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History
Mastering Modern World History
Norman Lowe & John Traynor, Retired The sixth edition of this bestselling book takes students on a journey through the 20th century and provides a clear overview of the key events which have shaped modern world history. Unrivalled in its broad coverage, it: Surveys international relations and war, from 1900 to the present day; Examines the rise and fall of fascism and communism around the globe; Explores the international affairs of the major superpowers: the USA, Russia/ USSR and China; Assesses the experience of decolonization in India, Africa and Latin America and Unpicks global issues, including economic crises and population increase Chapters feature maps, diagrams and further reading suggestions to support and further understanding. This new edition has been updated to take account of new scholarship, and provide a more global approach to key chapters in modern world history.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 720 pages • 20 illustrations PB 9781350933408 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350933392 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350933415 • £25.19 / $35.71 ePdf 9781350933422 • £25.19 / $35.71 Bloomsbury Academic
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria
Albena Shkodrova, KU Leuven, Begium Albena Shkodrova shows how many women in communist Bulgaria passionately exchanged recipes to build substantial private collections, a borderline contraband activity under a regime where home cooking was considered household slavery and an agent of patriarchalism. Drawing on primary sources, including scrapbook cookbooks, and working from the establishment of cookery classes before communism to their obliteration thereafter, Shkodrova highlights the meaning behind recipe exchange and home cooking for Bulgarian women under the communist regime.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 200 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350205444 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350132306 ePub 9781350132320 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350132313 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic
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 August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages • 21 bw illus HB 9781350291393 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350291416 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350291409 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Histories of Internationalism
David Brydan, King's College London, UK; Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck, London, UK
Inventing the Third World
In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South
Edited by Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University, USA & Gyan Prakash, Princeton University, USA The end of the Second World War and the eclipse of empires brought a wave of efforts to reimagine the future world order. When nation states emerging from colonial rule met at Bandung to chart alternative destinies and challenge global inequalities, they were reimagining a new world order; less hierarchical, more pluralistic and more distributive. This volume considers the alternative visions put forth by the third world at the close of WWII to recover their world-changing aspirations as well as its cultural and intellectual breakthroughs.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350268159 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350268173 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350268166 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic
Internationalists in European History
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Edited by Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck, University of London, UK & David Brydan, King's College, London, UK Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of internationalisms developed by Europeans over the course of the 20th century.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781472986986 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350107359 ePub 9781350107373 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350107366 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic
Bernard Porter, University of Newcastle, UK In Britain: A Contested History, eminent historian Bernard Porter explores the most contested aspects of British history from 1800 to the present day. Recent years have seen a re-examination of Britain’s imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history. Examining issues such as Brexit, recent reassessments of Winston Churchill’s historical record, the so-called 'culture wars' and Britain’s uncomfortable reckoning with its imperial past, the book reconsiders what it means to be a “patriot” in Britain.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781350296381 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781350296404 • £18.00 / $26.09 ePdf 9781350296398 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, Alison Oram, Leeds Beckett University, UK & Justin Bengry, Goldsmiths, University of London Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection examines the significance of locality in queer spaces and experiences in modern British history. Foregrounding the voices of LGBTQ-identified people through an innovative synthesis of source material – from letters and diaries to TV interviews and oral testimonies – this collection sheds light on these experiences in Britain and, chiefly, how they were shaped, and differentiated, through a complex relation with locality.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9781350143722 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350143746 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350143739 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Music and Politics in Thirties Britain
Raise the Standard High
John Morris, Independent Scholar, South Africa This book looks at this little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in 1934. Centered around six key themes: technology, composers and composing, experimentation and modern music, fascism abroad, fascism and politics at home and national identity, the book brings a fresh perspective to current literature. By including these themes, Music and Politics in Thirties Britain provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between music, musicians and fascism.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 272 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350271227 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350271258 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350271241 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain
The Great Evasion
Piers Legh, University of Manchester, UK Piers Legh sheds an important light on the Conservative Party’s involvement in state education, particularly the destruction of selective education and the development of comprehensive schooling in Britain – a story that is largely untold despite its enormous socio-cultural consequences.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350254633 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350254664 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350254657 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Concerning Beards
Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900
Alun Withey, University of Exeter, UK In this Open Access book, Alan Withey explores the history of male facial hair in England and underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural significance from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Withey charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair, and shaving - away from ‘formal’ medicine and practice - towards new concepts of hygiene and personal grooming. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 344 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350213012 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350127845 ePub 9781350127869 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350127852 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face • Bloomsbury Academic
