ethical response to the problems of today’s world. Examining the power of compassion through the lens of multiple world religions, he explores ahimsa in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism and neighbourly love in Christianity, before synthesizing the two concepts in the Gandhian theory of non-violence and its impact on Muslim and Christian thinkers such as Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Martin Luther King, Jr. Jahanbegloo's comparative approach enriches our understanding of nonviolence as a universal philosophy and practice for the 21st century.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 176 pages

PB 9781350288904 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350288867

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• £76.50 / $103.94

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ePub 9781350181854 £17.99 / $24.29

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Series: Philosophical Filmmakers Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Hungarian)

Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari

Fabulating Futures

Chantelle Gray, North-West University, South Africa

By bringing together the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with the theory and practices of anarchism, Chantelle Gray argues that whilst we cannot — and should not — attempt to call them anarchists, their work resonates with core anarchist principles such as prefiguration, careful experimentation and emergent strategies aimed at creating a feeling that life is worth living. This involves paying attention to both joyous affects and sad passions, which necessitates the affirmation of all of chance and, from that, fabulating new modes of existence.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350334915

• 200 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350132399

ePub 9781350132412

ePdf 9781350132405

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Deleuze and Guattari Encounters

• Bloomsbury Academic

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff

Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship

Edited by Pamela Sue Anderson & Michele Le Doeuff

Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple and a hierarchy of knowledge, Le Dœuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship. The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted and shows how openness and generosity can be the starting point of truly rigorous thinking.

Introduced and curated by the late philosopher, Pamela Sue Anderson, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Dœuff explores themes like contemporary feminism, joy in philosophy, memory, the significance of friendship to thinking and a key Le Dœuffian concept, the imaginary.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

HB 9781350134997 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350135017

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350135000 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

• 272 pages • 2 colour photographs

Consciousness Mattering

A Buddhist Synthesis

Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, USA

In this volume, Peter D. Hershock presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, he demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibilities for machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potential of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock advances our understanding of consciousness to invite us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781350411210 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350411234 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350411227 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, Leah Kalmanson, University of North Texas, USA, Nader

El-Bizri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, Takeshi Morisato, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pascah Mungwini, University of South Africa, South Africa, Ann A. Pang-White, University of Scranton, USA, Mickaella

Perina, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Omar Rivera, Texas A&M University, USA & Georgina Stewart, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Contextualizing Angela Davis

The Agency and Identity of an Icon Joy James, Williams College, USA

Excavating layers of networks, activists and academics across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis’s birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a surrogate political family, James investigates context in order to better understand the agency and identity of Davis. Her chronology marks key events relevant to Davis, Black communities, and the US, all playing a part in Davis's rise in stature from UC graduate student to the UC Presidential chair some three decades later.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350368637 £17.99 / $24.95

• 272 pages

HB 9781350368620 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9781350368651 £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9781350368644

• £16.19 / $22.94

Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Metaphysics of Meditation

Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad

Stephen Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. This is the first time their approaches have been studied together. Addressing a huge gap in the contemporary literature on meditation in the Hindu traditions, Phillips presents a compelling new way of thinking about meditation in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy and Upanisad

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

HB 9781350412415

ePub 9781350412453

ePdf 9781350412422

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Intercultural Phenomenology Playing with Reality

Yuko Ishihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan & Steven A. Tainer, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery in Berkeley California, USA

This book explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on ideas from phenomenology and Japanese philosophy, making connections to the Asian contemplative traditions, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, it follows the philosophers who changed their perception of the world by choosing to suspend judgement.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 192 pages

PB 9781350298286 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350298293 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9781350298316 • £15.29 / $21.59

ePdf 9781350298309 • £15.29 / $21.59

Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Angolan Political Thought

Anticolonialism, Liberation and Identity

Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Hunan University, China

Angolan Political Thought introduces anticolonial thinkers whose writings on colonialism and liberation have been instrumental in the formation of Angolan identity. Cordeiro-Rodrigues both introduces and critically analyzes the thought of Queen Njinga, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Agostinho Neto and Pepetela and systematically addresses five important topics in Angolan political thought. The book provides a general introduction to African political philosophy and explains the place of Angolan political thought in this before exploring the liberating potential of Angolan thinking.

UK February 2024

HB 9781350245402

• US February 2024

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350245426

ePdf 9781350245419

Bloomsbury Academic

• 224 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

International Organizations

John McCormick, Indiana University, USA

This contemporary survey introduces readers to nature, structure and purpose of international organizations. Taking a broad, issues-based approach, the book covers topics such as global health, migration, and technology, gives space to international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and non-state actors, and outlines the main international relations theories. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, International Organizations uses a range of pedagogical tools and visual features to guide understanding, such as regional and world maps, tables of major international treaties, and lists of key terms. An essential text for those studying global politics and governance.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

• 320 pages

PB 9781350337336 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350337343 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350337367 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350337350 £26.99 / $36.44

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Developments in Russian Politics

10

Henry E. Hale, George Washington University, USA, Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada & Tomila Lankina, London School of Economics, UK

The 10th edition of this go-to-text offers critical discussion of contemporary Russian politics and its fundamental principles. Taking a bottom-up approach, the book analyses the political system in which Putin’s influence can be understood and covers frequently overlooked topics like informal economy, climate change, and gender. The chapters account for how Russian history impacts contemporary politics in counterintuitive ways, addressing notions of ‘hybrid warfare’, disinformation, and ‘election meddling’. Designed to correspond to course teaching and offering key questions, further reading suggestions and a list of up-to-date repositories of video material, the edition will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.

UK February 2024 • US April 2024 • 352 pages

PB 9781350338845 • £34.99 / $47.95 • HB 9781350338852 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781350338876 • £31.49 / $43.19

ePdf 9781350338869 • £31.49 / $43.19

Series: Developments in Politics • Bloomsbury Academic

The Horn Engaging the Gulf Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations

Aleksi Ylönen, University of Lisbon, Portugal Sheds light on the recently intensified relations between the states in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf, through the diplomatic and economic agency of the African states. Aleksi Ylönen investigates case studies from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, and their engagement with the Gulf States - particularly Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting these intensifying relations.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages

HB 9780755635153 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780755635184 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755635191

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Understanding International Politics

The Student Toolkit

Megan Dee, The University of Stirling, UK

Understanding International Politics adopts a hands-on approach that enables students to think independently and critically about the key systems, actors, and issues of international politics. The book incorporates Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial approaches as well as more traditional viewpoints to provide a nuanced discussion of the factors that shape our world. The ‘toolkit’ integrated in each chapter encourages students to build on their analysis and apply theory and historical context in their research. More than a typical textbook, this book guides students through their academic journey and offers a framework for tackling ever-changing global issues.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 352 pages

PB 9781350381650 £34.99 / $47.95 HB 9781350381667 £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9781350381681 £31.49 / $43.19

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Bloomsbury Academic

Mass Atrocities and the Police

A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Christian Axboe Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nielsen traces the origins of this conflict to the police and associated paramilitary groups, and supports this ground-breaking case by drawing on a host of confidential evidence. These include archival sources, academic research and practical experience as a widely cited expert witness in the most notorious of the war crimes tribunals. His innovative new history sheds light on wider issues regarding the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan Wars and the state of the region today.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350204553 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788315258

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Bloomsbury Academic

Ideology, Post-ideology and Anti-Ideology in Latin America

Reflections from the Last Decade

Edited

by Pablo Baisotti & Felipe Lagos Rojas

This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a postideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots, offering a pluralistic view of social and political processes currently taking place in Latin America. Case studies include Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Paraguay.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 288 pages

HB 9781350300880 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350300897 • £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

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Bloomsbury Academic

Essentials of US Politics and Government

For Edexcel A-level

Politics

Andrew Colclough, d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford, UK. This latest addition to the Essentials of… series provides a thorough overview of the topics and approaches to assessment required for the US component of Edexcel A-Level Politics. The book is organized according to the exam board specification and broaches foundational concepts such as federalism, constitutional sovereignty, and the presidential system. There is a chapter dedicated to how to approach exam questions on US Politics, including an explanation of assessment objectives and worked examples, as well as pedagogical features like key questions, case studies, and ‘for and against’ points relating to key debates.

UK March 2024 • 352 pages

PB 9781350337718 £26.99 HB 9781350337725 £80.00

ePub 9781350337701 £24.29

ePdf 9781350337695 £24.29

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African American Activism and Political Engagement

An Encyclopedia of Empowerment

Edited by Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College-SUNY, USA

Illuminating and wide-ranging, this work provides a discerning survey of the history, development, and current state of African-American political activism and influence in American life and culture. This book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment over the course of US history. The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African-American activism and politics, including profiles of key leaders and activists, key political issues in Black communities, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and significant milestones and events.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 456 pages 8 bw illus

HB 9781440876318 £83.00 / $107.00

ePub 9798216170785 £80.22 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440876325 • £80.22 / $96.30

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Praeger Security International

The Next Space Race

A Blueprint for American Primacy

Richard M. Harrison & Peter A. Garretson

From Moon landings to plans for asteroid mining, China is beginning to exploit space to achieve its great power ambitions. Its strategy could, over time, severely and adversely impact U.S. economic and military security. The United States needs to structure its approach to space to ensure that it can meet or surpass PRC timelines.

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

PB 9781440880803

Today's Civil Rights and Liberties Issues

Democrats and Republicans

Kara E. Stooksbury

This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and civil liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics.

Both the Republican and Democratic parties claim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart, and that they are the party that champions civil liberties and freedoms. This volume examines both the stated policy positions of these parties and the actual voting/legislative records of the two parties on important issues related to protecting voting rights and other liberties enshrined in the Constitution.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 400 pages

HB 9781440868344 £83.00 / $107.00

ePub 9798216172413 £80.22 / $96.30

ePdf 9781440868351 • £80.22 / $96.30

Series: Across the Aisle • Bloomsbury Academic

From Rage to Reason

Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear

Emily Horowitz

In this timely and extensively researched book, sociologist Emily Horowitz shows how current sexoffense policies in the United States create new forms of harm and prevent those who have caused harm from the process of constructive repentance or contributing to society after punishment. Horowitz also illustrates the failure of criminal justice responses to social problems. Sharing detailed narratives from the experiences of those on registries and their loved ones, Horowitz reveals the social impact and cycle of violence that results from dehumanizing and banishing those who have already been held accountable.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 224 pages

HB 9781440879395 £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216171607 £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440879401 • £48.79 / $58.50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Sustaining America's Strategic Advantage

Edited by Joel R. Hillison, United States Army War College, USA, Jerad I. Harper, United States Army War College, USA & Christopher J. Bolan, United States Army War College, USA

• 248 pages

• £27.00 / $34.99

ePub 9798216183495

ePdf 9781440880797

• HB 9781440880780

• £26.46 / $31.49

• £26.46 / $31.49

Series: Praeger Security International

World English

• Praeger

• £60.00 / $77.00

From the level of grand strategy to more intricate security issues, this book explores how the United States can sustain its strategic military and political advantages around the world. Developing and implementing effective national policies; fostering strong diplomatic and geopolitical ties with allies in Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East; and managing an effective defense enterprise are key, according to the authors, to competing on a shifting international security landscape.

UK February 2023

HB 9781440879920

• US February 2023

• £66.00 / $85.00

ePub 9798216183518

ePdf 9781440879937

• 368 pages

• £63.68 / $76.50

• £63.68 / $76.50

Series: Praeger Security International

World English

• Praeger

The Arms of the Future Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century

Jack Watling, Royal United Services Institute, UK From smart munitions to autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence, technology is reshaping how armies fight in the twenty-first century. At a time when defence spending across NATO is on the rise, and conflict with Russia raises new questions of what it means to fight a truly 'modern' war, this book analyses the choices that armies confront as they try and combine old and new capabilities, and offers insights into how emerging technologies are shaping current and future conflicts.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 264 pages

PB 9781350352957 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350352964 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350352971 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350352988 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: New Perspectives on Defence and Security • Bloomsbury Academic

Proxy Wars from a Global Perspective

Non-State Actors and Armed Conflicts

Edited by Pawel Bernat, Polish Air Force University, Poland, Cüneyt Gürer, George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, Germany & Cyprian Aleksander Kozera, University of Warsaw, Poland

Based on ten global case studies of proxy warfare, this volume reassesses how changing global and systemic factors shape the ways in which states use non-state actors as proxies in their armed conflicts. Bringing together contributions from scholars of international relations and global security studies, this explores cases of regional and global significance including Israel and Palestine, the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, Central Asia, Syria, Ukraine, NagornoKarabakh, Brazil and Yemen. Drawing on theory and practise, it sheds light on policy implications for how we understand and negotiate with states using proxy warfare in the future.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781350369283 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350369290 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350369306 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

National Affects

The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political

Angharad Closs Stephens, Swansea University, UK

What difference does it make to address national identity as an affective force? In a timely intervention, this book addresses the affective and atmospheric dimensions of citizenship to open new angles in the study of nationalism and global politics. Exploring sites that range from the 2012 London Olympic Games to the European refugee crisis and ‘Brexit’, asking how the nation is felt in everyday life and differently experienced, National Affects moves between theory and narrative to establish a new tone of critical enquiry. Whilst informed by critical interrogations of the geographies of “us” and “them”, the book argues that these ideas are not as stable as they are made to seem.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 232 pages

PB 9780755641475 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755641437

ePub 9780755641444 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780755641451 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Power on the Move Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Based on intensive ethnographic work in Romania and India conducted over a number of years, this book traces the struggle for social justice in Roma and Adivasi communities. Challenging commonly held assumptions that most marginalized and mobile communities typically resist the state and engage in hostile acts to undermine its authority, this book shows how these groups are willing and engaging in various means such as protests and grassroots organizing, to become full members of their respective states, hoping to reach inclusion and access social justice.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350229914

• £28.99 / $39.95

Anti-Racism as Communism

Paul Gomberg, University of California at Davis, USA

Anti-racism is a necessary part of modern political discourse, but often it excludes the Marxist analysis of class and labor. This Marxist exploration of antiracism in the USA explores racial exploitation and oppression of Black labour, from the Civil War era to the present day, as well as the origin and meaning of Race in the USA, and why it persists.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages

HB 9781350257979 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350257986 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350257993 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Academic

Women and Politics

Global Lives in Focus

Edited by Malliga Och, Idaho State University, USA

The contributors to the volume take on the historical challenges women have and continue to face, and the victories they have achieved, in political cultures and structures around the world. The introduction walks readers through the key issues, pressing concerns, and foremost questions that researchers confront in their studies of women in various political roles across the globe. Each chapter covers a geographical region of the world and addresses such topics as women's suffrage, the status of women in politics today, women as national leaders, and barriers to women's political representation.

