ANZ Winter Trade Catalogue 2024

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9781108837293

Hardback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95

Available June 2024

Brett L. Walker, Montana State University

Yukikaze’s War

The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific

Military history

About

Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze and her crew. By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial strategies, and toward the intricacies of fighting on the water, Walker allows us to see the war from Yukikaze’s bridge during the most harrowing battles, from Midway to Okinawa. Walker uncovers the ordinary sailor’s experience, and we see sailors fight while deeprunning currents of Japanese history unfold before their war-weary eyes. As memories of World War II fade, Yukikaze’s story becomes ever more important, providing valuable lessons in our contemporary world of looming energy shortfalls, menacing climate uncertainties, and aggressive totalitarian regimes.

Key Features

• Provides a unique perspective on World War II as it was experienced by individual sailors

• Shifts the history of World War II away from a traditional western narrative

• A naval history told by an experienced US Merchant Mariner with in-depth understanding of life at sea

About the Author

Brett L. Walker is a historian of Japan, medicine, the environment and World War II, as well as an experienced captain.

Advance praise

‘This lively tale is a classic strategy-and-battles military history, buttressed by keen insights into the role of technology, Japanese aesthetics, and brilliance wrapped in stupidity. Yukikaze was blessed with excellent leadership, brave, skilled sailors, and good fortune but while those qualities explain the ship’s rare survival through 1945, they could not compensate for the cascade of fundamentally reckless and callous decisions that characterized Imperial Japan’s war. The book reads like a romp but it is an elegy.’

Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Professor of History, Northwestern University

9780521897389

Hardback

AUD $67.95 / NZD $73.95

Available May 2024

Ernest Hemingway

Edited by Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, Miriam B. Mandel

Key Features

• Volume 6 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from June 1934 through June 1936

• Of the 366 letters of this period in the volume, about 85% are appearing in print for the first time

• Includes, for the first time in the series, an Appendix of Earlier Letters that have come to light since publication of the previous volumes

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

Volume 6. 1934-1936

American literature

About

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway’s experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ and ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’ In more than twenty pieces in Esquire, he relates his hunting and fishing exploits, discusses writing and writers, and becomes more politically vocal, addressing topical concerns. During this period he immerses himself in big game fishing off Key West, Cuba, and Bimini, gathering specimens for scientific study and making record catches, as well as taking on boxing challengers. He maintains longstanding literary friendships, advises and helps aspiring writers and contemporary artists, and makes public his disdain of critics. Volume 6 also features for the first time an Appendix of Earlier Letters (1918–1934) that have come to light since publication of previous volumes. Writing his epistolary autobiography, Hemingway himself reveals the many and sometimes contradictory facets of his wide-ranging genius.

Advance praise

‘This latest installment of the monumental Hemingway Letters project is pure gold. This volume is a fascinating window into a pivotal time in his life, which we all but live alongside him as it unfolds. His fierce passion for fishing, the brewing war in Spain, his complicated relationships with other writers and friends – it all comes vividly alive in his own inimitable words.’ Lynn Novick, Co-Director/Producer of PBS Docuseries ‘Hemingway’

9781009392365

Paperback

AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95

Available June 2024

Karen Stollznow, Griffith University

Key Features

• Provides a definitive linguistic history of the word ‘bitch’, from its origins as “a female dog” to its modern-day impact on feminism

• Explores the complex and evolving range of current meanings and shows how these change depending on the gender, race and sexuality of the speaker

• Draws upon a wide range of examples, from historical documents to TV series, and from dictionaries to social media

Bitch

The Journey of a Word

Sociolinguistics

About

Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today— after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word-it’s not always entirely clear what it means. Bitch is a chameleon. There are good bitches and bad bitches; sexy bitches and psycho bitches; boss bitches and even perfect bitches. This eye-opening deep-dive takes us on a journey spanning a millennium, from its humble beginnings as a word for a female dog through to its myriad meanings today, proving that sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks. It traces the colorful history and ever-changing meaning of this powerful and controversial word, and its relevance within broader issues of feminism, gender, race and sexuality. Despite centuries of censorship and attempts to ban it, bitch has stood the test of time. You may wonder: is the word going away anytime soon? Bitch, please.

About the Author

Karen Stollznow is a linguist and the author of On the Offensive (CUP, 2020), Missed Conceptions (2023), God Bless America (2013) and Language Myths, Mysteries, and Magic (2014). She writes for Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, and The Conversation and has appeared on the History Channel’s History’s Greatest Mysteries and Netflix’s The Unexplained. Karen is currently a researcher at Griffith University and a host of Monster Talk, an award-winning science-based podcast.