Craig Horner, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including magazines, newspapers and advice books on stable management, this book explores the emergence and development of bicycling and automobility in Britain, with a focus on the racing driver-cum-entrepreneur SF Edge (1868-1940) and his network. Craig Horner writes lucidly and engagingly, entertaining his reader whilst educating them with fascinating details about the emergence and establishment of bicycling and automobility.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350214569 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350054189 ePub 9781350054219 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350054202 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Keith Hamilton, Kings College, London, UK Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Lucidly-written and incredibly detailed, this book draws extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, making it essential reading for anyone with an interest in British diplomatic history.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages PB 9781350212800 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350159167 ePub 9781350159174 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350159150 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Before the Arts Council
Howard Webber, Independent Scholar Before the Arts Council rediscovers three forgotten but influential campaigns for state support of the arts in Britain before and during World War II. Webber’s impressive historical excavation challenges existing scholarship which argues that the arts subsidy was the result of the war, and instead re-situates the campaign’s origins in the pre-war years. Webber does so by drawing on correspondence from influential figures including Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Maynard Keynes and J.B Priestley, along with extensive use of government papers.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 264 pages PB 9781350169715 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350167933 ePub 9781350167957 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350167940 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990
Stephen Kelly, Liverpool Hope University, UK From a ‘no surrender’ attitude to Republican hunger strikes to the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher’s approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this nuanced study reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. Making use of previously neglected archival sources, this is a vital resource for those interested in Thatcherism, Anglo-Irish relations, and 20th-century British political history.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 408 pages • 13 bw illus PB 9781350202191 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350115378 ePub 9781350115392 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350115385 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Mountbatten
Apprentice War Lord
Adrian Smith Adrian Smith brings Mountbatten to life, acknowledging the essential qualities as well as the obvious weaknesses. Beneath the rich, vain, often ruthless, embodiment of power and privilege could be found a very human, even vulnerable, character - the complex personality of a pivotal figure in the history of twentiethcentury Britain and her empire.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 400 pages • 17 bw integrated PB 9781350294776 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781848853744 ePub 9780857730879 • £40.50 / $56.32 ePdf 9780857714923 • £40.50 / $56.32 Bloomsbury Academic
An Introduction to Historical Comparison
Mikhail Krom, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia Translated by Elizabeth Guyatt An Introduction to Historical Comparison is the first comprehensive study of the theory and practice of comparative-historical research. Designed as a handbook for historians, this book shows scholars how to develop the skills needed to successfully employ a comparative methodology. It begins by tracing the intellectual history of comparative history writing and then examines the practice of historical comparison. The result is a clear and engaging analysis of historical thinking and a useful guide to main methodological techniques, successes, and pitfalls of comparative research.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 168 pages PB 9781350202115 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350123328 ePub 9781350123342 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350123335 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
R.G Collingwood and the Second World War
Facing Barbarism
Peter Johnson, University of Southampton, UK As one of the few philosophers to subject civilisation and barbarism to close analysis, Collingwood was acutely aware of the interrelationship between philosophy and history. This book combines historical, biographical and philosophical discussion in order to illuminate Collingwood’s thinking and create the first in-depth analysis of Collingwood’s responses to the Second World War.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350203013 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350160644 ePub 9781350162969 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350162952 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Refugees, Rejection, and Memory
Paul R. Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period. The book also considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees and placing the country’s response in wider contexts, Bartrop provides an Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350185135 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350185142 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350185166 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350185159 • £17.99 / $24.72 Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust • Bloomsbury Academic
Norway in the Second World War
Politics, Society and Conflict
Ole Kristian Grimnes, University of Oslo, Norway This authoritative text -- covering political, military, economic and social history -- describes how the Germans conquered Norway in 1940 and the type of government that was then imposed. Ole Kristian Grimnes examines the Norwegian Nazi Party and the important role that it played during the period, as well as analysing how the Norwegian economy became integrated into the German war economy. The Norwegian resistance and the Norwegian government-in-exile are explored in detail, while a separate chapter on the Holocaust in both Norwegian and international contexts is also included.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 336 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350214606 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350214590 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350214620 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350214613 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania
The Limits of Orthodoxy and NationBuilding
Roland Clark, University of Liverpool, UK This open access book explores how competing religious groups in interwar Romania responded to and emerged out of similar catalysts, including rising literacy rates, new religious practices and a newly empowered laity inspired by universal male suffrage and a growing civil society who took control of community organizing. This book challenges us to rethink the onesided narratives about modernity and religious conflict in interwar Eastern Europe.