UK February 2023

• US February 2023

HB 9781440871900

• £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216184461

• £48.79 / $58.50

• 296 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350229877

ePub 9781350229884

ePdf 9781350229891

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781440871917

• £48.79 / $58.50

• 328 pages

• 9 bw illus

• ABC-CLIO

Series: Women and Society around the World

World English

Psychopathology and Mental Distress

Contrasting Perspectives

Jonathan D. Raskin, State University of New York, USA

Psychopathology and Mental Distress uses the most up-to-date research to cover a broad range of approaches to the origins, diagnoses and treatment of psychological disorders. Through first-person accounts, case studies and nuanced engagement with topical debates, this text promotes inclusivity, normalises diversity and deconstructs societal biases. Raskin’s highly accessible text is now streamlined and updated with enhanced pedagogical features to help students navigate difficult ideas and build their own arguments. Including references to DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 and PDM, the combination of psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural and therapeutic approaches makes this the most comprehensive and vital book on the market.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 720 pages • 84 color photos, 19 figures, 43 tables

PB 9781350330382 £56.99 / $79.95 HB 9781350330436 £170.00 / $230.00

ePub 9781350331549 £51.29 / $70.19

ePdf 9781350331532 £51.29 / $70.19

Bloomsbury Academic

Abandoned How Children Suffer When a Parent Deserts Them

Andrea Francis

Featuring children's voices describing the trauma and suffering they feel when their parents leave, counseling psychologist Andrea Francis explores psychological theories of mothers' and fathers' roles in children's lives and offers practical advice to those who care for children traumatized by parental abandonment. Stories told by children and family members are woven throughout the book to demonstrate the social, emotional, and psychological impact of parental abandonment. The children represent different ethnicities and socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, highlighting that the pain of parental abandonment is felt keenly by all children regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or culture.

UK June 2023 US June 2023 232 pages

HB 9781440877964 £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216170747 £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440877971 • £48.79 / $58.50

Series: Practical and Applied Psychology • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Teaching in the Study of Religion and Beyond

A Practical Guide for Undergraduate Classes

Edited by Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, USA

Consisting of about forty, readable, short entries – on topics ranging from curriculum, grading, group work, digital humanities and large lectures, to learning management systems, office hours, online/remote courses, recruiting and seminars – this book provides a wealth of practical help and reassurance to teachers working with undergraduate students.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 400 pages

• £24.99 / $34.95

PB 9781350351066

ePub 9781350351097

ePdf 9781350351080

Bloomsbury Academic

Black Women at Work On Refusal and Recovery

Wendi S. Williams

Details, and offers vignettes to illustrate, how patriarchy and white supremacy have restricted Black women at work, both historically and currently. Wendi S. Williams makes the direct connection between Black women’s contemporary experiences and the long legacy of Black labor exploitation. Through the interweaving of personal narratives and social media reflections, Williams crafts a larger narrative of recovery and refusal that articulates a liberatory path toward recovery and reclamation through refusal—a path that will ultimately help to bring us all closer to freedom.

UK February 2023 US February 2023 152 pages

HB 9781440875991 £35.00 / $45.00

ePub 9798216184430 £33.90 / $40.50

ePdf 9781440876004 • £33.90 / $40.50

Series: Women and Society around the World • Praeger World English

What You Need to Know about Personality Disorders

Katherine M. Helm, Lewis University, USA & Kimberly S. Duris, Lewis University, USA

Having a personality disorder is different than having personality quirks. Personality quirks or eccentricities are considered normal; however, when certain dominant personality traits interfere with healthy psychological functioning, a personality disorder might be the cause.

Included here is a complete overview of the 10 currently recognized personality disorders, as well as the signs and symptoms that may lead to a diagnosis. Using the most recent scholarship and case studies, this volume brings clarity to the issue of personality disorders, covering topics from the history of assessing personality disorders to the ways in which a personality disorder may affect the family and friends of the patient.

UK December 2023 • US September 2023 • 184 pages

HB 9781440877094 • £35.00 / $48.00

ePub 9798216172550 £36.38 / $43.20

ePdf 9781440877100 £36.38 / $43.20

Series: Inside Diseases and Disorders Bloomsbury Academic

Teaching Critical Religious Studies

Pedagogy and Critique in the Classroom

Edited by Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Beverley

McGuire, University of North Carolina

Wilmington, USA & Hussein Rashid, Harvard Divinity School, USA

This book presents case studies of methods of teaching that integrate student learning, classroom experiences and disciplinary critiques. It shows how critiques of the scholarship of religious studies – including but not limited to the World Religions paradigm, Christian normativity, Orientalism, colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, class – can be effectively integrated into all courses, especially at introductory level. Including advanced critiques from religious studies into actual pedagogical practices, this book is essential reading for all scholars in religious studies.

• £75.00 / $100.00

• HB 9781350351073

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

• US March 2024

UK March 2024

PB 9781350228450

• 10 bw illus

• 248 pages

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350228412

ePub 9781350228436

ePdf 9781350228429

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Christianity in North America

An Introduction

Edited by Dyron Daughrity, Pepperdine University, USA

The book takes a topical approach and coverage includes race and Christianity, Native Americans and Christianity, Latinx and Christianity, Asian Americans and Christianity, and African Americans and Christianity. The book discusses Christianity and politics, Christians and the abortion divide, Catholicisms, Protestantisms, and Evangelical Christianities, as well as religious freedom. 80 illustrations are included throughout, and each chapter includes guidance on further reading, a glossary of key terms and concepts.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 272 pages • 79 bw illus

PB 9781350406483 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350406476 • £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Bloomsbury Religion in North America • Bloomsbury Academic

Religion and Nature in North America

An Introduction

Edited by Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, USA & Whitney Bauman, Florida International University, USA

Chapters explore topics including religion and animals, indigenous language and ecology, Petrocultures and Christianity, Asian religions, Globalization and ethics, and environmental racism. The book is illustrated throughout with over 95 images and each chapter provides guidance on further reading, and a glossary of key terms to help students unfamiliar with relevant terms and concepts.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350406612

• US February 2024

• £21.99 / $29.95

• 272 pages • 98 bw illus

• HB 9781350406605 • £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Bloomsbury Religion in North America • Bloomsbury Academic

Secularity and Nonreligion in North America

An Introduction

Edited by Jesse M. Smith, Western Michigan University, USA & Ryan T. Cragun, University of Tampa, USA

This book surveys the growing field of secularity and non-religion, focusing on the North American context. Chapters highlight the key topics, findings, arguments, and controversies from the past 20 years of research, including issues of secular and nonreligious identity, health, organization, family, inequality, discrimination. The book is illustrated throughout with over 60 images and each chapter includes guidance on further reading. A glossary of key terms and concepts is included. This is a much-needed resource for teaching secularity and non-religion, as well as the sociology of religion.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 224 pages 57 bw illus

PB 9781350407442 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350407435 £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Bloomsbury Religion in North America Bloomsbury Academic

Islam in North America

An Introduction

Edited by Hussein Rashid, Harvard Divinity School, USA, Huma Mohibullah, Renton Technical College, USA & Vincent Biondo, Humboldt State University, USA

Students are encouraged to think beyond simple identifiers of “Muslim,” “American,” “Canadian,” or “Mexican”, and to consider how these identifiers exist in conversation with one another, and with others such as gender, class, race, sexuality, and ability. The book is illustrated throughout with 95 images and each chapter contains suggested further reading and a glossary of key terms and concepts. Case studies include Islam in Cuba, Islam and the Black experience, and the Hijab. This book provides a much-needed resource for students and instructors that acknowledges that Muslims navigate their identities in a world where Orientalist ideas continue to dominate politics, policy, and public imagination.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 304 pages • 95 bw illus

PB 9781350385085 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350385078 • £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Bloomsbury Religion in North America • Bloomsbury Academic

Religion, Science and Technology in North America

An Introduction

Edited by Whitney Bauman, Florida International University, USA & Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, USA

Topics explored include Race, Religion and Science; Religion, Science and Secularism; and Technology, Medicine, Ethics and Religion. The book considers the relationship between Religion, Science and Covid-19, the implications of vaccination, and the question of debating gender. Attention is paid to Peyote Religion/ Native American religion, and consideration given to the question of non-Indigenous scholars studying Indigenous knowledge. The book is illustrated throughout with 85 images, and a glossary of key terms and concepts is provided. Each chapter ends with guidance on further reading.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 256 pages 85 bw illus

PB 9781350406568 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350406650 £65.00 / $90.00

Series: Bloomsbury Religion in North America • Bloomsbury Academic

American Druidry Crafting the Wild Soul

Kimberly Kirner, California State University, Northridge, USA

Approaching Druidry as an emerging religious movement that offers an alternative to the mainstream materialist, consumerist culture of the United States, Kimberley Kirner analyses her own life as a Druid through the lens of her profession as a cultural anthropologist. Interweaving lively stories of her life as a Druid with accessible analytical essays, she leads the reader into an experiential and conceptual understanding of Druidry as a way of life and as a contemporary Western new religious movement that challenges Christo-centric definitions of religion. UK

PB

Islam of the Global West

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, USA & Frank Peter, Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, Germany

Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

New Perspectives

Edited by Jamie Gilham, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This book brings together the work of sixteen leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Western Islam and the history of Christian-Muslim relations to offer fresh perspectives on Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain. The contributors reveal 19th-century attitudes and beliefs about Islam and Muslims to demonstrate the plurality of approaches to Islam and Muslims in Britain’s past – in politics, academia, literature, the press and other forms of popular culture. They also bring to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam to assess their experiences as Muslims in the Victorian period.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 272 pages 16 bw illus

HB 9781350299634 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350299658 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350299641 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Islam of the Global West • Bloomsbury Academic

The Ministry of Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam

Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Placing Farrakhan’s life and leadership in historical context, this book traces his evolution from a fiery Black Nationalist in 1960s Harlem to a respected leader in sections of the U.S and abroad, providing insights into the history of African American Islam, Black Nationalism and Islam in the West. Archives drawn on include the FBI’s files on the NOI and its leaders, Farrakhan’s writings in the Muhammad Speaks newspaper in the 1960s and early 1970s, and lectures and interviews from the late 1970s to the present day.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023

HB 9781350068506 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350068520 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350068513 £76.50 / $103.94

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

Edited by Ruth Conrad, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, Roland Hardenberg, GoetheUniversity Frankfurt, Germany, Hanna Miethner, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany & Max Stille, NETZ Partnership for Development and Justice, Germany

This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and preachers in the past and present. In total, the volume brings together nine contributions by international experts in their respective fields.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 224 pages

HB 9781350408845 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350408869 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350408852 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam

Edited by Ayang Utriza Yakin, UCLouvain, Belgium, Adis Duderija, Griffith University, Australia & An Van Raemdonck, Ghent University, Belgium

The book examines various conceptions of hayâ, or feelings of shame, modesty and honor in Islam, and the practices associated with this concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts. It argues that hayâ’ or modesty is the result of social constructions in which ideas, objects and practices interact in social and cultural contexts. It then demonstrates how this concept has undergone profound transformations temporally and spatially.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9781350386105 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350386129 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350386112 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

• 208 pages

Series: Islam of the Global West Bloomsbury Academic

Interrogating Muslims

The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration

Schirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

An interrogation of the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims’ integration. Focusing on Germany, the book problematizes the grounds on which politics of integration are justified and reasoned upon, and thereby investigates divergent operations of power vis-à-vis Muslims and Islam in a formally liberal-secular society. Through an analysis of three kinds of integration practices, the book argues that the paradigm of integration navigates between universalist claims and particularistic— racial and religious—reenactments of a secular nation-state framework at moments in which this very framework is crumbling.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350266414

• US February 2024

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 208 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350266377

ePub 9781350266391

ePdf 9781350266384

• 5 bw illus

Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands Girls Who Kick Back

Kathrine van den Bogert, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

While Muslim girls in football are often stigmatised or excluded based on their religious and ethnic backgrounds, this open access book emphasises their street football practices as critical and creative ways of inclusion and belonging, both in football and in wider Dutch society. By focusing on a domain largely absent in religion and gender research, namely sport, this book brings to the forth new and innovative perspectives on religion, Islam, gender, and diversity.