9781108965866

New in Paperback

AUD $36.95 / NZD $39.95

Available July 2024

Holger Afflerbach, University of Leeds

Short-listed, 2024 Book of the Year Award Military History Matters

Key Features

• A thorough reassessment of why Germany was defeated and of lost opportunities to make peace before 1918

• Reveals divisions in Germany and how these influenced the outcome of the war

• Offers a new framework for understanding of warfare and politics in Imperial Germany

On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

Military history

About

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany’s war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.

About the Author

Holger Afflerbach is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include a biography of Erich von Falkenhayn, and a study of the Triple Alliance.

Advance praise

‘… a revisionist spin … Afflerbach argues that Germany’s defeat in 1918 was not inevitable. It could have gone either way on the battlefield, but internal turmoil was to blame for the defeat, leading to a peace not ‘based on justice but instead … too harsh’.’

Simon Heffer, Best History Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph

’This book is a political study of Germany’s war effort, not a campaign narrative, though it tells the 1914–18 story very well … Afflerbach gathers many strands into a coherent argument, and offers a host of details that are likely to be unfamiliar even to veteran students of the conflict.’

Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

9781009206402

Paperback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Available May 2024

Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity

Military history

About

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom. On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers – predominantly women – provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers’ equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers. In this moving book, historian Stephen G. Rabe, son of one of the paratroopers, meticulously documents the forgotten lives of those who participated in this integral part of D-Day history.

Key Features

• Inspired by his own father’s experience, Rabe sheds light on a compelling yet forgotten part of D-Day history

• Expertly researched in interviews with paratrooper veterans and the citizens of Graignes, Rabe tells the story of how ordinary people did extraordinary things in defense of liberty

• First person accounts highlight the integral role local women played in harboring allied forces

• Provides unique insight into the effect of war on civilian populations

About the Author

Stephen G. Rabe is the Ashbel Smith Professor in History (emeritus) at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy is his thirteenth book.

Advance praise

‘… this history combines heroism and tragedy in equal measure. WWII buffs will be engrossed.’

Publishers Weekly

‘Compelling and suspenseful, The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy highlights the bravery and resourcefulness of American soldiers and the people of Graignes while further demolishing the myth of a blameless Waffen SS.’

Steven P. Remy, author of The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy

9781009457156

Hardback

AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95

Available August 2024

Robert Bartlett, University of St Andrews

Key Features

• Emphasizes the precariousness of our knowledge of the past

• Draws on detailed case studies from France, Ireland, Italy and Germany, between 1870 and 1944

• Highlights the importance of the efforts made to preserve and protect manuscript sources

History in Flames

The

Destruction

and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

European history

About

To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn’t occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing. This book examines the political and military events that preceded the moment of destruction, from the FrancoPrussian War and the Irish Civil War to the complexities of World War II; it analyses the material lost and how it came to be where it was. At the same time, it discusses the heroic efforts made by scholars and archivists to preserve these manuscripts, even partially. History in Flames reminds us that historical knowledge rests on material remains, and that these remains are vulnerable.

About the Author

Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History. He has written and presented three television series for the BBC, “Inside the Medieval Mind” (2008), ‘The Normans’ (2010), and ‘The Plantagenets’ (2014).

Advance praise

‘We seldom consider how tenuous our knowledge of the past really is. Robert Bartlett’s History in Flames is an essential contribution to our understanding of how the raw materials of the past - books and documents - are destroyed by the forces of subsequent ages. The past is not constant; we can only understand it through what survives, and Bartlett’s unparalleled grasp of the Middle Ages gives a poignant sense for just how much has been lost, and what is at stake in the future.’

Patrick Wyman, author of The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

9781108495936

Hardback

AUD $57.95 / NZD $62.95

Available August 2024

Steven Watts, University of Missouri

Citizen Cowboy

Will Rogers and the American People

American history

About

Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America’s most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century’s rapidly expanding consumer society. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers built his reputation as a folksy humorist whose wit made him a national symbol of common sense, common decency, and common people. Though a friend of presidents, movie stars and industrial leaders, it was his bond with ordinary people that endeared him to mass audiences. Making his fellow Americans laugh and think while honoring the past and embracing the future, Rogers helped ease them into the modern world and they loved him for it.

Key Features

• Explores the life of Will Rogers amongst America’s rapidly expanding urban, consumer society

• Sheds light on how the emergence of stage shows, vaudeville, radio, syndicated newspaper columns, popular magazines, silent films, and ‘talkies’ created the modern ‘celebrity’

• Reveals how Rogers embraced populism, which made him a beloved figure across America

• A modern biography of one of America’s most important and popular cultural figures

About the Author

Steven Watts has written seven books, including biographies of Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Hugh Hefner, Dale Carnegie, and John F. Kennedy. He has written for The Atlantic, National Review, Newsweek, Salon, and The American Spectator, and has appeared on NPR, C-Span, BBC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox, and Bloomberg News. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri.