The ebook editions are available under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Liverpool.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781350197039 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350100954 ePub 9781350100978 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350100961 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Colonialism and the Jews in German History
From the Middle Ages to the 20th 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 July 2022 • US July 2022 • 288 pages • 17 bw illus HB 9781350155718 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350155732 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350155725 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The French Resistance and its Legacy
Rod Kedward, University of Sussex, UK With personal reflections on the modern difficulties tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, this book offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book uses a wealth of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of imagination and inventiveness at the heart of resistance. The book as a whole celebrates where history, literature, film and testimony interact, to make talking about resistance both an art and a discovery.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 192 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350260429 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350260436 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781350260450 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781350260443 • £16.19 / $23.34 Bloomsbury Academic
A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe
Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars
Edited by Bastiaan Willems, University College London, UK & Michal 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 September 2022 • US September 2022 • 320 pages • 4 bw illus HB 9781350281073 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350281103 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350281097 • £76.50 / $105.78 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 July 2022 • US July 2022 • 304 pages • 13 bw illus HB 9781350273511 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350273535 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350273528 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Soviet Suppression of Academia
The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky
Petr A. Druzhinin, Russian Academic of Sciences, Russia This book tells of an individual’s struggle with a highly repressive state machine. Based on the hitherto inaccessible Soviet Secret Police (KGB) 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 KGB’s secret operations against prominent intellectuals is revealed in full, horrific detail, providing new insight into the lived experience of KGB control and into the relationship between intellectual and state power in Soviet Russia.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 304 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350136137 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350136151 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350136144 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic World English Periphery Unbound, 1920-29
Sara G. Brinegar, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA Sarah 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 December 2022 • US December 2022 • 208 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781350286689 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350286702 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350286696 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Repressed Children
Boris B. Gorshkov, Kennesaw State University, USA The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941, Boris B. Gorshkov investigates the causes of this prolonged homelessness and starvation, the conditions faced by huge numbers of children, and the state’s unsuccessful efforts to solve these horrendous issues.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350098671 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350098695 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350098688 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
A History in 12 Case Studies
Gary Kates, Pomona College, USA This book offers a history of Europe from 1699 to 1780 through a literary lens, with each chapter telling the story of an influential book from its inception through to the revolutionary era. Kates analyses works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and more, championing the importance of a crucial innovation: the rise of the ‘erudite blockbuster’, which helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, and incorporates the responses of ordinary men and women.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 400 pages • 23 bw illus PB 9781350277656 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350277649 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350277670 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350277663 • £22.49 / $31.59 Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Sacral Kingship in Bourbon France