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

UK March 2024 US March 2024 208 pages 10 b/w illus

PB 9781350205086 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350205048

ePub 9781350205062 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9781350205055 • £0.00 / $0.00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality • Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Islam of the Global West

• Bloomsbury Academic

Evangelical Christian Responses to Islam A Contemporary Overview

Richard McCallum, University of Oxford, UK

Drawing on over 300 texts written by more than 170 Evangelical authors, academics, leaders, missionaries and converts in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this book explores what the Evangelical micro public sphere has to say about key issues in Christian-Muslim relations today. This book looks at a variety of perspectives and considers where they may lead in the future.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 5 tables

HB 9781350418219 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350418233 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350418226 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Tibetan Magic Past

and Present

Edited by Cameron Bailey, Dongguk University, South Korea & Aleksandra Wenta, University of Florence, Italy

This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both premodern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the volume aims to shed light on experiences, practices, and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350354944 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350354968 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350354951 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Diversity in Australia Living Well with Difference

Edited by Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, Australia, Anna Halafoff, Deakin University, Australia, Greg Barton, Deakin University, Australia & Rebecca Banham, University of Tasmania, Australia

An examination of the variety of strategies used for the negotiation of Australian religious diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media, and interfaith. This book articulates the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other forms of privilege. It also articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement, and respectful engagement with difference.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

HB 9781350334441

Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City Designs for Vitality

Frederick Klaits, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, Michael Richbart, University of Buffalo, USA & LaShekia Chatman, University of Buffalo, USA

A comparison of how Pentecostal believers in majority white and African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive insights from God about their own and others’ life circumstances. The book shows that through their worship, believers come to know that they are personally connected in various ways to God and to one another, and that they must be redeemed from sinfulness and other moral perils.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781350329812 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350175884

ePub 9781350175907 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350175914 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity • Bloomsbury Academic

Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism

The Skullward Leap Technique and the Quest for Vitality

Flavio Geisshuesler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The book argues that Dzogchen once belonged to a cult centered on the quest for vitality, which involved the worship of the sky as primordial source of life and endorsed the hunting of animals, as they were believed to be endowed with the ability to move in between the divine realm of the heavens and the world of humans. The book also traces the historical development of the Great Perfection and advances an innovative model of meditation.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350428812 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350428836 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350428829 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

Religion and World Civilizations How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present [3 volumes]

Edited by Andrew Holt, Florida State College at Jacksonville, USA

An indispensable resource for understanding how religious belief has shaped societies and cultures from the ancient world to the 21st century. Accessible and authoritative, this three-volume encyclopedia surveys and synthesizes our understanding of how religion and society have intersected over the centuries.

Taken as a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.

• 256 pages • 10 bw illus

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350334465

ePdf 9781350334458

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

UK August 2023 US June 2023 1056 pages 149 bw illus

HB Pack 9781440874239 £271.00 / $352.00

ePub 9798216172253

ePdf 9781440874246

Bloomsbury Academic

• £256.40 / $309.37

• £256.40 / $309.37

The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China An Imagined Paradise

Mu-chou Poo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can these traditions be compared?

In this book, Mu-chou Poo considers this question, and provides a new perspective on archaeological materials, including tomb structures and funerary texts, by addressing them in the context of universal human problems such as death, the future of the dead, and the search for happiness in life.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 176 pages • 14 bw illus

HB 9780567702005 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567702036 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567702012 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

World All Languages (except Chinese)

Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean

Edited by Jonathan D.H. Norton, The University of London, UK, Garrick Allen, University of Glasgow, UK & Lindsey A. Askin, University of Bristol, UK

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. It thereby contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two traditionally divided fields.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350265066

• US February 2024

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 272 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350265028

ePub 9781350265042 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350265035 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World • Bloomsbury Academic

From the Golem to Freedom A Study on Technology and Religion

Gábor L. Ambrus, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

An exploration of how human beings relate to contemporary information technology, with a particular focus on social media. This book provides a portrait of the individual user in the midst of an online environment verging on “techno-totalitarianism” then uses critical concepts inspired by ideas from Judaism and Christianity –such as the golem and notions of “nothingness” - arguing that such religious traditions can be invoked to describe both the freedom and unfreedom of the user of information technology.

An interdisciplinary exposition of online experiences which explores the intersections of the social sciences, theology, religious studies, and the philosophy of technology.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350361270

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350361294

ePdf 9781350361287

Bloomsbury Academic

Weird Confucius

Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History

Zhao Lu, New York University Shanghai, China

Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic, fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. He considers depictions of Confucius as prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th-Century American newspapers, and as an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution. In doing so, Lu shows that these representations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus

HB 9781350327528 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350327580 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350327573 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions

Insularity and Assimilation

Nickolas P. Roubekas, University of Vienna, Austria

This book argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category—a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Graeco-Roman religion. This book provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion”, and explores how history influences theory. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, and offers solutions that may lead to a more scientific study of Graeco-Roman religions.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages

PB 9781350336247 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350102613

ePub 9781350102620 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350102637 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation • Bloomsbury Academic

The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics

Edited by Arvin M. Gouw, University of Cambridge, UK & Ted Peters, Graduate Theological Union, USA

Original essays by scientists, theologians, and ethicists review the history of genomics from 1990 to date with special attention to cloning and stem cell research. Chapters address the significance for understanding human nature within specific religious traditions. Most importantly, selected ethical issues are analyzed: therapy versus enhancement; germ line modification; designer children; patenting; and the longterm effects of gene drive proposals.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

HB 9781440871788

• 144 pages

• £40.00 / $55.00

ePub 9798216171225

ePdf 9781440871795

Bloomsbury Academic

• 256 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 10 bw illus

World English

• £41.35 / $49.50

• £41.35 / $49.50

A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory

David Howe, University of East Anglia, UK & Darren Hill, Leeds Beckett University, UK

This is the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory. The book provides a concise and engaging overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described. Readers are introduced to a wide range of theories which social workers need to know about – each of which has its own short, wellstructured chapter. This edition features additional learning aids, including chapter summaries, case studies, and reflective questions, to help readers consolidate their learning. There is also a companion website which features discussions of key theories and case studies.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages

PB 9781350303690 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350303706 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350303720 • £25.19 / $35.09

ePdf 9781350303713 • £25.19 / $35.09

Bloomsbury Academic

Income Inequality in America

A Reference Handbook

Stacey M. Jones, Seattle University, USA & Robert S. Rycroft, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA

An authoritative one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.

Carefully researched and scrupulously nonpartisan, this resource examines income inequality in the United States, with a particular focus on key issues, events, and political/economic philosophies relevant to the enduring divide between rich and poor in America. In addition, it examines how the realities of income inequality shape child care, education, transportation, housing, retirement planning, and other essentials of modern life in America.

UK January 2023

• US January 2023

• 424 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781440867439 • £50.00 / $65.00

ePub 9798216183082 • £48.79 / $58.50

ePdf 9781440867446 • £48.79 / $58.50

• ABC-CLIO

Series: Contemporary World Issues

Marriage and Divorce in America

Issues, Trends, and Controversies

Edited by Jaimee L. Hartenstein, University of Central Missouri, USA

Accessible and wide-ranging, this book helps readers understand the historical evolution, current characteristics, and social impact of marriage and divorce in America, including their many cultural, economic, political, legal, and religious facets.

Coverage includes information and insights on broad trends in relationships that are changing the landscape of American society, such as divorce rates, delayed marriages, blended families, birth rates, and prevalence of marriage and divorce among various socioeconomic groups. All told, this encyclopedia contains more than 200 entries covering high-interest issues that are shaping the character of marriage, divorce, relationships, and family life in the 21st century.

UK November 2023

Understanding Social Work Preparing for Practice

Neil Thompson, Avenue Consulting Ltd, UK What is social work? How is it carried out? What skills does it require? Focusing on the challenges of achieving good practice, this popular textbook reflects on recent developments in social work within the context of contemporary society, law and policy. Getting to the heart of what this profession is all about, it offers an excellent foundation for anyone wanting a better understanding of the social work role, providing a picture of social work for what it truly is: its difficulties, its demands and its rewards.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 224 pages

PB 9781350399167 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350399174 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350399198 • £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350399181 £26.99 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Academic

Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis

Origins and Global Impact

Eliot Dickinson, Western Oregon University, USA

Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics. This book examines the complex forces behind international migration and the enormous impact it is having on our globalized world. Chapters cover both the challenges and opportunities associated with migration in a broad selection of countries around the globe. Readers will find in-depth analysis of recent events and uncover the historical antecedents to the modern landscape of human migration. The book also investigates the profound impact that climate change will have on patterns of human migration in the coming years.

UK December 2023

• US September 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw photos, 3 bw illus, and 5 bw maps

HB 9781440858444 • £50.00 / $68.00

ePub 9798216171836 • £51.27 / $61.20

ePdf 9781440858451 • £51.27 / $61.20

Series: Flashpoints: Global Crisis and Conflict • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Prescription for Inequality Exploring the Social Determinants of Health of At-Risk Groups

Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson, Colby College, USA

This book explores how social determinants of health (SDH) impact the health of a variety of marginalized demographic groups in the United States. Chapters focus on the 13 groups that research demonstrates are most disadvantaged by SDH and, consequently, who suffer the most from ongoing health disparities in America. Each profile begins with a snapshot of that group’s current state of health. Next, each chapter takes an in-depth look at the four components of SDH: economic factors, educational access and quality, healthcare access and quality, and living environment and social context. Every group profile concludes with a curated list of further reading. UK

T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics

Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK & Susan F. Parsons, Editor of Studies in Christian Ethics

Beyond Male and Female? A Theological Account of Intersex Embodiment

Sam Ashton, St Paul's, Hadley Woods, UK

Are all people either male or female or does intersex embodiment push us beyond the malefemale binary? Traditionalists hold to the former, innovationists argue for the latter. This book combines insights from both camps to maintain that we may know the ‘what’ of our sexed embodiment when we work out where we fit within God’s big story of creation to consummation. It examines the breadth and depth of ancient and modern approaches to discerning the theological meaning and significance of sexed embodiment.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9780567713148 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567713179 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713155 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

English Public Theology

A Reformation Response to the Crisis of Natural Rights

Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, University of St. Andrews, UK

Examines the public theology of the English Reformation in a fresh and compelling way, as affording elements of a comprehensive theological critique of the western tradition of natural rights. It swims against the current tide of scholarly ethical and political discussion which, outside of Anglican circles, overlooks or dismisses the moral and political theology of the English Reformation. It also plunges against the tide of influential critiques of modern social and political thought, often Aristotelian or Thomist in perspective, which view Reformation theology as a source of the modern problems rather than a resource for addressing them.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

HB 9780567712516 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9780567712554 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9780567712523 £81.00 / $110.69

• 328 pages

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics

• T&T Clark

Absolute Person and Moral Experience

A Study in Neo-Calvinism

Nathan D. Shannon, Westminster Theological Seminary, USA

Presents a neo-Calvinist theology of human moral experience, drawing from the works of Herman and Johan Bavinck, Geerhardus Vos and Cornelius Van Til. Accounting for the nature and possibility of evil and of moral consciousness, this book argues that human moral experience is the product of a divine self-expression primarily in the Son.

UK February 2024

PB 9780567707390

Confidence in Life

A Barthian Account of Procreation

Matthew Lee Anderson, Baylor University, USA

Confidence in Life offers a theologicallyrobust evaluation of the good of procreation, which emerges out of both careful interactions with contemporary analytic philosophy and a reconstructed reading of Karl Barth’s doctrine of (pro)creation. Though primarily staged as an intervention in Protestant moral theology, Confidence in Life’s rehabilitation of the Virgin Mary’s role in Barth’s thought has promise for an ecumenical retrieval of the good of procreating within the economy of redemption.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages

HB 9780567710635 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567710673 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567710642 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

The Dialectics of Discipleship

Karl Barth, Sanctification and Theological Ethics

Chris Swann, City to City Australia, Australia

This book investigates both Lutheran and Calvinian source material to interrogate Barth’s discipleshipshaped vision of sanctification. In doing this, it gives special attention to Barth’s own personal mixed record with regard to Christian discipleship. Ultimately, Swann retrieves a number of important resources for contemporary theological ethics from Barth’s theology of discipleship.

UK September 2023

HB 9780567708779

• US September 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567708816

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567708786 • £76.50 / $103.94

• 256 pages

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark

The Reign of God

A Critical Engagement with Oliver O’Donovan’s Theology of Political Authority

Jonathan Cole, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Demonstrates a way to refine O’Donovan’s theology of political authority by incorporating insights from his earlier work in moral theology. The book argues that the cogency problems of the former can only be avoided by drawing on the latter. The Reign of God constitutes the first detailed and systematic critical engagement with Oliver O’Donovan’s political theology.