Advance praise

‘Citizen Cowboy is a masterful portrait of the most popular humorist in American history. As Watts brilliantly illuminates, Rogers-a Cherokee from Oklahoma-skewed pomposity in all its high-toned and narrowminded guises with his folksy personal style and remains a national treasure. Highly recommended!’

Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite

9781108477352

Hardback

AUD $57.95 / NZD $62.95

Available May 2024

Sergey Radchenko, Johns Hopkins University

Key Features

• A sweeping new history of Soviet foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union which uncovers the inner workings of the Kremlin

• Reveals the role that political legitimacy, and the accompanying desire for recognition, played and continue to play in Soviet and Russian foreign policies

• Provides new insights into key episodes of the Cold War on the basis of previously unknown archival materials

To Run the World

The

Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power

International history

About

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin’s decisionmaking. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin’s postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev’s reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev’s jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev’s failed attempts to reinvent Moscow’s claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.

About the Author

Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a historian of the Cold War, and an expert on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. Previous publications include Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia

Advance praise

‘A tour de force. Based on a plethora of previously unmined Soviet (and Chinese) sources, To Run the World is thought-provoking, comprehensive narrative of the Soviet Union’s place and aspirations in the global Cold War.’

Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

9781009470209

Paperback

AUD $49.95 / NZD $53.95

Available August 2024

Edited by Ann Vickery, Deakin University

Key Features

• Provides the first ever major critical survey specifically on Australian poetry

• Provides a conversation between two leading First Nations writers about strategies of engaging with the archive

• Provides a detailed case study of poetry as contemporary activism via John Kinsella’s chapter

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

Literature

About

An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry’s central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationally renowned poets such as Lionel Fogarty, Gwen Harwood, John Kinsella, Les Murray, and Judith Wright. The Companion considers Australian leadership in the diversification of poetry in terms of performance, the verse novel, and digital poetries. It also considers Antipodean engagements with Romanticism and Modernism.

About the Editor

Ann Vickery is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is the Author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics of Australian Women’s Poetry ((2007)). She is also the co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys into Private Papers (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman, 2009).

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Understanding Human Diversity

Biological anthropology

About

9781009534307

Paperback

Price is not set

Available August 2024

Jonathan Marks

No two people are the same, and no two groups of people are the same. But what kinds of differences are there, and what do they mean? What does our DNA say about race, gender, equality, or ancestry? Drawing on the latest discoveries in anthropology and human genetics, Understanding Human Diversity looks at scientific realities and pseudoscientific myths about the patterns of diversity in our species, challenging common misconceptions about genetics, race, and evolution and their role in shaping human life today. By examining nine counterexamples drawn from popular scientific ideas, that is to say, examinations of what we are not, this book leads the reader to an appreciation of what we are. We are hybrids with often inseparable natural and cultural aspects, formed of natural and cultural histories, and evolved from remote ape and recent human ancestors. This book is a must for anyone curious about human genetics, human evolution, and human diversity.

Key Features

• Challenges common misconceptions about genetics, race and evolution, and their role in shaping human life today

• Analyses empirical, real patterns of human variation and contrasts them against popular unscientific and false assertions about human differences

• Provides historical bio-political perspective situating the science in its relevant philosophical and social contexts

About the Author

Jonathan Marks has worked in biological anthropology and evolutionary genetics and is presently a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been a visiting research fellow at the ESRC Genomics Institute in Edinburgh, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study in Indiana. His work has been published in Science and Nature, and his prolific scholarship has appeared in journals ranging from American Anthropologist to Zygon.

Solitude

The Science and Power of Being Alone

9781009256605

Hardback

AUD $37.95 / NZD $41.95

Published April 2024

Netta Weinstein, University of Reading

Heather Hansen, University of Reading

Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Durham University

The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being.

Enough Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

9781009412650

Hardback

AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95

Published January 2024

Dr Linda Eckert, University of Washington

Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What’s more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that’s nearly 100% preventable. It’s no secret that healthcare is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs. But women’s health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention, Dr Linda Eckert takes her years of experience and weaves it together with the voices of the courageous women who use their own experience of cervical cancer to advocate for change.

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

9781009200165

Paperback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $31.95

Published February 2024

Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence.

Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s

9781009430050

Paperback

AUD $32.95 / NZD $35.95

Publishing February 2024

Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University

In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which he now knows to have been early signs of his Alzheimer’s Disease. Daniel still writes every day, something he credits with keeping his mind sharper and his demons at bay. This book is a personal collection of essays written over the past two years that describe his own personal experiences, first treating patients with Alzheimer’s, and now living with the disease himself.