The Cult of Saint Louis, 1589 - 1830
Sean Heath, Independent Scholar, UK What does Saint Louis’ cult actually reveal about the Bourbon monarchy’s ability to foster a political culture of loyalty through all religious, political, and intellectual challenges of this era? From manuscripts to paintings to music, Sean Heath skillfully engages with a vast array of primary source material and modern debates on sacral kingship to provide an enlightening and comprehensive analysis of the role of Saint Louis in early modern France.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 296 pages • 13 bw illus PB 9781350214644 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350173194 ePub 9781350173217 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350173200 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Making and Unmaking the Carolingians
751-888
Stuart Airlie, University of Glasgow, UK How does power manifest itself in individuals and why do people obey it? Here, Stuart Airlie takes the idea of authority as a lens through which to explore one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Europe: the Carolingians. With its nuanced analysis of authority, politics and family, this study sheds new light on both the Carolingian empire and the nature of power in medieval Europe more generally.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 456 pages PB 9781350189003 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788317443 ePub 9781786726407 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781786736468 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600
Gifts as Objects
Edited by Lars Kjaer, New College of the Humanities, UK & Gustavs Strenga, Tallinn University, Estonia Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and often-overlooked aspect of this phenomenon: the material nature of the gift. Drawing on examples from both medieval and early modern Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts and the use of exotic objects and animals, from elephant bones to polar bears and ‘living’ holy objects, to communicate power, class and allegiance.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 288 pages • 24 bw illus HB 9781350183698 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350183711 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350183704 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Medievalism in Finland and Russia
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Aspects
Edited by Reima Välimäki, University of Turku, Finland This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas that are crucial to understanding global medievalism but are, due to language barriers, often inaccessible to the majority of Western scholars. It reveals that while medievalisms in Finland and Russia share many features with the contemporary AngloAmerican medievalist imaginations, they also display many original characteristics due to particular political situations and indigenous medievalist traditions. They have their own meta-medievalisms, cumulative core ideas and interpretations about the medieval past that are thoroughly examined here in English for the very first time.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350232884 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350232914 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350232907 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga
Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature
Heather O'Donoghue, University of Oxford, UK Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th or 14th centuries, the Icelandic Sagas rank among some of the world’s greatest literature. Here, Heather O’Donoghue examines the singular textual voice of the Sagas while also exploring their important underlying ideas about the passage of time. Bringing fresh and lively insights to the foundation texts of Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage, this book is an essential discussion of the luminous oral tradition of a migratory people and an iconic canon of Western culture.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781350211636 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788312875 ePub 9781786726254 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781786736314 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive
New Essays on Power and Discourse
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 September 2022 • US September 2022 • 320 pages • 20 b/w illus HB 9781350200333 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350200364 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350200357 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History • Bloomsbury Academic
Visual Histories of Occupation
A Transcultural Dialogue
Edited by Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this edited collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. With specific cases of foreign occupation from around the world and across the 20th century, the chapters discuss the similarities, links and points of contact which bring disparate examples of occupation into dialogue with one another. The intention is to illustrate how an emphasis on ‘the visual’ can help inform our understanding of occupation more broadly.