• US February 2024

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 224 pages

Previously published in HB 9780567707352

ePub 9780567707383

ePdf 9780567707345

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics T&T Clark

UK February 2024 US February 2024 168 pages

PB 9780567707505 • £22.99 / $30.95

Previously published in HB 9780567707468

ePub 9780567707499

ePdf 9780567707475

• £63.00 / $86.39

• £63.00 / $86.39

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics

• T&T Clark

T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics

Jennifer McBride, McCormick School of Theology, USA, Michael Mawson, University of Auckland, New Zealand & Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception

Kevin O’Farrell, Joni and Friends Disability Ministry, USA

Examining Bonhoeffer's understanding of the exception as an extraordinary moment in history that disarms persons, impinging on one's understanding of politics and ethics, this book states that this leads to distinctive narrations of key concepts in Bonhoeffer’s corpus: responsibility, the free venture, simple obedience, and action beyond the law. It also offers a different portrait of Bonhoeffer to contemporary narrations.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 192 pages

HB 9780567709394 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567709431

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709400 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

Appointments with Bonhoeffer Personal Faith and Public Responsibility in a Fragmenting World

Keith Clements, Conference of European Churches, Switzerland

Beginning with the earlier reception of Bonhoeffer as a martyr-figure and then as a provocatively original theologian, the book argues for his relevance to contemporary engagement with public ethics. Addressing issues such as faith and democracy, national identity and the global pandemic, Clements argues that Bonhoeffer's belief that human community is formed by living representatively on behalf of others is the key to being responsible in a fragmenting world.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

PB 9780567707109 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 224 pages

Previously published in HB 9780567707055

ePub 9780567707093 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567707062 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Studies in English Theology

Standing under the Cross Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology

Michael Mawson, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Bonhoeffer wrote much of his theology in response to theological and political crises in his own time. This book argues that his thinking can thus provide valuable insights into how individuals and communities can intellectually and culturally grapple with the pressing issues of the modern world, from ecological disaster to the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 216 pages

HB 9780567709462 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567709509 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709479 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics T&T Clark

Bearing Sin as Church Community Bonhoeffer's Hamartiology

Hyun Joo Kim, Torch Trinity Graduate University, Korea

Claims that Bonhoeffer transforms and reconstructs the Augustinian doctrine of original sin by shifting the hamartiological premise from the doctrine of God to the doctrine of the church based on his Lutheran resources. In Bonhoeffer’s view, Augustine’s doctrine of original sin does not fully relate the doctrine of sin to the responsibility of the saints. Interestingly, in order to reform Augustinian hamartiology, Bonhoeffer appropriates Augustine’s notion of the Church as the whole Christ (totus Christus), which is located in Augustine’s ecclesiology.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 232 pages

PB 9780567706621 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567706584

ePub 9780567706614 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567706591 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics T&T Clark

Mike Higton & Karen Kilby, both Durham University, UK & Stephen R. Holmes, University of St Andrews, UK

Richard Hooker

Theological Method and Anglican Identity

Philip Hobday, Wakefield Cathedral, UK

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is often claimed as articulating or even inventing a strand of Christian life now called ‘Anglicanism’, but different people locate his theology (and the tradition he represents) very differently. This book shows how both Hooker, and the Anglicanism he defended in such elegant prose, can be coherently both ‘catholic’ and ‘reformed’ (rather than one, or the other, or some middle way). Relocating Hooker, and Anglicanism, in this way reveals them to be rich, fruitful conversation partners in ecumenical dialogue and theological debates across Christian traditions.

UK October 2023 US October 2023 240 pages

HB 9780567708038 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567708076 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567708045

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology • T&T Clark

The Lyric Voice in English Theology

Elizabeth S. Dodd

Elizabeth S. Dodd explores how the lyric voice in English theology has spoken to, within and between church, self and society. By examining a number of texts by authors such as Lancelot Andrewes, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as T.S. Elliot and Geoffrey Hill, Dodd concludes that lyric is a vehicle for the imagination; which is the engine of theological thought, but it also has practical, ethical and public implications.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 200 pages

HB 9780567670304 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9780567670328 • £67.50 / $91.79

ePdf 9780567670311 • £67.50 / $91.79

Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Handbook of NeoCalvinism

Edited by Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, Reformed Theological Seminary, USA & Cory Brock, Belhaven University, USA

Covering the theological loci, key figures and legacy of neo-Calvinism, this handbook is the go-to reference work on the movement’s theology, philosophy and history. This volume comprehensively demonstrates neo-Calvinism’s unique contribution to theology and Christian philosophy. It offers excellent contributions on the movement’s most important historical and thematic loci, including its impact on Reformed denominations and churches across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 592 pages

HB 9780567698087 £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9780567698117 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567698094 • £117.00 / $159.29

Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark

Hearing Spiritual Voices

Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry

Christopher C.H. Cook, Durham University, UK

This book takes three 14th century examples of women who heard spiritually significant voices: Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Joan of Arc. Each of these women, in different ways, has left an enduring legacy in literature and history. Modern psychiatric commentary on the voices that they reported has generally focussed on diagnosis rather than on wider questions of meaning. These commentaries will be used as a lens through which to consider how contemporary psychiatric practice might be enriched by the humanities and enabled to find a more spiritually empathetic, if not also sympathetic, enriching and meaning enhancing perspective on unusual mental phenomena.

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

UK September 2023 US September 2023 152 pages

PB 9780567707970 • £15.99 / $21.95 • HB 9780567707987 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9780567707994 • £0.00 / $0.00

ePdf 9780567708007 • £0.00 / $0.00

T&T Clark

The Persistence of Evil A Cultural, Literary and Theological Analysis

Fintan Lyons O.S.B., Glenstal Abbey, Ireland

At the heart of this book is the attempt to synthesise or reconcile traditional belief with contemporary concern or even alarm regarding evil in the world. Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.B. Shaw, and the spiritual writing of C. S. Lewis. This book chronicles the history of humanity’s attempt to understand the disturbing and mysterious reality of evil.

UK September 2023

PB 9780567710116

• US September 2023

• £24.99 / $34.95

• 384 pages

• HB 9780567710123

ePub 9780567710130 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9780567710147 £22.49 / $31.04

T&T Clark

• £75.00 / $100.00

Reading with Earth

Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics

Anne Elvey, University of Divinity, Australia

Applying a re-envisioned ecological feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to 20th- and 21st-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations. The first is ecological feminism; the second is ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 264 pages

PB 9780567708328 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567695116

ePub 9780567695147 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567695123 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Reader in Analytic Theology

Edited by Oliver D. Crisp, University of St Andrews, UK, Joshua Cockayne, University of St Andrews, UK & Jonathan C. Rutledge, University of Notre Dame, USA

The only volume in the field that offers a set of readings in analytic theology that are state-ofthe-art. Edited by leading scholars in the field, this reader focusses specifically on dogmatic issues rather than topics discussed within analytic philosophy of religion, and gives an extensive and versatile introduction to the field of analytic theology.

UK August 2024 • US August 2024

• 544 pages

PB 9780567703842 • £33.99 / $46.95 • HB 9780567703859 • £110.00 / $150.00

T&T Clark

T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology

Daniela C. Augustine, Lee University, USA & Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK

Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology

A Convergence of the Word and the Spirit

Edited by Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University of Southern California, USA, Terry L. Cross, Lee University, USA & Andrew K. Gabriel, Horizon College and Seminary, Canada

The essays in this volume evaluate and build on Barth’s theology from the perspective of Pentecostal theology and, thereby, contribute to constructive Pentecostal systematic theology by using Barth as a valuable dialogue partner. At present, a theological conversation of Pentecostals with Barth does not exist and this volume fills this void. It will aid those who seek a convergence of the Word and the Spirit in theology.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 272 pages

HB 9780567686008 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567686022 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567686015 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark

The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

Eschatology and the Search for Equality

Joseph Lee Dutko, Oceanside Community Church, Canada

This study critically assesses the relationship between women’s equality and eschatology in the Pentecostal movement. For over one hundred years the role of women in Pentecostalism has been debated without a firm consensus. The two competing impulses of the liberation and the exclusion of women in Pentecostal churches has been described numerous ways, including as the so-called Pentecostal “gender paradox.” By examining gender solely through an eschatological lens in history, Scripture, and praxis, Dutko argues that eschatology provides a valid critical approach in the Pentecostal gender debate because it provdes a consistent hermeneutic that authorizes the unrestricted ministry of women.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023

HB 9780567713681 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567713698 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713674 • £76.50 / $103.94

Spirit and Method

Pentecostal Theology and the Pneumatological Imagination

Edwin Rodriguez-Gungor, Diocese of St. Anthony, USA

This work offers a generative and hospitable theological methodology rooted in the distinctives of pentecostal spirituality. The methodology is further enlivened by a Spirited imagination and opened toward critical, constructive, and conciliatory dialogue with the wider Christian tradition. This inter- and cross-disciplinary work is a careful yet generous, drawing together of knowledge and wisdom from different domains—historical, philosophical, and theological—in ways recognizably pentecostal and effectively missional.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages

HB 9780567712004 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567712042 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567712011 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark

Theological Metaphysics A Pentecostal Theology of Being

Ray C. Robles, Grand Canyon University and the Northern California Bible College, USA

This work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9780567713780 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567713759 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567713797 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology T&T Clark

• 312 pages

Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark

The Scandal of Pentecost A Theology of the Public Church

Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK

This work analyses the day of Pentecost in its significance for the public advent of the church following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. The primary interest of this evaluation is to identify the contributions of Pentecost to a theology of the ‘public church’ – a concept originally developed by the historian of religion Martin E. Marty. At its heart, this book proposes a public ecclesiology with the foundational argument that the day of Pentecost initiates the public witness of the Christian community indicative of its recognition as disciples of Jesus Christ.

UK November 2023

HB 9780567712646

• US November 2023

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567712677

ePdf 9780567712653

T&T Clark

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 280 pages

Kingdom Come: An Eschatological Third Article Ecclesiology

Gregory J. Liston, Laidlaw College, New Zealand Develops a coherent pneumato-ecclesiology, arguing that an eschatological vantage point fits well with the understandings of the Church when it is viewed as the proleptic anticipation of the coming kingdom. It also outlines some immediate and obvious practical applications of utilising an eschatological Third Article Ecclesiology, and points to areas where the research initiated in this volume could inspire transformation of the Church itself.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9780567707451

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 218 pages

Previously published in HB 9780567707413

ePub 9780567707444 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567707420

T&T Clark

• £76.50 / $103.94

Reimagining at the Sources

The Story of Israel from its Origins to Jesus of Nazareth

James

Atwell

Offers the fruits of a lifetime’s reflection on the Bible and its role within the Christian faith, from a respected scholar and priest. Atwell lays out the history of Israel, and the biblical roots of Christian faith from the origins of Israel’s religious traditions to Jesus of Nazareth.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 416 pages

HB 9780567711915 • £130.00 / $175.00

ePub 9780567711946 • £117.00 / $159.29

ePdf 9780567711922 • £117.00 / $159.29

T&T Clark

Genesis: An Introduction and Study Guide

A Past for a People in Need of a Future

Megan Warner, University of Exeter, UK

This study guide introduces students to the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. The author examines the book's structure and characteristics; covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues; and considers a range of scholarly approaches. There will also be chapters on the ongoing significance of Genesis in Jewish, Christian, Islamic and secular thought, as well as on its wider reception in literature, film, art and music, all of which provide ways of reading and understanding this fascinating and complex work.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 144 pages

PB 9780567676641 £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9780567693600 £55.00 / $75.00

ePub 9780567676665 £16.19 / $22.94

ePdf 9780567676658 £16.19 / $22.94

Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament • T&T Clark

Themes and Texts, Exodus and Beyond

Essays in Honour of Larry J. Perkins

Edited by Robert J. V. Hiebert, Trinity Western University, Canada, Jonathan Numada, Trinity Western University, Canada, Dongshin Don Chang, Trinity Western University, Canada & Kyung S. Baek, Trinity Western University, USA Engages with the work of Larry J. Perkins on four key themes relevant to the study of Exodus. These include particular focus on Exodus within later Second Temple Literature and Christian literature, and as it appears in the Septuagint.

The distinguished contributors include Emanuel Tov, Albert Pietersma, Daniela Scialabba, Craig A. Evans, James M. Scott, Martin G. Abegg Jr., and Wolfgang Kraus.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9780567705488

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567705518

ePdf 9780567705495

African Biblical Studies Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies

Andrew M. Mbuvi, Albright College, USA

Mbuvi makes the case for African biblical studies as a vibrant and important emerging distinct discipline, whilst also critiquing biblical studies for its continued underlying racially and imperialistically motivated tendencies. Mbuvi argues that the emergence of biblical studies as a discipline in the West coincides with, and benefits from, the establishment of the colonial project. Mbuvi offers readings that destabilize and undermine dominant approaches and their ingrained prejudices, showing them as unresolved remnants of a colonial past.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 248 pages

PB 9780567707758 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567707710

ePub 9780567707741 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567707727 • £76.50 / $103.94

T&T Clark

The Bible in Photography Index, Icon,

Tableau, Vision

Sheona Beaumont, Diocese of Chichester, UK

This volume addresses the untold story of biblical subjects in photography. Sheona G. Beaumont argues that stories, characters, and symbols from the Bible are found to pervade photographic practices and ideas, across the worlds of advertising and selfies, the book and the gallery, in theoretical discourse and in newspaper reviews. Throughout her journey, she includes lively discussion of selected fine art photography dealing with the Bible in surprising ways, from images by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 19th century to Damien Hirst in the 21st.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 288 pages 55 colour images

HB 9780567706539 • £110.00 / $150.00

ePub 9780567706560 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9780567706546 • £99.00 / $134.99

Series: Scriptural Traces & The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Women of the Bible

From Text to Image

Edited by Guadalupe Seijas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Translated by Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, University of Oxford, UK

The Hebrew Bible and art are at the core of this book, which analyzes the iconographic representation of several women of the Bible. The contributors consider the ways in which the biblical texts regarding these women have been read and understood through time and the means by which they have been represented. By examining figures such as Bathsheba, Moses' Mother, Pharoah's Daughter, Ruth and Naomi, the book also explores the different values associated with these representations according to the problems, worries and concerns of each period.

• 224 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies

• T&T Clark

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9780567703637

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 25 bw illus

• 216 pages

Previously published in HB 9780567703606

ePdf 9780567703613

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces

T&T Clark

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Laura Quick, Princeton University, USA & Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA

Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible

Erwin Panofsky and Othmar Keel in Dialogue

Edited by Hans Ulrich Steymans, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images – while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose – can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text. The essays within this volume describe the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing imagery into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their own interpretation, including previously unpublished material from Keel.

