History Highlights 2018

Highlights from the History List 2019 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

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Books highlights from the History list

Birthright Citizens

War Stuff

Unrequited Toil

A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America Martha S. Jones

The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War Joan E. Cashin

A History of United States Slavery Calvin Schermerhorn

Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans’ preCivil War claims to belonging.

Studies in Legal History July 2018 228 x 152 mm 266pp 12 b/w illus.

978-1-316-60472-4 Paperback £19.99 / US$27.99

Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.

Cambridge Studies on the American South August 2018 228 x 152 mm 270pp 24 b/w illus.

978-1-108-41318-3 Paperback £17.99 / US$24.99

Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.

Cambridge Essential Histories

Latin America in Colonial Times Second edition Matthew Restall and Kris Lane

This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.

October 2018 228 x 152 mm 266pp 978-1-107-60858-0 Paperback £17.99 / US$24.99

August 2018 253 x 177 mm 362pp 35 maps 978-1-108-40346-7 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99

Afro-Latin American Studies

The Forty-Seven Rōnin

Empires of Ancient Eurasia

A Business History of India

An Introduction Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews

The Vendetta in History John A. Tucker

The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CE Craig Benjamin

Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700 Tirthankar Roy

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Afro-Latin America June 2018 228 x 152 mm 660pp 978-1-316-63066-2 Paperback £24.99 / US$34.99

The first comprehensive historical study of one of the most famous events in Japanese history: the Forty-seven Rōnin vendetta.

March 2018 228 x 152 mm 332pp 36 b/w illus.

978-1-107-48075-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99

Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.

New Approaches to Asian History May 2018 228 x 152 mm 316pp 978-1-107-53543-5 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99

Studying firms and entrepreneurs over three centuries, this book unravels the historical roots of the impressive business growth witnessed in contemporary India.

April 2018 228 x 152 mm 310pp 27 b/w illus. 3 maps 7 tables 978-1-316-63748-7 Paperback £24.99 / US$31.99

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Books highlights from the History list

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500–1492 Edited by Jonathan Shepard

The only single-volume on the 1000-year Byzantine Empire, written by experts in the different periods, which blends narrative and thematic history.

April 2019 228 x 152 mm 1228pp 978-1-107-68587-1 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99

West Germany and Israel Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974 Carole Fink

A new history of the West German-Israeli relationship as these two countries faced terrorism, war, and economic upheaval in a global Cold War environment.

January 2019 228 x 152 mm 320pp 978-1-107-42828-7 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

The Stalinist Era

Jacob & Esau

David L. Hoffmann

Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire Malachi Haim Hacohen

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

May 2018 246 x 189 mm 248pp 51 colour illus. 32 maps 978-1-107-15038-6 Hardback £24.99 / US$34.95

Women of Fortune Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England Linda Levy Peck

Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.

October 2018 247 x 174 mm 350pp 16 b/w illus. 16 colour illus.

978-1-107-03402-0 Hardback £26.99 / US$34.99

New Approaches to European History, 57 November 2018 228 x 152 mm 216pp 22 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-18837-1 Paperback £18.99 / US$26.99

Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

February 2019 228 x 152 mm 756pp 10 b/w illus.

978-1-316-64984-8 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99

The Cambridge History of Ireland

A History of Modern Iran

4 Volume Hardback Set General Editor Thomas Bartlett Edited by Brendan Smith, Jane Ohlmeyer, James Kelly, and Thomas Bartlett

Second edition Ervand Abrahamian

This authoritative and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story – or stories – from c.600 to the present.

A succinct and highly readable narrative of modern Iran from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

August 2018 228 x 152 mm 272pp 34 b/w illus. 2 maps 14 tables 978-1-316-64814-8 Paperback £19.99 / US$26.99

The Cambridge History of Ireland April 2018 228 x 152 mm 2800pp 978-1-107-16729-2 4 Volume Hardback Set £350.00 / US$450.00

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Books highlights from the History list

The Rule of Violence Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria Salwa Ismail

Provides an original analysis of the routine and spectacular forms of violence deployed by the Asad regime in Syria over the last four decades.

Cambridge Middle East Studies, 50

African Freedom How Africa Responded to Independence Phyllis Taoua

A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.

July 2018 228 x 152 mm 330pp 9 b/w illus.

978-1-108-44616-7 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99

August 2018 228 x 152 mm 240pp 978-1-107-69860-4 Paperback £19.99 / US$27.99

Difference and Disease

Citizens without Nations

Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire Suman Seth

Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789 Maarten Prak

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Global Health Histories June 2018 228 x 152 mm 336pp 978-1-108-41830-0 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.

August 2018 228 x 152 mm 442pp 3 b/w illus. 8 maps 978-1-107-50415-8 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99

Twentieth-Century South Africa

Coal, Steam and Ships

A Developmental History Bill Freund

Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas Crosbie Smith

This unique history highlights South Africa’s complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.

October 2018 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-44615-0 Paperback £21.99 / US$29.99

Gambling on War Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War Roger L. Ransom

Discusses the irrational, risktaking decisions of overconfident leaders which led to a seminal turning point in world history that shaped the twentieth century.

June 2018 228 x 152 mm 346pp 12 b/w illus. 24 maps 5 tables 978-1-108-45435-3 Paperback £19.99 / US$27.99

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Science in History July 2018 228 x 152 mm 468pp 40 b/w illus. 6 tables 978-1-107-19672-8 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99

Return of the Barbarians Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present Jakub J. Grygiel

Reveals the threat of violent non-state actors throughout history and the lessons that are applicable to current security challenges.

June 2018 228 x 152 mm 230pp 978-1-316-61124-1 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99

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