This book is open access and available on www. bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the European Research Council.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 320 pages • 24 bw illus, 20 colour illus PB 9781350205949 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350142206 ePub 9781350142220 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350142213 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Full Employment Horizon in 20th-Century America
The Movement for Economic Democracy
Michael Dennis, Acadia University, Canada Through moments of social protest, policy debate, and popular mobilization, this book follows the campaign for economic democracy and the fight for full employment in the United States. Starting in the 1930s, Dennis explores its intellectual and philosophical underpinnings, the class struggle that determined the fate of legislation and the role of leftwing civil rights activists in its revival.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350205703 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350179141 ePub 9781350179165 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350179158 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture
Nicola Bishop, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350228047 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350064355 ePub 9781350064379 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350064362 • £76.50 / $105.78 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 September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350151956 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350151970 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350151963 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party
Citizens, Revolutionaries, and Spies
Edited by Vernon L. Pedersen, American University of Sharjah, UAE, James G. Ryan, Texas A&M University, USA & Katherine A. S. Sibley, Saint Joseph's University, USA This collection of essays explores new aspects in the history of American Communism, drawing on a range of documents from Moscow and Eastern Europe that were released after the end of the Cold War. Examining traditional subjects in the light of new evidence, they cover a range of topics including party leaders, espionage, campaigns against racism, the Spanish Civil War, communism and gender, and ways in which Communists became Anti-Communists.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 280 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350202504 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350135758 ePub 9781350135772 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350135765 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52
Luis Sierra, Thomas More College, USA Luis Sierra treads new ground in his authoritative research on the influence of indigenous migration and the subsequent political activism of La Paz's urban inhabitants upon the transformation of Bolivia in the first half the 20th century. Sierra examines the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, a shift from the current focus on individuals.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781350204225 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350099166 ePub 9781350099180 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350099173 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India
Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality
Douglas E. Haynes, Dartmouth College, USA This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a ‘brand-name capitalism’ among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical transformations.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 288 pages • 90 bw illus HB 9781350278042 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350278066 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350278059 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History • Bloomsbury Academic
Negotiating Abolition
The Antislavery Project in the British Strait Settlements, 1786-1843
Shawna Herzog, Washington State University, USA Shawna Herzog explores the ways sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial antislavery policies, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture, or ‘free,’ labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Strait settlements of Southeast Asia. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781350202481 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350073203 ePub 9781350073227 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350073210 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
South Asian Migrations in Global History
Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives
Edited by Neilesh Bose, University of Victoria, Canada This collection explores how migrations across South Asia have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. With original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of regulation and historical biography. Showcasing a world history outside empire and nation, this book presents histories from below with global implications.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 280 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350197343 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350124677 ePub 9781350124691 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350124684 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine
Encounters along the Silk Roads
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a crosscultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the ‘globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical history, and emphasizes the role of the transmission of medical ideas and practices between European and Asian cultures. Using original research taken from the medical findings of Dunhuang, Turpan and Cairo Genizah, this book contextualizes the history of Euro-Asian medical encounters, from Greco-Indic early contacts to the present adoptions of mindfulness in psychotherapy.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 21 colour illus PB 9781350195820 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472512574 ePub 9781472512499 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781472507181 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Political Economy of Settler Colonisation
Erik Green, Lund University, Sweden This 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.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 192 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350258235 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350258259 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350258242 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey
Pramod K. Nayar It consists of documents that deal with England’s discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent and accounts how the British ‘discovered’ the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the ‘new’, was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder, which was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. This volume is a part of the five volumes that throws light on the process of colonisation, its contexts, and provide a glimpse into the mind of the colonisers.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 216 pages HB 9789354356582 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9789354356506 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Navigating by the Southern Cross
A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia
Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University London, UK In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial and maritime history.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 352 pages PB 9781350214545 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350154773 ePub 9781350154797 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350154780 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic King Farouk of Egypt and British Culture 1936-1965
Martin Francis This book explores the narratives and representations of King Farouk found in British official and popular culture which transcended the distinction between politics and celebrity, ‘Orient’ and Europe, imperial and post-imperial worlds. Exploring Farouk as both a political and cultural figure, Francis considers diplomatic history in tandem with histories of popular culture and celebrity to study British culture during the era of decolonization in a more holistic way.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350124592 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350124615 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350124608 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Indian People and Society
Pramod K. Nayar It includes documents on the people of the subcontinent — castes, religions, education, economies, professions, cultural practices, states of health and sickness, and other domains. The languages of the people were of perpetual interest to the British statesman, grammarian and the curious officer in the Company. The codification, translation and documentation of languages, the preparation of dictionaries and guidebooks for the British officer proceeded, with its ‘orientalist’ agenda but also as a mode of knowledge gathering and production. This volume is a part of the five volumes that throws light on the process of colonisation, its contexts, and provide a glimpse into the mind of the colonisers.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 312 pages HB 9789354356674 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9789354356667 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