UK April 2024 • US April 2024 • 304 pages • 15 b&w images

HB 9780567691835 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567691842 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies T&T Clark

Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible

"Let Your Garments Always Be Bright"

Unity in the Book of Isaiah

Edited by Benedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy and Hekima College, Kenya and University of Pretoria, South Africa & Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Santa Clara, USA

Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that points to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity. Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections, examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or readerorientated readings of the Book of Isaiah.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 320 pages

HB 9780567705938 • £90.00 / $115.00

ePdf 9780567705945 • £81.00 / $110.69

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Hate and Enmity in Biblical Law

Klaus-Peter Adam, Lutheran School of Theology, USA

Edited

by Antonios Finitsis, Pacific Lutheran University, USA

Antonios Finitsis and contributors examine dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Using primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9780567702715 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 8 bw illus

• 296 pages

Previously published in HB 9780567702685

ePdf 9780567702692 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies T&T Clark

New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World

Edited by Laura Quick, Princeton University, USA & Melissa Ramos, George Fox University, USA

While treating a diverse range of ritual phenomena (such as space, blessings and oath-taking) from the world of ancient Israel and Judah, essays focus on offering new methods and fresh theoretical perspectives on ritual. Beginning with an introduction that engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, the chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 296 pages

PB 9780567707765 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567693372

ePdf 9780567693389 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Enmity between individuals was an ubiquitous phenomenon in the ancient world. Using the method of legal anthropology, this book examines patterns of hate-driven feuding in kinship-based and segmentary societies and applies these insights to biblical law. It defines the fundamental categories of enmity, love, revenge, honor and shame in the context of feuding. It then illustrates certain legal actions, such giving false witness, and shows how they are expressions of hateful relationships. Adam also uses this to unpack the meaning of the quintessential biblical command to "love your neighbor".

UK December 2023 US December 2023 320 pages

PB 9780567706492 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567681898

ePdf 9780567681904 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Conflict Between Faith and Experience, and the Shape of Psalms 73–83

Stephen J. Smith, Belhaven University, USA

Entering the lively discussion of canonical or editorial-criticism of the Hebrew Psalter, this is a detailed investigation into one of its constituent collections, Psalms 73-83. It addresses scholarly disagreement over this collection’s structure, the degree and nature of its literary unity, and its primary message. Smith argues that Psalms 73–82 – and potentially 83 – are deliberately arranged to resolve the disorienting collision between Israel’s faith, traditional theology and the experience of God’s prolonged absence amid the sixth-century exilic crisis.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 224 pages

PB 9780567702760 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567702739

ePdf 9780567702746 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Pauline Letters: Texts @ Contexts

Edited by Menghun Goh, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan

In this volume contributors from various social locations in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia analyse and interpret Pauline letters. Engaging both the biblical text and the lives and contexts from different sociocultural, religious, methodological perspectives, each contributor demonstrates the dynamic interaction between text and context in their understanding and explanation of the text.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 128 pages

HB 9780567711786 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567711816 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567711793 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Texts @ Contexts • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament TextGenerating Resources

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Matthew Brook O'Donnell, University of Liverpool, UK

This volume examines and outlines the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to the New Testament since it was introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Porter in the 1980s. Structured in two parts, part one introduces basic concepts related to SFL, part two provides a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 368 pages

HB 9780567709851 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9780567709882 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9780567709868 • £90.00 / $122.84

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark

The Library of New Testament Studies

Scholars Reading Romans 1 with Daniel Patte Critique, Dialogue, and Pedagogy

Edited by James

USA

P. Grimshaw, Carroll University,

A creative collection of essays that introduces, critiques, and dialogues with Daniel Patte’s groundbreaking work Romans: Three Exegetical Interpretations and the History of Reception: Volume 1: Romans 1:1-32 (T&T Clark, 2018) Nine scholars from different cultural and methodological perspectives engage with Patte’s work, critique his methodology and ethic of interpretation, and develop alternative readings.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 176 pages

PB 9780567704023 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567703989

ePub 9780567704016 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567703996 • £76.50 / $103.94

T&T Clark

Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible

The Importance of Context

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpretation and how a close collaboration between hermeneutics and linguistics can help to solve them. Porter focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts, suggesting that linguists can learn more from the philosophical questions around meaning that hermeneuts apply in their study of biblical texts, and that there is more fruitful work to be done in the field of hermeneutics using insights from linguistics.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9780567709905 • £85.00 / $115.00

• 224 pages

ePub 9780567709936 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567709912 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark

Chris Keith, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway

Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew

Edited

by Craig Evan Anderson & Matthew Ryan

Hauge, Azusa Pacific University, USA

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Craig Evan Anderson and Matthew Ryan Hauge have amassed a collection of exegetical character studies, including Mary, John the Baptist and the Roman Centurion.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

HB 9780567699480

• 312 pages

• £90.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567699510

ePdf 9780567699497

• £81.00 / $110.69

• £81.00 / $110.69

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies

• T&T Clark

Locating the Kingdom of God Performing Sacred Boundaries

Karen J. Wenell, University of Birmingham, UK

Karen J. Wenell offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred. Though spatial-critical perspectives have been increasingly recognised as important across many disciplines, the significance of non-physical religious spaces and their correspondence to boundaries of the sacred has not been explored fully, and never using the specific example of the Kingdom of God. Wennell considers the diverse and sometimes contradictory articulation of the Kingdom in the gospels as well as the ways that Kingdom language frames contemporary ethical debates.

UK February 2024

HB 9780567711182

• US February 2024

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9780567711212

• 192 pages

• £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567711199 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies T&T Clark

Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New

Edited by T. E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada & John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA

Contributors pursue three important lines of enquiry into parable study, in order to compare how these lessons have been received throughout the millennia. The books considers both the historical and material world of the parables’ composition, and focuses on the social, political, economic, and material elements of that world. It not only explores how the parables may have been seen and heard in ancient contexts but also considers the lessons they have imparted to subsequent and contemporary listeners.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 296 pages

PB 9780567706171 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567706133

ePub 9780567706164 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567706140 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Paul, The Apostle of Obedience Reading Obedience in Romans

Jason A. Myers, Greensboro College, USA; WTC Theology, UK

A reconsideration of the phrase “the obedience of faith” and the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have near exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and 2nd Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Empire. He also explores how some in Paul’s audience may have understood the language of obedience.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 264 pages

PB 9780567705877 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567705839

ePub 9780567705860 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567705846 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Reading Acts Theologically

Steve Walton, Trinity College, Bristol, UK

Steve Walton collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, bringing together studies published over nearly two decades, and his reflection in the process of writing the Word Biblical Commentary on Acts. Walton explores the divine perspective of Acts and its place alongside biblical histories, and analyzes the nature of the early Church and the main terms used by the communities, including the believers’ sharing of possessions and their attitudes towards the Jewish temple. Concluding with theological themes in Acts, Walton provides a new reflection on the early Christian understanding of God, Jesus and humanity.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 280 pages

PB 9780567702869 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567702821

ePub 9780567702852 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567702838 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Paul and Asklepios

The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission

Christopher D. Stanley, St Bonaventure University, USA

This volume explores the reasons for Paul's silence on health, medical care and healing in his letters, and what we might reasonably infer regarding Paul’s views on the subjects. Christopher D. Stanley focuses in particular on two questions that have been neglected in previous scholarship on the apostle Paul: first, what did Paul think, say, and do regarding the treatment of his own and his followers’ illnesses and injuries, including “pagan” modes of medical care? And second, how did his ideas on this subject affect the success of his missionary enterprise?

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 264 pages

PB 9780567708151 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567696557

ePub 9780567696588 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9780567696564 £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:19-24

An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis

Brian J. Abasciano, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA

Brian Abasciano continues his project examining the use of the Old Testament in Romans 9. By employing thorough traditional exegesis, Abasciano creates a comprehensive analysis of Paul's use of Scripture against the background of interpretive traditions surrounding the texts that this volume alludes to. Abasciano places special emphasis on analysis of the original contexts of Paul's citations and allusions.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 240 pages

PB 9780567708021 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780567536518

ePdf 9780567528322 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

History of Interior Architecture

Furniture, Design, and Global Culture

Mark Hinchman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA & Kevin Ohe

Today, every aspect of our lives is affected by global interconnectedness, and the study of design history is no exception. History of Interior Architecture, Second Edition, covers major historical movements in architecture, interior design, furniture, and the decorative arts from prehistoric periods through contemporary times. Western designers are included in conversation with parts of the world that traditional history books underserve, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With examples like the influence of Islamic design on Romanesque style and Thailand’s interpretation of Art Nouveau. This book gives readers a comprehensive look at the evolution of interior design.

UK February 2024 • US December 2023 • 536 pages • 560 colour illus

PB 9781501385605 £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781501385582 £100.90 / $121.50

ePdf 9781501385599 £100.90 / $121.50

Fairchild Books

She City Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities

Nicole Kalms, Monash University, Australia

Combining practical design strategies with urban theory, She City explores how gender inequity is materialized in cities worldwide, providing an activist toolkit for architects and urban designers to challenge gender bias, sexual harassment, and violence against women through their designs. Part I provides a contemporary survey of the current state of gender inequity in cities, revealing how one’s gender impacts mobility, safety, and the ability to occupy public space. Part II moves from theory to practice, examining a range of contemporary case studies from around the globe to show how better urban design can positively challenge gender inequity.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9781350153073 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350153080 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350153103 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350153097 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Architecture and the Public World

Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University, USA

Edited by Miodrag Mitrašinovic, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

Architecture and the Public World brings together key writings by the eminent architectural historian and critic, Kenneth Frampton, from the 1980s to the present. Articles are grouped into thematic sections representing abiding concerns of Frampton's criticism: history and critical theory; modes of criticism; the vicissitudes of urban form, and tactility, tectonics, and resistance. The volume also includes a new interview with Frampton and an essay by Clive Dilnot exploring the relevance of Frampton's thought for design history and criticism.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 368 pages 77 bw illus

PB 9781350183780 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350183797 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350183803 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350183810 • £22.49 / $31.04

Series: Radical Thinkers in Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

After the Fall

The Legacy of Fascism in Rome's Architectural and Urban History

Flavia Marcello, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome – from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti. It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history shaped - and continues to shapeRome’s contemporary cityscape in powerful ways, and examines what this can tell us about the persistence of troubling political and historical legacies in the built environment. Adding a new chapter to the architectural history of Rome, this fascinating history brings architecture, politics, and art together as living, contested experiences in a host of different locations around contemporary Rome.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 72 bw illus

PB 9781350120587 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350120594 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350120617 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350120600 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Is Architecture Art?

Architecture and Aesthetic Theory Since the 18th Century

John MacArthur, University of Queensland, Australia

Is Architecture Art? explores the key conceptual questions about the aesthetic appreciation of architecture and its persistently contested status as an art form. It engages the work of thinkers ranging from Hume and Kant to Adorno, Tafuri, and Rancière, and draws on accessible and thought-provoking accounts of historical and contemporary architectural and art theory. Taking novel approaches to issues that will be familiar to the practising architect, Is Architecture Art? will provoke discussion and debate, and force a new understanding of the purpose of architectural practice in the contemporary era as the concepts of ‘art’, ‘the arts’, and of the creative economy have shifted and blurred as never before.

UK July 2024

• US July 2024

PB 9781350147706

• 256 pages

• £24.99 / $34.95

ePub 9781350147737

ePdf 9781350147720

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• 20 bw illus

• HB 9781350147713

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £22.49 / $31.04

• £85.00 / $115.00

Esguerra Sáenz Urdaneta Samper

Architectural Ideals in Modern Colombia

Edited by Maarten Goossens, Hernando Vargas Caicedo & Catalina Parra

The Colombian architectural firm ESUS played a key role in the development of modern architecture in Colombia during the mid-20th century. Notable for their technical innovation, elaborate language and careful execution, ESUS’ buildings also reveal how the international ideals of architectural modernism were adapted to local Latin American contexts. This book examines ESUS’ work from an array of perspectives, showing in particular how their high-rise concrete buildings contribute to new understandings of the history of concrete architecture. Including previously unpublished archival documents, images, and drawings, this is an important new account of modernism in Latin America.

UK April 2024

• US April 2024

HB 9781350212329

• 75 bw illus

• 208 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350212343

ePdf 9781350212336

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

• Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Malayan Classicism

From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular

Soon-Tzu Speechley, University of Melbourne, Australia

Presenting the first comprehensive account of Malaya’s most widespread architectural style prior to World War II, Malayan Classicism looks at how the classical architecture of the British Empire was transmitted, translated, and transformed in the hands of local builders and architects. Addressing a critical gap in the scholarship, this book charts the metamorphosis of an imperial language of power into a local vernacular style, and provides a new way of reading classical architecture in a post-colonial context that will be applicable throughout the Global South.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 256 pages • 60 bw illus

HB 9781350360341 • £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350360365 • £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350360358 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Vincent Scully

Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community

A. Krista Sykes, Independent Scholar

This intellectual biography traces the formative moments in the thinking of renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920–2017). The book charts Scully’s relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the 20th century since his emergence in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. It is a compelling read for architects and architectural historians alike, as well as anyone interested in architectural pedagogy and in the formation and impact of intellectual and architectural networks worldwide.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 288 pages 60 bw illus

HB 9781350298378 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350298392 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350298385 • £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Analogical Thinking in Architecture

Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment

Jean-Pierre Chupin, University of Montreal, Canada

This book looks at how “analogical thinking”— a way of reasoning in which symbolic connections allow designers to address complexity—offers an agile way to respond to the heterogeneous, and often contradictory, value systems prevalent in architectural design. Offering a reappraisal of theories on the role of analogical thinking by prominent architects including Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Frederick Kiesler; historians; and theoreticians, the book provides both a comprehensive introduction to the concept of “analogical thinking” in architecture and the first theorization of analogy specifically within the field of the built environment.

