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War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
Anastasia Stouraiti
This highly original work redefines the place of war and empirebuilding in the making of early modern Venice.
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108838443 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Architecture of Sovereignty
Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India Gita V. Pai
Demonstrates how religious spaces are sites of contestation over sovereignty and broader debates about governance as they have been reconceived repeatedly.
February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009150156 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Royal Heirs
Succession and the Future of Monarchy in NineteenthCentury Europe Frank Lorenz Müller
Illuminates the role played by the heirs to the throne in the survival of monarchy in nineteenthcentury Europe.
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781316512913 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century
Joseph M. H. Clark
Explores how Veracruz’s AfroMexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 128
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.344pp 9781009180313 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
HISTORY - OTHER AREAS
Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy
The Making of Sunnism, from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century Ahmad Khan
Offers an original account of the formation of medieval Sunnism, emphasising Islamic discourses of heresy and orthodoxy.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.336pp 9781009098373 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Becoming Heritage
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia Maria Fernanda Escallón
Reveals how inclusive heritage policies simultaneously created exclusion and conflict within the Palenquero community in Colombia.
Afro-Latin America
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.253pp 9781009180375 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Plunder for Profit
A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Elijah Doro
African Studies, 162
April 2023 9781009098397 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Shanghai Tai Chi
The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China Hanchao Lu
A captivating social and political history of Shanghai under high socialism. Lu explores the lived experience of Mao’s China.
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.354pp 9781009180986 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99 P
A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi
Outlines how Tehran’s social spaces were transformed by shifting discourses and practices from the nineteenth to the midtwentieth century.
The Global Middle East, 22
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.384pp 9781009188890 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Early Modern in South Asia
Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History Edited by Meena Bhargava Pratyay Nath
This book investigates the nature of South Asia’s own form of modernity – early modernity – before the emergence of European colonialism.
December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.268pp 9781009215374 Hardback £85.00 / US$105.00 C
Inventing an African Alphabet
Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC Ramon Sarró
Combines biography, art, and religion to explore Kongo identity and culture, and the relationship between innovation and revelation.
The International African Library, 69
February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.332pp 9781009199490 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Uncivil Liberalism
Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought Vikram Visana
Reinterprets Dadabhai Naoroji’s Indian contribution to global debates on liberalism, capitalism and labour alongside concerns of civil peace.
Global South Asians
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.275pp 9781009215541 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Petroleum and Progress in Iran
Oil, Development, and the Cold War Gregory Brew
Explores how oil companies, Western development NGOs, the US government, and Iranian technocrats turned Iran into the first ‘petro-state’.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.261pp 9781009206341 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara
Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change Erin Pettigrew
Explores how Islamic esoteric sciences and spiritual mediators have shaped social change in the Saharan West.
African Studies, 159
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.252pp 9781009224611 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Round Table Conference Geographies
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London Stephen Legg
Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India’s constitutional future.
February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781009215312 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 CE
Charles Hartman
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960-1279 BCE).
April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009235648 Hardback £115.00 / US$150.00 C
The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920 Kyle Jackson
A history of Mizoram in Northeast India from the Indigenous perspectives of encounters with the British Empire from the 1890s to the 1920s.
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009267342 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
Eve Tignol
Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.208pp 9781009297653 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Caste, Knowledge, and Power
Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar Sunandan K. N.
Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial–Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.310pp 9781009273121 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Sectarianism in Islam
The Umma Divided Adam R. Gaiser
Offers an accessible introduction the main medieval Muslim sects and schools, challenging readers to approach the subject with new methodologies.
Themes in Islamic History
November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009315210 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam
African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 19611974 George Roberts
Explores the intersecting politics of Cold War rivalries, African liberation, and socialist state-making in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
African Studies
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.352pp 9781009281652 Paperback £21.99 / US$32.99
We, the King
Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World Adrian Masters
Reveals how ordinary subjects in the New World aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire.
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 127
April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.342pp 9781009315418 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
The Collapse of Nationalist China
How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War Parks M. Coble
Ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s government addressing why the Nationalists lost China’s civil war in 1949.
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781009297615 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99 P
Mao Zedong
Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press
The Cambridge China Library
December 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107092747 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R
Mao Zedong
Chongji Jin Xianzhi Pan Foreign Languages Press
The Cambridge China Library
December 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107092761 Hardback £125.00 / US$165.00 R
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Edited by Ned Blackhawk Ben Kiernan, Benjamin Madley Rebe Taylor General Editor Ben Kiernan
Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.720pp 9781108486439 Hardback £130.00 / US$170.00 R
Israel
A History in 100 Cartoons Colin Shindler
Offers a visual and accessible history of Israel’s complex past, politics and people through 100 cartoons.
January 2023 254 x 178 mm 400pp 9781107170131 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume 3: Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020
Edited by Ben Kiernan Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark Scott Straus
A comprehensive global account of the past ‘century of genocide’, from the Holocaust to Bosnia, and from Stalin to the Rohingyas.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.820pp 9781108487078 Hardback £130.00 / US$170.00 R
Volume 1: Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée
Edited by Cathie Carmichael Matthew D’Auria Aviel Roshwald
Brings together historical case studies of nationhood and nationalism from both ancient civilizations and the era of globalization since 1500.
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
February 2023 228 x 152 mm c.650pp 9781108427050 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands
Nature and Sovereignty Paul Kreitman
A global environmental history of Japan’s disputed desert islands since the mid-nineteenth century.
Cambridge Oceanic Histories
April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108489706 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Volume 2: Nationalism’s Fields of Interaction
Edited by Cathie Carmichael Matthew D’Auria Aviel Roshwald
This volume takes on the challenge of understanding nationhood and nationalism’s relationships with global phenomena such as imperialism and universalistic religions.
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.650pp 9781108427067 Hardback £130.00 / US$170.00 R
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume 1: Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds
Edited by Ben Kiernan T. M. Lemos Tristan S. Taylor General Editor Ben Kiernan
Documents the general characteristics and early history of genocide, from global prehistory to ancient Mesopotamia to the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.694pp 9781108493536 Hardback £130.00 / US$170.00 R
