History - cross discipline

Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta

Souvik Naha

This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.

January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108494588 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Acts of Aid

Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake Eleonor Marcussen

This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.

January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108838092 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence

Edited by Marcela Echeverri Cristina Soriano

Innovatively revisits Latin American independence and its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

Cambridge Companions to History

April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.401pp 9781108729185 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

After Genocide, 1918–1923 Ari Şekeryan

Explores the political and social life of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire during the post-war period.

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.200pp 9781108844017 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Cambridge World History of Genocide

3 Volume Hardback Set

Ben Kiernan

Examines genocide as a world historical phenomenon that has emerged under different names and capacities over the millennia.

The Cambridge World History of Genocide

February 2023 228 x 152 mm c.2234pp 9781108759731 3 Volume Hardback Set £310.00 / US$400.00 R

An Iranian Childhood

Rethinking History and Memory Hamid Dabashi

A vibrant, unique and personal examination of the overlap between history and memory, focusing on Iranian childhoods.

The Global Middle East, 23

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.240pp 9781316512852 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic

Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution Achyut Chetan

A work on women’s involvement to drafting of India’s Constitution, a contribution to understanding of the foundation of the republic.

South Asia in the Social Sciences, 17

December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108832564 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

HISTORY - CROSS DISCIPLINE

Slavery in East Asia

Don J. Wyatt

Offers the broadest receptive audience an essentialist survey of the medieval histories of slaving in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

Elements in the Global Middle Ages

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009001700 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Progress and the Scale of History

Tyson Retz

The Element reveals that ideas about progress have shifted according to the scale on which history has been conceived.

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009011761 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The British Home Front and the First World War

Edited by Hew Strachan

The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.495pp 9781009012324 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Marché Noir

The Economy of Survival in Second World War France Kenneth Mouré

Explains the extent, necessity and importance of black-market activity in France during the Second World War.

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.324pp 9781009207669 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

Entangled Lives

Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Joy L. K. Pachuau Willem van Schendel

It is a case study in environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities.

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.315pp 9781009215473 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project Ruth Ahnert Emma Griffin Mia Ridge Giorgia Tolfo

This Element describes Living with Machines, the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK.

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009175555 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining

A Methodology for Digital History Jo Guldi

Shows how text mining – the art of counting words over time – spurs insights into politics, culture, and historical change.

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.436pp 9781009262996 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

Locusts of Power

Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East Samuel Dolbee

New environmental history of borders and empire in the Middle East that centers locusts and people in motion from c1858–1939.

Studies in Environment and History

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.336pp 9781009200318 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

When Men Fell from the Sky

Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe Claire Andrieu

A fascinating comparative history of the treatment of fallen airmen in Second World War Europe.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.348pp 17 b/w illus. 7 maps 9781009266680 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Underground Mathematics

Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe Thomas Morel

History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.258pp 9781009267304 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Why Populism?

Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present Paul Kenny

Populism is a strategy – a lowcost route to power that can have detrimental consequences for democracy.

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781009275293 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

The Business of Armaments

Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855–1955 Joanna Spear

Explores Britain’s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.314pp 9781009297523 Hardback £95.00 / US$125.00 C

Hegel and the Representative Constitution

Part 1

Elias Buchetmann

Provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W .F. Hegel’s political thought.

Ideas in Context, 147

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009305969 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

African Activists in a Decolonising World

The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966 Ismay Milford

A history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism, told through East and Central African activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

Global and International History

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 5 b/w illus. 2 maps 9781009276993 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

Edited by Adrian Howkins Peder Roberts

The first comprehensive reference work drawing together the history of both the Arctic and Antarctica from earliest times to present.

February 2023 228 x 152 mm c.650pp 9781108429931 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Hitler’s Panzer Generals

Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded David Stahel

A comparative biography of four of Germany’s leading panzer commanders on the eastern front based on their private wartime letters.

April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.336pp 25 b/w illus. 10 maps 9781009282819 Hardback £25.00 / US$29.95 T

Southeast Asian Interconnections

Geography, Networks and Trade Derek Heng

The role of Southeast Asia in the integrated economy of Maritime Asia.

Elements in the Global Middle Ages

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108827423 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Holding Out

The German Army and Operational Command in 1917 Tony Cowan

A ground-breaking study of German operational command from November 1916 to the eve of the third battle of Ypres.

Cambridge Military Histories

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.386pp 9781108830232 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99 P

Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War

Edited by Peter Jackson William Mulligan Glenda Sluga

This volume reinterprets the peace settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the making of international order.

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108830508 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

The Catch

An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries Richard C. Hoffmann

Insightful analysis of relationships between human communities and aquatic ecosystems of Europe from c. 500 to 1500 CE.

Studies in Environment and History

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108958202 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P

Contraception and Modern Ireland

A Social History, c.1922–92 Laura Kelly

The first history of contraception in twentieth-century Ireland to explore the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists.

January 2023 c.350pp 9781108969772 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market

Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 Oscar Sanchez-Sibony

Tells the story of how the Soviet Union helped bring about the financialized world of capital we live in today.

April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781108834544 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

The Reserve Bank of India

Volume 5, 1997–2008

Volume 5

Tirthankar Roy

Narrative economic history of the Reserve Bank of India through the years 1997–98 to 2007–08.

January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.750pp 9781316511329 Hardback c. £115.00 / c. US$150.00 R

Epidemic Cities

Antonio Carbone

This Elements provides an overview of the history of epidemics using a range of cities around the world.

Elements in Global Urban History

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108930895 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The Power of Necessity

Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650 Lisa Kattenberg

Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice in political thought.

Ideas in Context, 144

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.325pp 9781316513149 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Red Internationalism

Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies Salar Mohandesi

Shows how human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant framework for changing the world in the 1960s and 1970s.

Human Rights in History

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.298pp 9781316513798 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism

Peter R. Anstey Alberto Vanzo

This integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy explains one of the most significant developments in the early modern period.

Ideas in Context, 145

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781316516461 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C