• 173 bw illus

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 256 pages

HB 9781350343627 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350343641 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350343634 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Minimum Dwelling Revisited CIAM's Practical Utopia (1928–31)

Aristotle Kallis, Keele University, UK

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist ‘minimum dwelling’, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's annals and as seminal moments in the history of interwar modernism. Serving as a corrective to the overemphasis on CIAM IV and the Athens Charter, the book is essential reading for scholars researching urban design during the interwar period.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 248 pages • 36 bw illus

HB 9781350346185 £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350346208 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350346192 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and the Vernacular Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory

Edited

by Paul Memmott, John Ting, Tim O’Rourke & Marcel Vellinga

This book explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization. Focussing on Australasia and Oceania, it examines the relevance of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural design, placing this against a contextual background of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Seventeen chapters by architects, designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 320 pages • 65 bw illus

HB 9781350294301 • £100.00 / $135.00

ePub 9781350294332 £90.00 / $122.84

ePdf 9781350294325 £90.00 / $122.84

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Building/Object

Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture

Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Birkbeck University of London, UK & Mark Crinson, Birkbeck University, UK

Building/Object addresses the space in-between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture – a space often neglected because of the disciplinary differences that have developed between design history and architectural history. It does this across 13 distinct essays, each examining things which are neither objectlike or building-like, but somewhere in between – air conditioning; bookshelves; partition walls; table-monuments; TVs; convenience stores; cars – with the twofold aim both of giving these areas new weight and intellectual interest in our understanding of the human environment, and of probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350234048 • £28.99 / $39.95

• 312 pages • 70 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350234000

ePub 9781350234024 £76.50 / $103.94

ePdf 9781350234017 £76.50 / $103.94

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Mary Kelly's Concentric Pedagogy Selected Writings

Mary Kelly

Edited by Juli Carson

This book collects classic essays together with never-before published archival documents detailing the innovative pedagogical program of major artist and thinker Mary Kelly. It brings to the fore how a democratic studio teaching practice, mainstream today, is historically an effect of the feminist pedagogy Kelly has advocated and practiced over many years. In our current moment of renewed calls to rethink the structures of power that shape academic discourse on art and culture, Kelly’s work presented here is evidence that the intersection of teaching, artistic practice, and radical political engagement can be transformative.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350352438

• £24.99 / $34.95

• 336 pages • 100 colour illus

• HB 9781350352445 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350352469 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350352452 • £22.49 / $31.04

Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Space Feminisms People, Planets, Power

Edited by Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud & Nahum Romero

Space Feminisms examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of outer space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures. It centres feminism as a mode by which to both theorize and materialize a redistribution of social power around space exploration, space science, and human presence in extra-Earth environments. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the essays in this book gather leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and careful futures of and in outer space.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 320 pages • 27 colour & 61 bw illus

HB 9781350346321 £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350346345 £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350346338 £81.00 / $110.69

Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Deborah Ascher Barnstone, University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Thomas O. Haakenson, California College of the Arts, USA

Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture

Edited by Hester Baer, University of Maryland, USA & Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College, USA

The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual culture. Focusing especially on the intermedial and transhistorical dimensions of the series, the volume brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to critically examine various facets of the show, including its aesthetic form and citational style, its representation of the history and politics of the late Weimar Republic, and its exemplary status as a blockbuster production of neoliberal media culture. The book is essential reading for students of film, TV, media studies, and visual culture on German Studies, History, and European Studies programmes.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350370050 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350370067 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350370081 £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Art of Mary Linwood Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845

Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville, USA

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood (1755-1845). Fusing art-biographical writing, material culture studies, art and cultural history, this book explores the complex and highly unorthodox life of Linwood. Showcasing every aspect of her life, ranging from her gallery guides to previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, this book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350428126

• £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781350428102

ePdf 9781350428096

Curating Transcultural Spaces Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture

• 240 pages

• 16 colour & 46 bw illus

• HB 9781350428089

• £26.09 / $36.44

• £26.09 / $36.44

Series: Material Culture of Art and Design

• £90.00 / $120.00

• Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edited

by Sarah Hegenbart, Technical University Munich, Germany

The first art historical English-language study of its kind, this book considers Germany's failed engagement with its colonial past and argues for the necessity of taking postcolonial thinking on board when constructing museum spaces in order to generate genuine exchange between multiple perspectives. Curating Transcultural Spaces argues that the 'scandal' of the Humboldt Forum, where appropriation of national collections of many world cultures revealed insensitivity towards non-Western cultures, has precipitated an eruption of identity conflicts in Germany, bound up with its histories of colonialism, National-Socialism, the GDR, and reunification, as well as its current status as country shaped by immigration and multiculturalism.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 288 pages • 78 bw illus

HB 9781350227729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub

Humor in Global Contemporary Art

Edited by Mette Gieskes, Radboud University, The Netherlands & Gregory H. Williams, Boston University, USA

The first book to thoroughly examine the role of culture-specific and transcultural humor in contemporary art from a global perspective. It features a range of contributions from scholars based at European, North American, Asian and Australasian institutions, the volume examines the degree to which the humor in art created in the past five decades is culture-bound, as well as the tensions that arise when humorous artworks that are made in a particular socio-cultural context are viewed in another cultural environment.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 320 pages • 16 colour and 90 bw illus

HB 9781350415829 • £95.00 / $130.00

ePub 9781350415843 £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350415836 £85.50 / $116.09

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Artist at Home Studios, Practices and Identities

Edited by Imogen Racz, Independent Scholar, UK & Jill Journeaux, Coventry University, UK

This book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice. Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. The book comprises full-length chapters by artists, architects, art and design historians, interleaved with short interviews with artists to enrich and broaden the debates.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 304 pages • 35 bw illus

HB 9781350379015 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781350379039 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350379022 £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future

Kathe Hicks Albrecht, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the look appears across popular culture, in movies, art, fashion, and literature. Steampunk expresses optimism for the future but it also delivers a note of caution about our human role in light of the ubiquitous machine. Thus, despite adopting an aesthetic and lifestyle straight out of the Victorian scientific romance, steampunk addresses significant 21st-century concerns about what lies ahead for humankind.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

• 240 pages • 20 color and 19 b&w illus

PB 9781501384271 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501349324

ePub 9781501349331 • £86.01 / $103.50

ePdf 9781501349348 • £86.01 / $103.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia

The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists

Andrey Shabanov, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia

Andrey Shabanov’s seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth for the first time the organizational structure, self-representation, exhibitions, and critical reception of this 19thcentury artistic partnership. Shabanov advances a more pragmatic reading of the Peredvizhniki, artists seeking professional and creative freedom in authoritarian Tsarist Russia. He likewise demonstrates and challenges how and why the group eventually came to be defined as a critically-minded Realist art movement. Unprecedentedly rich in new primary visual and textual sources, the book also connects afresh the Russian and Western art worlds of the period. A must-read for anyone interested in Russian art and culture, 19th-century European art, and also the history of art exhibitions, art movements, and the art market.

UK March 2024 US March 2024 280 pages 59 bw illus

PB 9781350435797 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501335525

ePub 9781501335532

ePdf 9781501335549

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Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter

Samuel Raybone, Aberystwyth University, UK

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collected paintings; cultivated and collected rare orchids; designed and tended his gardens; and engaged in local politics. Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter presents the first comprehensive account of Caillebotte’s manifold activities. It presents a completely new critical interpretation of Caillebotte’s broad career that highlights the singular salience of ‘work’, and which intersects histories and theories of visual culture, ideology, and psychoanalysis. Where the recent art historical ‘rediscovery’ of Caillebotte offers multiple narratives of his identification with working men, this book goes beyond them towards excavating what his work was in its own terms.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781501388101 • £24.99 / $34.95

• 8 colour and 46 bw illus

• 256 pages

Previously published in HB 9781501339943

ePub 9781501339950 £100.90 / $121.50

ePdf 9781501339967 £100.90 / $121.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Activism in the 21st Century

Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World

Edited by Stephanie Hartle, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Darcy White, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

This anthology provides a fresh perspective on the possibilities, limitations and politics of visual activism, as activists, artists, and curators adjust and flex to the changing world around them in this most uncertain of times. Across 22 case-studies from across the globe, the book provides an up-to-date picture of the impact of contemporary visual and art activism, combining a scholarly interrogation of visual activism with an examination of how it works in practice. This diverse scope enables readers to consider examples comparatively – noticing emerging trends and key differences to reveal how geopolitical and cultural factors play an important role in shaping activist practices.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 336 pages • 116 colour illus

PB 9781350265110 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350265073

ePub 9781350265097 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350265080 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration

Edited by Max Carocci & Stephanie Pratt, Independent Scholar, UK

Art, Observation, and the Anthropology of Illustration presents detailed case studies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and time periods to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, this volume expands the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence. An essential tool for anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 256 pages 31 colour and 53 bw illus

• £28.99 / $39.95

PB 9781350248472

• £112.48 / $135.00

• £112.48 / $135.00

Previously published in HB 9781350248434

ePub 9781350248458 • £81.00 / $110.69

ePdf 9781350248441 • £81.00 / $110.69

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Beholding

Situated Art and the Aesthetics of Reception

Ken Wilder, University of the Arts London, UK Beholding considers the spatial encounter between artwork and spectator. The book establishes a transhistorical notion of the spatially situated encounter as fundamental to site-specific art, and considers the role of the architectural host, and the spectator, in structuring that encounter.

UK December 2023 US December 2023 336 pages 9 colour & 66 bw illus

PB 9781350430716 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781350088405

ePub 9781350088412 • £85.50 / $116.09

ePdf 9781350088429 • £85.50 / $116.09

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th-Century Britain

Rebecca Wade, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK

Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1814, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenthcentury Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 216 pages 60 bw illus

PB 9781350435780 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501332197

ePub 9781501332203 • £100.90 / $121.50

ePdf 9781501332210

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £100.90 / $121.50

Jean Dubuffet, Bricoleur Portraits, Pastiche, Performativity

Stephanie Chadwick, Lamar University, USA

One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues. Yet he remains one of the most misunderstood—and least interrogated—postwar French artists. This book reexamines Dubuffet’s art through the lens of his portraits (a veritable who’s who of the Parisian art and intellectual scene) in tandem with his writings and the art and writings of his Surrealist sitters. Investigating Dubuffet’s painting as bricolage, this book explores the themes of multivalence, performativity, and multifaceted identity in his portraits.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 264 pages 8 color and 60 bw illus

PB 9781350430525 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501349454

ePub 9781501349461 • £86.01 / $103.50

ePdf 9781501349478 • £86.01 / $103.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Destruction Rites

Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture

Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College and City University of New York, USA

Destruction Rites explores the ephemeral visual culture of destruction in the postwar era and its links to contemporary art. It examines the demolition derby; games and toys based on warfare; playgrounds situated in bomb sites; and the rise of garage sales, where goods designed for obsolescence and destined for the garbage heap are reclaimed and repurposed by local communities.

Mona Hadler looks at artists such as Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci to expose how the 1960s saw destruction, construction and the everyday collide as never before.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 272 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781350428973 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781784533403

ePub 9781786721594 • £99.00 / $134.99

ePdf 9781786731593 • £99.00 / $134.99

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America

Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits

Mollie LeVeque

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn’t apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq’s depictions of Storyville’s sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans’ singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mollie LeVeque interrogates these glib readings and argues that sex work was a routine aspect of life in a modern city. She supports this theory by examining a range of cultural forms. In doing so, she advances the new argument that Bellocq humanised his subjects, de-sensationalised sex work and gave these women the dignity they were all too often denied.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350430624 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788311786

ePub 9781786725851 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781786735850 £90.15 / $108.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s

The Erotics of Revolution

Laurel Jean Fredrickson, Southern Illinois University, USA

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among the Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings: the first, Burial of the Thing of Tinguely (1960), and the most scandalous, 120 Minutes dedicated to the Divine Marquis (1966). In doing so, the study illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to the cultural and political changes of the 1960s. Research in Lebel’s personal archives and access to the restricted archive of Kristine Stiles, Lebel’s close friend and confidant, are indispensable in the telling of this extraordinary historical and theoretical narrative.

UK December 2023

PB 9781350428805

• US December 2023

• £28.99 / $39.95

• 242 pages

Previously published in HB 9781501332319

ePub 9781501332326

ePdf 9781501332333

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £93.46 / $112.50

• £93.46 / $112.50

Moving with the Magdalen

Late Medieval Art and Devotion in the Alps

Joanne W. Anderson, Warburg Institute, UK Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint’s iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen’s cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 272 pages • 40 colour and 44 bw illus

PB 9781350435841 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501334689

ePub 9781501334696 £112.48 / $135.00

ePdf 9781501334702 £112.48 / $135.00

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market

An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France

Simon Kelly, Saint Louis Art Museum, USA

The 19th century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter, Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), and this market, exploring the constellation of patrons, art dealers and critics who surrounded the artist. It argues for the pioneering role of Rousseau, his patrons and his public in the origins of the modern art market, and, in so doing, shifts attention away from the more traditional focus on the novel careers of the Impressionists and their supporters.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781350430709

• £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501343797

ePub 9781501343803 £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501343810 £90.15 / $108.00

Picturing the Beautiful Game

A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art

Edited by Daniel Haxall, Kutztown University, USA

Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game’s imagery, this volume investigates the ways soccer has been promoted, commemorated, and contested in visual terms. Throughout various mediums and formats—including illustrated newspapers, modern posters, and contemporary artworks—soccer has come to represent issues relating to identity, politics, and globalization. As the contributors to this collection suggest, these representations of the game reflect society and soccer’s place in our collective imagination.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 296 pages • 52 bw illus

PB 9781350435773 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781501334566

ePub 9781501334580 £100.90 / $121.50

ePdf 9781501334573 £100.90 / $121.50

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and Covid-19 From Reaction to Resilience

Edited by Rachel Cooper, Lancaster University, UK & Louise Mullagh, Lancaster University, UK

Providing an overview of the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the design of services, systems, spaces, communications and products, at an international, governmental and local community level. Identifying four key phases of the pandemic – reaction, adaptation, recovery and resilience – contributors explore the design response in each stage to understand what we can learn personally, socially, economically and globally from this unprecedented crisis.

UK February 2024 • US April 2024 • 304 pages • 100 bw illus

PB 9781350266711 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350266728 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350266735 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350266742 £19.79 / $26.99

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• 272 pages • 8 colour & 64 bw illus

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets Bloomsbury Visual Arts

In Private

Joanne Turney, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK

In Private offers a cultural history of domestic interior design in Britain and America over the course of the 1970s, a decade that shaped the contemporary relationship between fashion and interiors. With each chapter dedicated to a different room in the house, this collection explores style, design and sociocultural influence from the sitting room to the sauna, and from the kitchen to the conservatory. Demonstrating how the sociocultural environment of the 1970s sparked the ideas, styles and practices that have become common currency in today’s interior design, the book examines questions of sensuality, tactility, fashion, fantasy and gender.

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

HB 9781350062122

• 256 pages

• £85.00 / $115.00

ePub 9781350062146

ePdf 9781350062139

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £76.50 / $103.94

• £76.50 / $103.94

• 20 bw images

Designing the Domestic Posthuman

Colbey Emmerson Reid, Columbia College

Chicago, USA & Dennis M. Weiss, York College of Pennsylvania, USA

By focusing on the neglected intersection of posthumanism and the home from a feminist, care-oriented perspective, this book recovers a plethora of overlooked, sophisticated human-technology mediations and challenges dominant, contemporary visions of future humanity. Chapters explore a range of familiar domestic objects, spaces and practices, revivifying the home as a site of species transformation and highlighting a range of mediated materialisms and embodiments affiliated with domestic space. This book widens the lens of critical focus in posthumanism, feminist philosophy and design and presents an alternative, inclusive design framework for the future.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 176 pages 10 bw illus

• £75.00 / $100.00

HB 9781350301207

ePub 9781350301214

ePdf 9781350301221

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• £67.50 / $91.79

• £67.50 / $91.79

The Principles and Processes of Interactive Design

Jamie Steane, Northumbria University, UK

This new edition of Principles and Processes of Interactive Design updates the popular textbook with new examples and media formats to introduce the latest ways of developing and working with interactive designs. Author Jamie Steane walks through all the practical aspects of designing interactive projects and new chapters on Motion and Sound, Data and Interactivity mirror changes in how interaction design is taught and practiced.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 248 pages 200 color illus

PB 9781350258563 • £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781350258570 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350258556 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective

Alan Male, Falmouth University, UK

Alan Male's Illustration is a classic in the field. Bringing together theory, context and issues around conceptual understanding, the book is a perfect companion for illustration students around the world. New for this edition is 'Illustrator as Author and Polymath', a chapter which explores the mix of skills that illustrators need beyond a strong visual style – they must be problem-solvers, visual thinkers, researchers and communicators. It also reveals how image creators from the world of illustration, visual communication and fine art can illuminate and present exciting and original concepts and ideas related to everything that is current, in the past and in the future.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 264 pages 360 colour illus

PB 9781350283534 • £28.99 / $39.95

ePub 9781350283541 • £26.09 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350283558 • £26.09 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Bloomsbury Research in Illustration Series

Reportage Drawing Vision and Experience

Louis Netter, University of Portsmouth, UK How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our everchanging media landscape? Featuring prominent artists such as Jill Gibbon, who secretly draws in arms fairs across Europe, and Phoebe Glockner, who produces mixed media work about violence against women in Mexico, this book provides a deep dive into the immersive, provocative world of reportage drawing. Netter looks at contemporary modes of reportage practice and shows how it can foster new insights about people, places and political realities in often subtle and challenging ways.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 216 pages 55 bw illus

PB 9781350253087 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350253094 £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350253100 £17.99 / $24.29

ePdf 9781350253117 • £17.99 / $24.29

Series: Drawing In • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Getting Illustration Clients

Jo Davies, Plymouth University, UK & Derek Brazell, Association of Illustrators, UK

The commissioning process can be a confusing maze for the commercial illustrator just starting out – so let Getting Illustration Clients be your beacon for success. Written by the duo that brought you Becoming a Successful Illustrator, here Jo Davies and Derek Brazell demystify the commissioning process for commercial illustration, from the point of the view of those hiring and briefing freelance illustrators: the art editors, the designers, the agents and more.

UK February 2024

PB 9781350146983

• US February 2024

• £29.99 / $40.95

ePub 9781350146990 £26.99 / $36.44

ePdf 9781350147003 £26.99 / $36.44

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

• 256 pages

• 200 colour illustrations

Illustration and Heritage

Rachel Emily Taylor, Camberwell College of Arts, UK

Illustration and Heritage explores the rematerialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage. Grounding discussions in concepts fundamental to the illustrator, the book examines how the historical voice might be ‘found’ or reconstructed. Rachel Emily Taylor uses her own work and other illustrators’ projects as case studies to explore how the making of creative work – through the exploration of archival material and experimental fieldwork – is an important investigative process and engagement strategy when working with heritage.

UK February 2024 • US April 2024 • 224 pages • 55 full colour

PB 9781350296022 • £21.99 / $29.95

• HB 9781350294172 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350294196 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350294189 • £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Bloomsbury Research in Illustration Series • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette

An Illustrative Enquiry

Mireille Fauchon, Royal College of Art, UK

An innovative study of the prison diary of suffragette Katie Gliddon, using illustration as a research tool to create a practice-based enquiry. An ideal case study of applied research for those studying illustration, particularly in relation to research methods, narrative illustration, materiality and social history.

UK February 2024 • US April 2024

• 256 pages • 60 full colour illus

PB 9781350297524 • £21.99 / $29.95

• HB 9781350297531 • £65.00 / $90.00

ePub 9781350297548 • £19.79 / $26.99

ePdf 9781350297555 £19.79 / $26.99

Series: Bloomsbury Research in Illustration Series Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Relationality

An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human

Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, USA, Michal Osterweil, University of North Carolina, USA & Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USA

Relationality argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things. The key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – relationality. The authors explain and exemplify the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living, and they elucidate the nature of designing “relationally”.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages

PB 9781350225961 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350225978 • £45.00 / $61.00

ePub 9781350225985 • £13.49 / $18.89

ePdf 9781350225992 • £13.49 / $18.89

Series: Designing in Dark Times • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

World All Languages (except French/Portuguese/Spanish)

Designing Knowledge

Emerging Perspectives in Design Studies Practices

Edited by Bonne Zabolotney, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada

Positioning designers and their practices at the center of design studies, Designing Knowledge merges theory and practice to highlight how knowledge creation can contribute to an expanded and more inclusive design practice. Chapters and case studies explore how practitioners dismantle colonial structures of design, tensions between traditional and contemporary design practice, the nature of graphic and typographic translation, developing communities of care, personhood, authenticity and wellbeing. Bringing together a series of perspectives, methods and approaches, and exploring and critiquing current issues in design studies, Designing Knowledge encourages designers to reflect on their work in a new light.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages 73 bw illus

PB 9781350319875 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350319844 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350319851 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350319790 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing Gender A Feminist Toolkit

Sarah Elsie Baker, Media Design School, New Zealand

Designing Gender covers essential topics including definitions of sex, gender and sexuality, histories of women in design, parity in professional design practice, diversity of users, non-binary design approaches, and sustainable and equitable futures. Filled with examples from around the world, the book recognises the culturally specific nature of gendered experience and includes methods, tools and activities throughout. This book offers an ideal first step for designers looking to disrupt contemporary design practice by challenging gender inequality.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages • 83 colour illus

PB 9781350273740 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350273757 • £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350273764 • £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350273771 £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Giving Type Meaning

Context and Craft in Typography

Mia Cinelli, The University of Kentucky, USA How do we say what we really want to say? Moving beyond appropriate typeface pairing and rules for handling of type, Giving Type Meaning explores the meaning of type within social, historical, and physical contexts. Using case studies, interviews, and visual examples, this book explores the numerous ways typographic meaning is created across the expanded field of art and design.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 224 pages 250 color illus

PB 9781350255838 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350256415 £75.00 / $100.00

ePub 9781350255845 £22.49 / $31.04

ePdf 9781350255852 • £22.49 / $31.04

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Clothing Alterations and Repairs

Maintaining a Sustainable Wardrobe

Chelsey Byrd Lewallen, University of Idaho, USA

Whether you are interested in tailoring your wardrobe, starting a business, or learning a skill that will save you money and the planet, this book is for you. The text includes step-by-step illustrations on basic alterations to your ready-made clothing, including a variety of hemming techniques and taking in/ letting out seams, and repair methods to fix zippers, tears, and holes. Nononsense videos accompany the book for easy-to-follow instructions, along with a helpful list of online resources for supplies. Clothing Alterations and Repairs will be a staple book in every sewing studio, fashion classroom, and alterations shop.

UK January 2024 US March 2024 304 pages 600 color illus

PB 9781350163553 £34.99 / $47.95

ePub 9781350163577 £31.49 / $43.19

ePdf 9781350163560 • £31.49 / $43.19

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

HB 9781350163591 £110.00 / $150.00

Fitting and Pattern Alteration

A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration

Judith Rasband, Conselle Institute of Image Management, USA, Elizabeth Liechty, Brigham Young University, USA & Della PottbergSteineckert, Brigham Young University, USA Fitting and Pattern Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for a variety of body types, sizes, for adults and children. This comprehensive guide presents proven methods of style selection, fitting, and alteration. Each procedure is clearly identified and fully illustrated with a second color added to clarify the procedure and show directional measuring. The cause for the fitting problem is clearly identified and explained--giving readers the why behind each fitting procedure. This edition includes discussions of sustainable practices, body diversity; examples for menswear and childrenswear; and new step-by-step videos available via STUDIO.

UK January 2024 • US December 2023 • 496 pages • 1,250 colour illus

PB 9781501377297 • £90.00 / $120.00

ePub 9781501377273 • £90.15 / $108.00

ePdf 9781501377280 • £90.15 / $108.00

Fairchild Books

Design, Manufacture and Sell Your Bag Collection

Ann Saunders, London College of Fashion, UK Handbag design is more than just a creative pursuit—it’s also a business. This practical guide to developing your design skills alongside the vital business know-how will help entrepreneurs avoid costly mistakes. Ann Saunders guides readers from initial concepts through to sampling, manufacturing, marketing, and retail - navigating the challenges of sourcing materials, finding a manufacturer, creating a bespoke brand, developing a sales strategy, and growing your business. Throughout the book Ann's former students, who have established their own successful brands, share their real-world insights into the challenges of becoming a designer/ entrepreneur in today’s highly competitive accessories market.

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 416 pages • 140 colour illus

PB 9781350346604 • £39.99 / $54.95

ePub 9781350346628 • £35.99 / $48.59

ePdf 9781350346611 £35.99 / $48.59

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Hang-Ups

Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of Fashion’s ‘Western’Centrism

Benjamin Linley Wild, The Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Many books explain how people dress to define themselves within their society and community. Hang-Ups considers the clothing society suggests people shouldn’t wear because it violates contemporary norms and expectations. It spotlights topics that remain culturally sensitive for communities around the world – among them, nudity, size, gender, sexuality, race and religion – and, using examples of contentious fashion catwalks, advertising campaigns and high-street retailers, it locates the cause and consequences of public censure by placing the clothing controversy in its cultural and historical frame.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350197237

• £27.99 / $37.95

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Understanding Fashion Scandals

Annamari Vänskä, Aalto University, Finland & Olga Gurova, Laurea University, Finland

Understanding Fashion Scandals is the first book to explore this changing landscape of contemporary fashion through case studies showing how ‘shock value’ lost its currency. The book focuses on the changes since the late-1970s and early 1980s, when brands like Calvin Klein and Benetton first used controversy as a promotional tool to build their brand identity, to the contemporary industry where avoiding social media backlash is critical to survival. Analyzing the tactics brands including Burberry, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada adopt to avoid or mitigate scandals, Vänskä and Gurova map the fashion industry’s journey towards cultural sustainability.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages • 23 bw illus

PB 9781350248977 • £21.99

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Fashion and Motherhood Image, Material, Identity

Edited by Laura Snelgrove, Independent Researcher, UK

Exploring the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, this collection interrogates their relationships to power, misogyny, temporality, longing and embodiment. 18 essays examine representations on film, in popular print and literature; using images, narrative and material evidence from the past to excavate how mothers have been expected to hide, display, share and sacrifice their bodies. An international range of scholars trace three centuries of how fashion and motherhood have operated as powerfully interdependent experiences and continue to determine how women are judged and corralled, yet also find meaning, connection and strength.

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

• 256 pages

• 25 bw illus

• 288 pages

• HB 9781350197244

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• £85.00 / $115.00

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From Sleepwear to Sportswear How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion

Janine D'Agati & Hannah Schiff

From Sleepwear to Sportswear analyses the rise of the sleepwear trend and its influence in creating the image of the trousered woman, now particularly associated with The American Look. Through meticulous research and never-before-seen images, the authors explore how pajamas came to symbolise much more than sleepwear: in the context of the Golden Age of Travel, the rise of Hollywood and the changing political climate of the 20th century the versatile garment influenced culture more broadly and was bound to the independence of women.

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 272 pages • 150 bw and colour illus

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dressing and Undressing Duchamp

Ingrid E. Mida, Independent Art and Dress

Historian, Artist and Curator, Canada

Marcel Duchamp’s engagement with clothing has been little-studied. However, photographs of the artist immediately reveal his knowledge of the significance of fashion and clothing to the visual representation of the self. This book explores clothing and dressing as significant themes that recur in Duchamp’s life and his work –including his drawings, his fashioning of his body, his readymades, and his curatorial gestures. In considering the material traces of Duchamp’s fashioning of his body and identity, this book makes a highly original contribution to the understanding of his work and the significance of the clothed body in the vanguard of Modernism.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 224 pages • 42 colour illus

PB 9781350236127 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dress and Identity in America

The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964

Daniel Delis Hill, Fashion Historian, UK

Dress and Identity in America 1946-1964 is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s—a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals. It looks at how American men sought to recapture a masculine identity from a generation earlier, that of the stoic patriarch, breadwinner, and dutiful father; and how American women were now expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers. Through these examples it analyses the sociocultural and socio-political causes for changes in dress and identity over the period, and how the baby-boom generation came to reject these trends.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

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Encyclopedia of Hair A Cultural History

Victoria Sherrow, Independent Scholar, USA

Hair—or lack thereof—can be an important symbol of gender, class, and culture around the world and through history. Hairstyles have come to represent cultural heritage and memory, and even political leanings, social beliefs, and identity. This second edition builds upon the original volume, updating all entries that have evolved over the last decade, such as by discussing hipster culture in the entries on beards and mustaches and recent medical breakthroughs in hair loss. New entries have been added that look at specific world regions, hair coverings, political symbolism behind certain styles, and other topics.

UK March 2023 US March 2023 640 pages 120 bw illus

HB 9781440873485 £93.00 / $120.00

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Greenwood

Curating Italian Fashion Heritage, Industry, Institutions

Matteo Augello, London College of Fashion, UK

Curating Italian Fashion provides unprecedented insight into the management of Italian fashion heritage and presents a comprehensive account of the development of fashion curation in Italy. Through the critical analysis of key examples such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Pitti Immagine and Gucci, Matteo Augello unfolds the ties between the preservation of fashion heritage and corporate policies, illustrating how the inevitable commercial interests underlying fashion curation can exist alongside the scholarly contribution of corporate initiatives. It is essential reading for scholars, industry professionals and students interested in the inter-sections of curation, heritage, national identity and corporate cultural policies.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 214 pages • 19 bw illus

PB 9781350230811 • £28.99 / $39.95

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

On the Job

A History of American Work Uniforms

Heather Akou, Indiana University, USA

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, this book explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 304 pages • 111 bw illus

HB 9781350349384 • £90.00 / $120.00

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• 114 bw illus

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• £85.00 / $115.00

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Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen

British Seamstresses from the 17th to the 19th centuries

Pam Inder, Independent Scholar, UK

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, seamstressing was a trade for women who worked in linen and cotton. Some of these seamstresses were consummate craftswomen, able to skilfully sew with stitches almost invisible to the naked eye. By the 1840s, however, most seamstresses were sweated workers paid unbelievably low rates per dozen for the garments they produced, notorious examples of downtrodden, exploited womenfolk. This book explores the seamstress’s change of status and the reasons for it, hinting at the resurgence of the trade today in a climate where few 21st century women can repair and alter their own clothes.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 304 pages • 8 colour and 52 bw illus

HB 9781350252967 • £85.00 / $115.00

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Construction Knitting

Knitwear Design With Geometric Shapes

Nikki Gabriel, Knitwear and textile designer, New Zealand

Construction Knitting uses clear visual aids to demonstrate modular exercises for practical and theoretical applications of hand, machine and digital knitting methods. While the idea of using geometric shapes for knitting is not new, Nikki Gabriel's development of construction knitting is a system designed for the user to be codesigner, so the book provides the tools for the reader to engage and transform the design to fit their individual needs and preferences. Construction Knitting is a creative approach to garment construction and a useful visual reference guide for design students, professionals or hobby knitters.

UK February 2024 US April 2024 208 pages 300 colour illus.

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

How Textile Communicates From Codes to Cosmotechnics

Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada

Textile is a medium of communication that predates even the alphabet. In this pioneering crossover of textile and communication studies, Ganaele Langlois draws on global historical case studies to explore the communicative capacity of textile before shedding light on its more recent appropriation by industrial, capitalist and colonial systems.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 272 pages 42 bw illus.

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Turkey Red

Julie Wertz, Harvard Art Museums, USA

Prized for its brilliant colour and durability, yet notoriously difficult to produce, Turkey red became a major industry in the 18th- and 19th-century global economy, consumed locally and exported around the world. This book explores the arc of the Turkey red industry: the evolution of the process through key producers and technical developments, the complicated printing process, significant Turkey red collections and a selection of object case studies. Turkey Red presents significant new research on the material characterisation of this fascinating, eye-catching textile, and offers an in-depth historical example of the global effect of textile consumption.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 224 pages • 92 color illus

PB 9781350216501 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350216518 • £80.00 / $110.00

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Textiles on Film

Becky Peterson, University of New Mexico, USA

Scholars have given much attention to the connections between fashion and film but, until now, no study has comprehensively explored the relationship between fabric and film. This book fills this gap in the literature by looking at how textiles are used by filmmakers to create mood, communicate meaning and convey drama. In case studies from Hitchcock classics and Hollywood blockbusters such as The Matrix to lesser-known arthouse films, Peterson reveals the social nuances of fabrics and unearths new possibilities for understanding cinema.

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 208 pages • 28 bw illus

HB 9781350026551 • £75.00 / $100.00

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Cultural Histories Series

Each multi-volume set in the critically-acclaimed Cultural Histories series looks in depth at a subject through the lens of six historical periods, broadly:

Antiquity | The Medieval Age | The Renaissance | The Age of Enlightenment | The Age of Empire | The Modern Age

Each volume covers the same topics so readers can either dive deeply into a particular era or follow a theme across history. Sets are available first in print for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, and subsequently added to Bloomsbury Cultural History online as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).

A Cultural History of Leisure

6-Volume Set

Edited by Peter Borsay, Aberystwyth University, UK and Jan Hein Furnée, Radboud University, The Netherlands

A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of leisure from antiquity through to the 21st century.

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 Coviviality; The World of Goods; The World of Nature; and Representations of Leisure. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 6 vols. • c.1,672 pages. • 240 bw illus

HB Pack · 9781350057470 • £440 / $610

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A Cultural History of Death

6-Volume Set

Edited by Douglas Davies, Durham University, UK

A period-by-period overview of death from the ancient period to the present day. 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. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550

UK January 2024 US January 2024 6 vols. c. 1728 pages 300 bw Illus

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A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking

6-Volume Set

Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona, USA

The first detailed reference work on the cultural history of slavery and trafficking around the world to span time from prehistory to the 21st century.

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. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 UK

A Cultural History of Insects

6-Volume Set

Edited by Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, USA

Brings together scientists, social scientists, historians, and visual culture specialists from around the world to present this fully interdisciplinary survey of insects from classical times to the present day.

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; Insects in Art. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550

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A Cultural History of Mathematics

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Edited by David E. Rowe, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany & Joseph W. Dauben, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), USA

The first comprehensive and global history of how numbers have changed our world. 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 & Profession; Inventing Mathematics; Mathematics & Worldviews; Describing & Understanding the World; Mathematics & Technological Change; Representing Mathematics. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550

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A Cultural History of Hinduism

6-Volume Set

Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA

A comprehensive 6-volume reference work which thematically covers the cultural history of Hinduism from the pre-Classical Age to the present day.

This 6-volume set presents an authoritative survey of Hinduism from ancient times to the present, spanning 4,500 years. The work takes an interdisciplinary approach drawing on religious studies, Asian studies, history, literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, politics, sociology and anthropology. 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.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550

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A Cultural History of Tragedy

6-Volume Set

Edited by Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality." London Review of Books

This set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of tragedy in its physical, social and cultural context. Each richly illustrated volume discusses the same themes in its 8 chapters: Forms and Media; Sites of Performance and Circulation; Communities of Production and consumption; Philosophy and Social Theory; Religion, Ritual and Myth; Politics of City and Nation; Society and Family, and Gender and Sexuality.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 6 vols. 1,824 pages 200 bw illus

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A Cultural History of Disability

6-Volume Set

Edited by David Bolt, Liverpool Hope University, UK & Robert McRuer, George Washington University, USA

Examines 2,500 years of disability from a wide range of perspectives, including history, literary studies, education and cultural studies.

With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this six-volume set charts changing cultural attitudes to disability, from antiquity and the medieval age, through the Renaissance and the long nineteenth century to the modern era. Each volume covers the same major themes throughout, allowing researchers to trace through history such topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

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A Cultural History of Democracy

6-Volume Set

Edited by Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge, UK

How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? This set of six volumes spans 2,500 years of democracy in its physical, social and cultural context.

Each volume discusses the same themes in its ten chapters: Sovereignty; Liberty; The ‘Common Good’; Economic and Social Democracy; Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation; Gender and Citizenship; Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism; Democratic Processes, Revolutions and Civil Resistance; International Relations; and Expanding the Polis, Transforming Sovereignty.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 6 vols 1,720 pages 268 bw illus

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A Cultural History of Memory

6 Volume Set

Edited by Stefan Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany & Jeffrey K. Olick, University of Virginia, USA

Examines 2,500 years of memory from a variety of perspectives in social and cultural history.

A Cultural History of Memory provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of memory from ancient times to the present day. Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: politics, time and space, media and technology, science and education, philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture, society, and remembering, and forgetting. This enables readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.

UK February 2024 US February 2024 6 vols. 1,672 pages 300 bw illus

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A Cultural History of the Home

6-Volume Set

Edited by Amanda Flather, University of Essex, UK

The first authoritative cultural history of the home to range from antiquity to the present day.

A Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800 years, the six volumes explore how different cultures and societies have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space.

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 6 vols. • 1,520 pages • 300 bw illus

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The Bible and Western Christian Literature Books and

The Book

5-Volume Set

Edited by Stephen Prickett, University of Glasgow, UK and Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University, UK

The first resource to map and outline the intersections between the bible and literature from classical times to the present day through essays, primary readings and commentary.

In five volumes, this 1.5 million word resource explores the impact and influence of the bible upon the development of literature, and the bible’s role ‘as’ literature through history. The international spread of the biblical text is reflected in a structure that considers the broader geographical, philosophical, and theological factors that crop up when the bible’s role in culture and society is considered. Each volume begins with a chapter on how the biblical text is mediated in the given period. Ten thematic essays then introduce the key thinkers, works, events and themes of the period. Extracts from primary materials accompanied by specialist commentary show how these texts interact with the bible itself.

Special introductory price (valid up to 3 months after publication): £675 / $909

UK February 2024 · US December 2023 5 vols. c. 2,400 pages

HB Pack · 9780567682062 · £750 / $1010

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Religion and World Civilizations

How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present [3 volumes]

Edited by Andrew Holt, Florida State College at Jacksonville, USA

An indispensable resource for understanding how religious belief has shaped societies and cultures from the ancient world to the 21st century. Accessible and authoritative, this threevolume encyclopedia surveys and synthesizes our understanding of how religion and society have intersected over the centuries.

Taken as a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.

UK August 2023

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All Things Ancient Rome

An Encyclopedia of the Roman World 2-Volume Set

Anne Leen, Furman University, USA

Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome.

While other reference works typically examine battles and politicians, this book focuses on Roman social history and daily life, painting a detailed picture of the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. A timeline highlights key events, while an overview essay surveys the achievements of the Romans. Reference entries provide objective information about art, architecture, literature, commerce, transportation, government, religion, and other topics related to Roman life. Each entry provides cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and some provide sidebars of interesting facts along with excerpts from primary source documents.

UK August 2023

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Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2023

Fifth Edition

2-Volume Set

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this 2-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians.

This authoritative reference resource provides a history and analysis of all 27 ratified amendments to the Constitution, as well as insights and information on thousands of other amendments that have been proposed but never ratified from America's birth until the present day. The set also includes a rich bibliography of informative books, articles, and other media related to constitutional amendments and the amending process. A staple since its original publication in 1996, this thoroughly updated reference set remains an invaluable resource for research and education.

The Making of Modern Atlantic Monarchies 1770 to the Present Day

2-Volume Set

Edited by Carolina Armenteros, Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University, Dominican Republic, Matthijs Lok, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Iason Zarikos, EKKE Centre for Social Research, Greece

A comprehensive exploration of how monarchy has been conceptualized and politically deployed in the Atlantic world from the birth of conservatism during the French Revolution to the present day.

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.

Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £180 / $245

UK March 2025 US March 2025 2 vols. c. 640 pages

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